I love the music of Diamonds Galas. What a great voice.
Here’s a very scary piece from **Current 93 **:
Don’t ask me why, it just fills me with an awareness of the futility of existence and the transient nature of all things.
If I remember correctly, Berlioz’ Symphony Fantastiqe has a section called March to the Scaffold. It ends in a strong chord, followed quietly by a bum ba bum. played by a cello. I heard that the crashing chord was to denote a beheading by the guillotine and the soft bumping coda represented a head falling to the ground and bouncing.
This one’s been scaring me since I was a little kid:
Ave Satani from The Omen soundtrack by Jerry Goldsmith.
It goes right where it’s supposed to go. 1361 seconds is 22:41. If you want it to go to 19:49 you’ll have to change t=1361s to t=1189s
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[An Empty Bliss Beyond this World]
(The Caretaker's An Empty Bliss Beyond This World - YouTube)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”.
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Well, now, thank you for this lovely video. It reminds me of some youtube I saw of the planet Saturn (a real photo) and some electronic noise. I don’t know who what where when or why, within the last 5 years.
That Saturn thing and the ‘Empty Bliss’ is not a ‘waiting room for the afterlife’ - I think it is HELL. Barren, unnerving, never-changing, eternal, without hope. Almost makes you wish for devils with pitchforks.
Andrew Liles: Anhedonia
D.O.A. by Bloodrock.
When I was a kid, the ending theme song for The Incredible Hulk scared me, as an adult the theme in Christine when the fat kid first sees Christine before the car kills him is un-nerving to me.
How about this piece from the Russian surrealist project Bardoseneticcube?
Any of the music associated with Twin Peaks.
The Night Gallery theme music. It used to come on in the late afternoon and every day after school I’d be home alone and watch it, and every day it would freak me the hell out. I wasn’t too bright :o I still don’t want to hear it.
The Chambers Brothers Time is a funky, freaky groove that for the last couple of minutes just has this messed up halting beat that is just so . . . off. It makes me feel like I’m on a bad acid trip.
Iron Man can shut the hell up.
Two that I love *because *they are scary are:
Nico’s Marble Index album (once described as ‘not an album you listen to but a hole you fall into’)
and The Church’s The Disillusionist:
They say that he’s famous from the waist down
But the top half of his body is a corpse
His gold won’t buy him sleep
His poverty runs so deep
In winter he cracks, in summer he warps
More screeching strings. Although it turns around towards the end of “Wheel of Pain”
For me, it’s “Basement” by the Pain Teens. Mostly because it’s based on the true story of Sylvia Likens, a 16-year old girl who was tortured over a period of weeks, and finally murdered by the woman watching her and her sister. Gertrude Baniszewski even had her children assist in the torture of Likens.
It scares me because it really happened.
I was finding it unbearable at about the same point… but couldn’t bring myself to stop it. Because that would mean that, instead of having listened to it, I’d have listened to an unfinished portion of it, which would be worse.
I think I have a new example for discussions of “what is art”. See, my definition is, basically, that art is a creative work that conveys emotion, and great art is therefore a work which very strongly conveys emotion. Which that certainly does.
For some reason Tchaikovsky’s “Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy” has always struck me as macabre; maybe something I saw as a very young child with this music scared me, I don’t know. The closest I can describe it is “the music that’s playing while a mad doctor slowly and methodically performs brain surgery on a victim.”
Gangsta rap. What else?
Amon Tobin’s whole Supermodified album is terrific but shouldn’t be played when you’re alone late at night, and “Marine Machines” is simultaneously beautiful and utterly frightening: it’s the soundtrack of unholy things on the seabed massing to crawl out of the Stygian depths and murder the living as we sleep.