spooky prog songs for halloween
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Topic: spooky prog songs for halloween
Posted By: Trevor James
Subject: spooky prog songs for halloween
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 17:59
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Hey guys, I'm putting together a spooky playlist for my next podcast since it goes out on Halloween night. Anyone have any thoughts as to some really moody or atmospheric spooky prog rock songs? I've got a few already, but I'm interested in other people's thoughts. Anyone? ------------- ----------------------------------- Host of SubProg Radio Sundays 2-4pm MST (GMT -7) CJSR FM 88.5 in Edmonton On the web at www.cjsr.com |
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:01
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Hmm, maybe a song from Univers Zero's album Heresie? Particularly "Jack the Ripper". ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:05
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You can listen to the song on Cuneiform's website in its entirety if you're interested: http://cuneiformrecords.com/ - http://cuneiformrecords.com/ Just click on the little speaker underneath Heresie. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Salty_Jon" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:06
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Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:06
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Posted By: Zombywoof
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:14
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Here's the setlist for my prog show this week: 1. "One of These Days" - Pink Floyd 2. "Meeting of the Spirits" - Mahavishnu Orchestra 3. "One More Red Nightmare" - King Crimson 4. "The Necromancer" - Rush 5. "Alucard" - Gentle Giant 6. "Black Cat" - Gentle Giant 7. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers - Van Der Graaf Generator 8. "The Prisoner" - Comus ------------- Continue the prog discussion here: http://zombyprog.proboards.com/index.cgi ... |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:20
As many versions of "Season of the Witch" as you can find ... and if you don't have at least 5 ... you are a NEWB!
Hehehe!
It also depends how weird you wanna get ... because most people here are going to list Black Sabbath 100 times ... and they really only have 2 or 3 songs that should be there and the rest is cheap advertising for nothing ... and simple ... good show Ozzie! That's why he is on MTV after all ... and you are not!
Probably best to take the word "prog" out of it ... otherwise you are going to be desperatly limited and not having enough fun, and too much music is centered around a lyric or two ... and the music has nothing in it ... except some moody this or that which is supposed to be this or that ... typical Halloween actually ... all plastic and fake!
There are a few ... out there in "prog" ... but ... I would stay away from the cheap stuff ...
Pulsar - Halloween
Goblin - Several of their soundtrax fit well
Message - 1st album
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Weirder stuff:
White Noise - Electric Storm in Hell
Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill
There are som oddities out there ... there was a band called "Coven" that did some nice things ... there was an American band called "Lucifer" that had an interesting album ... there are recordings with Anton LaVey on them if you fancy some stronger stuff ...
For you to find these, and appreciate any of it at all ... you have to stop using the word "prog" or any other denomination ... you either look for something or you don't ... and when you limit the searches the chances of finding something drop considerably.
And no ... I'm not naming the Season of the Witch songs right now ... and who cares if at least one of them is not "prog" ... actually 2 of them!
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Trevor James wrote:Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:22
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How about 2nd Impression by ELP? ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:22
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If you want something light and about the only song I used to like on Giant For A Day: Spooky Boogie. For some other recommendations from me see the thread Epignosis linked to. I just recently got into Univers Zero and they really do have some creepy music. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:30
Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:51
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Genesis - The Musical Box Le Orme - Ritorno Al Nulla Egg - Fugue In D Minor Tool - Parabol Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - II.Breast Milky Dream Theater - In The Presence Of Enemies Part 2
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Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 18:58
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Definately the Goblin soundtracks!!!! ------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: Proletariat
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 19:02
------------- who hiccuped endlessly trying to giggle but wound up with a sob |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 19:19
There are examples listed for him and then some.
Again ... it depends on how far he wants to go on his show. And it is rather wierd to think that "prog" can (or can't) do Halloween, but Boris Pickett can ... it is a holiday for fun, and you might not be of the religious persuation that believes in such ... but others obviously like to have fun with it.
Let's just say, that on my list ... you would have to make a choice ... do you want fake stuff a la Weird AL and Boris Pickett and one Who song ... or do you want to play some far out, different and totally out of this universe stuff ... that exists out there ... and I would not forget Mussorgsky, btw ... even done up by ELP ... which no one mentioned. Or Tomita's version of Night on Bald Mountain.
I'll take this further ...
Give you a tri-fecta that Guy Guden used to do a lot of ...
Curved Air - Vivaldi withy Cannons
Curved Air - Same but the Live version
Esperanto - Dance Macabre
String Driven Thing - Tympany for the Devil
... goodness ... I've already put together a show that was over 6 hours with the stuff I mentioned alone ... !!!
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Posted By: topographicbroadways
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 19:22
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how could i forget you've got to have some Hawkwind aswell maybe something from in search of space -------------
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 19:31
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Ooooh. Kate Bush's Get Out Of My House from The Dreaming. I did see you were looking for something ambient. Steve Roach's Darkest Before Dawn is over an hour so if you were planning on doing about an hour it would be perfect.  ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:07
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I've always thought Kate Bush's Leave It Open is much spookier than Get Out Of My House.
Anyway, the prog fans are much scarier than the music could ever hope to be.
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:07
| all of Toby Driver's In The L..L..Library Loft |
Posted By: Textbook
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:11
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Not a prog act (proggish arguably) but I wanted to bring up Wire's Practice Makes Perfect, one of the most unsettling songs I know. Turn it up loud, listen in the dark, all the way through.
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Posted By: Any Colour You Like
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:15
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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 20:20
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Posted By: TODDLER
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 22:03
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Suspiria-Goblin Vertigo-Mind Gallery Blood Thrist-Pauline Anna Strom.....Blind lady from the west coast who recorded electronic music in the 80's. Very haunting and I hold it in the highest regard. Contact ZNR RECORDS for a copy.Nosferatu-Popol Vuh........many sections you will discover are dark and errie. If anything, the ethnic style gives it a more mysterious affect on the listener.
Atomic Rooster-Death Walks Behind You.......more of an errie rocker that starts out with spine chilling piano intro. Supposedly, Vincent Crane wrote the intro while feeling the breeze through his window at night In the end, it reminds me of what became later in years, Heavy Metal. The Devil-The Enid.....A creepy and humourous piece from "In the Region of the Summer Stars". A true spooky prog instrumental. Everdance-Curved Air.....the chord progressions are not that errie sounding but, the lyrics are creepy. "Go to the Devil and dance with him"
Attack Of the Titans-Celluloid......from the album Neptune. One of the creepiest instumental pieces ever played on mellotron. contact ZNR RECORDS for purchasing.
Black Mass/Lucifer-Mort Garson......find someone to burn it for you. You will never regret it. The pieces are short and work well when programmed with other spooky prog songs. With all due respect though, the album stands as a traditional landmark for those who raise the Halloween spirit. One electronic piece to play after midnight when it's dark and quiet yet there ain't no one around to hear ya scream.....is "Midnight Sun" by Wendy Carlos. Another is "Winter" One of the most errie, mysterious, and disturbing electronic pieces is "In the Shadow oif the Sun" recorded by the non-talented Throbbing Gristle. There are voices throughout the piece which imitate calls of the wicked, winy creepy crying, chants, and bellowed phrases. A vial chours that remains distant in sound and will eventually give you the creeps. The voices are like sounding off across a field or from the distant side of the woods. Satan Cults. It's pretty convincing. |
Posted By: Mr. Maestro
Date Posted: October 26 2010 at 23:37
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Two words: 1. Gog
2. Magog
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Posted By: friso
Date Posted: October 27 2010 at 01:40
| Magma - Ghost Dancing (hooh hooh... hooh hooh) |
Posted By: Lozlan
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 00:03
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The title track off of Warm Dust's debut album, And It Came to Pass. Wonderful middle section with some strange semi-Biblical recitations and a bunch of tortured screaming. Also, the eponymous track off of Royal Hunt's album Fear. Again, lots of screaming, and Bible passages read in reverse. When the song finally kicks in properly it's a pretty unnerving affair as well. Amazingly, I first heard Fear on a Halloween...I'd special-ordered the album, and picked it up on All Hallows. It seemed eerily appropriate. ------------- Certified Obscure Prog Fart. http://scottjcouturier.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - The Loose Palace of Exile - My first novel, The Mask of Tamrel, now available on Amazon and Kindle |
Posted By: King Winter
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 02:58
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King Crimson - The Devil's Triangle
VDGG - Man-Erg
Yes - Sound Chaser
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Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 07:14
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Posted By: Cactus Choir
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 13:48
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Spooky Hammond! ------------- "And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!" "He's up the pub" |
Posted By: Anirml
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 15:04
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I second White Noise's - An Electric Storm in Hell (1969) Exellent for Halloween! The Visitations (it's about death) Amazing lyrics in this song. ------------- 
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Posted By: cannon
Date Posted: October 30 2010 at 20:08
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Here's a couple a sweets for ya:
Blood Runs Deep-Green Eyed God(1972):Steel Mill
What Are You Doin'-Delusion(1971):McChurch Soundroom
Red Sun-Gravedigger(1972):Janus
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Posted By: freudiana
Date Posted: October 31 2010 at 00:52
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How about this list: 1. L'Epice - Dun 2. La Bataille Du Sucre - Ange 3. Hostsejd - Anglagard 4. Skogsranden - Anglagard 5. Le Photographe Exorciste - Atoll 6. Circus Brimstone - The Flower Kings 7. The Waiting Room - Genesis 8. Night On Bare Mountain (Incl. The Black Stone) - Par Lindh Project or Modest Mussorgsky 9. The Barbarian - ELP 10. A Tower Struck Down - Steve Hackett 11. Tigermoth - Steve Hackett 12. E Minor 5/9 Minor/5 - Triumvirat 13. Hinterland - Wobbler 14. A Saucerful of Secrets - Pink Floyd 15. Phaedra - Tangerine Dream 16. the whole "Symphonic Holocaust" album - Morte Macabre 17. Black Cat - Gentle Giant 18. the whole"Detta har hänt" album - Gösta Berlings Saga 19. Indiscipline - King Crimson 20. Fracture - King Crimson 21. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. I - King Crimson 22. The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson 23. The Mincer - King Crimson 24. Providence - King Crimson 25. One More Red Nightmare - King Crimson 26. (In the) Black Room/Tower - Peter Hammill 27. A Louse Is Not a Home - Peter Hammill 28. Gog Magog (In Bromine Chambers) -Peter Hammill 29. Scorched Earth - Van Der Graaf Generator 30. Killer - Van Der Graaf Generator 31. Darkness - Van Der Graaf Generator 32. White Hammer - Van Der Graaf Generator 33. After the Flood - Van Der Graaf Generator 34. the whole"Pawn Hearts" album - Van Der Graaf Generator 35. My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) - Van Der Graaf Generator 36. Total Eclipse - The Alan Parsons Project 37. Nucleus - The Alan Parsons Project 38. I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project 39. In The Lap Of The Gods - The Alan Parsons Project 40. the whole "Tales Of Mystery And Imagination. Edgar Alan Poe" album - The Alan Parsons Project |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:40
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Hi,
I hope the guy gives us his list of stuff that he played ... we pretty much put together an amazing list ... I even went out to listen to some of these things listed here ...
Duhh ... Alan Parsons ... from the first album of course, specially since it is all based on Edgar Allan Poe. The last two cuts together would be my choice. From Ange I would use stuff from "Le Cemetiere des Harlequins". I am not sure I would use any King Crimson, though I would use stuff from Robert's solo albums. Peter Hammill, for me, is poetry, not Halloween ... he's not a joke, or fake for me at all -- I stay with the conceptual edge on this one, even though Gog and Magog would fit, but that is more of an inner representation of the mind, than it is anything else. As such, that is not "horrific" for me ... it's just an open mind. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: The Monodrone
Date Posted: October 31 2010 at 23:55
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Seance - Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet - Porcupine Tree Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) - Mars Volta Larks' Tongues... Pt. 1 - King Crimson Leviathan - Mastodon -------------  
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 18:11
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Alaska by U.K.
First Black Sabbath album.
Jocelyn Pook's material on Eyes Wide Shut.
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Posted By: Wasp
Date Posted: November 02 2010 at 18:24
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Had to check out your thread Trevor as you share your full name with my dad! Wish he lived in Canada as well, so I could visit him and escape the drudge of the UK at the moment.
Anyway, a bit late I know, but to answer your question, I find most stuff by Karda Estra quite chilling. Give 'em a listen...very good, very 'atmospheric'!
Be cool
Be good
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