I was stoned out of my mind and sitting in a darkened room when a buddy of mine started playing this song. Freaked me out!
Holy sh*t, that’s the one!! :eek: How’d you do that?
Of course, now that I’m all grown up, it’s not so bad–kind of reminds me of home and how things used to be in my hometown (a good nostalgia). Not so horkey anymore. . . but that could change.
Tripler
Wow. That’s “song sniping” at it’s finest.
Heh…it wasn’t that hard. “Baker Street” is about the only Top 40 song from the era in which you would have been a kid (which I assume is about the same as the era that I would have been a kid, the late 70s/early 80s) that has a sax intro that’s so memorable.
I had a moment of absolute reality-shifting terror when I was about 8 years old. I knew there were no ghosts or witches and yet I had no choice but to believe my ears because I was undeniably awake in my bed and they were in the house. Ululating. Right. Downstairs.
I ran to get my mother, who, as it turned out, was sitting by the stereo, trying to cultivate an appreciation of opera for the very first time.
Not so much scared as seriously startled. When I was in eighth grade, someone told me about this cool new song about the “God of Hell Fire.” I listened to the radio for hours waiting to hear it. When the opening line came bellowing out of the tiny speaker, I jumped a foot.
The Nutcracker Suite and the song from Fantasia when the brooms get out of Mickey’s control.
For pop/rock music that song “Wildfire” used to squick me out…“she ran calling Wiiiiiildfire…calling Wiiiiiildfire…”
I was a pre-teen in the late 60s when there was plenty of strangeness around…
I used to be scared of “Wild Honey Pie” by the Beatles… the distorted vocals sounding like some deranged mutant.
One song I found not exactly scary but pretty disturbing was “The House at Pooneil Corners” by Jefferson Airplane. The bleak, baleful music perfectly fits the horrific imagery of the moment of nuclear annihilation.
The piano part on “Something In the Air” by Thunderclap Newman was quite bizarre, but it didn’t really scare me – it was sort of fascinating. (That was a few years later of course.)
Another creepy song was “Glasses” on Paul McCartney’s first album… the eerie sound of the wine glasses being played, and the abrupt cut into the middle of “Suicide” – like somebody jumping out and grabbing you in a dark room.
The middle of Inna Godda Da Vida is pretty scary, in a demented Phantom of the Opera way (b&w movie, not sexy Broadway version), especially if you turn off all the lights and turn the hi-fi way up 
Strangely, for me the creepiest Beatles song was “Michelle.”
Thescary organ partstarts 16 seconds into this video. The song is so long they had to use two uploads. I tried to edit my above post but it took longer than 5 minutes to find the scary part. Proper spelling of the song is In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, by Iron Butterfly.
Me toooo!!!
For me, as a kid, my older sisters would scare me awake in the middle of the night with the opening of Black Sabbath’s Iron Man. Just listen to the first twenty seconds and imagine you are a four-year old, little girl. It still gives me the willies with those memories.
House of the rising sun By the Animals. I have no idea why.
When I was really little I was scared of “Puff the Magic Dragon” because I thought the dragon was real and it had died.
In our teenage years, my sister and her friend were frightened by the song Kashmir.
“Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac kind of scared me the first time I heard it on their Greatest Hits album, and I was a 19-year-old “kid” then.
Only two come to mind. I don’t know how old I was, but it was one of the first times I was home alone at night. I had the radio on and The Doors **‘Riders on the Storm’ **came on and totally creeped me out, especially the stormy/windy sound effects.
The second is ‘The Monster Mash’. Again, I was home alone in the evening, and I remember being embarrassed that I was affected by it at that age (whatever that age was).
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abso-effing-lutely scary! here’s Bloodrock’s wiki:
Bloodrock 2 and D.O.A.
Bloodrock 2 was their most successful album peaking at #21 on the Billboard Pop Album Chart in 1971 mostly on the strength of their somewhat morbid single “DOA” which reached #36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 6, 1971. “DOA” also gave the band considerable regional exposure throughout the Southwest and West, particularly in Texas and Southern California. “DOA” was probably the band’s most well known and well remembered single, partly because of its very chilling content. The song gives an extremely grisly first person account of the aftermath of a plane crash. Some debate whether the song is actually about a car accident, but the lyrics (“We were flying low and hit something in the air”) and comments by the lead guitarist about the inspiration for the song suggest otherwise. The vocalist describes the bloody sheets he lies in with a missing arm and a dead girl lying next to him, as the ambulance attendant looks over him with little hope (“he says ‘There’s no chance for me’”…). This narrative is backed by a rather eerie and grave organ riff & background sounds of ambulance sirens, creating a decidedly bleak and unsettling atmosphere. The song ends with the ambulance siren being shut off, indicating that the patient has died and is Dead On Arrival.
According to lead guitarist, Lee Pickens, “DOA” was based on the ill fated Wichita State University football team airplane crash of Oct. 2, 1970. However, review copies of the “Bloodrock 2” album were at Billboard magazine during the week of Oct. 18, 1970, and the album was first reviewed in the magazine issue that was dated Saturday Oct. 31, 1970. There would have only been a little over two weeks to write the song, record the track, and add it to the album. Given the technology and distributions channels of the day, it is highly unlikely that the LP, with a new, freshly completed song, could have been finished, pressed and distributed in that short amount of time.
“DOA” was very controversial in a number of markets due to its content, and while it was not banned outright in any markets, the controversy did help the sales and chart position of both the single and the album on which it appeared, Bloodrock 2.
just too skin-crawling spooky for this teen Texas boy.
"school’ on supertramp’s ‘crime of the century’
for years, i would shake the shoulders of whomever i was sitting beside, and say “did you hear that scream?” they always thought i was nuts, they didn’t hear any terrified scream…
look what i just googled: an interviewer speaking with Roger Hodgson.
HODGSON: Yes. I’ve always had kind of strong feelings about school and our education and what is lacking in it, so yes, “School” was very much some of my thoughts on my school experience and was obviously the beginning of what we intended to be a concept album, “Crime of the Century.”
ACOUSTIC STORM: You know, ever since I started listening to that song, even when the album first came out, I noticed some subtleties at the beginning of it. You can hear the kids playing in the playground as I imagine them and then just before the music kicks in, you hear this girl screaming and I think it’s got a double meaning. It’s like, is she screaming because she’s having fun, or because of the awfulness of what she is about to embark on in terms of the ironclad education system.
HODGSON: You’ve got it (laughs).
ACOUSTIC STORM: Do you think of it that way, as having a double meaning?
HODGSON: Yes. Nothing is accidental. I mean, when I arrange my songs, nothing is by accident. Everything, especially that scream that you’re talking about just before the band comes in, does represent a lot, so what you’re feeling is right. I mean, you know, school is a wonderful place. Obviously, it’s a school playground but that scream does represent a lot more.
my stoner buddies never heard a thing!
hmmm, looks like above DOA link was removed…
found another http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O79EN3z6IpU
…STILL kinda spooky for this old man
Because it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy?
** Many brave hearts are asleep in the deep
so beware
be. . .
. . . ware.**“Live and Let Die” and “Immigrant Song.”