Spooky Music Weird Horror Songs...Tis ...the Season...... to be---CREEPY !

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, October 15, 2022 3:16 AM

Four notes is all it takes to make a spooky song

or maybe just Two, the guy John Williams who did Jaws... got paid lots of money to write just 2 notes, minor seconds

There are no wrong answers in this thread, its all about what spoke to you personally

Let's have some example

The Police – Every Breath You Take creepy stalker lyrics
'Thriller' I used to find kinda scary, some Hiphop or Funk like Prince could be 'Weird'.
Clowns supposed to make people happy but Frank Sinatra – Send in the Clowns is odd
Hazard by Richard Marx, nice synth and chords but lyrics make it a murder mystery
Hotel California, Eagles I think, reminds me of the original Shinning
The Beatles – Run for Your Life also “Eleanor Rigby” take a listen to Eleanor again it was influenced by horror movie Psycho
A lot of 80s, 90s rock did that whole vibe, Def Leppard "Two Steps Behind" some Country like Johnny Cash was often dark.
Classical Sibelius - "The Tempest" or Verdi's Requiem.
The Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner, a Waltz weird lyrics
Butthole Surfers, '22 Going on 23' ...not a pleasant song at all I don't even know if I would call it a song maybe more of an experiment, truly disturbing Scary

You have the whole movie soundtrack stuff Friday The 13th, War of the Worlds, the Omen, Halloween, Video games. You have the overseas stuff German movie animation music, Scandinavians dressed up as Pagans some of it is hippie some is very dark, Buck-Tick - Dress a Japanese song and 'Tool' a Progressive Arty Rock? Band they say 'Tool' is supposed to be Experienced, almost anything by that Heavy Metal British Rock group Iron Maiden or Nine Inch Nails.

Or if you really want to use something creepy just use four notes, its everywhere this one "Dies irae" simply four pushed into our Western DNA culture for a long time, just notes a Latin Chat once used in funeral, Four Notes of the Dorian Scale? Although I would argue the Dorain is kind of middle happy Euro Hispanic Afro Caribbean Scot, maybe Celtic, maybe Latin, Blues and is 'neutral' but blame the Witches Sabbath composition from long ago but move these notes around and make it a cultural spooky horror thing without people knowing the vibration of four notes goes into your mind and you have made it spooky, which make these notes kinda 'evil'. Even silent movies in silent film, a band goes to the cinema they would hire a band or an Orchestra back in the day and play these four notes over a silent black and white movie.

Any song you think is 'Spooky'?

JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, October 15, 2022 3:18 AM

maybe there is an old thread on this but fireflyfans doesn't have a search engine and most users are long gone

anyways people left still posting, I say quality over quantity

and for fans the crazy movie actor

Tim curry Halloween song.
Worst Witch movie 1986

maybe not scary but....

others said rocky horror picture was Curry at his best.

BRENDA

Saturday, October 15, 2022 9:17 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Four notes is all it takes to make a spooky song

or maybe just Two, the guy John Williams who did Jaws... got paid lots of money to write just 2 notes, minor seconds

There are no wrong answers in this thread, its all about what spoke to you personally

Let's have some example

The Police – Every Breath You Take creepy stalker lyrics
'Thriller' I used to find kinda scary, some Hiphop or Funk like Prince could be 'Weird'.
Clowns supposed to make people happy but Frank Sinatra – Send in the Clowns is odd
Hazard by Richard Marx, nice synth and chords but lyrics make it a murder mystery
Hotel California, Eagles I think, reminds me of the original Shinning
The Beatles – Run for Your Life also “Eleanor Rigby” take a listen to Eleanor again it was influenced by horror movie Psycho
A lot of 80s, 90s rock did that whole vibe, Def Leppard "Two Steps Behind" some Country like Johnny Cash was often dark.
Classical Sibelius - "The Tempest" or Verdi's Requiem.
The Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner, a Waltz weird lyrics
Butthole Surfers, '22 Going on 23' ...not a pleasant song at all I don't even know if I would call it a song maybe more of an experiment, truly disturbing Scary

You have the whole movie soundtrack stuff Friday The 13th, War of the Worlds, the Omen, Halloween, Video games. You have the overseas stuff German movie animation music, Scandinavians dressed up as Pagans some of it is hippie some is very dark, Buck-Tick - Dress a Japanese song and 'Tool' a Progressive Arty Rock? Band they say 'Tool' is supposed to be Experienced, almost anything by that Heavy Metal British Rock group Iron Maiden or Nine Inch Nails.

Or if you really want to use something creepy just use four notes, its everywhere this one "Dies irae" simply four pushed into our Western DNA culture for a long time, just notes a Latin Chat once used in funeral, Four Notes of the Dorian Scale? Although I would argue the Dorain is kind of middle happy Euro Hispanic Afro Caribbean Scot, maybe Celtic, maybe Latin, Blues and is 'neutral' but blame the Witches Sabbath composition from long ago but move these notes around and make it a cultural spooky horror thing without people knowing the vibration of four notes goes into your mind and you have made it spooky, which make these notes kinda 'evil'. Even silent movies in silent film, a band goes to the cinema they would hire a band or an Orchestra back in the day and play these four notes over a silent black and white movie.

Any song you think is 'Spooky'?

"Every Breath You Take" - the Police
My late guy Blair didn't like it. He thought it was stalkerish. It's taken me a while but I can see why he felt that way now.

"Hotel California" - Eagles
Yeah, it can be described as spooky. I don't think "The Shining" though. I just think of somewhere haunted.

Anything else I'd have to get back to you about. Need a think.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Saturday, October 15, 2022 10:45 AM

I got a good one for you.

Aerosmith of all bands too...

Nobody ever heard this one unless they bought the Get a Grip album.

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Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus

JAYNEZTOWN

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 3:22 AM

10 spooky songs to add to your Halloween playlist
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/10-spooky-songs-add-halloween-125503992.html

What makes a song sound scary?
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/what-makes-a-song-sound-scary/

Halloween Ends soundtrack: All the songs and music in climactic horror
https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/10/18/halloween-ends-soundtrack-songs-
music-tracklist-score/

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 3, 2023 5:33 PM

For some reason 80s Synth music is now linked to that Horror Scary sound

Charlie No-Face: The Green Man

maybe its that Glam Rock 80s, late 70s, early 90s Disco Sound, Michael Jackson Thriller, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Kate Bush, Toto, New Order, the tv show 'Stranger Things'?

JAYNEZTOWN

Friday, November 3, 2023 5:41 PM

a story of Pure Horror?

Penderecki Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

now common in other weird horror dystopia movies and tv shows

JAYNEZTOWN

Thursday, September 26, 2024 5:26 PM

Julee Cruise

She studied French horn at Drake University and performed as a singer and actress

"Falling" is a song by American dream pop singer Julee Cruise....it may have been more innocent but then Lynch took it... the lead single and second track from her debut studio album, Floating into the Night 1989...Featuring music composed by Angelo Badalamenti and lyrics written by David Lynch, an instrumental version of "Falling" was used as the theme song for the ABC television series Twin Peaks and its Showtime revival in year 2017 it charted in 15 countries worldwide between 1990 and 1992.

Cruise died in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, in June 2022, aged 65

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 6:44 PM

Xynapsis layers and mix "John Carpeter Halloween Theme"

JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, October 22, 2024 6:55 PM

maybe going to be technical as I will talk about the placement and movement of one note...making a note more flat...

Pink Floyd did they know a little theory or just get stoned smoking high get drunk on booze or did they know something, a little extra theory and knowledge?

I predict SixString will drop theory of music...maybe its too much work

Pink Floyd, moments of musical genius and Roger Waters and ancient Chinese poetry a journey to reach the heart of the sun through meditation

its a single tone moved, Waters would become Pink Floyd's lyricist after the other main guy retired lots of drugs and then ousted from the band amid speculation of mental illness too many drugs so he retired to manage a garden, "Syd" Barrett went to grow hippie planst or something so Roger Waters takes over and co-lead vocalist lines and was a conceptual leader.

in another thread I asked SixString what chords he plays, then I talked of Major and Minor and scale and said there was a Mood or Mode between these scales from the times of the Church and the Greeks, I don't think I talked of odd-time but maybe said you can make a minor more bright by moving one note sharp but also there was something a little darker Minor with just one note flat, which is a real scale

A Spanish Arab 'note' seen in Metal and Classical Music or Wherever I May Roam Metallica, a Lower Second I asked SixString to Learn new notes and chord progressions

When Syd Barrett Played His Last Show With Pink Floyd
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/syd-barrett-last-show-with-pink-floyd/

I also asked him to maybe one day learn Harmonic Minor or play a chord progression or drone a root note under with a scale...some say the movement of one note takes them to another place Romanian Minor, Jewish, Turk, Yiddish, Ukrainian, Mishberak or Balkan some want to add a Major Five or Major root and then it wants to resolve, it has a sharp ti-do...but the root chord is minor maybe its also miserable and there is no Perfect Fourth, there is a tritone a devils note, different chords from Ukraine, some say flat 3 get rid of the Perfect Fourth sharp 4 and flat 7 others say flat 3 sharpen another note take out Perfect Four and sharp 4 and sharp 7 for an even stranger sound ...flat Seven the Seventh dropped a tone seems genuine...if you have a piano and play all white Keys G to G and you have that prince funky scale and if you play all white keys D to high D you have Dorian and then its easy to find an 'Altered Dorian' sound.
I had not begun with Melodic Minor Yet but each scale can have their own 'Mode' one if you move up a few steps is very Hindu Indian Hindi prayer chant like

'Sound' can create a new wall of tones blended, a new chord progression or melody or movie soundtrack feel, and I haven't even talked of the Harmonic Major or The Double Harmonic Scale...some say these are notes or chords which takes people away to China or Oriental lands or Romania or Macedonia or Greece or India or into Childrens Cartoons or spooky Hungarian Castles and all kinds of places...Harmonic Major less used but comes with a Phrygian b4 Mode very Spanish Arab....Double harmonic scale even stranger modes Romania Hungary Dracula Gypsy Minor

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