The disturbing distorted opening of, ironically, "Quiet", with the hellish droning sweeping guitars.
The ending of "Hummer", which has a horrific distorted screech come out of nowhere and intensify quickly before fizzling out just as quickly. Especially scary considering what had just been preceding it.
The beginning is especially unnerving, with an indecipherably distorted loop.
“Today”, as cheery of a tune as it is, is also slightly unsettling, mostly due to its lyrics involving “burning my eyes out”, “pink ribbon scars” (needle tracks), “bruised and restrained angel wings”, etc. Not to mention the lyrics are about a man excited to kill himself, i.e. “the greatest day he’s ever known”...
“Disarm” is a very sad, haunting, beautiful song, about Billy Corgan’s abusive relationship with his father.
The music video is surreal and strange, featuring the band playing the song and floating around a large house, an old man walking through a dark tunnel towards a blinding light, and home video quality footage of a child, happy and playful at first, but towards the end of the video he is holding a large stick and glaring angrily at the camera. Possibly was not intentional but the look on the kid’s face is a bit creepy.
Pisces Iscariot:
"Spaced" initially seems like an innocent piece of instrumentation and one of the last songs you'd expect to fall under this trope... until you pay attention to the lyrics (which is difficult at first, since they're mumbled, mixed quietly, and distorted). There's a bit of Word-Salad Horror to them, but they seem to involve Abusive Parents, Domestic Abuse, and similar worries. Some listeners may also find the lyrics to have Unfortunate Implications, though a more charitable interpretation would be that they're Corgan's way of working through unspecified traumas (he's certainly had one hell of an unpleasant life at times).
The guitar solo in "Zero" which doubles as Hell Is That Noise, as it sounds like a mashup of fuzzy, distorted shrieks.
"X.Y.U." can be considered nightmare fuel. Not only is it (arguably) the band's angriest song ever released within the span of their entire career, but it's practically the loss of all sanity in musical form. The third section of the song is especially angry, in which there's much more screaming in it than there is singing, and when Billy does sing, he spits out lyrics that sound like a description of descending down into hell.
The music video for "Ava Adore" is sort of this. We see Corgan singing the song while walking through a variety of scenes. His Bald of Evil, creepy pale skin, and the dark circles around his eyes make him look very vampirish. He also moves freaky fast.
Hell, Iha just Kubrick staring at the camera every time he appears is scary enough.
Unfortunate Implications, though a more charitable interpretation would be that they're Corgan's way of working through unspecified traumas (he's certainly had one hell of an unpleasant life at times).
◊ That Kubrick Stare's pretty freaky.
