# Songs that scared you when you were young **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2001, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823 "2001-08-24T01:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![peptastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@peptastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peptastic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/121 "2016-08-15T19:08:03Z")
The song “moving in stereo” by the Cars frightened me and my siblings. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/122 "2016-08-16T14:10:28Z")
For me it was “Good Vibrations”: the [electrotheremin](http://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2013/02/07/171385175/no-it-wasn-t-a-theremin-on-good-vibrations-remembering-paul-tanner) sounded like whatever had been used to make the fake UFO sound on an episode of _The Brady Bunch_. That episode had frightened me, and for a while whenever “Good Vibrations” came on the radio I had to turn it off. > [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > The B-side, which as \*\*burpo \*\*describes was the part with the instrument announcements, was simply titled “Tubular Bells” with no subtitle. I’ve had _Tubular Bells 2_ practically since its release in 1992: my favorite track is a 7-minute piece called “The Bell,” which has instrument announcements by the glorious Alan Rickman. As much as I love it I’ve never bothered to look into _Tubular Bells_ (or _Tubular Bells 3_), so I’ve never heard the Viv Stanshall version (and didn’t know it existed). ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2016, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/123 "2016-08-16T14:22:51Z")
I found the Beatles’s “For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!” and “Blue Jay Way” both kind of scary and unsettling when I was very young. Also Chicago’s “Wishing You Were Here,” but not quite as strongly. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2016, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/124 "2016-08-20T02:18:02Z")
In 15 years, no one has mentioned “1999”? Loved that song as a kid, except for the end. The little kid asking why everybody has a bomb? Creepy as fuck. Gah! ---
**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:** [August 20, 2016, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/125 "2016-08-20T02:42:11Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > If she _was_ there would it have been less creepy? I thought he meant the Zombies’ “Care of Cell 44.” What WAS she in prison for, anyway?..it was…MURDER, wasn’t it? Or something worse? ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2016, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823/126 "2016-08-21T19:18:36Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > If she _was_ there would it have been less creepy? How do you know what song he’s talking about? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-scared-you-when-you-were-young/77823.md?page=6)