# Scariest song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2003, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899 "2003-08-22T12:05:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/41 "2003-08-23T03:37:12Z")
[Lake Marie](http://www.jpshrine.org/lyrics/songs/ldamblakemarie.html), by John Prine, is a bit creepy. Beautiful though. ---
**Author:** ![sanja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@sanja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sanja)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/42 "2003-08-23T03:48:15Z")
way back when, i bought a 9" vinyl copy of the unreleased hellraiser themes by coil. the proper turntable speed wasn’t indicated on the record, so i tried it at 33 and it was dark and menacing so thats the speed i listened to it at. got a cd copy later and realized that the record was a 45. so i would say that the unreleased hellraiser theme music by coil played at 73.333% of intended speed is the scariest music i’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/43 "2003-08-23T04:01:58Z")
Does anyone remember ‘Swamp Witch’ by **Jim Stafford**? It was pretty creepy when I was a kid. It goes, \*Black Water Hattie lived back in the swamp Where the strange green reptiles crawl Snakes hang thick from the cypress trees Like sausage on a smokehouse wall Where the swamp is alive with a thousand eyes An’ all of them watchin’ you Stay off the track to Hattie’s shack in the back of the Black Bayou Way up the road from Hattie’s shack Lies a sleepy, little Okeechobee town Talk of swamp witch Hattie lock you in when the sun go down Rumours of what she’d done and rumours of what she’d do Kept folks off the track of Hattie’s shack In the back of the Black Bayou… \* etc. Great song. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/44 "2003-08-23T06:28:27Z")
I remember the video for Tool’s _Prison Sex_ being pretty damn scary too. They do that a lot. So is _Third Eye_ even though the scary conspiracy phone call thing was a prank. Going with what I know, there’s _Climbing Up The Walls_ by Radiohead. ---
**Author:** ![Honkymother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Honkymother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honkymother)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/45 "2003-08-23T07:00:14Z")
I always thought “Can’t Speak” by Danzig was pretty scary, but I still love it…I think it jives with the rest of the album just right. ---
**Author:** ![arachnidlove](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@arachnidlove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arachnidlove)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/46 "2003-08-23T07:04:50Z")
Well someone already suggested Tyler by the Toadies which was my choice. I do love that song though. Hmm Dead Skin Mask by Slayer In the background you can hear a little child saying "Mr. Gein, please let me out. " (Dead Skin Mask is about the serial killer Ed Gein who was the inspiration for Hannibal Lector) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/47 "2003-08-23T07:13:50Z")
When I was younger, I was afraid of _Helter Skelter_ bu the Beatles. ---
**Author:** ![Azargoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Azargoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azargoth)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/48 "2003-08-23T08:07:27Z")
No Particular Order “Nothing To Gein” by MuDvAuNe- Just creepy. Same subject as Slayer “Dead Skin Mask” “213” by Slayer- Jeffrey Dahlmer is the subject “O Death” by Ralph Stanley- don’t know why but this song just gives me the creeps “Ovature of the Rebel Angel” by Danzig- Classical music but very dark. “Kill You” or “My Gift to You” by Korn- just creepy in a cathartic sort of way ---
**Author:** ![Akaadji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@Akaadji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaadji)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/49 "2003-08-24T00:15:14Z")
Well… **Stealing Babies** by **Our Lady Peace** always creeps me out for some reason…maybe because it seems so disjointed, but I think it’s the tune that really gets me… _…Eve stands alone, by the knock on the door, by the thin in her bones, she’s courages and loving… Exausted and cold, she’s not ready to go, so the ghost on the phone, helps her safely into her dream…_ ---
**Author:** ![Bugnorton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bugnorton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bugnorton)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/50 "2003-08-24T00:30:12Z")
**Psycho Killer** by **Talking Heads** is one that I find very creepy in a controlled, hypnotic sort of way. Oh yes, and any version of **Muskrat Love** make blood immediate spurt from my ears. ---
**Author:** ![devil\_to\_pay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@devil\_to\_pay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devil_to_pay)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/51 "2003-08-24T01:33:44Z")
this album: [url=“[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JA7D/ref=ase\_ipecacrecordi-20/103-0123573-8165409?v=glance&s=music](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JA7D/ref=ase_ipecacrecordi-20/103-0123573-8165409?v=glance&s=music)”] Mike Patton and Buzz Osbourne rerecord the theme songs from: 1. Godfather 2. Der Golem 3. Experiment in Terror 4. One Step Beyond 5. Night of the Hunter 6. Cape Fear 7. Rosemary’s Baby 8. Devil Rides Out 9. Spider Baby 10. Omen [Ave Satani] 11. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 12. Vendetta 13. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 14. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion 15. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me 16. Charade ---
**Author:** ![Sm\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/da6949/32.png) [@Sm\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sm_e)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/52 "2003-08-24T01:41:36Z")
“Don’t Laugh” - Josh Wink First time I heard it I about lost my sh\*t. ---
**Author:** ![Mofo\_Rising](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Mofo\_Rising](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mofo_Rising)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/53 "2003-08-24T03:18:14Z")
**devil to pay** , that album is great. Now if you want a creepy Mike Patton band song, “Desert Search for Techno Allah” by Mr. Bungle has always seemed very creepy to me. It has always sounded like something _otherworldy_ creeping through the gate. You can hear a snippet on [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002N0B/qid=1061695278/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-8160238-1600606?v=glance&s=music&n=507846). I also second Aphex Twin’s “Come to Daddy” and Radiohead’s “Climbing up the Walls”. ---
**Author:** ![Tasha\_Yar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f14d63/32.png) [@Tasha\_Yar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tasha_Yar)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/54 "2003-08-24T05:30:17Z")
Strange Fruit gets to me. Billie Holiday sings it so beautiful & somber and pulls me into the lyrics. It’s creepy, sad and thought provoking. Siouxie & the Banshees did an over the top (but excellent nonetheless) version that sounds like a funeral dirge. The Siouxie version doesn’t have quite the same emotional impact as the lynching aspect doesn’t hit quite so hard. Her version tends to make me think of the v. creepy film Something Wicked This Way Comes. Either one is chilling though. For more fun scares I like just about anything by Nick Cave. The Devil Jumped Up is a good one. It’s creepy but with a somewhat zany storyline which is so common of dear Nick. ---
**Author:** ![Psalex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/439d5e/32.png) [@Psalex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psalex)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899/55 "2003-08-24T12:56:10Z")
“Aqualung” Jethro Tull Sitting on a park bench – eyeing ittle girls with bad intent. Snot running down his nose – greasy fingers smearing shabby clothes. Drying in the cold sun – Watching as the frilly panties run. Feeling like a dead duck – spitting out pieces of his broken luck. I would paste the whole song, but I just threw up a little bit. :eek: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scariest-song/196899.md?page=2)