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Very very frightening records?
Posted by Austin on 31 October 2010 - 7:31am.
Yes it's Halloween night. Visiting Trick or Treaters been frightened to anal prolapsity by my clever Anne Widdecombe tattoo situated 'twixt my buttocks. Works every year.
What I am thinking is, there is a bit at the end of Subterraneans on Low, which used to make my hair stand on end. A quiet voice seems to whisper "dance...". Woo-oooh!
Any other spooky tunes?
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Rammstein
There's a remix of Du Hast (sorry can't access youtube at work) that is genuinely very scary.
The first time
I heard the opening fade-in to Speak To Me on Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon I was put on tenterhooks. In fact the first side of the album has 2 or 3 scary bits, or they were when I was 6 or 7 years old. The track On The Run had me in palpitations with its howling machinery/Stuka sound affect coupled with a manic laugh. You relax thinking it's all over only to jump in shock at the clocks going off before the start of Time Completely freaked me out. Went back for more though.
The Jezebel Spirit
on Byrne and Eno's 'My Life in the Biush of Ghosts'. I thought this was pretty freaky when I first heard it.
Spooky and utterly fantastic
I always get freaked out
by 'Kim' by Eminem....way way too much
Old Scotty Walker
can summon up the demons pretty effectively.
Most anything from Tilt, The Drift or Climate of Hunter is dungeonesque*
Not the Kent coastal town - although that is pretty scary too.
" don't ask why "...
...whispered by a young Judi Dench at the end of Roxy Music's For Your Pleasure . It's in there amongst ghostly horse noises (!) , multi-tracked monk-like voices and other madness . Hope they play this live next year !
Valse Pour Le Fin Du Temps
by Harold Budd
And the winner is...
Atom Heart Mother
The choral voices always do it for me.
Good call!
I've always found those voices most disturbing, too. I think it's because they're singing wordless sounds.
'Frankie Teardrop' by
'Frankie Teardrop' by Suicide verges on schlock-rock, but contains such an intense scream of terror at its climax that I am too apprehensive to listen to the song anymore. Similarly, I cannot really listen to Throbbing Gristle's 'Hamburger Lady' these days, although Mr Orridge is a treasure.
So on a lighter note for Halloween, here is a now forgotten piece of spooky, voodoo techno from 1990s that sounds like an update of Byrne/Eno and a DJ once refused to play at a party.
Telethuggies
They want to have your soul and eat it...
Creepy
The theme to Dario Argento's 'Suspiria' is actually as unsettling as the film.
On a lighter note I've always found the backing vocals on 'I only have eyes for you' by The Flamingoes slightly otherworldly.
as usual...
myself and Master Sheev are working from the same page
only I'd narrow it down to Scott Walker's frankly terrifying "Clara".
All 12.5 mins of terrifying caterwauling, meat punching and lyrics about Mussolini's girlfriend being murdered. Bring on the fun times!
The music from Twin Peaks