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Tue Apr-25-06 08:32 AM
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What song consistently brings you to fear? |
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The easy vote for me would be "Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle. Damn that shit is creepy. :scared:
For those not familiar with TG, it's a proto-industrial song about a woman who is burned alive in a car crash. The only "music" in the song is the sound of a revving motor and the vocals, which are run through some kind of oscillating effect.
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Tue Apr-25-06 08:42 AM
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1. "In the Pines" - either the Nirvana or Bill Monroe version will do. |
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Tue Apr-25-06 08:43 AM
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2. Have you ever heard the Mark Lanegan version? |
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It's off his first solo album, and features Kurt and Krist from Nirvana. By far my favorite version.
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Tue Apr-25-06 09:07 AM
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4. I haven't, and I'm ashamed I don't know more about him. |
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I know he tends to work with a lot of artists that I really like, PJ Harvey and Greg Dulli, for example. I should get more familiar with his work.
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Tue Apr-25-06 09:09 AM
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6. I highly recommend "Bubblegum," his last CD. |
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Features Polly Harvey, Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone age, and some of the guys from GnR.
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Tue Apr-25-06 08:50 AM
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3. "Down With the Sickness" by Disturbed |
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If you've ever heard the uncensored version you will know what I mean. It sounds like a description of a serial killer in the making.
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Tue Apr-25-06 09:08 AM
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5. Anything by Herman's Hermits |
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Tue Apr-25-06 09:22 AM
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The first time I played through Procol Harum's "The Dead Man's Dream" on my own piano it gave me a full-blown panic reaction.
But it doesn't happen every time (only when I get it right after repeatedly screwing up?).
A better answer might be Schoenberg's 3rd string quartet.
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Tue Apr-25-06 09:23 AM
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I am haunted by the use of it in The Stand.Whenever I hear it,I get the willies remembering the camera panning over all the corpses.Sometimes,when I read articles about the H5N1 virus,I can hear that song in my head.:scared:
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Tue Apr-25-06 10:06 AM
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9. Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine, Number Nine |
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Tue Apr-25-06 10:16 AM
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Also of interest in the same genre (and even on the same label) is "Slow Death" by a group called the Leather Nun. They're a Swedish industrial group, and contemporaries of TG. "Slow Death" is the same theme as "Hamburger Lady", but features a slow, droning bassline and drums, with wierd squeeky ARP 2600 sounds over the top with an agonizing vocal line.
Good stuff, if you're into that kind of aural torture.
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