Just like certain songs can either give your mood a boost or bring on a good cry, other tunes can do a pretty great job of freaking you out. What makes a song scary? That all depends. It could be jarringly discordant chords or lyrics that tell a terrifying tale...or both.
In the case of the Pink Floyd classic "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" it's both of those things...sort of (more on that later). Released as the B-side to the 1968 single "Point Me at the Sky," live recordings of the song also appeared on releases including the live half of the double album Ummagumma and the Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii concert film.
A particularly daring experiment in sound (even for Pink Floyd), "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" is mostly instrumental, save for the title being whispered and Roger Waters' anguished, wordless screams.
Last year, Rolling Stone included "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" on the publication's list of "25 Songs That Are Truly Terrifying," calling the live version on Ummagumma "less a moody freakout of a rock jam than a lysergically summoned haunted house, offering up door after door for you to open against your better judgment."
"At the start, Richard Wright's organ diddles and Nick Mason's cymbals flutter, with soft, distant moans foreshadowing doom," the article continues. "Then the title is whispered and before the danger it suggests has a chance to register, Roger Waters screams repeatedly with horrific derangement. David Gilmour's guitar whips up a frenzy in response, but soon the music returns to the hushed, eerie lull that proceeded the violent interlude. Something dreadful has happened, and we're left to imagine it."
As AllMusic pointed out, "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" not only served as a sort of "dry run" for future Pink Floyd instrumentals, but it had actually been in the works for some time before it was released.
The earliest version, from March 1968, was called "Keep Smiling, People," before being retitled "Murderistic Women" during a recording session that same year. These recordings only exist as bootlegs, however, so it's hard to say whether or not the tune grew more terrifying with time.
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