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Posted: June 17 2010 at 23:22
The only bit of music that has remotely took me by surprise are the gunshots in the Opera Ainadamar by Osvaldo Golijov and a violin part in Part III of Centipede's Septober Energy.
Joined: November 19 2005
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Posted: June 17 2010 at 23:56
i cant think of much right now but...
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets (Ummagumma version) Frank Zappa - It Cant Happen Here (scary AND funny!) Frank Zappa - Civilization Phaze III (the whole album)
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 01:39
Like others, I don't really find any music scary. However, I can see On the Run by Pink Floyd at a high volume possibly inspiring fear in a child. Also, a few of the songs from Sleepytime Gorilla Museum's Of Natural History can be spooky. Now, if you were to say "haunting" instead of "scary", then the list would grow exponentially.
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 06:59
Greetings fright fans! Horror connisseur Textbook here to way in on some particularly spooky tracks though there isn't room for everything. If you're pressed for time I advise you to just do Wire's Practice Makes Perfect. (If you can tell me what that song is actually about I'd appreciate it.) And also advise you to sometime find the opportunity to hear The Cure's Subway Song.
I cannot believe no one has mentioned either Scott Walker's The Drift or The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute, both of which are among the best examples of horror music that I can think of.
I think the Scott Walker track Clara is actually the most unsettling piece on The Drift but I couldn't find a clip so here's Cue instead. Listen to Clara, really loudly, in the dark, by yourself, if you ever get a chance. In the meantime, please proceed to listen to this, very loudly, in the dark, by yourself. The whole thing.
There's something not quite right about this song. Ignore the silly video- another one to sit through in the dark.
Pink Floyd's Bike may or may not have been intended as a carefree jape but I find something very sinister about it.
A spooky classic from Throbbing Gristle, one of the masters of horror music.
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide, another one to endure slowly in the dark.
Rare case of spooky hip-hop from Dalek. They have a more frightening song called A Beast Caged but I couldn't find it on Youtube. This one actually isn't that scary but it certainly gives you an idea of how demented produced Octopus is.
Subway Song by The Cure is a classic horror song, a must listen. Pulled off Youtube unfortunately. When you get near the end, don't be holding any hot drinks.
Depeche Mode are not so much scary but there is something quite dark and sinister about much f what they do. Investigate this video for instance. Nothing outright frightening but something really isn't right.
A number of David Bowie and Joy Division songs could go here too but I can't go on forever. I'll give you the non-album Radiohead chiller Paperbag Writer.
And for a grand guignol, if you are very brave, hunt down Nurse With Wound's Homotopy To Marie. You'll be sorry once you have.
Edit: Oops, two more.
This one is just PERFECT for listening to coming home late at night alone on a decrepit tube train.
And I couldn't resist one more Throbbing Gristle easy listening classic.
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 07:11
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
Ooh let me add Tool's Faaip de Oiad
That's the one I was going to say. At least I don't have to look up the spelling now. Very creepy song (well, more creepy dialog over noise, I suppose).
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 07:19
Also an honorable mention to Manic Street Preachers' The Holy Bible which is one of the most evil feeling albums I know despite not having outright horror moments as such.
I'm aware a lot of what I'm repping isn't prog but when you get into horror music you get into experimental, avant garde places very rapidly. None of this stuff is mainstream.
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Posted: June 18 2010 at 09:42
When I heard Scott Walker's The Drift there was a sense of incredible darkness about it. the sounds of tortured animals is as disturbing as it gets. I could not bring my self to hear any of The Cure as I have hated them for years, but Sunn O))) tracks were quite disturbing. Pink Floyd's 'Careful with that axe eugene' is a psych chiller. For sheer horror watch the video to Aphex Twin's 'Come to daddy' I seriously cannot watch that anymore.
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