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.
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
Sweet Dreams by Air Supply has a really sinister sound to it. Not intentional, as far as I know…
“I’d kill myself for you…
I’d kill you for myself”
- Pantera, This Love
I’m always freaked out by the Eagles 'One of These Nights."
The End by The Doors is one eerie and creepy moment after another…
I don’t think it was intentional but"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Donovan sounded creepy to me even before it was used in Zodiac.
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.
D.O.A by Bloodrock.
Which “moment” in particular?
(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.)
Eurythmics maybe?
Hotel California is eerie to me. One of These Nights is creepy, I agree.
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.
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.
Pretty much any Scratch Acid, Birthday Party or Bauhaus.
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.
“Didn’t Leave Nobody but the Baby”
“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!
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 with song and CBS Sports intro.