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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Wiki article:
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.
That’s what I came in to say. You win.
Make her a vampire, actually. Possum Kingdom is a lake here near the Metroplex
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.
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.
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, you can find it creepy too.
Did we get to Tom Jones’ Delilah yet?
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.
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.
Springsteen’s My City of Ruins, seeing as it was written before 9/11 but will always be associated with it. Now that is creepy.
Penderecki’s 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.
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.
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 linesand delivery(weird shrieks and such). But the robotic-voiced reciting of the bizarre verse at the beginning really sets the mood.
…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, 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.
Which is actually a cover of a Misfits song, who pretty much have every song full of creepy lyrics.
Actually according to the band it’s not about a vampire it’s just a creepy story Possum Kingdom Lake - Wikipedia