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Posted: December 19 2013 at 16:37
Right now I'm listening to the UKZ ep "radiation" from a few years ago and it has a kind of scarey vibe. I remember people saying they weren't too crazy about it and now I know why. IT sounds more like recent KC than classic UK. The vocals are distorted and a bit annoying. Oh well. I guess us collectors have to pay the price so to speak every once in while by having to have pretty much everything in our collection. We just have to accept the fact that not everything is going to be a Close to the Edge or a Selling England.
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Posted: December 19 2013 at 10:43
For me, a more recent example is, while not a sudden scare but more of a sneaking sense of worry and eeriness, from "Drag Ropes" on the Storm Corrosion album. Even after multiple listenings, the sinister way the otherwise ever so kind lines "I was immortal but I am your friend / To stay and be beside you / Always here (I grieve for you) / I'm always with you now" are delivered happens to make me feel like screaming.
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Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:27
progbethyname wrote:
Actually. You know what really kind of creeped me out when I was 5 or 6 was the flute outro on Strawberry Fields by the Beatles. Not prog, but still scary. Would fast forward that part of the song for years. Lol
Beatles on their experimental years is already scary in terms of their music lol, also i found Revolution 9 to be quite creepy and morbid
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Posted: December 17 2013 at 07:20
Comus discography actually scare me a lot. I mean, sure Black Widow might have chilling lyrics on their debut album, but Comus? they combined both weird and scary on both of their albums.
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 10:57
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The glass-breaking sound in Amarok scares the s*** out of me
If you spend time reading other things, or seeing a few films, stuff like this goes right by you, and you end up ignoring it. Mike has already said that he threw everything and the kitchen sink into it and didn't care what came out (so to speak!), and that should give you an idea that its intent was just ... free form anything that you do not know how to react to until you hear it.
In film, a lot of this "scary" stuff is more prevalent! You can think of Roman Polansky using the camera as a rapist in Tess, which is downright scary, and gives the novel a whole other theme that is true as well! Or you can catch a Gaspar Now film, that uses a gun sound at moments that don't make sense, and you literally jump out of your seat and half the audience walks out because it is downright unsettling! Or you can go read Matthew Gregory Lewis and realize that too much of the stuff listed here is just kid stuff! Oh, what the heck, go read "Our Lady of Flowers", if you have the courage, and then follow it up with "Briefing for a Descent into Hell".
All of a sudden, a lot of this stuff is really smalll and not very good! It's feelings and "ideas" about scary and horror are quite insipid and sanitized, to the point that you know there is no truth in it whatsoever. If you can't tell, it is because you are waiting for someone to tell you otherwise, I think!
There are other arts that have taken this stuff further, but we keep waiting for a picture or a word or a sound effect to be the bringer of the surprise to you!
It's all a factor of how tuned you are. If you are inerly tuned, none of these things will ever scare you, but if your attention is on heaven knows what, there is just about everything out there that will scare you, starting with looking in the mirror!
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:53
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I can't say that any album scared the crap out of me, but then again if it did, I wouldn't be listening anymore , but I thought Tangerine Dream's Zeit was one of the creepiest albums I've ever heard.
I think Klaus Schulze's Irrlicht is way more unsettling, being a rather dissonant take on the same basic idea. If I recall things correctly, KS' disagreements with Edgar Froese over how to execute that concept was what fuelled his departure from TD.
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Posted: December 15 2013 at 02:31
I can't say that any album scared the crap out of me, but then again if it did, I wouldn't be listening anymore , but I thought Tangerine Dream's Zeit was one of the creepiest albums I've ever heard.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 23:17
[King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic (practically the whole album)]
The metallish guitar riff that starts the album and the sounds that lead right into it always sounded like they could have been on a horror movie soundtrack. LTIA pt 2 has sounds towards the end that sounds like the gremlins from the movie Gremlins. I never even saw the movie until recently even though I always thought that and when I finally saw it it only confirmed what I always thought. Yep, definitely Gremlins. RED has some scarey music and so does SABB especially "mincer."
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 19:09
Bass Communion - 'Ghosts On Magnetic Tape'. One of many side projects from Steven Wilson. Minimalist experimental-electronic where he has included 'recordings' of hauntings/ghosts and other weird sounds (sourced from where, I don't know) but they add a totally dark ambience to proceedings which is *very* eerie to listen to, especially on the other side of mid-night, in the dark.
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Posted: December 14 2013 at 17:39
I just thought of another one. There's some parts of PF's "atom heart mother" suite that I think are pretty scarey. About half way into it. The chorus part is pretty creepy too and sounds like it could be from an old horror movie. Also, parts of "echoes" by the same band. Maybe a subtitle for this thread could be "careful with that prog Eugene."
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bloodnarfer wrote:
, but I thought Tangerine Dream's Zeit was one of the creepiest albums I've ever heard.
