Not quite what you’re asking, but I once fell asleep on a long haul flight listening to a Cinematic Orchestra album with some very comfy headphones.
I woke up to a little filler / ambient track that is mostly silence with a ship’s fog horn blown a few times… The cabin was dark, most people were asleep or quietly watching movies, and my half asleep brain forgot I was wearing headphones. I went from confused to creeping panic about what this horn meant and why no on else was reacting to it until I finally woke up properly
That’s a great story!
I can’t think of a specific song but I can say that I hate when radio ads do that shit.
Not an answer but noticing you username and the question do not go together at all threw me there, respect
Not really a music track I can suggest, but I have a small story to share…
Many years ago I got interested in number stations, annonymous shortwave radio stations only transmitting an identifier and series of messages encrypted and converted to numbers, these messages are instructions to spies in foreign countries.
The Conet Project is a collection of recorded number stations released in a CD box set.
Right, I was at a LAN party, and was playing some multiplayer OpenTTD and had The Conet Project playing in the background, after several normal number station recordings, I got to a recording that only was a high/low tone on repeat for several minutes, so I zoned out…
Then, suddenly the high/low tone went away and just as I noted it, the sound exploded in random tones just blasting me through my headphones, and I felt as if my brain was being reprogrammed, I yankee off my headphones and realized it was the track playing, and that it was a polytone station, sending data via tones instead of reading numbers.
Mr. Ambulance Driver by The Flaming Lips
There are some songs by Elektronomia that sound like the car window is down.
The closest i have is Local H, Bound for the Floor. The staccato distortion throughout makes (to my ears) a sound very similar to a 1992 Ford Tempo’s “Your seatbelt isn’t latched” chime.
I would be driving like a madman to highschool after oversleeping and it would make me keep double checking my belt.
6 O’ Clock News by Merkules and Chris Webby always gets me with the horn and siren bit.
Not too scary, but the intro to Tune-Yards’ Gangster makes me reflexively look in the rear-view mirror to see if I need to pull over.
Friends of Mr Cairo
Dream Theater - A Nightmare to Remember
