Freakiest Song
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Topic: Freakiest Song
Posted By: darkshade
Subject: Freakiest Song
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:12
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what's the freakiest song(s) you know in the world of prog?
when my musical knowledge wasnt as vast as it is now, ii would have said 'On the Run' by Pink Floyd. it's still scary, but i know better.
'It Can't Happen Here' by Frank Zappa freaks me out every time, especially when im messed up. i can make it to the strange instrumental section, but when it, out of no where, comes back to the weird vocal parts, i usually last half a minute or so before i have to change songs.
another would be 'A Saucerful of Secrets' by Pink Floyd. The ultimate one being on Ummagumma. bad things happen in my head listening to this song, unless i make it to the end then it's very rewarding.
at the moment im trying to think of more songs, but cant. ill add some later on.
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Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:17
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Diana by Comus, off First Utterance...
Well, actually, just about anything off that album, but Diana is more freaky, while the rest are simply disturbing... Not surprising considering that the main songwriter was in and out of an insane asylum...
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Posted By: The Miracle
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:23
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Carry Stress In The Jaw by Mr. Bungle - crazy free jazz/death metal combination Elastic by Meshuggah... the most extreme metal madness in my collection Fantomas' Delirium Cordia... one of the weirdest/darkest/freakiest/longest(70 minutes) compositions that I know Iron, Glass Blocks And White Lights by Merzbow - 20 minutes of hardcore Japanese noise There's more, but I'm too lazy now... ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/ocellatedgod" rel="nofollow - last.fm |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:24
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Freaky ... do you mean disturbing/creepy or just weird?
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Posted By: ResidentAlien
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:27
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Fantomas - Delirium Cordia Toby Driver - All songs from In the L.L.Library Loft |
Posted By: KoS
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:28
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GY!BE - East Hastings, It was excellently used in the film 28 Days Later. Tool - Fiaap de Oiad |
Posted By: chamberry
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:28
All of its songs are noise. Merzbuddha is another great album if you enjoy them. I would like to add Squeeze me macaroni by Mr.Bungle as well. The song isn't really freaky, but the lyrics... the lyrics can make you puke! ------------- 
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The Miracle wrote:Posted By: Pnoom!
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:28
I had that dilemna as well
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Posted By: magnus
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 15:38
dear god, I was freaked out the first time I heard Faaip de Oiad. Come to think of it, things haven't really changed since 
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Posted By: tdbark
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:31
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Pink Floyd's One of These Days (The maniacal voice towards the end still gives me the creepies) and Bike (the noises at the end ..... like nails on a chalkboard).
For a non-prog entry: Alice Cooper's Cold Ethyl...... Any song extolling the virtues of necrophilia ranks way up there on the freaky scale. ------------- Twenty men crossing a bridge into a village, are twenty men crossing twenty bridges into twenty villages. Wallace Stevens |
Posted By: DarioIndjic
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:40
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Gabriel Speglar by Algarnas Tradgard ------------- Ars longa , vita brevis |
Posted By: The Owl
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:46
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Double Dare by Bauhaus: between Peter Murphy's pure rage, the off-kilter drums whacked echo guitar and that evil sounding 2 note fuzz-bass riff, it's good Halloween material
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:49
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I really don't get freaked out by any vocals or music... even stuff like Comus. I find it beautiful though, not disturbing. I cannot think of a singer piece that I get panicky about. Do try something by Univers Zero or Present though, they do some terrifically dark stuff, but not necessarily freaky. -------------   
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Posted By: The Wizard
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 16:51
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Anything of Eskimo by the Residents. -------------  
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 17:38
I once walked like ten blocks back home at 4 in the morning listening to Lateralus, when Fiaap de Oiad started...I almoust sh*t my pants, yet for some really stupid reason I keeped one listening to it...that was scary as hell  ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: Lota
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 19:06
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Number 9 The Beatles ------------- And In The End, The Love You Take, Is Equal To The Love You Make |
Posted By: Paradox
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 20:05
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Song To Comus by Comus, not had the chance to listen to much more of their stuff yet unfortunately. ------------- 
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Posted By: lightbulb_son
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 20:36
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Gotta be something by Comus, they're the only band that can actually freak me out.
Mr. Bungle used to scare the crap out of me too, but I guess I've listened to it too much. I have a crazy fear of clowns, so circus music in general will mess with my head. ------------- When the world is sick Can't no one be well But I dreamt we were all beautiful and strong 
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Posted By: sleeper
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 21:05
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I'm currently listening to White Willows The Reach, and the start and the middle of this song are really creepy.
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Posted By: rileydog22
Date Posted: November 20 2006 at 22:26
I never found Diana to be that weird or freaky. Drip Drip is IMO the freakiest on that album (Even the Earth will fill the crack where entered my blade; as I carry you to your grave, etc.), but Herald is a close second. I don't know why, but something about that track freaks me out every time.
A Plague of Lighthouse keepers is awefully freaky too. Come to think of it, a lot of VdGG and pH is that way.
Some of the stuff by the KC ProjeKcts freaks me out, especially Deception of the Thrush.
Lots of Arthur Brown can be freaky too. The Crazy World has some stuff like that (Nightmare, Fire Poem), but Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come had the freakiest stuff. His entire Journey album gives me creeps. -------------   |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 02:01
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Fantômas' first and Suspended Animation. Bungle's "The Bends"
VDGG - After the flood
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Posted By: progadicto
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 03:17
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WAITING ROOM by Genesis??? I don't know... ------------- ... E N E L B U N K E R... |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 06:24
| I can't think of a track that gives me the creeps nowadays, but I remember that the middle section of Echoes scared me as hell when I was a teen... |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 10:11
I second all mentions of Faaip De Oiad by Tool. Very freaky/weird/whatever. Anti-music, but interesting such. 
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Posted By: Dr. Occulator
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 12:13
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Persian Love by Holger Czukay. A German singing Arabic; really freaky but great!!! ------------- My Doc Told Me I Have Doggie Head. |
Posted By: jonirob
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 13:23
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Black Mass: An Electric Storm in Hell by White Noise ------------- 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 13:50
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I guess you guys mean creepy, wierd, scary, Halloweenee. LUCIFER`S FRIEND- Lucifer`s friend (title track) GURU GURU- Atomolch (from Hey Du ) GROBSCHNITT- Mount of Olives ( from Grobschnitt ) PINK FLOYD- Careful With That Ax Eugene- ( from Ummagumma ) PETER GABRIEL- Intruder ALAN PARSONS PROJECT- The Tell Tale Heart ( from Tales of Mystery and Immagination, with Crazt Arthur Brown on vocals ) Just a few that come to mind. ------------- |
Posted By: Rosescar
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 15:33
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"A Day In The Life". The orchestral section comes just straight out of some horror movie/thriller.
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Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 16:23
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This is a great topic! Haha, let me think...
The end of "A Day In The Life" really freaks me out.
"Kids On Holiday" - Animal Collective
While being an excellent song, just sends my mind on a trip. The random laughter, surreal lyrics, and the drone in the background are too much! I still love it though.
"Tongues", "Shadowplay" - Fish
The latter is one of my favorite Fish songs, but both of them have a really uneasy atmosphere and creepy imagery! My fingernails are bleeding from climbin' up the walls...
"Static" - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
The band has plenty of songs that are really heavy, but none of them ever freak me out at all - except this one. "East Hastings" sounds like the end of the world, and "The Dead Flag Blues" is really dark, but this is the only song that creates that vibe that something's wrong. The preacher is just scary man!
"Darkness" - Peter Gabriel
Haha, okay - this one is more of a joke. But the first time I put in the album... the first thirty seconds were really subtle and quiet, so I turned it up, and then this wall of noise just crushed my brain! I jumped!
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Posted By: Pulse
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 18:18
| Dachau Blues by Captain Beefheart. |
Posted By: MusicForSpeedin
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 21:16
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Have you heard John Zorn's Atronome?
It scared me last night.
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Posted By: Chris H
Date Posted: November 21 2006 at 21:33
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Now I'm accustomed to Zappa, but "It Can't Happen Here" gets me every time. Also some of the shorter dialogue types aren't freaky to me, but I just find them weird. Some examples are "Hot Poop" and "Telephone Conversation" |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: November 28 2006 at 22:05
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For Zappa's stuff, let's not forget (or just go listen) Jonestown! ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: A B Negative
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 10:14
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Come To Daddy by Aphex Twin, the part where the children singing comes in, really gives me the creeps!
Some of Syd Barrett's songs are teetering on the edge of sanity but even they sound normal compared to Daniel Johnston! ------------- "The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar.... Now, that's my idea of a good time." |
Posted By: Dieu
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 12:12
Daniel Johnston? The blues guy from the 40's? Is it good? I mean, I'm generally disapointed with very old stuff, like Armstrong, or very early Davis. And for the freak stuff: Ship's A'Going Down by The Residents is no song to listen before bedtime... Dieu |
Posted By: Freak
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 19:19
Haha, no, you're thinking of Robert Johnson. His material is amazing, and sometimes kind of bleak - but no disturbing. Daniel Johnston is an artist whose work is defined as "outsider art." Basically, he doesn't fit any one genre, but it's really beautiful stuff. A movie came out recently that gives some insight on the guy's life, The Devil & Daniel Johnston.
If you were joking, then I just made a fool of meself - but I'm okay with that!
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Posted By: WillieThePimp
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 19:43
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hahaha! I agree with Faaip de Oiad by Tool. That is the first song that I ever remember scarring me! ...And has anyone mentioned Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, that music is damned I say! Especially the animal noises in A Hymn to the Morning Star. Some Alamaailman Vasarat moments scare me also, but not nearly in the same way as the before mentioned. Mr. Bungle and Fantomas yes, but usually when Mike Patton comes back in it usually gets less frightening. This is not an insult of course, I just believe he provides some comic relief. ------------- You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. ~Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket |
Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 19:45
Drip drip from your sagging lip... -------------
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Posted By: Meddler
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 20:56
Patton's voice is unnatural in that. Signs Reign Rebuilder Telegraphs in Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static Delirium Cordia Dowsing Anemone With Copper Tongue A Manual Dexterity Volume 1 ------------- [IMG]http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i165/amorfous/astro-1.jpg"> |
Posted By: Arrrghus
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 20:59
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Discipline by Throbbing Gristle. 'Nuff said. ------------- 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: November 29 2006 at 22:12
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Atoll: Le Photographe Exorciste Area: Caos (parte seconda) Jefferson Airplane: Chushingura non-prog: Black Sabbath: FX The Doors: L'America Nick Cave: The Carny ------------- |
Posted By: Dieu
Date Posted: November 30 2006 at 08:25
Thanks for the tips. No I was not joking. I will run to my video store to rent the movie. Dieu |