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Most disturbing songs of all time...

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by ashstreath85

take this one seriously.

I nominate this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg5_EFzAyGY
The Boiler by The Specials ft. Rhoda Dakar (gotta listen to it, but it might just be the once I warn you)

and the classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YprQnzRfjg
Frankie Teardrop by Suicide. A bit like watching Inland Empire with a hangover. Which I did. Which is one of the worst mistakes I ever made...

ashstreath85 | 05 May '08, 01:02 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbBwFdKDaKw

this got to me for quite a while


Jesus

That is really quite scary, and I'm not entirely sure why.


crap

I meant to post this under the scott walker one. It's pretty obvious why THIS one is creepy... fucking clowns.


left alive

i'm the only one

left alive


agreed

i'd also like to nominate "clara" from that same album


that suicide one was a relief when it finished

made me feel a bit sick too


Diane

Diane by Husker Du. Im not putting a link up, Fuck You if you dont already have it haunting your head!


The Black Mass: An Electric Storm In Hell by The White Noise

Aumgn by Can
Very Friendly by Throbbing Gristle
I Have A Special Plan For This World by Current 93


That Rise Against video

Is one of the worst music videos I've ever seen.

Tori Amos - Me and a Gun...one of the only songs i've heard where i actually wept at the end of hearing it, and have never listened to it since. Be warned.


oh god

Frankie Teardrop made me want to puke after i heard it for the first time


& i'll nominate

all of the From Her To Eternity album by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. i like Cave's voice on that - he sounds like a snotty, punk demon.


if xiu xiu do not win this thread

then something is wrong.


nothing compares to

"Goodnight" by Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M.

This makes my skin physically crawl every time i listen to it. I love it.


I agree with

Frankie Teardrop for sure. I love that song, I love that album, I love that band!


Diane by Husker Du....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqnvmlGeCKk

I think its the song's subject matter that really makes it more disturbing.


Whoops

I actually meant Persuasion by TG (not on Youtube), Convincing People is pretty shudder worthy, but Persuasion is poopantsworthy


Slug Bait by Throbbing Gristle

In fact, most of their music.


Does Eminem count?

I'd like to nominate "Kim"


try and find

Lysergic Acid by Batdan. Now THAT is a scary track..


Martin by Soft Cell

"Martin was a lonely boy..."

It is the anguished screams of Martin at the end that will send a shiver up your crack.


swans

cop


jordan, minnesota

by big black.

(There is a version on youtube but I'm not sophisticated enough to be able to post it)


Here's another

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpL9jCNI0Jc

the bit with the crying kids = not nice.


Frankie Teardrop is horribly great

10 minutes of bleakness and that tapping that makes you feel a bit sick


Jezebel

Spirit by Eno and Byrne off My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Features a recording of an exorcism. I was on my own in a tent listening to John Peel on my transistor radio when I first heard it. Couldn't go to sleep...


Tori Amos - Me and a Gun

a song about her being raped. not exactly easy listening


Lennon's

"Mother" is pretty harrowing, as is Marianne Faithfull's "Why'd Ya Do It?"

Noel Gallagher once commented that Mother covered subject matter and expressed emotions that shouldn't be aired in a song. What. A. Twat.


ah yes, 'Why D'ya Do It?'

that's a great song, i love its venom and bitterness (the 'you drove my ego into a really bad skid' line makes me cringe though). i dont find it unlistenably painful though like 'me and a gun'


haha, maybe

but none quite so literally as that one


Thank you

For introducing that specials song into my life.
Is it wrong i can't stop listening to it?


No. It's called morbid fascination

It also happens to be totally brilliant.

I'm glad someone has FINALLy commented on it!


I've always found frankie

a bit comic rather than truly disturbing. Maybe if I heard it as the first Suicide song I'd listened to. I've never seen the video though!:D


final sac by swans

"oh jesus, you're my only gurl"

and he's talkin bout JESUS!


Diamanda and Nick C.

they've kick out some seriously twisted jams


*kicked

: 0


Diamanda's

album, Plague Mass, about her brother dying of AIDS is a barrel-load of fun...


Is that really what it's about?

I know it had something to do with AIDS, but I didn't know it was specifically about her brother. 'Plague Mass' certainly gets my vote on one of the most disturbing albums, as does her 1982 masterpiece 'The Litanies Of Satan'. Buy it now.


Beefheart and Zappa

look it up


Residents

4 decades of disturbing shit


...

...but also very amusing as well. Could file under 'not dead serious'. ;-) Same could be said of Beefheart and Zappa...


Amy In The White Coat by Bright Eyes

Such an uncomfortable song to listen to:

He says "We all follow the rules
We can't very well go and break them now, can we
For you?
Your older sisters, I've had them too
But you're my favorite, you know it's true
You look like your mother, in that thin disguise
Your parting mouth, your shutting eyes
And the way that you hate me, and the length of your hair
It's the reason I made you, it's the bond that we share


Makeshift Swaheli

by This Heat, check it out it's spine tingling


yeah absolutely fucking terrifying screaming

ive never heard a scream like it


I Want You

By Elvis Costello.


^ this


^^

"And did you call his name out as he held you down?"

Terrifying song. Creepy as fuck.


I performed

this at an open mic night in Hull circa 2001, it was scary but for very different reasons i.e. I was shit.


Yeah Frankie Teardrop

is the one really i guess.

i'd also say jandek stuff is pretty unsettling...and obviously whitehouse but that goes without saying


Radiohead

Climbing Up The Walls is pretty spooky, especially when he yells at the end.

Bizzarely my girlfriend's favourite Radiohead song.


and mine!

wanna go out?


wierd coincidence

It really is a wierd coincidence that I just posted about this song - 'Lords Of The String' by The Power Lords. It's not necessarily disturbing in the sense that you meant but it's certainly disturbing in its own way!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iGUiu0dHYuw


Something Stupid

by Frank and Nancy Sinatra is a bit creepy when you think about it


more than A BIT creepy

that said, Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman's version of that is pretty filthy (video wise) try projecting that into your head while listening to the Frank and Nancy version (lol - 'frank and nancy' sounds like a wierd psychobilly couple!)


Father/Daughter wonky pop

See also: ''Lemon Incest' by Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg


I remember the first time I heard The Boiler

Awful, it will always stick in my mind. I listened to it once again, just to try and see if it really was as bad as I remembered. I have only listened to it twice.


love these songs, but...

"the lake" and "murder song" by the cooper temple clause always freaked me out.

"Help me out
Don't let me drown in here
Can't you see
I'm gonna die in here
Swim he says
Why do you say these things
One last chance
Just get me out of here"


may the circle remain unbroken

the last track of the last 13th floor elevators album, bull of the woods.

that song is freaky.

that frankie teardrop song is just a bit rubbish. sorry.


Nah

I can see why people might find it a bit funny.

But turn the lights off, turn it up and listen to it on your cans. You won't be laughing then. Its tres unsettling.


i'm sure the story is

but i just hate the delivery of the lines. i can see why people like it though. i like how minimalist it is, and how the voice is such a contrast to the silence. in other words, i like the notion of it, i just don't like the actually song.


*actual


Pretty much the whole of

the Angels With Dirty Faces album by Tricky. It sounds like someone going mental after smoking too much dope and all the resulting fingernail-scraping paranoia being put onto record.

A pretty crap record, it must be said, but you do get the feeling that he was genuinely disturbed at the time of recording. I think in subsequent interviews he admitted as much.

Joe - www.anewbandaday.com


teletubbies

.


The childcatcher by Patrick Wolf

I was still a child when you caught me and tied me to your bed
you gave me shoes and pretty clothes, and i gave you what i had between my legs
Just a rite of passage, you held me down and said
"I'm gonna be your right of passage, so boy you better spread, spread em"

You said.."run run run as fast as you can but you cant run run from the childcatchers hands"

I wrote your name in my shit across the town to warn the kids of your bloodshed
when i chased you with a burning cross, my mother she wanted you dead

she said "run run run as fast as you can but you cant run run from our law given hand"

you said
"well i've got no time for victims and i don't think it was all that bad
and if you can't run to save yourself well then you deserve to be had
this is the age of constipation, this is the age of martyrdom
I think you even enjoyed it, I think I even saw you come


When i saw the thread title

I was going to post "The boiler".
I actually heard it in a club once which was a bit odd!


The last song on the first Korn album

I think it was called 'daddy'. Pretty disturbing stuff for a 14 year old.


Is that

the one with Jonathan Davis crying?


Delilah by Tom Jones

Take one look at them lyrics:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/t/tom+jones/delilah_20138361.html


alternative link

http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Tom_Jones/Delilah_Lyrics/4582.htm

this is merely for the fact that the tune is deceiving.


Too Close Enough To Touch

by Khanate.

Try listening to it on your own, in the dark, nice and loud. Creepy as fuck.


chalet lines

by belle & sebastian


ain't it fun

by rocket from the crypt


Wake up Boo

'...for what might be THE VERY LAST TIME'

Or Coward of the County by Kenny Rogers. No, really.


ditto The White Noise

that record is incredibly weird. Brilliant though.


'cant go wrong without you'

by His Name Is Alive makes me want to vomit its so sickly to hear, ugh:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsMYOeOIZYE


Maggots In Your Coffin

By Napalm Death.
Purely for the lyrics...

The coffin is sealed on your rotten corpse You lie in darkness, death corrodes your face You are
rotting, maggots in your coffin Worms in your head
Soon they'll be dead Nothing to feed on in your
empty skull. Hell is where you are, your tortured soul is scarred. For years you'll rot in pain,
lonely and decayed You are rotting, maggots in your coffin


I can't believe you've all overlooked

4st 7oz by the Manics. Now that makes one want to vomit. In more ways than one.


Reality Asylum - Creed

Has to be the one for me

Those keyboards, the lyrics...


Can't believe

no-one has mentioned Eminem's Kim.


Not a good thread

to eat jelly babies to!