What songs "scare" you and why?

[Chancellor Tanterterg]

I was listening to the soundtrack of Hamilton and I realized that there are a few songs I've heard over the years that really scare me.  Not in a horror movie way, but in terms of the way they tap into things that I'm most afraid of becoming or having happen in the future.  

- Cat's Cradle is definitely on the list and I suspect that it probably leaves many men who have either had a pretty busy father or really want to have kids (both of which are true of me) feeling extremely uneasy (to put it mildly).  I am not at all ashamed or embarrassed to admit that I cried the first time that I heard this song.  

- Wait For It (one of Aaron Burr's main songs in Hamilton) - This one really scares the Hell out of me.  It is essentially about an extremely talented, but risk-averse individual whose unwillingness to take risks is (at that point in the play) keeping him from rising professionally the way that Alexander Hamilton has.  All Burr can do is watch and wonder what life is like in Hamilton's shoes while he keeps telling himself things like "I'm not falling behind or running late.  I'm not standing still, I'm lying in wait."  Given that I am pretty risk-averse by nature and that this has sometimes hurt me during my career (taking more risks has been something I've long struggled with, albeit for extremely different reasons than the play's version of Burr who simply doesn't want to risk being on the losing side).  As a result, this song really struck a chord with me.  

- "Old Friends" from Merrily We Roll Along (easily Sondhiem's most underrated play) is another one that made me cry the first time that I heard it.  It is about three close friends whose friendship is slowly starting to come apart (and about both the good and frustrating aspects of many lifelong friendships) and while their friendship remains in tact, you can clearly see the underlying tensions that will eventually lead to the bitter destruction of their friendship down the road.  I have three extremely close friends (they're basically like family to me) who are in many ways extremely different from me (culturally, ideologically, and with whom arguing/debating is part of the foundation for our friendship) and I always have this nagging fear in the back of my mind that some day there will be some sort of huge argument where rather than enjoying it like we usually do, someone will get really offended and it'll eventually end at least one of my friendships with those three individuals.  

[Antonio the Sixth]

Lady D'Arbanville. I get shudders every time I hear even just a couple notes of it. Honestly, just being reminded of it after seeing this thread made me uncomfortable.

[Lyin' Steve]

The other "Old Friends"

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I remember my dad driving me out late at night to a competition in a city about 200 yards away the next day, and Cats In The Cradle came on the radio and I pretended to be asleep so he wouldn't see that I was crying.  Not because of the way he'd treated me but because it was my last year at home and I was worried after I left we'd grow apart just like the son and father in the song.

Also, "Caroline, No" by the Beach Boys.  Reminds me of one of my girlfriends visiting me in college and after I waved her goodbye on the train, I just had this feeling that I was waving goodbye for the last time.  The song ends with thirty seconds of a train rolling away, always reminds me of that.

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All those country songs about guys marrying their high school sweethearts and having three beautiful young kids and being happy, those always remind me that I'm 25 and still haven't found the one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Being as an Ocean - Sins of the Father

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It's a true story about a friend of Joel's who was a journalist going on a police ridealong on Christmas Eve. The last call of the night was a murder scene where a man had murdered his five-year old daughter, hence the "red on the presents, red on the tree" and seeing the murder scene up close.

[Cassius]

A few spring to mind

- Little Talks, by Of Monsters and Men - the lyrics and the music video are both pretty unsettling (to me), and more to the point I'll always associate it with my last day of school, when it was used in a montage of photos of my year in the last ever assembly. Hence, I always associate it with change, and stepping into the unknown, something I've never particularly liked.

- Giving It All Away, by Roger Daltrey - is just straight up a sad song, and plays to my generalised fear of losing.

- Gollum's Song, by Emiliana Torrini - I've always found it makes me feel guilty and paranoid.

[Lambsbread]

La Dispute - I See Everything

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For obvious reasons.

[Wells]

Whatever BRTD listens to.

[Lambsbread]

Whatever BRTD listens to.

[Green Line]

"Royals" by Lorde.  She's creepy.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

La Dispute - I See Everything

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For obvious reasons.

I also thought about including "King Park". And "Edward Benz, 27 Times". Those three songs are in a row too actually.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc

Oh wait, that's not scary.

[Mike Thick]

Shostakovich's 10th

[Cubby]

Carmina Burana: that's probably what Hell sounds like

Anything by System of a Down.

[Lyin' Steve]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc

Oh wait, that's not scary.

OMG, Ray Stevens!  Haven't heard that name since "Osama, Yo Mama."

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc

Oh wait, that's not scary.

As an Arizonan myself, that video pisses me off.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWpOcZVnBrc

Oh wait, that's not scary.

As an Arizonan myself, that video pisses me off.

As a Pole I'm always pissed by similar things.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Some of Brian Eno's most minimalist ambient stuff can be very unsettling.  I thought the idea of such dissonant music was interesting upon reading a couple reviews, but I started listening and I started to feel very nervous, even frightened and had to turn it off and go outside.  This is the one;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHCt5z1kd8

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Some of Brian Eno's most minimalist ambient stuff can be very unsettling.  I thought the idea of such dissonant music was interesting upon reading a couple reviews, but I started listening and I started to feel very nervous, even frightened and had to turn it off and go outside.  This is the one;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHCt5z1kd8

I have a similar reaction to Arnold Schoenberg. It's not that I don't Get him, I just find him really eerie and uncomfortable to listen to.

[Phony Moderate]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=FLRml7tIzHlp8HIxdaEHAyng&v=xb-pX7sIjFY

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2rwxs1gH9w

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

Also, "Nightmare" from Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse for the NES, which plays in the cave level, is very, very spooky.  When I was a kid I would turn the volume down on this level;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQCZKYcQwUU

[DINGO Joe]

Zager and Evans' "In the Year 2525'.  Frightening that such a horrible song actually got such airplay.

[Illiniwek]

"Royals" by Lorde.  She's creepy.

Hate that song. She really bothers me.

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

"Royals" by Lorde.  She's creepy.

Hate that song. She really bothers me.

[dead0man]

So my parents worked mids when I was a teen, so I was home alone the night I bought the second GWAR album.  It was loud when the first side of the cassette finished and the long silent at the end of the tape was playing out while I went to the toilet.  I had an autoreverse deck so when it got to the end side two started playing.  The song starts with quiet, off in the distance creepy bagpipes.  Then, LOUD, it says my first name, mumbles something.  Then again.  I eventually figured out he was saying "horror", but it sounded a lot like my first name (and still kind of does).  Creeped me out.


Also that song about the lady throwing something off the Chatahoo....hmmmm....ya know, Brother Taylor said he saw somebody that looked like you at the bridge?  Anyway, that song gives me the willies sometimes.