Are there any songs/pieces of music that give you the creeps?

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The War of The Worlds soundtrack scares the hell out of me. The Red Weed from that was used during my music exam in High School and I came close to having a panic attack as it had such an effect upon me.

Likewise I had no idea that Forever Autumn was used in WOTW but the first time I heard it, it really spooked me.

Another song that makes me feel strange is Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm by Crash Test Dummies. I don't know why but there's something sinister about it.

Does anyone else experience this effect with certain songs?

Those of you who find Your Gorgeous by Babybird creepy, should probably never listen to Bad Old Man, also by Babybird.

Wires by Athlete. I was pregnant with DS at the time it came out and it just freaked me.

Leningrad by Billy Joel.

The Killing of Georgie part 1 & 2 - Rod Stewart. About the murder of a gay man & apparently based on real life events in Rod's life.

Play Dead by Bjork. I appreciate it's a wonderful song, but I can barely listen to it. It was used in a car ad in 1995, which was the year my sister died. It makes my stomach sink like a stone from the first note.

Seasons in the sun… the original crackly version. not often it comes on the radio but as soon as recognise it I have to turn it off. To me if feels like the most depressing morose song, like a lead weight straight through any feeling of happiness. Awful, can’t stand it.

Clair de lune by Debussy I heard it at a funeral and found it sad and creepy at the same time. My daughter had a lullaby toy when she was a baby that played it and it made her cry and cry.

The original Thomas the Tank Engine theme song. I don't know why, I just find it unsettling.

The creepy music in the little films in sinister 🤮

My friend died when "Stay Another Day" was in the charts and I still cry every time I hear it.

@Ninkanink

The score from Les Revenants (The Returned).

By Mogwai? Oh that's atmospheric, but wonderful... must listen again soon.

"Dancing Queen" by ABBA was on repeat when I was visiting an ice rink when I was about 7. I was alone and crying for my mum. It was a youth club trip and she was in charge, and too busy to spend time with me. It was busy with rowdy people and I was frightened. Still makes me feel anxious now (at 53!)

Seasons in the Sun (as mentioned above) is a horrific song: an artless, cynical corruption of the excellent original by Jacques Brel, which was clever and blackly comic. It even has a horrible stomach churning musical phrase designed to make you feel ill in it. Horrible.

@LikeACatInTheDark @LowbrowVictoriana yes that’s the one! Properly eerie.

This Year's Love- David Gray and most of White Ladder actually.

Was going through a really tough time and it makes me shiver when I hear this song and it takes me back.

Mr Sandman. I can imagine it being played in an old 1950s abandoned car in the woods.
Tip toe through the tulips. (although I do actually quite like it)
My Pal foot foot. (The Shaggs) Extremely dissonant and cree
I believe in you (Kylie Minogue)
Self control (Laura Brannigan)
99 Red balloons (Nina)
I also agree about the test crash dummies song.

Amazing Grace by the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. My parents both really love it but I think it’s as creepy as fuck. I dislike the hymn anyway, but played on bagpipes it’s terrifying.

Also the theme tune to the old TV series ‘World in Action’. I can remember lying in bed and listening to it on the TV downstairs. It’s like something they’d play at the gates of hell. Horrific.

Also the theme tune to the old TV series ‘World in Action’. I can remember lying in bed and listening to it on the TV downstairs. It’s like something they’d play at the gates of hell. Horrific

Yes! And in a similar vein, I always found the Panorama theme so serious and gloomy , like things are so awful and hopeless in the worth, and that we’re all doomed.

@LowbrowVictoriana

Also the theme tune to the old TV series ‘World in Action’. I can remember lying in bed and listening to it on the TV downstairs. It’s like something they’d play at the gates of hell. Horrific

Yes! And in a similar vein, I always found the Panorama theme so serious and gloomy , like things are so awful and hopeless in the worth, and that we’re all doomed.

And the World at War theme! That's really creepy music....

Yes to World in Action and The World at War, they give me a terrible gloomy feeling.

DSIS was petrified by the Pink Panther theme music as a little girl.

Ooh, the one by Mogwai?

Oh I loved that! I cannot think of any music that unsettles me as being 'creepy' though I am moved to tears by some of Elgar's stuff.

"Another Green World" by Brian Eno

It was the theme tune to Arena - I found it hauntingly sad

@LeanneBrownsLonelyBraincell, I like Albatross itself but it gives me the rage because of having to watch Edith Bowman blab on that it sounded like a track from a 90's chill out album. Yes Edith, probably because it was sampled by the KLF on their 90's album called "Chill Out"...

Portishead's "Dummy" sends my soul spiralling downwards. Feels so bleak to me.

@pollywollydoodler

I lost a baby several years ago and I couldn't switch off the thoughts/flashbacks for days. One day we went to the beach and I had a tune that I couldn't name going round and round in my head instead . I told my husband I was glad. to get a break from the thoughts and instantly recognised the tune as Bye Bye Baby. It made me laugh that my unconscious had come up with that as a defence mechanism....but what an inane bloody song to drag up

Summer the First Time, She's Sixteen , Young Girl and all the other adults wanting a sexual experience with young teens type songs

Oh Carole by Smokey and Exile - I want to kiss you all over are eugh and creepy

Somewhat on the nose, and perhaps less creepy but more brutally crushing is the song "Daddy" by Korn. I don't imagine the band in general to be to many peoples tastes on here to be fair. The story behind the "song" goes that the vocalist Jonathon Davies told the band to play the song out whatever happened or whatever he did and that is was all recorded in one go to catch the rawness of the emotion. It's essentially him releasing the anger and grief at the abuse he experienced at the hands of an adult male who was in his life when he was a child. I've only ever listened to it once and don't think I could it again.

On another level is the experimental album "Everywhere at the end of time" which is an audible expression of the decent In to dementia, where the music begins as nice and coherent, but as the album progress it subtley changes, with notes being left out, or changes in pitch, untill by the end the music is just a discordant noise bearing no resemble to the original piece.

On a lighter note, I used to love the Ginger Snaps theme music, which is designed to be creepy. It used to regularly be part of my Windows Media Player play list back in the day.

Mine is Gloomy Sunday by Billie Holliday.

Its just so unsettling to listen to.

Wichita Linesman. The opening lyrics and the melody ...ugh. It makes my skin crawl, I cannot listen to it without feeling incredibly creeped out. No idea why..!

Thats one of my favourite songs ever.