There are some pretty obvious ones: Lay All Your Love On Me where someone's jealous streak becomes so terrifyingly inflated that it develops a dead-eyed numinous zombie-like religiosity
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 15:44 (one year ago) link
Dancing Queen. No matter who you are, YOU are the dancing queen. Against your will, you have been reduced to the object of the singer's cruel desire. This is a scene Thomas Ligotti would be proud of
One Of Us is crying. Who? Which of you? How many of you are in this smiling cabal with a single secretive cryer? One of us is lying, the other always tells the truth. I'm scared
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 15:45 (one year ago) link
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room. Sleep paralysis. Wonderful
Does Your Mother Know... what you did last Summer?
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
Haha I love this. "The Day Before You Came" if you buy the interpretation that the "You" is a guy who murders the protagonist.
― J. Sam, Monday, 20 March 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link
My daughter was just in Mamma Mia, and as I watched I did wonder how malleable the ABBA catalog could be. Like, the musical is the most obvious, easy, literal adaptation, but a more creative mind could have gone truly nuts with the material.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 20 March 2023 16:01 (one year ago) link
People everywhereA sense of expectation hangin' in the airGivin' out a sparkAcross the room, your eyes are glowin' in the dark
I don't know what's going on here but fuckin ell mate
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
Lovers Live A Little Longer - in which it turns that the protagonist is actually talking to the preserved corpse of her kidnap
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:21 (one year ago) link
E.T.A. Hoffman's "Nina, Pretty Ballerina"
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:24 (one year ago) link
Death Camp On and On and On ("people care for nothing, no respect for human rights")
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Monday, 20 March 2023 16:28 (one year ago) link
The city is a nightmare, a horrible dreamSome of us will dream it foreverLook around the corner, and try not to screamIt's me
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 01:06 (one year ago) link
Ooh nice
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 12:05 (one year ago) link
Summer Night City is about a vampire that sleeps in the day and preys on people coming home from nightclubs and discos
Some folks only see the litterWe don't miss them when they're gone
That's a Paul Tremblay line if I ever heard one
― the forces of darkness making making us laugh ourselves into DEATH?? (dog latin), Wednesday, 22 March 2023 12:06 (one year ago) link
I'm Carrie, not the kind of girl you'd marry,That's me.
And I'm going to use telekinesis to take revenge on all of you after the prom.
― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Wednesday, 22 March 2023 12:27 (one year ago) link
Super Trouper – having been chased down by the authorities, the narrator is undergoing an interrogation so intense that she begins hallucinating that she is on a stage somewhere performing for her adoring fans, searching for her partner in the audience to rescue her. Alas he’s already dead. And by the end so is she.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:39 (one year ago) link
Dum Dum Diddle – about a murderous stalker who imagines transforming into the violin of a musician she intends to kill.
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:45 (one year ago) link
These are gold. ABBA gold
― Rolling Coastal Black Midi New Roads (dog latin), Thursday, 20 April 2023 13:41 (one year ago) link
(xp) Didn't Argento film that one?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 20 April 2023 14:37 (one year ago) link
“Elaine” is another great example
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
Someone needs to isolate the vocals on those tracks, slow them down and douse them with a ton of reverb so we can hear what the trailer will sound like.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 20 April 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link