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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Four notes is all it takes to make a spooky song

or maybe just Two, the guy John Williams who did Jaws... got paid lots of money to write just 2 notes, minor seconds

There are no wrong answers in this thread, its all about what spoke to you personally

Let's have some example

The Police – Every Breath You Take creepy stalker lyrics
'Thriller' I used to find kinda scary, some Hiphop or Funk like Prince could be 'Weird'.
Clowns supposed to make people happy but Frank Sinatra – Send in the Clowns is odd
Hazard by Richard Marx, nice synth and chords but lyrics make it a murder mystery
Hotel California, Eagles I think, reminds me of the original Shinning
The Beatles – Run for Your Life also “Eleanor Rigby” take a listen to Eleanor again it was influenced by horror movie Psycho
A lot of 80s, 90s rock did that whole vibe, Def Leppard "Two Steps Behind" some Country like Johnny Cash was often dark.
Classical Sibelius - "The Tempest" or Verdi's Requiem.
The Rubber Room - Porter Wagoner, a Waltz weird lyrics
Butthole Surfers, '22 Going on 23' ...not a pleasant song at all I don't even know if I would call it a song maybe more of an experiment, truly disturbing Scary


You have the whole movie soundtrack stuff Friday The 13th, War of the Worlds, the Omen, Halloween, Video games. You have the overseas stuff German movie animation music, Scandinavians dressed up as Pagans some of it is hippie some is very dark, Buck-Tick - Dress a Japanese song and 'Tool' a Progressive Arty Rock? Band they say 'Tool' is supposed to be Experienced, almost anything by that Heavy Metal British Rock group Iron Maiden or Nine Inch Nails.

Or if you really want to use something creepy just use four notes, its everywhere this one "Dies irae" simply four pushed into our Western DNA culture for a long time, just notes a Latin Chat once used in funeral, Four Notes of the Dorian Scale? Although I would argue the Dorain is kind of middle happy Euro Hispanic Afro Caribbean Scot, maybe Celtic, maybe Latin, Blues and is 'neutral' but blame the Witches Sabbath composition from long ago but move these notes around and make it a cultural spooky horror thing without people knowing the vibration of four notes goes into your mind and you have made it spooky, which make these notes kinda 'evil'. Even silent movies in silent film, a band goes to the cinema they would hire a band or an Orchestra back in the day and play these four notes over a silent black and white movie.

Any song you think is 'Spooky'?

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