itchy mcgoo wrote:I don't recall any songs, but this album cover really freaked me out when I was a kid.

It's kinda weird!

It is weird. Thanks for reminding me.

In addition to the above-mentioned "Maneater" (which I almost typed as "Anteater"--I wonder why Weird Al never picked up on that), "Riders on the Storm", specifically the line "There's a killer on the road."

Two album covers that scared the hell outta me:

Puff the Magic Dragon.

It still fucking creeps me out

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep.

Bananas in Pyjamas.

Bananas in pyjamas are coming down the stairs...

Jesus Christ, I hope not.

I grew up with early '70s AM radio. Plenty o' creepy stuff:

"The Night The Lights Went Out In Georgia" - Vicki Lawrence
"D.O.A." - Bloodrock
"Emmaline" - Hot Chocolate
"I Am The Walrus" - Beatles
"Rock Me Gently" - Andy Kim

"She's Got Balls" by AC/DC gave me the willies back in elementary school. I didn't know much about anatomy then, and even less about figures of speech, so my young mind was befuddled.

coach wrote:Having grown up obsessed with arcades and video games (stand-ups, not the home consoles) I was completely geeked for Pac Man, and bought the "Pac Man Christmas" LP. Sounds innocuous, but it's still -- to this day -- one of the creepiest records I own.

After reading the first few posts on this thread I dug it up (kept it for the great cornball cover art) and listened to it. Horrifying. It sounds positively Manson family, pandering, and laden with subliminals that make my skin crawl. A cheap, exploitation record performed by people I like to think could take center stage in a film about the Branch Davidians.

Fuck every song on that record.

I went and dug up my copy of this record (and two other Pac-Man records I've held on to since I was a small child...yes, I was a little rube), and they are very creepy. You are absolutely correct. Ugh.

"Take the fruit and scoot." WTF?

please please please post the pac man record to one of the gmail accounts. this sounds like something i have to listen to once and then shudder about for the rest of my life.

somebody already mentioned rockwell's "somebody's watching me" - this song & the accompanying video are still hella creepy - sounds like a terrible father-son relationship mixed with a soupcon of coke paranoia and tax evasion...

also, taco's "puttin' on the ritz" -- fucking creepy. makes me think of dead-eyed models and holocaust atrocities.

weird al's "nature trail to hell" creeped me out a lot too - sucked that it was the last song on side two - the album ended with this scary song about ax murders, very much in the vein of "I Am Going To Escape From The Insane Asylum And Kill You With A Blunt Hatchet, Bradley R. Weissenberger."

"hotel california" always made me think of witches and dead people.

i'm sure that there are others...

Songs by The Carpenters used to fill me with existential dread as a child. I'm serious. There's something very sad about those songs... Actually, all A.M. radio hits used to make me feel sad. Not sure why.