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Songs you were afraid of

Started by bandit957, December 03, 2019, 10:55:41 PM

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bandit957

Were there any songs that they played on the radio that you were afraid of?

I always thought "Who Are You" by the Who was a little bit scary because of the part in the middle where there was this little strum and the song got quiet and then loud again.

Another scary song was "Go Home" by Stevie Wonder. I was 12 when this song was popular, but I still thought it was a little bit frightening. It had this scary "dunnnnn-dunnnnn" that repeated throughout most of the song. The song was evocative of visiting seemingly haunted roads late at night. For some reason, I also fondly associate the song with the strange technical problems that plagued a small local radio station.
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Roadgeek Adam

Still does scare me, but the Reading Rainbow theme. I promise you there will not be a more unusual choice of any other poster.
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Brian556

Well these I'm not afraid of, but could be jarring to a first-time listener:
When "Say You, Say Me" goes from slow to fast
When Britney Spears yells "STOP" in the middle of "You Drive Me Crazy"

Big John

Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Makes Santa act like Big Brother.

kurumi

I heard this song on an oldies station while I was reading an old "House of Mystery" comic as a kid. It's a cool song, but to me it just sounds really menacing because of that juxtaposition. Basements and alleys and monsters and demons and all that:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=necLdGpfgEs
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Thriller had some scenes in the music video that were close enough to an actual horror movie when I was a kid that it kind of spooked me a little.  Somebody's Watching Me had a lot of 1980s era fears wrapped up in the lyrics but the video is an acid trip even now. 

kphoger

Quote from: Big John on December 03, 2019, 11:34:52 PM
Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Makes Santa act like Big Brother.

Isn't that the whole point of the Santa Claus tradition?  Rewarding good behavior with presents, punishing bad behavior with naught but coal in the stocking, the ability to see you in order to know who is naughty and who is nice?  It's a kid-appropriate way (for better or worse) of teaching children about God.

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kphoger

I don't recall ever having been scared of a song.  But, some songs whose lyrics are kind of creepy:

The Police – Every Breath You Take
Frank Zappa – I'm the Slime
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Scott5114

Quote from: kphoger on December 04, 2019, 12:19:54 PM
Quote from: Big John on December 03, 2019, 11:34:52 PM
Santa Claus is Coming to Town.

Makes Santa act like Big Brother.

Isn't that the whole point of the Santa Claus tradition?  Rewarding good behavior with presents, punishing bad behavior with naught but coal in the stocking, the ability to see you in order to know who is naughty and who is nice?  It's a kid-appropriate way (for better or worse) of teaching children about God.

I mean, if you work in a casino, that's just the surveillance department. But instead of coal you get passive-aggressive emails, and instead of presents, you get nothing.

QuoteThe Police – Every Breath You Take

And this is their theme song.
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formulanone

Quote from: kphoger on December 04, 2019, 12:21:11 PM
The Police – Every Breath You Take

I think I've ruined this song for at least a dozen ladies.

kphoger

The creepy lyrics are why my favorite version is this minor key cover by Chase Holfelder.

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SectorZ

No song scares me. I listen to bands with names like Cannibal Corpse (though not the early grindcore stuff), Decapitated, Death, and Gorefest.

JoePCool14

All of those different "Happy Birthday" songs different party places or restaurants use. I always never knew what to expect with those as a kid, and I never cared for them. I wish they would just use the traditional song considering it is now (has been for a few years) in the public domain.

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GCrites

Black Sabbath the song. Especially the demo version with the lost third verse. I've only heard it a few times on the radio unless I was the DJ.

vdeane

The background music for the Doctor Who episode Midnight.  To this day I can't listen to it because it sets me on edge.  It doesn't help that the episode itself is one of the scariest in the show.

Quote from: JoePCool14 on December 04, 2019, 10:25:30 PM
All of those different "Happy Birthday" songs different party places or restaurants use. I always never knew what to expect with those as a kid, and I never cared for them. I wish they would just use the traditional song considering it is now (has been for a few years) in the public domain.
Those restaurants probably consider their versions to be "tradition" now, since they've used them for so long.  I could see customers who like their specialty versions of the song complaining if they suddenly switched.
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Mark68

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Quote from: kphoger on December 04, 2019, 12:21:11 PM
I don't recall ever having been scared of a song.  But, some songs whose lyrics are kind of creepy:

The Police — Every Breath You Take
Frank Zappa — I'm the Slime

Speaking of creepy songs...

"Gonna Get Close to You" by Queensryche

And, of course, "Creep" by Radiohead
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kphoger

When I was growing up, there was a Macaroni Grill restaurant that our family would go to sometimes.  For a while, there was a music student who waited tables at the restaurant, and she would sing Happy Birthday in an operatic style with a beautiful voice.  Much more enjoyable!
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Roadgeek Adam

Quote from: GCrites80s on December 04, 2019, 10:54:47 PM
Black Sabbath the song. Especially the demo version with the lost third verse. I've only heard it a few times on the radio unless I was the DJ.

The Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" or the Coven "Black Sabbath"? Coven was full into the satanism approach.
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GaryV

Quote from: kphoger on December 05, 2019, 01:29:56 PM
When I was growing up, there was a Macaroni Grill restaurant that our family would go to sometimes.  For a while, there was a music student who waited tables at the restaurant, and she would sing Happy Birthday in an operatic style with a beautiful voice.  Much more enjoyable!

Our college choir was on tour, and stopped at a pizza place for lunch.  There was a kid's birthday party.  When they sang Happy Birthday, we joined in - in 8 part harmony.

ClassicHasClass

The Good, The Bad and the Ugly freaked me out as a kid for some reason. Probably the wailing.

GCrites

Quote from: Roadgeek Adam on December 05, 2019, 02:26:31 PM
Quote from: GCrites80s on December 04, 2019, 10:54:47 PM
Black Sabbath the song. Especially the demo version with the lost third verse. I've only heard it a few times on the radio unless I was the DJ.

The Black Sabbath "Black Sabbath" or the Coven "Black Sabbath"? Coven was full into the satanism approach.

eponymous Black Sabbath.

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The Police – Every Breath You Take
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Quote from: ClassicHasClass on December 05, 2019, 11:49:48 PM
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly freaked me out as a kid for some reason. Probably the wailing.
I know I've heard that song before, or at least part of it.  Meanwhile, I tend to equate the phrase "The good, the bad, and the ugly" with this: https://twitter.com/MikeCatalana/status/1096232706617364480 (and for the ugly, I'd like to nominate my attempts to put this in a URL tag; no idea why that's not displaying as a normal URL, because that's what I pasted in :hmmm:).
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RobbieL2415

Don't Wanna Miss a Thing, Aerosmith.  Particularly the string section intro.

White Flag, Dido.  In retrospect a very good song, but the melody was haunting as a kid.

Guiding Light theme song (1993-2001) because it meant the lighthouse logo of room was coming.


hbelkins

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Quote from: GCrites80s on December 04, 2019, 10:54:47 PM
Black Sabbath the song. Especially the demo version with the lost third verse. I've only heard it a few times on the radio unless I was the DJ.

Never heard that. Got a link to a decent-sounding version anywhere?

EDIT: This one?



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