Clay Aiken’s Invisible
To be fair to BST, if you turn the volume up at the end of the trainwreck, you’ll hear the group laughing,.and one says “That wasn’t too good…”
Major understatement, IMHO.
Melanie’s “Brand New Key.” I got a brand new pair of roller skates, you got a brand new key. Shudder
I’ve always been creeped out by Dido’s Here With Me. For some reason the song seems to me to be from the point of view of a ghost who is waiting for her lover to die before she can rest in peace.
That’s supposed to be creepy! Sting has said in interviews that he’s just floored by how many people have told him that it’s “their” relationship song, that kind of thing.
Are you assuming that a Christmas song is always SUPPOSED to be cheery, carefree and happy?
Are you forgetting the context in which the song was written?
First, it was part of the soundtrack to the movie musical “Meet Me in St. Louis.” Second, it was written while the Second World War was raging.
For both the characters in the movie AND for millions of ordinary Americans, Christmas that year was less than joyous, as loved ones were going far away and might not ever be coming back.
Its message is, “Christmas this year isn’t as wonderful as in the past, but let’s make it as happy as possible, and try look forward to better times ahead.” That makes it a SAD song with a tinge of hope, not a creepy song.
It only BECAME a bit creepy years after the war ended, when the lyrics were changed to make it a bit happier. The newer, cheerier lyrics just don’t fit with the music.
The first thing that came to my mind was Spinning Wheel, now with even more creepy goodness brought to you by panamajack. Thanks, dude!
I always get a little freaked out by the industrial sound effects at the start of Paul McCartney’s *“Silly Love Songs”. *Also those weird tribal, panting sounds just before the chorus of “Tell me Something Good”.
On the contrary, it’s DEFINITELY supposed to be a creepy song. It’s about the seductive but destructive nature of wealth and celebrity in Southern California, about how hard it can be to give up things like drugs and booze and parties and cheap sex, even after you’ve figured out that they’re going to destroy you.
Yeah, I was going to make the same comment.
And along the lines of Time of the Season, some other “Father Figure” songs:
Father Figure by George Michael
Seventeen by Kip Winger
Girl, You’ll Be a Woman Soon by Neil Diamond (and later covered by Urge Overkill)
I stand humbly corrected. But which version is creepiest?
I think there may be different definitions of “creepy” at play.
Student Driver said:
Ahh, the joys of a more innocent age, when a lighthearted kids’ song could be enjoyed for what it was, and not as a covert ploy to seduce children into debauchery.
panamajack said:
Really? Just looked up the lyrics and I don’t see it.
I love that song. I’m going to play it right now… Yep, still love it. More songs need that sense of whimsical imagery.
I also love a creepy song called “The Night Has A Thousand Eyes”. Sounds like a love song but it’s about a suspicious lover. Still, the rhythm and energy makes me put it on repeat loop.
Have you heard it, though? It’s a combination of the lyrics and the way he’s singing it that always creeps me out too. I feel like he’s much too old for the person that he’s singing about/talking to.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pff8VEKKkY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY&feature=fvst
Songs such as these creep me out. And the music videos are even creepier. Brainwashing comes to mind when i see them (the blatant advertising in the second one? lol).
I’ve always found the soundtrack to Chariots of Fire to be creepy. I think it was because I heard it before I saw the movie. My folks would play the album and my little kid over-active imagination turned what was supposed to be triumphant music to scary music.
And Hotel California was definitely supposed to be creepy…
Let’s go back to the '50s… I never thought much about the chestnut “Standing on the Corner” by the Four Lads while growing up, but when I hear it now it creeps me out.
Standing on the corner, watching all the girls go by
Standing on the corner, giving all the girls the eye…
I think it’s the harmonies that get under my skin. Sure, one guy standing on the corner mentally undressing women… that’s me on a normal day. But four guys who seem to have found each other for the purpose of standing on a corner and — in unison — mentally undressing the women who dare to pass by… well, that’s just creepy.
The “Brother, you can’t go to jail for what you’re thinking” line in the last verse is just the creepy cherry on top.
For me, the lyrics are fairly innocent, but when sung the Bopper’s voice sounds like someone’s drunk uncle at a party getting uncomfortably friendly with the young girls.
If a song gives you the creeps, there’s nothing I can say to convince you it shouldn’t.
But for what it’s worth, J.P. (Big Bopper) Richardson was only 28 when he went down in that plane with Buddy Holly. He wasn’t a dirty old man!
I think it’s kind of sexy in a deliciously sleazy way. But I just assume he’s singing it to someone his own age. (Well, I mean, if you listen to the lyrics, apparently the girl he’s talking to on the phone is saying some pretty suggestive stuff right back at him. “What’s that? Pick you up at eight? and don’t be late?..Oh baby, you KNOW what I like!”)
Massive Attack - Angel
A love song that sounds like something someone would play on their headphones…while stalking.