On Black Sabbath's album "Born Again" the 3 tracks on side one from "Disturbing the Priest," "The Dark" &"Zero the Hero" always scared me really bad when I was younger.
Absolutely. I heard this for the first time about 25 years ago, driving 100 miles back to college in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night after a show when my friend threw in a cassette of a Smile boot. I was already familiar with all of the mythology but had never heard any of it. I found it all fascinating and just really cool but then "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" came on and it was way more bizarre and borderline terrifying than I expected. Especially at 3 AM while driving through the sticks.
Fleetwood Mac- The Green Manalishi (With The Two Prong Crown) Greenie said it was about money, but the way he’s wailing at the end sounds like he’s got an actual demon on his trail. One of those recordings where the artist appears to be taking a glimpse into something that maybe is making US see things that we don’t want to see. “And the night is so black that the darkness cooks”
Can- Augmn & Peking-O used to freak me out. Once. I was trippin' on something and someone played "Scream Thy Last Scream" by PF. Freaked me out big time.
The Sisters Of Mercy. After Hours. Should have been the theme song for Michael Myers’s or Jason Voorhees:
The Alan Parsons Project - The Tell-Tale Heart (featuring Arthur Brown) The original mix stomps all over the 1987 remix in this case - that guitar solo at the spookiest moment absolutely destroys the atmosphere.
I never found this scary, I just assumed it was about needing to go score more drugs in the middle of the night! Scary for me was when I got Alice's Love It To Death on my 12th birthday. I was genuinely terrified by Black Juju for years
That's the one track on that album which makes no sense to me. I suppose that's kinda scary in a way! I love the rest of the album btw.
A dark-ambient bit of terror from Pink Floyd's More (1969). Unearthly screeching noises rent the air. Roger Waters bangs the gong. Richard Wright's Farfisa organ swallows everything around it. The equivalent of being in an unfamiliar pitch-black house at 3am. Be very afraid.
I'm not sure that I'm genuinely scared by any songs I can think of - disgusted yes but that's another thread. However, I think that Depeche Mode's song 'Ghost' really establishes a spooky feel, despite the 'Ghost' being a metaphor. And, it's a great song too.
Scared the hell out of me when I was a kid and my older brother played it. Still creepy—the ending particularly.
One of my criticisms of a lot of Miles from that period - it sounds like incidental music from horror films, thrillers, TV series.
