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Joined: January 04 2007
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Posted: April 14 2013 at 13:24
Hi,
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!
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
Joined: November 04 2007
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Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:05
Triceratopsoil wrote:
Bike is a love song, jeez
Nevertheless, the girlfriend of a buddy of mine would get all freaked out on the duck call portion at the end.
Try these in a dark room with headphones:
Alaska from the first UK album
The Fall of the House of Usher by the Alan Parsons Project
Hell from the Lisztomania soundtrack
Joined: March 23 2013
Location: Minnesota
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Posted: April 18 2013 at 19:55
I can think of some dark music and some creepy music but nothing really scary, and a lot isn't necessarily prog. Diamonda Gallas - could swear you're listening to a real, genuine, practicing, evil witch Residents - Hello Skinny - more creepy than scary but man that's a cool song Yello - Magneto/Massage/Assistant's Cry suite from Solid Pleasure - The screams and Dieter Meier's narration are chilling Tuxedomoon - Half Mute - maybe more dark than scary, but this album really creeped me out when I first heard it Frank Zappa - The Torture Never Stops - hard to take it seriously, but the tortured female screams are pretty real Zed - Visions of Dune
- been trying to find this album for a while but it seems to be
forgotten, by French synthesist Bernard Szajner. Very dark and spooky.
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Posted: April 26 2013 at 21:08
Peter Hammill - Gog (the atmosphere of that is just downright evil) Magenta - Metamorphosis (not musically scary but the lyrics are from the pov of a serial killer) Twelfth Night - Creepshow Marillion - Grendel A lot of Magma, UZ and Present as has already been stated A lot of early Black Sabbath had a very evil, creepy feel to it Shub Nigurath - Les Mortes Ga'an - Black Equus
I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
Joined: January 09 2013
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Posted: April 27 2013 at 18:08
rdtprog wrote:
Neo-Romantic wrote:
See if you can track down "Requiem" by Michel Chion. I heard it's on spotify. Don't listen to it in the dark.
Scary and strange if you like the experiment stuff!
Haha the Sanctus section was pretty intense, right? I had to listen to that for a class last year. Haven't felt compelled to give it another try since. It sticks with you though.
Joined: July 02 2008
Location: Australia
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Posted: May 01 2013 at 19:34
Klogg wrote:
thellama73 wrote:
Klogg wrote:
Tarquin Underspoon wrote:
In all seriousness, Revolution 9 does it for me
All my friends that like Beatles have fear of Revolution 9
You know, I listened to Revolution 9 ast night and it doesn't even seem weird to me anymore. I listen to so much more avant garde stuff these days that it sounds pretty tame in comparison. I'm not trying to knock it, since I still love it, but it just doesn't strike me as quite so "revolutionary" these days.There's no doubt, however, that it was incredibly advanceed for its time and very influential.
You're right, Rev9 is not more revolutionary. I think this is more touching
Silence is disturbing sometimes
Hmmmm.... If he had have struck the keys i would have lost a life. Very interesting, more for what it doesnt do than what it does.
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