The music continues repetitively but is interrupted - twice - by some frankly demented carnival music. However, after the lyrics end comes a Last Note Nightmare that spans a quarter of the song. "Spinning Wheel" by Blood, Sweat and Tears is a fairly mellow jazz-rock fusion song, often used as an example of the genre.Scary indeed, if you've never heard it before. At the end, the cheerful harmonies blur into a fuzzy, echoing, almost unrecognizable cacophony. The end of "Pleasant Valley Sunday" by The Monkees is pretty unnerving.This is creepy enough, but the slow, dark, acoustic guitar-y song ends with a snippet off cheerful piano music, which suggested that the woman snapped entirely and is now in a state of cheerful, giggling insanity. Somehow by Drake Bell is ostensibly about a battered wife who eventually decides she's had enough, weighs her husband down and throws him into the lake, and is now pondering how to cover it all up.The sudden ending is quite jarring and makes listening to their second album even creepier. Played straight with "Murder Story," the last song on their first album. ![]() It starts out with heavy breathing with starts getting louder, and louder, AND LOUDER! The rest of the song is just awesome though. ![]() Inverted with the extended mix of Simple Minds song "Jungleland".Scissor Shock's surprisingly accessible "Ex-Coroner's Laugh, Part 1.".In fact, watching the video only adds to the dread the song makes you feel. ![]() While it could be argued that the sound fits considering the theme is Lara teaching young children about violence in history, it still doesn't change the fact that the last part of the song is incredibly creepy. The last part of Lara Fabian's "Une Ave Maria" is particularly creepy.Carly Simon's "That's The Way I've Always Heard It Should Be", already a rather dark and cynical song, ends with her voice echoing off very eerily.The Carpenters' version of "Superstar" has a morose and unsettling resolution.Especially when combined with the twist ending of its music video. " Thriller" famously ends with the chilling Evil Laughter of Vincent Price.The liner notes for Michael's album Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix give a translation: "Why have you come from the West? Confess! To steal the great achievements of the people, the accomplishments of the workers." Allegedly this is a KGB agent interrogating us. "Stranger In Moscow" from HIStory: Past, Present, and Future - Book I, a slow, moody ballad, ends with a man whispering menacingly in Russian over the end.The video for the former ends with this noise, which acts as a very effective soundtrack to the video's Downer Ending. The singles "Dirty Diana" and the much more well-known "Smooth Criminal", both from Bad begin with similar noises.Here's an inversion of the trope: Michael Jackson's "Another Part of Me" from Bad begins with an Ominous Pipe Organ note, but becomes a normal MJ song after that.The end of "Hollywood" consists of a heavily synthesised, androgynous voice saying Push the button!/Don't push the button! which gradually slows down as the background music fades and becomes a contorted, almost demonic mess."WHAT DO YOU MEAN, IT'S NOT IN THE COMPUTER?!?!"
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