Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

[RedLeicester]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmafNVimRbI

[jesusbuiltmycar]

Funkateer said:

Just discovered this...
'Ice Age' by How to Destroy Angels

Was listening to Welcome Oblivion this morning....

[tr7ster]

Currently loving this from Grace Potter on Live From Daryl's House:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypwcitHSEQo

[Langweilig]

Sarah Brightman - Angel. Simply awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtkUM1wVVi8

[jmb88]

Shadows Fall - Lead Me Home.

Fantastic instrumental piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5zUVkywhfo

[DubZeus]

Jimmy eat world - hear you me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQo9OQlIB8

[shakotan]

A young lady who's gigs I follow in London has done a gorgeous cover of Crowded House's Private Universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed...

[Benjurs]

Kylie Minougue's cover of Wonderful Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEDpcaskvc

Beautiful

[Potatoes]

Clint Mansell - Memories (Someone We'll Never Know)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIIA3NKqebg

One of my favourite pieces by Clint Mansell, you may recognise it from the film Moon.

[marktul]

DubZeus said:

Jimmy eat world - hear you me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQo9OQlIB8

Good call. Fantastic song. The point where his voice cracks towards the end gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

[jaymzfc]

For me it's these.
Ozzy osbourne : goodbye to romance
Eva cassidy: fields of gold
Metallica: nothing else matters
Watership down : bright eyes( still cry now when i hear it) big girls blouse i am.

I think it's more to do if you have any memories attached to them as well.

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Benjurs said:

Kylie Minougue's cover of Wonderful Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEDpcaskvc

Beautiful

First time I've heard that, and I've since enjoyed the original too. Good post - thanks for the recommendation.

[CraigyMc]

I simply cannot believe that nobody on here has posted Sarah McLachlan's Piano version of "Possession" (and boy did it take a while looking..)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z-cg5JOrOs

[epom]

Gonna throw this in here, as there is something really haunting about this version...if you ever saw someone feel a song as they play it.

Rory Gallagher 'Million Miles Away'

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgrjw_rory-gallag...

[Benjurs]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

Benjurs said:

Kylie Minougue's cover of Wonderful Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEEDpcaskvc

Beautiful

First time I've heard that, and I've since enjoyed the original too. Good post - thanks for the recommendation.

Not a problem buddy, I also hadn't heard the original but loved it also...

[dinkel]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-X53nL1JaA

Wayne Shorter performing The Peacocks.

[toxgobbler]

Holy thread resurrection batman.

Thought I would add a couple more, to aid your depression.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtaMTIQuwA8 Rocket Man (Elton John Cover) Maynard James Keenan & The Flaming Lips Steven Drozd - completely re-imagining the song, now seems a lot darker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VwFKK9XhrQ - Deftones - Hole In The Earth (Renholder Remix) 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHZaJAfFsI M83 "Oblivion" Featuring Susanne Sundfør (Live). just some of the bridges are awesome and her voice.

And to finish for today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHdRy-iivcg The Noose - A Perfect Circle

[MartinM]

So many good suggestions but I've been playing this one a lot lately. got the album on order too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av6sVWXeCWQ - Anathema Untouchable Pt.1

[AnonSpoilSport]

'Elizabeth Lying On The Bathroom Floor'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS2ipWNm9Fw

telling the story of Mark Everett's (Eeels) sister's suicide - starting here from her point of view as she's laying there dying, then followed as the theme for the album (Electro-Shock Blues)

including 'Going to Your Funeral' Parts 1 and 2

How he wrote these things, so personal yet directly I don't know let alone perform them subsequently. He had a very, very rough time of things with his autistic, astrophysicist father who barely spoke to him through his life, his very troubled sister, his inadequate (and then ill) mother and girlfriends - often rolled together into the same year or so.

Definitely haunting...

[br d]

Troy - Sinead O'Connor.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnjntu-JzsY
(Much more evocative without a video)

The Lion And the Cobra is a superb album that got largely forgotten because of all her silly antics.