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Topic: creepy prog
Posted By: 70sSoundquality
Subject: creepy prog
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 04:44
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I think i finally figured it out. I like music that is WEIRD WEIRD WEIRD. I like progressive rock that is dissonant, creepy, haunted sounding, and above all, interchangeable. I have found that my latest favorite sounds to hear for this "creepy" sounding prog go like this. -Pulsar- "The strands of the future", 1976 -Pulsar- "Haloween", 1977 -Ave Rock- "Espacios", 1977 -Universe Zero- "Heresie", 1979 -Gong- "Gong live, etc", 1977 -ArachnoÏd- "ArachnoÏd", 1978 -FM- "Headroom, direct to disc", 1978 -Mona Lisa- "Avant qu'il ne soit trop tard", 1978 I cant think of any other creepy sounding albums at the moment? I just want weird ass sounding reverbs, weird chords, weird synths, weird effects, etc. I'm not just romantic over the sentiment- I definitely want compositional prowess. Any other bands fit in this "creepy trip" prog category? I don't really buy the whole "itiallian prog" or "krautrock" labels. I think they are bullsh*t. SO far I have devided my music down into feelings (creepy, romantic, pretty), and styles (jazzy, bluesy,classical, funky, rocking). My favorite combo is creepy prog with jazzy elements (like gong, or arachnoid). Please add to this incomplete list best, John |
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 05:03
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Watch some of those Italian horror/gory crime movies for which The Goblin specialised in usually very effective creepy sound track music - not so sure if the CDs of the soundtracks Goblin wrote/played, are as effective - i.e. the pictures help significantly. Morte Macabre, the hybrid formed from the Mellotron-playing parts of two Swedish bands ( Landberk and Anekdoten), effectively recorded a tribute to the likes of Goblin, with their album Symphonic Holocaust - that has some creepy/eerie moments.
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70sSoundquality wrote:Posted By: chorus of one
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 05:13
I was going to mention Univers Zero but you beat me to it...Damn I don't have any other ideas. 
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Posted By: Valarius
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 05:28
| Not really prog, but Dead Can Dance have done a few creepy songs. |
Posted By: Joren
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 06:37
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VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR, MAGMA
Creepy as HELL |
Posted By: The Hemulen
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 06:39
| Henry Cow. Listen to "Runis" from Unrest to see what I mean. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 07:59
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Hi Folks Not so much creepy but anyone heard Steel Mill 'Green Eyed God' album Fantastic |
Posted By: slipperman
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 08:20
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COMUS - First Utterance arghafdlajflglglblblbghghghgh...YIKES!!! ------------- ...it is real...it is Rael... |
Posted By: Mategra
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 08:36
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KARDA ESTRA - Voivode Dracula DEVIL DOLL - Dies Irae Could be horror movie soundtracks. |
Posted By: wallace
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 09:08
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Yep, you cant beat the first Comus, but Wallace would say the main word here is "threatening",not creepy.Also
JAN DUKES DE GREY "Mice & Rats in the Loft" (moreso than the rather lame "Sorcerors" lp) If you are dismissing the Italians, then you are dismissing the major purveyors of horror music: VA -"...il tu vivrae nel terrore" Mellow's two cd set of various progbands covering oblin, etc Libra "Shock" soundtrack Antonious Rex -Zora Doctor Doctor Sorgini - you'll sh*t with tracks like "Surreal" and "Trance" ...others that Wallace forgot. You find Averock and FM errie??? Wallace is not sure where the feck your coming from. Here are some individual "errie" tracks: CHAMPIGNONS -chateau haute (quebec 70s prog) COLIN TOWNS -seance MORT GARSON -all of the lp "Ataraxia -the Unexplained" GOBLIN -of course "Suspira" (and the knife-slice-sound track they used in that scene where Jennifer Connoley falls into the tiny room full of razor wire -in the Argento movie about the death watch beetle.) MALHOMBRA -witch (Wallace can think up dozens of tracks about witchesa alone!) The VANGELIS & PAPPAS lp "Odes" ZUPHALL - -Walpurgisnacht BOUDJEWIJN DE GROOT - nach di onji (with the front cover reminiscent of the first Black Sabbath coverart) LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - Magdelena PAUL ROLAND -everything he does has supernateral, serial Victorian killer, nefarious themes (unfortunately ,musicaly, its not errie - but the lyrics are great. ) -try "Nosferatu" TANGERINE DREAM -listen to the beginning of side 2 of "Phaedra" ENID - something wicked this way comes ANGE -cimeterie des arlequins ROBIN WILLIAMSON -Bloudewedd -owl music ORCHESTRA OF THE EIGTH DAY -before I knocked (Polish duo using a bowed instrument that sounds like string on the rim of a wineglass) RECREATION -Caligula BRAM STOKER -Poltergist CURVED AIR - Everdance, Phantasmagoria WAKEMAN -the Fire POPOL VUH - Nosferatu (side 2) ELECTRIC FOOD -Nosferatu OBLIQUE -Arena TRANSMILLENIA CONSORT -blood (very errie Schultzian electronics, female keyboardist) G.GIANT -Alucard OLDFIELD -portions of Killing Feilds soundtrack FRENCH ENSEMBLE -EGLISSE (from the de Wolfe sound library Dracula lp) BILL NELSON -cabinet of Caligari MAGMA -tollertanz BESCOMBES - PJM not to mention all the wyrdfolk bands.Or, for the classically-inclined,BOLCOM or ALLBRIGHT's Black Mass church organ peices Feck it! Wallace has work to do -there's a foot of snow in the driveway. |
Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 09:12
excellent piece maybe their best |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 09:44
Univers Zero 
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Posted By: The Owl
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 09:56
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These are guaranteed to cause spooks to fly out of your speakers or double your money back. PRESENT - High Infidelity, Number 6 Shub Niggurath - Les Mortes Vont Vite, Testament Anything by Devil Doll VDGG - Pawn Hearts, The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other Island - Pictures Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte, several cuts on 'Spectral Mornings" The Red Masque - Victoria and the Haruspex, Flesh for Feathers anyuthing by Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:03
Brrrrrrrr 
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Posted By: wallace
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:03
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JACULA -Tardo Pede in Magium Versus
-Anno Demoni SHUB NIGGURATH - les mortes.. UNIVERSE ZERO -Music of Eric Zahn FIRST MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCE -lord of Underground - Ive been here before (Dutch prog) CHANGLING AND THE BEAR -graveyard NICO -no one is there MANTLER & RYPTAL -the uninvited guest MIRIODOR -funeral march LINDSAY COOPER -cholera SPK -necropolis RICHARD JOBSON -orphee FLAMENDE FORSOK -I Dreamt a Dream (entire cd, Lovecraft) HACKETT - darktown HAMMILL - Fall of House of Usher VISITORS - Dies Irae JASON CREST - black mass ERRIE IN JEST: BONZO DOG DODAH BAND -11 mustachioed daughters TABOO -Vampire tango MALEDICTUS SOUND -monster cocktail STEELEYE SPAN -Alison Gross GENE SIMMONS -the Haunted House VAMPYROS LESBOS -Sexadelic Dance Party (aka Vampires INC) BOBBY PICKETT AND THE ROLLING BONES (AND THE CRYPT-KICKERS FIVE) -monster mash -werewolf watusi |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:07
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Posted By: aqualung28
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:17
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I can beat all of those. The ultimate creepy album is Delirium Corda by Fantomas. It's a single 74 min song that is a musical interpretation of a surgery that is taking place while the patient is awake. Scared the F**K out of me! ------------- "O' lady look up in time o' lady look out of love 'n you should have us all O' you should have us fall" "Bill's Corpse" By Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:18
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Chicken !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:47
The album that scares me the most is GTR. 
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 10:49
I guess most RIO bands might be termed 'creepy'.  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 11:15
The RIO festival !!!!!!!!!Yay 
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Posted By: sigod
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 11:57
Party Time!!!!!!!! Yaaaaayyyyyyyy!!!!  ------------- I must remind the right honourable gentleman that a monologue is not a decision. - Clement Atlee, on Winston Churchill |
Posted By: joniox
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 14:20
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Mr. Bungle Of course! Albums "Disco Volante" and "California". Always weird stuff coming from Mike Patton's projeckts. And some King Crimson is weird. ------------- I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat... |
Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 14:22
wow that sounds immense! for more weird: pink floyd - ummagumma super furry animals captain beefheart and frank zappa the mars volta - deloused has its moments ------------- The Worthless Recluse 
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Posted By: frenchie
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 14:40
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i downloaded an mp3 off this site by devil doll and it was so creepy it scared me so i deleted it. it was like goth opera or something. ------------- The Worthless Recluse
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Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 14:43
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The Monster Mash ------------- 
"What are you going to do when that damn thing rusts?" |
Posted By: 70sSoundquality
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 16:26
damn thats a pretty big list! this entire thread is a gold mine for "errie" prog for me. I dont dismiss the itallians though, I dismiss the "itallian symphonic progressive rock" term, because it doesnt mean anything. BMS hardly sounds like themselves, ever, let alone other itallian bands. It doesnt matter what country you come from, all prog is different, and I agree with the dude from Nektar- don't the labels piss you off?? I dont necesarrily mean the most obvious creepy sounding rock. I heard a goblin tune that was more like Funk than anything, but I guess i have a lot more to explore. FM is weird because it sounds so cold, and therefor it comes across as strange. And the weird quiet little synth blips make it sound dark enough for me. Ave Rock is SWEET!! Underrated 70's argentinian band. "En el universo" is a very sad weird sounding song to me , id call it creepy sounding listen http://artrock.rinet.ru:8080/mp3/ave_rock/en_el_universo.m p3 (copy paste, backspace in front of the p in "mp3") |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 16:38
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Mediaeval Baebes - the Rose
along the same lines Miranda Sex Garden and Blackmore's Night is some pretty, but creepy stuff! |
Posted By: Garion81
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 16:40
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Well maybe not Prog, at least they are not on the Archives, but I always felt that Child In Time by Deep Purple was pretty Creepy.
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Posted By: frosty
Date Posted: January 26 2005 at 17:47
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'Careful with that axe Eugene' by Pink Floyd that's creepy and menacing. My six year old daughter ran out of the room! |
Posted By: illustrated
Date Posted: January 27 2005 at 02:07
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Agh, you beat me to it. Disco Volante is some of the creepiest music ever, gauranteed. I find 'A Passion Play' pretty weird and unnerving. Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts, Still Life... Peter Hammill solo, obvious stuff. |
Posted By: Palmer Eldritch
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 20:49
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Well, I didn't see them mentioned (in fact, haven't seen them mentioned anywhere on the forum yet) but any early music from the Residents is pretty creepy. And, I think, Prog as well. Give Fingerprince a listen.
Along the same lines, Renaldo & the Loaf. Sort of silly and creepy all at once.
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Posted By: bluetailfly
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 20:53
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Creepy prog? VDGG "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" ------------- "The red polygon's only desire / is to get to the blue triangle." |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 20:58
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Gnidrolog's first release is pretty creepy.
Long live... long live... long live... MAN DEAD...!
Several VDGG songs also is kinda scary at times. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Bern
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 21:07
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Those are creepy: Present - Triskaidekaphobie and Le poison qui rend fou Art Zoyd : most of their music Shub Niggurath - Les morts vont vite Jacula - Tardo pede in magiam versus Comus - First Utterance ../Progressive_rock_discography_CD.asp?cd_id=641 - -------------  
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Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: January 13 2007 at 22:13
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VdGG is a good suggestion - particularly Godbluff I think.
Some of Peter Hammill's solo work contains distinctly creepy material - the song Fogwalking on A Black Box is one of the creepiest ever recorded.
The heavy metal genre is full of bands that want to creep you out, though it doesn't usually work for me. If that's an area you're willing to look at, you could do worse than hear Celtic Frosts's recent album Monotheist, a bit of an epic of bleakness and spiritual despair.
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Posted By: Rocktopus
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 05:46
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Zeuhl + french 70's is often creepy: Archaïa: Archaïa Vortex: Les Cycles De Thanatos Horrific Child: L'Etrange Monsieur Whinster Heldon: Interface etc.. Pataphonie: Le Matin Blanc Igor Wakhevitch: Hathor, Docktor Faust etc.. Eskaton: 4 Visions Flamen Dialis: Symphonie Dei Horde: Catalytique Pour La Fin Dün: Eros Germany: Peter Frohmader - Nekropolis: Musik Aus Dem Schattenreich Sand: Golem Herbert F. Bairy: Traumspiel Early Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze Deuter: D German oak: German Oak Other: Art bears, Art Zoyd, Art Fleury, Peter Hammill solo (ca. 75-80), ------------- Over land and under ashes In the sunlight, see - it flashes Find a fly and eat his eye But don't believe in me Don't believe in me Don't believe in me |
Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 06:01
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A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers. ------------- 
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 07:59
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The creepiest song I know is The Devil's Triangle by KC. Univers Zéro's
La Corne du Bois des Pendus (on Ceux du Dehors) is pretty creepy aswell. |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: January 14 2007 at 08:19
| Though I'm not an expert on the subject, if I have to think of creepy prog my mind goes inevitably to Comus' "First Utterance" - cover included. I also agree with "Careful With that Axe, Eugene" (the version in the Live at Pompeii DVD sure is scary!), and Deep Purple's "Child in Time", which was used as part of the soundtrack of one of the most disturbing yet mesmerising films I've ever seen - Lars Von Trier's "Breaking the Waves". |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 06:09
I don't really get the Italian prog thing myself but I think some of the creepiest music comes from Germany in the early 70s:
Klopzeichen and Osterei by Kluster,
Irrlicht and Cyborg by Klaus Schulze,
In Den Garten Pharaos by Popol Vuh,
anything by Tangerine Dream up to and including Sorcerer (a particularly creepy album).
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Posted By: Fitzcarraldo
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 06:22
GOBLIN's "Roller" does have a funky sound, but for shivers listen to their -- in my opinion more exciting -- album "Suspiria" which has some very creepy music on it. Not surprising, as the album is the soundtrack to Dario Argento's 1977 classic horror flick of the same name. Listening on headphones is especially creepy. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=326" rel="nofollow - Read reviews by Fitzcarraldo |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 07:18
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GYBE Elend(though they're not prog) |
Posted By: bundy
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 08:28
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Agree with those who have mentioned Deil Doll and Morte Macabre. Surprised noone has mentioned Atomic Rooster or Il Balleto Di Bronzo's album Ys yet.Also Michael Mantler's The Hapless Child and Standarte's Curses and Invocations. ------------- They who know do not speak! They who talk do not know! |
Posted By: rexsvecia
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 10:12
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Oh! I'll just say: "A Drum, a drum" form Art Zoyd's "Berlin" album! And/or, the entire "Nosferatu"...some eerieness for ya'll there. ------------- Never trust a person who claims to tell the truth. |
Posted By: spo1977
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 13:37
| Did anyone say Black Widow? |
Posted By: Prog-jester
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 15:23
you did 
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Posted By: Floydian42
Date Posted: January 15 2007 at 20:29
| How about the mid section of Echoes by Pink Floyd, The Waiting Room by Genesis... Elephant Talk always came off sorta creepy to me... But also Climbing up the Walls by Radiohead. |