Mine is 'Black One', by Sunn O)))
A song off it popped up last night on my iPod whilst I was trying to get to sleep (noise helps me sleep...) and thoroughly unsettled me to the point where I simply wouldn't let myself feel sleepy until it was 4 in the morning.
early swans
some extended throbbing gristle pieces
Oh gawd, yeah
Swans. Eurgh.
the charles manson stuff
I have a tape from ages ago, some radio documentary where his whole cult were singing, you have never heard a girl singing "my daddy used to beat me" in such a joyous way. Scary.
Also a shout for Matmos's liposuction e.p. which samples the sound of liposuction surgery and is rather grim.
I was going to say Swans, too
Also; Mausoleum off Holy Bible by The Manics
Scott Walker
The Drift. I only tried listening to that in the dark the once.
Argh!
never in the dark!
the hidden track on Infinity Land
Especially when you've forgotten about it and gone to sleep then some creepy violin sounds start up!
I dunno but my mate
use to call Squarepusher music to jump out of a window to that musta been disturbing
I remember there was a Tricky remix
of Garbage's "Milk" which was absolutely terrifying. (Actually I think there was more than one Tricky remix of that track, but only one sounded like him mumbling the lyrics in a dark alleyway late at night.)
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Tricky's Pre Millenium Tension
was Über-creepy too - especially that last track which was a loop of a piano and a hospital ventilator machine, accompanied by Tricky mumbling about nooses.
Super-freakout!
Joe - www.anewbandaday.com
Obviously
*Frankie Teardrop by Suicide
*the more recent whitehouse stuff too
* i recently stumbled upon a collaboration between merzbow and genesis p. orridge too. the latter does unnerving spoken word pieces over merzbow-esque harsh noise knobbery
*sutcliffe jugend
*early jandek is quite weird as well
*and swans yeah
I find pretty much everything Merzbow does
unsettling in the dark.
hehe, i know what you mean
but this collaboration is even more so, believe me...
There's an Aphex Twin song on....
Druqks which i can't really recall the name of... Gawreck 2 or something... which is all weird ambient noises like chains and keys rattling in a corridor, with children screaming in the background.
I didn't like that one listening alone at 02:30am.
last minute or so of
'The Conist Of and The Consist In' by The Murder Of Rosa Luxemburg. Makes me feel sick.
Frankie Teardrop
oh yeah...
...also the second half of Tago Mago by Can and Freejazz by Ornette Coleman.
mgarglecide/unyoganorm96%
mgarglecide/unyoganorm96% by Chlogeschlecht, 56 second of 'orribleness
Eturivi
Not nice.
Univers Zero - Heresie
Seriously.
Also, Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan.
I did a thread like this a while ago, and started it with Frankie Teardrop and this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg5_EFzAyGY
The Boiler by The Specials (ft. Rhoda Dakar), nasty stuff.
in keeping with the reference to Sunn O)))
there's that track they did with a drill sampled/used in it.
its on oracle and is called belulrol pusztit
Hijokaidan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FcNxCL0gHFY
The ending is priceless.
Jandek
wins for me.
I actually find early Swans more awesome than unsettling, yeah "flex those muscles" and all that or whatever is.
Sunn O))) I usually have to switch off after a while. Not because they're unsettling though, just because they're (ooh controversial) a little bit dull?
I think swans' "final sac" is unsettling
"ahhhhhh jeeeeeezzuuuuuusssss, yur my only guuuurrrrrll.
BALLLLS
listen to them in the dark alone, whilst simultaneously staring at a wall and you will feel the almighty grym-ness bludgeon your brain.
Lydia Lunch
Some very unsettling stuff on the early records
This is it!
On current 93's "Lucifer Over London" ep there is a track about the "end days" which describes "bows" like rainbows but they are "blood bows" and "urine bows" and god is it putrid- but somehow captivating- definitely a "guilty pleasure" : )
If you ever get your hands on it; think twice before listening to it.
Nickys "murder ballads"
"Stagger Lee"
"O'malley's Bar"
and that one about the guy recounting how he stepped out of the house one night and when he returned he found the house filled with cops and his family killed by a serial killer who quote william blake.
on others of nick
The Carney
Christina the Astonishing
John Finn's Wife
When I First Came To Town
that birthday party song about going "into the woods"
jeez, a bunch of nick cave actually
Off Murder Ballads
I find "Lovely Creature" really quite unsettling and I'm not sure why. It might be the female backing vocals that do it.
dead kennedys
I can't remember the title but the story is about some kids having a woodsy when a motorcycle cop visits and they burn and crucify the poor fucker.
William Burroughs "Dead City Radio"
"Where He Was Going" excerpts from "Tornado Alley"
Nurse With Wound
"a new dress"
Coil "Heartworms"
nauseating
Diamanda Galas
what has she done that ISNT' unsettling?
The Residents
"Hello Skinny"
manics
holy bible...
said
The soundtrack to
Assault On Precinct 13 by John Carpenter.....brrrrrrr. Terrifying, especially if some hispanic gang has put the cholo on you.
i find
innocent and vain by nico is a bit freaky. that screetchy intro/outro is horrible..in a great way.
also most of they were wrong so we drowned by liars is a bit unsettling.
wow people on here actually have good taste!
First time I have seen Univers Zero referenced anyway.
I'd go with:
Lustmord
Throbbing Gristle
and most of all, the Conet Project (although not always music).
Either
"Kids" by Lou Reed or "Suffer Little Children" by The Smiths
Jamie Cullum is pretty unsettling too but for different reasons
Venetian Snares
Doll Doll Doll.
I listened to it for the first time while i couldn't sleep and was just lying in bed in the dark.
The last track, All The Children Are Dead, is the scariest piece of music i've ever heard.
...
Throbbing Gristle, particularly First Annual Report. And Iannis Xenakis too.