I guess I grew up in an era where this was more prevalent, but it seems the fifties and sixties had more than their fair share of "creepy songs". Some of the ones that made my skin crawl as a kid were:

"Ode To Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry (A suicide-mystery song.)
"Tom Dooley" by The Kingston Trio (Murder and death by hanging.)
"Timothy" by The Buoys (Cannabilism...nothing else needs to be said...)
"Mack The Knife" by Bobby Darin (Didn't creep me out that much...but still...)
"Moody River" by Pat Boone (What's creepier? The song's subject, who's dead in the water, or the fact that Pat Boone's singing it?)

The era was also full of "car crash" songs, etc. Anyone have any that did it to you as a kid, or still as an adult?

The Doors - The End
Joe Byrd - Kalyani (Waitin' do die)
Grateful Dead - What's become of the Baby?
Elvis - Blue Christmas

Anything by Johnny Cash. Might be his voice,style or maybe his lyrics are too real.

Bloodrock - DOA :yes:

Whitney Houston, everything.
Celine Dion, everything.

I asked my wife if she knows any creepy tunes. She says , "No, but I know a stupid song that never made any sense ..."

She sang :

".. someone left a birthday cake out in the rain ...
... I don't think I can take it for it took so long to bake it ...."

That creeped me out some.

"Young girl, get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line
You better run girl, your much too young girl..."

Nothing like pedophilia...gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

I asked my wife if she knows any creepy tunes. She says , "No, but I know a stupid song that never made any sense ..."

She sang :

".. someone left a birthday cake out in the rain ...
... I don't think I can take it for it took so long to bake it ...."

That creeped me out some.
Ah, yes. Jimmy Webb's "MacArthur Park". Was a hit twice. First time by Richard Harris (yes, the actor) :no: and again by Donna Summer.

"Young girl, get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line
You better run girl, your much too young girl..."

Nothing like pedophilia...gives me the creeps just thinking about it.
Ew! I remember when it came out. :yuck:

How about "The Gift" by the Velvet Underground?

"Young girl, get out of my mind, my love for you is way out of line
You better run girl, your much too young girl..."

Nothing like pedophilia...gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

That made me think of the one by Andy Williams(?) Called "Go away Little Girl". or Brown Shoe Dont' Make It" By Frank Zappa and the Mothers.

Nothing like pedophilia...gives me the creeps just thinking about it.

Jefferson Airplane - Come up the years.

Don't blame the 'plane, though. Just Marty Balin.

The era was also full of "car crash" songs, etc
:sing:
Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


I haven't heard that song in prolly 40 years and it won't ever go away. :sigh:

I know you have the 45 too. ;)


Carl

and thank you for reminding me of it.


Carl

'Peacemaker" by one of my favorite groups, Fleetwood Mac. The lyrics sound like marching orders for Alqueida(sp?). Really creepy....

Pearl Jam released a cover version of that song a few years ago,and the local rock station said it was the most requested song they had had in years.
A new generation of teenage girls who didnt know the original,I guess.
Jimmy

P.S.The "Oh where,oh where can my baby be" song....

[QUOTE=CarlV]:sing:
Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


Eddy Vedder did a remake about 6 years ago that still gets some airplay. Who did the original?

That I don't remember, remembering rest is bad enough. Seriously.


Carl

Last Kiss
Written by Wayne Cochran in 1962
Best known version done by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
Hit # 2 on the Top 40 charts in 1964
Remade in 1974 by Wednesday, it only made it to # 18
Remade again in 1999 by Pearl Jam

http://www.jimbowieband.com/Lyrics/last_kiss.htm

Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers did last kiss. Yes, I have it, or more correctly, it is on my parents 1958 RockOla jukebox and I grew up listening to it. No I didn't even have to Google the damn lyrics...

...Brown Shoes Dont' Make It" By Frank Zappa and the Mothers.

"What would you do daddy?
Cover that girl in chocolate syrup
and boogie on the White House lawn."

C'mon man. That's great stuff. FZ was prescient. :lmao:

The song that really creeps me out is "Our Baby Die" by Patrick Sky. I'm not easily offended but that song offends me.

"Pete the Bondage Freak" by Michael Perlitch is another creepy song. He really gets into the mind of a sicko.

Kudos to MitsuMan for mentioning "DOA" by Bloodrock. Not only creepy, but a terrible song, too.

That made me think of the one by Andy Williams(?) Called "Go away Little Girl".
I hate to admit that I know this...but it was Steve Lawrence. My mind is full of useless trivia. :rolleyes:

I hate to admit that I know this...but it was Steve Lawrence. My mind is full of useless trivia. :rolleyes:

I think your right. It has been a while since I heard it. I remember being a little kid and wondering why this man wanted to kiss a little girl.

Dead Babies by Alice Cooper.

And what toze said. And add Michael Jackson to his list. And Boy George.

JD

Blue oyster cult: Don't fear the reaper
Song extolling the joy of double suicide


Valentine is done
Here but now they're gone
Romeo and Juliet
Are together in eternity...
Romeo and Juliet

40,000 men and women everyday... Like Romeo and
Juliet
40,000 men and women everyday... Redefine
happiness
Another 40,000 coming everyday...We can be like
they are

come on baby, don't fear the reaper

Songs that get radio play that I usually turn off if I'm riding in my car:
Highway To Hell-AC/DC
Sympathy For The Devil-The Rolling Stones

Other songs or albums that are pretty creepy:

The Vanilla Fudge's version of Season Of The Witch from "Renaissance"-Funny Donovan's version sounds cool and kind of trippy, while the Fudge is down right evil. Especially the end of it...

Also they did another one called "The Beat Goes On" which I have read was reputed to have caused bad trips back in the day when drug use was not quite the social/legal/destructive mess that it has grown to be-Legalize

The whole A side of the self titled Crazy World Of Aurthur Brown is absolutely, amazingly morbid. Especially for 1968. It is definitly "Crazy" but sounds great. Awesome keyboard work.

Last I have always thought that Johnny Cash's "Long Black Veil" was creepy as it is worded from the standpoint of being dead. Deilia's Gone is pretty strange from a murder standpoint but not scary. Its almost funny......

Other songs or albums that are pretty creepy:

The Vanilla Fudge's version of Season Of The Witch from "Renaissance"-Funny Donovan's version sounds cool and kind of trippy, while the Fudge is down right evil. Especially the end of it...

The whole A side of the self titled Crazy World Of Aurthur Brown is absolutely, amazingly morbid. Especially for 1968. It is definitly "Crazy" but sounds great. Awesome keyboard work.

Last I have always thought that Johnny Cash's "Long Black Veil" was creepy as it is worded from the standpoint of being dead. Deilia's Gone is pretty strange from a murder standpoint but not scary. Its almost funny......
Yep, I remember VF's version of "Season Of The Witch". The 45 version wasn't too bad, but the album version with the Vincent Price ending is creepy!

I have the Arthur Brown album. "Fire" was a huge hit in '68, but some Memphis stations banned it! Brown had a great blues voice.

Wonder if Johnny Cash did Bob Dylan's adaptation of "Delia"? Cash was Dylan fan. Check it out on David Johansen & The Harry Smiths first album sometime.

Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy" kinda creeped me out, but with a smile on my face....There were a couple of Black Sabbath tunes that were moderately disturbing-"Children of the Grave" comes to mind, as does one that would make a GREAT theme music for the Saturday Nite Creature Feature on yr local TV station...Not creepy, but very, very sad was Jud Strunk's 1973 "A Daisy a Day"....

"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" by Julie Brown

In 1984, it was hilarious. Post-Columbine, it's a lot less entertaining.

"The Homecoming Queen's Got a Gun" by Julie Brown

In 1984, it was hilarious. Post-Columbine, it's a lot less entertaining.

Along with The Boomtown Rats, I Don't Like Mondays- which was actually written about a school shooting....

There was one in Chattanooga in '75 I remember- "Psycho" in which the protagonist kills a puppy, his girlfriend, his mother...the 1st time I heard it, I was really wigged-out by it. After that, I just decided it was a spoof, & kinda nervously laughed at it...it was sorta country, had the twangy singing, steel gee-tars...

That isn't the song "Dead Puppies" by Dr. Demento, is it?

A lot of the Alice Cooper songs about necrophilia a little creepy but hilarious nonetheless

Me and little Andy by Dolly Parton.

A little girl and her dog running away from drunken daddy stop by Dollys place one dark and stormy night. While there both the girl AND the dog pass away!! WTF? :saywhat:

"She was just a little girl, not more than six or seven
But that night as they slept the angels took them both to heaven
God knew little andy would be lonesome with her gone
Now sandy and her puppy dog won’t ever be alone"

Great thread! The song that came to mind first of was Bloodrock's- DOA, but you all named some great titles. Some I haven't heard of, but for some strange odd reason I have the urge to track them down- Thats creepy enough for me!

Ill add Eminem's "Stan" to the list and duck for cover.
Jimmy

Me and little Andy by Dolly Parton.

A little girl and her dog running away from drunken daddy stop by Dollys place one dark and stormy night. While there both the girl AND the dog pass away!! WTF? :saywhat:

"She was just a little girl, not more than six or seven
But that night as they slept the angels took them both to heaven
God knew little andy would be lonesome with her gone
Now sandy and her puppy dog won’t ever be alone"

Dolly had a few. There is one, I don't remember the name, about kids abused in an orphans home that get revenge by buring down the orphanage, with a staff member still in it. She also had one with Porter Wagoner about the death of a daughter titled Jeanies afraid of the Dark

Isnt anyone going to mention Helen Reddy's "Angie Baby?"

Isnt anyone going to mention Helen Reddy's "Angie Baby?"

I always like that Line, aint nice to be insane. No one ask you to explain.

Before I collected vintage audio gear, I collected records, 8-tracks and CDs.

I've got a pretty large collection, so I'm able to give a pretty big, long list.

Here's that BIG list of creepy music-

POPULAR SONGS-

Don McLean- "Bye Bye Miss american Pie"

The Carpenters "Superstar"

M.A.S.H. theme- "Suicide is Painless"

CREEPY ARTISTS IN GENERAL-

Most of GG Allin's work.

Tom Waits' "Murder in the Red Barn", "What's He Building in There?", and a bunch more...

Alice cooper's "Cold Ethel", "Ballad of Dwight Fry", "Black Juju", "Dead Babies", and many more.

Crispin Hellion glover "Always Say Always To Never" (a Charles Manson cover)

Nick Cave's Murder Ballads- the whole album. And most of his other stuff, including "Death is Not the End".

Anything by Death in June such as "Break The black Ice", "Little Black Angel (written by Jim "Kool Aid" Jones)", "Rose Clouds of Holocaust"

MURDER BALLADS/SONGS-

"Tom Dooly" by Doc Watson

"Banks of The Ohio" by Johnny Cash

"Banks of the Roses" by Harry Hibbs

"Down in the Willow Garden" by Lownsome River Boys

"Down on the Banks of the Ohio" by Blue Sky Boys

Ralph Stanly's "Pretty Polly"

"Poor Helen Smith" by both Neko Case and Hobart Smith

SINGER/SONGWRITER-

"Bang Bang (my Baby Shot Me down)" By Nancy Sinatra.

"Some Velvet Morning" by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood

Scott Walker's "My Death".

"Let Us Praise the Masters of Slow Death" by Diamanda Galas

Golden Palominos "Victim" and "The Ambitions Are (wake up, breathe, keep breathing)"

BLUES-

"Stagger Lee" and "Johnny Too Bad" by Taj Mahal

Koko Taylor's "Up in Flames"

"Sycamore Trees" by Jimmy Scott

"Octopus Woman Please Let me go" by dick kent

"Death Bells" R.L. Burnside.

Skip James' "Hard Time Killing Floor Blues"

"Howling Wolf's "Killing Floor".

"Till Death Do Us Part" by Betty Bond

"Death To Everyone" by Bonny "Prince" Billy.

CLASSICAL

"Isle of the Dead" by Sergie Rachmaninov

"March of the Psylo" by (author) L. Ron Hubbard

Erik Satie- most of his work

SOUNDTRACK-

Barry adamson's "Business as Usual" and "Under Wraps"

"Death rattle" By enneo Morricone.

COUNTRY-

David Allen Coe's "Death Row".

ART ROCK-

"Death Vally 69" by Lydia Lunch and Sonic Youth

"The Black Dog Runs at Night" by Thought Gang

"A Little Death Around The Eyes" by Babyshambles.

ROOTS PUNK

Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, "Heroin", "Perfect Day", "Black Angel Death Song", "Take a Walk on the Wild Side".

"That's when I Reach For My Revolver" by Mission of Burma

"Johnny Hit & Run Pauline" by X

Dead Boys- "Ain't It Fun" and "Sonic Reducer"

Jim Carroll Band's "All The People Who Died"

Misfits "Death Comes Ripping", "Green Hell", "Die Die My Darling", "Holywood Babylon", "Hybrid Moments", "Last Caress" and more.

CLASSIC ROCK-

"Bloody Hammer" and "Burn The Flames" by Roky erickson & The 13th Floor Elevators

HARD ROCK

"Shotgun Suicide" by Church of El Duce/the Mentors

"Death Letter" by the White stripes.

The F*$#Emos- "The Screams of the Wild Women"

"Cop Killer" by Body Count

PUNK

"Death in Barstow" by the Residents.

"I Saw Your Mommy" and "Suicide's an Alternative" by Suicidal Tendencies.

METAL/HAIR METAL

"Slaughterhouse" by Powermad

Angel of Death" and "Jesus Saves" By slayer.

"The First 5 Minutes After death" by Coil

Iron Maiden's "rhyme of The Ancient Mariner".

Twisted Sister's "Captain Howdy".

GOTHIC & INDUSTRIAL-

"Terror Couple Kill Colonel" by Bauhaus

"Failure", "God Damn The Sun", "I Am The Sun", and others by the Swans.

"Aisha" by Iggy Pop and Death in June.

"After The Flesh" and "Confessions of a Knife" by My Life With the thrill-Kill Cult"

"Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle.

"My Evil Twin" and "I Wish I Was Adopted" by the Happy Flowers.

Pankow's "Follow Me To Suicide"

"Serial Killers Don't Kill Their girlfriends" by Front 242

RAP/HIP HOP

"Suicidal Thoughts" by the Notorious B.I.G.

CREEPY DISTURBING SEX SONGS

Kiss- "Christeen 16"

NWA's "the Art of S*#@%!$ D!%*"

Easy E's "College Girls Are Easy".

The Toadies - "Possum Kingdom"

There's lots of creepy songs, but having grown up in Appalachia, I believe there's no music on earth as likely to creep you out as Bluegrass/Celtic. Man, are there some grim offerings in that catalog.

Here's a couple good ones...

Barbara Allen;
"Oh Mother, oh mother go make my bed
Make it both long and narrow
Sweet William died for me today
I'll die for him tomorrow."

Conversation with Death (Oh Death)
Oh yes I've come for to get your soul
Take your body and leave it cold
I'll drop the flash from off in your brain
See the earth and the worms both have their claim

Last Kiss-J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
Leader of the Pack-Shangrilas
Honey-Bobby Goldsboro
I Want My Baby Back-Jimmy Cross
Pizza Guy-Alice Playten

All songs about lives cut too short by early death.

On a personal note, I haven't been able to listen to Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult (formerly Great White Underbelly) since four of my friends looped it on an 8-track and killed themselves to it in Bergenfield, NY back in the early 80s.

Going back a ways, the 1963 song "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto was actually about a man on his way to the gallows.

One song that always creeped me out is Conway Twittys Never Been This Far Before. Just screams of pedophilia. Imagine a 50 year old singing the following lyric:

I can almost hear the stillness
As it yelds to the sound of your heart beating pum pum pum
And I can almost hear the echo
Of the thoughts that I know you must be thinking pum pum pum
And I can feel your body tremble
As you wonder what this moment holds in store pum pum pum
And as I put my arms around you
I can tell you've never been this far before pum pum pum

I don't know what I'm saying
As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places pum pum pum
I only know I've waited
For so long for the chance that we are taking pum pum pum
I don't know and I don't care
What made you tell him you don't love him anymore pum pum pum
And as I taste your tender kisses
I can tell you've never been this far before pum pum pum



:puke:

Going back a ways, the 1963 song "Sukiyaki" by Kyu Sakamoto was actually about a man on his way to the gallows.

C'mon, Sandy...admit it. You tried to sing that song phonetically, at least in your head, didn't you? :thmbsp:

An interesting period piece today, but when it first came out, Simon & Garfunkel's "Silent Night/7:00 News" was certainly a psychological bummer.

Mike Koste
Gobs of Knobs
Ambler, PA

-"Children of the Grave" comes to mind....

Gosh Sandy that's the 1st song I thought of. The first time I heard the whispering at the end my hair stood on end!

And car songs - there's that "Transfusion transfusion. I'm never never never gonna speed again - put the gluten in me newton" tune, complete with horrible sound effects.

Bog I'm sorry to hear that.

Pete

Yep, I sure did- but then so has about evverbuddy else who's heard it...Pete, that song is "Transfusion" by a fella named Nervous Norvus from '56-Shoot the Juice, to me Bruce !! <grin>

Yep, I sure did- but then so has about evverbuddy else who's heard it...Pete, that song is "Transfusion" by a fella named Nervous Norvus from '56-Shoot the Juice, to me Bruce !! <grin>

When you see me comin' best start to pray, I'm a cuttin' up the road and I'm the boss all the way!

One of my favourite songs when I was a kid. Not that I was around when it came out or nothin'...

How about "Celia" by the Motels? Their whole first album "The Motels" is worth checking out if you havent heard it. :yes:

I was on a road trip in Missisppi and had to take a deture from construction,I had to stop for gas as I had pressed my luck,and in the worst part of town at 1:30 am as I was filling up in the scary gas station a crosseyed bum came up and asked me for some money to buy a drink. I kept my left hand in my coat pocket and said sorry dude I can't help you.As I left that place a song came one the radio....THE FREAKS COME OUT AT NIGHT. Now when that song comes on I feel like looking over my shoulder.

:tears: Eve of Destruction :tears: Barry Mcguire
For you youngsters out there that don't understand the morbidity in some songs from this generation, do the words CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS and DUCK AND COVER mean anything? Remember this was the era of JFK, Kruschev and Castro. A volatile mix and everyone on the planet knew it. We got a repreive that time, next time???????????????

Led Zep - No Quarter.

I had just gotten my 1982 Suburban, Feb '82. Cold, dark, rainy, yecchy weather. Loaded up a bunch of buds, a couple of 6-packs, put the radidio on WQUT,headed down this dark, desolate road. WQUT played this song "Martian Boogie"-I about freaked...

:yikes: Dead Mans Curve/Jan and Dean
Not creepy but deadly all the same.

I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing--redo by Jim Nabors (Gomer Pyle)
So CREEPY it makes YOU want to drive off a cliff! :yikes: For that matter, so does the original!

"Is That All There Is?" by Peggy Lee. It creeped my brother out, who heard it for the first time driving down a lonely road in the middle of night. It didn't hit me that way, but it certainly shows disillusionment at life. Ms. Lee often said the song was her life.

Porter Wagoner's "The Rubber Room" (forget Nick Cave...) also Johnny Cash's "Melva's Wine" does the trick for me as well..

CREEPY ARTISTS IN GENERAL-


"Jim Carroll Band's "All The People Who Died"



What a great song. I didn't think anyone else here would know that song. :thmbsp:

Anything I 've ever heard from that Suedo-Satan worshipping, Alice Cooper wannabe... Pat Boone. (and Marilyn Manson).

The Bogus Man by Roxy Music makes me glance nervously to see what might be behind me.

Daaaaaaaamn, this is just wrong on many levels.

One song that always creeped me out is Conway Twittys Never Been This Far Before. Just screams of pedophilia. Imagine a 50 year old singing the following lyric:

I can almost hear the stillness
As it yelds to the sound of your heart beating pum pum pum
And I can almost hear the echo
Of the thoughts that I know you must be thinking pum pum pum
And I can feel your body tremble
As you wonder what this moment holds in store pum pum pum
And as I put my arms around you
I can tell you've never been this far before pum pum pum

I don't know what I'm saying
As my trembling fingers touch forbidden places pum pum pum
I only know I've waited
For so long for the chance that we are taking pum pum pum
I don't know and I don't care
What made you tell him you don't love him anymore pum pum pum
And as I taste your tender kisses
I can tell you've never been this far before pum pum pum



:puke:

This one creeped me out big time;

Country Death Song

Album: Hallowed Ground / Add It Up

I had me a wife, I had me some daughters.
I tried so hard, I never knew still waters.
Nothing to eat and nothing to drink.
Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think.
Nothing for a man to do but sit around and think.

Well, I'm a-thinkin' and a-thinkin', till there's nothin' I ain't thunk.
Breathing in the stink, till finally I stunk.
It was at that time, I swear I lost my mind.
I started making plans to kill my own kind.
I started making plans to kill my own kind.

"Come, little daughter," I said to the youngest one,
"Put your coat on, we'll have some fun.
We'll go out to the mountains, the one to explore."
Her face, it lit up, I was standing by the door.
Her face, it lit up, I was standing by the door.

"Come, little daughter, I will carry the lanterns.
We'll go out tonight, we'll go to the caverns.
We'll go out tonight, we'll go to the caves.
Kiss your mother goodnight and remember that God saves.
Kiss your mother goodnight and remember that God saves."

I led her to a hole, a deep black well.
I said "make a wish, make sure and not tell
And close your eyes dear, and count to seven.
Know your papa loves you, good children go to heaven.
Know your papa loves you, good children go to heaven."

I gave her a push, I gave her a shove.
I pushed with all my might, I pushed with all my love.
I threw my child into a bottomless pit.
She was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit.
She was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit.

Gather 'round, boys, to the tale that I tell.
You wanna know how to take a short trip to hell?
It's guaranteed to get your own place in hell.
Just take your lovely daughter and push her in the well.
Take your lovely daughter and throw her in the well.

Don't speak to me of lovers with a broken heart.
You wanna know what will really tear you apart?
I'm going out to the barn, with a never-stoppin' pain...
I'm going out to the barn, to hang myself in shame.

--G. Gano

One more very creepy tune: "Death Walks behind You" by Atomic Rooster. What a great beginning.

Luka - Suzanne Vega

Yes I think I'm okay
I walked into the door again
Well, if you ask that's what I'll say
And it's not your business anyway
I guess I'd like to be alone
With nothing broken, nothing thrown
Just don't ask me how I am
Just don't ask me how I am

One more very creepy tune: "Death Walks behind You" by Atomic Rooster. What a great beginning.

Wow! Atomic Rooster is more Arthur Brown (The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown) material. This guy is just plain out there, spooky, but everything I have heard is interesting to say the least.

:tears: Eve of Destruction :tears: Barry Mcguire
For you youngsters out there that don't understand the morbidity in some songs from this generation, do the words CUBAN MISSLE CRISIS and DUCK AND COVER mean anything? Remember this was the era of JFK, Kruschev and Castro. A volatile mix and everyone on the planet knew it. We got a repreive that time, next time???????????????


Ah I had this on 45 rpm vinyl but I'll be damned if I can find it now. I know the

song was banned on many radio stations at the time. Oh and if you want creepy

try the song "Kim" by Eminem.

Mike

Cold Ethyl - Alice Cooper

Cold Ethyl, cold, cold Ethyl in refridgerator heaven...

Something like that, gives me the heebee geebees.

the border by red star belgrade


they are an independent band, so most if not all of you will have ever herd it, but you can download it off of there website http://www.redstarbelgrade.com/rsbframes.htm
then click on listen 2 songs on the left
then on the top middle click on the 3. telescope

then click on 10. the border

very good unknown band, i suggest listening to there other less creepy stuff too.

if that is to much bother i will transcribe the lyrics upon request

:angel: Teen Angel :angel: Mark Dinning

Oh,God! I have WAY too much time on my hands!!

:angel: Teen Angel :angel: Mark Dinning
Especially the female backup singer that sounds like a ghost... Oooooooo...:para:

I remember that one too. :sigh:


Carl

"Green, Green Grass of Home"- Tom Jones, about 1968-69. "Ghost Riders (In the Sky)" did it to me when I was a kid, especially w/Vaughan Monroe's booming, ominous baritone/bass. One part/movement of "Tubular Bells" is kinda creepy-actually, the whole thing is not very happy-happy, joy-joy.

I have a very worn DJ 45 copy of Tubular Bells packed away somewhere. I like it! However, the hit version cannot be easily found and is not on the album. Anyone remember "Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider? :)

Elton John's "Tickin Tickin" I believe it was banned from most stations air play.Off his album Caribou...
"So what was it that brought the squad car screaming up your drive"
"To notify your parents of the way in which you died.tickin,tickin"
Only Elton and his piano...lyrics are eerie and mezmerising.
If you ain't heard it you have to give it a listen.

Anybody remember that odd anti-drug song from late '71-early '72 that had as its tagline-"Things Get a Little Easier, Once You Understand.." It was a spoken dialog record between a VERY uptight & repressive father & his hippy-dippy son. Everything the son does, the father belittles him. Hmmm... Sounds like my old man....But I digress... The record ends w/the inevitable Knock On The Door from The Police-the boy has died/killed himself from an overdose. Kinda creepy, but really more treacly than anything else.

:screwy: :nutz: :yes: :no: :banana: Napolean XIV / They're coming to take me away, ha ha, ho ho, he he, haha.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time..............................

This song is kinda creepy, kinda funny; Freepy? The cool thing about this one is that side B was in reverse. Not like I buried Paul spin the turntable backwards on Revolution #9. The lyrics were sung from the end to the beginning to the same melody as side A. At least that's how I remember it from probably 40yrs ago. Can someone let me know if I'm right, or should I take a visit to the funny farm, ha ha,ho ho,he he...............

Yeah, Eve of Destruction was a good tune. My friend used to come over and knock that one out on an acoustic guitar.

How 'bout "I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After :thmbsp:

Ok, can't remember the name of the song, but about miners who were caught in a cave in and one didn't make out, in one piece. It is indicated the others ate him.

That really creeps me!

Donner, party of twelve!

y'all ever heard Nappy 14th's follow-up to "They're coming to take me Away?" It's called "Happy I live in a Split-Level Head" & is as outrageous as "Away" is. And yes, they DID release a version of "Away" backwards...

Grainger,

That would be "Big Bad John" performed by Jimmy Dean, the sausage hawker.

Pink Floyd "One of these days"

Grainger, That would be "Big Bad John" performed by Jimmy Dean, the sausage hawker.
Ah....so that's the secret ingredient in Jimmy Dean's Sausage! :yikes: :yuck:

:screwy: :nutz: :yes: :no: :banana: Napolean XIV / They're coming to take me away, ha ha, ho ho, he he, haha.
To the funny farm, where life is beautiful all the time..............................

:)



Carl

That would be "Big Bad John" performed by Jimmy Dean, the sausage hawker.

My wife filled me in, it is "Timothy" by some one hit wonder.

I know "Big John" and the sequel. And was that really Jimmy Dean????

Bwahahaha!

How about "Dragula" by Rob Zombie or "Mother" and "Trouble" by Danzig? When Elvis sings "Trouble" it's kind of light-hearted. When Danzig wails it, it IS downright evil!

[QUOTE=CarlV]:sing:
Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


I haven't heard that song in prolly 40 years and it won't ever go away. :sigh:

I know you have the 45 too. ;)


Pearl Jam released that on a 45? :D

:)



Carl


That is truly disturbing on so many levels. :yes:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003Z4V.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

"Hamburger Lady" -- by Throbbing Gristle

...an Industrial song with spoken lyrics taken from a med intern's report on a severe burn victim in ICU.

Rich, it makes "The Gift" sound like a lullaby.

Grainger,

Yes, "Big John" was really Jimmy Dean. I didn't see the part about your creepy song where the other miners ate him. I hope I never hear your Timothy song.

That is truly disturbing on so many levels. :yes:
Nah, it was just meant to sell albums.

Some parts of my Autumn Tears 3 album work Love Poems For Dying Children goes there a bit though.


Carl

Ok, can't remember the name of the song, but about miners who were caught in a cave in and one didn't make out, in one piece. It is indicated the others ate him.

That really creeps me!

Donner, party of twelve!

I believe you must be thinking of a different song.
Big Bad John, written by Johnny Cash (big hit by Jimmy Dean).

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine,
when a timber cracked and men started crying.
Miners were praying, and hearts beat fast
and everybody thought they had breathed thier last
cept' John.
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well.
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan,
and like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone, Big John

Big John
Big John
Big Bad John
Big John

And with all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove.
Then a minor yelled out, 'theres a light up above!'.
And 20 men scrambled from a 'would be' grave
now theres only one left down there to save, Big John.
With jacks and timbers, they started back down,
then came that rumble way down in the ground.
And as smoke and gas belched out of that mine,
everybody knew it was the end of the line, for Big John.

My wife filled me in, it is "Timothy" by some one hit wonder.

I know "Big John" and the sequel. And was that really Jimmy Dean????

Bwahahaha!
Yep..."Timothy" by The Buoys. I mentioned it in the initial post. And yep, Jimmy Dean the Sausage King... He used to have his own TV variety show in the 60's on CBS. Had a Muppet character that may have been the first incarnation of Rowlf the Dog.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6d/Rowlf.jpg

Big John was from 1960 or '61, IIRC. Timothy was from '71. It was prolly a little too weird for '61.

[QUOTE=CarlV]:sing:
Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


I haven't heard that song in prolly 40 years and it won't ever go away. :sigh:

I know you have the 45 too. ;)


Pearl Jam released that on a 45? :D

Several years ago I heard a sequel to this song where he finds here and digs her up. Don't know if this was a real song or a radio station spoof. That station did some good ones back then like Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep and Elmer Fudd singing I'm a Wabbit Slayer.

Warren Zevon - excitable boy

Typical Zevon a chilling tale hidden by a catchy tune.

Alice Cooper - Steven
This one just raises the hairs on the back of my neck.

Submitted without judgement, controversial at it's time of release

ARTIST: Lou Reed
TITLE: Walk on the Wild Side
Lyrics and Chords


Holly came from Miami, F-L-A
Hitchhiked her way across the U-S-A
Plucked her eyebrows on the way
Shaved her legs and then he was a she
She says hey babe, take a walk on the wild side
Said hey honey, take a walk on the wild side

How about Avenging Annie by Andy Pratt. Check out the lyrics to that song and tell me you don't shudder a bit. :yes:

Fantastic thread for reliving old, old memories... spinning "DOA" over and over at my best friend's place until his Mom made us turn it down, singing "They're Coming to Take Me Away" at summer camp, and many others...

"Season of the Witch" was mentioned a couple times, but no one mentioned the best version of all (seriously, no joke!): the one on the Mike Bloomfield/Al Kooper/Steve Stills alnum, "Super Session". Great music! My brother got the LP and I practically wore it out years ago... and finally got another copy of it, just last week. Still like it, a few decades later.

There are funny/spoof creep-out songs like "The Monster Mash" and "The Adams Family", disgusting creep-out songs like some mentioned already, kinky ones like "Sit on My Face and Tell Me That You Love Me", but what REALLY, REALLY creeps me out --that is, what makes me turn off the radio REALLY FAST... are songs like:

You Light Up My Life, by Debbie Boone :puke:
and
Ben, by Michael Jackson :puke:

I'm not sure why, maybe it's just because these songs were played past the point of "to death" or "ad nauseum" in their day, but I just absolutely cannot stand to hear these... :puke:

"You Light Up My life" by Ms. Boone-one of Pat Boone's daughters-was about God, not her boyfriend/lover/whatever. She apparently was a VERY strong born-again Christian, & this song was about her relationship w/God as she saw it.

I thought it was called "You Fight With My Wife"...

How about Alice Cooper's I love the dead.
I love the dead before their cold
thier bluing flesh for me to hold
Cadaver eyes, upon me see nothing
I love the dead before they rise
no farewells no goodbyes
I never knew your now rotting face.
though freind and lovers mourn your silly grave
I have other uses for you darling.

How about Avenging Annie by Andy Pratt. Check out the lyrics to that song and tell me you don't shudder a bit. :yes:

Well you don't hear Andy Pratt's name mentioned everyday. I'll spin that song occasionally just to tweak my wife.

Fantomas --- The Devil Rides Out

The Fantomas are out there anyway, but their cover of this movie theme really gets under my skin.

There's some new age / ambient stuff that creeps me out.

Lou Reed - Heroin. Great song, but I still remember Lou singing it live on the Rock & Roll Animal Tour, wrapping the microphone cord around his forearm, pantomiming shooting up while caressing the lyrics - It's my wife and its my life.........still get the chills these many years later. Disturbing yet riveting.

If anyone has ever watched the Burt Reynolds/Ned Beatty flick Deliverance the good ol bluegrass tune "Dueling Banjos" has probably never been the same. Not for me anyway...

Also the Kinks "Lola" kind of creeps one out in the same kind of way...

I'll tell everyone this. There is a whole following and music catalog of a thing called "Death Metal" that contain lyrics and album covers that would make Alice Cooper puke!! I swear one of my friends listens to this shit and it is plum scary with band names like Christian Death, Vomit, Defacation, Dying Fetus, and Necrophelia (refering to the act of sexual intercourse with a dead body)just to name a few.

I would refuse to listen or view the CD liner notes and artwork that my friend would try to turn me on to until he told me that you have to have the same mentality as someone who really digs horror flicks. Kinda made sense. That is how I know what I know, but I still think the whole thing sucks and is negative, untalented, mind poisoning, trash just like the whole inner city Rap music (?) scene. In general that is. I never say 100% of any given thing is as I perceive it.

Sorry if anyone finds any of these references shocking or offensive. Unfortunately by nature, they are. Also unfortunately they are true...

Vicki Lawrence's 1973 hit "The Night The lights Went Out in Georgia" is kinda weird, if only because its so damnably hard to follow."Deliverance" I thought was one of the creepiest films ever...possibly because it was plausible, possibly because the scenery was/is so incredibly beautiful. That area of the country has arguably, some of the prettier areas in the eastern US....

Sugar Spun Sister by the Stone Roses. Fantastic song, but still:

She wakes up with the sun
She asked me what is all the fuss
As she gave me more than she thought she should
She wakes up with the sun
I think what have I done
As I gave her more than I thought I would, ohhh

At takes all these things and all that time
Till my sugar spun sister's happy
With this love of mine

[QUOTE=Tubejunke]

Also the Kinks "Lola" kind of creeps one out in the same kind of way...

Well, I'm not the worlds most physical guy
but when she squeezed me tight she nearly broke my spine
Oh my Lola lo lo lo Lola...
Creepus Maximus :puke:

:sing:
Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


I haven't heard that song in prolly 40 years and it won't ever go away. :sigh:

I know you have the 45 too. ;)


Carl

that was re-recorded by pearl jam relatively recently.. it was pretty solid.

What will you do if we let you go home,
And the plastic's all melted,
And so is the chrome?
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

What will you do when the label comes off,
And the plastic's all melted,
And the chrome is too soft?

WAAAAHHHHHH!
I think I'm gonna die . . .
I think I'm gonna die . . .
I think I'm going to die . . .
I think I'm going to die . . .
I think I'm going to die . . .
I think I'm going to die . . .
I'm gonna die . . .
I think I'm going to die . . .
I think I'm gonna die . . .
I'm going to die . . .
I think I'm gonna die . . .
I think I'm gonna die . . .
I think I'm gonna die . . .
Going to die!

WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

What will you do if the people you knew
Were the plastic that melted,
And the chromium too?
WHO ARE THE BRAIN POLICE?

"well, he was an ugly guy with an ugly face,
an also-ran, in the human race.
And even god got sad just looking at him.
And at his funeral, all his friends stood around looking sad, they were really thinking about all the ham and cheese sandwiches in the next room."



CREEPY :D

Not really creepy, but thanks to Martin Scorsese everytime I hear the piano exit on "Layla" I see dead gangsters in meat-trucks and dumpsters........

"
And its one two three what are we fighting for,
don't ask me I don't give a damn,
next stop is Vietnam (Iran?, Afghanistan?).

And its five six seven open up the pearly gates,
there aint no time to wonder why whoopie
we're all gonna die"

"The Fish Cheer-Feel Like I'm Fixin To Die Rag" Country Joe And The Fish-Joe McDonald-Profit (it seems)

Funny how relevant songs like this and the forementioned "Eve Of Destruction" by Barry Mcguire are today. If not more relevant. Only thing missing today is the fun stuff that was going on back in the day. Stuff like banding together and actually being "The People" and putting pressure on political corruption and corporate greed. Also the vast music/art/peace movement of the time at least added some positive aspects to negative circumstances. Now we are stuck with "57 (257) Channels And Nothing On" as we sit on the couch and watch the "powers that be" run amuck and line their pockets while eradicating the working middle (especially lower) class in America. Sorry let me off my use of freedom of speech before I sound too "unAmerican"

"Gimme an F"

Damn Hippies!!

Where oh where can my baby be
the good lord took her away from me
she's gone to heaven so I got to be good
so I can see my baby when I leave this world


Several years ago I heard a sequel to this song where he finds here and digs her up. Don't know if this was a real song or a radio station spoof. That station did some good ones back then like Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep and Elmer Fudd singing I'm a Wabbit Slayer.
I believe you're thinking of :
I Want My Baby Back by Jimmy Cross

I want my baby back
Gotta have my baby back
I miss her oh so much
Can’t live without her touch

[Spoken]

I don’t hardly know where to begin. I remember we were cruising home from the Beatles concert. I’d had such a wonderful evening, sitting there watching my baby screaming, and tearing her hair out, and carrying on. She was so full of life. Then, well, we were about three miles from home when all of a sudden it started to rain. And I do mean rain. I couldn’t hardly see nothing. Well, we kept driving for about another mile when all of a sudden I see this stalled car right smack in front of me. Well, I wasn’t about to slam on the brakes ‘cause I didn’t have none to start with. So I swerved to the left. And what do I see—some mushhead on a motorcycle headin’ right at us. And I knew at last me and my baby were about to meet the leader of the…

[Crash sounds]

…pack

[spoken]
Well, when I come to, I looked around
And there was the leader
And there was the pack
And over there was my baby
And over there was my baby
And way over there was my baby

[chorus]
I want my baby back
Gotta have my baby back
I miss her oh so much
Can’t live without her touch

[Spoken with digging sfx]

It’s been many months now since that fateful night. And you know something, I’ve tried. Believe me, I have tried. But I just can’t make without my baby. So I’ve decided I’m going to have her back one way or another. Oh, baby, I dig you so much. [manic giggle and sound of shovel on wood] Hot dang, pay dirt.

[sound of creaking a slam]

[muffled]
I’ve got my baby back
Now, I’ve got my baby back
I love her oh so much
Can’t live without her touch
I’ve got my baby back

The above song was a backlash against a spate of teenage death/suicide songs that had been coming out in the late 50s-early 60s, such as:
Cars and Motorcycles:
“Teen Angel,” Mark Dinning
“Tell Laura I Love Her,” Ray Peterson
"Car Crash," The Cadets
“Leader of the Pack,” The Shangri-Las
and
“Last Kiss,” J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers
Suicide:
"The Pickup," Mark Dinning
"Patches," Dickie Lee
“Endless Sleep,” Jody Reynolds

Other and unnamed:
“Ebony Eyes,” The Everly Brothers
"Laurie," Dickie Lee
"Ballad of an Angel," Bobby Swanson
"Death of an Angel," Donald Woods and the Vel-Aires

(most of the above gleaned from: Dead Teenagers (http://www.cod.edu/People/Faculty/pruter/Horror/deadteenagers.htm) )

This may have been mentioned, I'm too damlazy to go thru & check, but "Sylvia's Mother" by Dr Hook from '73 or so was kinda creepy, IMHO, as was "Angie Baby" by Helen Reddy from about the same time.Helen's '72 "I Am Woman" caused more than a little controversy- I remember my mom debating on whether or not to get it for my sister-who was 11 at the time. I chuckle at the memory of that-nowadays my mom would have to deal w/Fiddy Cent, Black-Eyed Peas, Keilis, an' all them other, wonderful, upliftin' artistes the kids listen to now...

Roy Orbison's IN DREAMS lip-synched by Dean Stockwell in the movie BLUE VELVET.

"A candy-colored clown they call the sandman..."

I'm surprised that no one had mentioned:

The Cure - Lullaby


"And I feel like I'm being eaten
By a thousand million shivering furry holes
And I know that in the morning I will wake up
In the shivering cold

The spiderman is always hungry..........."

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone", by The Kingston Trio, 1961 is a bit disconcerting, especially given the times it was released-Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis...

George Michael always creeped me out more than Oy! George did. Go figure...
(I couldn't help but "mess" with the pic sleeve a bit. :D)

"Where Have All The Flowers Gone", by The Kingston Trio, 1961 is a bit disconcerting, especially given the times it was released-Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis...
Did you ever hear the Betty Crocker version called "Where Has All The Flour Gone"?

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gorden Lightfoot.

Ron.

Did you ever hear the Betty Crocker version called "Where Has All The Flour Gone"?

Did you ever hear the Napolean XIV version called

:D ?"Gone Flour The All Has Where" :D

I thought of another one but it makes me more sad than "creeped" out. Its a song called "The Games People Play" by I believe Joe South. It its one of those songs that are real. Maybe too real. What I mean by real is that it is not fantasy, rebellion, or "deep and meaningless" (Robery Pant) wordplay like many rock songs. Especially back then. The song simply lays down the unfortunate bad side of the modern human condition. The bad things that seem to exist in us all. To me for anything to be bad, by nature of the definition of the word there must be a good. Dig?

The good thing with this old tune is it kind of keeps you in check and makes you want to go out and do something nice for somebody or make positive change for a better world. Can't beat that!!

The older I get the more real "The Cats In The Cradle" gets.

I thought of another one but it makes me more sad than "creeped" out. Its a song called "The Games People Play" by I believe Joe South. It its one of those songs that are real. Maybe too real. What I mean by real is that it is not fantasy, rebellion, or "deep and meaningless" (Robery Pant) wordplay like many rock songs. Especially back then. The song simply lays down the unfortunate bad side of the modern human condition. The bad things that seem to exist in us all. To me for anything to be bad, by nature of the definition of the word there must be a good. Dig?

The good thing with this old tune is it kind of keeps you in check and makes you want to go out and do something nice for somebody or make positive change for a better world. Can't beat that!!

The older I get the more real "The Cats In The Cradle" gets.
Joe South was an awesome songwriter/performer. He also wrote "Walk A Mile In My Shoes", "These Are Not My People" (two more keep yourself in check songs), "Hush" (Deep Purple), "Down In The Boondocks", "I Knew You When" (Billy Joe Royal and the latter also covered by Linda Ronstadt) and many more.

Lets not forget the saddest song Joe South did. Don't it make you wanta go Home

Lets not forget the saddest song Joe South did. Don't it make you wanta go Home
Yup! How did I forget to mention that one? :scratch2: Joe's career and life took a nosedive after his brother committed suicide. :(

"All God's children get weary when they roam, and God, how I wanna go home"- aww, man, that line always got me, especially since it sounded like he was on the verge of absolutely bawling...But who amongst us HASN'T felt that way at one time or another ?

and on a HAPPY note: :bash: MAXWELL'S SILVER HAMMER

"All God's children get weary when they roam, and God, how I wanna go home"- aww, man, that line always got me, especially since it sounded like he was on the verge of absolutely bawling...But who amongst us HASN'T felt that way at one time or another ?
What are you talkin' 'bout? You never been out of the county 'cept maybe to go to Mt. Pilot for the pitcher show :smoke:

Rich P

Oh, but my dear Rabbi...I WAS exiled to Chattanooga 1971-75, when I was a mere tadpole of 14...I NEVER had been away from home before...Like an idiot, I watched my parents drive off...I thought I would NEVER see them or home again...When I DID go home about 6 weeks later, it was not quite like I remembered it....The only thing was, everyone else in the freshman dorm was pretty much in the same shape...We were all miserable, but being Grown Men (of 14) we couldn't admit it.