Macabre & Mysterious Music: Free, old-timey songs from the early 1900s. (Think steampunk.)

Posted: August 21, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: *Macabre Media, Macabre & Mysterious Music, Music & Art | Tags: , , , , , , , | 11 Comments

When I was searching for weird and interesting music with a creepy feel, I came across a new feature at The Library of Congress: The National Jukebox.

Edison Victrola

Description from the Library of Congress:

About the National Jukebox

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

How to play with the National Jukebox:

Once at the site, you can browse  and search through a wide variety of music from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. You can make a playlist as you go, then email the link to yourself. There’s no registration required.

I spent a lovely hour or two there, sampling music and recordings. Eventually I found seven recordings that suit my spooky tastes particularly well.

To hear the playlist I created:

  1. Click: http://media.loc.gov/playlist/view/E39EBA6F1697009EE0438C93F116009E
  2. On the right of the page that opens, locate & click the text link that says ‘View Playlist’ next to the blue button.
  3. A new window will open with a small player.
  4. Click the play button and enjoy.

To hear any individual song from my playlist, click on the link below and press play.

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