In 1990 I used to work at a children's publishers in London. There was a young woman there who was obsessed with Daniel Ash of Bauhaus and had photos of him all over her office. Quite how this squared with Winnie the Pooh I never worked out.
Peter Hammill - In Camera (especially the two last songs) Comus - First Utterance Suicide - s/t Scott Walker - Tilt Nico - The Marble Index The Cure - Pornography
I almost mentioned Suicide, mainly for the song Frankie Teardrop because that song is absolutely disturbing. I mean that opening drum beat already puts you into anxiety.
The debut Godspeed! You Black Emperor album is quite unsettling, particularly the track ‘East Hastings’. I believe part of it was used on the 28 Days Later film soundtrack.
Fantastic episode. I was surprised that nobody picked Comus, but glad it snuck in at the end. There is just something unsettling and evil about that one.
Joy Division's first album, "Unknown Pleasures," still unsettles me, almost thirty years after first hearing it. The second album, "Closer," is also spooky, especially because the lyrics are so personally anguished, and their author, vocalist Ian Curtis, committed suicide a few months after finishing the album. However, the cavernous production and chilling dark sheen of "Unknown Pleasures" make it a scarier listen for me.
‘Closer’ for me is by far the most terrifying album I have ever listened to. It’s essentially a suicide note, with deeply personal lyrics, and was released a few weeks after the band’s singer killed himself. This all said, it’s a fantastic and beautiful album. George Michael always cited it as being one of his favourites.
@@davidl570 yes. A family tomb in Italy. However, the cover was decided before Ian Curtis killed himself. Although Peter Hook has said that he wonders now if Curtis had influenced the band to chose this cover knowing he wouldn’t be there to see the album’s release.
Tubular Bells. Played it once in a cabin in the woods next to a lake (water at night is always a bit spooky anyway)alone on a hiking trip and couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night.
Some Diamanda Galás comes to mind, as does Sopor Aeternus. And the band Popol Vuh (for reference, they did the Nosferatu soundtrack, but they have some creepy moments all through their albums).
Yaay, Pete gave some love to a Tangerine Dream album at last!!!! Please do a ranking or top 10 (given size of catalogue), which should include live albums, as they were always part of their release repertoire and different. I love the 70’s and early 80’s and Edgar Froese was a great guitarist not just keys. The TD Official Bootleg series of live shows in clam boxes are fantastic. Tangerine Dream need some love ❤️ on SoT In The Prog Seat!!! Seen them live several times. There are good solo albums from Edgar Froese, and Chris Franke. Also, TD had great album covers.
Great topic! On Pete's Mayhem pick: Atilla is hungarian, and he can do the throat singing that the Tuvan / Mongolian people do, to devastating effect. On that Mayhem album to a lesser degree, but his vocals with Sunn o))) is monstrous. especially live, there are times he sounds like some sort of insect and other times like Godzilla. I have never heard any human sound like that! Sunn o))) would definitely be in my list of creepy albums. Especially "black 1"
Not an album but “Danse Macabre” by Celtic Frost is a scary listen. I remember having my phone on shuffle walking through a forest trail right after the sun had set when that song popped on. Not a fun experience haha
I've got the 3D cover of The Stranglers' The Raven. I loved the Stranglers in the late 70s, and actually waited outside Virgin Records in Croydon to buy it, when they opened. Those were the days.
For me i remember getting Animals on cassette by Pink Floyd when it first came out i was at school. The album was so different to anything else, sounded spooky sheep making noises, and Pigs reminded me of the nightmares animals suffer under the hands of man. Tho it is a classic Floyd album, for me and many. Just so different it was scary at the time.
I listened to Larks Tongue with headphones the first time I heard and it scared the crap out of me. Still my favorite Kind Crimson album, and probably because of it.
Listening "The Oath" by Mercyful Fate alone at home around midnight back in 1986!!! I totally shut myself when the King Diamond vocals entered the picture!!! Holy shit!!!
I figured for sure someone would mention Goblins soundtrack to the movie Susperia. That is a frightening piece of music, also Nicos album the marble index is chilling as well. Great show as always
Oh, that one's another fantastic and spooky album! I love the soundtrack to 'Susiria', 'Phantasm', 'The Fog', 'The Shining'.... And that bit from the '2001: A Space Odyssey' soundtrack - everyone knows the one, 'To Infinity and Beyond'!
For me the one album to rule them all for the dark or snowy walk in the woods is Portlands Agalloch 'The Mantle'. Nothing else conjures up that cold ancient indifference in the heart of the forest feeling. Love the spaceship story imagery Pete! The bar scene from the Shining that Martin mentions edges it into making it my favourite horror movie. Living in the woods here in Canada doesnt leave as much to the imagination as you'd think lol. Another great unsettling album is Toyah and Fripps Sunday all over the World. Great female vocal and disturbing guitar work throughout. Another great episode that makes friday mornings, thanks guys
Always found King Diamond's Fatal Portrait to be a scary album; it felt spooky back in high school and still today. The album is my go to on Halloween though, perfect for that purpose.
Comus "First Utterance" is the most terrifying album I've ever heard in my life. "Drip, Drip" still gives me nightmares. Univers Zero "Heresie" is another album so somber and morose you may not survive the bassoons. Absolutely haunting.
Thanks for bringing up Tangerine Dream again!! Pete, I think that the album is pronounced Zite, long "i" like the expression Zeit Geist. This was a very cool episode. Thanks!!!!
Hey dudes, looks like you haven't yet heard of Anna von Hausswolff (from Sweden) and her albums 'Ceremony', 'The Miraculous' and 'Dead Magic' - with songtitles like 'Funeral for my future children', 'Deathbed', 'The hope only of empty men', 'Ugly and vengeful' . . . Gothic and creepy but so damned great!
Really interesting program guys. Celtic Frost for sure come into the reconning , little surprised Slayers Hell awaits didn't come into it at some point , absolutely blew my mind when I first bought it in the 80's .
Horrific Child : L'Etrange Mr. Whinster, probably the scariest album ever... TG's Zeit is incredible, like the description you gave Pete, isolationist music. In the same vein of Univers Zero also check Art Zoyd. Thanks Martin for the Stranglers' love by the way, their best two albums imo, less SoT territory but the music of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil etc. is mostly very scary stuff also thinking of Steve Roach : The Magnificent Void A Kraut/Kosmische special or ranking would be nice here on Sea of Tranquility!
I just chose Uninvers Zero but of what I see I am definitely not the only one! And totally agree with you on the Stranglers - probably my band N.2 of all time
Pete's nightmare he described based on Zeit was incredible and hilarious. To have an album come up with that vivid of a nightmare certainly helps you imagine how frightening it is.
Great video. My favorite of the list is Zeit by Tangerine Dream, a truly dark (and wonderful) experience. BTW, it is pronounced ZAh-eet as in height with a z. It literally means Time.
The only album that actually scared me as a kid was Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper. The trilogy on Side B of “Years Ago,” “Steven,” and “The Awakening” absolutely terrified me.
What i love about Kate Bush is she just does her own thing, a great maverick artist. She doesnt sell out to the masses. Brave and bold projects. The Dreaming is a great example.
The last stretch of side two is a bit scary but I like it. I was in awe of The Dreaming when I first heard it. The first time I listened to it I played it twice in a row which I almost never do.
Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band-- I was 10 when that came out, her wailing & screaming sounds like someone's attacking her-- scared the s**t out of me. Thanks Pete & Martin, fun & scary topic.
Those first Lennon/Ono collobarations were pretty horrific/spooky. I was always creeped out by Revolution 9. That 2nd lp from the white album always scared the shyte out of me. The combo of Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long and Revolution 9 was a REAL creepfest. But i loved it!!
The wedding album is bat shit crazy, John just shouting yoko, yoko and yoko shouting back with John, then they whisper and go back to shouting, just them saying John and yoko for almost 25mins impossible to sit through the whole thing.
I love John Cale’s solo albums. Nice choice Martin, some of the songs on that album are about the death of Lou Reed. He was pretty upset that Lou had gone back to drinking again which affected his bad liver.
The Wall has quite a few scary moments, especially for a 14 year old me in 1980. The sound effects and Roger's screams are extremely creepy...in a good way.
The first time any music scared me, was when I first heard the song Black Sabbath. I didnt return to it until several years later. The first time I heard Eyehategod, i was pretty freaked out. Some later era Abruptum stuff can be unsettling to me.
The albums by French band Art Zoyd are kind of creepy and atmospheric, really dig those, stylistically described as mixing free jazz, progressive rock and avant-garde electronica. Also almost anything by British/Australian duo Dead Can Dance does the trick for me tracks like their famous "Cantara", all their albums are pretty amazing.
Listening to VDGG's 'Pawn Hearts' all alone in a dark room, might be uncomfortable for some people.... even parts of 'H to He, ...', or 'Godbluff', imho.
Another black metal one though: Beherit -- Drawing downt he Moon. As though aliens crashlanded in a forest or even a jungle somewhere thousands of years ago and produced mad offspring with the native primitive life. Eerie slow riffs, keyboard drones, weird and unsettling sound effects and some really wild hissing/whispering/distorted vocals. Definitely eccentrica nd great.
I was once playing Jam’s greatest hits on my Walkman late at night on the way home from a gig. When Down in the Tube Station at Midnight came on, that definitely scared the crap out of me!
I really have to hear that album by The Ghost, considering how much I love Martin's other suggestions (Trader Horne and Flowers of Romance are among my favorites.. Universe Zero and Tangerine Dream too) and Shirley shares my last name (ok lots of people with southeastern English ancestors do) As far as my own suggestions Diamanda Galas and Exuma are as creepy as their reputations.
It didn't scare the crap out me but I took my self-titled Black Sabbath album to a party in the seventies and someone took it off the turntable and tossed it the window. It gave him "bad vibes".
I had a young boss at work,when I was a teenager .He knew that I was in a band and asked what kind of music I liked.I said Black Sabbath was my favorite band and he said that when he heard that first Black Sabbath album, it scared the hell out of him.
I’m late to the party here - but Martin, thank you for introducing me to that album by The Ghost. I’m a big fan of stuff from that era, but that one had never crossed my radar - even though, as it turned out, I had heard “My Castle Had Fallen” before, on a psych compilation. I like it, and it’s sending me back revisiting all the stuff it reminds me of - Mellow Candle, Dark, Axe (aka Crystalline), Captain Marryat, the first two Fairport Convention albums…. Good stuff! Cheers to you!
When I was little, AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' used to freak me out! But it wasn't the music itself, it was the album cover! Besides Angus with his big lips and devil horns, Malcolm had an unsettling, creepy look on his face, which made me terrified of rock music for years. It's kind of silly looking back on it now because AC/DC doesn't look like a terrifying band at all!
Flowers of Romance is less commercial than Trout Mask Replica Martin? Admittedly it might be a shortlist of two! Love listening to you and Pete having such interesting and knowledgeable conversations. They are amongst the things on SoT that I look forward to the most.
COVEN “Witchcraft; Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls” And one notable Alice Cooper song trilogy: Years Ago / Steven / The Awakening from Welcome to my Nightmare -which is otherwise pretty schlocky - … being named Steven n all, this spooky/terrifying little trilogy of tunes scared the crap out of me as a little 8 year old in 1975 . It still chills my blood!
I'm thinking of Scott Walker's The Drift and Bish Bosch. There's a song on The Drift called The Escape that has what i can only describe as a demented Donald Duck voice that comes out of nowhere and gets me every time. Also The Walker Brothers song The Electrician which has a really dark mood despite the gorgeous strings.
The one tune that always chills me to the bone is dead skin mask by Slayer, the deranged woman’s croaky screams at the end always give me the creeps, Goblins Suspiria soundtrack is the spookiest album I’ve ever heard, a gothic fairy tale, plus the Mantle by Agaloch, that album is gently menacing, reminds me of being stuck in a spooky purgatory, maybe on a boat with a skeleton boat man sailing into the Misty Abyss.
D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle it unbalanced me when I first listened to it in 1996 so I can only imagined what people thought when it was released in 1978
TG and a lot of the early industrial scene is far scarier than anything in this video (with all due respect to them but I'm not sure what's so scary about what they've picked).
Thank you, Martin. Lately I’ve been exploring my music roots, which is Folk-Rock and the music of the late 60s. I checked out The Ghost, who I’d never heard of. I just listened briefly to a couple songs and thought, ‘oh yeah, this I have to listen more deeply to.’ Love this kind of stuff.
What a great topic! A few that come to mind!... in no order: Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07 Black Angels - Directions to see a ghost Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer The Haxan Cloak - excavation Portishead - Third Plastikman - Consumed Anouar Brahem - Souvenance Speedy J - A shocking hobby And for some reason Radiohead - I might be wrong: live recordings
Popoff and Pardo are at it again with music that give the heebie-jeebies. Going to have to track some of these down for more listening but Suspiria by Goblin always can get a vote from this listener. Thanks, gents, for another interesting topic with such a spread across genres. That certainly added to the depth of this episode. Classically, Listz's Mephisto Waltz and Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain Kin has always been a bit unsettling for me ever since my dad played those when I was a child. There ya go!
Completely agree with Pete. Saw Yes ‘Onion’ as Wakeman has lovingly commented in 1991 in Oakland Ca and was so great to see all my heroes and was entertained beyond measure, Chris Squire a standout for the show and carried it to my mind!
I would often get scared when I opened up the Celtic Frost "To Mega Therion" and those old Mercyful Fate records. Probably a little shy of blasphemy in those days. HR Giger's phantasmagoric art on the Frost record cover didn't help matters. He's scary no matter what the context! Ironic then that those two bands in large part informed so much of the music I listen to now! LOL.
Absolutely - I think for the extreme metal side of things, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Slayer, and Bathory really set the standards. Celtic Frost's 'To Mega Therion' was definitely next-level, and that avant-garde sound-scape "Tears in a Prophet's Dream" was unlike anything else out there at the time! (Virtually every death metal band to follow ripped that song off as album intros for a good reason: that sort of thing really set an unearthly mood for the creepy songs to follow!)
Pete, I had a few Cathedral albums on cassette and they creeped me out! I'd crank Cathedral up on my old pioneer and listen to it in the dark. Oh man!!!!
The Raven by the Stranglers is a great pick . Their keyboard player , Dave Greenfield , was their secret weapon . His keyboard playing added so much to the atmosphere of their songs . Zeit by Tangerine Dream is also a great pick . Martin , listen to that next time you're strolling along the Don Valley at night ( ir will keep you looking over your shoulder...) Cheers !
"Silencer : Death -pierce me" scares me a bit because the atmosphere is so creepy. Or maybe it is the rumours when it comes to Nattramn or the promo-pics
Really cool stuff! A lot to choose from and some really scary ones that I tend to listen to when I am in a specific mood. My top 5 Esoteric-maniacal vale Tim hecker-virgins Gorguts-obscura This heat-this heat Fantomas-director's cut Honorable mentions Bethlehem-dictius te necare Anna von hausswolf-all thoughts fly Pink floyd-piper at the gates of dawn Amon duul II-phallus dei Miles davis-bitches brew
Excellent choices from both Martin and Pete. Also terrifying: Bernard Szajner's Some Deaths Take Forever, Peter Frohmader's Cultes des Goules, Death Cube K's Dreamatorium, and Popol Vuh's Nosferatu.
What's interesting is how mainstream the rest of their stuff sounds......................definitely strictly MOR (good MOR, that is)....................doesn't remotely sound like DOA (which was their only Top 40 hit, surprisingly).
Thanks guys! Some super-interesting suggestions on this vid to investigate. I remember Flowers of Romance being more accessible - thus less creepy - than my personal PIL favourite, Metal Box/Second Edition, so I'll definitely have to revisit that one! I wouldn't really say that any music really scares the shit but of me but I find the following a little unnerving… NICO - album: The End . Haunting and desolate. John Cale and Brian Eno feature here. EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - album: Halber Mensch: Although this German industrial band's creepiest track is perhaps 'Armenia' from the album Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T. PETER HAMMILL - album: In Camera. Tracks, 'No More Sub-Mariner' and 'Gog Magog (In Bromine Chambers)'. SUICIDE - album: Suicide. 'Frankie Teardrop'… a 10-minute-long factory worker's hellish demise from this debut album. CABARET VOLTAIRE - album: Red Mecca is quite sinister Some of Glenn Branca’s tracks on the soundtrack to the Peter Greenaway film, 'Belly Of an Architect' is pretty unsettling.
AC/DC's live album If You Want Blood's front cover is unsettling. You wanna talk about unsettling album cover art? Look no further than Angus Young being skewered through the stomach with a guitar.
A must-pick for me would be 'The Downward Spiral' by Nine Inch Nails, because of the sinister atmosphere Trent carves in through the whole record combined with the overall concept of the album. This is an album about mental, realistic decay of a human being depicted in a way that intimidates the listener and makes anyone feel unnerved and fragile. There is the surface level shock value from 'Closer' which brings an unapologetically blunt perception of lust and how it is controlled by self-hatred, yet it is the harrowing transformation that is told excellently to the listener across the album that settles it for me. Uncanny, raw, spine-chilling in a way a lot of albums don't achieve, because the fears are very much real.
Great show! These terrify me; 1 - Pierre Henry "Fragments pour Artaud"; 2 - Diamanda Galas "Litanies of Satan"; 3 - Khanate "Things viral"; 4 - Sunn O))) "Black one"; 5 - The Caretaker "Everywhere at the end of time".
I love how this series is showing how diverse Martin's tastes are. Until these videos, I had no idea he was so into post-punk! Can't see how The Ghost merited over 1,000 listens -- it's pretty spotty and forgettable -- got the FLAC for it in 2012, forgot I had it, got it again in 2015, forgot about it again until this video. Pretty interesting artifact though! Also it's interesting how Pete's tastes are super adventurous and nearly as eclectic as Martin's when discussing albums from a half century ago, but arguably less so regarding more recent music.
Laibach's 'the occupied europe tour 1985' - Current 93's 'dogs blood order' - Lustmord's 'heresy' - Brighter Death Now's 'innerwar' - Painkiller's 'execution ground' - Eraserhead soundtrack - The Thing soundtrack - pretty much any Diamanda Galas album - SWANS' 'the great annihilator' - Kronos Quartet's 'black angels' - Aphex Twin's 'come to daddy', but maybe i'm thinking o' that awesome video... (to be fair, none o' these albums scare the crap out o' me, but they are each delightfully unsettling in their own right...). black metal is such a rich vein to mine for creating an itch that cannot be scratched. definitely some albums i need to search out ! MANY thanks you two...
Robert Fripp's solo album Exposure. The title song is the most creepy on that album. If you want to hear Daryl Hall singing in a different style check out some of the other songs on the album.
studied Martin's 70's guide to heavy metal until it looked like an old wallet..😁 what a great book, I never could find the 80's version.been blasting Jump Through the Golden Ring ever since🔥thanks guys, great video as always
Stranglers The Raven is their best. Released here (sort of) as Strangers IV on vinyl. John Cale's viola on Venus in Furs is amazing. Nico's The Marble Index is creepy as hell. Bloodrock's DOA is a scary song that was an AM hit in the 70's
Great episode. The Raven and Animals definitely have their creepy moments. Not familiar with the others, but I would put in a word for The Dreaming by Kate Bush. Plenty of creepy stuff on there especially if you watch the video for the title track.
- It’s funny I have some ‘Born Again’ songs stuck in my head, but it’s a great underrated album by Sabbath. Almost any Sabbath are pretty dark and scary especially the opening title track from the debut. - Iron Maiden ‘Killers’ is a pretty graphic album cover, but have some great songs on it. - Ozzy Osbourne ‘Blizzard of Ozz’ - Heaven and Hell ‘The Devil You Know’ - Uriah Heep ‘Very ‘Eavy…Very ‘Umble’ album cover I do find Pink Floyd The Wall is pretty creepy especially the 1982 film with the animation specifically.
You guys need to do another one like this. The Ghost was awesome that Stranglers album was awesome as well. John Cale mix on that first stooges album wasn't released until years later it was scrapped. I've both mixes on vinyl and I'm sure that John Cale mix wasn't released until recently. My pick for scary is Samhain that band scared me as a kid and I was well into the misfits and everything.
I will never forget the first time I heard Louder than Love by Soundgarden, late at night with head phones. Spooky as sh*t and a really dark album beginning to end.
Very neat topic, and cool choices. I want to check out that John Cale album. Want to throw two albums into the mix. Esoteric -- "The Pernicious ENigma: This is truly terrifying. I don't really listen to this much and I definitely don't listen to so-called "funeral doom" much but this is something else. Some of the scariest stuff I've ever heard with those knifing lead guitar parts, reverberating cleans (kind of got that Pink Floyd vibe at times) and the most distorted and heinous vocal approach. Loads of movie samples from stuff like Dracula, Apocalypse Nowa nd Taxi Driver to pull you even deeper into proceedings. The second one would be White Noise's album Electric Storm from 1969. This is early electronic "pop" of sorts mostly put together from tape loops and featuring some synth instrumentatino from David Vorhauss as well as contributions from two of the people who worked on the music for Doctor Who in the 60s and 70s. There's also a percussionist who pounds away especailly on the second half of the album. The first half is this whimsical, floaty, psychedelic music with lots of male and female vocals, weird samples (like backwards sex noises) and sing-songy, almost childish melodies. Then you flip the record over (if you're lucky enough to have it on vinyl, which I don't) and the second half consists of two pieces of psychedelic hellish terror. "The Visitor" just draws you in with its massive crescendos and storming percussion and then 'An Electric Storm in Hell" utterly fries your mind. Truly another kind of experience. Speaking of Pink Floyd it's the really early stuff that's most creepy. That Syd Barrett was weird.
Great show, enjoyed it immensely. Let me name 3 records that come to mind on this topic. 1. Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn 2. Can- Tago Mago 3. Death Grips- Exmilitary
Everything by Nico has quite a spooky vibe to me. Roky Erickson is getting shamefully ignored by this channel. Current 93, spooky as well. Ego-Tripping At The Gates Of Hell by Louis Tillett. Phil Collins' solo career: spookiest of all. Male/female vocals brings Lee & Nancy to mind, Some Velvet Morning, very spooky song.
Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath ( mainly for the title track but it's a doomy album regardless ). Slayer - Hell Awaits Venom - Welcome To Hell The Shining Motion Picture Soundtrack
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Bauhaus’s first album “In The Flat Field” is a pretty spooky album.
Creepy album cover as well.
agreed.
In 1990 I used to work at a children's publishers in London. There was a young woman there who was obsessed with Daniel Ash of Bauhaus and had photos of him all over her office. Quite how this squared with Winnie the Pooh I never worked out.
@@patrickcrowther9195 hahaha.
Just found that song on TH-cam. It reminded me of the doors an something Jim Morrison would do.
Peter Hammill - In Camera (especially the two last songs)
Comus - First Utterance
Suicide - s/t
Scott Walker - Tilt
Nico - The Marble Index
The Cure - Pornography
Damn you nailed it with this list!
I almost mentioned Suicide, mainly for the song Frankie Teardrop because that song is absolutely disturbing. I mean that opening drum beat already puts you into anxiety.
Univers Zero "Heresie" would make this list.
Comus and Suicide good choices
Love comus
The debut Godspeed! You Black Emperor album is quite unsettling, particularly the track ‘East Hastings’. I believe part of it was used on the 28 Days Later film soundtrack.
ZEIT of Tangerine Dream is a great example. The spaceship scenery described from Pete fits perfect. Some parts would also fit on Twin Peaks.
Fantastic episode. I was surprised that nobody picked Comus, but glad it snuck in at the end. There is just something unsettling and evil about that one.
Joy Division's first album, "Unknown Pleasures," still unsettles me, almost thirty years after first hearing it. The second album, "Closer," is also spooky, especially because the lyrics are so personally anguished, and their author, vocalist Ian Curtis, committed suicide a few months after finishing the album. However, the cavernous production and chilling dark sheen of "Unknown Pleasures" make it a scarier listen for me.
‘Closer’ for me is by far the most terrifying album I have ever listened to. It’s essentially a suicide note, with deeply personal lyrics, and was released a few weeks after the band’s singer killed himself. This all said, it’s a fantastic and beautiful album. George Michael always cited it as being one of his favourites.
Agree completely. These albums are chilling in their glacial intensity and bone-chilling production. I Remember Nothing is excoriating and doom-laden.
This twice.
@@naxalite115 Speaking of death, isn't that the inside of a mausoleum on the album cover?
@@davidl570 yes. A family tomb in Italy. However, the cover was decided before Ian Curtis killed himself. Although Peter Hook has said that he wonders now if Curtis had influenced the band to chose this cover knowing he wouldn’t be there to see the album’s release.
Well done Martin praising The Stranglers great band.
Tubular Bells.
Played it once in a cabin in the woods next to a lake (water at night is always a bit spooky anyway)alone on a hiking trip and couldn’t sleep for the rest of the night.
Some Diamanda Galás comes to mind, as does Sopor Aeternus. And the band Popol Vuh (for reference, they did the Nosferatu soundtrack, but they have some creepy moments all through their albums).
Yaay, Pete gave some love to a Tangerine Dream album at last!!!! Please do a ranking or top 10 (given size of catalogue), which should include live albums, as they were always part of their release repertoire and different. I love the 70’s and early 80’s and Edgar Froese was a great guitarist not just keys. The TD Official Bootleg series of live shows in clam boxes are fantastic. Tangerine Dream need some love ❤️ on SoT In The Prog Seat!!! Seen them live several times. There are good solo albums from Edgar Froese, and Chris Franke. Also, TD had great album covers.
Flowers of Romance is one of my favorite PiL albums, Martin Atkins plays some great drum rhythms on that album.
.....................and Under The House is easily their creepiest song EVER!
Earlier PiL... brilliant 👏
Remembering very early 80s holding the album VENOM
WELCOME TO HELL and feeling some serious creepy chills !
1981 - man that album was the beginning
Welcome to Hell is phenomenal
Wow! Before I read your comment I chose the same album lol
I bought an early Acheron album and when I opened it, a really strange smell filled the air
Great topic! On Pete's Mayhem pick: Atilla is hungarian, and he can do the throat singing that the Tuvan / Mongolian people do, to devastating effect. On that Mayhem album to a lesser degree, but his vocals with Sunn o))) is monstrous. especially live, there are times he sounds like some sort of insect and other times like Godzilla. I have never heard any human sound like that! Sunn o))) would definitely be in my list of creepy albums. Especially "black 1"
Pete, you and Martin here are in your true element! I love it. Do it again!
Not an album but “Danse Macabre” by Celtic Frost is a scary listen. I remember having my phone on shuffle walking through a forest trail right after the sun had set when that song popped on. Not a fun experience haha
Yes : when To Mega Therion came out that shit was creepy as hell ….. still …….
I've got the 3D cover of The Stranglers' The Raven. I loved the Stranglers in the late 70s, and actually waited outside Virgin Records in Croydon to buy it, when they opened. Those were the days.
I love that album
Lots of black metal but, that’s too easy. Nico’s “The Marble Index” freaks me out every time.
Her "Desertshore" album fits the freaky category well too ... still haven't heard anything quite like that first time hearing "janitor of lunacy"!
For me i remember getting Animals on cassette by Pink Floyd when it first came out i was at school. The album was so different to anything else, sounded spooky sheep making noises, and Pigs reminded me of the nightmares animals suffer under the hands of man. Tho it is a classic Floyd album, for me and many. Just so different it was scary at the time.
Prolly my fav Floyd album right there... But Ummagumma was the one which scared the shit outta me.
I listened to Larks Tongue with headphones the first time I heard and it scared the crap out of me. Still my favorite Kind Crimson album, and probably because of it.
Listening "The Oath" by Mercyful Fate alone at home around midnight back in 1986!!! I totally shut myself when the King Diamond vocals entered the picture!!! Holy shit!!!
Bauhaus! Especially Mask. So glad Martin mentioned The Raven- fantastic album!
I figured for sure someone would mention Goblins soundtrack to the movie Susperia. That is a frightening piece of music, also Nicos album the marble index is chilling as well. Great show as always
Oh, that one's another fantastic and spooky album! I love the soundtrack to 'Susiria', 'Phantasm', 'The Fog', 'The Shining'.... And that bit from the '2001: A Space Odyssey' soundtrack - everyone knows the one, 'To Infinity and Beyond'!
Lol I end up commenting about Goblin without looking at the comments and mine is right on top of yours
For me the one album to rule them all for the dark or snowy walk in the woods is Portlands Agalloch 'The Mantle'. Nothing else conjures up that cold ancient indifference in the heart of the forest feeling. Love the spaceship story imagery Pete! The bar scene from the Shining that Martin mentions edges it into making it my favourite horror movie. Living in the woods here in Canada doesnt leave as much to the imagination as you'd think lol. Another great unsettling album is Toyah and Fripps Sunday all over the World. Great female vocal and disturbing guitar work throughout. Another great episode that makes friday mornings, thanks guys
Some favorite creepy and scary albums has to have many Goblin albums (Tenabrae, Suspiria and Profondo Rosso) as well as Devil Doll.
Best sounding one to me would be dawn of dead soundtrack
Totally forgot Goblin - great choice! And great albums imo
Roller too
For me it would be
1. Dont Break The Oath-Mercyful Fate
2. Show No Mercy-Slayer
3. Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Absolutely to your number one. I won't listen to it anymore
Always found King Diamond's Fatal Portrait to be a scary album; it felt spooky back in high school and still today. The album is my go to on Halloween though, perfect for that purpose.
Love The Stranglers, their last two albums are great too
Comus "First Utterance" is the most terrifying album I've ever heard in my life. "Drip, Drip" still gives me nightmares.
Univers Zero "Heresie" is another album so somber and morose you may not survive the bassoons. Absolutely haunting.
Thanks for bringing up Tangerine Dream again!! Pete, I think that the album is pronounced Zite, long "i" like the expression Zeit Geist. This was a very cool episode. Thanks!!!!
Hey dudes, looks like you haven't yet heard of Anna von Hausswolff (from Sweden) and her albums 'Ceremony', 'The Miraculous' and 'Dead Magic' - with songtitles like 'Funeral for my future children', 'Deathbed', 'The hope only of empty men', 'Ugly and vengeful' . . . Gothic and creepy but so damned great!
Huge fan of this artist and her albums! The latest one all thoughts fly also has some jaw droppingly haunting stuff! Great pick!
Really interesting program guys. Celtic Frost for sure come into the reconning , little surprised Slayers Hell awaits didn't come into it at some point , absolutely blew my mind when I first bought it in the 80's .
Horrific Child : L'Etrange Mr. Whinster, probably the scariest album ever...
TG's Zeit is incredible, like the description you gave Pete, isolationist music. In the same vein of Univers Zero also check Art Zoyd.
Thanks Martin for the Stranglers' love by the way, their best two albums imo,
less SoT territory but the music of Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil etc. is mostly very scary stuff
also thinking of Steve Roach : The Magnificent Void
A Kraut/Kosmische special or ranking would be nice here on Sea of Tranquility!
I just chose Uninvers Zero but of what I see I am definitely not the only one! And totally agree with you on the Stranglers - probably my band N.2 of all time
Pete's nightmare he described based on Zeit was incredible and hilarious. To have an album come up with that vivid of a nightmare certainly helps you imagine how frightening it is.
When Popoff was holding off that Stranglers album cover, I think Pete and I had the same thought - Dr. Vollin. The Raven is my talisman. 🤘🏻
Great video. My favorite of the list is Zeit by Tangerine Dream, a truly dark (and wonderful) experience. BTW, it is pronounced ZAh-eet as in height with a z. It literally means Time.
The only album that actually scared me as a kid was Welcome to My Nightmare by Alice Cooper. The trilogy on Side B of “Years Ago,” “Steven,” and “The Awakening” absolutely terrified me.
Mine was Dada ...the heart beat at the start and then the voice coming in...spooky man
Kate Bush - "the Dreaming." Great album, some really freaky sounds with her use of the Fairlight and experimenting with her voice.
What i love about Kate Bush is she just does her own thing, a great maverick artist. She doesnt sell out to the masses. Brave and bold projects. The Dreaming is a great example.
Pete keeps promising an album ranking, let’s hope soon. Dreaming is Steven Wilson’s fave Kate album.
Great example! Kate Bush is a genius.
@@maddysmith8846 If they did a ranking, i think Steven Reid would be doing it. As Pete does not have the albums. Or maybe Martin.
The last stretch of side two is a bit scary but I like it. I was in awe of The Dreaming when I first heard it. The first time I listened to it I played it twice in a row which I almost never do.
Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band-- I was 10 when that came out, her wailing & screaming sounds like someone's attacking her-- scared the s**t out of me.
Thanks Pete & Martin, fun & scary topic.
Ughhhh gross.
This was a dishonorable mention but completely on spot
Those first Lennon/Ono collobarations were pretty horrific/spooky.
I was always creeped out by Revolution 9. That 2nd lp from the white album always scared the shyte out of me. The combo of Yer Blues, Helter Skelter, Long Long Long and Revolution 9 was a REAL creepfest. But i loved it!!
The wedding album is bat shit crazy, John just shouting yoko, yoko and yoko shouting back with John, then they whisper and go back to shouting, just them saying John and yoko for almost 25mins impossible to sit through the whole thing.
I love John Cale’s solo albums. Nice choice Martin, some of the songs on that album are about the death of Lou Reed. He was pretty upset that Lou had gone back to drinking again which affected his bad liver.
"My favorite oboe part of all time."
- Martin Popoff
I've heard it all on SoT!
Mike Oldfield: " Tubular Bells " is creepy
Pink Floyd: " Animals "...a great album, but it is almost funeral music
Love oldfield
The Wall has quite a few scary moments, especially for a 14 year old me in 1980. The sound effects and Roger's screams are extremely creepy...in a good way.
Far as that one, Another Brick Part 1, Empty Spaces and Is There Anybody Out There? creep me out the most.
Have you ever heard of “Careful With The Axe, Eugene”? Trust me, your fear will forget all about “The Wall”…
The first time any music scared me, was when I first heard the song Black Sabbath. I didnt return to it until several years later. The first time I heard Eyehategod, i was pretty freaked out. Some later era Abruptum stuff can be unsettling to me.
Black Sabbath is terrifying and terrifyingly awesome!
Univers Zero "Heresie" is frightening but it's also one of the BEST prog albums of all time.
The albums by French band Art Zoyd are kind of creepy and atmospheric, really dig those, stylistically described as mixing free jazz, progressive rock and avant-garde electronica. Also almost anything by British/Australian duo Dead Can Dance does the trick for me tracks like their famous "Cantara", all their albums are pretty amazing.
Listening to VDGG's 'Pawn Hearts' all alone in a dark room, might be uncomfortable for some people.... even parts of 'H to He, ...', or 'Godbluff', imho.
How can the daddy of them all not be included, Jeff Wayne’s “war of the worlds”? Scared the bejesus out of me as a kid!
I'm with you. The music, but also the drawings.
Absolutely! That was a life-changer for me. I was 7!
Another black metal one though: Beherit -- Drawing downt he Moon.
As though aliens crashlanded in a forest or even a jungle somewhere thousands of years ago and produced mad offspring with the native primitive life. Eerie slow riffs, keyboard drones, weird and unsettling sound effects and some really wild hissing/whispering/distorted vocals. Definitely eccentrica nd great.
I was once playing Jam’s greatest hits on my Walkman late at night on the way home from a gig. When Down in the Tube Station at Midnight came on, that definitely scared the crap out of me!
Great vid! Here's 5 off the dome:
Starsailor (Tim Buckley, 1970)
NEU! 2 (NEU!, 1973)
Rock Bottom (Robert Wyatt, 1974)
154 (Wire, 1979)
Deceit (This Heat, 1981)
I really have to hear that album by The Ghost, considering how much I love Martin's other suggestions (Trader Horne and Flowers of Romance are among my favorites.. Universe Zero and Tangerine Dream too) and Shirley shares my last name (ok lots of people with southeastern English ancestors do)
As far as my own suggestions Diamanda Galas and Exuma are as creepy as their reputations.
It didn't scare the crap out me but I took my self-titled Black Sabbath album to a party in the seventies and someone took it off the turntable and tossed it the window. It gave him "bad vibes".
I had a young boss at work,when I was a teenager .He knew that I was in a band and asked what kind of music I liked.I said Black Sabbath was my favorite band and he said that when he heard that first Black Sabbath album, it scared the hell out of him.
Funny I did that with a young ladies David Gates album at a teen party and replaced it with Burn. Gates also gave me “bad vibes”. LOL
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@@jonholland6067 His band's name (Bread) was a perfect description of their music: bland and stale.
I’m late to the party here - but Martin, thank you for introducing me to that album by The Ghost. I’m a big fan of stuff from that era, but that one had never crossed my radar - even though, as it turned out, I had heard “My Castle Had Fallen” before, on a psych compilation. I like it, and it’s sending me back revisiting all the stuff it reminds me of - Mellow Candle, Dark, Axe (aka Crystalline), Captain Marryat, the first two Fairport Convention albums…. Good stuff! Cheers to you!
When I was little, AC/DC's 'Highway to Hell' used to freak me out! But it wasn't the music itself, it was the album cover! Besides Angus with his big lips and devil horns, Malcolm had an unsettling, creepy look on his face, which made me terrified of rock music for years. It's kind of silly looking back on it now because AC/DC doesn't look like a terrifying band at all!
I wonder how you would've reacted to the Australian release cover
@@lordcharlesthomas I probably would've been equally, if not more terrified of the Australian cover.
Flowers of Romance is less commercial than Trout Mask Replica Martin? Admittedly it might be a shortlist of two! Love listening to you and Pete having such interesting and knowledgeable conversations. They are amongst the things on SoT that I look forward to the most.
COVEN “Witchcraft; Destroys Minds & Reaps Souls”
And one notable Alice Cooper song trilogy: Years Ago / Steven / The Awakening from Welcome to my Nightmare -which is otherwise pretty schlocky - … being named Steven n all, this spooky/terrifying little trilogy of tunes scared the crap out of me as a little 8 year old in 1975 . It still chills my blood!
Spot on with the Years Ago Steven Awakening. Even in my late 50's still VERY CREEPY.
I was wondering if anyone would mention welcome to my nightmare..and yes years ago/ Steven is creepy.. especially for me cause my name is steven
Coven = the Satanic Jefferson Airplane. Really good album!
I'm thinking of Scott Walker's The Drift and Bish Bosch. There's a song on The Drift called The Escape that has what i can only describe as a demented Donald Duck voice that comes out of nowhere and gets me every time. Also The Walker Brothers song The Electrician which has a really dark mood despite the gorgeous strings.
Yes, I just listed Drift too.
The one tune that always chills me to the bone is dead skin mask by Slayer, the deranged woman’s croaky screams at the end always give me the creeps, Goblins Suspiria soundtrack is the spookiest album I’ve ever heard, a gothic fairy tale, plus the Mantle by Agaloch, that album is gently menacing, reminds me of being stuck in a spooky purgatory, maybe on a boat with a skeleton boat man sailing into the Misty Abyss.
D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report of Throbbing Gristle it unbalanced me when I first listened to it in 1996 so I can only imagined what people thought when it was released in 1978
Throbbing gristle were out there, so was Psychic Tv. Disturbing music and scary, uncompromising music and gigs.
TG and a lot of the early industrial scene is far scarier than anything in this video (with all due respect to them but I'm not sure what's so scary about what they've picked).
Thank you, Martin. Lately I’ve been exploring my music roots, which is Folk-Rock and the music of the late 60s. I checked out The Ghost, who I’d never heard of. I just listened briefly to a couple songs and thought, ‘oh yeah, this I have to listen more deeply to.’ Love this kind of stuff.
What a great topic! A few that come to mind!... in no order:
Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07
Black Angels - Directions to see a ghost
Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer
The Haxan Cloak - excavation
Portishead - Third
Plastikman - Consumed
Anouar Brahem - Souvenance
Speedy J - A shocking hobby
And for some reason Radiohead - I might be wrong: live recordings
Popoff and Pardo are at it again with music that give the heebie-jeebies. Going to have to track some of these down for more listening but Suspiria by Goblin always can get a vote from this listener. Thanks, gents, for another interesting topic with such a spread across genres. That certainly added to the depth of this episode. Classically, Listz's Mephisto Waltz and Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain Kin has always been a bit unsettling for me ever since my dad played those when I was a child. There ya go!
Completely agree with Pete. Saw Yes ‘Onion’ as Wakeman has lovingly commented in 1991 in Oakland Ca and was so great to see all my heroes and was entertained beyond measure, Chris Squire a standout for the show and carried it to my mind!
Never EVER thought I would see Trader Horne get mentioned on SoT, great choice Martin!!
Every week Martin just brings out weirder and weirder albums. Stop, Mr P - I can't afford all these new records
I would often get scared when I opened up the Celtic Frost "To Mega Therion" and those old Mercyful Fate records. Probably a little shy of blasphemy in those days. HR Giger's phantasmagoric art on the Frost record cover didn't help matters. He's scary no matter what the context!
Ironic then that those two bands in large part informed so much of the music I listen to now! LOL.
Absolutely - I think for the extreme metal side of things, Celtic Frost, Mercyful Fate, Venom, Slayer, and Bathory really set the standards. Celtic Frost's 'To Mega Therion' was definitely next-level, and that avant-garde sound-scape "Tears in a Prophet's Dream" was unlike anything else out there at the time! (Virtually every death metal band to follow ripped that song off as album intros for a good reason: that sort of thing really set an unearthly mood for the creepy songs to follow!)
Pete, I had a few Cathedral albums on cassette and they creeped me out! I'd crank Cathedral up on my old pioneer and listen to it in the dark. Oh man!!!!
Great call on The Stranglers!!
My favourite album is Black And White, which preceded The Raven.
The Raven by the Stranglers is a great pick . Their keyboard player , Dave Greenfield , was their secret weapon . His keyboard playing added so much to the atmosphere of their songs .
Zeit by Tangerine Dream is also a great pick . Martin , listen to that next time you're strolling along the Don Valley at night ( ir will keep you looking over your shoulder...)
Cheers !
"Silencer : Death -pierce me" scares me a bit because the atmosphere is so creepy. Or maybe it is the rumours when it comes to Nattramn or the promo-pics
That's an audio snuff film
I tune in each Friday for the weather reports.
Really cool stuff! A lot to choose from and some really scary ones that I tend to listen to when I am in a specific mood.
My top 5
Esoteric-maniacal vale
Tim hecker-virgins
Gorguts-obscura
This heat-this heat
Fantomas-director's cut
Honorable mentions
Bethlehem-dictius te necare
Anna von hausswolf-all thoughts fly
Pink floyd-piper at the gates of dawn
Amon duul II-phallus dei
Miles davis-bitches brew
Excellent choices from both Martin and Pete. Also terrifying: Bernard Szajner's Some Deaths Take Forever, Peter Frohmader's Cultes des Goules, Death Cube K's Dreamatorium, and Popol Vuh's Nosferatu.
Not an album but DOA by Bloodrock scared the living shit out of me as a kid. I still don't feel good listening to it today.
Alice Cooper always played Bloodrock’s DOA on Halloween on his syndicated radio show.
What's interesting is how mainstream the rest of their stuff sounds......................definitely strictly MOR (good MOR, that is)....................doesn't remotely sound like DOA (which was their only Top 40 hit, surprisingly).
Thanks guys! Some super-interesting suggestions on this vid to investigate. I remember Flowers of Romance being more accessible - thus less creepy - than my personal PIL favourite, Metal Box/Second Edition, so I'll definitely have to revisit that one! I wouldn't really say that any music really scares the shit but of me but I find the following a little unnerving…
NICO - album: The End . Haunting and desolate. John Cale and Brian Eno feature here.
EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - album: Halber Mensch: Although this German industrial band's creepiest track is perhaps 'Armenia' from the album Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T.
PETER HAMMILL - album: In Camera. Tracks, 'No More Sub-Mariner' and 'Gog Magog (In Bromine Chambers)'.
SUICIDE - album: Suicide. 'Frankie Teardrop'… a 10-minute-long factory worker's hellish demise from this debut album.
CABARET VOLTAIRE - album: Red Mecca is quite sinister
Some of Glenn Branca’s tracks on the soundtrack to the Peter Greenaway film, 'Belly Of an Architect' is pretty unsettling.
Hellhammer...Triumph of death and Fear of God' Within The Veil. Dawn Crosby's vocals are sick!!!
Dawn's vocals are scary on that album. Filled with despair and dementia.
Hellhammer rules!
AC/DC's live album If You Want Blood's front cover is unsettling. You wanna talk about unsettling album cover art? Look no further than Angus Young being skewered through the stomach with a guitar.
Yes I would stare at it when I was 5 or 6 in amazement and fright. My uncle had it
A must-pick for me would be 'The Downward Spiral' by Nine Inch Nails, because of the sinister atmosphere Trent carves in through the whole record combined with the overall concept of the album. This is an album about mental, realistic decay of a human being depicted in a way that intimidates the listener and makes anyone feel unnerved and fragile. There is the surface level shock value from 'Closer' which brings an unapologetically blunt perception of lust and how it is controlled by self-hatred, yet it is the harrowing transformation that is told excellently to the listener across the album that settles it for me. Uncanny, raw, spine-chilling in a way a lot of albums don't achieve, because the fears are very much real.
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - "Murder Ballads"
Great show! These terrify me;
1 - Pierre Henry "Fragments pour Artaud";
2 - Diamanda Galas "Litanies of Satan";
3 - Khanate "Things viral";
4 - Sunn O))) "Black one";
5 - The Caretaker "Everywhere at the end of time".
Suicide's self-titled debut is easily the scariest record I've ever heard. Lingua Ignota's "Sinner Get Ready" is anothet really eerie one.
I love how this series is showing how diverse Martin's tastes are. Until these videos, I had no idea he was so into post-punk! Can't see how The Ghost merited over 1,000 listens -- it's pretty spotty and forgettable -- got the FLAC for it in 2012, forgot I had it, got it again in 2015, forgot about it again until this video. Pretty interesting artifact though!
Also it's interesting how Pete's tastes are super adventurous and nearly as eclectic as Martin's when discussing albums from a half century ago, but arguably less so regarding more recent music.
Laibach's 'the occupied europe tour 1985' - Current 93's 'dogs blood order' - Lustmord's 'heresy' - Brighter Death Now's 'innerwar' - Painkiller's 'execution ground' - Eraserhead soundtrack - The Thing soundtrack - pretty much any Diamanda Galas album - SWANS' 'the great annihilator' - Kronos Quartet's 'black angels' - Aphex Twin's 'come to daddy', but maybe i'm thinking o' that awesome video... (to be fair, none o' these albums scare the crap out o' me, but they are each delightfully unsettling in their own right...). black metal is such a rich vein to mine for creating an itch that cannot be scratched. definitely some albums i need to search out ! MANY thanks you two...
Devil Doll "sacrilegium", Jacula "tardo pede in magiam" and comus "first utterance" sends the shivers for me :)
Robert Fripp's solo album Exposure. The title song is the most creepy on that album.
If you want to hear Daryl Hall singing in a different style check out some of the other songs on the album.
Also the best version of Here Comes The Flood with Gabriel imo.
studied Martin's 70's guide to heavy metal until it looked like an old wallet..😁 what a great book, I never could find the 80's version.been blasting Jump Through the Golden Ring ever since🔥thanks guys, great video as always
Stranglers The Raven is their best. Released here (sort of) as Strangers IV on vinyl. John Cale's viola on Venus in Furs is amazing. Nico's The Marble Index is creepy as hell. Bloodrock's DOA is a scary song that was an AM hit in the 70's
Great episode. The Raven and Animals definitely have their creepy moments. Not familiar with the others, but I would put in a word for The Dreaming by Kate Bush. Plenty of creepy stuff on there especially if you watch the video for the title track.
I love that Race with the Devil keeps coming up recently. It is a great, and completely entertaining film.
- It’s funny I have some ‘Born Again’ songs stuck in my head, but it’s a great underrated album by Sabbath. Almost any Sabbath are pretty dark and scary especially the opening title track from the debut.
- Iron Maiden ‘Killers’ is a pretty graphic album cover, but have some great songs on it.
- Ozzy Osbourne ‘Blizzard of Ozz’
- Heaven and Hell ‘The Devil You Know’
- Uriah Heep ‘Very ‘Eavy…Very ‘Umble’ album cover
I do find Pink Floyd The Wall is pretty creepy especially the 1982 film with the animation specifically.
Yeah that first Uriah Heep cover always unsettled me.
You guys need to do another one like this. The Ghost was awesome that Stranglers album was awesome as well. John Cale mix on that first stooges album wasn't released until years later it was scrapped. I've both mixes on vinyl and I'm sure that John Cale mix wasn't released until recently. My pick for scary is Samhain that band scared me as a kid and I was well into the misfits and everything.
I will never forget the first time I heard Louder than Love by Soundgarden, late at night with head phones. Spooky as sh*t and a really dark album beginning to end.
Everything by Godspeed You! Black Emperor , the sound track to the end of world !
Born Again! We used to blast Disturbing the Priest on Halloween to scare the crap out of kids🤣🤣
Very neat topic, and cool choices. I want to check out that John Cale album.
Want to throw two albums into the mix.
Esoteric -- "The Pernicious ENigma: This is truly terrifying. I don't really listen to this much and I definitely don't listen to so-called "funeral doom" much but this is something else. Some of the scariest stuff I've ever heard with those knifing lead guitar parts, reverberating cleans (kind of got that Pink Floyd vibe at times) and the most distorted and heinous vocal approach. Loads of movie samples from stuff like Dracula, Apocalypse Nowa nd Taxi Driver to pull you even deeper into proceedings.
The second one would be White Noise's album Electric Storm from 1969. This is early electronic "pop" of sorts mostly put together from tape loops and featuring some synth instrumentatino from David Vorhauss as well as contributions from two of the people who worked on the music for Doctor Who in the 60s and 70s. There's also a percussionist who pounds away especailly on the second half of the album. The first half is this whimsical, floaty, psychedelic music with lots of male and female vocals, weird samples (like backwards sex noises) and sing-songy, almost childish melodies. Then you flip the record over (if you're lucky enough to have it on vinyl, which I don't) and the second half consists of two pieces of psychedelic hellish terror. "The Visitor" just draws you in with its massive crescendos and storming percussion and then 'An Electric Storm in Hell" utterly fries your mind. Truly another kind of experience.
Speaking of Pink Floyd it's the really early stuff that's most creepy. That Syd Barrett was weird.
Great show, enjoyed it immensely. Let me name 3 records that come to mind on this topic.
1. Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
2. Can- Tago Mago
3. Death Grips- Exmilitary
Everything by Nico has quite a spooky vibe to me. Roky Erickson is getting shamefully ignored by this channel. Current 93, spooky as well. Ego-Tripping At The Gates Of Hell by Louis Tillett. Phil Collins' solo career: spookiest of all. Male/female vocals brings Lee & Nancy to mind, Some Velvet Morning, very spooky song.
"A Blessed Unrest" by The Parlor Trick is super creepy, it's well worth a listen. Great show!
Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back To Life
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath ( mainly for the title track but it's a doomy album regardless ).
Slayer - Hell Awaits
Venom - Welcome To Hell
The Shining Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn has always been a little scary to me. Pretty much all Syd Barrett is to me
Astronomy Domine's opening guitar is pure evil, to quote The Time Bandits