"Past, Present & Future" is incredibly creepy. So is "Dressed in Black", particularly the eerie ending part, where Mary is alone in her room, and the rest of the song, save the bass, have all dropped away.
martyboy008
· 1 year ago
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oldetymer
· 1 year ago
i would like to hear more of Past Present And Future, but for some reason i only get 29 seconds of it, is it me or is that all there is of it?
MatthewBolin
· 1 year ago
I just checked it again and it's working fine for me.
DwDunphy
· 1 year ago
How strange is it that I LOVE creepy pop songs. I love them most when others who are listening are just bopping along, then suddenly get it, and then are just shocked and/or horrified.
Horrified, of course, being the most fun.
Floodgate
· 1 year ago
A little-known tidbit about "Leader of the Pack" -- that is a teenage Billy Joel playing piano on that song.
drcastrato
· 1 year ago
Maybe this is too obvious, or too intentional, but Radiohead seems to be making a nice career out of creepy music. Their last 4 or 5 albums are loaded with creepers.
Ray
· 1 year ago
Great post, but you left out another rather morose tune that was a pretty big hit for them ("I Can Never Go Home Anymore").
Of course my favorite Shangri-La's tune is a complete 180 degree departure from the rest of their output: the bouncy and swinging "Give Him A Great Big Kiss", which just goes to show that even the Shangri-La's apparently needed a break from all the doom and gloom.
Tracy Hall
· 1 year ago
I know I've missed Halloween, but a song that gave me the absolute creeps when I first heard it was the song from The Blair Witch Project. It included snippets from the film, the scariest was the girl saying breathily "Mom, Dad. I'm so scared." I woke up one morning to hear this on the radio and I felt genuinely afraid. Great song though!
markus
· 6 months ago
I loved reading this- my mother had the Shangri-La's greatest hits when I was a kid- "Past, Present and Future" was disturbing, but the one that did it for me was "I Can Never Go Home Anymore".
In the middle of that song, you have the girls quietly sing "hush little baby, don't you cry...mama won't go away..." the lead singer screams "MAMA!!!!" These heavy, dramatic strings come in, and the girls sing "...and you can NEVER...go home ANYMOOOORE..." (and then another scream of "MAMA!!!")
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Horrified, of course, being the most fun.
Of course my favorite Shangri-La's tune is a complete 180 degree departure from the rest of their output: the bouncy and swinging "Give Him A Great Big Kiss", which just goes to show that even the Shangri-La's apparently needed a break from all the doom and gloom.
In the middle of that song, you have the girls quietly sing "hush little baby, don't you cry...mama won't go away..." the lead singer screams "MAMA!!!!" These heavy, dramatic strings come in, and the girls sing "...and you can NEVER...go home ANYMOOOORE..." (and then another scream of "MAMA!!!")
THAT gave me the creeps...