"Unsettling" recordings

[evan]

Does The Conet Project count?

I don't think many recordings seriously freak me out, but here's few ones that hit you in that unusual kind of way:

Syd Barrett, Madcap Laughs and, when in Pink Floyd, Piper at The Gates of Dawn -- the default crazed-songwriter, right?
The Soft Machine, One and Two -- not so much freaky, but very obscure, twisted yet enchanting kind of music. I really love them.
The Reverend Lester Knox of Tifton Georgia -- may not qualify for a proper recording release, but it's very weird. It's the 'best of' of a certain crazed reverend broadcasting out to Radioland. Biblical, hysterical (as in mad), downright hilarious.
Furious Pig, I Don't Like Your Face EP -- kind of a maniacal post-punk English version of Bali chant. Their vocal harmonies are eerie at times, but also very humorous. This Heat have the same kind of vocal interactions.
The Residents, Third Reich N' Roll -- I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but I have to say the first track is seriously disorienting.

[Submersible]

Subliminal Sandwich - Meat Beat Manifesto
Fantastic Planet - Failure

[CharlesM]

This is very interesting. Thanks for the replies.

Todd wrote:

Man, that Sparklehorse record is Gorgeous! Whadda ya mean "you've got to be sick to like that kind of stuff??? I think you've got to be sick to like Techno.

Todd, for the record, my statement was actually "I think you have to be possessed by something to make music like this."

Believe me, I like it. It is a gorgeous record. Either that or I should stop eating squirrel meat.

Chuck

[floid]

Oar - Skip Spence
z'ev
rumah sakit

[lyman]

the first album that comes to mind is Baader Meinhoff - "the hate socialist collective". i think it was the dude from the band The Auteurs if anybody knows about them. anyway, the Baader Meinhoff album is a bunch of songs written from the point of view of terrorists, revolutionaries, thugs, etc. Mind you, this was probably '99 or '00 that it came out so a song like "meet me at the airport" has taken on a whole new meaning in post 9/11 america. it's kinda creepy.

[red cross]

Anything by Diamanda Galas.

"Counterfeit" by Martin L. Gore.

"Within the Realm of a Dying Sun" by Dead Can Dance.

[Lilainjil]

Bartok: Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste. Written on the eve of WW2. The sound of impending doom. Remember Jack in the maze at the end of The Shining? Brrrr.

Diamanda Galas. I agree.

Eno/Byrne: The Jezebel Spirit

Gyorgi Ligeti: Lux Aerterna "one of the most harrowing, apocalyptic compositions of 20th century Western music"

Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

Lisa Germano: the track from Geek the Girl with the 911 call

Screaming Jay Hawkins: I Put A Spell on You

Anton Webern: Six Bagatelles (Kronos Quartet/Winter Was Hard)

King Crimson: Red, Larks' Tongue Part 2, Starless (the last 8 minutes or so)

Brian Eno: Bone Bomb (last track on his new album Another Day on Earth)

Bach: Musical Offering, Canon Circularis per Tonos. Cycles through the keys rising chromatically. This little number is truly creepy. Just ripe for pilfering by some Hollywood music supervisor.

John Coltrane: Ascension


Apart from Screaming Jay ("my main man so bug off"), any of this stuff is guaranteed to clear a party.

Well, so much for my first post to TapeOp. Cool thread. Great list.

Andy

[;ivlunsdystf]

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" prelude. The gimmick is that he never settles on a tonic, so the music is always 'striving' for a resolution that never happens. The effect is quite agitating.

[adrianpike]

The last Elliot Smith album, for reasons both music-related and not.

That's for sure.

[Shields]

New Order - In A Lonely Place. It's the really icy keyboards that do it to me.

Brian Jones Presents the Pipes at Pan is an intense recording. The rhaita (sp?) instruments that the musicians of Jajouka use are ear splitting.

[John Jeffers]

Fantomas - Delirium Cordia

[SaneMan]

I second Fantomas(any album), was kind of surprised nobody mentioned that yet.

Before I listened to them so much that they've become the constant soundtrack to my thoughts, TOOL - "H.", "Pushit", and "Third Eye" used to freak me out

I just got Rapeman <i>Two Nuns and A Pack Mule</i> and it freaked me out more than anything I've heard in awhile. I love this album, complete chaos w/ David Wm. Sims on Bass and Albini on Gtr(and singing?), can't go wrong.

Butt probably my favorite as far as eerie/unsettling goes is - and you might need to break out the bong to truly appreciate this - the back to back combo of Butthole Surfers' "Dog Inside Your Body" & "Strawberry." "Dust Devil"(a few tracks later) is pretty crazy too. Such a driving riff(crank up the bass), then at the end everything fades out butt the dueling noise guitars... Pure genius

[Kyle Motor]

Two pages of creepy music and Jandek has yet to be brought up? I've only heard a couple of songs once or twice, they stick out as the creepiest things I've ever heard, and that was before I was aware of his legend.

[charlievela]

Anything by The Residents. A friend of mine had that DVD of theirs.... creeped the hell out of me. What's worse is it's hard to get it out of your head, so you feel like you're losing your mind.

[bplr]

Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

holy moley. have you guys seen the chris cunningham video for that?

http://www.sputnik7.com/vod/index.jsp?s ... c&key=ctdd

i pooed myself when that screaming in the old lady's face part came on.