tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post5246249016122902750..comments2024-03-28T21:56:51.675-04:00Comments on Face to Face: Hearing spooky songs as a childagnostichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12967177967469961883noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-42306012486704145672013-02-18T12:37:49.791-05:002013-02-18T12:37:49.791-05:00I've always found Buffalo Springfield's &q...I've always found Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" to be extremely creepy.FWGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-7724334588691176192010-10-06T15:24:16.296-04:002010-10-06T15:24:16.296-04:00It didn't register with me until much later, b...It didn't register with me until much later, but "Every Breath You Take" by The Police is a stalker anthem.<br /><br />I'm a little hard of listening, and when I first heard "Bette Davis Eyes" (which came out when I was in High School), I modegreened the title to "Thirty Days to Die", which made it creepier than it actually is.<br /><br />At the same time, heavy metal was *filled* with satanic imagery, having moved on from the medieval imagery of the early Rainbow and suchlike. AC\DC had "Highway to Hell", "Hell's Bells", and others like Anonymous at 6:56PM suggests.Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389602137217799305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-75024822464565978312010-10-03T10:27:30.103-04:002010-10-03T10:27:30.103-04:00The 70s' Post-Vietnam era was filled with bubb...The 70s' Post-Vietnam era was filled with bubble-gummy, Movie-of-the-Week syrupy sentimentality (think: Seasons In The Sun). Nothing terribly profound or thoughtful, but haunting of tone and vibe. Tired and perhaps grown out of this Tiger Beat angst, it seems this continued into the 80s but the lyrics and sentiments changed, matured...and the 90s saw the whole thing just turn into full-fledged self-despair. Now, our Millennial age has somehow lost all its introspective edge.An Unmarried Manhttp://www.phoenixism.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-82776315232961222222010-10-01T16:41:57.755-04:002010-10-01T16:41:57.755-04:00The only song I can think of that freaked me out a...The only song I can think of that freaked me out as a kid was "Joan Crawford" by Blue Oyster Cult. At the time I didn't know who Joan Crawford was, but the "risen from the grave" part was supremely creepy. That and "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath were my only musical traumas.jm_kayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13543096755366914223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-71997511125701598492010-09-30T20:56:21.467-04:002010-09-30T20:56:21.467-04:00One of my twenties-era roomates (a chemist of all ...One of my twenties-era roomates (a chemist of all things who worked as a bouncer through college) was into old Black Sabbath of the Ozzy era. I knew next to nothing about them, but he convinced me to listen to their greatest hits album.<br /><br /><br />1)Black Sabbath's, "Black Sabbath",<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEoN5Nx4u0w<br /> (A song about a man at some sort of ritual who finds out that he's apparently the sacrafice and will be sent to hell by the Satan himself---very scary instrumentals and suprisingly good vocals).<br /><br />2)NIB (Nativity in Black) by Black Sabbath, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytwY-atTfpM&feature=related<br />(that might be one of the most influential heavy metal songs ever, and it really is pretty good)<br /><br /><br />3)"Witchy Woman" by the Eagles (I liked it when I was little, and to be fair its a genuinely well-written, well peformed piece),<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d8hZtvRPno<br /><br /><br />4)An anti-Vietnam War song called "War Pigs" by Black Sabbath,<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTRMZk-l_VY&feature=related<br /><br /><br /><br />A note on Black Sabbath....I wasn't into them as a kid (thought they were devil-worshippers, etc), but my roomate assured me that their artistic idea for the band was to cultivate a horror-movie vibe around their music and stage presentation because they were horror movie fans. The name, "Black Sabbath", apparently came from an old Vincent Price movie. I dont know much about their body of work, and it very well might not be that good, but the greatest hits compilation, "We Sold Our Souls For Rock and Roll", was pretty enjoyable to me. <br /><br /><br />They even put out a video in the early 80's that was a "mini"-horror movie of sorts called "Zero the Hero" with Deep Purple's Ian Gillen singing, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwoT9_StEfY<br />(such a heavy guitar riff)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19346366.post-65614841455419703532010-09-30T07:47:57.400-04:002010-09-30T07:47:57.400-04:00I'm a millennial and I grew up on horror movie...I'm a millennial and I grew up on horror movies (not that this disproves your argument). In 1st grade I was shown The Shining and continued watching the classics (and non-classics) of that genre from then on. Unfortunately, even now, in dark claustrophobic settings I can't keep my brain from being flooded with horror-movie imagery (pale bloody corpses that aren't dead and things of that nature). I still watch horror movies--and play horror games on occasion for that matter. It would probably be best if I undid my childhood trauma before indulging in those....anon234noreply@blogger.com