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The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 14 2007, 14:39 Halloween is just around the corner and I was wondering if any members had a piece or pieces of music that they like that one could consider Spooky, or Halloween related. My particular favs are,   The Halloween soundtrack, John Carpenter. obvious..... Steven by Alice Cooper. Dance Macabre by Camille Saint Saens. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Oct. 14 2007, 14:49 The War of the Worlds - Jeff Wayne Symphonie Fantastique - Berlioz Ruddygore - Gilbert & Sullivan -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 14 2007, 19:07 Great thread... :A Night on the Bare Mountain ~ Modest Mussorgsky(wonderfully chilling) :In the Hall of the Mountain King ~ Greig ( not so much scary as unnerving, creating many images in my mind) :Mars the Bringer of War ~ Holst (used to scare me silly as a child, still does) :Dance of the Knights ~ Prokofiev ( This piece has such drama & is possibly my favouritest piece of classical music ever - but then I haven't heard Music of the Spheres yet!! ) :Mad World ~ Michael Andrews ( the loneliness I associate with this track scares me so much & yet I find it so beautiful) -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 14 2007, 19:19 Just remembered another, Valse Triste ~ Sibelius ( always makes me think of dancing at midnight in graveyards lit only by the wintry moon , it's really beautiful ) -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 02:32 It's nice to see Ruddigore mentioned - when I was in an amateur musical theatre group, we did quite a few G&S shows... I'm loving the Pumpkin on the Tubular.net frontpage, too! -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

CuNimb Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: July 2003 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 03:02 Dance Macabre by Camille Saint Saens   -------------- Happy? ha ha ha.... Back to top

ImAFoolAndImLaughing Group: Members Posts: 536 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 11:18 "The Trap" by Mike... "Bloodsucking" by Mike... "Dark Night" by Gorky's Zygotic Mynci (A specifically Halloween themed song) Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor -------------- "I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been avoiding the beach." Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 13:04 Quote (bee @ Oct. 15 2007, 02:07) :A Night on the Bare Mountain ~ Modest Mussorgsky(wonderfully chilling) OOh, that's very good. Parts of Pictures at an Exhibition are quite spooky too. Metropolis by Kraftwerk is Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 13:24 This is Halloween, from The Nightmare Before Christmas. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 14:49 Quote (Harmono @ Oct. 15 2007, 13:04) Parts of Pictures at an Exhibition are quite spooky too. Rather spookily I was listening to an extract from that this very morning & thought the same! Not familiar with the Kraftwerk piece, will have to seek it out. -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Harmono Group: Members Posts: 759 Joined: May 2005 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 18:17 Quote (bee @ Oct. 15 2007, 21:49) Not familiar with the Kraftwerk piece, will have to seek it out. It's on the The Man Machine album. Not sure everyone will find it spooky though. Maybe the album cover is generally spookier. About Valse Triste. It's composed for a play called Kuolema, which means death, so no wonder it reminds you of dancing at midnight in graveyards lit only by the wintry moon. Maybe you didn't know that? Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 18:42 Quote (ImAFoolAndImLaughing @ Oct. 15 2007, 17:18) Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor indeed! + Ignacio Vangelis - the part before end title song. Heaven and hell part 2! Vangelis Pj Harvey - the devil Ladytron - Evil + International dateline Twin Peaks Pink Floyd set the controls of the heart + Embryo! my family think i listen to much this dark music...   But i dont like demon music, but dark themes songs! -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 19:37 These are, currently, my top musical scarers: - John Williams' "Main Theme from Jaws". - "Speak to me", from Pink Floyd's DSotM. - "Love and Death and an American Guitar" (a.k.a. "Wasted Youth") by Jim Steinman. If you don't know this one, look out for it. - "Metal Machine Music", end of Part IV, by Lou Reed. - "Child in Time" by Deep Purple - believe it or not. - "Into the Night", by Julee Cruise, from the Twin Peaks soundtrack. - "The day before you came" by ABBA. Again, believe it or not - just listen to those chords under the "Aaaahhh" parts. - "Mer Girl" by Madonna, from the album Ray of Light. - "November Rain" by Guns 'n' Roses, especially the heavy ending part of the 9-minute-plus-long song. - "Waiting for the Night" by Depeche Mode (in the original version - no other version beats it). - "Extreme Ways" by Moby. - "Pax Deorum" and the first half of "Cursum Perficio", both by Enya. Again, if you're not familiar with these, look out for them. There are plenty more I could list, but for the moment I'll limit myself to these. Maybe I'll come up with more stuff in the next few days... @ tubularman: I'm not sure whether demonic music actually exists. There may be demonic-themed or satanic-themed songs or lyrics, but music per se is never really demonic. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Oct. 15 2007, 20:05 Ah, I've got another: the video version of Michael Jackson's "Thriller", which I've ripped from the DVD [starting from MJ's spoken line "It's only a movie!" ]. It's very different from the album version: it sticks all of the song's 3 verses together, one after another; it features a 'scary music' interlude (by Elmer Bernstein); and, most importantly, it delays the poppy, backing-vocals-laden, heavily-choreographed chorus till well after Vincent Price's spoken part. The video itself doesn't scare me at all - indeed, when I happen to see it, it often makes me laugh hysterically at how cheesy it is! - but the way the song is played in the video is, I think, quite scary when listened to on its own, without the images. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 01:24 Quote (Harmono @ Oct. 15 2007, 13:04) Metropolis by Kraftwerk is I haven't heard that one, but I've always thought "Showroom Dummies" (from Trans-Europe Express) was kinda creepy. Another Halloween-ish album, for me, is Peepshow by Siouxsie & the Banshees. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 14:37 Atmospheres by Gyorgy Ligeti.   Scary indeed. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Alan D Group: Members Posts: 3670 Joined: Aug. 2004 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 14:42 It's so sad, but I don't think I know any scary music. Not really scary. I know some horrifying music, like Cliff Richard's 'Congratulations', but that's not quite what everyone means, is it? Back to top

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 15:41 Hmm... Mogwai: 'Like Herod' (PLEASE give this one a try), 'Hunted by a Freak', 'You Don't Know Jesus'; Sigur Rós: 'Ný Batterí', 'Hún Jörð'; Autechre: 'Kalpol Introl', 'Augmatic Disport', 'Uviol'; The Cure: 'Carnage Visors'; King Crimson: 'Larks' Tongues in Aspic, pt. 2', '21st Century Schizoid Man', 'Red'; Can: 'Aumgn'; Radiohead: 'The National Anthem'; Mike Oldfield: 'Romance'. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 16:28 Love's "Forever Changes". It has a very creepy atmosphere even though it's quite upbeat and jolly. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Oct. 16 2007, 19:36 Quote (Harmono @ Oct. 15 2007, 18:17) About Valse Triste. It's composed for a play called Kuolema, which means death, so no wonder it reminds you of dancing at midnight in graveyards lit only by the wintry moon. Maybe you didn't know that? I didn't know that at all, so that makes it even spookier for me. I guess it shows how powerful music can be. & just looking through the list of suggestions makes me realise scary music can take many forms, not only classical, although often instrumental. Another strange thing is, once I've heard a piece that is scary, I find I feel better...confronting deep fears maybe? I think it does you good, so I wouldn't worry about listening to dark music Tubularman, if I were you! -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

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