Songs That Creep You The Hell Out

[satellite]

Springsteen's "The River" creeps me out. I guess it's supposed to be a downer in general, but I always think he's going down to the river to dump Mary's body Laci Peterson-style for having the nerve to get knocked up and ruining his life.

I love his "Atlantic City", but it's also a creepy song. "Put your make-up on and fix your hair up pretty", I need you as an alibi after I do I this mob hit.

[Sunbaby]

The theme song of Unsolved Mysteries is way spooky.

[dwanollah]

Oct 22, 2009 19:38:28 GMT -4 Sunbaby said:

The theme song of Unsolved Mysteries is way spooky.

I know! So is In Search Of....

How can I dig on Book of Love's "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" yet be physically unable to listen to the original version of "Tubular Bells" without cringing...?

[kostgard]

"Deep Red Bells" by Neko Case always gives me the willies. She wrote it basically about the victims of the Green River Killer because he was active and at large when she was a tween and she remembered how freaked out she was and how so many people didn't give a crap about the victims because most of them were prostitutes.

It gives me the chills because when I was a little kid (about 6 or 7) my mom used the Green River Killer as the basis for her "Don't Talk to Strangers" lecture, so I'm basically scarred for life on this particular subject. And the song/music is just so evocative of driving along a highway on a dark, cold, rainy night here in the Pacific Northwest and imagining the horror that happened in the woods along that road in the darkness.

[satellite]

Wow, your mom's pretty hardcore kostgard. I didn't discover my local serial killer until like 15 years later on an episode of Cold Case. I was watching while I was home sick one day and I was like- hey, that... looks... familiar. The hell?

[Smilla]

Oooh, speaking of songs about murder--R.E.M.'s "Diminished" is super creepy. Another one of those where the lyrics (horrifying) don't match the tone (wistful). I haven't bought an R.E.M. album since Up.

[huntergrayson]

Oct 22, 2009 20:17:48 GMT -4 @dwanollah said:

How can I dig on Book of Love's "Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls" yet be physically unable to listen to the original version of "Tubular Bells" without cringing...?

Because the former isn't the theme to The Exorcist!?

On that note, I have to thank my friend for burning me a copy of one of the supercreepiest soundtracks ever, Suspiria by Goblin. All the creepy chanting! And whispers! :shudder:

(The soundtrack CD was included as a bonus disc in my DVD set but my computer refused to recognize it)

I go back and forth between absolutely loving PJ Harvey's Rid of Me and being creeped the eff out by half the songs - especially the string version of Man-Size.

[svetlanamonsoon]

In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins. Even before I heard of all the urban legends surrounding the song it would make me run from the room every time my mother played it. It's so angry and bitter and in your face. I give Phil Collins props for having it in him to write a song like that and I love the drum part halfway through the song but even now it gives me the creeps.

[kanding]

I don't remember it being creepy when it came out in 1972, but listening to it again after a few decades, I realize that there's no way in hell that Gilbert O'Sullivan could make this song today and not get skinned alive. I think it's the little-girl laugh at the end that seals the Okaaaaay factor.

Clair

[ratscabies]

Undisputed, number one creep out song of all frigging time:

"DOA" by Bloodrock.

I used this for a substance abuse slide presentation in high school. They never asked me to do one of those again.