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  • @seed_drill7135
    @seed_drill7135 3 дні тому +5

    My addition is Jugband Blues from Pink Floyd's A Saucerful of Secrets, the only Syd song on Saucerful of Secrets. Very sad, as he knew he was out of the band and he knew he was out of his head.

  • @gerardocarroll1158
    @gerardocarroll1158 4 дні тому +7

    Chant of the ever circling skeletal family, that finishes Diamond dogs, is IMO creepy and unsettling.

  • @lawrencebrissenden
    @lawrencebrissenden 4 дні тому +4

    Nothing like ending the campy album Elton John’s Caribou with a mass murder piano ballad called Ticking.

    • @KW973
      @KW973 День тому

      I was just listening to that EJ track in the car. On the bonus track streaming version of Caribou they added 4 tracks on the end of the June 1974 release robbing it of the intended closure status it merits to wrap up a good album I have not listened to in a long time.

  • @anabltc
    @anabltc 4 дні тому +4

    every time a new video drops, I end up discovering 4-5 new fantastic albums
    ty and greetings from reasonably hot (31 C) Munich

  • @ricjan58
    @ricjan58 4 дні тому +4

    A cool, creepy segment, Tom. A couple that creep into my mind come off very popular albums, Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver and Moonlight Mile off of Sticky Fingers.

  • @KW973
    @KW973 2 дні тому +1

    You know how dogs do that WTF head tilt? I’m sitting here in a 90% dark room alone with my little Jack Russell/chuhuahua/Fox Terrier mix listening to tracks from this video and Chrome Plated Megaphone seems to creep her out. That head tilted with 1 bat ear standing straight up says it all. Wishing I could send you video of that.

  • @rbdreamsart
    @rbdreamsart 4 дні тому +2

    The first one that comes to mind for me is from The Doors 13 “The Unknown Soldier”

  • @Steven-ot2iy
    @Steven-ot2iy 4 дні тому +2

    Quite a hard topic. Your knowledge of music is awesome. The one that always gets me is "Jugband Blues" by Pink Floyd. The end of that song is breathtakingly sad and creepy as you bear witness to the mental decline of Syd Barrett.

  • @Ross1966
    @Ross1966 4 дні тому +6

    I’d add, The End by The Doors, I Remember Nothing by Joy Division.

    • @Cap683
      @Cap683 4 дні тому

      The End by the Doors is a portrait of existential dread. A great song none the less.

  • @SH-ud8wd
    @SH-ud8wd 4 дні тому +2

    Evening of light (Nico - The Marble Index). The whole album is a creepy closer.
    Chinese Envoy (John Cale - Music For A New Society). Same story.

    • @gerardocarroll1158
      @gerardocarroll1158 4 дні тому +1

      @@SH-ud8wd
      Music for a new society is brilliant, the version of Close Watch is stunning, Nico's solo stuff has always been a slog for me, 'You never called' though off her '74 album is bone chilling, Eno & Cale's effects/production, fantastic.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому +3

      @@SH-ud8wd Nico has her share of creepy tracks.

  • @amanuensis9873
    @amanuensis9873 4 дні тому +2

    Literally was just listening to Plastic Ono Band…crazy that he just made a random Cookie Monster noise in “Hold On”

    • @Ross1966
      @Ross1966 4 дні тому +1

      John loved watching Sesame Street then, while in LA, and later with Sean.

  • @ediblehorse
    @ediblehorse 18 годин тому

    Again, I would have to say "Bike" from Piper is a creepy closer.
    Great vid. Thanks!

  • @tibbies
    @tibbies 3 дні тому +1

    Another creepy closer by Bowie has got to be "The Bewley Brothers" off of Hunky Dory - this song still gives me chills

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 3 дні тому +1

    This episode has given me some very good ideas for a mix CD.

  • @kevtruth
    @kevtruth 4 дні тому +2

    That Zappa closer The Chrome Plated... is downright uncomfortable. I remember during my undergrad days me and some friends had our heads full of psychedelics listening to that album. When it was over somebody put on Springsteen's 2nd album for a lighter listen

    • @GreenManalishiUSA
      @GreenManalishiUSA 3 дні тому +1

      When I saw the topic of this video, the first thing that came to mind was The Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny. That composition sounds like an aural horror movie. It's what I imagine goes through a person's head when they are kept in solitary confinement. A truly unsettling track.

  • @philbouchard8366
    @philbouchard8366 3 дні тому

    ‘Daddy’ from Korn’s debut album with Jonathan Davis yelling & crying at the end with weird background music

  • @drewgeraci8434
    @drewgeraci8434 2 дні тому +1

    Great subject!

  • @toddhill7483
    @toddhill7483 3 дні тому +2

    Permafrost by Magazine and Babies on the Sun by Sparklehorse.

  • @GreenManalishiUSA
    @GreenManalishiUSA 3 дні тому +1

    All of Side 2 of Lou Reed's Berlin album is creepy, with its songs about domestic violence (Caroline Says II), child neglect (The Kids), and suicide (The Bed). And then the album closes with Sad Song, where the narrator prides himself for not beating up his partner ("somebody else would have broken both of her arms"). The whole album walks a fine line between powerful art and total creep-fest.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  2 дні тому +1

      @@GreenManalishiUSA Totally. That album’s a real slog to get through. Not a warm and fuzzy record. 😉

  • @chrisboerger465
    @chrisboerger465 4 дні тому +1

    Hi, Tom. The Overload is a great choice, though I would probably rate Drugs as even more creepy! Decades by Joy Division is probably the winner in this category. Not everyone would agree with this, but I think Torn Curtain by Television is pretty creepy with its dirge-like vibe. How Many More Times by Led Zeppelin always struck me as pretty scary, not just the menacing sound of the song but the lyrics about having someone in the sights of his gun. A sexual metaphor, or the real deal? Speaking of menacing, what about My My Hey Hey? That song is downright apocalyptic, and thus rather disturbing, at least to me. On a quieter note, I always found The Colour of the Earth by PJ Harvey very creepy, the spare and harrowing production, but also how it takes the form of an innocent children's song to tell a simple story about war and death. Very powerful. One thing I noticed, some of the creepiest albums actually don't close with creepy songs. Both Berlin and Magic and Loss by Lou Reed end on semi-hopeful notes. So does Murder Ballads by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Nine of the creepiest songs ever written, and then it goes out with a cover of Bob Dylan's Death Is Not the End. Have a great day.

  • @if6was929
    @if6was929 4 дні тому +1

    Last Trip To Tulsa from Neil Young's first solo album? Season Of The Witch from Vanilla Fudge 3rd album, Renaissance is creepy AF!

  • @keithkarlinsky6632
    @keithkarlinsky6632 4 дні тому

    My pick would be the closing track on the album 'Rated R' from Queens of the Stone Age. The last song titled 'I think I Lost My Headache' drones on for about 8 minutes. Very creepy, but a great track from a great album.

  • @Russell.S
    @Russell.S 3 дні тому

    The ones that come to mind are The Police “Darkness” from Ghost In The Machine and Stereolab’s “Anonymous Collective” from Emperor Tomato Ketchup. The ascending riff is quite creepy. But the most creepy closer I can think of is “Just For A Moment” from Ultravox’s Systems Of Romance. Stark, epic and chilling.

    • @kevtruth
      @kevtruth 3 дні тому

      @@Russell.S totally agree on Darkness.

  • @stevecowder4774
    @stevecowder4774 4 дні тому

    Very intriguing topic. Always did admire the darker side of most bands. And you certainly conjured up some grimacing winners. I love ' The Overload. ' It doesn't really sound like TH, but im sure Joy Division would have appreciated it. And speaking of 80s goth, i came up with a very spooky one from Sisters of Mercy called Afterhours.
    It was the last of a 4 track ep, back in '84. A definite bone chiller.

  • @kso808
    @kso808 4 дні тому +1

    Agreed about "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida." I would add the last track off the Cars' 1979 Candy-O LP, "Dangerous Type." It's not so much creepy for me as it is fitting to top off that excellent album. Keyboardist Greg Hawkes' synthesizer notes in the closing part are like an extraterrestrial being trying to communicate, and with each step the notes progress one octave higher, until they reach a high frequency that they almost blend into the mix.

  • @LuxVivens9
    @LuxVivens9 4 дні тому

    "Goodbye" the last track on "Madman Across the Water" by Elton John and Bernie Taupin is a very sad, haunting song also. Thanks for another great video!

  • @djgerman5705
    @djgerman5705 3 дні тому

    Tumbling Down by Cockney Rebel, One Small Step by Demon, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues, Heaven Stood Still by Mink DeVille, Devil‘s Gate by The Angels and of course my all-time favourite closer Throw Down the Sword by Wishbone Ash.

  • @dancranford5391
    @dancranford5391 2 дні тому

    Nothing as creepy as I Love The Dead off Billion Dollar Babies by Alice Cooper. The guitar work on this track is some of the scariest ever.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  13 годин тому +1

      Now I’m going to have to hear that. 😉

    • @dancranford5391
      @dancranford5391 13 годин тому

      @@tomrobinson5776 let me know what you think

  • @pkmcburroughs
    @pkmcburroughs 4 дні тому

    Great list, Tom. And topic. Never seen this one before.
    I guess I would add "Apes-ma," the final 40 second closing track from Capt. Beefheart's "Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), to the list, but is it really an achievement to find a creepy Beefheart song? I'm not so sure. It's not really a song, though--more of a short poem. It IS pretty creepy though.
    OH! I would also add "Dead the Long Year," the instrumental final track on Broadcast's "The Noise Made by People" album.

  • @russellcampbell3274
    @russellcampbell3274 4 дні тому +2

    Interesting topic. How about "Supper's Ready" from Foxtrot by Genesis? I find this very creepy near the start although it ends in a hopeful note.

  • @dmk7700
    @dmk7700 4 дні тому +2

    John Cale / Slow Dazzle --- The Jeweller
    The Doors / Debut Album --- The End
    Dead Boys / Young, Loud & Snotty --- Down In Flames
    Dead Boys / We Have Come For Your Children --- Ain't It Fun
    Pere Ubu / Dub Housing --- Codex

  • @marcyfan-tz4wj
    @marcyfan-tz4wj День тому

    lennon's creepy closer is wonderful as is the ac/dc song which i somehow hadn't payed attention to. vanilla fudge covering the beatles is lousy but the talking heads song is tremendous.

  • @adamfindlay7091
    @adamfindlay7091 День тому

    may-Zeeee- on Syd's solo. Just creeps. Probably not a closer. But still...

  • @terryhu57
    @terryhu57 3 дні тому

    Also the Jeweler off John Cale’s Slow Dazzle

  • @keithkarlinsky6632
    @keithkarlinsky6632 2 дні тому

    From my favorite Steppenwolf album, 'The Second', the closing track is very creepy. Although only 45 seconds in length, is very uncharacteristic from a very rockin album.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  2 дні тому

      @@keithkarlinsky6632 Never heard it. I’ll check it out.

  • @patriceleformal3047
    @patriceleformal3047 4 дні тому +2

    Sunny day and creepy songs !
    - The Stooges : We will fall (1969)....i can't stand it...
    - The Velvet Underground : European son (1967)....still hard to listen.
    - Joy Division : The Eternal 1980).
    - The Byrds : Everybody's been burned (1967).
    - Led Zeppelin : In my time of dying (1975).
    And my favorite on this creepy's masterpiece "Pornography" released in 1982 : A strange day by The Cure !

    • @chrisboerger465
      @chrisboerger465 4 дні тому

      I think you mean Decades by Joy Division. Probably the creepiest closer of all time.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому

      @@patriceleformal3047 Though not a closer We Will Fall is hands down one of the creepiest tracks ever.

  • @user-ki1yc4vx2s
    @user-ki1yc4vx2s 3 дні тому +1

    Songs by n Young on Tonight's the Night

  • @seed_drill7135
    @seed_drill7135 3 дні тому

    Do you know WHAT the Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny is? Cheap injection molded baby dolls used to have a metal eyelet put into the hole where the lady bits would be on a human to keep the plastic from splitting open.

  • @barbarakirk3064
    @barbarakirk3064 3 дні тому

    I think Siouxsie & The Banshees' Skin was about killing animals for their fur or leather to use in clothes.

  • @aminahmed2220
    @aminahmed2220 4 дні тому

    Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful weekend ❤😊

  • @kurt11110
    @kurt11110 4 дні тому

    fwiw: “ticking” and “goodbye” by elton
    “i’m so afraid” fleetwood mac eponymous album (1975)

  • @willrue
    @willrue День тому

    Great episode! Cool topic! Thank you.
    Perfect Circle by REM off Murmur. Gorgeous but unsettling closer. Not sure what it's even about. A lost friend? Then perhaps the most obvious 'creepy closer' of all time.....
    The End by The Doors.
    A few others.
    We Will Fall by The Stooges.
    I Love the Dead by Alice Cooper off Billion Dollar Babies. Doesn't get much creepier than that!
    Adding:
    Here Comes a Regular by The Replacements off Tim. Saddest song about being an alcoholic.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  14 годин тому

      @@willrue We Will Fall is one of the creepiest tracks ever. Used to scare the shit out of me. Now I dig it. 😉

  • @barbarakirk3064
    @barbarakirk3064 3 дні тому

    Re: Robert Wyatt's Little Red Robin Hood Hit The Road. Ivor Cutler does the semi-spoken bit.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  2 дні тому

      @@barbarakirk3064 Thanks, just looked that up. Interesting…

  • @terryhu57
    @terryhu57 3 дні тому +1

    The End by Nico. Doors cover but another level or two down.

  • @jessem470
    @jessem470 4 дні тому

    Really great post
    A real head scratcher
    I guess i would add
    Alice Cooper : I Love The Dead off Billion Dollars Baby
    I love the 2 commenters mentioned
    Apes Ma and i would include another Beef heart track Autumn’s Child off Safe as Milk has a real weird vibe to it
    Chrome Plated Megaphone !
    On the cover of WOIIFTM , Zappa advises the listener to read Kafkas In A Penal Colony while listening to the track

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому

      @@jessem470 Autumn’s Child does have a weird vibe. Great track and closer. There’s subtle guitar lines in that track that are fabulous.

  • @senatorjimdracula1603
    @senatorjimdracula1603 4 дні тому

    "Children of the Grave", from Black Sabbath "Master of Reality" LP.....

  • @adamjohnson5910
    @adamjohnson5910 4 дні тому

    East West by the Butterfield Blues Band
    A Day in the Life The Beatles

  • @mirandak3273
    @mirandak3273 3 дні тому

    Great idea for a list.
    I figured you want us to listen to the tracks, so I paused you after each segment and went and listened, then came back for more of you.
    It was a great experience. I hadn’t heard any except Lennon and Iron Butterfly. I love the long track of In-a-gadda-da-vida, but didn’t want to pause you that long so listened to the single, which I haven’t heard for well over 50 years.
    I figure there’s two ways a track can be creepy: the music style or the meaning of the lyric. Of course the two can be combined.
    My personal list has several that don’t appear creepy unless you really stop and think about the meaning.
    ua-cam.com/play/PLTkHJ3DxFNY1nLIP5M45KFWp9v1U8cTeN.html&si=ItBH0xiZm7FzXPyc

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 4 дні тому +1

    I don't know... bands usually try to end on an upbeat, like Alice Cooper, with "Sun Arise" at the end of Love It To Death.
    You hit the mark with the tunes I actually know, like the Lennon and the Zappa.
    Here's one, though: "Slush", at the end of Let's Make Up And Be Friendly, the contractually obligated album by The Bonzo Dog Band (you can probably find it with a quick UA-cam search). It's a treacally violin tune overdubbed with a tape loop of Ian Wallace, of King Crimson, laughing like an idiot. Creepiest thing you ever heard. Great party ender.

    • @barbarakirk3064
      @barbarakirk3064 3 дні тому +1

      And UA released that as a Neil Innes a-side!

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому +2

      @@simonagree4070 Now I’m curious. Need to hear that one. 😉

    • @simonagree4070
      @simonagree4070 3 дні тому +1

      The track "Rawlinson End" ends with the sound of a guillotine blade falling and a head dropping in a basket. I sampled it and used it as the sound for shutting down Windows 95 on my computer. 😄

  • @LarsPop-Tartus
    @LarsPop-Tartus 4 дні тому +2

    The End The Doors

  • @homerwinslow9047
    @homerwinslow9047 3 дні тому

    The most obvious one is the end by the doors

  • @pauldaniels2019
    @pauldaniels2019 20 годин тому

    Sister Ray from White Light/White Heat by Velvet Underground

  • @painless465
    @painless465 4 дні тому

    Captain Beefheart( Shiny Beast)- Apes-Ma
    Blue Oyster Cult(Tyranny and Mutation)-Quicklime Girl( Mistress of the Salmon Salt)
    Love( Forever Changes)-You set the Scene

  • @user-ki1yc4vx2s
    @user-ki1yc4vx2s 3 дні тому

    On a double album, such as the White album, what is the closer. The last last tune? The end of each side?

  • @user-ki1yc4vx2s
    @user-ki1yc4vx2s 3 дні тому +1

    Beatles Long, long scared the shit out of me. It's not a closing song.

  • @oddespenjenssen2236
    @oddespenjenssen2236 4 дні тому

    Greetings from Norway! It just occured to me that Iwasn't a subscriber. (This sin of omission is now rectified!) Now, on today's theme, I would suggest you check out "Meninblack" from the albun 'The Raven' by The Stranglers. Ever heard it?

  • @TheGamecock366
    @TheGamecock366 4 дні тому

    March or Die by Motorhead.

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 3 дні тому

    Side four of Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.

  • @Ross1966
    @Ross1966 4 дні тому

    David Byrne has mentioned that The Overload had been inspired by Joy Division.

  • @user-ki1yc4vx2s
    @user-ki1yc4vx2s 3 дні тому +2

    Riders on the Storm spooks

  • @bobflick9496
    @bobflick9496 4 дні тому

    although not a closer....and more disturbing than creepy....."Frankie Teardrop" by Suicide....if you want to go there

  • @Ross1966
    @Ross1966 4 дні тому

    My Mummy’s Dead was recorded to sound like an old 78rpm record and Victrola.

  • @jeffreyslotnikoff4003
    @jeffreyslotnikoff4003 3 дні тому

    I don't know if you could call this a "creepy closer"... at least not in a quasi-enjoyable way. I can't sit through it because it's just a bunch of redundant jamming noise! I'm referring to 'Sister Ray' at the end of The Velvet Underground's 'White Light, White Heat' album. However, also included on the album are 'The Gift' and 'Lady Godiva's Operation'... a couple of tunes that basically define the word "creepy"... but they don't come at the end of the album; not even at the end of side 1!
    By the way, The Iron Butterfly lip-synced the whole 17+ minute version of "Inna Gadda Da Vida" on Philadelphia's 'The Hy Lit Show' that was broadcast on Channel 48 (UHF... if that still means anything to anybody these days).
    The late Hy Lit was one of this country's greatest DJs! In fact, I would say that he could easily put to shame 95% of the deejays broadcasting today!

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому

      @@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 I’m 100 percent with you on Lady Godiva’s Operation. That track has always freaked me out, but I love it. 😉

  • @oddespenjenssen2236
    @oddespenjenssen2236 4 дні тому

    Eh, please disregard my previous Stranglers suggestion. It's creepy, but not a closer. Thank you.

  • @Peter-Burbank
    @Peter-Burbank 4 дні тому

    Something in the Way from Nevermind?

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому

      @@Peter-Burbank Almost put that one on the list. 😉

  • @SOUPENE
    @SOUPENE 4 дні тому

    im in apple valley ( High Desert ) Ca it was 108 today its soooo Hot!!!!

  • @user-ki1yc4vx2s
    @user-ki1yc4vx2s 3 дні тому

    Not a closer but Revolution 9

  • @mattrobbins2268
    @mattrobbins2268 3 дні тому

    "Treatment Bound". The last song off Hootenanny by the Replacements. It glorifies self destruction. I hate it just as much as l hate Bon Jovi's "Wanted, Dead or Alive" and for the same reason. Look, l've lived the Rock'n'Roll lifestyle my own self. But let's be cool. Bragging about it is tacky.

    • @tomrobinson5776
      @tomrobinson5776  3 дні тому

      Hootenanny is one of the loosest albums ever made. Just a free for all..

    • @mattrobbins2268
      @mattrobbins2268 2 дні тому

      @@tomrobinson5776 Song for song l love it. But "Treatment Bound"? Wrong flavor of creepy.