There are so many things that I don't understand
There's a world within me that I cannot explain
Many rooms to explore, but the doors look the same
I am lost, I can't even remember my name.
There's a world within me that I cannot explain
Many rooms to explore, but the doors look the same
I am lost, I can't even remember my name.
— "Within", Random Access Memories
- "Rollin' N Scratchin'" is just some lone beats at first, which then turns into an alarm-like sound, which then turns into what can only be described as "robotic screams of agony."
- "Television Rules the Nation.
" It's the bizarre distortion about 0:32 seconds into the song that does it. And as for what the refrain implies... - As pictured, the video for "The Prime Time of Your Life" deserves a special mention. It involves a little girl named Melody who's so insecure about her weight that she hallucinates herself tearing her own skin to become thin like everyone else... only to die from bloodloss.
- The song itself is no slouch on Nightmare Fuel, either. There is something about the distorted vocals that makes one feel uneasy, along with the uncanny beats and the song picking up a very fast pace. And the bass drum you hear near the end? It is a rather accurate replica of your heartbeat as you pass away.
- The video for "Technologic" That robot is horrifying, and even more so when you realize what it is: the skeleton animatronic of the Chucky doll used in Seed of Chucky.
- "The Brainwasher." isn't that much better. The dark, repetitive riff and nods to Black Sabbath do it.
- "The Prime Time of Your Life / The Brainwasher / Rollin' N Scratchin' / Alive" from Alive 2007. As mentioned before, the first three songs are already Nightmare Fuel in themselves. It comes off really unsettling until "Alive" kicks in.
- The first minute and a half of, "Touch" is... very very unnerving.
- The last few lines of it however, are rather tearjerking.
- "Contact," especially the second half, is extremely unsettling, eventually descending into pure distortion and static — before becoming swallowed up.
- Fortunately, if you have the Japanese version, you do get a beautiful bonus country-flavoured track called "Horizon" to calm you down right after.
- Nightmare Retardant: It stops being horrifying when you realize that it's just the sound of a rocket propulsion system as it goes up in the atmosphere.
- "Within" has very eerie lyrics, compared with the creepy as hell robot voice.
- In "The Collaborates:" Pharrell Williams, Pharrell talks about how the beat of the music mimics the rhythm of a human heart beat, with a black and white animation of a heart plays in the background, then it fades to a strange machine, an artificial heart, showing how they are robots. While this does not seem very creepy on its own, it is once you realize where those clips are from...
- "Rock 'N Roll" is when you push acid house to its limits. It goes batshit crazy especially at around the four minute mark.
- The distorted vocals on "Oh Yeah" could give potential chills.
- "Steam Machine" has that frickin' whispered vocal of "STEEEEEAM MACHHHHINE". The weird music doesn't help matters.
- "Short Circuit" can be seen as subtly creepy - the first half of the song is energetic 80s synth funk, but then it starts living up to the title: the tempo starts gradually slowing down with every repetition of the loop, the synths start playing an eerily out-of-tune melody, and the sound quality quickly starts degrading, like the instrumental equivalent of an Electronic Speech Impediment.
