# Music that scares the crap out of you **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 24, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680 "2017-02-24T23:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/41 "2017-02-27T18:57:29Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > I used to interpret in churches a lot. Once in a while there was a hymn that would creep me out. There was one where they kept singing about being “Washed in the blood of the lamb,” and another one with a different verse about each of Jesus’ wounds, and it got really specific. Then there was one where the chorus was the Jews saying “His blood be on us and our children.” I got really uncomfortable during that one. Then there’s the verse of **We Three Kings** , during the happy Christmas season: Myrrh is mine, its bitter perfume Breathes of life of gathering gloom Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding, dying Sealed in the stone-cold tomb It’s never good when the organist stops after that verse and doesn’t include: Glorious now behold Him arise King and God and Sacrifice Heaven sings Alleluia Alleluia the earth replies ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/42 "2017-02-27T21:04:05Z")
> [@Eddie The Horrible](#): > > Again, perhaps not the most terrifying visuals (maybe just go to a different screen - heh, all black! - while listening to this) > [_Ginestera - Danza del gauncho metrero_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zApDPReVL2Q) Good pick, although I think Santiago Rodriguez recorded a more effective interpretation. My entry is more of a cheap thrill bowels-purger: Mahler’s Symphony #1, 4th movement, the first few seconds. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/43 "2017-02-27T21:12:07Z")
The first part of Tiny Tim’s “[The Other Side](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1se9xbRRZL8)” is very dark and creepy. ---
**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:** [February 27, 2017, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/44 "2017-02-27T23:02:56Z")
When I was a kid I thought this was both kick-butt and scary: Hilarious - like, gross hilarious - back in the 80’s there was a band called Wiseblood who put out a creepy number called “Stumbo”. So, I look it up on youtube, hoping to post it, and lo and behold there’s a live performance of buddy singing it. Unfortunately the mulleted fuck then opens up his shirt and starts preening back and forth across the stage like Mick Jagger on bath salts, trying to stick out his chest and shimmying his butt and I’m thinking dude! fuck-off! You just de-scary-fied a (well, back then, anyway) scary song! This means I won’t be posting it.🙂 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/45 "2017-02-27T23:57:31Z")
I made it through about 30 seconds of “Threnody…” How can he even get people to play this thing in the first place? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/46 "2017-02-28T00:21:07Z")
In 1982 I went to see the film _ **John Carpenter’s The Thing** _ at a stand alone theater (just one screen, not a cineplex) I was early and the theater was empty and surprisingly dark. They didn’t play any pre-entertainment videos on screen, they just played the soundtrack of the film. **Ennio Morricone’s** score is desolate and stark and has a real feeling of foreboding. It was especially jarring considering I was here to see a Carpenter film and was expecting to hear a typical Carpenter composed soundtrack dominated with synthesizers, but instead to hear this haunting score highlighted by lonely piano pieces and shrieking strings… I’m sure it wasn’t the intent of the theater, but by playing this beforehand I was really amped to see this film! I guess I’m not the only one who really likes this soundtrack, since they lifted parts of it to play on the soundtrack of _ **The Hateful Eight** _ last year and it won Morricone an Oscar! If you’ve never listened to this soundtrack, [give it a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_yNuPIWEU&list=PL0828E3D6929DFDB6&index=4) ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/47 "2017-02-28T01:53:49Z")
> [@Hermione](#): > > Eva sings about the choices she made in life and her justification for them–would she have lived longer if she’d chosen an ordinary life?\* > > /snip/ > > \*A side note…I always scratched my head at the idea that Eva may have lived longer if she hadn’t chased after fame. If she was going to get cancer, wouldn’t she have gotten it even if she’d stayed in Junin all her life and married Pedro the tailor? She might even have died earlier due to poorer conditions, worse medical care, and a body weakened by a harder life. Two of Juan Peron’s wives died of cervical cancer: his first wife Aurelia and Eva Peron. It’s very likely that he transmitted HPV to them, causing their cancer. So it’s very possible that if Eva hadn’t chased Peron and fame, she could have lived a long and ordinary life. His third wife, Isabel, did not have cervical cancer, but according to this blog, “\*Crasswaller states in his work ‘Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina’ that Peron and Isabel did not share a deep emotional commitment, so perhaps sexual relations between Peron and Isabel were rare or perhaps did not exist. It is also thought women are most vulnerable to HPV in their late teens to early 20s. Aurelia is thought to have married Peron when she was between seventeen and thirty and Evita at 24. Isabel, though, married Peron when she was 30, so another likelihood is Isabel was past the age where infection happens.” \* [https://www.historicalfictiononline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6124](https://www.historicalfictiononline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6124) The Spanish wikipedia article states that Juan and Aurelia married when she was 19 > **[Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Gabriela_Tiz%C3%B3n_de_Per%C3%B3n)** > > Aurelia Gabriela Tizón (Buenos Aires, 18 de marzo de 1902 - Buenos Aires, 10 de septiembre de 1938) fue una profesora y traductora argentina.​ > Estuvo casada con el expresidente argentino Juan Domingo Perón (1895-1974). > Era la sexta hija de dos inmigrantes españoles, Tomasa Erostarbe y Cipriano Tizón,​un fotógrafo del barrio de Palermo afiliado a la Unión Cívica Radical. > Era conocida en su círculo cercano como Potota (hipocorístico de "preciosa").​Era una mujer de variados talentos: leía y tra... ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/48 "2017-02-28T09:43:08Z")
Einsturzende Neubauten are ordinarily quite pleasantly hardcore. Einsturzende Neubauten[with Butō dancers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL0r8tNnmMQ) is pants-shittingly scary. > [@Ranchoth](#): > > P.S.: I am really, _really_ surprised that [Diamanda Galas](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyFS1K-Xlrk) hasn’t shown up in this thread, yet. Aaaw, I was hoping I’d be the first to mention her - specifically, the live albums, like [Plague](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKuX8arORc) [Mass](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAvsgUR9RBU)… ---
**Author:** ![Hermione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@Hermione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/49 "2017-02-28T17:15:04Z")
> [@gkster](#): > > Two of Juan Peron’s wives died of cervical cancer: his first wife Aurelia and Eva Peron. It’s very likely that he transmitted HPV to them, causing their cancer. So it’s very possible that if Eva hadn’t chased Peron and fame, she could have lived a long and ordinary life. > > His third wife, Isabel, did not have cervical cancer, but according to this blog, > > “\*Crasswaller states in his work ‘Peron and the Enigmas of Argentina’ that Peron and Isabel did not share a deep emotional commitment, so perhaps sexual relations between Peron and Isabel were rare or perhaps did not exist. It is also thought women are most vulnerable to HPV in their late teens to early 20s. Aurelia is thought to have married Peron when she was between seventeen and thirty and Evita at 24. Isabel, though, married Peron when she was 30, so another likelihood is Isabel was past the age where infection happens.” \* > [https://www.historicalfictiononline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6124](https://www.historicalfictiononline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=6124) > > The Spanish wikipedia article states that Juan and Aurelia married when she was 19 > [Aurelia Gabriela Tizón de Perón - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurelia_Gabriela_Tiz%C3%B3n_de_Per%C3%B3n) Very interesting (as was the forum post). Did not know that. Thanks very much. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/50 "2017-02-28T17:51:01Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > In 1982 I went to see the film _ **John Carpenter’s The Thing** _ at a stand alone theater (just one screen, not a cineplex) I was early and the theater was empty and surprisingly dark. They didn’t play any pre-entertainment videos on screen, they just played the soundtrack of the film. > > **Ennio Morricone’s** score is desolate and stark and has a real feeling of foreboding. It was especially jarring considering I was here to see a Carpenter film and was expecting to hear a typical Carpenter composed soundtrack dominated with synthesizers, but instead to hear this haunting score highlighted by lonely piano pieces and shrieking strings… I’m sure it wasn’t the intent of the theater, but by playing this beforehand I was really amped to see this film! > > I guess I’m not the only one who really likes this soundtrack, since they lifted parts of it to play on the soundtrack of _ **The Hateful Eight** _ last year and it won Morricone an Oscar! > > If you’ve never listened to this soundtrack, [give it a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_yNuPIWEU&list=PL0828E3D6929DFDB6&index=4) This has been one of my favorite soundtracks for ages. For me, the music can be described with one word: Despair. If you’ve heard only the old OST album, I strongly recommend you take a look at this: \*[https://www.amazon.com/JOHN-CARPENTERS-THING-Picture-Morricone/dp/B005YRBUN0](https://www.amazon.com/JOHN-CARPENTERS-THING-Picture-Morricone/dp/B005YRBUN0) \* It’s very good. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/51 "2017-02-28T17:55:29Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I made it through about 30 seconds of “Threnody…” How can he even get people to play this thing in the first place? > > :dubious: There are 20 distinct recordings of this piece according to this [list](http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=9281&name_role1=1&bcorder=1&comp_id=32227), though I suspect that, with reissues and box-sets, the real number is closer to 7. It’s a classic of post WWII music, by the way. I sure don’t enjoy listening to it but I think it’s extremely effective artistically (it does exactly what it says on the tin). ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [February 28, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/52 "2017-02-28T20:50:12Z")
Perhaps not exactly what the OP meant, but the whispered part of 10CC’s “I’m Not in Love” has always creeped me out. (Big boys don’t cry. Big boys don’t cry. Big boys don’t cry.) :eek: ---
**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:** [February 28, 2017, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/53 "2017-02-28T23:30:40Z")
That tiptoe song by Tiny Tim has scared me ever since it was used in the movie Insidious. Pink Floyd scared me as a child. Listening to Stravinsky scared me recently. ---
**Author:** ![Moris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moris/32/2846_2.png) [@Moris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moris)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/54 "2017-03-01T08:13:55Z")
As for contemporary classical, academic music, somebody already mentioned **Georgy Ligeti** and his “Atmospheres for the Orchestra”, and I wholeheartedly agree. In rock music, I vote for[La Photographe Exorciste](https://youtu.be/unnXlcWnSks)by **Atoll**. I don’t speak French, so my brain is filling the blanks. [An Empty Bliss Beyond this World](https://youtu.be/LL998ajnjN4)by **The Caretaker** is an masterpiece of electronic music, entirely made of samples of old records. Somebody described it as “the waiting room for the afterlife”. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9bcb4/32.png) [@The\_Pork-Chop\_Express](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Pork-Chop_Express)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2017, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/55 "2017-03-01T10:11:10Z")
Portishead, All Mine. It’s probably mostly to do with the video, though. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozNQX6Ye1A) ---
**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:** [March 9, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/56 "2017-03-09T02:30:44Z")
I posted this in another thread as a source of guidance for one of our resident anti-sexual communists, but really it belongs here. Hopefully your name isn’t Ron, or this might become one of your favourites.😛 For some reason it always starts in the middle of the song, so - as soon as you click on the link, immediately drag the cursor back to where it actually begins, at 19:49. Crust - [_How About You_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ot7zAvmBRwA&t=1361s) crank’er! ---
**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/57 "2017-03-09T14:35:17Z")
King Diamond’s concept album [The Puppet Master](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Master_%28album%29) creeps me the hell out. It tells the tale of a subjugated, errr, subject who’s reward is a decidedly unhappy end. Odd Christmas music, female vocals, and plenty of doom and horror. Can only listen to it with the lights on and only once every couple of years… ---
**Author:** ![Mavic\_Chen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mavic\_Chen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavic_Chen)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/58 "2017-03-09T14:39:17Z")
> [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](#): > > In 1982 I went to see the film _ **John Carpenter’s The Thing** _ at a stand alone theater (just one screen, not a cineplex) I was early and the theater was empty and surprisingly dark. They didn’t play any pre-entertainment videos on screen, they just played the soundtrack of the film. > > **Ennio Morricone’s** score is desolate and stark and has a real feeling of foreboding. It was especially jarring considering I was here to see a Carpenter film and was expecting to hear a typical Carpenter composed soundtrack dominated with synthesizers, but instead to hear this haunting score highlighted by lonely piano pieces and shrieking strings… I’m sure it wasn’t the intent of the theater, but by playing this beforehand I was really amped to see this film! > > I guess I’m not the only one who really likes this soundtrack, since they lifted parts of it to play on the soundtrack of _ **The Hateful Eight** _ last year and it won Morricone an Oscar! > > If you’ve never listened to this soundtrack, [give it a listen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9_yNuPIWEU&list=PL0828E3D6929DFDB6&index=4) Hateful Eight soundtrack also has a bit of Regan’s theme from The Exorcist 2 - probably the best thing about that movie! ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/59 "2017-03-09T16:04:08Z")
A large fraction of recordings by Diamanda Galas? The definitive [Law of the Plague](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEKuX8arORc). [Here with John Zorn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHB0LZd5YI0) [Or here with John Paul Jones](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0AIjnQ8t30)(he of Led Zep) Not for the faint hearted. Talking of John Zorn, his work with Painkiller. Execution Ground Ambient is a favourite of mine. Lustmord (Brian Williams.) Rising 666 is brilliantly creepy, but in a highly addictive and rather soothing way. (Both John Zorn and Brian Williams turn out to be really nice guys. I’ve not met Diamanda. But she holds the distinction of performing the concert where the most people I have ever seen walked out. I think it was badly pitched. People were not expecting what they got.) ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2017, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680/60 "2017-03-09T16:57:36Z")
I’m 43 years old and Darth Vader’s theme music still gives me the chills. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-that-scares-the-crap-out-of-you/780680.md?page=4)