Haunting music

Try video game soundtracks... especially for horror games, like Silent Hill.

 

I knew that was coming and I knew it was coming from Buck.

How 'bout Funkadelic's Maggot Brain? It's about 90 percent instrumental. Trippy as hell.

 

Likely there's some Goth or Doom that's a whole lot spookier, but I'm not a fan. I saw this band "Death Mask" perform once; they're just kind of strange but not scary. On the Myspace page, there are some parts of the song "Forest" especially that might qualify:

http://www.deathmaskmusic.com/index.htm


http://www.myspace.com/deathmask

 

You could play the entire Velvet Underground & Nico album. It's the most overrated album ever, but it is spooky.

 

Aren't there potential copyright issues involved here?
Also, since Bub didn't like my joke, I'll suggest 'Boxhead' by Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel.
Or try Andreas Vollenweider. Mostly pretty bright, but some of the stuff from 'Caverna Magica' or 'Down to the Moon' might suit.
I'd also second the mention of 'Bela Lugosi's Dead' by Bauhaus.

 

The theme from "The Munsters" ;D

 

The soundtrack from the Ric Burns PBS film on New York...
It isn't scary sounding, but parts alternate between a reflective mood and ominous...

 

Anything by Dead Can Dance. Trust me, I think Dead Can Dance would be perfect.

Certain cuts off of "Low" and "Heroes" by Bowie...the slower instrumentals. There's a compilation of Bowie instrumentals called "All Saints" but I don't know what's on it.

Brian Eno has lots and lots of instrumental/ambient music...some peaceful, some haunting.

"Sanctum Sanctorum" off The Damned's "Phantasmagoria."

 

Anything by Pink Floyd

Echoes is essentially one long song.......

Good call on The Shining.

 

Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.... Always makes me think of a sniper in the rain in an Eastern European town ready to kill a weatly autocrat while in mid-coitus with a prostitue.

A haunting image for me indeed.

 

It might be a bit overplayed now, but the main score from Requiem for a Dream. And this doesn't have a lot of movement to it, but the theme from Unsolved Mysteries. That always creeped me out.

 

Good Lord. Now I have an image in my head that's 2/3 Kundera, 1/3 Raymond Chandler. Sheesh. I guess I'm feeling guilty about that night in Bucharest.