Creepy Songs

"'Well, the last thing I remember, Doc, I started to swerve
And then I saw the Jag slide into the curve
I know I'll never forget that horrible sight,
I guess I found out for myself that everyone was right'
Won't come back from Dead Man's Curve..."
Dead Man's Curve - Jan & Dean, 1964 (mp3).  In 1966, Jan Berry suffers a near-fatal car crash.

"You made it, so the choice is made
Now we gotta slay you"
I Ain' Mad At Cha - Tupac Shakur, 1996 (youtube video).  Later the same year, Shakur is shot 4 times while driving to a Las Vegas nightclub.  He passes away after six days.

"Hey, I'm the one with no soul,
One above and one below"
Violet  - Hole, 1996 (realaudio stream from Stefan's  2/13/2003 show).  One week prior to the release of this track's album, the husband of Hole's frontwoman dies after an apparent suicide.

"I'm taking the cure so I can be quiet"
Needle in the Hay - Elliot Smith (youtube video). In the 2001 film The Royal Tenenbaums, this song is played during an attempted suicide scene.  Smith suicides himself in 2003.

"I want to love you (P.Y.T.)
Pretty Young Thing
You need some lovin' (T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
And I'll take you there"
PYT (Pretty Young Thing)  - Michael Jackson, 1982 (realaudio stream from Monica's 4/28/06 show).  In 1993, Jackson is accused of child molestation.  He settles with his accuser in early 1994, for a reported sum of $20 million.

Comments

[Dave]

Elliott's self-titled album is one of the most quietly terrifying albums ever. So great though.

[fatty jubbo]

PYT used to be my favorite song when I was 5 or whatever. I had a little dance that went with it which featured a crotch groping session during the "heavy breathing" section.

[Susan]

I have a foggy memory of a creepy song from way back when I was a kid in the early 70s called D.O.A. I don't know who does it or when it was released.

Would be great to see it here.

[Scott]

Oh, that's Bloodrock, that D.O.A. track. Head over here to find it in the FMU archives & go have a listen.

[sighmoan]

How'd Creepy magazine get permission to use that pic of Iggy on its cover?!

[Listener Stan]

Oh great, now I have to learn another language to order phentermine off this site.

[Rich]

I'd love to hear the Dead Man's Curve track if we can get it working

[Megan]

whoops, sorry, try it again. it's there...

[Neal]

"Violet" I had not heard it years and it's striking, given that El Duce of the Mentors had a song called "Sandwich of Love" (released before or after? I haven't found out yet) with pretty much the exact lyrics ("She's the one with no soul/...one above and one below"). Obviously everyone knows by now that Duce often claimed to have been solicited for the murder of Cobain before the body was found, and died under suspicious circumstances soon thereafter. I'm just wondering if it's possible that Love is referencing Duce in this song, or vice versa (?).

[Gary]

I've always assumed that "I'm the one with no soul / One above and one below" was a Mentors reference. Sandwich of Love, which came out in the mid-80's, long before Violet, has almost those exact lines (part from a verse, the rest from the chorus). Courtney is known to have been a Mentors fan from the early days, before she was famous. It's certainly the first thing I thought of when I first listened to the words of Violet.

[Gary]

Jeez, I never put two and two together before, but Courtney knew the Mentors early on, so maybe Sandwich of Love refers to her. Sandwich of Courtney Love -- get it?