"Unsettling" recordings

seaneldon · Post by **seaneldon** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:41 pm

all don caballero.

almost every sleater-kinney album.

dismemberment plan's "change".

jcooke · Post by **jcooke** » Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:56 pm

For creep factor no one can beat "Spinal Meningitis", complete with dying kid voice and all.

Jeremy

DJEmbarrassment · Post by **DJEmbarrassment** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:28 am

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star.

Intro to Beach Boys "California Girls" (it weirds me out - in a good way)

United States of America's (only?) record

kayagum · Post by **kayagum** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 8:49 am

For all time, all out creepiness- Kronos Quartet: Black Angels

Creepy weirdness- Nurse with Wound.

hh · Post by hh » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:42 am

the eeriest track i've heard in the last few years is "Hana" by Asa-Chang and Jun Ray. it's the first track off their record "Jun Ray Song Chang" on Leaf. it sort of inverts classical indian music's idea of tabla rhythms being mimicked by spoken syllables (bols) and instead, they take spoken chinese and fit tabla to it. this description makes it sound sort of world music, but it's more like a cross bewteen The Books and 13 & God at their scariest moments. it's amazing.

gbhansen666 · Post by **gbhansen666** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:47 am

When I first got my 7" of Brujeria - Machetazos, I played it at 33 instead of 45...creepiest, grindingest sounds I'd ever heard...

Fieryjack · Post by **Fieryjack** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:51 am

Great thread...thanks for posting. For me, the most eerie or unsettling song (and I don't know why) is

Time in a Bottle (By Jim Croce)......chord progression, his voice, minor to major change.....beautifull by definitely unsettling.

Knights Who Say Neve · Post by **Knights Who Say Neve** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:24 am

Nurse With Wound. Definately.

Muslimgauze.

Einsturzende Neubauten.

getreel · Post by **getreel** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:56 pm

Mine are from my new wave teen years:

Depeche Mode-Music For the Masses-this is dark in a really 80s way.

The Cure pretty much their entire 80s catalog but paticularly Disintegration and Head on the Door. Pornograohy is way too dark for me. I also really like the spooky tracks "Charlotte Sometimes", "A Forest", and "Jumping Someone Elses Train" but forget which albums they are from.

Other ones:

Jeff Buckley's Grace is a very eerie but beautiful album, one of my favorites both music and production wise.

black mariah · Post by **black mariah** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 1:11 pm

Khanate - Things Viral

Thread over. I win.

FENder6 · Post by **FENder6** » Fri Feb 17, 2006 9:43 pm

*Track 2 ("Always and Never") from the new Coheed and Cambria disc "Good Apollo" - a Floyd-ish acoustic number that ends with the lines:

Here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear
For one kiss from you
So here... I'm... I'm still waiting here, my dear
To kill all of you
To kill all of you

. . is a beautifully creepy song.

* Todd Rundgren's "Blue Orpheus" from the excellent "A Capella" is eerily wonderful. Hell, the whole album is!

* Anything by George Thorogood literally scares the hell outta me! ; ]

- Billy

seaneldon · Post by **seaneldon** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 1:37 am

black mariah wrote:Khanate - Things Viral

Thread over. I win.

yes you certainly do. my friend listens to that shit on headphones while riding the subway, staring at the people around him.

AstroDan · Post by **AstroDan** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:51 am

Re: Aphex Twin...

holy moley. have you guys seen the chris cunningham video for that? i pooed myself when that screaming in the old lady's face part came on.

That's the video. That is a good nightmare video.

You know how the best horror movies are all grainy and low-budget? Guided By Voices real early stuff has that 'good times in the psychiatric ward' feel, too.

nick_a · Post by **nick_a** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:19 pm

"lonely mountain" by mugison. that whole record creeps me out. really nutty usage of clicky noises and panning.

kdarr · Post by **kdarr** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:23 pm

I gotta third that Fantomas album... that scares absolute shit out of me.

Some of the early His Name is Alive stuff is pretty creepy... "Can't Go Wrong Without You" is just... eek.

John Zorn's "Leng T'Che" album is relentless. Actually lots of Zorn stuff is spooky shit.

Brutal Truth had a noise track on the Need to Control album called "Ironlung" that still grosses me out. It's just this collection of awful sucking and wheezing mechanical noises. Yerk.

Any of the old Birthday Party stuff is pretty hair-raising.

Goblin's soundtrack to Susperia is goddamn creepy.

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