Songs Of Discomposure: Quietus Writers Pick Their Most Disturbing Pieces Of Music

I’m with AP on Throbbing Gristle - they always seemed like desperate try-hards to me.

Champiness, I'd renominate "Disturbance" by The Move. See what you think...

@Champiness: try Elend, anything off The Umbersun or The World In Their Screams - thick choral/orchestral nightmarish music.

Also Deutsch Nepal Horses Give Birth To Flies off Tolerance for that reverbed horse's neigh.

I've been thinking about this recently. There's something eerie about, like, when I see fairground rides with cartoon characters that have been badly painted on the side of Mickey Mouse and also Tweetie Pie and Bart Simpson (etc) and they're all slightly off and clearly breaking copyright law.

The primary school I went to had a wall in the main hall with a load of Disney characters painted on it, I remember in one assembly one of the younger children bursting into tears because the picture of Dumbo frightened them - I was puzzled by this at the time but as an adult I know exactly what you mean.

Ladytron's "Seventeen". The whole of the lyric is "they only want you when you're seventeen / when you're twenty-one, you're no fun / they take a Polaroid and let you go, say they'll let you know / so come on".

It was queasy back in 2002 and is still queasy given #metoo and Jeffrey Epstein etc. I learn from the Youtube comments that Kellogg's of Australia gave it away on a CD free with Coco Pops(!):
https://www.discogs.com/Various-Kelloggs-Coco-Pops/release/9061049

I can listen to dissonant/extreme stuff namechecked on this thread all day and all night, but the one song that will mess me up without fail is Richard & Linda Thompson's "Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed"

Is anybody else discomfited by the sound of Jon Hassell's trumpet on 'Shadow' from On Land? It's so odd, plus all the mouth sounds and breathing in-between, ugh