Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

[Walter Sobchak]

CAPP0 said:

There will be lots and lots of songs which fit the thread time, but this surely has to be amongst them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDANM9xg8II

Decks Dark, Radiohead.

They're quite hot on copyright so a lot of their Youtube stuff has the sound cut. This is a live version but possibly all the more "hauntingly beautiful" for it.

Decks Dark is a great pick, I prefer the studio version though, right up until the guitar outro.

Keeping with the same theme, I have to add the Live from the basement version of Videotape:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=njCps4jGaks

[cherryowen]

Legend83 said:

Karl Jenkins - Benedictus (The Armed Man)

Missus and I heard this on the radio on Armistice Day and bizarrely there were onions in the car everywhere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibwxzxER_pY&t=...

That's a great call! I've not heard that for years, and - yes - the room I'm in always gets a little dusty when it's played.

May I offer a couple of others for consideration:-

Slow Burn by Kacey Musgraves. A wonderful, soft voice, and using chords that shouldn't work (Asus2 / E minor / G / Dadd9/A) but do.

She Moved Through The Fair by All About Eve sung by the very, very lovely Julie-Ann Regan

A bit outside the box, the next one, but is - for me - the definition of "haunting"

Caritas Abundat in Omnia by Elfenthal

[TheChampers]

SAB888 said:

The Pretty Reckless - House On A Hill (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuSVxuGW64

This is also a little gem from The Pretty Reckless (my word they are a good band).

https://youtu.be/NIHqjkY4tEc

Bedroom Window.

[NoNeed]

TheChampers said:

SAB888 said:

The Pretty Reckless - House On A Hill (Official Music Video)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuSVxuGW64

This is also a little gem from The Pretty Reckless (my word they are a good band).

https://youtu.be/NIHqjkY4tEc

Bedroom Window.

fun fact, the lead singers was the littke girl in the grinch.

[TR4man]

I haven't read the previous suggestions, but just a few days after Dean Ford's death, I'd recommend this 2014 version of his band's 1970 hit Reflections.

I love this, not least for the film which juxtaposes the original film with Dean in 2014.

https://youtu.be/Dn9bAvWS4RU

Edited by TR4man on Monday 7th January 09:04

[TameRacingDriver]

Probably been mentioned dozens of times but A-Ha - Hunting High and Low and Frankie goes to Hollywood - Power of Love both give me chills. Dunno if I got the point of the thread...

[sly fox]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYw9UrsFJa4

Mercy Street, by Peter Gabriel + Kate Bush.

Adapted from a poem i believe.

[ChevronB19]

Weyes Blood, ‘do you need my love’ is pretty amazing, albeit a bit desperate in its content.

Haven’t read the rest of the thread, sorry, too long, but all of the Pink Floyd stuff about Syd Barrett is pretty heartfelt and lovely, wish you were here and shine on etc.

[Leggy]

Nick Cave, The Wheeping Song
Sinead O’Connor, Troy
Joy Division, Atmosphere
John Foxx, The Garden

[Frank7]

This won’t win any prizes on here, but “Tu es Partout”, (You are everywhere), the Edith Piaf song from Saving Private Ryan leaves me in a heap.
For me, it’s a song associated with, strangely enough, a Polish girl that I was with for eight years.
14 months of that time we lived in Méricourt, near Lens, in Northern France.
The melody is haunting, but if you understand French, the lyrics will blow your doors clean off.
My wife, who I love more than life itself, knows all about this, so Private Ryan is not allowed on our TV, but when I’ve had a few Armagnacs, I click on YouTube for “Tu es Partout.”

[anonymous-user]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYdLO1X02r0

[Cerdo Espada]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5RVM-aUtJM&fr...
I prefer this version, Dave. It touched me in a special way. Enjoy.

[fttm]

Rude said:

I've spent ages going through this thread. I love it when metal bands slow down and do introspective. Here are my favourites (off the top of my head - there are lots more):


Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
https://youtu.be/4V_eoR6r1Tw

Black Sabbath - Solitude
https://youtu.be/C1JQ1NseBl8

Disturbed - the sound of silence
https://youtu.be/u9Dg-g7t2l

Iron Maiden - The legacy
https://youtu.be/2Hj8cnV5UbQ

Deep Purple - Gypsy
https://youtu.be/Pjy9MUjrjdI

Iced Earth - a question of heaven
https://youtu.be/3T-q5B3x4lk

Edited by Rude on Monday 30th May 22:07

Disturbed - the sound of silence . This was a soundtrack to a short film about the devastating wildfires in Montana in 2017 , haunting beyond belief .

[227bhp]

Plate spinner said:

Stevie Nicks singing Silver Springs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s

I've never heard that one before, but Stevie Nicks has a particularly haunting voice, especially on that topic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9Oubxw1gA

[227bhp]

Black: Wonderful life.

[anonymous-user]

Cerdo Espada said:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5RVM-aUtJM&fr...
I prefer this version, Dave. It touched me in a special way. Enjoy.

I am simply amazed at this version.
Its made my day and popped a spring in my step. It's made me think of spring of new life little lambs out in the fields daffodils springing up. Most of all its made me think of the joy of walking through a field with bluebells stretched before me and the noise of birdsong in the distance
Thank you so very much

[Tired]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvmaK5n1zg0

Something Corporate - Konstantine.

Not up there with most hauntingly beautiful ever, but after 40 pages I guess we're accepting lesser examples?

From a 4 chord punk rock band, this was a bit of a departure.

[Frank7]

227bhp said:

Plate spinner said:

Stevie Nicks singing Silver Springs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDwi-8n054s

I've never heard that one before, but Stevie Nicks has a particularly haunting voice, especially on that topic!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr9Oubxw1gA

For me, Stevie Nicks could sing the L.A. phone directory and I’d buy a ticket.

[Composer62]

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but I have always found Phil Campbell's "Hope Faith and You" very very poignant, especially when he sings about his father.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27u7kvoMKrg

He used to be in a band called "White Buffalo" (I think the name was subsequently stolen by a USA band) They had an album called "Last of the V8 Interceptors" so maybe he's on PistonHeads too

[toon10]

New to the thread so not sure if this has cropped up but one of my favourite bands released this gem. The whole album is a departure from their earlier outings but no worse for it.

https://youtu.be/XgkhpDBYDpo

Apologies, the video takes a bit of time to get going!

Enjoy the Boxer Rebellion...