History NightmareFuel / CaptainBeefheart

* ''"Dachau Blues"'': [[DemBones Dancing skeletons]] in a Nazi concentration camp! And the small audio snippet near the end of a guy talking about exterminating rats (''"You got one fellow down there and he's ssssssssssstaring!"'') is equally disturbing.

* ''"Pena."'' Oh, God, ''"Pena."'' Trust me, this is a LastNoteNightmare that [[AndIMustScream goes on for 2 and a half minutes.]]

* "Tiger Roach", a late 60s collab with Frank Zappa, originally unreleased though appeared on his compilation "The Lost Episodes". Features Don performing some unearthly HarshVocals that are far more reminiscent of early SystemOfADown than anything that was going on at the time.

* ''"The Thousand And Tenth Day Of The Human Totempole"''. A disturbing song about a human totempole apparently starving from hunger. Those terrifying lyrics:

* ''"Apes-Ma"'', a very claustrophobic track with no music, just Beefheart's voice talking to a mother ape living inside a very small cage. Apparently Apes-Ma ''"is eating too much and going to the bathroom too much"'', which is awful, since ''"her cage isn't getting any bigger."''
** Also horrifying about this song is that Beefheart informs ''"Apes-Ma"'' that ''"the little girl that named you years ago has died now."'' So this poor animal has been stuck in this tiny little cage for so long that the original owner, a little child, apparently passed away by now, presumably of old age!
** Beefheart mentions that Apes-Ma is ''"not strong enough" to "break out her cage anymore."'' So there is nothing to do except waiting for her eventual death.

* The outtake "Funeral Hill" in which Beefheart imagines what it's like to be dead and have people attend your funeral. When helping Rhino put together the outtakes disc for the "Sun Zoom Spark" box set, his widow Jan Van Vliet personally asked for this song to not be included. Three versions are available on bootlegs, however.

* ''Pena.'' Oh, God, ''Pena.'' Trust me, this is a LastNoteNightmare that [[AndIMustScream goes on for 2 and a half minutes.]]

To most listeners every Beefheart song would apply as terrifying noise. But even his fans can sometimes chudder:

* ''"Autumn's Child"'' from ''Music/SafeAsMilk'' -- a very haunting ending for an otherwise (mostly) accessible album.

* The album cover of ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' is a NightmareFace you wouldn't want to see near your window at night!

* ''"Apes-Ma"'' from ''Music/ShinyBeast'', a very claustrophobic track with no music, just Beefheart's voice talking to a mother ape living inside a very small cage. Apparently Apes-Ma ''"is eating too much and going to the bathroom too much"'', which is awful, since ''"her cage isn't getting any bigger."''

* "Ashtray Heart" from ''Music/DocAtTheRadarStation'':

* ''"The Thousand And Tenth Day Of The Human Totempole"'' from ''Music/IceCreamForCrow''. A disturbing song about a human totempole apparently starving from hunger. Those terrifying lyrics:

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Trout_Mask_Replica_4905.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: A face you don't want to see near your window at night!]]

* The cover of ''Music/TroutMaskReplica'' (see picture).

* ''"Dachau Blues"'': Dancing skeletons in a Nazi concentration camp! And the small audio snippet near the end of a guy talking about exterminating rats (''"You got one fellow down there and he's ssssssssssstaring!"'') is equally disturbing.

* ''"Autumn's Child"'' qualifies for this too -- a very haunting ending for an otherwise (mostly) accessible album.
* ''"The Thousand And Tenth Day Of The Human Totempole"''. A disturbing song about a human totempole apparently starving from hunger. Those terrifying lyrics:

* ''"Apes-Ma"'', a very claustrophobic track with no music, just Beefheart's voice talking to a mother ape living inside a very small cage. Apparently Apes-Ma ''"is eating too much and going to the bathroom too much"'', which is awful, since ''"her cage isn't getting any bigger."''
** Also horrifying about this song is that Beefheart informs ''"Apes-Ma"'' that ''"the little girl that named you years ago has died now."'' So this poor animal has been stuck in this tiny little cage for so long that the original owner, a little child, apparently passed away by now, presumably of old age!
** Beefheart mentions that Apes-Ma is ''"not strong enough" to "break out her cage anymore."'' So there is nothing to do except waiting for her eventual death.
** As if the poem wasn't creepy enough, it's rumored that Beefheart could also have been describing himself going through the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

* The cover of ''TroutMaskReplica'' (see picture).

* ''"Apes-Ma"'', a very claustrofobic track with no music, just Beefheart's voice talking to a mother ape living inside a very small cage. Apparently Apes-Ma ''"is eating too much and going to the bathroom too much"'', which is awful, since ''"her cage isn't getting any bigger."''

** Beefheart mentions that Apes-Ma is ''"not strong enough" to "break out her cage anymore."'' So there is nothing to do except waiting for her eventual death.

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Trout_Mask_Replica_4905.jpg]][[caption-width-right:350: You wouldn't want to see this face near your window in the middle of the night!]]

To most listeners every Beefheart song would apply as terrifying noise. But even his fans can sometimes chudder about some of his more creepy songs:

* ''"Well"'' and ''"Dachau Blues"'', both from ''TroutMaskReplica'', are filled with lyrics about death and destruction, the former conjuring up images of crows and bugs devouring the dead and the dying.

''"The man at the top was starving.''

''The pole was a horrible looking thing''

''With all of those eyes and ears''

''And waving hands for balance.''

''There was no way to get a copter in close''

''So everybody was starving together.''

''The man at the top had long ago given up''

''But didn't have nerve enough to climb down.''

''At night the pole would talk to itself and the chatter wasn't too good."''

At night the pole would talk to itself and the chatter wasn't too good."''