tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post4637775677465425127..comments2023-09-28T08:56:57.955-05:00Comments on The Mighty Blowhole: The Horror!Igorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11857186835391466064noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-16121442085699265482009-04-30T07:09:00.000-05:002009-04-30T07:09:00.000-05:00Great post! I'd like to add a couple of favorites ...Great post! I'd like to add a couple of favorites as well...<br />Giacinto Scelsi, whose composition for strings + choir took a very dissonant turn during and after his mental breakdown, and Bela Bartok, particularly for the creepy string quartet pieces used by Kubrick in The Shining... Walter/Wendy Carlos' Beethoven pieces from A Clockwork Orange are also kinda disturbing, but more for the requisite film playback that goes on in my head when I hear em...Igorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11857186835391466064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7855076037924078503.post-28809318273332563322009-04-29T19:30:00.000-05:002009-04-29T19:30:00.000-05:00Excellent stuff. I love scary noises, so I'm gonn...Excellent stuff. I love scary noises, so I'm gonna have to check some of that stuff out. <br /><br />A few I'd add... "D.O.A." by Bloodrock - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzUpVyOdXek My cousins used to play this whenever they wanted to get rid of me when I was four years old, because I absolutely couldn't handle it. It's still disturbing as hell. I mean, lyrics like "I try to move my arm and there's no feeling/ And when I look I see there's nothing there" and "The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying/ God in Heaven, teach me how to die" are just uber-morbid. How this thing was ever a top 40 hit, I'll never know.<br /><br />Atomic Rooster - "Death Walks Behind You". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26JgBMtOaYc I'm glad my cousins didn't have that one when I was little. I'd probably still be in therapy just from that discordant piano opening... (I also used to run screaming from the room when the theme from "Dark Shadows" came on).<br /><br />Acid Bath - "Scream of the Butterfly" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDfzWwPnGA Just about any song from any band Dax Riggs is involved with is creepy, but given the disturbo lyrics of this song, combined with his voice (which one critic described as "the voice of that thing that used to lurk in the corner of your room when you cried in your crib") it gets super-eerie.<br /><br />16 Horsepower - "Black Soul Choir" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO9My5_H6dg Again, just about anything these guys did is highly creepy, but this is a good example. It's hard to believe I actually like a band that plays Christian Appalachian music on banjo and accordian, but, make something creepy enough and I'm there. And when you get lyrics as evocative as "What you doin', girl, up atop my roof? / Creepin' 'cross them shingles / You 'bout scared me half to death/ What's your name, Ruthie Lingle?" I shudder and I don't know why.<br /><br />Anything Diamanda Galas sings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzWVWY5QUzg I heard she sometimes does her "Plague Mass" album in theaters that have been shut down to total darkness. I think that would be totally unbearable. This woman's voice is a bio-weapon that kills by fear!<br /><br />Anything by Abruptum. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKQ4v3IRbCw I think these guys are silly and almost unlistenable, as is any "ambient black metal," but they do creep me out a bit, 'cuz clowns are scary. The story goes that they sit around the studio torturing each other and recording their screams of agony. I know one album of theirs I bought came with a shiny new (real) razor blade enclosed so you could join in at home. I didn't, and am happy not to have gotten the "full effect." <br /><br />Speaking of King Diamond, it's hard to encapsulate how scary Mercyful Fate was when it first came out. I bought both "Don't Break The Oath" and "Melissa" on vinyl and that was some really freaky stuff. Not only was it blatantly Satanic (and they were serious about it) and had those weird vocals, there was other inexplicable stuff about the album, like the way guitarist Hank Sherman was always in the shadows and you could never see his face. So was King Diamond half the time. Mystique! <br /><br /><br />Oh, and I *had* to dig up "Get Back" by Laibach. :D I love YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9w6SEtkeug Wow, they really make that song sound like a *threat,* don't they? I thought I was gonna have an aneurysm for a minute...Zwolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02364540771153476179noreply@blogger.com