The creepiest pop song of all time. What do you think???

I have no idea what they were thinking about the start of this song, other than, I want an exorcism in the guest room every day.

Fire on High, ELO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wntHSse3yec&t=2s

In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins.

Well if you told me you were drowning, I would not lend a hand

I've seen your face before, my friend, but I don't know if you know who I am

Well I was there and I saw what you did

I saw it with my own two eyes

So you can wipe off that grin

I know where you've been

It's all been a pack of lies

Back when I was a kid and this song first got really popular, the urban legend was that Phil Collins had a friend who drowned while another guy watched and refused to help. Then, Collins wrote the song and sang it to the guy who he gave front row tickets to a concert.

But it turns out that the song is about Phil Collins' divorce. And that is actually 100x more creepy because it is a really dark place to go for a divorced dad with midlife crisis issues. Most everyone else just buys a sports car and dates the yoga instructor.

mikehammer wrote:

Creep

A good answer but Radiohead's creepiest song is more likely

Climbing up the Walls off OK Computer

Lyrics

Climbing up the Walls

[Verse 1]

I am the key to the lock in your house

That keeps your toys in the basement

And if you get too far inside

You'll only see my reflection

It's always best with the covers up

I am the pick in the ice

Do not cry out or hit the alarm

You know we're friends 'til we die

[Chorus]

And either way you turn

I'll be there

Open up your skull

I'll be there

Climbing up the walls

[Verse 2]

It's always best when the light is off

It's always better on the outside

Fifteen blows to the back of your head

Fifteen blows to your mind

So lock the kids up safe tonight

Shut the eyes in the cupboard

I've got the smell of a local man

Who's got the loneliest feeling

+1. I believed that urban legend!

To Weird Al's credit he did use the "...not in a creepy way" disclaimer so he may have disqualified himself from this thread.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZvgT4pVC_w

"I cleared my throat quietly, and then, I looked away

And I'm sure it was obvious to her, just what I was trying to say

I was trying to say, "Hey

I'd like to make a wall-sized mural out of all the dead skin cells

That you slough off while you sleep at night"

Whoa-o-Oh, "I'd like to rip you wide open

And french-kiss every single one of your internal organs

Oh, I'd like to remove all your skin, and wear your skin, over my own skin

But not in a creepy way"

Flower girl by the Cowsills and Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison.

Supralapsarian wrote:

Pete Townshend’s ‘Rough Boys’ is the creepiest. Homoerotic about underage boys - especially gruesome considering pedo Pete was caught with child porn.

Seconded. This one tops my list, as well.

Seems he's more famous than we thought!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qi8XjOwLtA

I give most of the songs praising 16-year-old girls a pass. The "golden oldie" ones were just from a different era, and the hard rock ones are just trying to drum up some controversy.

This isn't exactly a pop song, and I don't know if "creepy" is the best descriptor, but it's pretty freaking weird and awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C_HReR_McQ

JimiWasTooMuchforU wrote:

Hey, you are the piglet g that tried to be 'cute' with me on the Jimi Hendrix thread. I can recognize you from the unreasably idiotic way you respond to others. I'm not off you are off and you never explain why. That's what ignorant trolls do.

No not me man. I saw the thread but declined to post. It was full of young posters who really don't dig where the cat's head was at.

Phil Collins was 30 years old when the song was released.

Even if age of consent was lower back in the day, it's gross for grown men to lust after 16 year olds as evidenced by reaction to Jerry Lee Lewis marrying his teenaged cousin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6rWamHseRg

That is a creepy song.

Though it may require some cognitive dissonance to admit it, Do You Want to Touch Me is a great song and not inordinately creepy for a pop song. Gary Glitter, on the other hand, is really creepy.

Some of these songs are just bad.

How about Johnny Cash's "Delia's Gone" about shooting his evil woman? Sure as hell isn't suitable for "Gospel Road"!

First time I shot her

I shot her in the side

Hard to watch her suffer

But with the second shot she died

Delia's gone, one more round

Delia's gone

https://youtu.be/IeOPhh_DgPA

Prince 'Sister' from the Dirty Mind album.

Don't believe me?, Google: prince dirty mind sister lyrics.