# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Arglefraster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@Arglefraster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arglefraster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/161 "2008-12-19T23:06:17Z")
Snake River Conspiracy’s cover of Love Song is pretty creepy. The original verson by The Cure was a bit ambiguous. It could be a happy love song, it could be about unrequited love, it could be a stalker song. Snake River Conspiracy takes it waaaaay into stalker territory. By the end the lead singer is screaming “I will love you! I will make you! I will fuck you!” over a background voice singing “Always love you, always you” in a creepy, sing-song voice. ---
**Author:** ![Joe\_Kerrman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@Joe\_Kerrman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joe_Kerrman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/162 "2008-12-20T02:46:52Z")
How about Lou Reed’s entire _Berlin_ album? From _The Kids_: They’re taking her children away Because they said she was not a good mother. From _Caroline Says II_: Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, “You can hit me all you want to but I don’t love you anymore.” From _The Bed_: And this is a place where she took a razor and cut her wrists that strange and fateful night. And the tunes are just saaaad. Left me with some strange nights in college. Thanks, Lou, thanks a lot. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/163 "2008-12-20T03:23:06Z")
> [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](#): > > “Every Breath You Take” is the classic, of course. Of course. It has STALKER all over it. But, the Burger King commercials sort of ruined it now. One would be a perfect match for the other. In a very creepy way. ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2008, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/164 "2008-12-20T16:07:01Z")
How about “Christine Sixteen”, by KISS? This features the line “She’s been around, but she’s young and clean”. Ugh. Plus Gene Simmons saying “I dont usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you coming out of the school that day I knew, I’ve just got to have you…” I can’t believe their record company didn’t balk at this. ---
**Author:** ![Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/43a26b/32.png) [@Pine\_Fresh\_Scent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pine_Fresh_Scent)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/165 "2008-12-23T09:26:14Z")
Gotta love those catchy child molestation ditties. I submit Steely Dan’s “Everyone’s Gone to the Movies”: _Kids if you want some fun Mr. LaPage is your man He’s always laughing, having fun Showing his films in the den_ Full Lyrics: [http://www.lyricsdepot.com/steely-dan/everyones-gone-to-the-movies.html](http://www.lyricsdepot.com/steely-dan/everyones-gone-to-the-movies.html) Wiki article: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone’s\_Gone\_to\_the\_Movies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everyone's_Gone_to_the_Movies) One site claimed that a movie theater chain used the tune as filler music before the movies would start. Too funny not to be true. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/166 "2008-12-23T14:13:22Z")
> [@control-z](#): > > And I don’t think anyone has mentioned Doors - “The End”: That’s what I came in to say. You win. ---
**Author:** ![KingLupid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@KingLupid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KingLupid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2008, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/167 "2008-12-23T14:16:43Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > 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… Make her a vampire, actually. Possum Kingdom is a lake here near the Metroplex ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/168 "2009-03-23T14:49:39Z")
There no such thing as a zombie thread in CS, right? I dearly love Rihanna’s _Disturbia_, but it’s, well, disturbing. And I recently heard Pink’s _Funhouse_ for the first time: “This used to be a funhouse/ Now it’s filled with eeevil clowns… I’m gonna burn it down.” Lovely imagery there. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/169 "2009-03-23T15:33:15Z")
> [@Monstera\_deliciosa](#): > > “I Gotcha” may look creepy on the printed page, but the mood evoked by Joe Tex’s performance is so over-the-top silly that it is hard to take the song seriously, or to take its protagonist as threatening. Liza Minnelli’s version from her 1972 televised concert “Liza With A Z” is fun and not creepy at all. It’s also a bit over-the-top, with what Liza describes in the DVD commentary as “a REALLY…TOUGH woman” as the narrator/character singing. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/170 "2009-03-23T15:43:33Z")
Because it starts off sounding like a guy talking just about an old lover he hasn’t seen in a while, I find “Nightmares” by Silver Sunshine highly creepy. You hair longer now I haven’t seen it grow since the birds had left from snow… You are still in my dreams and you’re knocking at my door Nightmares of you creeping in my head Nightmares of you sleeping in my bed And the way you’re whispering my name so slowly Nightmares as the sun begins to fall Nightmares of your shadow on my wall And the way you’re calling out my name so slowly [Here](http://www.myspace.com/silversunshineband), you can find it creepy too. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/171 "2009-03-23T15:43:57Z")
Did we get to Tom Jones’ **Delilah** yet? > [@](#): > > She stood there laughing > I felt the knife in my hand and she laughed no more ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/172 "2009-03-23T16:00:18Z")
How about “Permafrost” by Magazine? As the day stops dead At the place where we’re lost I will drug you and f\*\*k you On the permafrost. Or “The House at Pooneil Corners” by Jefferson Airplane, about nuclear Armageddon: Suddenly everyone will look surprised, Stars spinning wheels in the skies, Sun is scrambled in their eyes… …That’s the last time I do think anymore. Jelly and juice and bubbles… bubbles on the floor. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/173 "2009-03-23T16:10:16Z")
It’s not rock, but I think the creepiest music I ever heard was an orchestral suite or symphony that was inspired by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I can’t for the life of me remember the composer’s name, but it was a Western composer, so it wasn’t anything by Ohki. It had a section that was supposed to emulate what it sounded like at Ground Zero. I was disturbed and had nightmares for days after that (we listened to it in a college music class)…it was just supremely unsettling, even though of course it wasn’t probably _accurate_, since nothing and nobody who was actually at Ground Zero would probably ever be able to report what it sounded like. But the composer had managed to make it incredibly disturbing somehow. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/174 "2009-03-23T16:16:00Z")
Springsteen’s [My City of Ruins](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_City_of_Ruins), seeing as it was written before 9/11 but will always be associated with it. Now that is creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/175 "2009-03-23T16:47:48Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > It’s not rock, but I think the creepiest music I ever heard was an orchestral suite or symphony that was inspired by the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Penderecki’s [Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima)? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/176 "2009-03-23T16:53:22Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Penderecki’s [Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threnody_to_the_Victims_of_Hiroshima)? “Penderecki” rings a bell, so that may well be it. Edit: Reading the wikipedia description, it sounds like that’s it almost certainly. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/177 "2009-03-23T17:10:50Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I just went back and listened to the song with that in mind, and can only say that I disagree. It’s clearly “fourteen,” not “Fonteyn.” And it isn’t that he “now” adds the bit about “14-year old girls”; he was already singing that back in 1967, as heard on the _Donovan In Concert_ CD. In any event, it should perhaps be noted that the “Mellow Yellow” of the title is (according to one theory) a battery-operated vibrator. So the song, while rather strange, is not necessarily about some guy pursuing underage girls. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/178 "2009-03-23T20:46:19Z")
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala, the guy’s behind \*\*The Mars Volta \*\*and \*\*At the Drive-In \*\*have a knack for creepy stuff. Off of _Francis the Mute_, a creepy album in general,the 30 minute epic- Cassandra Gemini has loads of creepy [lines](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858525222/)and delivery(weird shrieks and such). But the robotic-voiced reciting of the bizarre verse at the beginning really sets the mood. > [@](#): > > There was a frail syrup dripping off > His lap danced lapel, punctuated by her > Decrepit prowl she washed down the hatching > Gizzard soft as a mane of needles > His orifice icicles hemorrhaged > By combing her torso to a pile > Perspired the trophy shelves made room for his collapse > She was a mink handjob in sarcophagus heels …I’d find a youtube link, but I’m at work. Or going back to their **AtDi** days, it’s not so much creepy as, perhaps, disturbing; though yeah, still pretty damn creepy. The song _Non-Zero Possibility_, like most of O&C’s are, is fairly ambiguous in its [lyrics](http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/66169/1/ASC/#comment), but it is generally thought to be about some sort of virus(HIV/AIDS perhaps) afflicting babies. As far as the music goes, it is hauntingly beautiful song; the story, however, is terribly tragic. > [@](#): > > all veins in highway laps > this breath collapsed again > this hex was delivered spent > orchestra influenza > drawn and quartered pets > it dwells and grows ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/179 "2009-03-23T21:20:28Z")
> [@bluecanary](#): > > Overtly creepy lyrics: > Metallica - ‘_Die Die My Darling_’ Which is actually a cover of a Misfits song, who pretty much have every song full of creepy lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943/180 "2009-03-23T21:22:35Z")
> [@KingLupid](#): > > Make her a vampire, actually. Possum Kingdom is a lake here near the Metroplex Actually according to the band it’s not about a vampire it’s just a creepy story [Possum Kingdom Lake - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possum_Kingdom) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creepiest-rock-song/476943.md?page=10)