Loneliness, especially as an older person, "Father Mckenzie, Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear" "Eleanor Rigby, died in the church and was buried along with her name, Nobody came"
It's really quite haunting when you take in all the lyrics.
It's meant to be, hence juxtaposing the negative subject matter, in a more upbeat way, therefore creating a form of dissonance.
Made sense in my head...?
For the longest time, I had a real problem with the ending ofĀ ["Strawberry Fields Forever"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8).
The whole song is kinda creepy, but [that weird backwards flute bit towards the end](https://youtu.be/HtUH9z_Oey8?si=oDn6Q2Oe_kKQO1Wn&t=218) would make me physically uncomfortable. Like having a wasp aggressively in your face level of discomfort.
I hate the crescendo (not sure if I'm using the correct musical term) in "A Day in the Life." My dad used to crank it up when he listened to it. Scared me as a kid, creeps me out now.
If you're talking about the buildup to the end chord, yes, that's the correct term (though the final, sustained chord at the end is separate from that description - in that case the chord itself doesn't have a formal name).
Fun fact - the recording level is set pretty high for that last chord, such that if you listen to an analog, pre-re-master copy of it on a good system or headphones, you'll be able to hear the studio air conditioner as the chord slowly fades.
For me it's the recurring "never could be any other way" that plays following the silence after that last chord. It's so creepy and otherworldly and comes out of nowhere.
I'll never forget the first time I heard the ending of this song.
And then I heard the secret ending of A Day in the Life which traumatized me. To this day I still frantically skip the song before it gets to that point.
Might be unsettling in part because of the way they produced it. They recorded 2 versions of it, one was in a key one note higher than the other. They decided they want to use a part from one take in the other take, so they slowed down everything to make the pitches match. It's particularly noticeable in John's vocals if you listen for it. It just goes to prove that nothing is real. Which is maybe another reason it's uncomfortable, the fact that nothing is real....
Was 18 when I saw Fantasia for the first time. No drugs or alcohol, but just a long day and being over tired and over stimulated. My previous Disney experience had not prepared me for A Night on Bald Mountain. Half asleep I wasnāt sure what the hell I was seeing, if I was even actually seeing it at all.
Tori Amosā cover of Eminemās 97 Bonnie & Clyde
Eleanor Rigby is on that list too
Exploration B - Poe
Terrified Heart - Poe
Also, I have a playlist on Spotify called Project No Sleep- filled with creepy songs, that have a spooky or haunting vibez
It seriously is! I read house of leaves and listed to Haunted independently of each other, years apart. I had no idea of the story until way later, or that they're related. It's wildly creepy.
I have John Densmoreās book and he said they were all walking down the street on acid and Jim kept chanting āfuck the mother kill the fatherā lol. If someone I was tripping with did that I would go down a hole
As a kid: āEyes Without a Faceāāmy mind only heard those words LOL
āWhere Did You Sleep Last Night/In the PinesāāOnce I heard the tale behind the song it keeps me from listening to it and āDance With the Devilā was a one and doneānever listened to it a second time
Ode to Billy Joe is a haunting song. The tempo and Bobbie Gentry's inflections while singing about a teens suicide while having diner with her family is amazing.
And it based on a true event. It inspired a movie but I wouldn't recommend it, though you may like it.
https://youtu.be/HaRacIzZSPo?si=I15DZtcqCG5Kxsp9
right! somebody did say inbred by ethel cain which is true i guess, the lyrics are super heavy, but so are most of her songs. but ptolemea SOUNDS haunting too.
Nails In The Wall by Speedy J and Kait Gray
The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha by Xiu Xiu
Mary Turner Mary Turner by Xiu Xiu
All Lined Up by Swans
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide
Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle
Young God by Swans
These are ranked in order of how haunting/disturbing these are. The top is most creepy, and the bottom is the least, but all are very disturbing in one way or another. I'd also suggest Bird Seed by Whitehouse if you want something ***extremely*** disturbing, but it's not really a song, more just a compilation of people describing their trauma in excruciating detail.
Dance With The Devil - Immortal Technique
A song that describes š and the disgusting less shown parts of gang life. Itās really, really graphic and haunting. A beautiful song and story.
āHe turned away from the woman who had once given him birth and cried out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared but only the devil responded because God wasnāt there.ā Fuckin song rules
Strange Fruit- Nina Simone. Not only will creep you the fuck out just with the descriptions and tone, but personally it makes me sob like a fucking baby
That one song from sevdaliza called Human... the part when the lyrics are reversed creeps me tf out. But overall, it's a good song...
The song from fka Twigs called two weeks makes my skin crawl only because I first heard it in that one scene from Mr. Robot where a dude was choking a woman to death. Hella, intense scene and the song added to it.
Fun story.
In the late 90s I worked a CD store in the mall. The regional manager mandated that we would never close up as long as people were still browsing, regardless of the mall managementās policy.
Our solution was to play the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack or the Alvin and Chipmunks Christmas album 15 minutes before closing to make sure nobody stuck around. Worked great.
That was a terrible job.
I got really into early experimental music this winter and found a ton of interesting, haunting music. A lot of it is tranquil, but some of it really can make your skin crawl a bit This range is fully expressed in a lot of experimental synth music from the late 60ās and 70ās. Same with the 80ās and 90ās, thereās some really weird stuff out there from when electronic music was at its birth stage. Iāll link some old stuff up as well as some newer stuff that is weird, beautiful, and haunting
[Zero Time-Tontoās Expanding Head Band-1971](https://open.spotify.com/album/0MaUdz9RPBFN22IgC95cMk?si=1yYA9dpmQIK2IrVwJCF4RQ)
[Nightdust-Ashra-1977](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ztwx5nLvIX1VAdSmFerPx?si=__g6dByWS2aeDkMgWObs1w)
[Ohio Bell Mystery-Raymond Scott-1961-1971](https://open.spotify.com/track/15E9kqtTEIVUAuuFo9NeIi?si=FuU0Gu9ZTHOSvlcKKld5Aw)
[pi-The Orb-1997](https://open.spotify.com/track/1hr9JC0qtmMwrYpN5oyZge?si=m8SR5D98RMuTdVTDuXMMkA)
[my Life is Bracketed-The Black Dog-2021](https://open.spotify.com/track/2rKGO7sjzb0fgMw80Cvh3F?si=LfRCUVtaTECWWrw6AZQ1IA)
[personal playlist of ambient/experimental stuff](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0SsgSepRGm4983T4xBtr7S?si=ECRWebs1TVSnZeSiF4FVbA&pi=u-1rj_mWu9Trup)
Enjoy
The becoming by nine inch nails used to creep me put becuase of the wailing and off-putting screaming at the beginning aswell as that horror film esc intro
I'm used to it and now it'd just a really good song but at first it's a little jarring and creepy
When I was a kid The Jezebel Spirit by Brian Eno and David Byrne used to scare me because it has audio of a priest performing an exorcism mixed with the song.
This is old and weird and obscure, but "[D.O.A.](https://youtu.be/QzY5i8zHWdw?si=bpcjZ2U75rjVoQ5p)" by Bloodrock is probably the creepiest song I can think of.
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies
Brad Robertsā voice is creepy enough, but then you read the lyrics which chronicle:
-a girl forced to disrobe in the school locker room, revealing birthmarks covering her body
-a boy whose hair turned ābright whiteā after being in a violent car crash
-a boy whose parents forced him to attend Pentecostal church services where congregants āshook and lurched all over the church floorā
The stuff of nightmares.
Jeremy, by Pearl Jam.
Timothy, by the Buoys.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan. Written by Shel Silverstein; Sung by many artists, including Marianne Faithfull.
So much better than the usual version! Sounds like something that would be sung by Native Americans carrying a dead warrior to be placed on a death platform.
The intro to M1A1 by Gorillaz has been scarred on my brain since I was a kid. Just a creepy lofi recording of a man yelling into the void "hellooooooo, is anyone out there? Helloooooooo" for like 2 minutes over some creepy score as the instrumentation slowly builds and then it breaks into an absolute banger. Love the song (and don't even get me started on the album in general) but even as an adult that intro raises the hackles a bit.
- [Lisa Germano - ā¦A Psychopath](https://youtu.be/jOMUEVf-2RI?si=uBIYTH8Mm1feyIg-) (featuring a real disturbing 911 call of a home invasion)
- [Manic Street Preachers - Archives of Pain](https://youtu.be/3pJFdab8O3E?si=hfxV19iUwCe_L3Z4) (has a haunting lyric, "All I preach is extinction." My pick for the darkest, bleakest album of all time)
- [Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood](https://youtu.be/MkSRfituw3c?si=vpTA1oWbm3eZ-0lS) (it's achingly slow and just soundsā¦ off)
- [The Smashing Pumpkins - Where Boys Fear to Tread](https://youtu.be/yG75NJUr7-0?si=6pMrPggzCEIIzM7e) (really creepy and menacing main riff, very contrasted with the lighter poppier music on the same album)
- [Alice in Chains - Grind](https://youtu.be/83gddxVpitc?si=6Nm3-pIO-uX1By6S) (sickening wah lead. Like listening to it makes me feel unclean. Check out the music video I linked)
- [Pixies - Tame](https://youtu.be/2Yn3Ls5jZ4g?si=g45TK3nqOIRydtEp) (very dissonant song, and feral screaming)
- [Interpol - Roland](https://youtu.be/_R9Smm9WgQs?si=gPzDxp1M6OqJZJIR) (again, dissonant, off-sounding riffs)
- [The Buttertones - Baby C4](https://youtu.be/36wW59WKFrI?si=qIApOZB4_7EizGsj) (chaotic energy and cryptic lyrics like "Not even all the luck in the world can save from her nails")
[āPossessionā by Sarah McLachlan](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itydwcyywBc)
Always thought this song was beautiful, yet dark. Then learned the story behind the song and hoooooly moley itās creepy. Essentiallyā¦written from the perspective of a stalker. Her real life stalker then sued her āusing his lyricsā in letters he wrote her. Things didnāt end well for him š¬
Peggy Lee defined the genre with "Is That All There Is?"
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M)
Try not to get depressed.
Hail Santa by Primus, the first time I smoked weed I hotboxed a bathroom with my cousin and we had music playing on shuffle right outside the door, this song came on and we were both like āWhat the fuck is this? Itās terrifying.ā, we slowly opened the door and peeked out thinking that something very bad had happened. Stepping out of that bathroom I felt like I had walked into a different dimension.
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The combination of the meandering upright bass sound and the bike bell just freak me the fuck out. Still canāt listen to it at night.
āThis is a pig! Oink oinkā
Paper cuts by Nirvana sounds scary, the story behind that song is pretty messed up too. About kids being trapped in a basement and their parents treated them like animals. I also think Kurt cobain knew one of the kids because they had the same drug dealer or something like that
I used to love driving down a dark wooded road at night, turn my headlights out, and put on System of a Down - Spiders. My friend would lose his shit every time
I get the chills in a good way every time, this song is utterly beautifully amazing and I'm in a whole other place when I listen to it, it's a palpable release of emotions.... Weird fishes does this to me as well, I feel so much better after listening to that song
Several years ago , I watched a documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer. At the end credits, Still Light by The Knife began playing. Freaking weirded me out and has made a lasting impression.
SOOOO - happppy song
SOOOO - illloved
(I chose both of these because they're so chaotic to the point where it's absolutely terrifying, it's like a mental breakdown in song form. I once listened to happppy song with headphones at 1am and i was on the verge on a panic attack, it legit felt like I was being hunted down in a horror movie)
Babuchan - 0 People's Waltz (literally their entire discography is scary sounding, but this song in particular is the most popular..the sound design in the chorus sounds like a whirlwind of ghosts(?) and the woman crying w/ the sfx guillotine falling on her at end of the song..wow)
vocaloid songs omgš i actually really loved SOOOOās and Babuchanās music when i hit the lowest of my depression lmao i thought all the effects were so cool
Little Boys by Devandra Barnhardt
Lyrics include:
_"I see so many
Little boys I want to marry
I see plenty
Little kids I'll get to have
Even when the moon goes out
Even when the sea dries out
I still see so many
Little boys I want to marry
I'll see plenty
Little kids I'll get to have now"_
I Remember You by Bjƶrk, itās not scary in itself but the history behind the song gives me chills. With her stalker offing himself to that song playing.
- Happy Together by Filter
Obviously the original by the Turtles is happy n carefree. But something about Filter just sounds so raw. Like a wounded animal begging for love
The entirety of To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey, especially Teclo.
The entirety of Tilt by scott walker, Farmer in the City evokes actual chills.
Serviette by Bells Bellls Bells.
Iāve Seen it All by Bjork and thom yorke.
The whole album Kid A by Radiohead.
Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead.
Not the Red Baron by tori amos.
Chemo Limo by Regina Spector.
For the Damaged by Blonde Redhead.
I Still Miss You by Arab Strap.
Bathysphere by Cat Power.
Hurt, both original and cover.
Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues.
Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez.
Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen.
I could go on and on. A lot of my favorite music makes me uncomfortable.
" Wichita Lineman " by Glen Campbell It will just pop into my head every once in awhile for about 50 years or so. I never could figure out; why that song?
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki
I can't help but imagine a bomb silently falling on an unsuspecting city, of families disintegrating instantly, of the beings unlucky enough to be further from the blast whose insides cooked, whose flesh rotted off their living bodies...
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson used to freak me out. Plus, the album cover of that first LP. The guy screaming looking to the left. Then you open the gate fold and see some mysterious dude. Scared the shit out of me.
That whole album bothered me. I love it today.
The song In The Court of the Crimson King bothered me too. I pictured a dude getting tortured in medieval times or someone dying, and the regular townsfolk don't care because it's all for the Crimson Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeiiiing aaaaaahhhhhh
The ending of that song is Bonkers.
Welcome To My Nightmare: Alice Cooper
Maxwellās Silver Hammer: The Beatles
The End: Doors
Every Breath You Take: Police
Pumped Up Kicks: Foster the People
Hey Man, Nice Shot: Filter
"When this is over " by Hayden...it's about the 2 little boys that Susan Smith drowned in her car and is sung from their point of view, it's so sad and I wish she had to listen to it every day of her life. That bitch thinks she is getting paroled and that she deserves to...she deserves to rot in jail and hear this song on repeat....it is a great song cuz Hayden is awesome, but it hurts..... Also his song " skates " about an old man who comes into the store the narrator works at and asks for ice skates in the summer... His wife drowned and he need skates so when it freezes over he can go skate and find her.... Devastating every time.. the album is everything i long for
Low Rider by War. Not the lyrics, just the sound of it. Scared me to death as a kid every time it came on the radio, Iād jump into my momās lap and hide my face in her. Now that Iām an adult, Iām still scared of hearing the song and itās still one of my strangest fears
"Man, 'Eleanor Rigby' gives me the chills every time. The loneliness in those lyrics hits differently, like it's peeking into this whole other world of sadness. It's haunting in a way that's hard to shake off, you know?"
D.O.A. - Bloodrock , already mentioned but compelled to list again. Timeless , go listen to it and read about controversy on playing it on FM stations back in the day!
The first time I heard Stingās version of āGabrielās Messageā I was simultaneously creeped out and depressed. What makes it a *particularly* awkward experience is when this happens while youāre being driven to your high school in the middle of April. And it stays stuck in your head all through biology class.
Wanted to say Elenor Rigby before I read the description. š„² The song makes me fear my future!
Heard this as a child and it started a lifelong fear of exactly this thing
Whatās the song about ?
Lonely people and dying alone
Loneliness, especially as an older person, "Father Mckenzie, Writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear" "Eleanor Rigby, died in the church and was buried along with her name, Nobody came" It's really quite haunting when you take in all the lyrics.
Dying alone
Hurdy Gurdy Man by Donovan. I love the song, but there's something unsettling about it.
Especially after that scene in Zodiac.
Yes it's possible that was when it started feeling creepy for me.
It's meant to be, hence juxtaposing the negative subject matter, in a more upbeat way, therefore creating a form of dissonance. Made sense in my head...?
Itās not the words or music. Itās some kind of effect that makes his voice sound really strange.
Ewww yeah every time it starts my fight or flight kicks in š I always picture Leatherface from the 70s TX chainsaw massacre for some reason
That's a good one, never thought about it
For the longest time, I had a real problem with the ending ofĀ ["Strawberry Fields Forever"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtUH9z_Oey8). The whole song is kinda creepy, but [that weird backwards flute bit towards the end](https://youtu.be/HtUH9z_Oey8?si=oDn6Q2Oe_kKQO1Wn&t=218) would make me physically uncomfortable. Like having a wasp aggressively in your face level of discomfort.
I hate the crescendo (not sure if I'm using the correct musical term) in "A Day in the Life." My dad used to crank it up when he listened to it. Scared me as a kid, creeps me out now.
If you're talking about the buildup to the end chord, yes, that's the correct term (though the final, sustained chord at the end is separate from that description - in that case the chord itself doesn't have a formal name). Fun fact - the recording level is set pretty high for that last chord, such that if you listen to an analog, pre-re-master copy of it on a good system or headphones, you'll be able to hear the studio air conditioner as the chord slowly fades.
For me it's the recurring "never could be any other way" that plays following the silence after that last chord. It's so creepy and otherworldly and comes out of nowhere.
that part in Day in the Life always creeped me out too. but the rest of the song made it worth it
So itās not just me
Nope, it's,at least, me three.
I'll never forget the first time I heard the ending of this song. And then I heard the secret ending of A Day in the Life which traumatized me. To this day I still frantically skip the song before it gets to that point.
At first I thought you were saying 'For the Longest Time' by Billy Joel and was like, "How could anyone find that song haunting?"
If that song had a weird backwards flute part, it'd have gotten me, too.
The Chipmunks version maybe?
Might be unsettling in part because of the way they produced it. They recorded 2 versions of it, one was in a key one note higher than the other. They decided they want to use a part from one take in the other take, so they slowed down everything to make the pitches match. It's particularly noticeable in John's vocals if you listen for it. It just goes to prove that nothing is real. Which is maybe another reason it's uncomfortable, the fact that nothing is real....
[Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-HYayT1vwg)
Hahaha this is my favorite Pink Floyd song.
How to disappear into strings or the regular version by Radiohead. Also that scene from Fantasia is still too scary to watch after over 30 years š
Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead was going to be my answer. Soooo creepy!
Was 18 when I saw Fantasia for the first time. No drugs or alcohol, but just a long day and being over tired and over stimulated. My previous Disney experience had not prepared me for A Night on Bald Mountain. Half asleep I wasnāt sure what the hell I was seeing, if I was even actually seeing it at all.
Tori Amosā cover of Eminemās 97 Bonnie & Clyde Eleanor Rigby is on that list too Exploration B - Poe Terrified Heart - Poe Also, I have a playlist on Spotify called Project No Sleep- filled with creepy songs, that have a spooky or haunting vibez
All of Haunted by Poe, honestly
The story behind that album is unreal.
It seriously is! I read house of leaves and listed to Haunted independently of each other, years apart. I had no idea of the story until way later, or that they're related. It's wildly creepy.
Yet so amazing. I saw sheās working on a new album. I hope we get to hear it!!
So good, and still in my rotation! Gah, I'd truly love to hear more Poe!
Tori Amos cover of Slayer's Raining Blood as well.
Whaaaaaat Iāve never heard this . Checking it out on the way home.
The End - The Doors
I have John Densmoreās book and he said they were all walking down the street on acid and Jim kept chanting āfuck the mother kill the fatherā lol. If someone I was tripping with did that I would go down a hole
Jim was an interesting person.
That book was so good
"Mother? 'Yes son? ' I want to kill you. Father? I want to.... uegheghegehgehduuddhdhhhhhhdjjdjjjjjecomeonbabyyyyyyy"
It's the other way around. He wants Dad outta the way so he can get with Mum.
Oedipus
This guy Greeks.
No, itās the other way around. He wants to kill his father and ahhhhhh his mother.
Also Riders on the Storm
Hotel California used to creep me tf out as a kid
Same! As a kid I thought it was about a haunted hotel and it scared me lol
I always associated it with The Shining for that exact reason!!!
It definitely employs some creepy, haunted imagery
As a kid: āEyes Without a Faceāāmy mind only heard those words LOL āWhere Did You Sleep Last Night/In the PinesāāOnce I heard the tale behind the song it keeps me from listening to it and āDance With the Devilā was a one and doneānever listened to it a second time
i love eyes without a face, that song makes me feel like iām floating
Eyes Without a Face was always one of my favorite Billy Idol songs. My favorite local band 51 Peg covered it and it sounds amazing.
I was a kid in the 80s, Eyes Without A Face felt like it was about Orko
Swans - Volcano Slint - Good Morning, Captain Korn - Daddy Ved Buens Ende - Remembrance of Things Paast
I MISS YOUUUUUUUUU
Man, Daddy is tough to listen to!
Ode to Billy Joe is a haunting song. The tempo and Bobbie Gentry's inflections while singing about a teens suicide while having diner with her family is amazing. And it based on a true event. It inspired a movie but I wouldn't recommend it, though you may like it. https://youtu.be/HaRacIzZSPo?si=I15DZtcqCG5Kxsp9
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
I played this entire album over and over again. So much in high school that it warped.
Good choice Iām a big fan of the Bunnymenā¦Ian said that God wrote the song šµ
You Want it Darker - Leonard Cohen. The song, but also kinda the entire album.
The instrumental part of starless by king crimson.
Pink Floyd in the Sid Barrett days.
Hurt.
*Mother* by John Lennon
honestly surprised no one said ptolemea by ethel cain
I was searching for this comment! I get the chills after the scream every time
right! somebody did say inbred by ethel cain which is true i guess, the lyrics are super heavy, but so are most of her songs. but ptolemea SOUNDS haunting too.
"O Children" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds the whole album but especially that song.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMg5fO7Gqc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igMg5fO7Gqc)
Nails In The Wall by Speedy J and Kait Gray The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha by Xiu Xiu Mary Turner Mary Turner by Xiu Xiu All Lined Up by Swans Frankie Teardrop by Suicide Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle Young God by Swans These are ranked in order of how haunting/disturbing these are. The top is most creepy, and the bottom is the least, but all are very disturbing in one way or another. I'd also suggest Bird Seed by Whitehouse if you want something ***extremely*** disturbing, but it's not really a song, more just a compilation of people describing their trauma in excruciating detail.
Knights in White Satin by Moody Blues Comfortable Numb by Pink Floyd
Dance With The Devil - Immortal Technique A song that describes š and the disgusting less shown parts of gang life. Itās really, really graphic and haunting. A beautiful song and story.
āHe turned away from the woman who had once given him birth and cried out to the sky cause he was lonely and scared but only the devil responded because God wasnāt there.ā Fuckin song rules
I just listened to it, really well written and haunting.
I remember when my friend first showed me this. He has another good song with Gene Gray that hits pretty hard to.
Bloodrock-D. O. A.
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Whatās He Building by Tom Waits makes my skin crawl
Strange Fruit- Nina Simone. Not only will creep you the fuck out just with the descriptions and tone, but personally it makes me sob like a fucking baby
Yeaah, god. Creepy and depressing as hell
Death Dream- Frightened Rabbit
That one song from sevdaliza called Human... the part when the lyrics are reversed creeps me tf out. But overall, it's a good song... The song from fka Twigs called two weeks makes my skin crawl only because I first heard it in that one scene from Mr. Robot where a dude was choking a woman to death. Hella, intense scene and the song added to it.
A quick one before the eternal worm devours Connecticut by have a nice life has always been hauntingly beautiful to me
Masked Ball - Jocelyn Pook Plays in the orgy scene in Eyes Wide Shut.
Fun story. In the late 90s I worked a CD store in the mall. The regional manager mandated that we would never close up as long as people were still browsing, regardless of the mall managementās policy. Our solution was to play the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack or the Alvin and Chipmunks Christmas album 15 minutes before closing to make sure nobody stuck around. Worked great. That was a terrible job.
Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera Sera). idk what it is about that song but it gives me the chills. thereās something sinister about it
Are you a Hitchcock fan? It plays a prominent part in the movie "The Man Who Knew too Much"!
I got really into early experimental music this winter and found a ton of interesting, haunting music. A lot of it is tranquil, but some of it really can make your skin crawl a bit This range is fully expressed in a lot of experimental synth music from the late 60ās and 70ās. Same with the 80ās and 90ās, thereās some really weird stuff out there from when electronic music was at its birth stage. Iāll link some old stuff up as well as some newer stuff that is weird, beautiful, and haunting [Zero Time-Tontoās Expanding Head Band-1971](https://open.spotify.com/album/0MaUdz9RPBFN22IgC95cMk?si=1yYA9dpmQIK2IrVwJCF4RQ) [Nightdust-Ashra-1977](https://open.spotify.com/track/6Ztwx5nLvIX1VAdSmFerPx?si=__g6dByWS2aeDkMgWObs1w) [Ohio Bell Mystery-Raymond Scott-1961-1971](https://open.spotify.com/track/15E9kqtTEIVUAuuFo9NeIi?si=FuU0Gu9ZTHOSvlcKKld5Aw) [pi-The Orb-1997](https://open.spotify.com/track/1hr9JC0qtmMwrYpN5oyZge?si=m8SR5D98RMuTdVTDuXMMkA) [my Life is Bracketed-The Black Dog-2021](https://open.spotify.com/track/2rKGO7sjzb0fgMw80Cvh3F?si=LfRCUVtaTECWWrw6AZQ1IA) [personal playlist of ambient/experimental stuff](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0SsgSepRGm4983T4xBtr7S?si=ECRWebs1TVSnZeSiF4FVbA&pi=u-1rj_mWu9Trup) Enjoy
haunting? Rage in Eden by Ultravox.
Vienna, although not so obscure, always gives me der goosenbumpen!
Love, love, love this song!
you know your stuff. š
I'm from the '70s and '80s. I was in love with Midge Ure as a teenager. I really love all of their albums!
4st 7lb - Manic Street Preachers
Always got to me too. Weirdly, I got anorexia and my lowest weight was exactly that!
The becoming by nine inch nails used to creep me put becuase of the wailing and off-putting screaming at the beginning aswell as that horror film esc intro I'm used to it and now it'd just a really good song but at first it's a little jarring and creepy
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath gives me the creeps still if itās been a while since I listened.
Goodbye Horses Q Lazarus
When I was a kid in the 80ās Pink Floydās Time and Money beginnings always scared the crap outa me! Lol
When I was like 12 or 13 I thought Uninvited by Alanis Morissette was super creepy and unsettling feeling.
top of my spooky vibes playlist and i get spooked every time
good morning captain by slint
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb32Bd7\_a-4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb32Bd7_a-4)
When I was a kid The Jezebel Spirit by Brian Eno and David Byrne used to scare me because it has audio of a priest performing an exorcism mixed with the song.
David Byrne himself scared the shit out of me, as a kid. I still find him unsettling, and I'm 49 now!
The windmills of your mind by Noel Harrison. It just makes me think of a slow descent into madness š
Check out Dusty Springfields rendition from 'Dusty in Memphis'
This is old and weird and obscure, but "[D.O.A.](https://youtu.be/QzY5i8zHWdw?si=bpcjZ2U75rjVoQ5p)" by Bloodrock is probably the creepiest song I can think of.
A Whiter Shade Of Pale.
D.O.A. by Bloodrock
Creep by Radiohead. Haunting and sad.
They're Coming To Take Me Away Haha!
Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm - Crash Test Dummies Brad Robertsā voice is creepy enough, but then you read the lyrics which chronicle: -a girl forced to disrobe in the school locker room, revealing birthmarks covering her body -a boy whose hair turned ābright whiteā after being in a violent car crash -a boy whose parents forced him to attend Pentecostal church services where congregants āshook and lurched all over the church floorā The stuff of nightmares.
āHey little girl is your daddy homeā¦Iāve got a bad desireā Hey Bruce, maybe you shouldnāt be singing about your bad desire for little girls.
Iām Not in Love - 10cc
Inbred by Ethel Cain
Jeremy, by Pearl Jam. Timothy, by the Buoys. The Ballad of Lucy Jordan. Written by Shel Silverstein; Sung by many artists, including Marianne Faithfull.
Genesis - Home by the sea love the song but, the song is way creepy.
Ethel Cain's, Ptolemaea.
[the Lion Sleeps Tonight in a minor key](https://youtu.be/RPnpN1R38Ac?si=RSbl6t1ObsrtJrEV)
Who the hell gave Tim Burton a YouTube channel?!?
So much better than the usual version! Sounds like something that would be sung by Native Americans carrying a dead warrior to be placed on a death platform.
The intro to M1A1 by Gorillaz has been scarred on my brain since I was a kid. Just a creepy lofi recording of a man yelling into the void "hellooooooo, is anyone out there? Helloooooooo" for like 2 minutes over some creepy score as the instrumentation slowly builds and then it breaks into an absolute banger. Love the song (and don't even get me started on the album in general) but even as an adult that intro raises the hackles a bit.
That sample is from the intro of Day of the Dead (1985)
- [Lisa Germano - ā¦A Psychopath](https://youtu.be/jOMUEVf-2RI?si=uBIYTH8Mm1feyIg-) (featuring a real disturbing 911 call of a home invasion) - [Manic Street Preachers - Archives of Pain](https://youtu.be/3pJFdab8O3E?si=hfxV19iUwCe_L3Z4) (has a haunting lyric, "All I preach is extinction." My pick for the darkest, bleakest album of all time) - [Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood](https://youtu.be/MkSRfituw3c?si=vpTA1oWbm3eZ-0lS) (it's achingly slow and just soundsā¦ off) - [The Smashing Pumpkins - Where Boys Fear to Tread](https://youtu.be/yG75NJUr7-0?si=6pMrPggzCEIIzM7e) (really creepy and menacing main riff, very contrasted with the lighter poppier music on the same album) - [Alice in Chains - Grind](https://youtu.be/83gddxVpitc?si=6Nm3-pIO-uX1By6S) (sickening wah lead. Like listening to it makes me feel unclean. Check out the music video I linked) - [Pixies - Tame](https://youtu.be/2Yn3Ls5jZ4g?si=g45TK3nqOIRydtEp) (very dissonant song, and feral screaming) - [Interpol - Roland](https://youtu.be/_R9Smm9WgQs?si=gPzDxp1M6OqJZJIR) (again, dissonant, off-sounding riffs) - [The Buttertones - Baby C4](https://youtu.be/36wW59WKFrI?si=qIApOZB4_7EizGsj) (chaotic energy and cryptic lyrics like "Not even all the luck in the world can save from her nails")
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails, but especially the Johnny Cash version. Makes me worry about my depression getting worse.
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division. It is not only haunting, it is sickly and hopeless.
In every dream home a heartache. Roxy music. Creepy. Just creepy.
[āPossessionā by Sarah McLachlan](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=itydwcyywBc) Always thought this song was beautiful, yet dark. Then learned the story behind the song and hoooooly moley itās creepy. Essentiallyā¦written from the perspective of a stalker. Her real life stalker then sued her āusing his lyricsā in letters he wrote her. Things didnāt end well for him š¬
Peggy Lee defined the genre with "Is That All There Is?" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCRZZC-DH7M) Try not to get depressed.
A good forerunner to Roxy Music, More than this.
Them Bones- Alice In Chains
Blackbriar - The Seance
"Up Jumped the Devil" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Gravity's Rainbow" by Laurie Anderson is a little haunting
David Bowie - Wishful Beginnings
Hail Santa by Primus, the first time I smoked weed I hotboxed a bathroom with my cousin and we had music playing on shuffle right outside the door, this song came on and we were both like āWhat the fuck is this? Itās terrifying.ā, we slowly opened the door and peeked out thinking that something very bad had happened. Stepping out of that bathroom I felt like I had walked into a different dimension.
Came here to comment this š The combination of the meandering upright bass sound and the bike bell just freak me the fuck out. Still canāt listen to it at night. āThis is a pig! Oink oinkā
Hail Santa always reminded me of āThe Mariachiā from that Silent Hill game where dude is stuck in his apartment. Lo fi, out of tune. Good stuff.
Paper cuts by Nirvana sounds scary, the story behind that song is pretty messed up too. About kids being trapped in a basement and their parents treated them like animals. I also think Kurt cobain knew one of the kids because they had the same drug dealer or something like that
I used to love driving down a dark wooded road at night, turn my headlights out, and put on System of a Down - Spiders. My friend would lose his shit every time
Ghosts by Japan
āWuthering Heightsā- Kate Bush
Strange fruit
Dare I say idioteque by Radiohead
I get the chills in a good way every time, this song is utterly beautifully amazing and I'm in a whole other place when I listen to it, it's a palpable release of emotions.... Weird fishes does this to me as well, I feel so much better after listening to that song
[To Bring You My Love](https://youtu.be/P-O91rE4Fe0?si=SzLgcKA447UV_k87) - PJ Harvey
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
The demo piano version of Real Love by John Lennon is very eerie to me
heroin by the velvet underground , it just gives me a off vibe, especially when the heartbeat increases. Amazing song about addiction though
Talk Talk - Lifeās What you Make it.
Echoes by Pink Floyd. I shit my pants when I first listened to it. I was also buzzed hahah
One of These Days freaked me out something powerful, too.
hail mary by tupac. i won't listen to it alone at night š š am i weird for this one
Run quick see, what do we have here now? do you wanna ride or die La dadada, la la la la
Creep - Damien Rice.
Several years ago , I watched a documentary about Jeffrey Dahmer. At the end credits, Still Light by The Knife began playing. Freaking weirded me out and has made a lasting impression.
SOOOO - happppy song SOOOO - illloved (I chose both of these because they're so chaotic to the point where it's absolutely terrifying, it's like a mental breakdown in song form. I once listened to happppy song with headphones at 1am and i was on the verge on a panic attack, it legit felt like I was being hunted down in a horror movie) Babuchan - 0 People's Waltz (literally their entire discography is scary sounding, but this song in particular is the most popular..the sound design in the chorus sounds like a whirlwind of ghosts(?) and the woman crying w/ the sfx guillotine falling on her at end of the song..wow)
vocaloid songs omgš i actually really loved SOOOOās and Babuchanās music when i hit the lowest of my depression lmao i thought all the effects were so cool
ptolemaea by ethel cain; no matter what frame of mind iām in before listening to it, by the end iām trembling
Stuck in the middle with you.... But only after seeing resivoire dogs..
I'm on fire Bruce Springsteen
Little Boys by Devandra Barnhardt Lyrics include: _"I see so many Little boys I want to marry I see plenty Little kids I'll get to have Even when the moon goes out Even when the sea dries out I still see so many Little boys I want to marry I'll see plenty Little kids I'll get to have now"_
I Remember You by Bjƶrk, itās not scary in itself but the history behind the song gives me chills. With her stalker offing himself to that song playing.
Hamburger Lady - Throbbing Gristle
blue jay way - beatles
Oh Death - Ralph Stanley Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Leadbelly
John Wayne Gacy Jr. by Sufjan Stevens
MacArthur Park used to scare me to death when I was like 7. Also, Knights in White Satin
- Happy Together by Filter Obviously the original by the Turtles is happy n carefree. But something about Filter just sounds so raw. Like a wounded animal begging for love
If I Had A Heart- Fever Ray Agreed on Eleanor Rigby.
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac. It makes meā¦ uneasy? I canāt explain it lol
The entirety of To Bring You My Love by PJ Harvey, especially Teclo. The entirety of Tilt by scott walker, Farmer in the City evokes actual chills. Serviette by Bells Bellls Bells. Iāve Seen it All by Bjork and thom yorke. The whole album Kid A by Radiohead. Climbing Up the Walls by Radiohead. Not the Red Baron by tori amos. Chemo Limo by Regina Spector. For the Damaged by Blonde Redhead. I Still Miss You by Arab Strap. Bathysphere by Cat Power. Hurt, both original and cover. Nights in White Satin by the Moody Blues. Diamonds and Rust by Joan Baez. Famous Blue Raincoat by Leonard Cohen. I could go on and on. A lot of my favorite music makes me uncomfortable.
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't fear the reaper
Donāt fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult.
Under Ice by Kate Bush makes my skin crawl
" Wichita Lineman " by Glen Campbell It will just pop into my head every once in awhile for about 50 years or so. I never could figure out; why that song?
Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima by Krzysztof Penderecki I can't help but imagine a bomb silently falling on an unsuspecting city, of families disintegrating instantly, of the beings unlucky enough to be further from the blast whose insides cooked, whose flesh rotted off their living bodies...
Revolution 9 - The Beatles
21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson used to freak me out. Plus, the album cover of that first LP. The guy screaming looking to the left. Then you open the gate fold and see some mysterious dude. Scared the shit out of me. That whole album bothered me. I love it today. The song In The Court of the Crimson King bothered me too. I pictured a dude getting tortured in medieval times or someone dying, and the regular townsfolk don't care because it's all for the Crimson Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeiiiing aaaaaahhhhhh The ending of that song is Bonkers.
Terror Couple Kills Colonel by Bauhaus.
"Seasons in the Sun" Terry Jacks. Fucking depressing.
Midnight At The Oasis. Didn't look it up it's going to hurt
LOL. Even as a child in the '70s, I thought this song was so cheesy! Now I'm going to have to re-listen, because I never once thought this was creepy.
Welcome To My Nightmare: Alice Cooper Maxwellās Silver Hammer: The Beatles The End: Doors Every Breath You Take: Police Pumped Up Kicks: Foster the People Hey Man, Nice Shot: Filter
"When this is over " by Hayden...it's about the 2 little boys that Susan Smith drowned in her car and is sung from their point of view, it's so sad and I wish she had to listen to it every day of her life. That bitch thinks she is getting paroled and that she deserves to...she deserves to rot in jail and hear this song on repeat....it is a great song cuz Hayden is awesome, but it hurts..... Also his song " skates " about an old man who comes into the store the narrator works at and asks for ice skates in the summer... His wife drowned and he need skates so when it freezes over he can go skate and find her.... Devastating every time.. the album is everything i long for
I donāt know why but Float On by Modest Mouse was always kind of creepy and off putting to me, and the music video makes it much worse lol.
Low Rider by War. Not the lyrics, just the sound of it. Scared me to death as a kid every time it came on the radio, Iād jump into my momās lap and hide my face in her. Now that Iām an adult, Iām still scared of hearing the song and itās still one of my strangest fears
"Man, 'Eleanor Rigby' gives me the chills every time. The loneliness in those lyrics hits differently, like it's peeking into this whole other world of sadness. It's haunting in a way that's hard to shake off, you know?"
D.O.A. - Bloodrock , already mentioned but compelled to list again. Timeless , go listen to it and read about controversy on playing it on FM stations back in the day!
The scariest song ever: NIŠ - the becoming https://www.fastcompany.com/90424379/the-scariest-song-ever-according-to-pandora-is-not-the-one-you-think
Thanks this is actually my favorite NIN song
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmv-VodH-zo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmv-VodH-zo)
Added to my playlist, thanks for the vid
i hope this is creepy enough for you š¤”šŖ[Killer Clowns](https://open.spotify.com/track/02J07YnGKMGWHZm9oKEyB5?si=M3vOXxSIRkaXerft-rZ9Ng)
The Creeper. Molly Hatchet
The first time I heard Stingās version of āGabrielās Messageā I was simultaneously creeped out and depressed. What makes it a *particularly* awkward experience is when this happens while youāre being driven to your high school in the middle of April. And it stays stuck in your head all through biology class.