Massive Attack, "Heat Miser." Basically a new-age song hacked up with a bloody chainsaw. Crazy suspenseful.
Throbbing Gristle, "Hamburger Lady." Something about the juxtaposition of the word "hamburger" with this alienated ambience deeply disturbs.
Sufjan Stevens, "John Wayne Gacy." Sufjan Stevens is about as scary as a jar of Jif peanut butter, but on this track he succeeds in painting a moving but ultimately terrifying portrait of one of America's most famous serial killers.
Leonard Cohen, "A Thousand Kisses Deep." Cohen could make the iCarly theme song sound spooky.
Suicide, "Frankie Teardrop." Totally fucking insane.
Nine Inch Nails, "March of the Pigs." The bizarro piano breakdowns that punctuate the pulsing, distorted thrust of the song make this one especially chilling.
Radiohead, "Everything In Its Right Place." The opening electric piano, the dissonant harmony, the tripped-out vocal effects: hard to get more ominous than this.
Most of the songs on Tom Waits' Rain Dogs. Waits' growl has an especially graveyard-digger ring to it on this album. "Singapore" is representative.
Velvet Underground, "Venus in Furs." The first scary rock band?
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here's a spooky/creepy song (new indie video) for you: "My Reprieve" performed by dogbrain:
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A really scary as hell song is "On The Run" by Pink Floyd. It never fails to scare the hell out of me like the only word to describe it is insane(ly scary). It's so repetative and it really reminds me of Syd Barrett. Also... I agree with anyone who said Aphex Twin... this whole list should be dominated with AT songs
Xiu Xiu's ''Support our Troops (Oh!)'' Or whatever its called is creepy as hell. That album's altogether an uncomfortable listen.
I've seen Suicide live at CBGB's! How's that?
Fucking amazing!
Anyone ever hear "Shankill Butchers" by the Decemberists? Genuinely creepy and not one you want to go around singing under your breath near the uninitiated.
The Doors. End of the Night:(Some are born to sweet delight/Some are born to the endless night) The End:(The killer awoke before dawn/he put his boots on/He took a face from the ancient gallery and he walked on down the hall) When the Music's Over:(Before I go into the big sleep/I want to hear the scream of the butterfly)Strange Days: (As we walk through the day to a strange night of stone) Riders on the Storm: (There's a killer on the road/his brain is squirmin' like a toad) Peace Frog: (Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind), also (Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven/Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice) Moonlight Drive: (C,mon baby gonna drown tonight, we go down, down, down) Horse Latitudes: (In mute nostril agony/carefully refined and sealed over) Shaman's Blues: (Cold grindin' grizzly bear jaws hot on your heels) People are Strange (People are strange when you're a stranger/faces look ugly when you're alone)
and I'm tired now but could go on. Top ten scary doors tunes
"Sufjan Stevens is about as scary as a jar of Jif peanut butter"
that was my favorite line i've read anywhere in weeks
until....
"Cohen could make the iCarly theme song sound spooky."
that iCarly theme is fun though. Neither here nor there? i've watched a lot of iCarly
Bravo, David Hudnall.
(i also liked your one a while back about Michael Bolton, with the interview)
I'd have to throw in something from Black Sabbath. Perhaps N.I.B. or the song entitled, "Black Sabbath."
Nothing by Wolf Eyes? They soundtrack my nightmares, with a little of Aphex Twin's "Come to Daddy" for good measure.
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