Have a 6-pack of Creepy for Halloween

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So, it's Halloween, and with it come all the costumes, the trick-or-treating, the "scariness".  It's a payday like no other for candy manufacturers and egg farmers, and we all love it.  How can you diss a holiday that's all about gorging yourself on sweets, dressing up like your wildest fantasy and being a total creep?  It's a day during which you're actually encouraged to scare people; try it on May 12 and you're meeting Mr. Pepper Spray; tonight, you get laughs.  Fantastic.
I thought it only appropos to post up a handful of the creepiest songs and/or videos known to man (well, to me) and do my best to send shivers up your spine using only the power of music and the suggestion that you play these songs while thinking about the truly depraved amongst us; the living demons with devious intentions, sitting in the bushes across the street and watching you through binoculars as you're reading this RIGHT NOW.



Radiohead: Climbing Up the Walls

I couldn't start this list any other way, because it's my belief that "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead is the creepiest song ever written.  With its eerie noises, dirgy rhythm and heavy stalker overtones in its lyrics, This is the sound of Radiohead out-"Creep"ing themselves.  Sorry for the AMV, no official one exists.  Then again, if it did, it would probably keep me up until 2019.


Massive Attack: Teardrop

The song boasts a semi-sinister groove on its own, but the video is Dante's Seventh Circle of Creepy.


Sarah McLachlan: Possession

Whaaaaaaa?  Sarah McLachlan creepy?  Hells yes.  Written from the perspective of a stalker, the lyrics to Possession read like a handcrafted manifesto made with cut-out letters and faces from fashion magazines (with the eyes crossed out, of course).  The narrator pretty much makes it clear his/her intentions are to kill the target of the song.  Given it's all being cooed by the normally unassuming Sarah McLachlan, the song is shockingly hardcore, like hearing your grandmother talk about the time she was spitroasted in the alley behind an Olive Garden for $5 and three tabs of mescaline.


MGMT: Kids

Nothing creepy about this song, but the video is an overflowing bucket of scary/creepy/WHY ARE THEY PUTTING THIS CHILD THROUGH SUCH AN AWFUL EXPERIENCE?


Tool: Prison Sex

When it comes to creepy subjects, it's kind of hard to top pedophilia.  That the imagery in its video syncs up with the subject matter, it's kind of hard to believe music video stations gave it a spin.


Aphex Twin: Come to Daddy

I'd be remiss in a list of scary/creepy by not including this clip by Aphex Twin, by now surely infamous for its status as one of the scariest videos ever made.  Eat it, Thriller.  Also, Mike Patton covered it with Dillinger Escape Plan, which adds a whole new layer of WTF to the proceedings.


Have a good night.  And don't forget, Year in Rock 2011 starts tomorrow.

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