Songs That Creep You The Hell Out

[mrspickles]

Not creepy for Halloween type reasons, but Michael Jackson's "Pretty Young Thing" and
"The Way You Make Me Feel" (Hey pretty baby with the high heels on...) give me the total heebie jeebies. True or not, the rumors and allegations gives both songs a whole new meaning that is just beyond creepy.

[PearlySweetcake]

Don't laugh, but the ominous theme to the Perry Mason show used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid. I could hear my folks watching it in the next room late at night, and it sounded like the soundtrack to a kid getting grabbed by the boogeyman in the dark.

As for a song that still makes my squick-meter bounce into the red: Clint Holmes' "Playground in my Mind." Ew, ew, and more ewww.

[Lisa Miller]

This thread was made for "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones.

"She's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say." Yeah, there's a reason why they want you to leave her alone, Benny! EWWWWW.

[dwanollah]

Oct 21, 2009 9:57:53 GMT -4 Lisa Miller said:

This thread was made for "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones.

"She's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say." Yeah, there's a reason why they want you to leave her alone, Benny! EWWWWW.

I was totally gonna say that. It's his attitude of "What? What's wrong? I LOVE her" that makes this song so creepy!

Also for consideration, "Sweet Sixteen" (Billy Idol), "Little Fifteen" (Depeche Mode), and even "Hot Child in the City." (Is it wrong that I have an "Age Inappropriate" playlist on our music system for songs like this?)

[divasahm]

I heard "Tonight's The Night" by Rod Stewart this morning, reminding me that while I was mildly squicked out by it when it came out during my middle school years, I am now officially Creeped The Hell Out by it since I learned that my insanely inappropriate MIL and her husband proudly consider this Their Song, and would get all lovey-dovey in front of my husband and his brother (both of whom were in middle school at the time) whenever it came on the radio.

[Ripley]

Dean Martin's song "Standing On The Corner Watching All The Girls Go By" is one of those songs that I heard as an adult and thought, "Creepy stalker!"

[Lisa Miller]

Another stalker song that a lot of people think is a love song is "Every Breath You Take" by The Police. I remember in high school this used to be the "couple's skate" at the skating rink. Haha. Yeah, Sting wasn't singing about TWU WUV. He was being a creepy stalker.

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Oct 21, 2009 12:51:54 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

Oct 21, 2009 9:57:53 GMT -4 Lisa Miller said:

This thread was made for "Into The Night" by Benny Mardones.

"She's just 16 years old, leave her alone they say." Yeah, there's a reason why they want you to leave her alone, Benny! EWWWWW.

I was totally gonna say that. It's his attitude of "What? What's wrong? I LOVE her" that makes this song so creepy!

Also for consideration, "Sweet Sixteen" (Billy Idol), "Little Fifteen" (Depeche Mode), and even "Hot Child in the City." (Is it wrong that I have an "Age Inappropriate" playlist on our music system for songs like this?)

Winger's Seventeen: "Daddy says she's too young, but she's old enough for me."

ETA: Siouxie and the Banshees' "Rawhead and Bloody Bones."

[Deleted]

I always got a bit squicked out by 'Don't Wanna Miss A Thing' by Aerosmith. Not because of the subject matter, but because it was a love theme for a film where the love interest was played by his daughter. Which might just be an issue for my overly-sensitive squickometer, but nevertheless, I thought I'd mention it!

[MissPandora]

Don't laugh, but the ominous theme to the Perry Mason show used to scare the hell out of me when I was a kid. I could hear my folks watching it in the next room late at night, and it sounded like the soundtrack to a kid getting grabbed by the boogeyman in the dark.

Not laughing here--I remember lying in bed with the covers pulled over my heard to block it out!
And for age-inappropriate, My Sharona, anyone?

Keeping it a mystery gets to me
Running down the length of my thighs, Sharona
Never gonna stop, give it up. Such a dirty mind.
Always get it up for the touch
of the younger kind.

He wrote it for a real girl (her picture was on the record sleeve). IIRC, she was 16 and he was 26 or 27 when they met.