So we dug deep into our goosebump memory banks and thought about songs that are so creepy our skin crawls with every note. Songs that chill our bones and beckon us deeper into the dark side. Songs that we cannot escape, that have shadowed us like spilled ink, staining every corner of our lives.
Last week I found myself on a small stage but in big company with Alice Randall, Adam Ross, and Gary Shockley. We were talking about Lincoln in the Bardo, the Man-Booker-Prize-winning novel by George Saunders. (Thank God all I had to do was ask the questions.)
Part psychological thriller, part paean to the shadowy wraiths of the old blues records, part meditation on the poisonous legacy of race and class, White Tears is a haunted song echoing long after the needle reaches the runout groove.
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Over the years, I have created hundreds of low-end radio jingles for various morning radio shows. I have also created custom music for haunted houses (the largest project were all the synchronized fairy tale songs that were part of Twisted Tales at Sleepy Hollow, ages ago.) It is a fun hobby.
I want to be haunted by the ghost
I want to be haunted by the ghost
I want to be haunted by the ghost
I want to be haunted by the ghost
Of your precious love
Of your precious love
As this murder ballad became a folk standard, recorded most famously by the Stanley Brothers in 1956, the events it relates became the stuff of hazy legend. But when this struggling three-man string band first sang these lyrics in 1930, their story of Charlie Lawson was ripped from the headlines. Just a year earlier, on Christmas Day, Lawson murdered his wife and six of his seven children, rested their heads on pillows of stone and then killed himself. (The seventh child was out on an errand at the time.) The Buddies sing with a cool Appalachian resignation, acknowledging but not sensationalizing the violent terror lurking in everyday life. The idea that a man might one day snap without explanation and destroy his family and himself feels all the more tragic set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, suggesting as it does that not even family life could offer refuge from the economic despair of the age.
Clocking in at nearly 12 minutes, Jim Morrison's epic "The End" is a bad trip that builds up to an insane, surprising end. The psychedelic rock epic has widely been interpreted as a goodbye to childhood innocence, and Morrison has said as much in interviews. It begins calmly, with the singer bidding adieu to his only friend, the end, before taking a lyrical tailspin into wilder verses, begging the listener to "ride the snake" and "ride the highway west." The final section is done as a spoken word narrative retelling the story of Oedipus, with the narrator telling his father that he wants to kill him and telling his mother he wants to have sex with her, before devolving into a flurry of chaotic "fuck"s. "The End" was developed during the group's tenure as the house band at Whisky a Go Go when one night, after Morrison had dropped acid, he improvised the song's tumultuous ending. They were fired the next day.
One-hit wonders Bloodrock improbably scored a Top 40 hit with a gruesome, eight-and-a-half minute, first-person account of dying. The hard rockers' music resembles a British ambulance siren and the lyrics describe the gory aftermath of a plane crash as a man is tended to by an EMT. He feels "something warm flowing down [his] fingers," he tries to move his arm but when he looks he sees "there's nothing there." He looks for his girlfriend, and sees her face covered in blood as she looks off distantly. By the end, he offers this couplet: "The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying/God in Heaven, teach me how to die." It ends with the sound of American sirens. "I guess maybe just the whole thing as a package [music and lyrics] is what freaked people out, and on top of that the sirens," keyboardist Steve Hill said in a 2010 interview. "The FCC banned 'D.O.A.' A lot of stations didn't play that because people were pulling over in their cars because they thought there was an ambulance behind them."
Nearly every Nick Cave song is scary; few artists have dedicated themselves to the grim and macabre like the Australian Bad Seeds leader. In the mid Nineties he tasked himself with writing and recording the self-explanatory album Murder Ballads, whose songs claimed the lives of dozens upon dozens of hapless fictional victims. Its lugubrious lead track, originally planned as a sequel to Cave's Milton-inspired soundtrack fave "Red Right Hand," tells the unflinching story of a man who meets a "sweet and happy" girl named Joy, whom he eventually married, only to discover her one day after she "had been bound with electrical tape, in her mouth a gag/She'd been stabbed repeatedly and stuffed into a sleeping bag." The killer also claimed the lives of the narrator's three other daughters; by the end of the song it seems the narrator may know more than he lets on. "They never caught the man," Cave sings. "He's still on the loose."
As Haxan Cloak, Bobby Krlic has gained critical praise for music that pulsates like underground techno, but has tense, nail-biting, stomach-churning textures that seem straight from the drippy-dense sound world of slasher movie foley work. Though breakthrough album Excavation is full of ominous slurps, rumbles and throbs, "Miste" is the scariest of all thanks to (spoiler alert!) beginning with a good, old-fashioned "jump-scare." Once that scream hits at the opening, it cycles and echoes, implanting itself into the track's skin before giving way to alarm-like waves. "I don't find darkness depressing. Actually, I find it quite uplifting and cathartic," Krlic told the Quietus. "There are certain points where I challenge myself and try and make myself feel as uncomfortable as I possibly can. And that doesn't come down to me being a dark person; it's like a kind of adrenaline rush."
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Cosa, the former Witch King, his eyes clouded with a lifetime of forbidden knowledge, leaned across the table. "They say hard work is the key to success, bro," he rasped, his voice dry as desert wind. "But talent alone can't fill a stadium."
Intrigued, I leaned closer. Cosa had been ostracized from his coven for defying their dark rituals. Whispers swirled around him - of broken pacts and stolen magic. Tonight, fueled by forbidden curiosity, I sought the truth.
Cosa spoke of a different kind of witchcraft - the lingering spirit of the recently deceased. He spoke of how local celebrities, with their faces plastered on billboards, were nothing but puppets, their success is fueled by stolen souls.
He described the rituals. A secret ceremony at the graveyard five days after burial, a potent concoction brewed from moonlight and tears, and a haunting melody played on a flute carved from the deceased's favorite tree. This melody, infused with the restless spirit, became the assurance to their success.
But then I remembered the rumors after the mysterious death of a local musician, a man said to possess unparalleled talent but died an unexplained death. The melody of his final, unreleased songs still amaze Kampala as they sequentially leave studio hard drives in a way no one ever explains.
Would I expose the truth and risk the city's disillusionment, or would the music continue to play, a captivating echo of a dark secret? The choice, heavy and chilling, hung in the air like a discordant note. Watch full interview with King Cosa here
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