# Eerie and Creepy Moments in Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234 "2017-01-03T16:31:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/21 "2017-01-04T16:22:41Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > Timothy by the Buoys. Fire by Arthur Brown. And I’ve found **Riders on the Storm by the Doors** a bit spooky. > [@Sunny\_Daze](#): > > Ditto on Riders on the Storm. Used to creep me right the fuck out. Interesting…I’ve always found this song to be quite relaxing and almost meditative, with the rainfall and Manzerek’s tinkling keyboards. As far as tone is concerned - if anything - I’d consider it way more melancholy than spooky, hence “like a dog without a bone or an actor out on loan”… what - did the lightning make ya jump?😛 ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/22 "2017-01-04T16:26:33Z")
How about that weird “I I E I E” sound at the beginning of Depeche Mode’s “Blasphemous Rumours”? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/23 "2017-01-04T16:29:25Z")
The Beatles’s “Blue Jay Way” always spooked me as a kid, both for the music and the lyrics, which begin _There’s a fog upon L.A. And my friends have lost their way We’ll be over soon they said Now they’ve lost themselves instead. Please don’t be long Please don’t you be very long Please don’t be long For I may be asleep…_ ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/24 "2017-01-04T16:31:18Z")
> [@Vicsage](#): > > I forgot. The beginning of Fire On High by ELO. Backward talking at its best. Yup, it’s very creepy. Played in reverse, the voice is saying: “The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back…turn back…turn back…” ---
**Author:** ![BobArrgh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobarrgh/32/2881_2.png) [@BobArrgh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobArrgh)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/25 "2017-01-04T19:48:32Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > The album [Murder Ballards](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_Ballads)by Nick Cave. > > Nuff said. I specifically came here to mention “Where the Wild Roses Grow” from that album, with the whispering by Kylie Minogue. Beautifully haunting; hauntingly beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Delainey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@Delainey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delainey)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/26 "2017-01-04T20:34:36Z")
“Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge”…supported by an eerie string arrangement mildly reminiscent of the Psycho shower scene. It’s even creepier when you listen closely to all the lyrics… Also Gloomy Sunday, recorded by the great Billie Holiday (must have popped into my head because of the name Billie). Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coach Of sorrow has taken you I remember reading somewhere years ago that hearing the song induced suicidal feelings in some people. I imagine that must be an urban legend, but it does somehow enhance faint feelings of horror. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/27 "2017-01-04T20:36:05Z")
(Heartbeat) “There is no dark side of the moon, really. . . . . . . . matter of fact, it’s all dark.” (Heartbeat fades) ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/28 "2017-01-04T23:22:43Z")
It’s a great album by a great group, but _10,000 Days_ by Tool has a few creepy parts. The bit in the middle where a nurse and Doctor are trying to identify and help an uncooperative patient. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/29 "2017-01-05T08:34:42Z")
> [@Delainey](#): > > “Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge”…supported by an eerie string arrangement mildly reminiscent of the Psycho shower scene. It’s even creepier when you listen closely to all the lyrics… > > Also Gloomy Sunday, recorded by the great Billie Holiday (must have popped into my head because of the name Billie). > > Little white flowers > Will never awaken you > Not where the black coach > Of sorrow has taken you > > I remember reading somewhere years ago that hearing the song induced suicidal feelings in some people. I imagine that must be an urban legend, but it does somehow enhance faint feelings of horror. Speaking of Billie Holiday - she didn’t like encores and would close her sets with “Strange Fruit”. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/30 "2017-01-05T14:44:06Z")
[quote=“smithsb, post:29, topic:776234”] Speaking of Billie Holiday - she didn’t like encores and would close her sets with “Strange Fruit”. [/QUOTE] A song which is back in the news again: [http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/03/politics/rebecca-ferguson-trump-inauguration/](http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/03/politics/rebecca-ferguson-trump-inauguration/) ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/31 "2017-01-05T16:21:22Z")
I always thought Tony Joe White’s _Polk Salad Annie_ was creepy, or at least atmospheric. Annie herself “made the alligators look tame”, her “mama was workin’ on the chain gang” and was a “wretched, spiteful, straight razor totin’ woman”. And of course Annie’ grandmother was a gator’s breakfast “gator got her granny…chomp…chomp chomp”. ---
**Author:** ![Delainey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@Delainey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delainey)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/32 "2017-01-05T18:10:49Z")
I thought of another one, Tori Amos’ song “Wednesday” from the album Scarlett’s Walk. It’s an up-tempo song, which she sings kind of cheerily: “Nothing here to fear I’m just sitting around Being foolish when There is work to be done Just a hang-up call And the quiet breathing Of our Persian we call Cajun on a Wednesday” Builds unease masterfully, I think. Can anyone think of a scary/creepy song that had no actual INTENDED creepiness to it? I am drawing a blank. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/33 "2017-01-05T19:11:06Z")
Ozzy Osbourne’s “No More Tears” is about a stalker saying goodbye to the woman he killed and the rigor mortis set in. _So now that it’s over can’t we just say good-bye? I’d like to move on and make the most of the night Maybe a kiss before I leave you this way Your lips are so cold I don’t know what else to say_ ---
**Author:** ![psiekier](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psiekier/32/116_2.png) [@psiekier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psiekier)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/34 "2017-01-05T20:05:18Z")
> [@Dante\_G](#): > > Not looking for scary songs, but more like songs that have a spooky moment or eerie part of the song. How about “[Joan Crawford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQBJfQhpw_U)” from Blue Öyster Cult’s 1981 album _Fire of Unknown Origin:_ > [@Blue Öyster Cult](#): > > Christina… > Christina… > Mother’s home! I wish more songs from that album had made it into the movie _Heavy Metal_. To defend! This is the pact! ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/35 "2017-01-05T20:25:39Z")
> [@psiekier](#): > > I wish more songs from that album had made it into the movie _Heavy Metal_. To defend! This is the pact! sidebar: much preferred Hagar’s _Heavy Metal_ theme over BOC’s.😃 Speaking of the crazy Bouchard brothers, from their “Cultosaurus Erectus” lp, one of my favourite “bits” of theirs are the verses from _Black Blade_…maybe not literally spooky, but certainly dark… I have this feeling that my luck is none too good This sword here at my side don’t act the way it should Keeps calling me its master, but I feel like its slave Hauling me faster and faster to an early, early grave And it howls!!! It howls like HELLLLLL!!! ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/36 "2017-01-06T02:07:08Z")
“Who are the Brain Police”; in the liner notes Zappa says he admits to being frightened the first time he heard it played in the studio. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/37 "2017-01-06T02:18:21Z")
_The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they called ‘gitche gumee’ The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy_ Canadian Zombies walking out of a Lake Superior to attack Wisconsin? Thats some Creepy Assed Shit Right There… Daryl, take starboard point; Grimes take port! Dammit! Hurry Up with those Ammo Boxes!!! More belts for the Saws…! Reload the Saws…! ---
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/38 "2017-01-06T04:18:15Z")
> [@AncientHumanoid](#): > > Maybe kind of lame and cliche now, but when I was a young teen, these lyrics seemed creepy: > > \*They never found Hattie, an they never found her shack > > an they never made a trip back in > > 'cause a parchment note they found tacked to a stump > > said “Don’t come looking again” > \* I’ve never heard that particular Jim Stafford song before and can see why you thought that particular line was creepyAF, but the whole song comes across as creepy, like The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Legend of Wooly Swamp.” > [@penultima thule](#): > > The album Murder Ballards by Nick Cave. > > Nuff said. No offense, but really not within the OP’s guidelines, IMHO. However, if you appreciate that, you might want to give [American Murder Song](https://www.google.com/search?q=american+murder+songs&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8) a listen. As for me, the creepiest line was in Tanya Tucker’s Delta Dawn ("And did I hear you say he was ameetin’ you here today, To take you to his mansion in the sky.) ---
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> [@Infovore](#): > > The whole song “Sheep” by Pink Floyd is creepy, but the creepiest part is the recitation of a perverted version of the Lord’s Prayer by an electronic voice. > > _The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want > He makes me down to lie > Through pastures green he leadeth me the silent waters by > With bright knives he releaseth my soul > He maketh me to hang on hooks in high places > He converteth me to lamb cutlets_ [23rd Psalm](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm+23&version=NKJV) not the [Lord’s Prayer](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+11%3A2+-+4&version=NKJV) ---
**Author:** ![DarkFire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/34f0e0/32.png) [@DarkFire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkFire)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/40 "2017-01-06T09:39:41Z")
Blue Jay Way was already mentioned, the vibe is just so weird. Several other Beatles songs have the same, especially the White Album. Piggies, Sexy Sady, Cry baby cry are pretty creepy to me. Weird creepy lyrics or to begin and the music matches it. And then of course there is Revolution 9. It’s obviously not even a real song but hey it’s on there. Half of the soundbytes are terrifying on their own. Mixed in together it becomes creepy freaky shit. Obviously the White Album, or at least half of it, becomes eerie when you realize Charles Manson was inspired by it, finding approval for his crazy ideas in the most innocent words and things. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234.md?page=3)