Songs that give you "the creeps".....

[charp13]

Zardoz- I think alot of those 60s/70s tv theme songs were menacing! They were so scary when you heard them that you wanted to run to your room and hide! MANNIX!!

[Zachareed]

Pink Floyd's "Welcome to the Machine" is profoundly disturbing to me. Musically and lyrically. So cold and dark.

[Fester]

For most here it seems context has as much influence as the nature of the song.

For me the number one case of a song creeping me out was this one.
As Sophia Patrillo would say: "Picture It."  Late October.  The end of the day.  I'm the last one in the building.  I'm turning all the lights off and am walking down a hallway lit only by the soft green glow of the emergency exit lights.  When suddenly, my wife decides to call me on my cell phone.  Of course, for some reason, the volume was way up.  And the ring tone I had selected a couple of days before?
This:
Tubular Bells

[Zombiology]

THERE COMING TO TAKE ME AWAY - unsure of artist on this one

This was by Napolean the IVth.  The flip side of the 45 was called YAWA EM EKAT OT GNIMOC EREHT which was the song title backwards and the song itself was backwards as well.  Really strange sounding.

Haven't really had a song creep me out though there are some really weird ones out there.  In the late 60s, The Troggs had a hit single called Wild Thing which was parodied by someone pretending to be Bobby Kennedy and was billed as Senator Kenedy.  It came out just before Bobby was assassiniated so not many copies made it out of the decade.  The flip side was by someone pretending to be Senator Everett Dirkson as the Republican answer to the A side.

In the late 70s, four of us threw a Halloween party in that we took half of the basement and turned into a maze.  If you survived the maze, you could make it to the game room which had a foosball table, pool table and a Six Million Dollar Man pinball machine along with a wet bar and room enough to dance.  We put together a party tape where every third song would be Halloween related.  We had songs Like Monster Mash, Blue Oyseter Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper mixed in with normal songs like Zep's Whole Lotta Love and Beatles' While My Guitar...   When the opening bars to the Knack's My Sharona started, all the ladies threw their heads back and started getting in the groove.  But, when The Chipmonks started singing the vocals, we got the most shocked, creepiest looks from all the ladies because they knew who put the tapes together.  We almost went back into the maze and hid!!

[The Drunken Severed Head]

Anything by Celine Dion makes me want to run from the room in panic.

Okay seriously--Zardoz' choice "Swamp Witch Hattie" is one that I find nicely creepy.

But I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus. Gave me nice shudders the first time I heard it, and I still love it.

"Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave works for me too.

The gunshots in "Creep" by Radiohead gave me a chill when I first heard the song.

[Zombiology]

Ooops, correction: Napoleon the XIVth.

[Fester]

Of course, if you include music videos, this guy is about 10 on the Creep-O-Meter.
RUMMELSNUFF - Mongoloid


This guy is clear off the scale . . .

Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)

[Zardoz]

The soundtrack for Lucio Fulci's ZOMBI 2  has always been creepy to me and really fit the movie well !!!

[The Drunken Severed Head]

One of my all-time favorites!

The Coffinshakers - Halloween

[The Drunken Severed Head]

And here's an anthem for Universal (and other) monster lovers everywhere!

The Voronas - I Love My Monsters

The band is a current and active band in England. Photos of the band can be seen here:

http://www.myspace.com/thevoronas/photos/21124185#%7B%22ImageId%22%3A22864286%7D

And they have a Facebook page you can like (I did!)

https://www.facebook.com/TheVoronas

Their lead singer, Carolina Fasolo, is interesting to me. Her vocal and visual style reminds me of Marlene Dietrich, Amy Winehouse, and someone else I can't recall the name of!

[marsattacks666]

The soundtrack to Cannibal Holocaust. Creepy.

[Unknown Primate]

For most here it seems context has as much influence as the nature of the song.

For me the number one case of a song creeping me out was this one.
As Sophia Patrillo would say: "Picture It."  Late October.  The end of the day.  I'm the last one in the building.  I'm turning all the lights off and am walking down a hallway lit only by the soft green glow of the emergency exit lights.  When suddenly, my wife decides to call me on my cell phone.  Of course, for some reason, the volume was way up.  And the ring tone I had selected a couple of days before?
This:
Tubular Bells

Man, I hear ya!  I had that album and naturally, every time I played it, I thought of "that" movie.  I had the lp for about a month before I ever played the flip side - until one dark & creepy night.  It was about one in the morning and I was sitting at my desk, drawing weird pictures to go with the background music.  After the first side played, I got up & flipped the record over and it started playing.  I sat back down & started drawing a picture of a DEVIL, like a fool .  Well, about halfway through side 2, those strange, guttural "Piltdown Man" vocalizations started roaring out of the speakers - sounded to me like Regan!  I got chills, quit drawing the devil, jumped up, took the album off the turntable - and put on a Gordon Lightfoot LP.

I was around 18 back then - Nowadays, those vocalizations are one of my favorite parts of side 2!

[Scatter]

The Voronas - I Love My Monsters

This is going straight to my iTouch Max!! 

[Fester]

I think I have a new crush . . .

The Priscillas - All My Friends Are Zombies

[Monster Kid]

Angie Baby --  I agree, that is a very creepy pop song.  HATE it.

I Started a Joke (Which Started the Whole World Crying) .. has been a disturbing song to me ever since I heard it in the Sixties.

Short People -- I don't like songs that seem to promote one thing and then end up promoting something else... just how is this a funny song?  Just creepy.