I'm not talking about cheesy stuff like "Monster Mash" or soundtracks, which is fodder for a whole nother thread. I mean real, legit pieces of music from albums. Some of my faves are:
"Angry Chair" and "Would?" by Alice in Chains. There's just such an undercurrent of menace in both. Disquieting, to say the least.
"Still Life" by Iron Maiden. I still haven't decided if it's about vampires or ghosts, but it's a genuinely creepy song on the 'Piece of Mind" album.
"Synchronicity II" by the Police. This is just a superbly crafted song, and the intertwining themes of the Loch Ness monster crawling up to a cottage on the Loch shore at the same time as a disgruntled businessman is arriving home to snap & presumably kill his family is truly disturbing.
"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath. What could be more terrifying than finding out your Satan's son?
"Sanitarium" by Metallica almost doesn't make the cut, because it's got sucha fast frenzied beat, but that's kind of the point. Violent madness conveyed really well. it seethes w/ anger.
"Driver 8" by REM. An odd choice, at first glance. But there's something a little . . . off about how the Driver still remains awake. . . .
" Maudlin Street" by Morrissey. Again, it may seem like an odd choice, more depressing than scary, but there's a couple lines in it (such as 'The last bus I missed to Maudlin Street. . . so he drove me home. . . [I]in the van.[I] Kind of makes me think maybe it's an oblique reference to an episode of child molestation or homosexual rape. If THAT ain't scary I don't know what is.
"Revolution #9" by the Beatles. Disjointed as it is, the woman screaming and the monotone voice repeating: "Number 9. Number 9." are kind of creepy. the fact that I was tripping on good acid the first time I heard it may have helped, as it did with my favorite and by far the scariest of the bunch, which I heard the same night,
'Song from the Bottom of a Well" I can't remember the name of the artist; I think it's Peter something. Lead singer from a 70's band called Love, doing a solo project. The eeriest music, effects and music I've ever heard that wasn't in a horror soundtrack. me an my pal John, who owned the record and played it for me, both tripping balls, couldn't even listen to the whole thing, lest we ruin our trips. Even so, it cast a slight pall over the whole night, and the long walk home from Jay's house at 3 AM (and that bastard John just HAD to point out how those scraggly pine trees in front of the dentist's office looked like people ind of. . . . !) was a bit more unsettling than it otherwise would have been.
What do you all think?
"Angry Chair" and "Would?" by Alice in Chains. There's just such an undercurrent of menace in both. Disquieting, to say the least.
"Still Life" by Iron Maiden. I still haven't decided if it's about vampires or ghosts, but it's a genuinely creepy song on the 'Piece of Mind" album.
"Synchronicity II" by the Police. This is just a superbly crafted song, and the intertwining themes of the Loch Ness monster crawling up to a cottage on the Loch shore at the same time as a disgruntled businessman is arriving home to snap & presumably kill his family is truly disturbing.
"Black Sabbath" by Black Sabbath. What could be more terrifying than finding out your Satan's son?
"Sanitarium" by Metallica almost doesn't make the cut, because it's got sucha fast frenzied beat, but that's kind of the point. Violent madness conveyed really well. it seethes w/ anger.
"Driver 8" by REM. An odd choice, at first glance. But there's something a little . . . off about how the Driver still remains awake. . . .
" Maudlin Street" by Morrissey. Again, it may seem like an odd choice, more depressing than scary, but there's a couple lines in it (such as 'The last bus I missed to Maudlin Street. . . so he drove me home. . . [I]in the van.[I] Kind of makes me think maybe it's an oblique reference to an episode of child molestation or homosexual rape. If THAT ain't scary I don't know what is.
"Revolution #9" by the Beatles. Disjointed as it is, the woman screaming and the monotone voice repeating: "Number 9. Number 9." are kind of creepy. the fact that I was tripping on good acid the first time I heard it may have helped, as it did with my favorite and by far the scariest of the bunch, which I heard the same night,
'Song from the Bottom of a Well" I can't remember the name of the artist; I think it's Peter something. Lead singer from a 70's band called Love, doing a solo project. The eeriest music, effects and music I've ever heard that wasn't in a horror soundtrack. me an my pal John, who owned the record and played it for me, both tripping balls, couldn't even listen to the whole thing, lest we ruin our trips. Even so, it cast a slight pall over the whole night, and the long walk home from Jay's house at 3 AM (and that bastard John just HAD to point out how those scraggly pine trees in front of the dentist's office looked like people ind of. . . . !) was a bit more unsettling than it otherwise would have been.
What do you all think?
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