Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

[Gretchen]

I just read back through to see if Brian Eno - An Ending, had been mentioned, it has. 

But I also was thinking slightly different pieces of music from men that are equally beautifully sung. Slightly haunting maybe, but not in a particularly chilling sense

Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah 

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

But I'm also keen on Leonard Cohen

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

So there's both. 

And more chaps with beautiful music and a touch of orchestra Arcade Fire - Wake Up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEKC5pyOKFU&fea...


And that John Murphy track. From that film, about those things...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6OtF7daIPM&fea...

[Brite spark]

zetec said:

E31Shrew said:

Evanescence...My Immortal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDZCWUUu28g

My winner

Original video,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5LJWG-sQys&fea...

Edited by zetec on Friday 10th December 00:02

my first thought when I saw this thread, followed by eric clapton tears in heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g2IlaDLVLo

as much for the story behind the song, as the song

[Google [bot]]

All About Eve - Phased

Can't find it though.

ETA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHsJZnP6GDc

Edited by Google [bot] on Friday 10th December 04:15

[Google [bot]]

Daisy Chainsaw - Hope your dreams come true

Dark though...

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

[E31Shrew]

Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel.

Dont give up.


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

[rhinochopig]

I'd like to retract my previous entry. I'd completely forgotten about this one. Make me cry every time I hear it.

Silent Night by Lisa Hannigan. It's just so beautifully sung.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7VtlhyhcZo

I'll be interested to hear what you think it's about as my wife and I have argued this one for years. She thinks it is about a relationship break up, I think it's about the last moments of a dying partner. Listening to lyrics it could be either.

[Vipers]

Just found this thread, havn't trawled through all pages, but have we had

"Ashokan Farewell", written by Jay Ungar in 1982, a modern classic

[Sway]

Not sure if it's been mentioned (no YouTube access at the mo), but I can't watch Requiem for a Dream without shivers down my spine whenever Winter Overture by the Kronos Quartet comes on.

No vocals, but a truly haunting score even without the context of the film.

[Joyrider1]

Archive - Again (live) - I have no idea why they aren't more well known in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoyZmnYY9b8&fea... (pt1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvAP12Gjgo&fea... (pt2)

Moby - JLTF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3HyxnWKhDU

Vast - She Visits Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYhTP-G1UoI

PJ Harvey - Silence (live on Jools Holland - Just for the bit from 2mins onwards singing 'silence' over and over)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfJmGpaL18k

Guillemots - If The World Ends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaHGp-Y4ilY

[h4muf]

Portishead - Roads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60

Requium for a dream - Clint mansell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSY4Yi2ypno

Thread closed.

[Sway]

h4muf said:

Portishead - Roads

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg1jyL3cr60

Requium for a dream - Clint mansell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSY4Yi2ypno

Thread closed.

Look up two posts, already closed the thread!

[giw12]

NAS said:

Tori Amos - Winter is a good one

But my favourite has to be this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

Johnny Cash with Hurt. Shivers, every time.

Johnny Cash...just..amazing...

[kiteless]

Joyrider1 said:

Archive - Again (live) - I have no idea why they aren't more well known in the UK
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoyZmnYY9b8&fea... (pt1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvAP12Gjgo&fea... (pt2)

'kin hell

Absolutely bloody marvellous stuff, that.

It seems a little churlish to post a link to Street Spirit by Radiohead with that in mind.

[theironduke]

Joy Division- Ceromony

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

the New Order version is amazing too.

[mmertens]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-41KR8VjsOg&fea...

Incredibly simple but very (very) touching. There are many versions on Youtube if you don't like the clip.

[EvoSlayer]

Anyone put this up yet, worth a mention even if just for sax solo... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJSqcvAQ8l8 Hazel O'Connor, "Will You"

[pugwash4x4]

Bird York- in the deep

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

[ratbane]

Regina Spektor - Blue Lips

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5X-jd9Y8mo

[Crafty_]

Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOuKdeZ2x-M

I'm driving to work, early in the year, its just before sunrise so still relatively quiet on the motorway. Theres a certain amount of stress at work, not fun times. This comes on the radio as the tender light pushes away the dark, the music pushes the stress from my mind for a few minutes. Contentment. Bliss. And then its over, back to the real world...

Ocean Colour Scene - Beautiful Losers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toVfk2LQMlM
As the sleeve note says "Mind your own business"

Carleen Anderson - Who Was That Masked Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnQxSP3Qfe0
Several tracks could of come from the blessed burden album, but picked this one.. definitely worth checking out that album though.

[charliedaker]

E31Shrew said:

Added title!

Evanescence...My Immortal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDZCWUUu28g

Edited by E31Shrew on Tuesday 7th December 19:39

Definitely!