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Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:16
HolyMoly wrote:
"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.
That whole album used to scare me as a kid. Great music, but the whole alien invasion thing used to be really terrifying to me
Joined: September 21 2012
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 16:48
Surprised no one mentioned Stoah by Magma.
When I was a kid, a lot of songs scared me, Castle Walls by Styx was creepy as a kid when you were riding home from Newport RI in the middle of the boondocks at a quarter to midnight.
Same went for Welcome to Machine, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was scarring to hear before I went to Kindergarden. Especially when my friend explained its meaning to me.
I have a bad connection with Pull Me Under by Dream Theatre. I was in about 4th grade and my dad and I were coming back from my grandfathers house and we hit this thing that made some ungodly noise, and we were listening to Pull Me Under and I was startled by the noise, my dad said he never heard anything like it, and for the rest of the night told me stories of unnatural events happening by the Saugatuck Resevoir which made up the 8 mile stretch of land that we were traveling on. Then he down shifted the car and pulled over and I remember the exact words he said to me. He said "Funny we should stop at this place. This place is called Devils Den Preserve, and this is where all deamons come into the world." (It really is called Devils Den since many of the rock formations look like something straight out of hell." It's funny looking back, but for a while Pull Me Under was a negative song. I'm not sure if he planned that song or not, he doesn't even remember it playing.
And Sabbath's Black Sabbath and E5150 scared the crap out of me at as kid. Im sure theres more, but I can't remember now.
(BTW, Pull Me Under is one of my fav songs now.)
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 17 2013 at 16:49
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. -Robert Fripp
Joined: December 08 2012
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 17:00
Astral Traveller wrote:
Surprised no one mentioned Stoah by Magma.
When I was a kid, a lot of songs scared me, Castle Walls by Styx was creepy as a kid when you were riding home from Newport RI in the middle of the boondocks at a quarter to midnight.
Same went for Welcome to Machine, The Happiest Days of Our Lives was scarring to hear before I went to Kindergarden. Especially when my friend explained its meaning to me.
I have a bad connection with Pull Me Under by Dream Theatre. I was in about 4th grade and my dad and I were coming back from my grandfathers house and we hit this thing that made some ungodly noise, and we were listening to Pull Me Under and I was startled by the noise, my dad said he never heard anything like it, and for the rest of the night told me stories of unnatural events happening by the Saugatuck Resevoir which made up the 8 mile stretch of land that we were traveling on. Then he down shifted the car and pulled over and I remember the exact words he said to me. He said "Funny we should stop at this place. This place is called Devils Den Preserve, and this is where all deamons come into the world." (It really is called Devils Den since many of the rock formations look like something straight out of hell." It's funny looking back, but for a while Pull Me Under was a negative song. I'm not sure if he planned that song or not, he doesn't even remember it playing.
And Sabbath's Black Sabbath and E5150 scared the crap out of me at as kid. Im sure theres more, but I can't remember now.
(BTW, Pull Me Under is one of my fav songs now.)
Black Sabbath by Sabbath is pretty scary stuff with that atmosphere and those lyrics "Big black shape with eyes of fire" and the "Oh No!!!" scared me too but it didn't scare the crap out of me
“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: January 17 2013 at 17:04
^That was me in about, maybe, 5th grade . And wasn't so much lyrical content as it was the atmoshere. The Thunder, the rain, the foreboding church bells, the distorted guitar, Ozzys voice, plus the cover image was creepy as all hell knows.
Edited by Astral Traveller - January 17 2013 at 17:11
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Posted: January 17 2013 at 22:53
I only get scared by music if I'm falling asleep and then something particularly jarring comes up...there's one track on Cosa Brava's sophomore album which has glitchy parts which make me jump, coming to mind soonest.
I only get scared by music if I'm falling asleep and then something particularly jarring comes up...there's one track on Cosa Brava's sophomore album which has glitchy parts which make me jump, coming to mind soonest.
I know exactly what you're talking about! For me It's always been Comus or Can in particular "Peking O"
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