# More songs that scared you as a kid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 18, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811 "2008-04-18T00:42:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/41 "2008-04-21T12:57:50Z")
Does anybody remember a song called “Angie Baby”–circa 1974, sung, IIRC, by Helen Reddy? It was about “a little touched, you know,” girl who listens to the radio all the time, and one night lures a peeping tom neighbor-boy into her room and… does something with him. As far as I could understand what had happened from the lyrics, he disappears into the radio. Extremely creepy song when I was about 9 or 10. ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/42 "2008-04-21T13:12:22Z")
[QUOTE=Staggerlee] Thinking about it, it was probably just some bloke speaking through a harmonica…maybe that explains my fear of pre-electric Dylan… [/QUOTE] That’s what I always assumed as well. Looking it up today, I found out that they used a [Sonovox.](http://www.sonovox.com.br/home.asp) There’s a sample on page 3 of the “Clássicos” section there – it’s from the cartoon version, I think, but the effect’s the same. Brrrrrrr! ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/43 "2008-04-21T13:26:18Z")
- The Teddy Bear’s Picnic\* freaked me out- Scary music and lyrics. Took me years before I was comfortable alone in the woods. ---
**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:** [April 21, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/44 "2008-04-21T13:59:23Z")
[QUOTE=Miss Mapp] Does anybody remember a song called “Angie Baby”–circa 1974, sung, IIRC, by Helen Reddy? It was about “a little touched, you know,” girl who listens to the radio all the time, and one night lures a peeping tom neighbor-boy into her room and… does something with him. As far as I could understand what had happened from the lyrics, he disappears into the radio. Extremely creepy song when I was about 9 or 10. [/QUOTE] Yup. See post 19. Several Beatles songs with a menacing tone, offbeat lyrics or psychadelic imagery scared me a little when I was a kid: “Strawberry Fields,” “Blue Jay Way,” and “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite.” Can’t say that any ever gave me nightmares, though. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/45 "2008-04-21T15:15:44Z")
[QUOTE=crowmanyclouds] Mike Oldfield’s [_Tubular Bells_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYmIKcP7Nbc), without even seeing _The Exorcist_! There was also something creepy about Edgar Winter’s [_Frankenstein_](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDzmPbTXaXw), that sound at ~3:15 never means anything good. CMC +fnord! [/QUOTE] I came in here to post Tubular Bells, also. Creepy! I just googled the release date and I would have been around 14-15. It still freaked me out! ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/46 "2008-04-21T15:32:43Z")
For you older dopers: **Lou Christie’s Lightning’s Striking Again**. In my school we were getting measles shots. I was scared to death of needles then, and the night before the shots I heard that song 4 times on the radio (must have been in the top 10). To this day when I hear it I get a chill thinking of the terror I felt as a child awaiting an injection. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/47 "2008-04-21T15:54:00Z")
When I was seven or eight, I saw footage of David Bowie singing “Space Oddity.” The notion of Major Tom floating about with nothing to do … that song has given me major heebie-jeebies. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/48 "2008-04-21T16:01:56Z")
DOA by Bloodrock “God in Heaven each me how to die …” ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/49 "2008-04-21T16:24:40Z")
Knights in White Satin - the “wailing” in the background kind of creeps me out. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/50 "2008-04-21T17:01:36Z")
The Living Years by Mike and the Mechanics used to make me absolutely terrified to the point of nausea when I was a kid. The guy might has well have been yelling, “Hey malkavia! Everyone you love is gonna die!” AAAGH! I still switch the station with a quickness as soon as I hear the intro. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/51 "2008-04-21T20:05:47Z")
[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi] DOA by Bloodrock “God in Heaven each me how to die …” [/QUOTE] post #29 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/52 "2008-04-21T23:01:29Z")
_Maxwell’s Silver Hammer_, for obvious reason’s. ---
**Author:** ![ladybug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@ladybug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladybug)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2008, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/53 "2008-04-21T23:32:08Z")
_Rockit_ by Herbie Hancock. The video scared the hell out of me. Those animated mannequins were just too damn creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Wing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/51bf81/32.png) [@Little\_Wing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Wing)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/54 "2008-04-22T01:00:44Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3] [DOA](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKiV34O0L50&feature=related) Still quite capable of doing so. EDIT: Music is better [on this one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFGNMQeoo4Q&feature=related) [/QUOTE] I was going to mention this one. I heard it when I was a kid, maybe 8 or 9, and it has stuck with me for decades. If I remember correctly, it was banned from play on the radio. Very chilling song. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/55 "2008-04-22T02:46:20Z")
[QUOTE=The Them] “Come Together” by the Beatles. Love it now, but as a toddler, that was too much. [/QUOTE] Yeah, me too on this one. The visions of a guy with hair down to his knees called “Flattop” who cruises with nasty toejam on his football. :eek: Still creeps me out. Then there was another one with a sax intro, that invariably would come on the radio when I was in the car with my mom–I always got carsick as a kid when my mom was driving. But this song always brings me back to being carsick. “Kashmir” used to freak me out as a little kid, but then as I grew older and got into Led Zeppelin, I actually kind of liked it. Made it a point to have it blaring off of my iPod when I stepped of the C-17 into Afghanistan. 🆒 Tripler I just wanted to sit with the elders of a gentle race. ---
**Author:** ![I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/977dab/32.png) [@I\_m\_No\_Saint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_m_No_Saint)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/56 "2008-04-22T14:35:38Z")
_Paint it Black_ by the Rolling Stones. I don’t know why…just gave me the willies. Then later on in life, it became the theme song for a creepy PS2 game called Twisted Metal: Black that involved a serial killer clown/ice cream truck driver among other things. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/57 "2008-04-22T15:22:54Z")
Pink Floyd’s _Careful With That Axe, Eugene_ was pretty intense. I’ve been a fan ever since. Sometimes I like to kill the lights and crank that tune. Ooooh yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Pickinbuddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Pickinbuddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pickinbuddy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/58 "2010-10-17T07:52:38Z")
There were two songs that creeped me out as a little kid–the first one was “Wreck On The Highway” by Roy Acuff…especially the lines that went: “Their souls have been called by their Maker; They died in a crash on the way; I heard the groans of their dying; But I didn’t hear nobody pray…” It used to give me scary images of people laying on the highway decapitated in a car crash, crying out as they lay dying…especially the way the Dobro in the song sounded like a mournful human voice crying! The other song was “Cry Of The Wild Goose” by Frankie Lane, which is a song about someone tormented by an incurable wanderlust…Of course, as a little kid I couldn’t understand what this was…but the imagery of the song’s lyrics seemed to picture that when the full moon came out, this guy would turn into a goose…kind of like a werewolf! Of course, today I am still a huge Roy Acuff fan, and “Wreck On The Highway” is a terrific song–and I just fell in love with the Dobro…and even learned to play one! “Cry Of The Wild Goose” is a really terrific story, knowing what wanderlust can do to relationships, etc. They don’t write songs like these anymore… ---
**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:** [October 17, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/59 "2010-10-17T15:08:59Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Then there was another one with a sax intro, that invariably would come on the radio when I was in the car with my mom–I always got carsick as a kid when my mom was driving. But this song always brings me back to being carsick. [Baker Street](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkS169P_Eeo)? ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2010, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/60 "2010-10-17T16:16:18Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > _Rockit_ by Herbie Hancock. The video scared the hell out of me. Those animated mannequins were just too damn creepy. Yes, yes, and yes. I was terrified of this video when I was a kid. Come to think of it, it still creeps me out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811.md?page=4)