Last-Note Nightmare: Difference between revisions

*** Worse still, as that sequence ends, you hear another voice say "Say yes, at least say hello" over it. TWICE.

* Subverted-though no less scary-in "Stupify" by [[Disturbed]]. It's a heavy song all throughout, but the last chorus is good horror if you don't expect it to happen.

'''RAAAH!!'''." }}

** ''Enough'' follows a standard progression (opening verse, chorus, second verse, chorus, bridge etc.) and appears to fade out with the tune it'd been following: fast drum beat and bass/guitar riff ending in a power chord. Until at the last second after fully quieting down, the band threw the power chord in at full volume, then an abrupt end. Even when expected this one isn't easy to go unnerved to.

* Dome, the [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|Head-Tiltingly Arty]] side-project of Wire members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis, produced an album called ''Dome 2'' that is made of this trope. For proof, just listen to the first track, "The Red Tent". Starts off weird enough, but then it changes... [[Paranoia Fuel|You'll never look at hiking]] [[Madness Mantra|the same way again.]]

** Subverted at the end of "Madmen" on ''Dome''.

* John Heartson's "The Silicon Invasion" is [[Lyrical Dissonance|an upbeat techno-pop song]] about how computers are running our world. The vocals get more robotic with every verse, and by the last verse they are completely [[Machine Monotone]]:

It's why they expired }}

* While the whole song is rather disturbing, the lyrics being a message left on an answering machine by a man who knows his plane is going down, I think 30k Feet by Assemblage 23 qualifies. The last line runs something like "Just one more thing to tell you now before I have to go. I-*SCRIIIICH!*"

* Miranda Lambert's "Gunpowder and Lead" tells the story of an abused wife waiting in ambush with a shotgun for her husband, who is freshly out on bail. The song seems to trail off normally, only to be punctuated by a shotgun blast, followed by the metallic ring of an ejected shell hitting the ground. Somehow the merry little "ting!" of the shell just makes it worse.

* The Pete Seeger anti-nuclear song "Odds on Favorite" is creepy to start with, talking about how God designed a universe with built-in obsolescence, then gets more cheerful--for a while.

And it abruptly ends. }}

* "Universal Soldier" by Buffy Sainte-Marie has a fairly pleasant melody most of the way through, although the antiwar message is obvious, but it's driven home when the last line ("This is not the way we put an end to war") drops into a minor key.

** Made worse by the fact that on some prints of the album, Animal is the last track.

* Simon & Garfunkel's "Richard Cory" features this with a stinger just before the final chorus, sure to startle.

''{{spoiler|Richard Cory went home last night and put a bullet through his head}}.'' }}

** The lyric then continues with

* Harry Chapin's "30,000 Pounds of Bananas" ends in an elongated scream.

* Love's "The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This": It's a mellow psychedelic folk song where every verse is followed by a horn fanfare, and the final few repetitions of said fanfare are edited in a jumpy manner to imitate a skipping record.

** The track "Honeymoon with Anxiety" (Fuan to no Mitsugetsu) from the ''End of Evangelion'' soundtrack is a cool bit of music that ends with an unsettling... violin... thing.

** And then from Rebuild 2.0, there's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a_Rv3zzdKw Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara] (Farewell for Today). You know, that wonderfully sweet little song that was playing {{spoiler|[[Soundtrack Dissonance|when EVA 01 ripped 03 apart with Asuka inside while Shinji begged his father to turn off the Dummy System.]]}} It's wonderful and sweet, but on the soundtrack, we get a weird little... thing at the end, which consists of a somewhat distorted repeat of part of the song... which then gets some absolutely chilling violin chords and echo effects.

** Actually, the line before that is "Yes, Hinamizawa", which is a reference to ''another'' character song that featured Keiichi (and Mr. Delicious). So, it was probably more of an "Ah crap, wrong lyrics" thing.

*** ... and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hZyoSjTPfw that song] has it's own [[Last-Note Nightmare]]. It's a silly nonsensical rap mainly consisting of phrases from the anime... {{spoiler|until Keiichi starts scratching out his throat.}} [[Dead Baby Comedy|And it's played for laughs.]]

* From ''[[Doctor Horribles Sing Along Blog]]'', the ending of {{spoiler|"Everything you Ever"}} goes from {{spoiler|bold and triumphant to [[Tear Jerker]].}} [[Gainax Ending|And then it ends]].

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqToFk7ZYEM Slender Man's rendition of "Still Alive"] from [[Portal (series)|Portal]]. He sings the last bit normally, going:

STILL ALIVE!!! }}

** The very last "STILL ALIVE" gives the impression that he's right behind you.

* The [[Blue Öyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]] use this with telling effect on the LP ''Secret Treaties'', where eight progressively sinister and moody tracks (ranging from the Lovecraftian ''Astronomy'' and ''[[Sub Human]]'', through the suspected paedophilia of ''Dominance and Submission'' and the teen-on-the-edge-of-going-Columbine ''Cagey Cretin'') are linked with keyboard effects made to sound like a nursery room music box - together with distortion...

* The "Blue Mountain" Paramount TV logo (which was first used in a later version of the "Closet Killer" logo)

* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txln02o16DQ Morgan Creek DVD] logo.