Interesting thread to resurrect: listened to most of the songs and don’t know if the crap was scared out of me but this is not happy time…
For “Classical”, a book I read said this piece, Shostakovich’s Symphony no. 8, 3rd Movement, was “Terror and agony and heartbreak, captured in music.” Considering it was written by a Russian in the summer of 1943, there was enough terror and agony and heartbreak to capture. Don’t know if I want to listen to the whole thing… Shostakovich's 8th Symphony by Mravinsky, mov 3 - YouTube
For “Pop”, Swamp Witch Hattie is more narration than song, but if it doesn’t give you at least a little shiver…Swamp Witch- Jim Stafford - YouTube
When I was in high school, I was lying in bed with earphones on, listening to a stack of my brother’s classical records. “Mars, the Bringer of War” from Holst’s The Planets came on just as I dozed off.
Holy crap! The dream I had listening to that piece scared the hell out of me. I tried as hard as I could to wake up, but the visions kept right on coming. I finally woke up in a cold sweat.
Another piece that gives me the creeps is Haendel's "Sarabande." I would feel that way even if it hadn't been the background music for a BBC documentary on Auschwitz:
Another piece that gives me the creeps is Haendel’s “Sarabande.” I would feel that way even if it hadn’t been the background music for a BBC documentary on Auschwitz:
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Since I know that piece only as “the Barry Lyndon music”, the makers of that documentary - assuming it was made after the Kubrick film - really should have gone with something else. (Checks Wikipedia) - yes, it was made in 2005. I don’t really know how much of a household name Barry Lyndon is, but I doubt anyone who’s a fan of Kubrick will ever be able to hear that piece without envisioning Barry Lyndon and the smug voice of that film’s narrator.
I never thought I would write this particular warning, but…
NSFW opera scene… NSFS (not suitable for squeamish) either.
[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRYNHOiEFBs]Scene from Richard Strauss’s Salome
Salome, Herod’s daughter, in the opera about her by Richard Strauss, has a half-deranged half-ecstatic love scene with the dead body of John the Baptist. You can hear the mentally ill music and the triumphant love music alternating and then strangely merging. It’s disturbing.
Slug Bait is the one that scared me when I first heard it as a teen. Of course, listening back now the lyrics are ridiculous death metal style edginess. But it really had an effect on me at the time.
My boyfriend and I went on vacation in Singapore last summer. He somehow thought it would be a great idea to relax on the bed in our hotel room, watch the skyline, and listen to some vaporwave from YouTube.
5 minutes in, I couldn’t take it. It’s creepy as hell. That kind of music is so unsettling to me…
