# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Willcross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Willcross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Willcross)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/41 "2017-01-06T16:19:26Z")
State Trooper by Bruce Springsteen is a generally creepy song but his howls/shrieks in the last seconds are especially haunting and animal like to me. Especially in contrast to how the rest of the song is kind of a droning sound. ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/42 "2017-01-06T16:34:56Z")
The voice slowly changes from upbeat to sinister as the words are spoken: "I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as… You. Lying there. The chalk outline so fresh around your body…" Dennis ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/43 "2017-01-06T16:53:48Z")
> [@Delainey](#): > > Can anyone think of a scary/creepy song that had no actual INTENDED creepiness to it? I am drawing a blank. Sweet Dreams by Air Supply has a really sinister sound to it. Not intentional, as far as I know… ---
**Author:** ![JHBoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/13edae/32.png) [@JHBoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JHBoom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/44 "2017-01-06T17:18:02Z")
“I’d kill myself for you… I’d kill you for myself” - Pantera, _This Love_ ---
**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:** [January 6, 2017, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/45 "2017-01-06T20:51:13Z")
I’m always freaked out by the Eagles 'One of These Nights." ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/46 "2017-01-06T22:32:43Z")
_The End_ by The Doors is one eerie and creepy moment after another… ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/47 "2017-01-06T22:39:47Z")
I don’t think it was intentional but["Hurdy Gurdy Man"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EZjDll7IB4) by Donovan sounded creepy to me even before it was used in Zodiac. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/48 "2017-01-06T23:14:39Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > “She was screaming as she fell. But I never heard her hit.” That never hits me at that exact moment since it still seems a little over-the-top and maudlin. When they start to jam and the _music_ is telling me to jam but the context is telling me no is when I start to break down. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2017, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/49 "2017-01-06T23:47:59Z")
D.O.A by Bloodrock. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/50 "2017-01-07T00:46:42Z")
Which “moment” in particular? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/51 "2017-01-07T00:47:51Z")
(I mean, last year was the first year I ever heard it and the DJ played it in a Halloween set with no other forward explanation needed but the entire song is eerie and creepy.) ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/52 "2017-01-07T00:53:23Z")
Eurythmics maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Personal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Personal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Personal)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/53 "2017-01-07T00:55:09Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > I’m always freaked out by the Eagles 'One of These Nights." Hotel California is eerie to me. One of These Nights is creepy, I agree. ---
**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 8, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/54 "2017-01-08T01:30:42Z")
> [@Delainey](#): > > Can anyone think of a scary/creepy song that had no actual INTENDED creepiness to it? I am drawing a blank. The first 30 seconds of Gary Wright’s _Dream Weaver_ (a song probably not intended as creepy) has a sustained keyboard note that sounds more at home as a soundtrack for a suspenseful crime thriller scene, like in _Seven_, and sounds _considerably_ creepier at the end, book-ending the song. Quite menacing, for such a mellow, feel-good number. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xZKuzwPOefs/maxresdefault.jpg "Gary Wright - DreamWeaver Official Video") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZKuzwPOefs) ---
**Author:** ![Magicicada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c67d28/32.png) [@Magicicada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magicicada)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/55 "2017-01-08T08:47:09Z")
Sally Go 'Round The Roses by The Jaynettes…hard to say what’s going on. Then, what’s that song in O Brother Where Art Thou where the Odesseus-meets-the-Hee-Haw-Honeys are singing while washing clothes in the river? That’s an eerie one. ---
**Author:** ![cornflakes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@cornflakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cornflakes)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/56 "2017-01-08T19:10:38Z")
Pretty much any Scratch Acid, Birthday Party or Bauhaus. ---
**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 8, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/57 "2017-01-08T21:25:41Z")
> [@cornflakes](#): > > …Scratch Acid… Big fan of them back in the day (Rey Washam has to be one of the coolest drums ever ever ever) but almost disowned them over some of the unfortunate lyrics in _Lay Screaming_. From a similar music milieu, Big Black sometimes came up with lyrics that I could have done without, so much so that I don’t even feel like reiterating them here. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2017, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/58 "2017-01-08T23:40:15Z")
> [@Magicicada](#): > > Then, what’s that song in O Brother Where Art Thou where the Odesseus-meets-the-Hee-Haw-Honeys are singing while washing clothes in the river? That’s an eerie one. “Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby” ---
**Author:** ![akrako1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@akrako1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/akrako1)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2017, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/59 "2017-01-09T22:23:54Z")
“Dead Man’s Curve” by Jan and Dean - especially in leiu of Jan’s later car accident of his own, and subsequent medical issues. Seeing them sing it personally (late 80’s 4th of july fest somewhere) was especially creepy! ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2017, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234/60 "2017-01-10T02:02:59Z")
Not necessarily eerie or creepy, but a section of **Ace of Swords** by The Alan Parsons Project always made me feel nervous and uneasy. Why? Well, I first heard the song when CBS used it as the intro to the 1982 NBA Finals between the Lakers (my team) and Sixers. As a 10-year-old LA fan, the section from 0:45 got my juices going and made me sweat as the game was approaching. It was “nervous time” as LA legendary announcer Chick Hearn used to say. [YouTube Link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnwxTbKFM18) with song and CBS Sports intro. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eerie-and-creepy-moments-in-songs/776234.md?page=2)