What are your favorite SCARY songs?

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What are some great creepy songs, or songs that have a really great buildup of emotional intensity?

Mine:
The samples from Elend's new album ("Boree" especially...listen here)
Dir En Grey - "Obscure" (Though the video's what's REALLY scary! I can't even watch that even though I adore the song. DO NOT WATCH if you are easily disturbed--it has some VERY sick images.)
NIN - "Somewhat Damaged"
Slipknot - "The Virus of Life," "Gently"
A Perfect Circle - "The Package"
Chris Vrenna - "Battle with the Red Queen" and "The Funhouse" from the "American McGee's Alice" soundtrack

emperor - inno a satana
carpathian forest - journey through the cold moors of svarttjern
carpathin forest - the eclipse / the raven
dissection - soulreaper

I think the only scary song I can think of are Korn songs I like, slipknot, but songs that get me pumped and if im in angry mood, I usually listen to Linkin park, or something like limp bizkit

the hearse song?

http://www.organfailure.org/03%20-%20Or ... 0Worms.mp3

The most bone chilling song ever is "When a Solution Comes" by the Kinks.

i used to come near tears when i listened to Antichrist superstar
the album i get into the most now would be Psycroptic symbols of failure
or about half the songs on Gorgoroth, Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam but i hate the other half

"Mama told me not come" by Three Dog Night.

It scared me when I was 5 years old and sleeping. My parents turned up the volume and it was the scariest thing I had ever heard in my life.

"Requiem" by Otep is one I find really hard to listen to....

"Walls Are Bleeding" by Jarboe of SWANS, and Paul Lemos of Controlled Bleeding, On Dry Lungs Vol. 1, International Industrial Music Compilation.

Just as I don't favor any bad smells, I don't favor any scary songs. Songs that I truly find scary are not ones that I happen to like.

Hmm, it's going to be interesting to see the responses to this thread.

I'm only going to list songs that I REALLY think are in some way creepy or strange; I love songs that have a great build-up of emotional intensity, but they aren't usually all that creepy, and if I listed every song I can think of which is just a little bit strange, or dark then I'd be here for days.

My List: (spanning all genres)

All the Clocks Are Broken :by: Cop Shoot Cop :from: Ask Questions Later
I don't know, this song has always had a feeling of desperation and claustrophobia to me, there's just a sense of something creepy there.

Brazil :by Cranes :from: Population 4
Included in this list only because Alison Shaw's vocals are creepy! I mean I can appreciate the somewhat ethereal quality of her voice and all, but seriously, she sounds like a six year old on heroin.

Almost Got Hit by a Truck :by: Daniel Johnston :from: Yip/Jump Music
I first heard this song when I was about 12, on a mix tape filled mostly with heavy early-90s industrial music, and it has always haunted me. It's such a simple song, but also so heartfelt that I can't forget it.
Just recently I watched the documentary The Devil and Daniel Johnston, and it helped to explain a lot of the reasons why I found this song so haunting, as well as helping to put a name to the song previously only known as "that strange haunting song".

The Secret of the Secret :by: Esoteric :from: Metamorphogenesis
15 minutes of droning reverb-laden guitars and disembodied screams against a backdrop of more or less improvised drumming, what could be better? I found a review of this album, here, which suggested that some people had experienced hallucinations just from listening to this music, and I knew that even if I absolutely hated it I had to hear what kind of music could have that effect.

Victim :by: The Golden Palominos :from: Dead Inside
This can only loosely be described as a song, it's really more of a spoken word track, the first-person account of a woman being kidnapped and murdered... Grim.

Karmakosmik :by: In the Woods... :from: Three Times Seven on a Pilgrimage
The first few times I heard this song it made me physically ill and vaguely suicidal, now I love it!

The Lovers, Part 2 :by: The Legendary Pink Dots :from: The Lovers
It's hard to picks a single song by The Legendary Pink Dots that wouldn't sound creepy or strange to most people, so I just chose one at random.

Gypsy Funeral: Hark! From the Tombs a Doleful Sound :by: Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses :from: Perils
Instrumental, avant-garde, gypsy, jazzy, weird...

Your River :by: My Dying Bride :from: Turn Loose the Swans
A former room-mate once described the beginning of this song as being like The Twilight Zone on mescaline...

Song of Joy :by: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds :from: Murder Ballads
It's hard to pick a single creepy song from an album called Murder Ballads, but there's just something about this one, there's just a current of lazy malevolence that seems to run through the song.

It Has Not Taken Long :by: Nico :from The End
I don't know what to say about this one except that the disembodied children's choir never ceases to creep me out.

Something For the Mrs. :by: Old Man Gloom :from: Christmas
"In the next war we shall bury the dead in cellophane.
The host shall be provided in every K-ration."

Mechanized Horror :by: Pica :from: The Doctors Ate the Evidence
It is exactly what it claims to be: mechanized horror.

The Thin Ice :by: Pink Floyd :from: The Wall
Not that's it's in any way creepy or strange on its own, but I get creepy-strong flashbacks to my sophomore year of high school whenever I hear this song, or any song on this album. *cringe*

Ode an Epiphanie :by: Samsas Traum :from: Oh Luna Mein
It's industrial, it's goth, it's metal... You'll probably never hear it, unfortunately.

Welcome to the Theatron Animatroique :by: Secret Chiefs 3 :from: Book of Horizons
Perhaps the best description I can think of for this song and the whole album is that it sounds like what I would expect if the end of the world occurred at a horror-film style circus in Iraq.

Helpless Child :by: The Swans :from: Soundtracks for the Blind
Long, droning, trance-inducing, I don't know what more to say.

Doom Sticks :by: Ulver :from: A Quick Fix of Melancholy
Strange post-classical/industrial avant-garde something-or-other.

The Chosen :by: Voltaire :from: The Devil's Bris
"Roses are red, Violets are blue, if I'm schizophrenic then I am too!"


...I didn't have much to do today, so I composed a list... Don't laugh, I had fun!

So who recognizes more than 2 or 3 of the bands/songs I've listed?

Let's throw in the classic: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, by Bach...

I'm not into songs that are out and out "scary" in a Manson or NIN or Black Metal kind of way, but there are some eerie songs I like:

"Eero" by Labradford
"Though It Went So Well?" by Fushitsusha
"My Prayer" by Maria's Breath (good luck finding that one though)
"Beware the African Mosquito" by Nurse with Wound (really anything else by NWW also)
"The Passage of Forms" by Roy Montgomery

I dig Nico. The one song I've heard by her, at least; I'll Be Your Mirror.

I'll probably check out Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses. I like instrumental music of all types, and have a preference for gypsy and/or jazzy (and Gypsy Jazz, too).