Scary passages in classic albums

Scary, as in beautiful?

 

If Drukqs by Aphex Twin is a classic album, "Gwarek2" is a particularly nightmarish moment.

Also, I don't know if Duck Stab/Buster & Glen by the Residents is anyone's 'classic album', but "Hello Skinny" is one of the most unsettling things I've ever heard.

 

Yep. Scariest recording of my childhood, back in 68...

 

The actual screaming(was that done by Waters?) a few minutes into 'Careful with that Axe, Eugene'.

 

the last two tracks on the cure's pornography

 

The Pale Saints
The final song on the Mrs. Dolphin album is quite scary. Just after the 50 second mark, "The Colour of the Sky" gets quite jarring and ups the scary.

 

Actually, the entire album. Especially the first song, '100 Years'.

 

Witchy Woman - the Eagles. Henley's wailing in torture vocal backed by spooky harmonies
Dazed and Confuzed - Led Zeppelin - desending bass line, the bow section - soul of a woman
No Quarter - quiet key solo
Peter Gabriel - Intruder

 

"I buried Paul"

Strawberry Fields Forever.

 

The build up and the apocalypse 666 bridge in Genesis' Suppers Ready

 

which reminds me of "the plague of the lighthouse keepers" by vdgg... in fact several of vdgg's songs can be called scary, i suppose

 

The last few seconds on BOC's debut

 

Procol Harem - A Salty Dog

 

For me nothing compares to the end of John Lennon's 'Mother'

Mama don't GOOOOOOOO...Daddy come home.

Each time it's a little longer and more gut-wrenching. The first time I heard it, on the headphones, I was like jelly by the time it was over.

 

The Smiley Smile version of "Wind Chimes" has both scary and beautiful sections.

We have wind chimes on our front porch that are connected with both beautiful memories, a frightening Oklahoma thunderstorm in which there were sparks jumping from the wind chimes and my son's hair was standing on end as he ran into the house, and a horrible family tragedy. "Wind Chimes" has a special meaning to me whether in the Smiley Smile or SMiLE version.

 

I believe on early vinyl pressings the outro's name was included - The Haunting

 

The beginning of Zep's "In The Light" and the entirely of "Your Time Is Gonna Come"

 

"Whaling Stories" too.

 

It's a beautiful song

 

Thanks for the info

 

When I was a teen-ager a popular band that sometimes played the municipal auditorium would play this and have a strobe light going during that instrumental part. I remember thinking it was pretty out there. Not especially scary but maybe a little spooky.

 

I can't remember the track title, but it is the second to last song on Captain Beyond/Sufficiently Breathless.

 

"The Dead Man's Dream" is the main Procol Harum track I have trouble listening to.

 

The whole album Balaklava by Pearls Before Swine... scary but beautiful.

 

The blackest, bleakest moment of a very black, very bleak record.

D.D.