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Posted: December 23 2012 at 05:56

One of the precursors of making me get in to prog was ELP's Tocatta...

Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Posted: December 23 2012 at 05:30

Polymorphia wrote:

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The most frightening song I've ever heard has to be "An Escape" by Scott Walker. I never watched the LooneyToons the same again.

That's not the one where it sounds like Donald Duck getting strangled, is it?

The very same. Cry

Yeah I think that whole album is as disturbing as it gets. its the darkest most foreboding sense of dread put to music. I can never forget that song, Clara, Jesse or Cue.

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Posted: December 23 2012 at 02:18

^ That didn't scare me (that I remember). I was rather seriously annoyed by those.

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Posted: December 23 2012 at 00:11

Who didn't jump out of their skin the first time they head the alarms on "Time"?

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 23:27

I was walking outside at might just the other day and played Cervello on the Iphone. That first minute of the album was definitely scary, I found my self going faster LOL

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And there are far more scarier bands in prog.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 23:11

"The Knife" by Genesis, particularly the lyrics.

He looks at this world and wants it all... so he strikes, like Thunderball!

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:57

"One Of These Days" by Pink Floyd creeped me out when I was much younger (and high)! Smoke

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:48

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I forgot this one too by Scott Walker. Listen on headphones- when it gets to the part where they are punching the meat I get goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hvHEBLNpI

Not prog ... but who cares? (and this is so not me. Ermm

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Did you check out "Psoriatic"?

Edited by Dayvenkirq - December 22 2012 at 22:52

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:46

HolyMoly wrote:

Polymorphia wrote:

The most frightening song I've ever heard has to be "An Escape" by Scott Walker. I never watched the LooneyToons the same again.

That's not the one where it sounds like Donald Duck getting strangled, is it?

The very same. Cry

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:31

Polymorphia wrote:

The most frightening song I've ever heard has to be "An Escape" by Scott Walker. I never watched the LooneyToons the same again.

That's not the one where it sounds like Donald Duck getting strangled, is it?

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:23

AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:

I agree that the ULLAAAAAAAAAAA on Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds chills you to the bone.

Oh my god, thanks for reminding me.. That noise is louder than everything else on that album!! Scares me every time!!!!

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:08

The most frightening song I've ever heard has to be "An Escape" by Scott Walker. I never watched the LooneyToons the same again.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 22:01

ooh another good one I just remembered, the first time I heard the whisper in Great Gig In The Sky.. Man that was creepy I was listening to it with headphones but because I was so used to the song I didn't even realize it was the music at first and started freaking out lol

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Sumdeus - surreal space/psych/prog journeys

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:58

I forgot this one too by Scott Walker. Listen on headphones- when it gets to the part where they are punching the meat I get goosebumps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5hvHEBLNpI

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:49

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At the end of Pink Floyd's "Grantchester Meadows" when the fly gets swatted. That made me jump one time... that's all I can really think of. Though sometimes when I listen to music at night time, I can get a little creeped out.

I know the feeling. I remember three years ago listening to KC's "Lizard - Big Top", with the crazy Mellotron having its pitch raised higher and higher and higher, as well as to the end of Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure", with Judi Dench saying "Don't ask why. You don't ask why." Been listening to those in my head at night. Turned me into a baby.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:30

At the end of Pink Floyd's "Grantchester Meadows" when the fly gets swatted. That made me jump one time... that's all I can really think of. Though sometimes when I listen to music at night time, I can get a little creeped out.

Edit: One time I fell asleep while listening to Comus - First Utterance on repeat. I woke up in the the middle of the night to the sounds of "I'll be gentle... I'll be gentle... I'll be gentle". That scared the living sh*t outta me. LOL

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 21:28

Matthew Gregory Lewis "The Monk" - an interesting read.... thanks Moshkito... brrrr....

I was shaken by the end of Vengeance's debut album which isjust screaming like someone in hell burning. We played it at youth group really loud at a camp, through the camp's loud speakers, and got in huge trouble by the leaders.

I agree that the ULLAAAAAAAAAAA on Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds chills you to the bone.

I also jumped out of my skin the first time I heard the opening glass crashing sounds on Gentle Giants In a Glass House album. I had the heaphones on maximum and the glass crashes pierced a hole in my brain.

When I first heard Suicide's Frankie Teardrop I was chilled to the bone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5wJQkvSoOQ

Also was scared with the Scott Walker "The Drift" album esp when the donkey sounds like its being mutilated... cant listen to that at all now.

Listen to these chillers with the lights off alone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHfAqz3TFY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJ0_uWjMfk

Not prog but:

Lastly, I was in the kitchen one night and wanted some music so pressed play and didnt realise my kids had left in the CD player a child's CCD by The Wiggles and at piercing volume I heard them shout "Hi! We're The Wiggles! Want to have some fun?" and I jumped clean out of my socks, you had to peel me from the ceiling.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 20:44

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That horrible, horrible voice in the "musique concrete" section of Peter Hammill's "Gog/Magog (In Bromine Chambers)."

For me though, Univers Zero's 'Heresie' album. When I bought this LP I constantly listened to it and, seriously, after the 7th listen, I started having nightmares !!! Honest. Shub Niggurath's 'Les Mort vont Vite' is also pretty scary.

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 19:51

Dayvenkirq wrote:

ProgMetaller2112 wrote:

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You really like that "New Topic" Button?

Munly has some creepy stuff.

I have opinions and material I have to get out

So do a lot of other people, so it's a kind of a common courtesy (if you will) to give others a chance to attract some bees to their honey and get some responses. Plus, creating threads and polls can potentially push other interesting threads and polls out of the recent posts list at the bottom of the forum home page, potentially drive them into an oblivion, and shift the focus of the forum's members from those other interesting threads and polls.

that's exactly what this site is about^^^^

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Posted: December 22 2012 at 19:27

Yes, anything by Merzbow. Stern Smile