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* While not a particularly dark album (at least sonically), ''The Great Escape'' features a harsher sound expanding on the new wave elements from ''Parklife'', and some of the tracks veer into this territory; "Fade Away" has walls of discordant brass and an ominous organ-line, bordering on CreepyCircusMusic; "Entertain Me" has screeching guitars and a distorienting, stark atmosphere, and "He Thought Of Cars" is a bleak, lurching art rock tune.

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* While not a particularly dark album (at least sonically), ''The Great Escape'' features a harsher sound expanding on the new wave elements from ''Parklife'', and some of the tracks veer into this territory; "Fade Away" has walls of discordant brass and an ominous organ-line, bordering on CreepyCircusMusic; "Entertain Me" has screeching guitars and a distorienting, stark atmosphere, and "He Thought Of Cars" is a bleak, bleak tune that constantly switches between a lonely, spacey acoustic ballad and lurching art rock tune.rock.


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** Also of note is "Bugman", a dizzying punk track with cryptic lyrics and guitars so heavily distorted they sound like vacuum cleaners. Plus there's the transition into the coda, where the song is slowly overtaken by weird static noise.
* "The Heights" is, for the most part, actually really pretty... [[LastNoteNightmare until the last minute or so]], where the song is overtaken by harsh noise (imagine white noise overlaid with a swarm of bees and dissonant droning brass) before [[NoEnding cutting to silence]].
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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic, folksy instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The {{broken record}}-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.

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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic, folksy instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". head", and other imagery like "a gun in your pocket / and hair in a locket" seeming to depict someone about to [[DrivenToSuicide eat their gun]]. The {{broken record}}-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.brings it to a suitably-chilling close.

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* "Fade Away" from ''The Great Escape'' qualifies for its walls of discordant brass and ominous organ-line - the whole thing borders on CreepyCircusMusic.
* Also from ''The Great Escape'' is "Entertain Me", a dark disco tune with a generally disorienting atmosphere, screeching guitars, and overall stark tone. The equally bleak, lurching "He Thought of Cars" is also worth mentioning.

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* "Fade Away" from While not a particularly dark album (at least sonically), ''The Great Escape'' qualifies for its features a harsher sound expanding on the new wave elements from ''Parklife'', and some of the tracks veer into this territory; "Fade Away" has walls of discordant brass and an ominous organ-line - the whole thing borders organ-line, bordering on CreepyCircusMusic.
* Also from ''The Great Escape'' is
CreepyCircusMusic; "Entertain Me", Me" has screeching guitars and a dark disco tune with a generally disorienting distorienting, stark atmosphere, screeching guitars, and overall stark tone. The equally bleak, lurching "He Thought of Of Cars" is also worth mentioning.a bleak, lurching art rock tune.
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* [[https://youtu.be/VRrJugyk1Yw The music video for "Good Song"]], mainly due to the fact that it's SurrealHorror that might as well come out of a Creator/DavidLynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanting admiration and love]] and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes ''bizarre'' when the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and ''eats the poor guy's head!''. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by ''random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!'' Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.

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* [[https://youtu.be/VRrJugyk1Yw The music video for "Good Song"]], mainly due to the fact that it's SurrealHorror that might as well come out of a Creator/DavidLynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanting admiration and love]] and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes ''bizarre'' when [[spoiler: the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and ''eats the poor guy's head!''. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by ''random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!'' Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.]]

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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The {{broken record}}-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.

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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic melodic, folksy instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The {{broken record}}-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.



* [[https://youtu.be/ZZCt92zLmLI "Intermission"]] from ''Modern Life Is Rubbish''. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going.

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* [[https://youtu.be/ZZCt92zLmLI "Intermission"]] from ''Modern Life Is Rubbish''. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going.going before ringing out, playing the piano riff again, and abruptly stopping on a burst of guitar noise.


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* "Fade Away" from ''The Great Escape'' qualifies for its walls of discordant brass and ominous organ-line - the whole thing borders on CreepyCircusMusic.
* Also from ''The Great Escape'' is "Entertain Me", a dark disco tune with a generally disorienting atmosphere, screeching guitars, and overall stark tone. The equally bleak, lurching "He Thought of Cars" is also worth mentioning.
* Parts of the self-titled qualify - the album saw Blur going down a more experimental path, and while there's still some lighter-hearted songs like "M.O.R" or "Look Inside America", there's also the hazy, off-balance "Theme from Retro", the dark trip hop of "Death of a Party", and the aforementioned "I'm Just A Killer For Your Love" and "Essex Dogs".
** Also worth noting is "Movin' On"s LastNoteNightmare, where the song descends into chaos with dissonant synths over a repeated, dizzy-sounding riff, not so much ending as much as it just dies out.
* What can be said about the self-titled applies tenfold to ''13'', which saw the band shift towards an even darker, more experimental sound. Notably there's the screeching guitar walls present on "1992", the helpless atmosphere of "Battle" (particularly as it nears its end), and the general darkness and intensity of tracks like "Caramel" and "Trimm Trabb".
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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of For Tomorrow's b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.

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* [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of For Tomorrow's "For Tomorrow"'s b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like {{broken record}}-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.
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* Peach, one of For Tomorrow's b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.
* "I'm Just a Killer for Your Love" is a pretty disturbing song. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic It is also really cool-sounding.]]

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* Peach, [[https://youtu.be/m1KEvDfNh1A "Peach"]], one of For Tomorrow's b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.
* [[https://youtu.be/Lx4DJRTtcXE "I'm Just a Killer for Your Love" Love"]] is a pretty disturbing song. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic It is also really cool-sounding.]]



* "Intermission" from ''Modern Life Is Rubbish''. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going.

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* "Intermission" [[https://youtu.be/ZZCt92zLmLI "Intermission"]] from ''Modern Life Is Rubbish''. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going.



* The music video for "Good Song" mainly due to the fact that it's SurrealHorror that might as well come out of a Creator/DavidLynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanting admiration and love]] and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes ''bizarre'' when the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and ''eats the poor guy's head!''. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by ''random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!'' Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.

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* [[https://youtu.be/VRrJugyk1Yw The music video for "Good Song" Song"]], mainly due to the fact that it's SurrealHorror that might as well come out of a Creator/DavidLynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanting admiration and love]] and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes ''bizarre'' when the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and ''eats the poor guy's head!''. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by ''random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!'' Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.
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* Peach, one of For Tomorrow's b-sides, has a gentle, melodic instrumental... accompanied with some pretty gruesome lyrics like "you've got a gaping hole in your head". The broken record-like effect at the end of the song is also worth mentioning.
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with a LastNoteNightmare.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk [[https://youtu.be/-I2P2bAfiXY "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with a LastNoteNightmare.
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* The music video for "Good Song" mainly due to the fact that it's SurrealHorror that might as well come out of a Creator/DavidLynch product. It starts off simple with a fairy [[IJustWantToBeLoved wanting admiration and love]] and falls in love a squirrel. Weird but cute. But then it goes ''bizarre'' when the squirrel confuses his head for a nut during an imaginary sequence and ''eats the poor guy's head!''. While the squirrel is obviously devastated and heartbroken, she (or he) is then murdered by ''random wasps and fairies for no actual reason at all!'' Not helped the second half of the video focuses on the squirrel's dead corpse and makes the random ending of a man playing with a leaf blower more like a break in the mood but still.
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** Used to fantastic tense effect in ''Baby Driver''.

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** Used to fantastic tense effect in ''Baby Driver''.''Film/BabyDriver''.
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* "I'm Just a Killer For Your Love" is a pretty disturbing song. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic It is also really cool-sounding.]]
* [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQALzFA-Ab4dTvOZGxpOKImWc7zk4xhgumXU8hAmmj54XKiPkmhSQ The cover art of 13]]. WTF, Graham?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with LastNoteNightmare at the end.

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* "I'm Just a Killer For for Your Love" is a pretty disturbing song. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic It is also really cool-sounding.]]
* [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQALzFA-Ab4dTvOZGxpOKImWc7zk4xhgumXU8hAmmj54XKiPkmhSQ The cover art of 13]].of]] ''13''. WTF, Graham?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with LastNoteNightmare at the end.a LastNoteNightmare.
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* "Intermission" from ''Modern Life Is Rubbish''. It begins innocently enough with a simple piano riff. Then the guitars. Then the drums. And you don't notice it's getting faster and faster until it's too late and becomes a cacophony of guitar feedback and drum hits...and just when you think it can't get any more frantic, it keeps going and going.
** Used to fantastic tense effect in ''Baby Driver''.

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* Though it's also a bit silly if you mishear the chorus as [[{{Mondegreen}} I'm just tequila for your love]].



* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with LastNoteNightmare at the end.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with LastNoteNightmare at the end.end.
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* "I'm Just a Killer For Your Love" is a pretty disturbing song. [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic It is also really cool-sounding.]]
* Though it's also a bit silly if you mishear the chorus as [[{{Mondegreen}} I'm just tequila for your love]].
* [[http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQALzFA-Ab4dTvOZGxpOKImWc7zk4xhgumXU8hAmmj54XKiPkmhSQ The cover art of 13]]. WTF, Graham?
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=be9OPLNKRYk "Essex Dogs"]] is full of unsettling noises. Also, it's the one with LastNoteNightmare at the end.

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