Scary music

 

There is no such thing as "scary" music ... what there is ... is a complete lack of perception that would render the experience of listening to it ... just music ... BECAUSE almost ALL of the "fear" that you experience, is an experiential thing that has to do with you and your lack of familiarity with the piece, or the experience that the piece is "inducing" in you!

 

That induction is 100% subjective.

 

The weirdest and craziest part is that sometimes we take a picture or a lyric to be the "meaning" of the piece, and sometimes it is just a joke, or a commercial thing ... by clever people that know how to get attention when they want it ... SPECIALLY when it involves money!

 

That said, only one piece of music ever scared me, and showed my that I needed to open up and be more objective to the experience in "music" and many other "arts" ... and it was Tangerine Dream's "Mysterious Semblance at the Strands of Nightmares" ... and since then I have had very little fear about anything internal and experiences inside, to the point where listening to some of these things, is an exercise in futility and just ... "ideas" ... that some folks have.

 

I do have some fears, which are normal and natural according to the Bardo and a couple of wirters, and it is the dimention known as "unknowable" ... where you are trying in your dreams to experience death and "beyond". By comparison most of the stuff mentioned here is nothing ... not even worth the discussion, except that people, for the most part ... always fear what they don't know!

 

Close your eyes and some of that "don't know" will fade ... and you will know what I say is true!

 

As far as straight up Prog goes, anything that has a cool church organ gives me the chills.  ESPECIALLY if it has that very 70s sounding electronically modulated 5th on top.

^ Great painting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hands_Resist_Him