Recommend some scary music

erik · Post by **erik** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:59 pm

I think I may spend at least part of my Halloween handing out candy to trick or treaters. I have a porch for the first time in a long time, and I might get to decorate it. I want to have scary sounding music playing. So recommend some to me.

Here is what I don't want:

1) Comedy novelty songs.
2) Songs that mention things that are scary in the lyrics, but don't really <i>sound</i> scary.
3) Death metal songs. They just sound funny to me.

It doesn't have to have rattling chains or ghost sound effects in the background, it just has to be scary-sounding. What should I seek out?

Rabid Garfunkel · Post by **Rabid Garfunkel** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:38 pm

Instrumental movie soundtracks!

There's the all time classic, Hitchcock's "Psycho". Does Cronenburg's "Dead Ringers" have a soundtrack? Dunno. Run an IMDB search on Danny Elfman, his soundtrack work can be creepy. "Jaws", maybe.

Check out the soundtrack for "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". No, seriously. It's f'ed up and evil.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:34 pm

I really enjoy for Halloween soundtracks:

Aliens (James Horner)
X-Files: The Truth and the Light (Mark Snow)

I play both of these every year. I know I have others, let me look at home.
-bill

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:58 pm

2001 Space odyssey Soundtrack. ..while, minus the blue danube.. but some of that stuff is great scary music.

mkilly · Post by **mkilly** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 4:22 pm

http://www.oddiooverplay.com/ears/hallowseve/ especially especially especially ted cassidy's "the lurch."
http://www.bride-of-monster-mash.com/

oh I didn't even read your thing, I thought you wanted novelties. uh... yeah, the score to Psycho. and that "Twisted Nerve" song that that girl whistles at the beginning of Kill Bill, also by Hermann. will add later if anything else occurs to me.

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:07 pm

Sounds from Hell

Yup. Actual recordings made straight outta Hades

taken from This crazy website

C'mon .... the screams of the damned has gotta be good Halloween music

Goddamn.... It wont let me link to the files directly.. About halfway down the page is a picture, and in the bottom of the grapic is the actual link
go thre - clik the link - hear scorched souls .. hehehe

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:09 pm

You want some Fields Of The Nephilim. More specifically, you want their second album 'The Nephilim', and even more specifically you want the final track 'Last Exit For The Lost'.

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:14 pm

obscurity wrote:You want some Fields Of The Nephilim. More specifically, you want their second album 'The Nephilim', and even more specifically you want the final track 'Last Exit For The Lost'.

Outstanding call.... the 'brown' album is amazing all the way through..

Last exit... love under will...celebrate...... All class tunes, and they guy McCoy has an amazing voice... a Huge voice from a little dude.

I love the Neph. Seriously they are one of only 2 Goth bands... evrything else is a mere pretender.....the other being Sisters of Mercy..obviously

frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 5:29 pm

Leaf is right. The 2001 soundtrack, particularly the tracks by composer Gyorgi Ligeti are very scary in an unearthly sort of way. More typical is Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain."

(peuso-drunkness makes it hard to type!)

Tonamel · Post by **Tonamel** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:08 am

A lot of the tracks from Aphex Twin's "Selected Ambient Works 2" are pretty moody/disturbing.

And yeah, another vote for Ligeti. I think what they used in 2001 was his "Lux Aeterna"

Niveous · Post by **Niveous** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:58 am

The cure's "Lullaby"

fodroy · Post by **fodroy** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 10:34 am

Tom Waits - "Green Grass"
- "Dirt in the Ground"
- "What's He Building?"

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 12:30 pm

Me$$iah wrote:I love the Neph. Seriously they are one of only 2 Goth bands... evrything else is a mere pretender.....the other being Sisters of Mercy..obviously

You do realise that both the neff & sisters are second generation goth bands, and with that sentence you've completely dismissed all first generation goth bands as irrelevant, right? Not to mention all the later bands that sound nothing like the sisters or the neff (for example, pretty much any bleepygoth band).

Of course, I'll cheerfully admit that I've been ripping the sisters off all my (musical) life.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 3:41 pm

Thelonious Octopus over at The Tapegerm Collective has some pretty creepy stuff

Try Space Baby, and Pretty Polly

Erwin Cloibhofer · Post by **Erwin Cloibhofer** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 4:00 pm

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frankie big face · Post by **frankie big face** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:40 am

How about "On the Run" from Dark Side of the Moon? That's pretty scary, especially if you've never heard it before.

Me$$iah · Post by **Me$$iah** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:27 am

obscurity wrote: You do realise .........

Yup.. And I stand by it.