Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

Most hauntingly beautiful song ever?

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charliedaker

278 posts

173 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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EvoSlayer said:
You're all wrong... Roberta Flack, The First Time...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JWAmF-Z4r4
Lovely track but i might get shot for saying this but i thought Matt Cardles rendition of it on X factor was breathtaking, particularly seeing the emotion it carried for him:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-5M93tovEs&fea...

charliedaker

278 posts

173 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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So many good songs put forward id clog up the forum quoting them all but some more here:

Late Night Alumni- Beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBgl9B2G_8

Pie Jesu- Sissel (there is a better rendition but not on youtube)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQn7IhZWFC8

Vangelis- Ask The Mountains

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pejkQMNxdg

Adele- Make You Feel My Love (and yes i know she didint originally sing it but this version is stunning)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fnn9JlqqTE4&fea...



Joyrider1

2,900 posts

170 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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kiteless said:
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 yikes

Absolutely bloody marvellous stuff, that.

It seems a little churlish to post a link to Street Spirit by Radiohead with that in mind.
If you like that, also try this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOXHRy1Gb70
- Archive are such a diverse band, from ambient trip hop through to rock, with some great stuff inbetween - All their albums are on Spotify (which is how I got into them...)

HAZZAGTR

186 posts

172 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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it has to be this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKd06s1LNik
Radiohead- Fake Plastic Trees.

okgo

37,859 posts

197 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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This one by Simon and Garfunkle is pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q

Du1point8

21,604 posts

191 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Sinead O'Conner fire on babylon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ECz90iL9rA

cant find the original decent copy anywhere

722Adam

2,152 posts

212 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Totally agree with some of the replies so far.

A lot of people thought this guy disappeared or that he was a one-hit wonder with "9PM (Til I Come)", but he's still around, producing stuff like this as well as trance:

ATB - Still Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJv52cFhv9M

I've got loads of stuff like this in my iTunes library but that has to be my favourite. Maybe not to everyone's liking but the song means a lot to me because of a time/place etc. when I heard it.

roadmap

278 posts

177 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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In the sixties every dance hall played this song by the Crying Shames at the end of the night

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


Also re recorded recently by Duffy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7gB2uq9io&fea...

Edited by roadmap on Saturday 11th December 14:44

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

205 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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okgo said:
This one by Simon and Garfunkel is pretty good

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hUy9ePyo6Q
Nearly. But it's certainly this one, I can't believe we have got to 5 pages without 'Bridge over Troubled Water'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a46WJ1viA


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motco

15,919 posts

245 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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I went to a performance by Finbar Furey's son Martin - aka 'Bohinta' when accompanied by his sister Aine - and because Aine was indisposed he had called on a young woman singer from Yorkshire whose name was Sally to fill in. She sang 'She Moved Through the Fair' solo and unaccompanied; the audience was transfixed by the timbre of her voice and haunting quality of her delivery. Sadly all I know of her is that she was called Sally and that she was occasionally on a Yorkshire radio station. This was sometime around 2005-6.

Slagathore

5,808 posts

191 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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zetec said:
E31Shrew said:
My winner yes

Original video,

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

Edited by zetec on Friday 10th December 00:02
This acoustic version of that song is amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Y9ccRg7gw

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

There are loads of others, just can't remember them all. I'm sure I'll be back once I've thought of some more.

Not really a song that I'd associate with a threa like this, but just listened to it again, I reckon it belongs here.

Eliza Doolitle - Creep (Radiohead cover)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8celeblsuY&fea...

Edited by Slagathore on Saturday 11th December 16:00

Hoover.

5,988 posts

241 months

EvoSlayer

1,952 posts

184 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Or this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkgm1yGgbM&fea...

The Moody Blues, "Nights in White Satin"

GTO Scott

3,816 posts

223 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Sarkmeister

1,664 posts

217 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Bon Iver - Blindsided

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3lJIxyZ60

(or anything from that album)

Sarkmeister

1,664 posts

217 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Just thought of another...

Bic Runga - When I see you smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZJcOWdcCu0

ratbane

1,371 posts

215 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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A bit of Roy Harper for you??? Another Day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqgWW2jEOIo&fea...

dozen

131 posts

205 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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Soovy

35,829 posts

270 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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The Great Gig in the Sky
Pink Floyd

"Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it. You've got to go sometime".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mfv7AVm7zPw&fea...

I have already left instructions that this is to be played at my funeral, as they burn my useless worn out carcass.



-thread ends on the basis of no competition, and me being right-


Edited by Soovy on Saturday 11th December 20:22

adycav

7,615 posts

216 months

Saturday 11th December 2010
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A lot of Sufjan Stevens' songs would fit the criteria of this thread, in my humble opinion.

E.g.

John Wayne Gacy Jr

or

Casimir Pulaski Day