Spooky (But Great) Songs of the 70s
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Topic: Spooky (But Great) Songs of the 70s
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Subject: Spooky (But Great) Songs of the 70s
Date Posted: August 22 2021 at 14:23
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Spooky, dark, scary, evil.... I'll
post them, especially because the live version of "No Quarter" is
spooky. The jam from around the 9 minute mark is killer. It's all
together, but there's some cool communication with Page/Bonham/Jones,
and sounds independent at times, kinda jazzy... Speaking of jazzy, Bill
Ward of Black Sabbath played many songs with a jazzy version, and those
Middle-Eastern sounding riffs by Tony Iommi really gave it a dark sound -
playing a half-tone as opposed to a whole-tone.. And to think this was
probably because of Tony's accident is pretty interesting. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath https://youtu.be/ISXnYu-Or4w Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (extended) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZy4ot2O2g" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFZy4ot2O2g
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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: August 22 2021 at 14:37
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Songs and a couple instrumentals: Comus - Drip, Drip Igor Wakhevitch - Materia Prima Black Widow - Come to the Sabbat Goblin - Suspiria Message - Dreams and Nightmares (Nightmares, and Dreams) Coven - Satanic Mass (sorry, 1969) Lucifer’s Friend - Lucifer’s Friend A bit late, but I want mention Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi’s Dead King Crimson's Red, Gentle Giant's The House, The Street, the Room, and Van der Graaf Generator's Darkness all have some evil riffage. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 00:11
Just take the whole 'First Utterance' album by Comus and if this one doesn't give you the chills, then I don't know what your problem is.  |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 09:28
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Curved Air - Piece of Mind https://youtu.be/6OmLrp3YcKU" rel="nofollow - https://youtu.be/6OmLrp3YcKU ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: August 23 2021 at 09:48
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The music of Magma is often extremely spooky, especially when they do one of their extremely long build-ups where the tension becomes almost unbearable until it is finally released. This is especially so for live versions of their songs. Two examples: -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 24 2021 at 07:55
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Pink Floyd - One Of These Days https://youtu.be/48PJGVf4xqk ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: August 24 2021 at 09:15
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You could pick just about anything from Alice Cooper's first few albums. This is certainly representative, and quite creepy.... ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: August 24 2021 at 10:41
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Always got kinda spooked by "21st Century Schizoid Man", "Nights in White Satin", the main Tubular Bells opening theme (even before I associated it with The Exorcisit), "A Trip to the Fair", Il Balletto di Bronzo's Ys, and "Crime of the Century" (the song; it's so stark). "Gates of Delirium" has some Tolkein-esque sections and, of course, several Peter Gabriel and Peter Hammill performances I still find eerie/spooky. Then along came Univers Zero and everything else paled in comparison… ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 25 2021 at 15:47
Interesting you mentioned The Moody Blues, because I came here to post "Melancholy Man", which I find their most spooky. The Moody Blues - Melancholy Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYIYIVG64C4 ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
BrufordFreak wrote:Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: August 25 2021 at 20:03
| I think "Midas Man" by Renaissance is as chilling as any song I can think of |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 25 2021 at 20:53
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About five and a half minutes into Supper's Ready there's a creepy part with little girls singing. Trespass also creeped me out the first time I heard it and not just the knife.
You also have PF's Echoes and maybe even a few songs by Yes believe it or not. Also, some early King Crimson.
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Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: August 27 2021 at 07:44
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Lily & Maria - There'll Be No Clowns Tonight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_qsQ6reQY ------------- https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 27 2021 at 08:42
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Parts of "A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers" are quite eerie, and pretty much the whole of "Pawn Hearts" would terrify a small child. But it's not a Halloween type terror, it's a medieval Europe type terror. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 27 2021 at 12:34
Speaking of VDGG part of the track "after the flood" was considered by one music critic to be "one of the scariest moments in the history of prog rock." That was because of the distortion used on Hammill's voice. Technically that album was recorded in the sixties though.
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 29 2021 at 04:24
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part 2 of Heaven and Hell - Vangelis has some proper spooky goings on especially the section sometimes referred to a 'Intestinal Bat'. Technically not valid as it's 1980 but I can't resist throwing in Keith Emerson's Inferno soundtrack. Some very cool scary stuff on that.
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