Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

[ratbane]

Talking of Elbow - Friend of Ours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXDzqnJ-zw

[Lost_BMW]

ratbane said:

Talking of Elbow - Friend of Ours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXDzqnJ-zw

Absolutely! I had wondered about this one instead . . a real hair raise/ shivers track esp. given the real context.

[kiteless]

prelude4ws said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y7nJL1hpUU&fea...
Vaughan Willams - Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

One thousand times

[Crafty_]

Slagathore said:

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w

or Crosses ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZsIGQaLKI

Jamelia - Numb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1DQ80AFtI
Linkin Park cover. I hate everything shes ever done, apart from this.

[y282]

excellent thread, some brilliant stuff.

often is filum stuff, just to add a few more...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIsA61oDPRA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Zy8VPFP-E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgcoBKWTW14

[Burrito]

Not a winner, but worth a mention as there's just something about this song that catches me.

Damien Rice - Nine Crimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqOSCgc8xc

[Lost_BMW]

Burrito said:

Not a winner, but worth a mention as there's just something about this song that catches me.

Damien Rice - Nine Crimes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgqOSCgc8xc

Well it is haunting! He has a nack of making melancholy, troubling but pretty songs. I think it fits the thread very well fwiw.

[odyssey2200]

A couple of good ones , IMHO


Moby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBCkoDJkIOc

&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_2i7ziBcZ4

Edited by odyssey2200 on Tuesday 14th December 07:00

[ratbane]

Barclay James Harvest - Suicide. The classic Live Tapes version.

In memory of Stuart Woolstenholme.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhWw3czW1h0&fea...

[BeansOnToast]

ratbane said:

Talking of Elbow - Friend of Ours.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXDzqnJ-zw

Scattered Black and Whites is another by Elbow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U4VgvTCKU4

Yiruma - River flows in you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOqUFqF_ZwM

[Slagathore]

Crafty_ said:

Slagathore said:

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4_4abCWw-w

or Crosses ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UZsIGQaLKI

Jamelia - Numb http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi1DQ80AFtI
Linkin Park cover. I hate everything shes ever done, apart from this.

Good shout!

That whole album is amazing, all the songs could be in this thread.

Ray Lamontagne - Shelter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHmNEQYc3js&fea...

Cherry Ghost - People Help The People
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8bRXxEusTk

[anonymous-user]

Urge Overkill - Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon

[otolith]

I like these suggestions:

Burrito said:

Not a winner, but worth a mention as there's just something about this song that catches me.

Damien Rice - Nine Crimes

Soovy said:

The Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd

Mr Gearchange said:

Nearly. But it's certainly this one, I can't believe we have got to 5 pages without 'Bridge over Troubled Water'

E31Shrew said:

Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel.
Don't give up.

Gretchen said:

But I'm also keen on Leonard Cohen (Hallelujah)

Also worth a mention:

Tom Waits - On The Nickel.

Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me

Beautiful South - Bell Bottomed Tear

Cowboy Junkies - Misguided Angel, Mining For Gold


If we're including classical music, there's too much to choose from, but this springs to mind;

Purcell When I am laid in earth ("Dido's Lament")

[Stack]

Pyramid song Radiohead, gets me every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2VzLn6DMCE

Thom Yorke Analyse
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMymWzvfM7Q

[Crafty_]

Can't find a decent video of it but the acoustic version of "Love-Less" by Paul Weller from the Days Of Speed album is a great track.

As is this version of Wings Of Speed..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMoFzC6gEpQ

More Carleen Anderson, this time a live version of "Leopards In The Temple"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-WjM2gNfo4

Noel Gallagher, "Talk Tonight"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuX6km1pnag

Ocean Colour Scene, "Outside Of A Circle"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ4diFGDtcY
Apparently how the song was originally written before being re-worked for the Moseley Shoals album.

OCS again, "Charlie Brown Says"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODZ_eTpmGl8
Love the line "Five O clock shoes full of snow".

[MentalSarcasm]

Turns out I have quite a few in my favourites folder XD

Thomas Newman- Valley of the Shadow of Death:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmr9KwwyNXU

String version of Animal I Have Become:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoV5F_FwbBM

String version of Nothing Else Matters:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbTozgoj9OQ

The Promised Land by Nobuo Uematsu:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA6zTRqKuRM

O Death by Jen Titus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXpnI52cLEc

The Death of Jane Seymour from The Tudors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HuZ8EyYDDg

Madam de Pompadour from Doctor Who:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACz-gFib8zo&NR=...

And finally, Moby- My Weakness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lrq5oGHdrY

[wibble cb]

Sigur Ros - Samskeyti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3OJTZVKZx8

Eric Clapton - Edge of Darkness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eteUUZ8U4Bs

Pink Floyd- Shine on you Crazy Diamond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ

and of course...

Johnny Cash - Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

The Flaming Lips - Do you Realize?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zYOKFjpm9s

John Lennon - Jealous Guy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lLs2dC9NaE

Beatles - In my Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI0Q8ytD44Y

Edited by wibble cb on Wednesday 15th December 05:06

[Sprouts]

Billy Bragg, Tank Park Salute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUi7ZoGig6M

but I do think ratbane is in front still by a short head with his first post.

[Lost_BMW]

Haunting if not, quite, beautiful, but very moving:

'My God Betrays' by Cherry Ghost from 'Beyond This Burning Shoreline'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGwAjjLRwxY&fea...



And on a similar note, 'Agony' from 'Eels'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPx-d0zEz0


Haunting because of the lyrics (and the context that led to them), as someone says on the posts "depression set to music"!

[jonny142]

Mines the very underated and lovely Kristin Hersh (Throwing muses+50 foot wave ) ..feat Michael stipe ..called ."Your Ghost"

http://videos.sapo.pt/8WZzq2f9v1O7VwI7ClbR