Topic: Music You Wouldn't Want To Meet In A Dark Alleyway (Read 19341 times)

Paper Beats Rock · « **on:** 03 Dec 2005, 18:35 »

It's late at night here and I've just put on an album called 'I went out shopping to get some noise' by Architect and it's geniunely spooky. I'm actually getting a little bit scared being here by myself! It's kinda like Aphex Twin but less of-the-wall and more atmospheric.

Another song that gives me the heebie-jeebies is 'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits (as if you didn't know).

Anyone got any more?

KharBevNor · « **Reply #1 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 19:32 »

Burzum - Tomhet
Carpathian Forest - The Last Sigh of Nostalgia Rehearsal
Current 93 - The whole 'Dogs Blood Rising' album
Any Navicon Torture Technologies
Miners of Moria - Nocturnal Eternity
Nazgul - Hult-Garth
Orthaugr - Der Weinende Hadnur (The Crying Hadnur) [Burzum cover]
Sol Invictus - English Murder
Some Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows. (it's often just too excessive).
Ulver - The whole 'Nattens Madrigal' album except 'Of Wolf and Passion'.
Quite a bit of White Onyx Elephants.
The whole Xasthur/Nortt split album.

MilkmanDan · « **Reply #2 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 19:35 »

I feel quite threatened by 'Drenched' by Dusk & Blackdown. The bassline is fucking sinister. Mould by Aphex Twin is pretty damn unsettling too.
Slightly off the point, that Architect album is great.

Valrus · « **Reply #3 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 19:43 »

come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.

Also:
"Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima" by Krzysztof Penderecki
"Pornography" by The Cure
"Where Is The Line" by Björk
"Faaip de oiad" by Tool

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #4 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 21:04 »

The entirety of Stalingrad's self-titled CD. Cumulatively it gives me the willies, even if some of the tracks are more just plain angry than sinister.

Paper Beats Rock · « **Reply #5 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 21:12 »

Quote from: Valrus

come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.
come. to daddy.

Ahhh come on! That one's not scary, it ROCKS! The video kicks arse too, I have it on the Chris Cunningham DVD, that is one good series of DVDs.

Ohhhh, Dresden Dolls - Kiss Me, that just totally put me off kissing underage girls.

Inlander · « **Reply #6 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 21:43 »

Is anybody else thinking of the Onion's Our Dumb Century? "Hungarians escalate war with terrifying 'Bartok Assault'" (p. 18).

La Creme · « **Reply #7 on:** 03 Dec 2005, 22:45 »

Quote from: Paper Beats Rock

Another song that gives me the heebie-jeebies is 'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits (as if you didn't know).

If you are a girl, let's bone. If you are a guy, you get a high five. Either way, you win.

Mine:
Tom Waits - Oily Night
Mr. Bungle - Violenza Domestica
Fantomas - Delerium Cordia
Estradasphere - Burnt Corpse
Miles Davis - Salim

Seriously, that last one is the fucking theme song for alien abduction + probe.

lastclearchance · « **Reply #8 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 00:46 »

Nine Inch Nails - Big Man with a Gun

kikanjuuneko · « **Reply #9 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 01:59 »

A whole fucking load of Merzbow's material. It's like... the sounds of a malicious machine.

jariku · « **Reply #10 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 02:16 »

Some MZ.412, Current 93's "I Have A Special Plan For This World" and Dillinger Escape Plan & Mike Patton version of "Come To Daddy" are first to spring to my mind.

Der Golem · « **Reply #11 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 08:04 »

Come to Daddy wins this. Sure, it does rock, BUT IT IS EVIL INCARNATE! Also I second Delerium Cordia, that is one mean track.
Edit: Forgot about Rosemary's Baby. That song is way scary.

Merkava · « **Reply #12 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 08:09 »

Quote from: La Creme

Quote from: Paper Beats Rock
Another song that gives me the heebie-jeebies is 'What's He Building In There?' by Tom Waits (as if you didn't know).

If you are a girl, let's bone. If you are a guy, you get a high five. Either way, you win.

Tom Wait's very voice is something I'd hate to hear in a dark alley. I'd much prefer to hear him in a rainforest. Of course, if, as his voice suggests, he is trying to sneak up on me and give me a nasty skullfuck, I wouldn't be able to tell him apart from the other frogs.

Well, at least the music is good. He is a genius.

Dara · « **Reply #13 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 09:40 »

some of the songs on Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Vol. II make me want to curl up into the fetal position and die out of pure fear

Luke C · « **Reply #14 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 10:55 »

The sountrack from Doom which I saw last week. Well actually many movie soundtracks!

(If they count)

Tomservo · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 11:02 »

The intro song "Future Legend" for David Bowie's "Diamond Dogs" is creepy as hell, but it might not count becuase it's more like a creepily read poem with music in the background, then a song.

ayePod · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 11:26 »

Quote from: Paper Beats Rock

'What's He Building In There?' - Tom Waits

Hells yizzle.

Also 'What A Wonderful World.' This may sound ridiculous but me and a few friends made an amatuer horror movie and that was the song playing over the final scene that was rather unsettling.

Valrus · « **Reply #17 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 14:41 »

Quote from: Inlander

Is anybody else thinking of the Onion's Our Dumb Century? "Hungarians escalate war with terrifying 'Bartok Assault'" (p. 18).

Bartók is awesome, dude.

Inlander · « **Reply #18 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 14:54 »

Doesn't stop it being a damn funny article.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #19 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 15:27 »

Now I think about it, all of Red Right Hand's stuff and Narcosis' 'Heart Slows Down' album and their side of the splt 7" with Swarrrrm. Peet's a lovely guy, but when you hear that music he sounds like a man who's dropped off the edge some time ago and is about to lay into the world.

Johnny C · « **Reply #20 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 15:43 »

Quote from: Inlander

Is anybody else thinking of the Onion's Our Dumb Century? "Hungarians escalate war with terrifying 'Bartok Assault'" (p. 18).

As a piano student and someone who enjoyed that book, I LOVE YOU.

Anyways, the A-Frames scare me. It's fucking ominous robot rock, man.

Also scary: Femme Fatale, the side project of DFA1979's Jesse F. Keeler. It's incredibly abrasive, punch-in-the-mouth noise.

StrikeThePostman · « **Reply #21 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 16:39 »

Bjork's Vespertine scared me shitless the first time I listened to it, and I haven't really listened to it since (that was a year ago). Maybe it would be less frightening in the daytime, or maybe I'm just a wuss.

Some of the songs on Bonnie "Prince" Billy's I See a Darkness. His voice is eerie beyond belief.

All classical piano lovers, rally behind me with Rachmaninov. His music could totally beat the crap out of me, especially if I was unawares, as I would be in a dark alley.

Paper Beats Rock · « **Reply #22 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 17:01 »

I love Rachmaninov, so strange.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #23 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 17:36 »

"Methamphetamine Blues" by Mark Lanegan.

"Children, don't you hear me comin' ... keep the light turned low and the back door open"

So, so creepy.

KharBevNor · « **Reply #24 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 17:46 »

Skinny Puppy - Grave Wisdom

StrikeThePostman · « **Reply #25 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 18:34 »

Quote from: Paper Beats Rock

I love Rachmaninov, so strange.

Oh, so do I. It's frightening in a thrilling way.

I like Bonnie "Prince" Billy too. It just creeps me out sometimes.

Valrus · « **Reply #26 on:** 04 Dec 2005, 20:43 »

Charles Ives called him "Rach-not-man-enough."

I'm just saying.

While we're talking classical music, though: Twelve-tone and serial music. Every last bit of it is totally fucked.

Anyone listened to Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg?

Dang.

Dang.

Radiowar · « **Reply #27 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 09:34 »

The Horrorist - One Night In New York City (Chris Liebing Remix)

Given that this song is basically a story set in a dark alleyway type place, meeting it in a dark alleyway would probably create some infinite creepy dark alleyway vortex.

Praeserpium Machinarum · « **Reply #28 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 10:29 »

I imagine Xiu Xiu would be quite unpleasant, songs like I Broke Up, Hives Hives and Support Our Troops(Black Angels OH) scare the shit out of me.
Wäldchengarten, which a danish noise duo, would also be nasty. Their music is the equivalent of walking around outside after a nuclear explosion. No-one living in sight, just vast expanses of nothing all around.

Nick Cave's Havalina · « **Reply #29 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 15:29 »

What's wrong with serialism? That's great a dig from Ives.
I wouldn't want to meet Lydia Lunch in a dark alley way.

StrikeThePostman · « **Reply #30 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 16:52 »

Quote from: Valrus

Charles Ives called him "Rach-not-man-enough."

I'm just saying.

pah. I guess I don't know enough background about classical music to come up with a reply for that.

I still enjoy it, though.

Valrus · « **Reply #31 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 17:00 »

Quote from: Nick Cave's Havalina

What's wrong with serialism?

Oh, nothing's wrong with it, per se. I mean, I'm not anti-serial music or anything. I'm just saying that if a serial piece moved into my neighborhood, I'd probably start browsing the real estate listings, if you know what I mean!

Kenny Wallace · « **Reply #32 on:** 05 Dec 2005, 17:02 »

The Giraffes- Man. U

They're a really good metallish band from up here in Brooklyn. Uh, over there in Brooklyn. Away from StL.

I Am Not Amused · « **Reply #33 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 00:46 »

I'll definitely second Xiu Xiu's noiser, darker tracks.

Also, i'll second Bonnie 'Prince' Billy and also throw in Superwolf's "Blood Embrace."

Finally, I add the Faust/Dalek collaboration. Holy shit. It sounds like Edgar Allen Poe's brain.

On a more out-of-left field note...on Jay-Z's "Big Pimpin'" there is the FUCKING EERIEST keyboard drone in the very very background that you can barely hear. But once you do you're like 'What the fuck is that dissonant line doing in "Big Pimpin'"?' It's kind of creepy.

EDIT: "Climbing Up The Walls" by Radiohead.

amok · « **Reply #34 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 07:04 »

Navicon Torture Technologies - I Want To Hang Myself

very unnerving

Everest · « **Reply #35 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 08:13 »

One song that really spooks me in a good way, is Infected Mushroom - None Of This Is Real. When that beat starts, and the build-up to it... Woo.

Vlishgnath · « **Reply #36 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 08:48 »

Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues

Some of the phrases in the narration are creepy to me.

I can't think of anything else that would freak me out in a dark alley outside of Cyndi Lauper or Boy George.

Paper Beats Rock · « **Reply #37 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 08:54 »

Is that the one with the old guy talking about the apocalypse or something?

'I opened my wallet...it was full of blood'

That is quite creepy.

Vlishgnath · « **Reply #38 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 11:25 »

Yep, got it in one.

Spike · « **Reply #39 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 18:26 »

Kommienezuspadt- Tom Waits.

I came to the conclusion that I would not want to run into a lot of Tom Waits' songs in a back alley. Unfortunetly it also seems that those are the places where they would be found.

rive gauche · « **Reply #40 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 19:56 »

Car Chase Terror by M83 and Tori Amos' cover of 97 Bonnie & Clyde by Eminem.

Signum_Tenebrae · « **Reply #41 on:** 07 Dec 2005, 21:13 »

Malvery - Mortal Entrenchment In Requiem

A musical suicide note of a very disturbed and depressed individual. His horrific screams still make me feel uncomfortable.

Amaka Hahina - Demetria

Obscure and abyssmal dark ambient.

Yithian Prophecy - Yithian Prophecy

Dark ambient/experimental based on Lovecraftian cosmic madness. I'm a bit biased when it comes to this choice though.

Cobra Kai · « **Reply #42 on:** 08 Dec 2005, 22:49 »

sunn0)))
curse of the golden dragon
black dice
hair police
dead city
supermahciner
old man gloom

any of those "post apocolypic rock" bands like red sparrows or set fire to flames.

Bunnyman · « **Reply #43 on:** 08 Dec 2005, 23:02 »

Add n to

- Invasion of the Polaroid People

I mean, seriously. Creepy.

gutyreader · « **Reply #44 on:** 09 Dec 2005, 06:41 »

most albums by Ah Cam Sotz
it's ambiant music, horror style.. the one album I have (Ghost in the Shadow) sounds to me like the soundtrack of a murder.. Listening to that while taking walks at 3 AM ROCKS.

BTW I got some Tom Waits, and it indeed is creepy. Love his voice!
and Come do Daddy isn't creepy.. If you think that's evil, get.. well get any good ambiant or black metal album

toolazytothinkupaname · « **Reply #45 on:** 10 Dec 2005, 06:36 »

No no no, you're all wrong. The freakiest Tom Waits song is definitely Underground. Come on, "There's a world. Going on. UNDERGROUND". That's some serious freaky shit right there.

nescience · « **Reply #46 on:** 12 Dec 2005, 10:43 »

die vorkriegszeit - cystis
--I have absolutely no idea how this got into my collection, but somehow I have it on CD and vinyl. Dark ambient industrial music from 80's Germany. No information on the group available. Synth choirs. Renaissance-era torture device pictures in the liner notes. Blood drips from the CD player when it plays. IT COMES TO ME IN MY SLEEP. SOUNDTRACK TO HELL. And Dresden.

faust vs. dalek - derbe respect, alder
--Less scary. Still creepy.

Temperamental · « **Reply #47 on:** 14 Dec 2005, 04:49 »

I'd imagine agoraphobic nosebleed to be pretty imposing.
Merzbow and Sunn 0))) = bad collaboration but still scary
Isis somehow creeps me out, it's mainly the vocalist.

Slayer might hit a city hard, pillage, loot and assault all the women. But Wormed would pretty much annihilate every trace of existence.

Meshuggah, even worse.

Mel_of_hell · « **Reply #48 on:** 14 Dec 2005, 07:52 »

I don't think it's really supposed to be creepy, but "This Town" never fails to accentuate the feeling of vulnerability.

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Author Topic: Music You Wouldn't Want To Meet In A Dark Alleyway (Read 19341 times)

Paper Beats Rock

MilkmanDan

Paper Beats Rock

La Creme

kikanjuuneko

jariku

Merkava

Dara

Tomservo

ayePod

StrikeThePostman

Paper Beats Rock

StrikeThePostman

Praeserpium Machinarum

Nick Cave's Havalina

StrikeThePostman

Kenny Wallace

Everest

Vlishgnath

Paper Beats Rock

Vlishgnath

rive gauche

Signum_Tenebrae

Cobra Kai

Bunnyman

gutyreader

toolazytothinkupaname

nescience

Temperamental

Mel_of_hell