Creepiest song you've heard in a long time?

[derby378]

Get creative on us, folks. In Slaughter Natives, Foetus, Autopsia, Naked City, Tetsuo Inoue, vintage Laibach, whatever.

I'll nominate something from a guy who's slightly more "mainstream." What's He Building? by Tom Waits, on the Mule Variations album.

[derby378]

1. Aw, HELL no...

I know you guys have heard creepy music. Let's see some names!

[Richardo]

30. "Hex" by Neko Case

:scared:

[MrCoffee]

2. What's He Building is the uber-creepy song.

Other creepy songs (Red Right Hand - Nick Cave comes to mind) can only hope to aspire to What's He Building's creep-factor.

[Phillycat]

3. Aqualung. I've never been able to stand it.

HATE that song!

When I was little, I hated "She's Always a Woman To Me" by Billy Joel because of the line "she'll carelessly cut you and laugh while you're bleeding". I took it very literally. :scared:

I love "What is he building in there?"! I love that whole album, actually, but you're right, it doesn't make a lick of sense.

[Lilith Velkor]

4. Hit Me Baby One More Time

Ugh. :scared:

[ghostsofgiants]

5. Creepy as in "that's so wrong" or creepy as in eerie and chilling?

[idgiehkt]

6. good question: good creepy or bad creepy

just like good naked and bad naked, it matters.

I'm racking my brains.

The only thing that's coming to mind is "Pieces of Jennifer's Body" by Hole, but that's over a decade old.

Here's something deliciously, intentionally creepy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3VMRMfVN8

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. Anybody watch Metalacolypse last night?

The song by the rock n'roll clown/David Lee Roth about snorting cocaine.

Can't beat that.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=VTf19TiCHJI

@ ~3 minutes

[tinfoil tiaras]

8. "Every Breath You Take" by The Police

--such a stalker song, imho.

and

"You're Beautiful" by James Blunt. A stalker song sung in an unnaturally high voice...

[hickman]

10. I still can't believe that people would play this at their wedding.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[hickman]

11. Lou Reed's Heroin.

Heroin, be the death of me
Heroin, its my wife and its my life
Because a mainer to my vein
Leads to a center in my head
And then Im better off than dead

Sorry, this was supposed to be for OP.

[derby378]

16. Thanks - it's much closer to the spirit of the OP

Half the folks on this thread don't quite get it yet. Britney Spears music may not be appealing, but it will never be creepy in the same way that Naked City's Grand Guignol is.

[Left Is Write]

12. It mystifies me also. Of course, people play "I Will Always Love You"

at their weddings, which is just about as baffling.

[ghostsofgiants]

9. Okay, I've decided to post one that's good creepy, and one that's bad creepy, ahah...

Good creepy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bJIQNo34hY

Bad creepy (note the lyrics): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gScxNe4D1U

[idgiehkt]

15. I will never be the same.

that truly is bad creepy, but in a good way. They did a great job on that.

[Left Is Write]

13. The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia is pretty creepy.

[jmm]

14. The creepiest Christmas song

would have to be Christmas Shoes. Why would God send some poor little boy to teach a man that the holidays are about being dressed right when you meet Jesus :shrug:? That song tries too damn hard to make it's point.

[ironflange]

18. Got you beat

I've been listening a lot to Special XMas, XM channel 107, a lot lately. It's a strange mix of funny and/or crazy Xmas songs with the occasional dose of sickening glurge thrown in. Anyway, the other night I heard Tiny Tim, ukulele and all, singing something called "Santa Has the AIDS this Year." :wtf:

[seemunkee]

27. Santa Dog by The Residents

Santa Dog's a Jesus Fetus
Santa Dog's a Jesus Fetus
Santa Dog's a Jesus Fetus
Has no presents,
Has no presence
In the future...
...In the future

[Drum]

17. Miranda Sex Garden "Fairytales of Slavery"

I like it! Quite unusual, off-balance, dark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Sex_Garden


edit: sorry I cannot link to their music, but maybe this Wiki page can help. Very worth a check!

[baldguy]

19. "Timothy" by The Buoys

[Hissyspit]

22. Damn. That's my stock answer to EVERY song thread - and now there's one it actually fits

and you beat me to it! :P

[InvisibleTouch]

20. Well, there's this German song...

...whose title translates to something like "Moon Shrouded in Fog," about a man and a woman driving home through the night. The woman notices a shadowy form following them, as though it's on the hunt for her soul. She keeps urging her husband to drive faster, and he keeps telling her there's nothing there. She's dead when they arrive home in the morning.

Very creepy! And yet, I'll be in the mood to listen to it now and again.

[ironflange]

33. Better chsck Snopes

I'm sure it's just an urban legend. ;)

edit: Just a damn minute! That sounds like a remake of Schubert's Erlkönig!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Erlk%C3%B6nig

Article discusses modern versions, maybe one is yours.

[Kali]

21. What's he building? sprang into my brain when I saw the subject or your post.

Fiddle About from the Tommy soundtrack was pretty creepy as I recall.

Fiddle About



I'm your wicked Uncle Ernie;
I'm glad you won't see or hear me,
As I fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about.
Your mother left me here to mind you,
And I'm doing exactly what I bleedin' well want to,
Fiddling about, fiddling about, fiddle about.
Down with your bedclothes,
Up with your nightshirt.
Fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about.
You won't "shite"
As I fiddle "abite."
Fiddle about, fiddle about, fiddle about.

[enigmatic]

23. "Sentimental Journey"- Pere Ubu

From the all-time classic "The Modern Dance" album. The creepiest out of a truly unnerving record..

Sentimental Journey-

Window
my size
Outside
monoxide
Inside
paradise
Curtain
no breeze

Motion
attraction
Here she comes
girl
She says
Why don't you just go home?
I don't know
I guess I'll go home

Motion
retraction
Down the hall
to the stairs
Down the stairs
to the street.
Down the street
to the corner
Round the corner
nowhere
Nowhere to go
I don't know
I guess I'll just go home

Motion
attraction
Table
chairs
tv
books
other stuff
Home
It's home

Window
my size..

[ghostsofgiants]

24. That one is definitely creepy.

[SKKY]

25. I nominate "Possum Kingdom" by The Toadies...

...Clearly, a song about luring young girls to a lake and then killing them.

[Mad_Dem_X]

29. I thought it was about vampires

:shrug:

[last_texas_dem]

45. I'd (oddly) actually feel better if it were about vampires!

I had always assumed it was about rape, and it creeped me the hell out, although I thought it was musically catchy. They used to play that song to death down here several years ago.

In this interview, the group is noncommittal about what it's about. I could see the "vampire" possibility due to some of the lyrics, but there's apparently also a legend that it was based on some killings that happened at the lake years back.

>>>Stripper aside, "Possum Kingdom" is not about "doing the nasty." It,
like most of Toadies' tunes, are stories, as Umbarger explains while Lewis
excuses himself to grab a tissue. "They're just these silly stories he's
heard his family tell. Like 'Tyler' and 'Possum Kingdom' are just like
stories...In Texas, there's just this big storytelling thing - whenever your
family gets together, they sit and talk and tell all these stories. 'Possum
Kingdom' is a ghost story."
"Possum Kingdom is a lake. One of the ten best fishin' spots in the
U.S.," Lewis says upon returning.
Is it a about a ghost or vampire at the lake?
Everyone laughs. Man-of-mystery Lewis replies: "I don't know."
"It's not about vampires," Umbarger insists. "Even though we have a big
underground vampire following in Florida. They come with their teeth and
everything. I'm not lying about that, that's a real story. They'll show up
and you'll be talking to someone, and they'll smile and it's like, 'Jesus
Christ! You've got fangs!' And they're like, 'Yeah. It's a vampire thing.'
So we have this big vampire underground following, and 'Possum Kingdom' has
kind of stirred it up."
So what's it really about, then?
Not missing a beat, Lewis replies: "Vampires."
Laughter breaks out yet again. "It's just a story I heard long ago;
it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I
just make up. I tend to do that," Lewis explains about the watering hole
where his family used to hang out and barbecue. "They dammed up this big
river up there, and it's got all these spooky names like Hell's Gate. It's
really cool.">>>

http://www.musicfanclubs.org/toadies/toadies/ripart.txt

[MrCoffee]

31. I've been waterskiing on Possum Kingdom Lake...i had no idea there was a song about it

[Phillycat]

40. That song is about vampires!

"I can promise you, you'll stay as beautiful...with dark hair and soft skin...forever". And then the "make up your mind" part.

[hickman]

26. I got to put Uriah Heep in here too.

First stalking song I ever heard. 1972, on my way to the protest in DC. The guys kept playing this song. The Spell.

Let us not begin
This fight we cannot win
Be sure you're watching me
Cause all through your life
Everyday and everynight
You should know that I'll be watching you

[meegbear]

28. D.O.A. - Bloodrock

QED

[Lochloosa]

32. Johnny Cash....Hurt

Damn!

http://www.losthighwayrecords.com/e/cash11403.html

[REP]

34. Kindertotenlieder (Dead Children's Songs) - Mahler

Can't beat classical for creepy.

[tigereye]

35. Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit is still very creepy.

as far as modern stuff goes, I'll have to ponder that one.

[Bodineian]

36. Roxy Music-----Inflatable Dollie(In Every Dreamhouse A Heartache)

"My plain wrapper baby----i blew you up, then you blew my mind."

[Burma Jones]

37. Lou Reed and Dan Zanes covering "What a Wonderful World"

on one of Zanes' kid disks, Night Time....it is creepy, and really good.

[MrCoffee]

38. that IS a creepy cover. n/t

[StaggerLee]

39. Don't laugh

But Nick Cave's Stagger Lee gives me the willies.

[mitchum]

41. "Airtight" by Christ Figures

[Left Is Write]

42. Another creepy: Marilyn Manson's version of Sweet Dreams

[HughBeaumont]

43. Sunn o)))'s "It Took the Night to Believe"

"Requiem for Soprano, Mezzo Soprano, Two mixed choirs & Orchestra" - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
"Timesteps" - Wendy Carlos
"Green Gang" - Legendary Pink Dots
"The Donkey Headed Adversary of Humanity Opens the Discussion" - Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
"Misty Roses" - Colin Bluntstone

[SteppingRazor]

44. "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" by Ween

Why they wanna see my spine mommy?
Why they wanna see my spine?
It's gonna hurt again mommy
Much worse than last time
Am I gonna see God, mommy?
Am I gonna die?
It really hurts mommy!
Am I gonna die?

Smile on mighty Jesus
Spinal Meningitis got me down

I'm feelin' greasy mommy
Please don't let me die
Stinky vaseline mommy!
Please don't let me die
Am I gonna see God, mommy?
Am I gonna die?
It really hurts mommy!
Am I gonna die?

Smile on mighty Jesus
Spinal Meningitis got me down
Smile on mighty Jesus
Spinal Meningitis got me down

On edit: Forgot the creepiest part. The verses are sung in a little-girl voice. Not sure if it's an actual little girl or one of the Brothers Ween with some sort of voice effect, but either way -- really, really creepy.

[blondeatlast]

46. Siouxsie and the Banshees--Night Shift and Slow Dive

Night Shift

Only at night time I see you
In darkness I feel you
A bride by my side -- I'm inside many brides
Sometimes I wonder...
What goes on in your mind, always silent and kind
Unlike the others...
Fuck the mothers kill the others
Fuck the others kill the mothers
I'll put it out of my mind because...
I'm out of my mind with you
In heaven and hell with you...

My Night Shift sisters
Await your nightly visitor
They don't bother me
No they don't bother me

The cold marble slab submits at my feet
With a neat dissection...
Looking so sweet to me -- please come to me
With your cold flesh -- my cold love
Hissing -- not kissing
A happy go lucky chap -- always dressed in black
He'll come to you, he'll come to you

My Night Shift sisters
With your nightly visitor
A new vocation in life
My love with a knife

Fuck the mothers kill the others
Fuck the others kill the mothers
I'll put it out of my mind because...
I'm out of my mind with you
In heaven and hell with you...

Slow Dive

Get your head down to the ground
Shake it all around -- a dirty sound
Put your knees into your face
And see if you can race -- real slow
It's a slowdive -- when you die slow
Oh it's a low jive -- do the slowdive

Now you jump back like a hound
Emit a howling sound
Dig those limbs into the floor
And holler out for more

And you revel in the dips
When your backbone slips
Taking honeysuckle sips
From your rolling hips
It shifts and it shifts
It's a slowdive -- when you die slow
When you come alive it's a low jive
Do the slowdive