# Creepiest rock song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943 "2008-12-12T22:12:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/1 "2008-12-12T22:12:26Z")
I just heard the Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb” and was thinking, wow, that is one creepy song: > [@Mick Jagger](#): > > Under my thumb > A Siamese cat of a girl > Under my thumb > She’s the sweetest pet in the world > > Its down to me > The way she talks when shes spoken to > Down to me, the change has come, > She’s under my thumb Another nominee is Joe Tex’s “I Gotcha,” which appears to be about a girl who promised a guy she’d date him when she broke up with her boyfriend. Now that she’s single, she’s not interested, but he’s not going to let her off that easy: > [@Joe Tex](#): > > You made me a promise > And you’re gonna stick to it > You shouldn’t have promised > If you weren’t gonna do it > You saw me and ran in another direction > I’ll teach you to play with my affection Then there’s Van Morrison’s “Cyprus Avenue,” wherein he declares undying love to a 14 year old girl with ribbons in her hair. > [@Van Morrison](#): > > Nobody, no, no, no, nobody stops me from loving you baby > So young and bold, fourteen years old What are your picks for creepiest rock song? I’m sure there are plenty I’m not thinking of right now. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/2 "2008-12-12T22:19:37Z")
“Every Breath You Take” is the classic, of course. “I Put a Spell on you” is creepy as well. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/3 "2008-12-12T22:21:26Z")
“Happy Together” by The Turtles ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/4 "2008-12-12T22:29:16Z")
I nominate \*Sex Type Thing \*by Stone Temple Pilots. > [@](#): > > I said I’m gonna get close to you > You wouldnt want me to have to hurt you too, hurt you too? > > … > > I am a man, a man > I’ll give ya somethin that ya wont forget > I said ya shouldnt have worn that dress Yikes. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/5 "2008-12-12T22:31:59Z")
The Beatles’s “Girl.” ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/6 "2008-12-12T22:35:45Z")
Does it have to be _sexually_ creepy? I mean the first thing that jumped into my head was Metallica’s _Enter Sandman_. The music is wicked, and it’s about nightmares and stuff. As someone who has vivid nightmares, it’s pretty damn creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/7 "2008-12-12T22:37:17Z")
I was a big Alice Cooper fan (the band before the man), hard to beat their weirdness, especially the first 2 albums! ---
**Author:** ![rucciface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ba9def/32.png) [@rucciface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rucciface)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/8 "2008-12-12T22:38:42Z")
_Aqualung_ by Jethro Tull. Sitting on a park bench eyeing little girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Drying in the cold sun Watching as the frilly panties run. BARF. Or _Fiddle About_ by The Who. PUKE. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/9 "2008-12-12T22:39:05Z")
Diane-- Husker Du ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/10 "2008-12-12T22:42:09Z")
There are tons - and a number of threads about this. My first-thought nominees besides ones already mentioned: **The Toadies, Possum Kingdom** - named after a park in their hometown, it’s a guy telling a girl how she be beautiful forever - because he is trying to lure her behind the boathouse to kill her, so she’ll be young in everyone’s memory…_Do you want to die? Do you want to die? And I promise you, I will treat you well, my sweet angel - so help me Jesus_…squicks me out every time… **Peter Gabriel, The Intruder** - best drumbeat ever, with the creepiest sounds mixed in. _I know, something about opening windows and doors…I know, something about creeping 'cross creaky wooden floors_…but with Gabriel singing it, you know it is an act, so it makes it bit more creepy-but-fun scary not just squick-out scary… ---
**Author:** ![SiXSwordS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@SiXSwordS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SiXSwordS)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/11 "2008-12-12T22:45:30Z")
Bambi — Prince > [@](#): > > All your lovers, they look just like U > But they can only do the things that U do > Come on baby and take me by the hand > I’m gonna show U what it’s like 2 be loved by a man > > Bambi, I know what U need > Bambi, maybe U need 2 bleed Of course, His Purple Majesty can pull off creepy better tha most. > [@WordMan](#): > > **Peter Gabriel, The Intruder** - best drumbeat ever, with the creepiest sounds mixed in. _I know, something about opening windows and doors…I know, something about creeping 'cross creaky wooden floors_…but with Gabriel singing it, you know it is an act, so it makes it bit more creepy-but-fun scary not just squick-out scary… The Primus version has a great creep factor. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/12 "2008-12-12T22:46:49Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > The Beatles’s “Girl.” Of all the Beatles songs you choose Girl? Run Away Little Girl beats it by a mile…especially since I can’t think of what would make Girl creepy. The narrator’s pathetic, and the girl’s a bitch…but there’s nothing particularly _creepy_ about it. Just kind of…sad. But I have multiple songs about necrophilia in my collection; many, many songs about murder, or suicide; stalking all over the place… So my perception of ‘creepy’ may be a touch skewed. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/13 "2008-12-12T22:47:17Z")
I was going to say “Every breath you take”, but \*\*pseudotriton \*\*beat me to it. So my vote goes to “My Sharona”. Always get it up for the touch of the younger kind, uh ? For some reason, Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matter” has always creeped me out too. And I’m also with olivesmarch : Enter Sandman’s prayer gives me chills. So does Nirvana’s “Polly”, but that’s the whole point of the song, so… ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/14 "2008-12-12T22:47:25Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I just heard the Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb” and was thinking, wow, that is one creepy song: Can you envision it sung by a person of the opposite sex? I don’t think it’s so creepy if it works both ways. James Taylor’s “Whenever I see your smiling face”–now, that’s creepy. And sexist. And condescending. Okay, maybe JT is not that creepy. But there are creepier songs than “Under My thumb,” which has always seemed to me as triumph after having turned a scornful lover into a devoted one. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/15 "2008-12-12T22:47:53Z")
Bullet-- The Misfits ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/16 "2008-12-12T22:50:03Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I just heard the Rolling Stones’ “Under My Thumb” and was thinking, wow, that is one creepy song: Can you envision it sung by a person of the opposite sex? I don’t think it’s so creepy if it works both ways. James Taylor’s “Whenever I see your smiling face”–now, that’s creepy. And sexist. And condescending. Okay, maybe JT is not that creepy. But there are creepier songs than “Under My thumb,” which has always seemed to me as triumph after having turned a scornful lover into a devoted one. PS I have always thought that “The way you look tonight” was very creepy, if you thought about it. I may not be the best judge. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/17 "2008-12-12T23:05:05Z")
> [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](#): > > Can you envision it sung by a person of the opposite sex? I don’t think it’s so creepy if it works both ways. Yes, I’d think it was creepy if it were a woman telling a man he was now her pet, and would only speak when spoke to. The way he talks about her sounds cruel and degrading, and he sounds as if he’s enjoying grinding her down. Why would my interpretation be different if the genders were reversed? I don’t get it. > [@](#): > > But there are creepier songs than “Under My thumb,” which has always seemed to me as triumph after having turned a scornful lover into a devoted one. It’s not about turning a scornful lover into a devoted one. It’s taking a woman who had a mind of her own and turning her into a completely subjugated person. That’s not love. Tori Amos’ “Me and a Gun” is a description of her real-life rape, sung a cappella. Pretty damn creepy. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/18 "2008-12-12T23:11:18Z")
Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/19 "2008-12-12T23:37:03Z")
> [@Gangster\_Octopus](#): > > “Happy Together” by The Turtles I don’t get what’s creepy about this song. I looked up the lyrics and it looks like it’s about a guy who has a crush on a girl or it’s about a relationship in it’s earliest stages and he’s imagining their future. Typical teenage sappiness to me. **pravnik’s** _Don’t Fear the Reaper_ song however… I’ve heard that the song is about how true love love makes you impervious to the fear of death or something, but the lyrics just come across as creepy and almost in favor of suicide. ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/20 "2008-12-12T23:39:33Z")
> [@pravnik](#): > > Don’t Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult Wow, of all the BOC songs, you pick that one as creepy? I guess if all you’ve heard are the radio hits. But listen to the lyrics, it’s really just about accepting that you’re going to die. You should try their “She’s as Beautiful as a Foot” sometime. Featured lyric: “Don’t put your tongue on the bloody tooth mark place . . . It tasted just like, a fallen arch.” BOC’s “I Love the Night” is probably the creepiest; being stalked by a vampire. And the music itself, the mood, is just, well, creepy. But my nomination for the creepiest song ever, hands down, always goes to “Timothy” by The Buoys. You just can’t top cannibalism for creepiness. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=2)