Genuinely Creepy Music

[ViolentPanda]

A Rocket from the Tombs - Ain't It Fun always creeps me out.
Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly.

 

[El Jefe]

Throbbing Gristle - Very Friendly.

or Hamburger Lady

 

[matt m]

see I only heard Throbbing Gristle for the first time a couple of years ago, and I thought they sounded a bit tame. That's what happens when you've already heard all the bands they influenced.

The creepiest song I've ever heard without a shadow of a doubt is "Wood Frong Pond" by Volcano the Bear. From their album "the one burned ma", back when they were genuinely experimental in a Nurse With Wound way, before they turned into a sort of post-rock band that sounded like other post-rock bands.

It's got lyrics that manage to be both utterly banal and threateningly scary, and this woozy up-and-down vocal speed thing that's silly and chilling. It's great. Listen to it alone at night in a big wooden house.

 

[El Jefe]

fuck, wrong thread

 

[Bakunin]

Black Sabbath do it for me, and some of Ozzy's solo stuff as well.

Come to think of it, Ozzy Osbourne is quite a scary sounding person as well, with a certain fondness for the, ahem, obvious vices of his chosen profession.

 

[teecee]

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

I don't like that tune

That'll probably be the Diamanda Gala bit mixed into the normally palatable Janes Addiction version.

You should hear the creepiness she adds to Gloomy Sunday

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWVWY5QUzg


Actually this thread has reminded me I had not listened to her stuff for a while so I just reminding myself how damn good she is again via the medium of Youtube

 

[kyser_soze]

Ozzy Osbourne is quite a scary sounding person as well

I assume you missed The Osbournes completely then? About as scary as a piece of cotton fluff - the sight of Ozzy being completely defeated by a remote control was human tragedy at it's finest...

 

[Bakunin]

I assume you missed The Osbournes completely then? About as scary as a piece of cotton fluff - the sight of Ozzy being completely defeated by a remote control was human tragedy at it's finest...

I was thinking of him more during his 'Sobriety sucks...' phase.

 

[Orang Utan]

Black Sabbath do it for me, and some of Ozzy's solo stuff as well.

Come to think of it, Ozzy Osbourne is quite a scary sounding person as well, with a certain fondness for the, ahem, obvious vices of his chosen profession.

Planet Caravan is pretty spooky, I'll grant you that

 

[Cloo]

I remember freaking out a school friend with one of the tracks of Aphex Twins' Ambient Works (which vol I can't remember). The one that went 'plinky plonky, plinky plonky'. You know.

 

[kyser_soze]

Vol II, Disc 2 I think - sounds like the one used in one of the 'Fixit Girl' skits from Bluejam

 

[Nixon]

Great thread

 

[albionism]

this
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=6IF-0XNKlhk

 

[keybored]

'Milkman' by Aphex Twin combined with this animation by David Firth is as creepy and disturbing as fuck.

That just reminded me how good Salad Fingers is.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

PJ Harvey - Rid of Me.

 

[poului]

tyghlmi9p

It all pales compared to this,

 

[kyser_soze]

Jefe, you've got this one as well haven't you?

Scariest track probably Icebreaker, but the whole album is full of tracks that give me the creeping horrors...

 

[Dr_Gonzo]

There are quite a few tracks by Jandek that I find really creepy.

 

[Meltingpot]

I properly, properly, properly freaked myself out by listening to the start of the Black Sabbath album once.

I agree, that is well scary too. What a way to announce your arrival to the rock world though, I can't even imagine what they must have thought of it in 1970. *Tritones, which were banned by the Church for its own music for centuries, and those searing vocals of Ozzy's. "OH NOOOOOOOOO!!!!"

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone

 

[MysteryGuest]

It all pales compared to this,

finally somebody mentions lustmord! that ^ is a superbly tenebrous, desolate album - heavy as fuck. lustmord have created some of the darkest stuff i've ever heard. i'd recommend 'born of cold light' from carbon/core (actually quite beautiful as well as sinister) and pretty much all of the 'monstrous soul' cd. i actually don't listen to lustmord any more coz i find their music really quite taxing.

also see if you can find a nurse with wound track called 'mutilés de guerre' - one of the most utterly horrific things i've ever heard, but hysterically funny at the same time. it has this tapeloop of a young boy screaming that is deeply unsettling. but somehow it's hilarious. i love it when nww do that! on a similar tip, i'd also recommend nww's first really good lp, 'homotopy to marie'.

virgin prunes did some genuinely disturbing tape loop/electronics stuff as well - 'abbagall' from new form of beauty 3 is particularly bleak and eerie (and great imo) and 'suck me baby' from nfb 4 has a strange psychotic beauty to it. their stuff from disc 1 of the 'heresie' box set is pretty out there and bizarre, but again like nww can be curiously amusing with it, during the non-demonic bits anyway.

 

[northeastoipunk]

there was a song on brian eno s taking tiger mountain album called put a straw under baby (i think that was title)well creepy

 

[northeastoipunk]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/...rex_listen_dp_img?ie=UTF8&refTagSuffix=dp_img

 

[ViolentPanda]

"Heidi" by Scanner is creepy in a voyeuristic way.

 

[chico enrico]

Coil kinda have this sewn up don't they?

i've never really 'got' coil for some reason. have seen them, live a few times, got a few LPs and have borrowed others but i've just never been able to get into them.

TG 'hamburger lady' is a well creepy record. I remember taking a total whitey when i was about 13 and tripping out of my head and my mate put that on and started doing this weird egyptian dancing wrapped in a bedsheet with a bicycle lamp on his head.

some parts of journey through a body are pretty unnerving too

also that NWW/come org 150 murderous passions LP. or that bradford Red Light district lp that's just footsteps walking about with the noise of cars going by etc for half an hour.

and the first whitehouse LP, birthdeath experience, i used to put that on if i'd done loads of changa or Es and needed to get to sleep as i find it really soothing for some reason, tho maybe just cos of that voice going "sleep now...sleep now" but any chicolitas i was with got me to put it off as it creeped them out.

oh yea, and there's that song on Siouxsie & the banshees 'join hands' with the misical box sound (called 'mother' or something maybe?) that i used to find pretty creepy. but loved all the same.

good thread by the way. sure i'll think of more.....

 

[chico enrico]

also see if you can find a nurse with wound track called 'mutilés de guerre' - one of the most utterly horrific things i've ever heard, but hysterically funny at the same time. it has this tapeloop of a young boy screaming that is deeply unsettling. but somehow it's hilarious. i love it when nww do that! on a similar tip, i'd also recommend nww's first really good lp, 'homotopy to marie'.

i love that Fashioned To A Device Behind A Tree tape-loop track by them (can't remember what LP it's on) and i spose that's fairly creepy but sort of like coil, a lot of NWW stuff i just don't get.

 

[damnhippie]

Jarboe freaks me out a bit. only seen her live with Neurosis, which was still good, but not the full weirdess quota.

neutral milk hotel creeps me out too. just his voice. it was bloody urban that turned me on to that as well

 

[purplex]

Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Weatherall/Kooner mashing with da peepz heads

 

[Annierak]

Kate Bush 'Hello earth' freaks me out

 

[iROBOT]

This has been freaking me out for a number of years..

SPK - In Flagrante Delicto

 

[seeformiles]

"Antiworld" by Nina Hagen always gave me the creeps

Also "Electric Storm" by White Noise is pretty strange (esp. side 2)

Any album by Whitehouse is disturbing if not downright unlistenable.