# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/61 "2000-04-04T14:29:00Z")
**spoke-** : _I Feel You_ is even more creepy, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/62 "2000-04-04T14:32:00Z")
(Trying really _REALLY_ hard not to laugh…) Umm … Voguevixen? The line from Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” is _Sitting on a park bench, **Eyeing little girls with bad intent** _ * * * “We are here for this – to make mistakes and to correct ourselves, to withstand the blows and to hand them out.” Primo Levi ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/63 "2000-04-04T16:22:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Milossarian: > \*\*(Trying really _REALLY_ hard not to laugh…) > > Umm … Voguevixen? The line from Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” is > > _Sitting on a park bench, > **Eyeing little girls with bad intent** _ > > \*\* Which is entirely bad enough… Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/64 "2000-04-05T05:29:00Z")
I’ll bet Ian Anderson would’ve used “Five little girls with severed heads” if he had _thought_ of it at the time. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c67d28/32.png) [@G.B.H.Hornswoggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G.B.H.Hornswoggler)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/65 "2000-04-05T05:51:00Z")
I don’t have any scary-_qua_-scary songs to add, but here are a couple of good creepy ones: ## **No One Lives Forever** by Oingo Boingo **Tokyo Storm Warning** by Elvis Costello, which always seemed to me like the sound of the apocalypse The Violent Femmes have already been mentioned; I find their **Kiss Off** and **Add It Up** particularly creepy, especially in their live versions (since they’re both essentially suicide songs) Tom Waits has lots of creep-out material, notably the entire **The Black Rider** record I’m your only friend I’m not your only friend But I’m a little glowing friend But really I’m not actually your friend But I am ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/66 "2000-04-04T18:14:00Z")
Probably nobody’s heard this one, but Days of The New have a song on their new CD (aptly titled Days of the New 2), I think it’s track 11 or so. It’s not the song itself, it’s the intro. There’s this creepy circus like music, and these strange midget like giggles that sort of float around the car then these wierd noises and random screams and yells fade in, then it slowly dies down. You can hear someone distantly ask if everyone’s okay, getting more and more frantic. Then someone yells “OH MY GOD! It’s starting again!” the end of again is kind of choked off, and more creepy stuff happens. I’ll see if I can’t upload an .mp3 of the intro so you all can hear it. –Tim * * * You can’t accidently create a handicapped baby whilst smoking pot. - **Coldfire** ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/67 "2000-04-04T18:35:00Z")
I agree with the choice of “Love Will Tear us Apart’ by Joy Division. It isn’t really scary, but it is terrifying. You can almost hear Ian Curtis put the gun to his head. His suicide shouldn’t have been a suprise after that song. “Sister Ray” by the Velvet Underground always seemed put me on edge, unlike “Heroin”, which alwasys seemed to be more seductive than scary. Under the category of moral lessons"The Devil’s Right Hand” by Steve Earle was pretty effective. But if you want to listen to a body of work that will send shivers down your spine go for a walk at night down a dark lane with your walkman playing Robert Johnson : _shiver_ Keith ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/68 "2000-04-04T20:57:00Z")
Me and a gun-Tori Amos is **not** nice. Did she jump or was she pushed?-Richard & Linda Thompson ---
**Author:** ![MissMonica7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@MissMonica7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMonica7)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2000, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/69 "2000-04-04T22:50:00Z")
Homer, I have the new Days of the New CD, I just listened to the song you mentioned. Yes, it is creepy. What do you think its supposed to be??? I have Nine Inch Nails’ Further down the spiral, which has remixes of The Downward Spiral. Some of the songs are pretty weird in a scary way. Also, On The Run (Pink Floyd, DSOTM)is intense. It’s freaked me out before. * * * “I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t, i mean s-m-a-r-t” ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/70 "2000-04-05T01:47:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Milossarian: > \*\*(Trying really _REALLY_ hard not to laugh…) > > Umm … Voguevixen? The line from Jethro Tull’s “Aqualung” is > > _Sitting on a park bench, > **Eyeing little girls with bad intent** _ > > \*\* You know, I remembered that as soon as I posted, but I’d thought it “severed heads” for YEARS when I was a kid, until I was a teenager and heard it clearly on a good stereo, haha. * * * **Boycott Circuit City** (See my thread in the pit) ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/71 "2000-04-05T15:04:00Z")
What about Nirvana’s accoustic version of “My Girl” from the Unplugged CD? Kurt just sounds completely hopeless. The 80s threads inspired me to listen to a compilation I have, and was creeped out…again…by “I eat Cannibals” by Total Coelo. Eep. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/72 "2000-04-05T15:33:00Z")
**SwimmingRiddles** wrote: > [@](#): > > What about Nirvana’s accoustic version of “My Girl” from the Unplugged CD? Good one! I had thought about that one too, but wasn’t sure of the title. In a similar vein, there are a number of so-called “murder ballads” in the bluegrass genre which are pretty creepy. (Typical theme: Man catches wife or lover cheating. Man kills wife/lover in graphically detailed fashion. Man goes to prison or is sentenced to death. Man sings mournful song.) I mentioned a couple of R.E.M. tunes from the “Chronic Town” E.P. Really, all of the songs on **Chronic Town** , and most of the songs on R.E.M.'s first Album **Murmur** , have a pretty creepy feel to them if you ask me, thanks largely to the production of Mitch Easter. We’re putting together a pretty creepy soundtrack with this thread. Now all we need is a good script. * * * –In France I’m considered a genius. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/73 "2000-04-05T15:35:00Z")
Lou Reed’s “Kicks” was disturbing to me, in that I was really getting into the beat and all that the first time I heard it, feeling that it was a really cool song, and only toward the end I realized that it was talking about the thrill of committing murder. “Much better than sex.” Somehow the recorded conversations interspersed with the melody made it really creepy, especially right after the line “how the blood ran down his ankles”–it raises the hair on the back of my neck every time I hear it. “Perfect Day” was also disturbing, but in a different way. “Such a perfect day/You made me forget myself/I thought I was someone else, someone good/You’re gonna reap just what you sow”. And I’m surprised no one has mentioned the Beatles’ “Within Without You”. Scary stuff, that\*. ## DHR \*Note: irony used here. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/74 "2000-04-05T15:44:00Z")
Speaking of Murder Ballads, let’s throw in the moldy oldie “In the Pines.” Recorded by everyone from Bill Monroe to Dolly parton to Dave Van Ronk. Girl does _something_ bad, not very clear what, and _someone’s_ going off in the pines, in the pines, where the sun never shines. To bury something? To be buried? And then there’s the line about how “his head was never found.” * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/75 "2000-04-05T16:05:00Z")
**Ukelele Ike** wrote: > [@](#): > > Speaking of Murder Ballads, let’s throw in the moldy oldie “In the Pines.” Yeah, that’s the song **SwimmingRiddles** and I are talking about. Nirvana covered it on their “Unplugged” CD under the title (apparently) of “My Girl”. ---
**Author:** ![MrKnowItAll](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrknowitall/32/87_2.png) [@MrKnowItAll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrKnowItAll)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/76 "2000-04-07T21:46:00Z")
Checking in with the gratuitous Rush recording: “Witch Hunt” from _Moving Pictures_ is very frightening. * * * _God is my co-pilot. Blame Him._ ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/77 "2000-04-07T22:07:00Z")
“Psycho”, as covered by Elvis Costello. It is an old Leon Payne song featuring the lyric "I know you think I’m Psycho, but Mama, I didn’t mean to break your cup. Keith * * * You want brilliance BEFORE I’ve had my coffee!!! ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2000, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/78 "2000-04-07T22:10:00Z")
And here are the lyrics. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Psycho Can Mary fry some fish, mama I’m as hungry as can be Oh lord, how I wish, mama You could stop the baby cryin’ 'Cause my head is killing me I saw my ex again last night mama She was at the dance at Miller’s store She was with that Jackie White mama I killed them both And they’re buried under Jacob’s sycamore You think I’m psycho don’t you mama I didn’t mean to break your cup You think I’m psycho don’t you mama You better let 'em lock me up Oh, don’t hand me Johnny’s pup mama As I might squeeze him too tight I’m havin’ crazy dreams again mama So let me tell you 'bout last night I woke up in Johnny’s room mama Standing right there by his bed With my hands around his throat mama Wishing both of us were dead You think I’m psycho don’t you mama I just killed Johnny’s pup You think I’m psycho don’t you mama You’d better let 'em lock me up Oh you recall that little girl mama I believe her name was Betty Clark Oh don’t tell me that she’s dead mama 'Cause I just saw her in the park We were sitting on a bench mama Thinking of a game to play Seems I was holding a wrench mama Then my mind just walked away You think I’m psycho don’t you mama I didn’t mean to break your cup You think I’m psycho don’t you mama Mama why don’t you get up? ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/79 "2000-04-08T01:01:00Z")
It’s not really in the “Murder Ballad” genre but more the “dead girlfriend” genre, I remember staying up late one night listening to “SuperGold” (syndicated radio oldies show) and they played a song called “Ebony Eyes” by I believe the Everly Brothers. It was about how some girl was flying home to finally be with her true love and the plane crashed and she died. BLECH! I was up all night because I was too creeped out to sleep! * * * “That’s impossible! Cartman doesn’t know a rainforest from a Pop-Tart!” “Yes I do! Pop-Tarts are frosted!” ---
**Author:** ![Eerie\_icewater\_mansions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Eerie\_icewater\_mansions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eerie_icewater_mansions)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2000, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675/80 "2000-04-08T03:40:00Z")
**Run Through The Jungle** - CCR **God Only Knows** - the Beach Boys **Strange Angels** - Elmore James Several songs from Queensryche’s ‘Rage for Order’ album: **Gonna Get Close To You**" (another stalking song, but it doesn’t creep me out as much as it used to. Was written by a woman, too!) **Walk In The Shadows** (for the first lines - You say you’re through with me/Well, I’m not through with you" _shiver_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scary-records/15675.md?page=5)