Genuinely Creepy Music

[kyser_soze]

It's kind of religious singing without music - I'm sure many people think it's lovely, but to me it sounds like the kind of music that would be playing when the angels are coming to take you away.

Butchers was playing it once when I got home from work and I was like "Arrrrghhh - what is this? Turn it off now!"

You mean plainsong? Stuff that's half-sung, half chanted, makes most people think of monks?

Ethereal is the word I'd use, which covers your description nicely. And at least it'd be the angels taking you away, not the demons...

Ah, just listened to that Sacred Harp stuff on the wiki page, sounds remarkably like a lot of African music in it's structure, which is ironic given it's structure! Quite pleasant tho...

 

[Spion]

Diner, by Angelo Badalamenti from the Mulholland Drive soundtrack can weird me out any time of day

 

[Orang Utan]

Singing without music? Surely that's contradiction in terms?

 

[elevendayempire]

Some of Buckethead's stuff gives me the shivers. Then again, it is a bloke in a Halloween mask and a chicken bucket playing songs inspired by serial killers. And KFC.

 

[kyser_soze]

Singing without music? Surely that's contradiction in terms?

I think it's pretty easy to deduce geri meant singing a cappella

 

[teecee]

I've heard a bit of the stuff mentioned so far but nothing has weirded me out more than some, if not all, of the stuff that Diamanda Galas does. Weirdest, creepiest scariest sounds to ever issue forth from the human vocal chords. Hearing her live literally raised the hairs on the back of my neck, well it felt like it anyway

 

[Geri]

You mean plainsong? Stuff that's half-sung, half chanted, makes most people think of monks?

I dunno, I asked him and he just said it was shape note/sacred heart, although when I have listened to it since, it sounded nowhere near as freaky.

 

[david dissadent]

The choral music in the opening scenes of 2001 A Space Odyssey is a touch unsettling.

 

[kyser_soze]

The choral music in the opening scenes of 2001 A Space Odyssey is a touch unsettling.

All of Ligeti's polyphonic stuff like Requim

Gyorgy Ligeti. The pieces used in 2001 are called Requim and Atmospheres.

 

[DotCommunist]

Anyone mentioned that sex is violent skit off of NBK soundtrack?

I don't like that tune

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

anything by Haus arafna

 

[Orang Utan]

The choral music in the opening scenes of 2001 A Space Odyssey is a touch unsettling.

that's Ligeti and it's awesome

Other unsettling composers are Xenakis and Messaien

 

[kyser_soze]

Fairground ride/carousel/nursery rhyme music played slightly off key...

 

[Yetman]

The intro music to City of Lost Children is pretty scary.

 

[Orang Utan]

Fairground ride/carousel/nursery rhyme music played slightly off key...

oh yes, the Eraserhead soundtrack has all that scratched up Fats Waller music that really freaks me out.

 

[Orang Utan]

http://www.typerecords.com/radio/full.php?id=23
October 2006

Keith Kenniff of Helios and Goldmund fame brings together some of his favourite classical music to give us a taste of his references and influences.


Tracklisting :

Keith Kenniff of Helios and Goldmund fame brings together some of his favourite classical music to give us a taste of his references and influences.

0 - 0:30 Henry Purcell - Suite en sol majeur (Z 660) - Prelude

0:30 - 4:22 Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach, Knee Play 1

4:22 - 12:14 Lou Harrison - Symphony No. 2, i. Tears of the Angel Israfel

12:14 - 15:06 Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel 3

15:06 - 16:40 Howard Skempton (perf. John Tilbury) - Toccata

16:40 - 20:19 Henryk Gorecki - 3 olden style pieces, iii.

20:19 - 23:01 George Crumb - Music for a Summer Evening: Music of the Starry Night

23:01 - 30:13 Henry Purcell - When I am Laid in Earth (from Dido and Aeneas)

30:13 - 35:42 John Adams - Grand Pianola Music: Part 1b

35:42 - 38:37 Gyorgy Ligeti - Atmospheres, for Large Orchestra

38:37 - 40:16 Avet Terterian - Symphony no 1, ii.

40:16 - 44:15 Steve Reich - You Are (variations): Ehmore M'Aht, V'Ahsay Harbay (Say Little and Do Much)

44:15 - 45:03 Dimitri Shostakovich - Prelude no. 2 in A minor (op.27)

45:03 - 48:24 Igor Stravinsky - Mass for Chorus and Double Wind Quintet - Sanctus - Benedictus

48:24 - 52:05 Gabriel Faure - Requiem: In Paradisum

 

[dweller]

David Hykes / Harmonic choir can be quite creepy

It was used in Jacob's Ladder soundtrack.

 

[Pieface]

That throat singing those monks do on the In Sounds From Way Out instrumental album by the Beastie Boys. It's quite creepy but doesn't actually freak me out unlike that stupid Sun oooo/Nurse with Wound track which is horrible.

It doesn't scare me if I listen to it in the office though. I've discovered that.

 

[Bakunin]

Gregorian chants can be a bit freaky.

As can anything by Whitehouse.

 

[El Jefe]

As can anything by Whitehouse.

they're not creepy. They're just superannuated infants trying to be shocking and failing

 

[snadge]

I've heard a bit of the stuff mentioned so far but nothing has weirded me out more than some, if not all, of the stuff that Diamanda Galas does. Weirdest, creepiest scariest sounds to ever issue forth from the human vocal chords. Hearing her live literally raised the hairs on the back of my neck, well it felt like it anyway

yep, Diamanda can be creepy as fuck.

 

[dweller]

That Pink Floyd song about a Pict in a cave freaked me out when I was a kid.
I was in bed looking at a photo of the lunar lander and the earth from space,
this weird music was coming from another part of the house - I freaked.

 

[foo]

some of that Giggs stuff my lad listens to is well creepy.

 

[isitme]

Mr Bungle used to scare me when I took a lot of mushrooms, probably wouldn't now
there's some creepy stuff on the Akira soundtrack, specially the middle bit, that actually shit me up when I was listening to it on my walkman walking through fields on a beautiiful summers day

 

[kyser_soze]

isitme - are you thinking about the giant teddy music bit? Yeah, agreed, that's a bit weird...

 

[isitme]

isitme - are you thinking about the giant teddy music bit? Yeah, agreed, that's a bit weird...

there's a whole sequence on the album including the teddy bit which is all completely insane. it's just all at weird tempos and keys with weird singing and instruments

Tetsuo's theme music is really scary

 

[the button]

Tetsuo's theme music is really scary

Can't say I remember the theme music. First time I saw it, I put the DVD in, and spent the rest of the film kneeling in front of the telly going .

 

[isitme]

It's the one that goes 'DUUUUUU DUUUUUUU DU DU!!!!

the whole film is pretty

 

[Bakunin]

Mr Bungle used to scare me when I took a lot of mushrooms, probably wouldn't now

I always though George and Zippy were a bit wrong myself, and what did Geoffrey, Rod, Jane and Freddy get up to when the cameras were off, that's what I'd like to know.

 

[isitme]

I did used to have nightmares about george from rainbow when I was a kid. It was that scary mouth, same as the croc from punch and judy, there was something slightly insane about it