# Scary Records **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2000, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675 "2000-04-01T01:58:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/21 "2000-04-02T20:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Jo3sh: > Not so much the music, but the cover of Frank Zappa’s _Overnite Sensation_ used to flip me out. There was an Edgar Winter album, title of which I forget, the cover art of which scared me as well. Would that be _They Only Come Out at Night_? That’s the one with the closeup of Edgar in drag. I agree, spoke- about “The Guns of Brixton,” which is threatening _and_ scary. I agree about “Time of the Season.” Actually, given the spooky sounds, the lyrics are a little disappointing. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/22 "2000-04-02T21:01:00Z")
Oh yeah: [ul][li] **Jeremy** - Pearl Jam[/li][li] **Paint It, Black** - The Rolling Stones[/li][li]**Boxcars (Carnival of Sorts)** - R.E.M.[/li][li] **Wolves, Lower** - R.E.M.[/li][li] **Jubilee** - 10,000 Maniacs[/li][li] **Send Me An Angel** - Again, the lyrics are innocuous, but the vibe of the song makes you wonder just what the guy is gonna **do** with that angel he wants.[/li] **Saved by Zero** - The Fixx[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/23 "2000-04-02T21:17:00Z")
The Scream–Siouxsie and the Banshees first record. Dark freaky almost unpleasant. Pornography–The Cure. Ditto Anything by Pantera Murder Ballads–Nick Cave. Just what the title said. * * * Perked Ears indicate curiosity - Know Your Cat ---
**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:** [April 2, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/24 "2000-04-02T21:59:00Z")
“Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner” - Warren Zevon. ---
**Author:** ![neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3ab097/32.png) [@neuro-trash\_grrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neuro-trash_grrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/25 "2000-04-02T22:07:00Z")
Back when I was an impressionable youngster, U2’s “With or Without You” really freaked me out, mostly because I interpreted the lyrics literally. * * * Heck is where you go when you don’t believe in Gosh. ---
**Author:** ![GoSensGo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ce73a5/32.png) [@GoSensGo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoSensGo)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/26 "2000-04-02T22:07:00Z")
“They’re coming to take me away…” at 2:30 am on the local radio station pretty much freaked me out more than any other song ever has… -Alex ---
**Author:** ![Studi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Studi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Studi)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/27 "2000-04-02T22:08:00Z")
I don’t see how “I am the Walrus” could be scary. Studi * * * When I grow up, I want to be the Minister of Silly Walks. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/28 "2000-04-02T22:40:00Z")
Echo and the Bunnymen. That’s who did “The Killing Moon.” It finally came to me. An obscure one: [ul][li] **Bible and a Gun** - Jason and the Scorchers. (Song from the perspective of a serial killer.) Sample lyric:[/li] > [@](#): > > I don’t mean to hurt nobody; > I don’t mean to do no wrong; > But something out there’s got me, > And it’s pulling me along… > > Darkness is my virtue, > And emptiness my light; > Stranger, Heaven help you > If our paths should cross tonight… I believe Steve Earle co-wrote that one. Hard to get any creepier than a serial killer song.[/ul] ---
**Author:** ![Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Myron\_Van\_Horowitzski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myron_Van_Horowitzski)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2000, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/29 "2000-04-02T23:16:00Z")
“My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. My Bonnie Lies over the Sea…” Gave me the heebie-jeebies for years. I thought they were saying, “My Body…” Your Brain-in-a-jar, Myron * * * Imbibo, ergo sum. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/30 "2000-04-03T00:46:00Z")
Blues musician Robert Johnson will put a chill on your bones! And “Dark Was The Night-Cold Was The Ground”, by Blind Willie Johnson is my all time spine tingler. It’s been co-opted by Ry Cooder in the “Paris, Texas” soundtrack, and then further diluted in Ford truck commercials. Anytime you hear that long, low, lonesome slide guitar sound, it’s Blind Willie comin’ up from the grave. Nothing compares to the original, though. ---
**Author:** ![Glenoled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c0e974/32.png) [@Glenoled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glenoled)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/31 "2000-04-03T14:56:00Z")
I find Concrete Blonde stuff is a little bit disturbing, but one song I find kinda morbid is “Tomorrow, Wendy, you’re going to die” mind you there’re other bands that freak me alot more than that, but it’s just that I’m listening to that song right now… 🙂 * * * I don’t suffer from insanity… I enjoy every minute of it! ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/32 "2000-04-03T15:16:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Did you ever see the documentary? I think it was called _Hate_, or something like that.\*\* It’s called “Hated”. Not recommended for anyone with a weak stomach. Actually, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone at all. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/33 "2000-04-03T15:25:00Z")
When I was very little The Late Late Movie used to have The Syncopated Clock as its theme. That song still gives me goosbumps. I don’t know why. Also from early childhood. The worms go in, the worms go out Through your stomach and out your mouth. . . ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/34 "2000-04-03T15:31:00Z")
Catrandom: I KNOW them. Met through a radio station I was working for. They’re terribly nice guys, not wierdos. Mostly. The whole freakin’ White Album gives me the heebie jeebies, but I like it. I was raised on the Beatles, and the line from Elenore Rigby: “She keeps her face in a jar by the door,” (or something close to that) always freaked me out. And Jealous Guy by Lennon. If you listen to the words, it sounds as though he’s talking about his stalker 100%, like he not only knew he was going to die, but he knew who was going to kill him. Frightening. Ditto on the Doors, they’re my rainy day music when I feel like being a little spooky. And a lot of Dylan’s stuff gives me the shivers, the protest music. Joe Brown in particular. Off to find some happy music. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/35 "2000-04-03T16:04:00Z")
## I remember being freaked out by two songs when I was growing up (mid-70’s). “Witchy Woman” by The Eagles (the “raven hair” and “sparks fly from her finger tips” lines always made me look nervously around the room) and “Point Blank” by Springsteen ("…But tomorrows fall in number, they number one by one/You wake up and you’re dying, you don’t even know what from."). All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren’t noticing which makes you see something that isn’t even visable. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/36 "2000-04-03T16:34:00Z")
Apparently, no one around here has ever listened to **Trout Mask Replica by _Captain Beefheart_**. Bizarre stuff. Great, but bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![SaxFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SaxFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaxFace)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/37 "2000-04-03T16:38:00Z")
“London Calling” scary? Psssst! Captain Beefheart scary? Ha! Just because something is unusual doesn’t mean the music is _scary_. When I was a kid, I listened to Nina Hagen’s “Nunsexmonkrock”. NOTHING is scary after that. Listen to it on a walkman, in the dark. Your life will change. The soundtrack to “The Omen” is really creepy, too. Great deep Latin churchy vocals and kooky organ. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/38 "2000-04-03T16:39:00Z")
Let me put it this way. If serial killers chose their all time ‘fave’, Trout Mask Replica would be it. The “music” on the album would be completely appropos to be playing while some leather-masked psycho flays his next victim and simultaneously sticks needles in his scrotum. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/39 "2000-04-03T16:39:00Z")
Nobody’s mentioned them yet, but a couple more Stones songs that fit the bill are _Sympathy for the Devil_ and _Midnight Rambler_ (“I’ll stick my knife right down your throat”) AC/DC had a very similar “I’m gonna sneak into your house and kill you song” on the Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Album, _Night Prowler_. _Every Breath You Take_ by the Police is kind of a chilling song when you really listen to the words. It’s a song about an obsessed stalker, masquerading as a love song. * * * “We are here for this – to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to withstand the blows and to hand them out.” Primo Levi ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2000, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/40 "2000-04-03T16:40:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by KarlGauss: > **Apparently, no one around here has ever listened to Trout Mask Replica by _Captain Beefheart_. Bizarre stuff. Great, but bizarre.** Um–I have, lots of times. I agree that it is a great album. Not at all scary though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675.md?page=3)