songs you find inexplicably dark

I used to walk to work at night on a creepy, backwoods/industrial area road (woods to one side including possums, pull-offs into factory circles on the other, abandoned businesses, junk cars in yards w for sale signs, an LED billboard showing absconded sex offenders) and listen to this bc it was the outro to a Life is Good clip by Drake and Future I had handy

This was in '21 during my hoodoo days and this song, especially the beginning, made me think of a dark back story, like someone in New Orleans walking alone at night in resigned stress after committing a murder out of desperation or brooding passion

Sorry if that's weird, but I love music like this that makes me feel

Electric Light Orchestra is generally and widely acknowledged to be scary, but to me this song is the eeriest

I think I first heard it during the hoodoo days also and it reminded me of the resignation of paying the price in a bargain with spirits (of the more demonic sort)

Posted by FuelAirPropellant

Love this!

I know lots of haunting music that put me in a dark place but it's too unfortunate yall don't listen to the kind of haunting stuff I like and yall don't know nobody I frequently listen to on a daily so I'll just withhold my dark stuff. I'll only post my type of stuff if there's anybody here who has the same musical taste I have because most likely it'll put them in the same dark place with me.

Posted by Jumpin_Jupiter
I know lots of haunting music that put me in a dark place but it's too unfortunate yall don't listen to the kind of haunting stuff I like and yall don't know nobody I frequently listen to on a daily so I'll just withhold my dark stuff. I'll only post my type of stuff if there's anybody here who has the same musical taste I have because most likely it'll put them in the same dark place with me.

If you post, I promise I'll listen

I aim to jazz/bluesmax now that I'm drinking less and awake more often

Posted by Rant_of_the_Day

First thing I thought of 👆

Posted by Argus

This about drugz.

Posted by Beast_Of_Longsuffering

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This about drugz.

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Yes indeed! 👍🏼

This isn't "low-key" dark, but I discovered this song when my old friend took me out to the Mark Twain Lake. he was clearly tweaking, it was terrifying and sad to see since we all had had a high opinion of him before. Then I posted it when my first ex died

We obviously know this song from Insidious

But apparently Tiny Tim died of a heart attack while performing this song onstage

This song takes me back in those dark times when I cheated on my Leo girlfriend for a cancer girl and got kicked out the Leo girl house and was left homeless. And surprisingly it was autumn of '94 even though this record was originally recorded in '92 but I didn't discovered it till some 2 years later after it's release. The enchanted background voices in this song is what make this song sound truly horrifying, haunting and dark but in a good, smooth and sensual way. I was young back then and didn't know no better. If I could go back in time I would change my wild and cheating ways. Now that I'm grown and fully matured I wouldn't cheat. I think this song is a perfect fit for those smooth jazz lovers like myself with dark and hidden Pluto and 12th house stuff. This song is 100% plutonian without a shadow of a goddamn doubt.

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Purity Ring is such a mood 🎶

For some reason, this song makes me run as though I'm being hunted. Definitely great cardio

"Although not a follower of (David Koresh played backwards) she's a devoted Branch Davidian"

I LOVE Boards of Canada. Their music is either eerily haunting or nostalgic.

Granted, I don't think there's anything 'inexplicable" about this one...

In my opinion, almost all music released in recent years is dark and that’s why I won’t listen to it. Other than me just not liking them lol

In my opinion, it sounds kind of like “spells” like Travis Scott’s music, The Weekend, recent Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga songs, Bad Bunny, etc.

there was one song I think it was by a rapper named designer the song called “Timmy Turner” so scary that I felt like I shouldn’t listen to it on higher volume, and I couldn’t get through the whole song. It feels extremely dark.

However there are some songs that are eery to me, but I will still listen to them because they sound good. It’s just there is a myth behind them and I like old ancient things. Robert Johnson’s songs are eery in how amazing his guitar playing sounded, what makes it eery is that it sounds two ppl playing the guitar. How? The myth behind him is he is one of the first musicians to sell his soul.

His songs were eerily good. His voice and guitar playing were so hauntingly beautiful, but a bit unsettling when you listen to the lyrics and know about the “urban legend” behind it.



Boadicea by Enya is a bit “dark” to me too, but I do like it. It gives me more mystical otherworldly vibes. However, it’s kind of heavy that I still feel a bit reluctant to listen to it very often.

History always repeats itself.

man, that pink floyd movie was dark af. Nightmare material

Posted by hydorah
man, that pink floyd movie was dark af. Nightmare material

Which one? I'm a big fan.

Posted by clare

Posted by hydorah
man, that pink floyd movie was dark af. Nightmare material

Which one? I'm a big fan.

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how many pink floyd movies are there?

Pink floyd the wall

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Posted by hydorah
man, that pink floyd movie was dark af. Nightmare material

Which one? I'm a big fan.

how many pink floyd movies are there?

Pink floyd the wall

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There's a few. Oh wait, I just see them as music videos/ movies but the wall plays like a story line. Ah I've seen it so many times, yeah it's fairly dark, I agree.

It is nice to see numerous pink floyd fans in here.

Something else I find entertaining.

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Blatantly dark but its a pretty good song

D4vd- Romantic Homicide

let's be honest, if music is not at least a little bit dark, it can't be good

Super mario 64 was pretty much literally "backrooms the video game", and hearing the underwater theme while exploring underwater caves was my creepiest videogame experience

The weeknd gives me the same dark vibe as d4vd. That man is evil

When I was a teenager I was on ecstasy roaming around town in the middle of the night with some friends also on it and I had my ipod with me and I was listening to Three Little Birds by Bob Marley, walking down this street I didn't know or recognize, I was walking while my friends stayed behind sitting down and talking. I don't know what it was, obviously I was on drugs, but something about the combination of that, the time of night, not recognizing the street, and that song, made me feel like I was like passing into the next life or something and not necessarily a good one 😬😅 Objectively speaking there's nothing dark about it before or since but it inexplicably at that moment. All the crazy techno that's supposed to be all trippy when you're on drugs never made me feel like that

Posted by Uwa

ah of course it is age restricted

this may not have all the characteristics of a typical song but there's a kind of rhythm to it, so i consider it music in that sense. won't over explain it—

interesting bit about it: members from different black metal groups decided to band together anonymously for a project, first was stalaggh, second was this, gulaggh. the voice in the opening is Stalin sending people to concentration camps in that casual tone and thick ass Georgian accent

‘Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer’. Seems innocent on the surface, but to me it sounds like PREMEDITATED MURDER.

This is a shocker. I think this is the only time she ever sang this song live. She is so uncomfortable. Amy Grant - a few light hearted pop songs and worship songs as her career, so what is this? Truly a Sag - in your face. Dark but with hope.

Johnny Cash had a dark side - no doubt drug use fueled.