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Topic: Has any Prog Rock ever scared the crap out of you
Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:52

What songs have scared the crap out of you

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:56

You really like that "New Topic" Button?

Munly has some creepy stuff.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:58

Horizons wrote:

You really like that "New Topic" Button?

Munly has some creepy stuff.

I have opinions and material I have to get out

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 14:58

I am too scared to mention them again :/ Ermm

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:04

The ending solo of Yes's "Nous Somme Du Soleil" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:09

'Temporary Peace' by Anathema. Those loud high-pitched vocals at the end, urgh... Ouch

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:22

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

The ending solo of Yes's "Nous Somme Du Soleil" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

That's scared the crap out of you? Confused

It's certainly chilling in a moody way, but scary, ... .

I got one: PF's ... err ... Rick's "Sysyphus, pt. 4". That organ break-out after the soothing Mellotron passage really took me by surprise. It's like as if Antichrist has awoken.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - December 22 2012 at 15:25

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:25

Dayvenkirq wrote:

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

The ending solo of Yes's "Nous Somme Du Soleil" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

That's scared the crap out of you? Confused

It's certainly chilling in a moody way, but scary, ... .

Read this: "makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up".

it didn't scare the crap out of me read above^^^^

“War is peace.

Freedom is slavery.

Ignorance is strength.”

― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

"Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:30

"Dead London" from Jeff Wayne's "War of the Worlds" album. It's the eerie, suspenseful part (creepy piano, narration) near the end of the story when the Martians are dying, and the sick, electronically processed cries of ULLA! on that track made my heart stop when I was 13, and they still do 30 years later. I don't think I'll ever get used to it.

Ditto to what Andrey said about Sysyphus too. That was mean of Rick to do that after 3 minutes of peaceful drift.

Edited by HolyMoly - December 22 2012 at 15:31

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:32

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Dayvenkirq wrote:

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

The ending solo of Yes's "Nous Somme Du Soleil" makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

That's scared the crap out of you? Confused

It's certainly chilling in a moody way, but scary, ... .

Read this: "makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up".

it didn't scare the crap out of me read above^^^^

Uh...read your thread title.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:39

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

Horizons wrote:

You really like that "New Topic" Button?

Munly has some creepy stuff.

I have opinions and material I have to get out

So do a lot of other people, so it's a kind of a common courtesy (if you will) to give others a chance to attract some bees to their honey and get some responses. Plus, creating threads and polls can potentially push other interesting threads and polls out of the recent posts list at the bottom of the forum home page, potentially drive them into an oblivion, and shift the focus of the forum's members from those other interesting threads and polls.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:54

No.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 15:57

Hi,

NONE!

Not a single one!

There is only one piece that I would say could be scary and confusing ... but it's not progressive and folks in here would not get it and listen to it anyway ... and for all we know, it was just an improvisation ... and I do not think that those folks were just being stoned immaculate throwing sound effects together ... to create an image ... or a movie ... depending on how your mind follows things.

Most folks here expect the lyrics to take you away ... and that is the part that will never do it, since none of them have the third dimention to do it right ... and get past the "rock music" concept, to the level of ... really shaking up your spine!

Electric Storm in Hell -- White Noise ... and if you really want to imagine ugly, scary and off the wall, go read Matthew Gregory Lewis "The Monk" ... and come talk to me later! Nothing in rock or classical music, comes close to that kind of visualization ... so harsh that you can hardly film it! ... and I doubt that anyone can create music to it ... or similar ...

Some folks also get all shook up by the first album in Aphrodite's Child's 666 album ... specially the side 2 whole sequence all the way to the seance.

As the saying goes ... it's just entertainment" ... and folks making a lot of this more than it is ... is a waste.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:10

Yes... Twice actually

The first time I heard Zappa's We're Only In It For The Money, the volume of my speakers was kind of high, and when the first song (Are You Hung Up?) was ending, right after a few seconds of guitar noodling came this weird scream out of nowhere before Jimmy Carl Black introduces himself, and I almost sh*t a brick.

The other was with Israeli prog-folkers Sussita's first and only self-titled album, also while listening to it for the first time. They don't make any scary music at all, but on this album, after all the songs end, almost 19 minutes of silence come afterwards. I was also reading a book on the other corner of my room (and with high volume again), so I just thought that the album had already ended, when all of the sudden I started listening to some really creepy guys doing the impersonation of a herd of goats... Yes, the band decided to include themselves doing weird goat sounds after 19 minutes of silence. Of course I realised that myunderpants were soiled immediately after this incident. LOL

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:20

I listen to a lot of music that has dark, and scary themes to it but I think overall the term 'scaring the crap out of me' may be a tad harsh. I've never had nightmares or any other developed freaky phobias caused by my music.
Granted, their are some songs that kind of creeped me out but never really...truely frightened me. Not at all, but I'm curious to what other people have to say on this board. :)

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:49

Cant think of any music, let alone prog, that scares the crap out of me.

Some prog can be a tad depressing in mood and lyrics but not scary.

That said, listening to some of the lyrics on Comus - First Utterance is a teeny bit scary !!

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 17:57

First time I heard Careful With That Axe, Eugene as a kid.

Also Ash Ra Tempel's debut on copious amounts of LSD can be quite frightening in an overwhelming way.

Edited by Sumdeus - December 22 2012 at 17:58

Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:21

Sumdeus wrote:

First time I heard Careful With That Axe, Eugene as a kid.

That reminds me, my college roommate and I had a couple of girls over, and we fell asleep to Ummagumma. One of the girls the next day said she nearly had a heart attack when that scream came out of nowhere. LOL

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:22

I'm out on a limb, but the Alice Cooper album Killer (in which the group dabbles in prog, specifically Halo of Flies). If you are relaxing with some meds, at the end of the album there is a bit of silence followed by static hell noises. Gets me everytime.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 18:24

^^ Holy Crap! That part at the end of Killer is probably the scariest thing I've ever heard. I've had the album for years but I've only ever heard that part twice because I can't bear it again. It would have been the first thing I mentioned, but I didn't because it's not prog. But good one!

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