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DrAwkward wrote:In all sincere seriousness, anything involving Klaus Nomi scares the holy living fuck out of me.

You and me both.
Phew.

-A

skatingbasser wrote:In high school, being hipped up on some drug or robotripping or both in a parking lot, we were listening to some Agoraphobic Nosebleed album.

Hhaaha. Was it "Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope"? Not crap, but crazy music and hilarious lyrics.

Skronk wrote:

skatingbasser wrote:In high school, being hipped up on some drug or robotripping or both in a parking lot, we were listening to some Agoraphobic Nosebleed album.

Hhaaha. Was it "Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope"? Not crap, but crazy music and hilarious lyrics.

That it was.

DrAwkward wrote:In all sincere seriousness, anything involving Klaus Nomi scares the holy living fuck out of me.

Ha ha. I remember Dr. Awkward's first exposure (I think) to Klaus Nomi during a late night viewing of Urgh: A Music War! at my old house after a show involving my band and his pre-Ifihadanerection band the Pop Machine. Freaked is the word I'd have to use...

I don't scare easily. Bands/recordings which scare me a little bit: Burzum (killed a dude and has an awesome guitar sound, along with the feeling that I'm rebelling against my parents by listening to satanic death-obsessed metal and might turn into some murderous teenage destructo-zombie, despite the fact that I'm nearly 30 and should be well past such an episode...), The 150 Murderous Passions (Whitehouse and Nurse With Wound meeting of minds), Jacula (satanic rituals and such), Todd Clark (outsider proto-punk Chrome-ish weirdness with a hint of Jim Jones "let's drink Kool-Aid and die" charms), White Noise "An Electric Storm" (dunno, it's just creepy, early-electronic psyche and is eerie as hell), etc.

I must admit, the first time I heard the aformentioned "Hamburger Lady" by Throbbing Gristle was a pretty scarifying experience, being that I was a 7th grader living in a rural Wisconsin town at the time. I thought people who had died in car accidents were now zombies at the wheel and were driving around my room babbling about "qualified technicians" and such...

And... the first Nurse With Wound I got, "Homotopy To Marie", I listened to on headphones while my mom was watching TV and was unprepared for the sounds that hit me. If I had been more into drugs, I probably coulda killed someone that night!

KeithV wrote:Ha ha. I remember Dr. Awkward's first exposure (I think) to Klaus Nomi during a late night viewing of Urgh: A Music War! at my old house after a show involving my band and his pre-Ifihadanerection band the Pop Machine. Freaked is the word I'd have to use...

Yeah. That was it, dude.

Fuck.





Fuck.

Boo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q70X0sDNoeY

The cokehead child molester wank guitar rocker scares me more than Klaus himself...

Weakling. Terrifying and hilarious.

"Absinthe" By Naked City. The only Naked City record I like.

"An Evil Heat" By Oxbow. It's evil, and hot.

"Economy of Motion" by Colossamite. Not overtly scary, but without prior exposure to it, it could be sort of frightening.

I haven't heard any scary music recordings, but I've been to some gigs that have really scared the shit outta me - Goat Fucking Nun Rapers in the early 90's, with Nigel toxic shooting his junkie blood over the audience, glass being smashed for percussion on the stage and in the pit, knives in most of the pockets, and the cops outside too scared to come in to stop the gig.
But I can't think of many scary recordings....real fear-inducing cold-sweat albums....Skinny Puppy, Genesis P-orridge, coil, throbbing gristle - no disrespect, but all of these guys recordings are too cartoony to be scary. None of them refute the expectations of the listener when you listen to the stuff they've done...it's predictable. The posturing is kinda telegraphed.
Actually, I can think of a scary recording: When I was twelve, a percussionist called Gary Brain came to my school, and he played a recording of a nuclear bomb going off. Aside from the subject matter, which was obviously a whole other level of nasty vs a fuzzy guitar or pink noise, it was at that time the loudest thing I'd ever heard - it was painful, and I remember needing to have a bath as soon as I got home from school to calm down.

Whitehouse 'Dedicated to Peter Kurten'. 'Hey, I wish to listen to an audio recording that will effectively place me within the mindset of a rapist'.
Dazzling Killmen 'Face of Collapse'
DAHHHHHNNNNT FOOOOOOORCEEEEEEE ITTTTT SWWWWWWWWIIIIINNNNNNGGGG!!!
At least I think that's what Nick says. They sound like damaged young men at the end of their tether.