Happy Halloween! Here are five songs that have always creeped me out. I share them in the hope they do the same for you. Luckily, they are all also AWESOME :)
5. Legs - PJ HARVEY
A murderess's lament to her dismembered lover's corpse. "Did I tell you you're divine? Did I tell you when you were alive?...Got to ease my aching head. No other way, cut off your legs" - Lovely stuff.
4. Goddamn You, Jim - FELICE BROTHERS
Dead children, ghosts, burials, haunted parents, suicide attempts and farming the prairies. As moving, stark and atmospheric as anything you will see in film. If this doesn't send a shiver down your spine or a push a single tear from your eye, you are probably one of the undead.
3. The Fable of the Brown Ape - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
A farmer goes into a barn and sees one of his cows suckling a serpent and a chained up ape going batshit insane in the corner. So far, so Nick Cave. The really creepy thing about this song, is that Cave claims that it is about Blixa, his Bad Seeds bandmate. Weird kind of song to write about your friend don't you think? Freud would have had a field day. Or he'd have just given up altogether.
2. Tenderness of Wolves - COIL
Coil at their very best, which in their case means at their shit-yer-pants-scariest. Every track on this album is a three minute horror, but this particular song comes with added crying baby. Put it on, loud, when you answer the door to Trick or Treaters.
1. What's He Building? - TOM WAITS
Scariest song of all time. Waits reminds us that the scariest possibilities are always inside our own head. Or he really did live next door to Ed Gein for a while...
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