Spooky Goat day three!
4Creepy music!
It doesn’t have to be upsetting, but maybe disturbing, definitely disquieting. Last year I went to someone’s drive-by home Halloween light show, and about half of the songs was stuff they’d play at Fright Fest and the other half was Disney villain songs. Not even scary Disney villains, just… Disney villains. Which is fine, just not my thing, possibly a generational difference. Anyway, I thought at the time if I had a Halloween light show outside my house, I’d score it with “Aumgn” by Can because that song is intermittently creepy as hell and possibly based on Crowley chants.
Am I just very into progressive instrumentals right now? Because I’d also use “Black Mass (Electric Storm in Hell)” by pioneering electronic music group White Noise (which featured Delia Derbyshire, the woman most famous for her original electronic recording of the Doctor Who theme).
Arguably the most disturbing song I will actually listen to (there are many I won’t) is “Drip, Drip” by the early '70’s progressive band Comus. It’s truly, jaw-droppingly, inexplicably weird–an acoustic folk song about… a torture murder? Why?
I’ll end with Coven’s “Satanic Mass,” just because it’s dumb and I can never post it in the Driving Game because it’s not music. It’s a Satanic mass. I don’t think you could use it in a light show.
Feel free to post anything you think would be appropriately creepy, we could get a couple different Halloween song lists going for different moods.
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I know Disney used it (and I love the Fantasia sequence - such great animation!) But I do think it’s pretty spooky. Not as unsettling as the ones @mossygreen posted though.
@mossygreen I thought the “Aumgn” track was the most effective for a Halloween theme in general, very atmospheric, except I’d probably edit out the faster-tempo part at the end, it’s not nearly as eerie. The Satanic Mass would be much more creepy if the guy delivering it didn’t sound like a 1970s game show host!
Although the track might come in handy if you wanted to unsettle any annoying evangelicals in your life. 
@ircon96 @mossygreen
Wow, both Aumgn and Black Mass were extremely effective in scaring the heck out of me even on my couch with a bright lamp on!
I didn’t listen to the Comus because I think I’d hate it.
@ircon96 @Kyeh “Break the cross and throw the pieces from you… for a complete living room set and a year’s supply of Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco Treat!”
@mossygreen
I think this sounds like something they’d use for a big dance number in Hell.
@Tripod2 Yep, that’s a pretty apt description of it. I hope Hitler & all his cronies are being forced to attend an infinite rave down there with nothing but this playing on an endless loop!
There’s always the classical (and classic)
Here with great visuals added.
Not necessarily scary or spooky, but definitely eerie.
@phendrick I thought about that one too. I love it; once saw it performed in concert and wow!
But it’s increasingly showing up in sports broadcasts, which annoys me.
@phendrick Also notice how the song above (Mitternacht) seems to have borrowed from this?
I think that probably the most effective (to me at least) in-person musical effect to create a scary air was from the movie “The Exorcist”, especially when coupled with what was happening on the screen.
@phendrick “The Exorcist” movie can be found to view for free on the web with a little bit of searching.
For anyone too young to have known (or too old to remember
) all the notable things that happened (coincidentally -?) around the production and theatrical run, I recommend reading the Wikipedia article. A lot of interesting movie facts there.
@phendrick What’s interesting about Tubular Bells is that a whole bunch of album is probably more disquieting than the opening theme, but it’s so indelibly linked to The Exorcist and so influential (I don’t think we’d have the Halloween theme without it) that it’s probably the quintessential example for most people.
Practically anything played on a theramin sounds spooky!
/youtube Leon Theremin playing his own instrument
/youtube The Haunted Theremin of Carolina Eyck | Reverb
/youtube That Evil Goat In The House - Scary Halloween Theremin Music
Appropriate for Meh…
@Kyeh and my niece announced yesterday that as soon as she masters guitar, she wants to learn how to play the theramin. Where thr heck would she even go for lessons?!?!??
@tinamarie1974 Good question! Maybe get her an Otamatone for starters? But that’s pretty cool that she wants to learn the theramin!
Of course, mastering the guitar may take a while.
@Kyeh I am hoping it does, theramins are kinda expensive
“Enter Sandman” is about as spooky as I like.