Just for Halloween, lets do creepy songs....
Just for Halloween, lets do creepy songs....
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The Hypno-Toad

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13,298 posts

234 months

Monday 31st October 2011
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Songs that for some reason send that bit of a chill down your spine....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beQ7YrjLJ2U
Peter Gabriel - No Self Control. A man on the very brink and he knows what he might do next. A paranoid delusion set to music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IBlz1_J-rY&fea...
The Freemasons - Uninvited. The dance beat makes this version of the Morrisette song more urgent, more frantic as she tries to tell her stalker that she can never be his.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPHe4A9Yj0&NR=... (slighty nsfw & painfully 80s)
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur. Just plain creepy. You can't describe it in any other way. It sounds like a horror film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rcpZWAXIDY&fea...
Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe. Why has Billy Joe faked his own death? And if he isn't dead, just what have you thrown into the river? A song that poses far more questions than it answers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hhAfDzBa-A
Sabres Of Paradise - Wilmot. Always makes me think of one of those New Orleans funeral processions. Only I don't think I want to know what they are burying...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWt6XxP2biE
Elvis Costello - I Want You. If you've never heard it before at 0:56 you suddenly realise Mr Costello is having a really bad day. Its the thoughts of a serial killer put to music and if you were the lady he's singing to, its time to bolt the doors.


Any others?





traffman

2,263 posts

238 months

Monday 31st October 2011
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Type o negative ,,,evrything dies is a good call.

robsco

7,875 posts

205 months

Monday 31st October 2011
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The Cold Song, Klaus Nomi.

_dodge_

179 posts

229 months

Monday 31st October 2011
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Not all songs but creepy (to me) nonetheless...

Ben Frost - Killshot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43YG2bsEQtM

Add N to (X) - Revenge of the Black Regent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNu4TZIkls

Delia Derbyshire - Nightwalker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rnF7KRqGKo

Deathprod - Dead People's Things
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg13kHZtppQ

Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer up a Hill
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymel0MFcaHc

Jóhann Jóhannsson - Dying City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2eW8vm42-g

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Red Right Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrxePKps87k&ob=...

Low - Dragonfly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDwa05ktwJ0

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLjup934Rk

Husker Du - Diane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTy8GGyUgBQ

Joy Division - Dead Souls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhEm4S-4v_U

Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy JR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otx49Ko3fxw


spiritof'76

1,424 posts

253 months

Monday 31st October 2011
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Easy really....................

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtLlmrrCajA

Vieste

10,532 posts

189 months

Vimto156

246 posts

197 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Bit Late i know but:

Tool - Prison sex

http://youtu.be/F5sIXUbMgF0


And i claim my £5

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

290 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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The Hypno-Toad said:
Songs that for some reason send that bit of a chill down your spine....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rcpZWAXIDY&fea...
Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe. Why has Billy Joe faked his own death? And if he isn't dead, just what have you thrown into the river? A song that poses far more questions than it answers...
Never understood this song at all. Agree it's creepy, but thought someone had murdered Billy-Jo because she was pregnant?

C2james

4,685 posts

194 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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"haunted" by Poe is very good, it was used in the Alan wake video game.

Meteor Madness

421 posts

231 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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This is Creepy.

anonymous-user

83 months

Tuesday 1st November 2011
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Latecomer

VAST-Pretty when you cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOZ6ptqcbUc

Scala and Kolacny Brothers- Creep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axrqVfuGHh0

The Hypno-Toad

Original Poster:

13,298 posts

234 months

Wednesday 2nd November 2011
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Tyre Smoke said:
The Hypno-Toad said:
Songs that for some reason send that bit of a chill down your spine....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rcpZWAXIDY&fea...
Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe. Why has Billy Joe faked his own death? And if he isn't dead, just what have you thrown into the river? A song that poses far more questions than it answers...
Never understood this song at all. Agree it's creepy, but thought someone had murdered Billy-Jo because she was pregnant?
It can't be because the song says that the preacher had seen her & Billy Joe throwing something off the bridge. My theories for what they are worth are;

1.) Billy Joe or the girl has murdered someone for whatever reason and they both chucked the corpse into the river. He's taken the blame and now done a runner.
2.) The preacher never says the size of the thing that they saw being thrown off the bridge. The girl's stillborn/aborted baby & again Billy Joes done a runner in case anyone did find out?

& my favourite
3.) Given the time that the song came out, has Billy Joe & the girl faked his death so he could dodge the Vietnam draft?

Curious song whatever it means.