Most Disturbing BoC Song

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Most Disturbing BoC Song?

Beware The Friendly Stranger
14
14%
In The Annexe
3
3%
Opening The Mouth
15
15%
The Devil Is In The Details
49
50%
A is to B as B is to C
17
17%
 
Total votes: 98

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Rodheh wrote:Actually after thinking about it after a while, there's not really any "disturbing" BoC at all. There's "eerie" BoC, but no "disturbing" BoC (IMO). This thread goes to show me more people need to hear a Coil, or NIN, or SPK record...and even that shit's just barely disturbing.

But that's just me.

I can see how some BoC songs could disturb some individuals...but something tells me these individuals aren't very eclectic in what they listen to.


I find Nine Inch Nails to be pretty angsty and boring in terms of lyrical content. Sometimes the music is alright, but I would never call it even mildly "disturbing"

It all has to do with the connections made in your mind associated with certain noises, melodies, or style.

Nine Inch Nails just reminds me what it's like to be a shitty eighth grader. BoC is actually atmospheric and thought-provoking. But that, as they say and as you say, is just me.

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For me, any disturbing feeling from Boards' music is mostly a result of its background context, such as the 'god with hooves' thing. In pure musical terms, it's just sunshine with some exceptions (like TH). Or if not sunshine, just gray and moody then, nothing disturbing or scary.

I could use this as an example of menacing electronic music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otr0utbgJQA It's something that would disturb me or at least raise my awareness if I was to listen it out in the night, but not that much otherwise.

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Keeoaddi wrote:I think You Could Feel The Sky is the most sinister for me, perhaps because the tracks leading up to it are relatively relaxing and lull you into a sense of comfort and security, and then You Could Feel The Sky comes on and it's like you're trapped by your own doing, and you can't get out.

House of Abin'Adab is also very un-nerving.


Not to mention the "nails-on-chalkboard"-like sound effects on "You could feel the sky"...
Saw a blind man walking down the street
Greets every person he chanced to meet
Saw a cop write a ticket to a man over fifty
Fell over laughing screaming he was a hippie
Ran into a granny had a smile on her face
Broke a trophy she just won in a race

Don't worry about the future
Forget about the past
Whether it's good or bad
It's a gas

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