The Song Fight Bulletin Board

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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'.

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

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!)

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"

The cure's "Lullaby"

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

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.

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

Try Space Baby, and Pretty Polly

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

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

Yup.. And I stand by it.