29/30 Days of Music

[mahogany]

I was stumped by days 25-28, and eventually, I decided to just skip them.

Today's topic: a song that I find creepy.

Well, first, the runners up:

Depeche Mode - Pimpf - It's atmospherically creepy, another DM song, Memphisto is very much like this, but to a lesser degree, and I like it less than Pimpf

Gyorgi Ligeti - Muscia recercata 2nd movt - This was used liberally throughout Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. It's just two notes, but it's menacing and foreboding, like whoah!


The Police - Every Breath You Take - Sorry Sting, but you come of as a creepy stalker dude in this one. "Every move you make, I'll be watching you..." *shudder*


Today's winner is a song that I actually really like, but it too has a stalker-ish vibe to it. "I'll follow you down 'till the sound of my voice will haunt you," yep. Grade "A" el-creepo material, but in all honesty, I've been in that place at one point. Haven't most of us? I guess it's more of a desperate, heartbroken creepiness, versus a the Sting version, which to me, sounds more like a threat.

Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks) - Silver Springs

Comments

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

Oh man creepy songs. Queensryche, "gonna get close to you", Peter Gabriel, "the intruder" and "assassin", Perfect Circle, "blue", Kate Bush, "Running Up That Hill"... there are some really amazingly creepy songs out there -- though I have to say, "every breath you take" has the same feel to it.

[mahogany.livejournal.com]

Oh wow! Those songs are pretty scary!

I never did purchase Peter Gabriel's third solo album, and now I'm glad.

[randomdreams.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty good album, probably my favorite, but I like at least some spooky songs.