There's something about that sax part which still makes me uneasy.

with Ed 'Stewpot' Stewart still holds some scary memories.

And who can forget:

Shudder..

For some reason those tapelooped 'choirs' really really made me nervous when I was younger. And the 'big boys don't cry' thing as well. Something a bit nightmareish about the whole thing.

I'd forgotten about that - it was creepy. 10cc were like a fun size Pink Floyd.

And touching on a previous post (celebs who went to the same school), at Junior school I was friends with Paul Webb's (Talk Talk) younger brother, we would terrify ourselves by playing Pauls copy of 'Dark Side of the Moon'- IN THE DARK!!

I was terrified of Monster Mash, despite it being a comedy song. All those lab noises I suppose.

Telstar also had lots of funny noises and seemed like it was being played on another planet, and the Supremes' Reflections. That bleepy, swirly beginning bit was creepy.

And of course There's A Ghost In My House. Those guitars! Brrrr!

Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks and that Honey by Bobby Goldsboro. Regret, death, goodbyes - well traumatic for a then nipper. I recall The Light Of Experience by George Zamphir(?) - Horrible flute tooting. I found a lot of that nasty matching-jumpsuit superpop - Billy Don't Be A Hero etc - of the 70s to be vile. Plus the public's fascination for Royal Dragoon Guards and bagpipes, with their Amazing Grace. It just sounded like something being freshly exhumed. Naughty Naughty Naughty - fuck knows who that was, but really unpleasant.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown's "Fire" always got me doing that cushion thing or behind the sofa dash whenever it was on TOTP .

Also hearing the eerie first minute or so of Bowie's "Sweet Thing" for the first time in 1974 made me feel scared .

What about that weird bit at the end of Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure" ? What sounds like a choir of Ferrymonks cascading over horse noises , cymbals and ( I've heard it said ) a then relatively unknown Judi Dench saying " Don't Ask Why " - that's frightening .

the scariest song of all time!!!

Frankly terrifying to a 6 year old. Nick Mason's deep vocoder voice "One of these days, I'm going to chop you into little pieces..."

When my Dad stuck that on, I ran behind the sofa. Deeply unsettling.

....did a song called "The Trimdon Grange Explosion" about a Durham mining disaster. Scared the bejaysus out of me when I was 6 or 7.

I can still hear it now, "..With the Trimdon Grange explosion, Joseph, George and James are gone."

I think I need a lie down.

I was put off the Beatles for years as a kiddie, due to the sight of Leo McKern in a frightening looking mask during the last scene of Help! This fact was brought back to me abruptly, while re-watching the film with my 6-year-old a couple of months back (He thought it was great, especially the bits with Ringo).

Sorry if it's posted in one of the youtube thingys above - they don't work in my office.

Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds scared the crap out of me when I was young.

And Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel!

Their album Rembrant Pussy Horse is as scary as fuck. Really, properly unsettling.
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide is unhinged and freaky. Uneasy listening indeed.

Agree with you completely there..........once upon a time as a teenager I fell asleep to Peel playing on my tranny (a radio, that is...not a sexually ambiguous chap) and awoke to assorted electronic noises and what can only be described as an ongoing murder. Sat up in a cold sweat to realise it was "music" allegedly. Was so freaked I had to go out and buy the album which I procedded to listen to twice and put away never to be listened to again.

by Laurie Anderson scared me to death, particularly after I discovered it was about nuclear war, which was still a real possibility when the track was released. Brrrrrr!

makes The Excorcist look like Scooby Doo

Crass - Reality Asylum

by the wonderful Bobbie Gentry has always given me the willies. can't explain why, but for twenty-five years I've found it deeply unsettling...

The Fifth Dimension's "Let The Sunshine In" always reminds me of something a spooky religious cult would sing when they're sacrifing humans/lambs/etc

And don't get me started on Van McCoy's "Do The Hustle". That "butter wouldn't melt" piccolo hook coming in right after some ne'er-do-well encourages the listener to "Do It! Do It!" like the divil himself. That piccolo bit is so unnervingly sweet that there must be something evil behind it. If any axe-murderer blamed his dastardly act on this song, I'd probably believe him. Most Studio 54-esque footage gives me the creeps though. Don't ask me why...

Ha Ha Said The Clown by Manfred Mann due to it's appearance on The Golden Oldie Picture Show in the Eighties. Does anyone remember that show? Presented by Dave Lee Travis it consisted of new videos of songs which pre-dated the promtional video age. Best thing about the show is that it turned me onto the Kinks, as they showed both Lola and Dedicated Follower of Fashion on the show, for which I am eternally gratetful.

Dreadlock Holiday was strangely unnerving to a sensitive child who'd never ventured further than Porthcawl for his summer holidays. And there was a sense of Lovecraftian evil about Bohemian Rhapsody.