Quicklist CLXXXVII: Top Sinister (or Creepy) Songs

[Smitty]

1. Belvedere - Patterson Hood
2. Midnight Rambler - Rolling Stones
3. Revolution Blues - Neil Young
4. The Assassin - P. Hood
5. Mack the Knife - Bobby Darin
6. I Can Tell Your Love is Waning - Slobberbone
7. Cold Hard Facts of Life - Porter Wagoner
8. First Mrs. Jones - Porter Wagoner
9. Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill - Johnny Paycheck
10. Knoxville Girl - various

[Kudzu Guillotine]

Perhaps not exactly what you had in mind but as a kid these songs used to scare the living shit out of me:

[Duke Silver]

pretty much anything involving mark lanegan.

[tinnitus photography]

this is one...Alan Dubin has an unsettling voice to say the least, and this video fits perfectly.

[John A Arkansawyer]

This one gave me creeps listening to the radio late at night as a not-quite teen:

So did this one:

[Iowan]

"Night Prowler" AC/DC
"Stray Cat Blues" The Rolling Stones
"Oh, Comely" Neutral Milk Hotel
"Billy Pritchard" Slobberbone
"Go-Go Boots" Drive-By Truckers
"The Tough Sell" Drive-By Truckers
"Kaw-Liga" Hank Williams (not so much sinister, but it creeps me out for some reason)

[Smitty]

"Night Prowler" AC/DC
"Stray Cat Blues" The Rolling Stones
"Oh, Comely" Neutral Milk Hotel
"Billy Pritchard" Slobberbone
"Go-Go Boots" Drive-By Truckers
"The Tough Sell" Drive-By Truckers
"Kaw-Liga" Hank Williams (not so much sinister, but it creeps me out for some reason)

As far as Hank goes, "Ramblin Man" is definitely spooky, as well as "Angel of Death"

[Flea]

[Clams]

Nirvana's version of Where Do You Sleep from the Unplugged in NYC record. Kurt's voice and the sound of that cello give me chills every time.

[Iowan]

Nirvana's version of Where Do You Sleep from the Unplugged in NYC record. Kurt's voice and the sound of that cello give me chills every time.

How could I forget that one?

[BigTom]

No Quarter - Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Sabbath
Riders On The Storm - Doors

[Kudzu Guillotine]

So did this one:

Never got the creeps from listening to that one but we all have different things that scare us. If anything, for the longest time I thought it was some great lost Hendrix track.

Before LJ gets in here and for the record, I still haven't seen anything but the edited for TV version of The Exorcist. However, I do have the Mad Magazine parody and Richard Pryor's comedy routine about the movie committed to memory.

From a post on the Mark Slutsky website called "Films You Only Know from Mad Magazine":

[Duke Silver]

[Penny Lane]

OMFG...i love that more than words can say---
i dance like that guy in the pink button down shirt way up front...
Duke, that is sooooooooo awesome. thank you..

[Duke Silver]

OMFG...i love that more than words can say---
i dance like that guy in the pink button down shirt way up front...
Duke, that is sooooooooo awesome. thank you..

Thanks to zoid for posting it! Wonder what other footage he's sitting on...

[Zip City]

[Slipkid42]

The Ripper - Judas Priest
1921/What About The Boy - The Who
Uncle Ernie - The Who (always creeped me out)
Boris the Spider - The Who
Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
Big Joe & the Phantom 309 - Tom Waits (Red Sovine)
In For The Kill - Budgie
The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden - Concrete Blonde
Timothy - The Bouys
The X-Files theme

[scotto]

"Love Me" by The Phantom--proto-Cramps tawdriness from 1958 (go find it on YouTube)
"Westfall," Okkervil River ("And when I killed her it was so easy that I wanted to kill her again")
"Transfusion," Nervous Norvus (more '50s creepiness)
"Country Death Song," Violent Femmes
"Ballad of Dwight Fry," Alice Cooper

[tinnitus photography]

Nick Cave's version of "Stagger Lee"

[UncleFrank23]

"Westfall," Okkervil River ("And when I killed her it was so easy that I wanted to kill her again")

X2 "Evil don't look like anything"

[beantownbubba]

If anyone has mentioned Howling Wolf's "Evil" I missed it.

[Slipkid42]

This didn't sit well w/my 14 YO mind.
The guy who wrote the worst song ever (The Pina Colada Song), wrote this song as well.
I just want to go back in time & bitch slap him silly.

[d_bob76]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSmMvvuo ... re=related
Ever since I saw this movie this song has given me the heebie geebies but at the same time it's very beautiful