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MorrisseysHair

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Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« on: September 20, 2016, 05:17:01 PM »
Trying to build a playlist of the most *unsettling* songs ever. On account of Halloween and all that. Think Swans, Residents, Xiu Xiu, etc.

Should be *sonically* unsettling, not necessarily just lyrically unsettling.

Care to help out?

If not...heave ho.

Mat From Oakland

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2016, 10:24:02 PM »
These are all deeply unsettling for different reasons...

The Cockfighter by Scott Walker (quite a few scott walker songs off his last four or five albums are very unsettling)
Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle
A Screw (Holy Money) by Swans
It's Gonna Rain, Pt. I by Steve Reich
F**king with the Altimeter by Brainiac
Jesus Shootin' Heroin by Flaming Lips
Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed

These are a good start.  Great topic! 

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2016, 04:39:31 AM »
These are all deeply unsettling for different reasons...

The Cockfighter by Scott Walker (quite a few scott walker songs off his last four or five albums are very unsettling)
Hamburger Lady by Throbbing Gristle
A Screw (Holy Money) by Swans
It's Gonna Rain, Pt. I by Steve Reich
F**king with the Altimeter by Brainiac
Jesus Shootin' Heroin by Flaming Lips
Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed

These are a good start.  Great topic!

"Subhuman" by Throbbing Gristle also fits the bill, but more on an intellectual level.

"The Murder Mystery" by the Velvet Underground screws with you because of two separate voices chanting different lines in separate speakers, and you can't figure the thing out because it seems to be two poetic streams of consciousness speaking.

"DOA" by Bloodrock is a creepy early-'70s song about a guy who survives an airplane crash, or does he?




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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2016, 09:31:46 AM »
Timothy is song about cannibalism. The band's name was the Buoys and the song was written by the Pina Colata  guy.
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MorrisseysHair

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2016, 01:22:41 PM »
These are all great- I never knew that Brainiac was so disturbing...

Thanks, friends.
Mat From Oakland

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2016, 03:14:56 PM »
Here's where I'm at thus far...

Act Of Being Polite   The Residents
Babel          Lustmord
Beetles   Aphex Twin
Beware The Friendly Stranger   Boards Of Canada
Christianity Is Stupid   Negativland
Come To Daddy   The Dillinger Escape Plan
Crazy Clown Time   David Lynch
D.O.A.   Bloodrock
Dambala   Exuma
Dance with the Devil   Immortal Technique
Dieu   The Haxan Cloak
Dove Instinct   Menace Ruine
Dreamt Person V3   Venetian Snares
Drum And The Uncomfortable Can   Liars
Dunkelheit        Burzum
Easter Woman   Thrones
Easter Woman   The Residents
Excavation, Pt. 2   The Haxan Cloak
Extraction 1   Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey
Faaip De Oiad   Tool
Fitter Happier   Radiohead
For Their Whole Lives Long     Boyd Rice And Friends
Frankie Teardrop   Suicide
Funny Little Man       Aphex Twin
Gemini   Boards Of Canada
Gloomy Sunday     Diamanda Galas
Goetia   Lustmord
Hamburger Lady   Throbbing Gristle
Hello Skinny   The Residents
Henry- Portrait Of A Serial Killer   Fantomas
How Ghosts Affect Relationships     His Name Is Alive
I Am Made Of Chalk   Crystal Castles
If I Had A Heart       Fever Ray
Indian Alphabet Chant   Lucia Pamela
Indian Poker (Part3)   Brainiac
Killshot   Ben Frost
Laura Palmer's Theme        Xiu Xiu
Le Sacre Du Printemps (The Rite Of Spring), Ballet In 2 Parts For Orchestra: Augurs Of Spring (Dances Of The Young Girls)   Igor Stravinsky
Lex Ego Exitium (Pestilentiam Intus Vocamus, Voluntatem Absolvimus Part Ii)         Mitochondrion
Little Smoke   This Will Destroy You
Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz   Mr. Bungle
Metal Machine Music, Part I   Lou Reed
Now You Will Pay   Laibach
Orbmorphia   Portal (Metal)
Ornamental Grape Bone   Venetian Snares
Planet Of The Cows   Merzbow
Prayer To God   Shellac
Process Of Bestialization   Menace Ruine
Reanimator   Amon Tobin
Revolution 9   The Beatles
Rosemary's Baby   Fantomas
Scarecrow       Ministry
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict   Pink Floyd
Slave New Desart   Merzbow
Song Of Joy   Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)   Ween
Strange Fruit   Billie Holiday
Suck   Pigface
Suicide Is Painless   Mash
Sybian Rock   Venetian Snares
TV All Greasy   Tobacco
Tapeworm         Pigface
The Cockfighter   Scott Walker
The Devil Is In The Details     Boards Of Canada
The Drop   The Haxan Cloak
The Holy Vehm - Hypostasis Of The Archons   Secret Chiefs 3
The Wolf   Swans
The Wondrous Boat Ride   Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (Film Score)
They Don't Want Your Corn, They Want Your Kids         Liars
Thirteen   C418
Threnody (For The Victims Of Hiroshima), For 52 Strings: Threnody For The Victims Of Hiroshima   Krzysztof Penderecki
Throat I   Little Women
Through The Mouth Of Your Eye   Ben Frost
Time Zones   Negativland
Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me   Tiny Tim
To Be Kind          Swans
Untitled   Marilyn Manson
Vampire Suite   Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Vaticanae   Laibach
Ventolin (Salbutamol Mix)   Aphex Twin
Very Friendly   Throbbing Gristle
Visceral Repulsion   Dragged Into Sunlight & Gnaw Their Tongues
Whats He Building   Tom Waits
Woodpecker No. 1   Merzbow
Mat From Oakland

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #6 on: September 23, 2016, 12:14:05 PM »
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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #7 on: September 25, 2016, 10:15:35 AM »
What about something by the band Salem?

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2016, 01:11:47 PM »
"No, but Glenn... ELEVEN."
I really don't appreciate your sarcastic, anti-comedy tone, Bro!

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2016, 07:34:52 PM »
Ministry - "You Know What You Are" [from The Land Of Rape & Honey]

Skinny Puppy - "Rain" [from Rabies]

Celtic Frost - "Triptych: I. Totengott" [from Monotheist]

MorrisseysHair

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #10 on: September 29, 2016, 10:21:32 PM »
Nice! Added.
Mat From Oakland

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2016, 09:55:50 AM »
I just read about that infamous Suicide and Elvis Costello show, parts of it are up on Youtube too.

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2016, 09:58:23 PM »
Nurse With Wound - Bacteria Magnet (spooky loungey)
Nurse With Wound - I Cannot Feel You As The Dogs Are Laughing And I Am Blind (spooky OH NO)
Rhoda Dakar - The Boiler (This seems like the lady version of Frankie Teardrop.  Deeply unsettling.  Rape trigger warning.)
If you got Merzbow on there I'd include Whitehouse - Wriggle Like a Fucking Eel (or anything on Bird Seed has that vibe)
Cannibal Holocaust was a terrible movie with a fantastic and unsettling soundtrack.
Smoke Dreams by Ronnie Deauville is so much unsettling but very ghostly sounding.
Whenever I think "scary music" I think first five songs off of Greatest Gift by Scratch Acid

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Re: Frankie Teardrop and songs like Frankie Teardrop
« Reply #14 on: October 19, 2016, 04:26:09 PM »
Throbbing Gristle - Hamburger Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDvpT-MjYs

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Hamburger Lady is a rough one.
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