# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/81 "2010-10-21T05:17:27Z")
> [@dwc1970](#): > > My sister was a big Kiss fan in their heyday, so I was exposed to their music as a young boy. One song that scared me was “God of Thunder”. I was also freaked out by hearing the music gradually slowing to a near complete stop at the end of “Black Diamond”. It made me think the whole space-time continuum (or my vague understanding of this concept) was coming to a halt. Oh yes, me too. And I was a big time KISS fan [still am to some degree] and those songs still freked me out big time.:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Kilmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a6a055/32.png) [@Kilmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilmore)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/82 "2010-10-21T05:35:16Z")
Back when I was a six or seven year old nugget, I like any other kid was interested in characters, though none in particular filled my interest aside from this “Star Wars” thing which was looming in the near future. Well, my mom always liked a good record, and as this was one of the rare occasions when I accompanied her, I got an bit of coin with which to buy a record to play on my Mickey Mouse record player. One character that was popular with kids in the seventies was Godzilla. And lo and behold, right in front of me was a record single devoted to this monster. That evening that Mickey Mouse record player opened a portal into Hell. To make matters worse was the B-side, “Nosferatu”. Though today I prefer the first three Blue Öyster Cult albums, I still have a soft spot for “Spectres.” ---
**Author:** ![Edwardina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Edwardina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Edwardina)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/83 "2010-10-21T10:43:43Z")
“One” by Metallica. “Bullet Hits The Bone” by Golden Earring. “Eleanor Rigby” … I mean, who the hell isn’t creeped out by someone keeping their face in a jar by the door?! And yeah, and “Riders On The Storm,” definitely! Jim Morrison has creeped me out ever since I read his biography when I was twelve. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/84 "2010-10-21T13:48:34Z")
As a tyke in the 70’s some of my mother’s stuff she had on vinyl scared the crap out of me. Jefferson Airplane’s _White Rabbit_. Like some sort of funeral song for drug addicts. Fiddler on The Roof _The Dream_. Hearing Zero Mostel screaming in panic is pretty unsettling. Godspell had some track with a whip cracking and a guy counting out loud the lashings he was dealing out. It think Hair had some trippy druggy tunes that hit home the “stay away from drugs kid” message better than any PSA. Being forced to listen to my mother’s trippy 70s stuff turned me into a young Eric Cartman. “God-damn hippies!!” ---
**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:** [October 21, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/85 "2010-10-21T14:20:56Z")
D.O.A. by Bloodrock. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/86 "2010-10-21T14:26:03Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Godspell had some track with a whip cracking and a guy counting out loud the lashings he was dealing out. That was _Jesus Christ Superstar._ ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/87 "2010-10-21T14:39:40Z")
“Ghost Riders in the Sky” (the Vaughn Monroe version) scared me. It was an oldie when I was a kid, but occasionally it was on the radio. I didn’t really believe in ghost cows, but the imagery was effective, as was the melody, and Monroe’s baritone gave it gravitas. Yeah, it was scary. I always thought “Black is Black” by Los Bravos was a pretty creepy song, too. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/88 "2010-10-21T14:52:33Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > That was _Jesus Christ Superstar._ ah, I knew it was one of those two. I think I hated them equally. ---
**Author:** ![Abisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc8723/32.png) [@Abisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abisha)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/89 "2010-10-21T23:08:56Z")
Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphy…too spooky. Every once in a while they play it at the supermarket and I want to run screaming!!! Its almost as bad as IronMan by Black Sabbath. It makes me want my Mommy. ---
**Author:** ![BulletForMyValentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6f9a4e/32.png) [@BulletForMyValentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BulletForMyValentine)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/90 "2010-10-22T16:20:02Z")
Abra abra cadabra…I wanna reach out and grab ya…oh noooo… ---
**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:** [October 22, 2010, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/91 "2010-10-22T16:40:28Z")
> [@BulletForMyValentine](#): > > Abra abra cadabra…I wanna reach out and grab ya…oh noooo… We’re looking for songs that scared you, not songs that induced nausea. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/92 "2010-10-22T16:48:35Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > We’re looking for songs that scared you, not songs that induced nausea. 😛 But remember the video?? Wasn’t there a seen that showed people at a wedding, and their limbs were all fuzed together? Or did I dream that? I don’t know. I was about 6. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/93 "2016-08-10T14:59:20Z")
> [@capybara](#): > > The Stones “Paint it Black” always seemed badass and spooky to me, but my older sister had one song on some album, oh, around 1974-6, that scared the bejeezus out of me every time-- it would start and I’d leap up onto the furniture and try not to touch the floor and go into a general panic: I _think_ (ran into this in adulthood and it was very reminiscent and is from the right time period) it was Phaedrus by Tangerine Dream. How my Barry Manilow-loving sister would have gotten into Tangerine Dream is beyond me, though. Maybe she thought it was cool? It could have been “Fire on High” by ELO, or “Oscillations” by Silver Apples, or “Summer Madness” by Kool & the Gang. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/94 "2016-08-10T15:47:17Z")
Good thing you revived both threads. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2017, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/95 "2017-10-31T23:51:53Z")
Fire on High, yes, and add The Who’s Boris the Spider to the list. First time I heard that song it was Halloween and I had just raged at CC Sabathius’ house, and the death metal growl sound kinda creeped me out AND the chorus reminded me of the theme song to Gigantor/Tetsujin 28-Go, which my dad showed me two years ago and I’ve hated ever since. (IT WILL NEVER LEAVE! IT IS THE SIXTIES EQUIVALENT OF DUCKTALES) I’m kinda embarrassed that I was affected by it at that age, but I was stressed out. Also Gigantor. Yeah, pretty much the latter. Some other songs that’ve creeped me out are Blue Öyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper, until I remembered More Cowbell existed, and hell even Alice Cooper’s School’s Out is kinda creepy. And Peter Gabriel’s The Intruder. I came in because Toonami and came out “WHAT THE FUCK.” If it were a Trent Reznor song I’d be better off. He did the soundtrack for the Facebook movie, after all. ---
**Author:** ![MsKaren](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@MsKaren](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsKaren)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/96 "2017-11-01T02:50:43Z")
The Screamin’ Jay Hawkins version of I Put a Spell on You quite understandably always freaked out my young daughter. As a grown woman today she says it still does. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rainbow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d26b3c/32.png) [@black\_rainbow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rainbow)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/97 "2017-11-01T03:09:03Z")
Brain damage by Pink Floyd, especially the part where it goes “there’s someone in my head but it’s not me”… and the maniacal laughter. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/98 "2017-11-01T03:50:38Z")
I found “Poor Judd is dead, a candle lights his head” to be unsettling. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/99 "2017-11-01T03:58:53Z")
Riders on the Storm by The Doors Particularly this line: “There’s a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad…” I was pretty young the first time I heard it and it really freaked me out, the thought of someone’s brain squirming. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2017, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811/100 "2017-11-01T13:14:02Z")
I’ve mentioned this before in another creepy music thread: [Time has Come at Last](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsBwBct0_5U) by the Chambers Brothers. I didn’t hear this as a kid, THANK GOODNESS, because it would have probably scarred me for life. I heard it for the first time a few years ago in a small, mostly silent office I worked in. It was on someones playlist and it was so disturbing and distracting I couldn’t get any work done. The rhythm is all out of sync and that damned cowbell . . . we do NOT need more cowbell. But the worst part is the end, which actually lasts about five minutes, with the music eerily winding down. Shudder. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-songs-that-scared-you-as-a-kid/445811.md?page=6)