Some of the stuff on Tricky's Pre-Millenium Tension was slightly unusual to me when I first heard it. The arhythmical rhythms give you nothing to hold on to, and that weird voice that sings with him on Tricky Kid makes me check behind the couch.
Other than that, the mighty Einsturzende Neubauten make music that certainly meets the requirements of this topic. Nothing like a German shouting about death while hammers, saws, drills, and sublime slide guitar go off behind him I say...

Anything by Tom Waits.

Radiohead - Kid A
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Liars - Drum's Not Dead

Oh yeah, and anything by Slint.

I guess you could call the Kids (the movie) soundtrack pretty creepy, although I don't necessarily think that Folk Implosion is creepy.

Oh, and one more band.....Pink Floyd's Animals.

Scott Walker - Tilt

This one tops anything I've ever heard for sheer creepiness. I'm not crazy about it, but it's definitely unlike anything I've ever heard and has its moments.

Fancy that - I was going to say Tilt but was beaten to it. I think it's a brilliant, ground breaking album, but bits of it make me feel horrible. How many albums do that?

In a similar vein John Cale's Music for a New Society is spine tingling and wholly disorientating.

Slint's Spiderland, aside from being the best album ever recorded has so much tension at times that it feels as if it could snap - Talk Talk's Laughing Stock manages a similar trick.

But by far the eeriest piece of music I've come across is Suicide's Frankie Teardrop...try this loud, with headphones as you're trying to get to sleep. The stuff of nightmares.

Stairway to Heaven backwards

Strangest, eeriest, most extraordinary music/song I've ever heard: "The End"-by the Doors.

I figure the most extraordinary and strangest song I've come across to be Radiohead - Like Spinning Plates. Technically, it's bizarre, as it contains reversed parts in the song along with some equally strange noises which imitate spinning plates a little, but the technical effort of the song only help to empower the emotion in it. It truly is a powerful and moving song. I'd rate it higher above than most other Radiohead songs in terms of emotion

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Anything by Tom Waits.

Radiohead - Kid A
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Liars - Drum's Not Dead

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Oh yeah, and anything by Slint.

DCFan is spot on. I'll add:

Fantomas
Bird Show - Green Inferno
Blood Brothers
Charalambides - Joy shapes (this one takes the cake for me. Weirdest, eeriest stuff i've ever heard.)
CocoRosie
Xiu Xiu quite often.
Terrestrial Tones

I don't agree with comments about Microphones being eerie or super strange though I do agree that Phil's voice is music is most extrodinary.

I'd have to say the last Johnny Cash album

You can listen to him dying
and that trips me out

Isn't the answer obviously
Sonic Youth?
Am I missing something?

yes

I can't believe no one has mentioned Suicide's "Frankie Teardrop"!!

Easily the most unnerving, intense song I've ever heard in my life.

tomrainbow mentioned it earlier on dude. Anyway, I contributed to this thread about a month ago, but here we go again. I think the Tiger Lillies might belong here too. Those weirdos sure know how to tell a creepy story in song...

I feel so deprived. I haven't heard most of what everyone's talking about. I've heard Xiu Xiu though. I need to get listening!
I suppose the eeriest I've heard is Aereogramme's Dreams and Bridges.

Xiu Xiu is very very strange (but not in a good way).

Eels is better and pretty weird.

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Originally posted by timbo8:
Xiu Xiu is very very strange (but not in a good way).

Eels is better and pretty weird.

I think that Xiu Xiu is very strange in a very good way, and that Eels are also very good but not at all strange, eerie or extraordinary.

You may very well be correct, but everytime I see the eels live (at the same Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana, CA), I feel extraordinary.

P.S. - I'm seeing them in about two hours. But I understand what you mean. You enjoy the eels but they aren't really weird. Darn!!

scott walker, for sure. who knows anything that sounds even remotely like 'tilt' or 'the drift' (both awesome albums, i might add.) ?

Liars

which have a lot in common with Einstuerzende Neubauten (german 80s band featuring Blixa Bargeld of Bad Seeds fame).

btw, Scott Walker's latest has also quite a lot in common with those industrial germans (best Neubauten album imho : Halber Mensch, 1985).