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Music that Scares the Crap out of You
StoreTags: nightmare, shark eyes, music, scary
Author: license on December 15 2007 Viewed 2977 times. 8 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I just woke up from this cool/scary but subtle dream and now I'm trying to think of music that gives me the willies. All I can think of is a few tracks from Richard Devine's Cautella and they don't quite do it but get close, sets the mood well - "RSL-Com", "Orr Unfolding" . Depending on the time of day, a couple tracks from SAW2, especially the 2nd CD. Parts of Draft 7.30 give me the creeps but don't quite scare me. Venetian Snares tries pretty hard on every album but the only thing that gives me the shivers is "In Quod" and a couple others from Winter in the Belly of a Snake. Unfortunately I've been listening too much electronic stuff lately and can't think of anything else.
There's also a couple of horror movies and video games that had awesome, scary music like Metroid and Silent Hill. I can't think of any others right now because the best scary music for movies you don't even realize is there, it just becomes part of the mood. | |
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sohcahtoa
The soundtrack for "The Machinist" has some really creepy moments on it.
Ruin/Psyingo's Signal to Noise e.p. has some really eerie moments as well.
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license
tantan said: "the Ligeti music that teh Kubricks put into 2001 and The Shining - that stuff used to make me very very super uncomfortable and miserable"
Hell yeah! That stuff is freakin awesome, thanks for reminding me!
astroid said: "fear is music, i think, is almost impossible to achieve."
I've heard very few pieces of music that achieved fear by virtue of sound alone. on the other hand, I've seen very few images that did it by visuals alone (except for that shark picture, I first saw it months ago and I still nearly shit my pants every time I look at it). I think it's an amazing thing to achieve, though. fear is such a visceral emotion, it goes right to the core and can transcend cultural and personal barriers in ways that are extremely difficult in art. and most of the stuff that really terrifies has this weird existential hope in it that's hard to explain.
[astroid]lynch...[/quote]
Inland Empire was scary as shit but I can't even remember the sound - I remember it basically propelling the visuals, sort of the opposite of Silent Hill.
I should go back and re-watch Twin Peaks. I was pretty young when it was on TV and I haven't watched it since. I remember this one episode where someone was talking about a white house in the woods and that really left an impression on me, created a place in my mind.
Oh and that reminds me! Tracks 1-3 of CH-VOX by Seefeel bring me to that place, out in the middle of the woods as darkness falls all around.
So does disc 2 of Subliminal Sandwich by Meat Beat Manifesto, mostly "The Woods" and "Plexus". Come to think of it "Three Floors Above You" from Actual Sounds and Voices does it for me too.
this one specific song used in doom 2
which? I used to play/"hack" it almost religiously...
Thanks for some of these recommendations.
I've had an interest in fear in music that I don't discuss very often but it's pretty exciting to me, I think it's largely still a frontier. It's something you can't fake, you can adopt traditional "horror" elements into your aesthetic, like the flaming skulls, medieval torture devices and inverted crosses of metal, but the real fear, the languid, comes out of bizarre, often otherwise banal places and I don't think you can get there without sincerity and vulnerability. My most terrifying nightmares, for example, often take place in abandoned but otherwise perfectly normal school buildings and hit me in a way that's very hard to explain.
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papergoose
the fool on the hill, Beatles.
Mostly because of very, very, "enhanced" viewing of Magical Mystery Tour in my old experimental days.
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Analog
+1 for kubrick's choice of score in The Shining.
It's those kettle drums that do it.
I have to say that Sunn O))) playing live was one of the most awe-inspiring, frightening things i've ever seen. Relentless, dark, deep droning. The vocals were a bit too loud in the mix but with the costumes, lighting and the fact that we were asked to evacuate the building just before they came on - and nobody did - made it truly scary. It would send a lot of people under.
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leo anibaldi- the story becomes
actually it doesnt scare- its quite emotional though
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Fredo
Music for Strings Percussion and Celeste is the kettle drum theme I believe you are referring to in the Shining.
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Roshi
Akuma no Kuma - Sunn o))) and Boris.
This track always scares the crap out of me, especially because of the horns and the vocoded voice
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