For reference: Cackest screams in the pop omniverse
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)
Best screamer ever, maybe: Gerry Rosalie in the Sonics.
Best recent ones I can think of right now: on Modey Lemon's CD.
― chuck, Wednesday, 19 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Wednesday, 19 March 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Davlo (Davlo), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― your null fame (yournullfame), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:36 (twenty-three years ago)
― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ian Johnson (orion), Thursday, 20 March 2003 02:26 (twenty-three years ago)
― j.a.e., Thursday, 20 March 2003 03:45 (twenty-three years ago)
― tom (different one), Thursday, 20 March 2003 03:54 (twenty-three years ago)
― H (Heruy), Thursday, 20 March 2003 03:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― original bgm, Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:00 (twenty-three years ago)
John Lennon "Mother". Still can make my hair stand up in the right mood.
And of course tons of Yoko too.
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:01 (twenty-three years ago)
Search: "Hong Kong"
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:02 (twenty-three years ago)
Pavement BAPTISS BLACKTICK - it's just so exciting!
'nuther Contortions, live in New York (Roir) has a CONTORT YOURSELF with Mr. b/w surrendering full tilt to a painful sounding screech that lasts for something like ten seconds
Dud ... Edgar Winter does a live TOBACCO ROAD with a holler that starts to wear out its welcome by the fifth second and *really* grates the nerves by the twenty-fifth(!)
Robert Plant on Zep's I'M GONNA CRAWL - the man just sounds old.
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:18 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:23 (twenty-three years ago)
― tom (other one), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:40 (twenty-three years ago)
― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)
― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Thursday, 20 March 2003 06:39 (twenty-three years ago)
I thought of Iggy first, too.
Little Richard's "wooooohhh!"s aren't that far from screams.
― James Ball (James Ball), Thursday, 20 March 2003 09:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― rex jr., Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:11 (twenty-three years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Thursday, 20 March 2003 10:34 (twenty-three years ago)
short scream : macca's on 'why don't we do it in the r in ad'which has him hurdling from cheery rocker to falsetto in mere seconds.
― piscesboy, Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 20 March 2003 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)
Remember Lene Lovich? She was a professional 'screamer'. She'd do the screams overdubbed in French horror movies.Used tolove Lene - whatever happened to her?
― russ t, Thursday, 20 March 2003 13:03 (twenty-three years ago)
That's certainly a good scream he's got there. Listened to 'Strychnine' this morning. Great record, great scream (x2).
― James Ball (James Ball), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:32 (twenty-three years ago)
― christoff (christoff), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)
The Y Pants: "That's The Way Boys Are"
John Lennon: "Cold Turkey" (though "Mother" is up there too)
― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)
I used to work in a spook alley and I prided myself on the fierce caliber of my high-pitched but raw, ripping scream. I love screaming at people and how easy it was to make people clutch their boyfriends, who pretended not to be scared. One time I was transferred temporarily from the "mental asylum hall" to the "werewolf hall" as our bloodchilling lycanthrope had to use the bathroom and could not do it in the woods...I felt really out of my element in my bloodstained straightjacket among the strobe-lit foggy woods. Worse yet, the timing of the whole alley had been thrown off somehow and there was now a sizeable queue of teenagers around the corner - the corner from which I was to jump out and scream. Well, I tried the scream anyway (after having been in plain view for at least five minutes) and a boy said the most heart-crushing thing: "Oh, you have a nice scream." Patronizing me, oh, that was a shameful night.
So I am going with screams here that really give me a physical reaction, not ones that make me think, 'Oh, what a nice scream.'
And they are.... The Pixies "Tame"... and that's all I can think of.
― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)
. . . and no-one's mentioned Mr. Cobain yet. . . .
― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:06 (twenty-three years ago)
― Fivvy (Fivvy), Friday, 21 March 2003 16:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― Anna Rose, Friday, 21 March 2003 18:16 (twenty-three years ago)
Nothing like starting a thread, ignoring it for a few days, then coming back to find it brimming with great answers. I have some listening to do...
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 21 March 2003 20:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 21 March 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 21 March 2003 20:27 (twenty-three years ago)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 22 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 22 March 2003 20:59 (twenty-three years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 22 March 2003 21:04 (twenty-three years ago)
BEST SCRREAM EVER: Aphex Twin "Come to Daddy"
― Evan (Evan), Saturday, 22 March 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)
― Thrak, Saturday, 22 March 2003 21:49 (twenty-three years ago)
WORD!
"Y Pants: "That's The Way Boys Are"
WORD! its one of the creepiest songs ever! Haven´t heard the original but i guss it´s just like the cover weith the same lyrics but not the screaming. They turning a sexist song into something else. Wonderful!
― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 23 March 2003 08:08 (twenty-three years ago)
thirded!
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 10:50 (twenty-three years ago)
― S Samson, Sunday, 23 March 2003 11:22 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alicia, Thursday, 27 March 2003 01:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― matt riedl (veal), Thursday, 27 March 2003 19:46 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dave M. (rotten03), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:53 (twenty-three years ago)
Have we discussed the absurd levels of amazingness of the Prince scream?
*sees piscesboy's post up above*
Ah yes. Very good.
Still I wonder, how the hell does such a little guy make such a monstrous powerful noize?
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 27 March 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)
― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)
― webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 28 March 2003 06:15 (twenty-three years ago)
― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 28 March 2003 06:28 (twenty-three years ago)
― george gosset (gegoss), Friday, 28 March 2003 06:31 (twenty-three years ago)
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 28 March 2003 06:52 (twenty-three years ago)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 28 March 2003 07:19 (twenty-three years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 21 January 2005 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)
Some of the most harrowing screams I've heard on record can be found on Cindytalk's Camouflage Heart, especially on "The Ghost Never Smiles", which often sounds like a soul in endless torment.
― David A. (Davant), Friday, 21 January 2005 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)
― Jedmond (Jedmond), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)
and it was Grant Hart who did the scream in "Diane", and many other fine screams. both he & bob did like to employ that.
iggy-like tho he was aiming for, some of Rob Younger's holler/screams in Radio Birdman tracks were great, e.g. "Descent into the Maelstrom"
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)
― briania (briania), Friday, 21 January 2005 03:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:02 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 21 January 2005 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)
― shookout (shookout), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 21 January 2005 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)
Katie Jane Garside, mentioned upthread, still screams to great effect for Queen Adreena.
― Soukesian, Friday, 21 January 2005 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Stevem On X (blueski), Friday, 21 January 2005 10:47 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 January 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)
― The Mad Puffin, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)
― Soukesian, Friday, 21 January 2005 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)
Spore - "Hemorrhaging Gums" ... at the end of the song there's a sample of fast mexican music and two women just screaming and screaming and screaming.
― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 21 January 2005 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)
oakey (in broad yorkshire accent): ok, ready. aaargh. yelp. uurgh. cough.
[clatter, bang, zung]
ware (in surprisingly squeaky voice): wot, like this? [blood-curdling]AAAAAAAAAAAARGH! AAAAAAARGH! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! eh, how was that?
― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Friday, 21 January 2005 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)
the swamp rats' 'louie louie'
― cb, Friday, 21 January 2005 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)
― Cabaleira Vanessa (PoisonIvy), Friday, 21 January 2005 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 21 January 2005 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)
― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 21 January 2005 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 21 January 2005 20:32 (twenty-one years ago)
― 6335, Friday, 21 January 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:34 (twenty-one years ago)
― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 24 January 2005 04:53 (twenty-one years ago)
"Frankie Teardrop" of course, "Angel of Death" too!
The "I Luv the Valley OH" scream was pretty scary first time I heard it.
I really like Alec Empire's screams too. He's a champ. He loves the screamin'.
― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Monday, 24 January 2005 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)
What's a scarier scream than John Cale's in "Fear (Is a Man's Best Friend)?"
John Lennon, "Mother"
What others?
Apologies if this is a dupe thread, I didn't see one amidst the 40,000 Primal Scream threads
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:01 (eleven years ago)
Oops, forgot to delete lines from misbegotten new thread
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:06 (eleven years ago)
scarier than Fear?
http://mute.com/wp-content/uploads/1986/11/diamanda-galas-saint-of-the-pit-stumm33-560x560.jpg
never seen this thread, I could easily do a top 20 as this is one of my favorite modes of artistic expression
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:40 (eleven years ago)
http://eil.com/images/main/Zos-Kia-Rape-412656.jpg
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:41 (eleven years ago)
http://direct.rhapsody.com/imageserver/v2/albums/Alb.14329076/images/500x500.jpg
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:42 (eleven years ago)
Seele Brennt:
http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/bilder/shop_gr/neubautenhalbermensch2.jpg
― sleeve, Saturday, 14 March 2015 03:43 (eleven years ago)
I always go nuts for Huggy Bear's "Pansy Twist", not least for the shrieking of the line "make you more a kid IF YOU WANNA OFFA PIG!" and the strained delivery of the unintelligible next few syllables.
this is indeed amazing
gotta mention janis joplin
― drash, Saturday, 14 March 2015 04:41 (eleven years ago)
gonn - blackout of gretely
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 14 March 2015 04:44 (eleven years ago)
SPK "Wars of Islam" - Screaming, gagging and almost puking!
David Bowie "It's No Game, Pt. 1" - SHUT UP!
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:08 (eleven years ago)
Agreed, sleeve--Diamanda is scarier
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 14 March 2015 12:42 (eleven years ago)
boy, there's a nice scream opening up "do you ray mbanba" by "les elytes de cotonou".
― rushomancy, Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:33 (eleven years ago)
2 more great ones:
The Clash -The Right Profile. ARRRGHHHGORRA BUH BHUH DO ARRRRGGGGHHHHNNNN!!!!
Wilson Pickett - Hey JudeThere are a million of them at the end, but one in particular starting at 2:55 begins on the Mt. Rushmore of music screams.
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 15 March 2015 15:20 (eleven years ago)
art bears - freedom
dagmar tapping into something ancient/primal.
― s. (phylum annelida), Sunday, 15 March 2015 19:34 (eleven years ago)