Music that creeps you the hell out

You're both wrong: The two most unsettling Pink Floyd songs are "Bike" and "Jugband Blues", because the weirdness just sneaks up on you like some lunatic with a knife made of compressed Syd Barrett lyric sheets...

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

The one I heard consisted of someone talking in a Creepy Monotone about how the universe was meaningless or something like that, followed by a very unnerving swell of classical-sounding music and ending with a gong crash. I don't know its name, but I think it might have been from Dark Side of the Moon.

edited 10th Feb '12 8:25:04 PM by Mort08

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Set the controls for the heart of the sun is creepy.

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

No mention of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmB6SJusA0M&feature=related

Even without the context of the Exorcist movie it is still fricking spine chilling.

Stan by Eminem.

Obsessed fans can be creepy.

edited 11th Feb '12 10:12:28 PM by lolacat

Seeing all these piss ant tropers trying to talk tough makes me laugh. If Matrix were here, he'd laugh too.

For some reason I've always found this song creepy, even though the mood that the artist was going for is clearly depression:

Earth is the only planet inhabitable by Nicolas Cage.

Creepy music, as a goth that's a tricky one, how do you creep out someone who listens to "creepy" music on a regular basis, and thinks a coffin would make a nifty bed. Well the answer to that is it's not easy. Perhaps some bauhaus, or the dead can dance(hauntingly beautiful but not creepy). But no I think the closest I've ever come is this http://youtu.be/rgPGuDq-cJU . Make sure to listen to it while in a dark place(perhaps a single small light lit nearby you), all alone, with the only sound being that song.

I will admit though there is a scary song that I don't dare play for fear of dying at the mere sound of it. http://youtu.be/pjAUe7JZjgI?t=13s :P

edited 13th Feb '12 9:33:33 PM by Renatus

Turn the lights out, close your eyes, give this a spin.

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Well... pretty much everything by Death Cube K. Except maybe Maggot Dream. That song's nice.

Please don't feed the trolls!

I tried to read creepypasta while listening to this once. That... didn't go over very well.

That track is probably the scariest thing on Soundtracks. Which is saying something.

Well, OK, "I Love You This Much" and "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" come pretty close.

edited 14th Feb '12 11:58:09 AM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

This. My personal "favorites" are the 2 vocal tracks from Rebuild: "Today Is The Time For Goodbye" and "Give Me Wings". They both invoke a complicated mix of feelings, but when coupled with the clips from the movie, they become absolutely horrifying.

Come sail your ships around me, and burn your bridges down.

Sort of makes me think of a cross between Homeworld's soundtrack, and Eve Online's soundtrack. Though I do wish I hadn't listened to it when I did, my ear seems to be a bit sensitive today and ached a bit all through the song.

Meh, adding sounds of children just doesn't make something creepy in my book. It sounds too much like background music, makes me sleepy.

Now I have a headache.

edited 14th Feb '12 5:44:19 PM by Renatus

Yeah, I had to think for a while to decide between that one and I Was a Prisoner In Your Skull, since both of them are inhumanly unsettling, just like the album in general. The Beautiful Days sill has the greatest ohgodnomakeitstop effect on me, though.

I tend to find Swans more amusing or intriguing than scary.

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The battlescape themes from X-Com: Terror From the Deep and UFO: Aftermath were particularly haunting to me. TFTD's made good use of the Drone of Dread and scare chords, while Aftermath's was just creepy.

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I don't know if it's really on topic because that kind of music actually doesn't scare me, I love to listen to it, but most of my friends find it creepy and even frightening (to some). I do believe it's genuinely beautiful though, so your mileage may vary... (these are youtube links)

Thomas Kôner - Grohuk (Night) : watch?v=7mCVxrq6kAg

Steve Roach - A Darker Light : watch?v=5YY_0FsVVcU

Philus (Mika Vainio) - Anksiolyytti : watch?v=5aNLXwP9LYc

There is also an album by ambient genius-group Mirror (Andrew Chalk & Christoph Heemann, in this one with the help of Jim O'Rourke, whom you may know for his huge discography and his albums on Mego or Drag City) called "Still Valley" which is probably my favorite ambient record of the 00s but which is actually pretty dark once you really look at it. Perfect soundtrack for a Twilight Zone episode (which incidentally has an episode called Still Valley, which has nothing to do with this album).

edited 15th Feb '12 2:17:11 PM by Akalabth

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

My dad likes Steve Roach.

I'll give that a listen in a bit.

Also: the youtube markup is [[youtube: vid#]]

Without the space.

edited 15th Feb '12 2:28:57 PM by inane242

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But I'd thank you to not do it that way and keep being wonderfully considerate to dial-up users. Text links will suffice... embedding is not only overrated, but has the potential to make other people's computers freeze up.

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Thanks for the youtube markup ! Unfortunately my account is still too recent so I can't post links right now. I'm just getting around that in some way (hopefully I won't get my ass kicked by moderators ... I don't know, is posting links before being authorized to post 'em is bad ?)

It's funny you'd say that because of all the alternative/ambient stuff I listen to, my dad also likes Steve Roach. To be honest the guy's in the business of making ambient music since the early eighties so you'd expect him to be popular among the not-so-young crowd. I really do love his stuff though. Not all of it (some of his more lovey-dovey new age-ish stuff can get on my nerves a bit) but he has made some really damn fine records and still today has an incredible output which is both prolific and very high quality at the same time. His website (steveroach.com) has snippets to almost all his releases...

@Enemy Mayan : hehe ok I'll keep that in mind for future posts, thanks ! Most of the time I actually use text links. Very rarely I do use these youtube embeds but it's only when I have one video to show and when it is essential for the video to be viewed on the page (for whatever reason that may be).

edited 15th Feb '12 4:02:03 PM by Akalabth

You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door. There is a small mailbox here.

Eh, I had Dial-Up for the longest time, never had a problem with YT embeds.

Couldn't play them, but they only made the page take a minute more to load.

No, it's just to stop spambots.

And the mods here are mostly cool.

edited 15th Feb '12 4:01:31 PM by inane242

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Relevant.

And here's a little something for reference.

Hmm, for a given value of creep out, I would have to personally add the "Moment Like This" which every X-Factor singer has to belt out a rendition of, every year since what seems like forever. I am not sure if it fits the criteria as such but I already blew my last answer on Mike Oldfield's scary bells.

You evil evil person. You could at least have said that the second link linked to Ronald Mc Donald. (hates clowns, hates clowns, is terrified of clowns)

edited 17th Feb '12 4:40:23 AM by TamH70

Suffer Age by Fear Factory. The guitar riffing at the beginning scares the shit out of me. When I was younger, I would actually skip over this track while listening to the album. It scared me that much.

edited 24th Mar '12 2:57:49 PM by BreadGod

This is creepy as hell for a religious song. The melody NEVER matches up to the accompaniment rhythmically or sonically, and most of it is the same two dissonant chords over and over again.

Amazingly, this eerie little number is actually in the Methodist hymnal. What were they thinking?!

edited 24th Mar '12 3:42:40 PM by Twentington