top 100 albums to play really loud and scare the shit out of yourself with in the dark

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100. Nico - Marble Index
99. Jim O'Rourke - Happy Days
98. Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
97. Acid Mother's Temple - Electric Heavyland
96. Anthology of American Folk Music

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:21 (nineteen years ago) link

95. butthole surfers - locust abortion technician
94. gravediggaz - 6ft deep

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:22 (nineteen years ago) link

93. Suicide - Suicide [first album]

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:23 (nineteen years ago) link

92. Bauhaus - Mask
91. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works, Vol.2
90. Bathory - Bathory

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

89. Loop - Fade Out

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

oh, good choice spencer. thats so obvious. thats what frankie teardrop was MADE for.

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

88. plague mass by diamana galas

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:25 (nineteen years ago) link

89. Nic Endo - Cold Metal Perfection

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

86. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

87. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:39 (nineteen years ago) link

gary numan - pleasure principle

― el toreiro, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

86. Fushitsusha s/t

― Lee G (Lee G), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link

"87. Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger"

Good choice! That's one of the few albums that actually makes me feel a palpable sense of dread while listening to it.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Brian Eno - "On Land"
Iannis Xenakis - "Legend d'Er"
Jandek "Put My Dream on This Planet"

― sexyDancer, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 20:47 (nineteen years ago) link

80. Brighter Death Now -- May All Be Dead
79. Flying Saucer Attack -- P.A. Blues
78. Techno Animal -- Re-Entry

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:29 (nineteen years ago) link

77. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
76. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night
75. Kristin Hersh - The Grotto
74. His Name Is Alive - Stars on ESP(because of the huge industrial noise that explodes suddenly in 'the world is not my home')

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:39 (nineteen years ago) link

73. Anything by Merzbow

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:42 (nineteen years ago) link

this is a really good thread, just in case some people haven't seen it: records that have genuinely FRIGHTENED you

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Lots of Merzbow I don't find scary. Listening to it in the dark is prob'ly the best way.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Scott Walker - Tilt

― T. Weiss (Timmy), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:22 (nineteen years ago) link

72. Violent Femmes- Hallowed Ground

― naturalaw-dp, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

71. Arthur Brown - The Crazy world of..

― chris andrews (fraew), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

70. Throbbing Gristle: Third and Final Report
69. Coldplay: Parachutes

― ddb, Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

68. Coil - Musik to play in the dark 1

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:02 (nineteen years ago) link

67.Runzelstirn & Gurgelstock - Psycho-Physical Tests and Trainings

― mullygrubber (gaz), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

66. spacemen 3 - playing with fire. all good until you fall asleep 1/3 of the way through.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I was just waiting for poor Coldplay to appear.

― derrick (derrick), Wednesday, 12 May 2004 23:53 (nineteen years ago) link

..and I was waiting for Coil.

so how about:

65. Nurse with Wound - She and Me Fall Together in Free Death
64. Kevin Drumm - Land of the Lurches
63. Boris vs. Merzbow - Megatone

All of which will be played simultaneously at my wedding.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm so there, whether or not I'm invited.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:58 (nineteen years ago) link

invited? you're my fiance!

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 00:59 (nineteen years ago) link

62. Future Sound of London - Dead Cities

― Josh Rothman (mrjosh), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

"76. Julee Cruise - Floating Into The Night"

damn good selection, julee cruise is the only artist that never fails to change my mood when i am listening to her. its creepy, beautiful etc.

61. current 93- dogs blood rising

― todd swiss (eliti), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:57 (nineteen years ago) link

60. Divine Styler Spiral Walls Containing Autumns of Light esp. "Mystic Sheep Drink Electric Tea" and "Heaven Doesn't Want Me and Hell's Afraid I'll Take Over"

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 13 May 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link

id forgotten as well
59. Igor Wakhevitch - Docteur Faust

― tom cleveland (tom cleveland), Thursday, 13 May 2004 02:13 (nineteen years ago) link

58. 'Neu!', As donut bitch mentioned on the 'Frightened' thread.

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

57. Cristoph De Babalon - If you're into it, I'm out of it

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:33 (nineteen years ago) link

56. Prurient "Troubled Sleep"
57. Deathpile "GR"
56. Pedestrian Deposit "Volatile"
55. Wolf Eyes "Dread"

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I used Julee Cruise through my first two years of university for writing papers past 3 am. It fit the manic-drowsiness-despite-dizzying-caffeine perfectly, and always kept on edge, esp. the orchestral stabs.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 13 May 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

54. angus maclise "brain damage in oklahoma"
53. cromagnon "orgasm"
52. eraserhead soundtrack

― msp, Thursday, 13 May 2004 04:06 (nineteen years ago) link

51. comus "first utterance"

― paul poop, Thursday, 13 May 2004 05:31 (nineteen years ago) link

50. Fripp, Gates of Paradise

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 May 2004 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

49. Khanate - Things Viral

― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 13 May 2004 08:20 (nineteen years ago) link

48. Anything by lightning bolt.

― hmmm (hmmm), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Tilt seconded. It's about the only record that's ever genuinely terrified me.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Thursday, 13 May 2004 09:51 (nineteen years ago) link

While not strictly music, more spoken word of sorts.

Various - The Ghost Orchid
Various - The Conet Project

Both gave me the fear like I've never had since I was a kid and listening to the creepy bit epilogue of Jeff Wayne's War Of The Worlds..

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

P.S. Whadya mean you've never heard of a bit epilogue?

― mzui, Thursday, 13 May 2004 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link

45. Closer - Joy Division

― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link

44. Death Cube K - Dreamatorium

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link

The Plague Mass seconded, the thought of it made me shiver a little.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:25 (nineteen years ago) link

43. captain beefheart - trout mask replica
42. joe meek & the blue men - i hear a new world
41. pink floyd - the piper at the gates of dawn
40. the silver apples - the silver apples
39. the red crayola - god bless the red crayola and all who sail with it
38. white noise - an electric storm
37. the sunburned hand of the man - headdress
36. aphex twin - come to daddy ep
35. ryoji ikeda - 0°C
34. steve reich - music for 18 musicians

― Toon (Skelter), Thursday, 13 May 2004 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

33. Neurosis - "Enemy of the Sun"

― Ben Dot (1977), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:07 (nineteen years ago) link

32.Coil-Time Machines
31.Coil-The Angelic Conversation
30.Nurse With Wound-Soliloquies for Lillith
29.Alec Empire & Merzbow-Live @ CBGBs

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link

28. jandek - put my dream on this planet
27. dead machines - the night people

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:12 (nineteen years ago) link

26.Laurie Anderson-the ugly one with the jewels (it's more of a get-under-the-makeshift-tent-with-your-best-friend--and-a-flashlight-when-you're-7 scary)

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:15 (nineteen years ago) link

25. Gyorgy Ligeti - Lux Aeterna

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:16 (nineteen years ago) link

24. Fantomas - Delirium Cordia

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

29.Alec Empire & Merzbow-Live @ CBGBs

OTM!!!!!!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:17 (nineteen years ago) link

23. Earth-Earth 2

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link

22. Whitehouse - Erector
21. Thrones - White Rabbit, White Rabbit

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link

20. Throbbing Gristle "Journey Through A Body"

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

'metal machine music' scary? i play it all the time in the dark to soothe & make me go to bed!!

it gives you grebt dreams also

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link

geeta: i read that as "to soothe & make out in bed" and i fell in love until I realized i just can't read properly.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

haha! well, it's a great make-out album, too! i've tried it!

― geeta (geeta), Thursday, 13 May 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

actually, I can't think of more than 2 or 3 records that really scared me

― dleone (dleone), Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Seconding toon's listing of White Noise - An Electric Storm In Hell. I was just going to say that.

― briania, Thursday, 13 May 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Christian Death "Dogs": a nasty sounding track that used to make me think a guy with a Halloween mask and a meat cleaver was in my closet.

Thrill Kill Kult "Confessions of a Knife": listened to this the first time I did acid and actually saw the individual mentioned above, also tried to attack someone I didn't like at a party two hours later with a kitchen knife, but was subdued by several friends, not sure if the record had anything to do with it (drugs are bad).

― js, Thursday, 13 May 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

19. Struggle, "Pain"

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Thursday, 13 May 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

The only thing I was mildly scared by was some of haino's vocals on PSF 15/16- but it was more scared for him than by him.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link

peter kowald - when the sun is out you don't see the stars, it is a bit stupid too though.

― see ar (see ar), Thursday, 13 May 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

17. Psychic TV -- Dreams Less Sweet (also mentioned several times on that other thread)

― spittle (spittle), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

16. Ignore the White Culture by Missing Foundation

http://www.missingfoundation.com/images/ignore_the_white_culture.jpg..

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link

15. Matmos - A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure

After gaining the trust and cooperation of surgeons and patients, the band was allowed to record in operating rooms and clinics. Back in the studio, Matmos performed surgery of their own upon the sounds they had gathered, building rhythms from the clanks, rasps and snips of the scalpel, kick drums from the sound of bones being broken, and rich drones from the buzz of human skin conducting electricity through acupuncture points.

― jubal harshaw (jube), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link

anything by Sunn0))

― Andrzej B. (Andrzej B.), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Sunn 0))) for me is more soothing than scary.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Khanate is scarier than Sunn, if only for the wretched vokillz.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah I gots to get my ass off the couch and hear me some of that shit.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 14 May 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

14. the best of Bernard Herrman

― Flotsam of the Fishfolk (Flotsam of the Fishfolk), Friday, 14 May 2004 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

13. Stockhausen - Stimmung

And whoever said Current 93 'Dog Blood Rising' is heartily seconded.

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Friday, 14 May 2004 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link

12. Extreme Music From Japan - Various Artists

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 May 2004 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

11. ONO-machines that kill people

― chris besinger (chris besinger), Friday, 14 May 2004 16:31 (nineteen years ago) link

this is totally the 'best make-out albums' thread!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 May 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link

YO GEETA DO YOU WANT TO SMOOCH? WE CAN LISTEN TO ALL OF THESE CDS ON RANDOM IN MY 37948739843 DISC CHANGER.

― WUB WUB WUB (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

bit blah now but the first alanis morrisette album gives you a good 15 mins to fall asleep before the hidden track starts whailing

― tessa court, Friday, 14 May 2004 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link

10. Skullflower-Third Gatekeeper

― ddb, Friday, 14 May 2004 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Leichenschei-SPK

― Richard Gunderson, Friday, 14 May 2004 20:14 (nineteen years ago) link

William Hung - She Bangs

― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 14 May 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link

disc 2 of the "OHM" comp

― m. (mitchlnw), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Wet Wet Wet "Popped In, Souled Out"

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link

5. burning star core - tell me something

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

4. Public Image Ltd., Second Edition

― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 14 May 2004 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

3. Gavin Bryers - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet

― Ian Johnson (orion), Friday, 14 May 2004 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

2. Skinny Puppy - Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 14 May 2004 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

1. Peter Gabriel - Passion

What? Don't look at me like that.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 15 May 2004 03:34 (nineteen years ago) link

"4. Public Image Ltd., Second Edition"

But isn't that more "shake your ass in the dark" rather than "scare the shit out of yourself"? Well, no matter. It could be both I guess.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 15 May 2004 04:54 (nineteen years ago) link

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