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
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.
The first part of Tiny Tim’s “The Other Side” is very dark and creepy.
When I was a kid I thought this was both kick-butt and scary:
This means I won’t be posting it.
I made it through about 30 seconds of “Threnody…” How can he even get people to play this thing in the first place?
:dubious:
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
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
The Spanish wikipedia article states that Juan and Aurelia married when she was 19
Einsturzende Neubauten are ordinarily quite pleasantly hardcore. Einsturzende Neubautenwith Butō dancers is pants-shittingly scary.
Aaaw, I was hoping I’d be the first to mention her - specifically, the live albums, like Plague Mass…
Very interesting (as was the forum post). Did not know that. Thanks very much.
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
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It’s very good.
There are 20 distinct recordings of this piece according to this list, 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).
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:
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.
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 forLa Photographe Exorcisteby Atoll. I don’t speak French, so my brain is filling the blanks.
An Empty Bliss Beyond this Worldby 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”.
Portishead, All Mine. It’s probably mostly to do with the video, though.
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
crank’er!
King Diamond’s concept album The Puppet Master 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…
Hateful Eight soundtrack also has a bit of Regan’s theme from The Exorcist 2 - probably the best thing about that movie!
A large fraction of recordings by Diamanda Galas? The definitive Law of the Plague.
Here with John Zorn. Or here with John Paul Jones(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.)
I’m 43 years old and Darth Vader’s theme music still gives me the chills.