Music that will never be used in the background of a conspiracy film

[KurtNYC]

Based on my research, to make a conspiracy film you need a male narrator who sounds like he has smoked quite a few cigarettes. Perhaps the rough gravelly voice suggests him smoking to calm his nerves because he knows something that will make your hair stand on end.

Next you need really grainy video footage, The grainier the better because then it is like a Rorhsach print -- you can see faces, guns, puffs of smoke or whatever scares you.

Third, you need dead people -- Vince Foster, Shandra Levy, William Bruce Pitzer, etc. They aren't alive to tell your narrator that he is making stuff up and he is wrong.

You DON'T need evidence of a conspiracy. Common rookie mistake. Just go with "there is no evidence available because they covered it up!" and "no one will tell the truth on camera because they are afraid of the conspirators." Easy.

But the key ingredient in any conspiracy film is the music. Take your banjo, harpsicord, your Shoenhut toy piano, and your happy C chords and put them aside. You want synthesizers with a lot of air sounds and lots of echo, minor chords, and then you need some weird sounds that are semi-annoying -- water dripping, pneumatic brakes, cymbals and other metallic sounds, or the drone of insects.

Under no circumstance should you use any of the following:

- "What A Wonderful World" by Louie Armstrong
- "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
- "Footloose"
- anything by the B52s
- "Break My Stride" by Matthew Wilder
- "Ain't No Stopping Us Now"
- "Walking on Sunshine"

[siligut]

1. I think it is extra creepy when the music is incongruent

Maybe not if your CT movie is a talky, but for action scenes it works.

For example, the Reservoir Dogs ear cutting scene. I chose the Spanish version because it is the shortest.

And "Don't Worry, Be Happy", is a mindfuck of a choice. The drone of insects is good.

How about that scary ratatatat crows make when they are threatening . . . gotta find that, anyway that is a good, raise the hairs on the back of your neck, sound.

[siligut]

2. The crow rattle or comb call

You can hear it here, the second to last sound file. http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Crow/sounds

[KurtNYC]

3. That's a handy website.

There are a bunch of these re-done movie trailers that use mis-matched music and editing to totally change the genre:

And my favorite is:

[siligut]

5. OK, now I feel good about Jaws and The Shining

Very clever, I had not seen these before, but I like them. But they are too well edited for your purposes.

Mismatching for a CT has to create paranoia. Here is an extreme example, don't watch if you are squeamish.

[Xyzse]

4. Anything played with an Ukulele...

Yep!

Even if the Rock sings it.

[WhoIsNumberNone]

6. Anything by the Dead Milkmen

[siligut]

7. Watching Hanna and there is some good CT sounds/music

This one is when the assassin guy, who wears tennis clothes, is whistling while chasing Hanna. This is only the whistling with a pic, but you will see him in the second video which has an actual scene from the movie.

Container Park by The Chemical Brothers

[NightWatcher]

8. What about Yakety Sax...the Benny Hill chase music?

[KurtNYC]

9. Love it. Never knew the name of that track.

Kind of undercuts the seriousness of anything it plays under.