Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

[SR]

Just heard the newest Placebo track Beautiful James, musically sends a shiver down my spine, hauntingly beautiful.

[Pupp]

Just had to drop Strange Fruit by Beth and Joe in here in case not already featured:

https://youtu.be/3Qf_aytrlpQ

[lemansky]

FiF said:

Sorry haven't been through the thread after getting annoyed at dead links with no title or artist in the post.

Sorry, I’m guilty of this. No one would listen to what I post if I told them upfront who/what it was

How about this, then?
The unswerving brilliance of the late Mark Hollis.

Renée.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cog7vYXTHIo

[sean ie3]

I've just heard a Freddie Hubbard instrumental of Fragile by Sting, pretty good.

Edited by sean ie3 on Monday 3rd January 20:46

[Ikemi]

I’ll submit a few choices from computer games …

Minecraft | C418 - Sweden:



Fez | Disasterpiece - Legend:

[gareth_r]

Lyrics? Music? Arrangement? Vocals? Performance? So many songs to choose from.

A few that haunt me.

Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Heart Like A Wheel - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N8cQFdFezXc

Lucinda Williams with Mary Chapin Carpenter - Sweet Old World - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FjwkDOMTKyM

Mary Black, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Karen Matheson Rod Paterson, Rufus Wainwright + Molly Mason, Jay Ungar - Hard Times - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wE8L843iUy4

[WindyCommon]

Ikemi said:

I’ll submit a few choices from computer games …

Minecraft | C418 - Sweden:



Fez | Disasterpiece - Legend:

V good. Thank you for opening another google rabbit-hole for me….

[Patch1875]

Gallipoli- Beirut

[Blackpuddin]

Anybody mentioned Hurt by Johnny Cash yet? I can't watch it without blubbing.

[tardelli]

Blackpuddin said:

Anybody mentioned Hurt by Johnny Cash yet? I can't watch it without blubbing.

It has the same effect on me, Marc Riley played it last week and hit me for six!
Not heard it for a while
It got a bit dusty

[Bright Halo]

I’m New to this thread so may have been mentioned before

Hallelujah Jeff Buckley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

and

Perfect Day Miriam Stockley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeVV2KD1GqU

[Harji]

It's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2IEXxEVvM

[LukeBrown66]

One of about 10 songs by Sigur Ros, simply the most magical sounds to ever exists in my opinion.

[dandarez]

Another I'd forgotten. Released in 1989 if I recall correctly as I was fast approaching the big four zero.

Took a while to take off (in the charts I mean! ).

Age-restricted? Don't worry, it's only Chris Isaac and 'Wicked Game'.



Hauntingly beautiful?
Yeah, why not? You won't get songs or rather vids like this anymore.

edit.
I just read the comments under the video and the first one (left 6 mths ago) by someone in my age bracket says:
'It’s haunting, it’s beautiful, it’s calming…'

Listening again I agree.

Edited by dandarez on Wednesday 2nd February 21:36

[Spanglepants]

Haunting? Beautiful ? Definitely

Flamingos - I only have eyes for you

https://youtu.be/FvzNeh4Mq1o

Edited by Spanglepants on Friday 4th February 23:36

[Joyrider1]

Inspired by watching the latest documentary on the Blitz club on Sky Arts, a piano version of Fade to Grey that is just brilliant - always loved this song, a feeling of melancholy about it, typical of early 80s synth music (in my mind at least). https://youtu.be/vELu-fzLflQ

Also check this one out, love this stuff…

https://youtu.be/ol8yLx58jFw

Great documentary, worth watching….

Edited by Joyrider1 on Sunday 18th September 07:10

[CAPP0]

Boringvolvodriver said:

Magikarp said:

I’ve been mildly obsessed with Sara Bareilles’ version(s) of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. It is utterly breathtaking, and oddly, the only other song that is on my “Perfect” playlist is also a cover; The Carpenters’ End Of The World.

Bareilles has remarkable control of timbre and dynamics, but it is all so natural and without artifice which is why she sits comfortably next to Karen Carpenter.

That is very good indeed - will have to listen to some of her other stuff as well.

She has a lovely voice but (at least on the version I listened to - live in Atlanta?) the off-key piano really grated, I had to stop it before the end of the first verse.

[CAPP0]

Harji said:

It's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY2IEXxEVvM

Wow. Thanks.

[Horsey McHorseface]

The Sea - Morcheeba

[dandarez]

I was going through some old Uriah Heep albums this evening (clear out) and had forgotten about this song, bit gut wrenching for any guys who has lost the love of their life, and in the vein of they 'don't make songs like this anymore.'

I thought I'd watch it live on good ol' youtube. Then came across this video version with lyrics.

Blimey, I have no idea who Tatiana Blue is, but f me she knows how to do this stuff! Very good interpretation!



Warning! Don't watch if you have just split up!