What's the eeriest album you've ever heard?
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Topic: What's the eeriest album you've ever heard?
Posted By: Frets N Worries
Subject: What's the eeriest album you've ever heard?
Date Posted: December 19 2024 at 16:35
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Eerie albums are always curious, they evoke a certain liminal feeling in oneself, none More so than Everywhere at the End of Time. Everhwere At The End of Time is a project by The Caretaker, he discovered in the early 2000s that if you run old tapes, they'll slowly decay. So, he decided to do this with old ballroom music from the 1940s, thus creating a very liminal atmosphere. Each album slowly decays from slightly crackly old ballroom music to a wall of white sound. The series of albums is supposed to give the feeling of what it's like having dementia. Are there any albums (or series of albums) you've heard that evoke a similar feeling? ------------- The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow. Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 19 2024 at 16:48
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Shub-Niggurath - their first two albums (haven't heard the rest) but it's soooo gloomy & eerie that it's difficult to take their music seriously, which of course kind of ruins the intent. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 19 2024 at 19:14
| I don't know if I've heard many albums that qualify as eerie but I suppose First Utterance by Comus comes close. To me that's more wacked out though. Maybe some early VDGG qualifies or maybe the Devil's Triangle by KC? Eerie doesn't seem to fit very well for most of the music I've heard. I suppose it would have to some soundtrack stuff and I haven't really heard much Goblin yet. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: December 19 2024 at 23:40
| It's going to be an electronic music soundtrack of some sort for a horror film I guess. Songwise the theme tune to the excellent MGM series From would count for me. |
Posted By: A Crimson Mellotron
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 02:33
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I am thinking Art Zoyd's music or Tangerine Dream's early releases, especially 'Zeit'. |
Posted By: Zeph
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 03:12
| The first thing that popped into my head was Devil Doll. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 04:50
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 07:52
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Frets N Worries wrote:Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 07:57
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Here's something from this year, in fact one of the offical top 25 releases of 2024 at RYM (albeit at #23): |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 11:03
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For eerie, as opposed to creepy, I'll go with the time-honored classic, Rubycon by Tangerine Dream. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: ThyroidGlands
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 11:19
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Any album by Present. Especially "Le Poison..." Les Morts vont Vite by Shub-Niggurath. Delìrium Cordìa by Fantômas. ------------- You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' about You don't know nothin' You don't know nothin' at all |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 11:40
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The first to come to my mind is Mica Levi's Under the Skin soundtrack. ------------- "Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself" (The Prisoner, 1967). |
Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 15:46
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I think lot of VDGG/Hammill songs would fit the theme In the black room PH Chameleon Lp A Louse is not a home from PH Silent corner Lp Got from PH In camera LP Necromancer VDGG 1st LP Arrow : VDGG Godbluff A Plague of lighthouse keeper from VDGG Pawn hearts + King Crimson : Devil's triangle from In the Wake of Poseidon Genesis : The waiting from ( aka the evil jam when executed live) from TLLDOB |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 20 2024 at 17:25
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Yugen - Iridule This tune creeps me out. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: December 21 2024 at 03:27
Indeed, some of those early Krautrock are gloomy, like Popol Vuh's debut. And in a certain sense, Univers Zero and Present are also quite "out there", but ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 21 2024 at 07:04
Hi, I have never thought of them as gloomy, or weird, or eerie. In my ears, they were experimental albums, and they kinda gave us a feel and a touch that was foreign to our ear-experience, but that is not a reason for any of these things to be eerie ... I consider folks that use bizarre covers, and then create bizarre lyrics and often a lot of noise, as being way more "eerie" that a lot of experimental things. There might be one, that is special in its own way, and when you hear it off a CD without any visuals, you get one idea or two ... and later when you see the film, the stuff kinda crawls in your skin ... and it isn't about anything, except that we have no idea where it is going, and you and I ae out in the middle of nowhere! The film is "The Stalker" ... In general, the commercial side of music does not bode well for a lot of that "eerie" stuff as it throws fans off and away ... and that defeats the point of even having it. The ones I don't like are the very obvious fake ones, gorging themselves off youngsters money ... and that is not only "eerie", it is also "malicious" ... and at time, probably irresponsible. The hard/harshest part is that we do not know, or understand the work ... and you can't tell if the "eerie" is from the work, or from your own perception feeling alienated from it ... that's 2 very different things to consider. Likewise, the use of electronics in one film way back when made it scary because it was so different and off anything we knew or felt ... but the film makers made do in that film with light touches so we would not be scared senseless ... the robot made drinks for folks ... !!! All of a sudden the description of the whole place of the Krell's work, by that time is not scary or eerie, it is .... wow ... that's nuts! By that time you are already with the film and appreciated the Sci-Fi side of it. The bad side of things for me is the stuff that hurts and kills ... religion, drugs, ugly politics ... but within the arts, I'm not sure that folks are in it to scare anyone, unless your middle name is Giger, but I wonder how much of that art was for shock, and/or something else altogether. It might have meant something to a different set of folks, but I'm not sure that it does the same for the fans. I don't consider the art work, btw, on par with the music and lyrics of the work btw, and that's a bit on the strange side for me ... a concept and something else to trip the idea ... nice to have that art on the cover, but I think it was misguided. I don't think the album would have sold less without that cover.
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Posted By: Floydoid
Date Posted: December 21 2024 at 10:17
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Quite possibly Coven's debut self titled album from 1969 - it certainly sends shivers down the spine with every listen. ------------- "Christ, where would rock & roll be without feedback?" - D. Gimour |
Posted By: Valdez
Date Posted: December 21 2024 at 12:01
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Wire’s 154 is creepy in a good way. ------------- https://bakullama1.bandcamp.com/album/maxwells-submarine |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 22 2024 at 04:37
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Early VdGG music is quite eerie in parts, though I wouldn't describe VdGG music as eerie in general. I think the eerie parts are highlights and is why I generally prefer the earlier (pre-Godbluff) VdGG music. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 22 2024 at 07:14
Hi, I'm not sure it was eerie for me at all ... almost all of PH for me, was "very personal" and the "anger" was always a response to thing that PH might have felt bad about ... "genuflection in church" some moments in that album are much more on the eerie side ... it's like he knows someone that was abused in church ... and a lot of the anger comes out in that album ... but I don't find "anger" eerie at all ... it's an emotion that expresses how you feel ... it can have bed results, of course, but in general, in the arts, most anger is well placed, though in Hollywood, the anger is always set to malicious and some ketchup! All in all I look at PH as a poet, and the emotions within ... and Roy Harper is the same thing ... he has his angers, and sometimes it comes off as eerie, but in the end, they boh return to the poetry and the flow of the work. ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: December 22 2024 at 08:12
I wasn't referring to the anger. I was referring to parts such as the "Presence of the Night" section of "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers". ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: December 22 2024 at 11:33
The soundtrack to The Exorcist. 
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Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: December 29 2024 at 18:12
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Delia Derbyshire & Barry Bermange THE DREAMS is hellish and creepy. Recordings of people describing their dreams of claustrophobia and absolute terror. They often put emphasis on being followed by a dark image. The music consists of sustained chords for the background. They create an ambience which has similarities to Brian Eno ambient albums in the 70s and 80s except they were most likely taken from sound generators for THE DREAMS was created prior to the Moog Synthesizer became an item. Delia Derbyshire was quite dark in the sense that she created darkscapes on several recordings which were luring and painted Visions of Hell beings. ELECTRIC STORM IN HELL from White Noise was quite disturbing. Mort Garson BLACK MASS ...( Lucifer) was inventive music for the Moog Synthesizer. Not all of it aged well..but imo most of it did. Certain pieces are eerie no doubt..and some of the effects for voice on VOODOO were very unusual for 1971. The subject matter is quite disturbing and the music lures the listener in as a introduction to the occult. A occultism environment as such where in the 60s and 70s it began touching the surface through strange news reports of ritualistic killings and horror movies. I don't think of that when listening to Black Mass. I mainly hear dark themes with interesting improvisation. Mort Garson was a fine pianist and his improvisation on Moog Synthesizer is dimensional for 1971 and ahead of its time. Wendy Carlos WINTER from Sonic Seasonings can be described as eerie. It's timeless! Jeff Grienke- Timbral Planes is from the same swamp in Hell as WINTER and worthy of a listen. Pauline Anna Strom...Spectre creates very dark imagery but mainly connects itself to the legend of vampires Throbbing Gristle In The Shadow Of The Sun This is basically noise. Abrupt sounding noise ...a guitar that sounds like a vacuum cleaner...but voices chanting or calling to the air and a direct replication of a cult from my hometown that worshipped at Menantico Ponds. People wearing black cloaks and masks. Chanting and pounding on drums. Programming rituals into tiny minds. People disappearing or murdered. People frightened by this cult...running through the Pine Barrens to get away and never knowing if they're running toward the cult or away from them...because of the improbable acoustics at Menantico Ponds putting even more fear in their minds...Of all people...Throbbing Gristle re-create this experience. It figures Art Zoyd Nosferatu can sometimes sound too mechanical but it does contain some darkscapes that rare creations. Peter Frohmader Cycle Of Eternity Big, Beautiful, Dark & Scary by Bang On A Can All-Stars contains some very eerie pieces. Daphne Oram- Oramics...eerie and disturbing not unlike some material by The Residents. Stomu Yamashta Iroha- Ka....mostly dark sounding and some of the eeriest I've ever heard. Invokes images of shadows and phantoms...projects the feeling of communicating with the dead. Perhaps through a seance or an actual haunting. |
Posted By: Jacob Schoolcraft
Date Posted: December 29 2024 at 19:21
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: December 29 2024 at 19:55
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That's easy! Anything from one of the many bands named Eerie! Here's some bombastic black metal from the Polish band ~~~~! -------------  https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |