Post a beautiful, haunting, melancholy song

[Arugula Latte]

if you'd like. If not, hey, no sweat. :)

Here is Mazzy Star's "Into Dust." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHfVNH1FaT4

[skygazer]

1. You do realize someone is going to post a RickRoll, right?

Just sayin'....

[Symarip]

2. Well not now

Thanks for killing my fun.

[Arugula Latte]

3. Well, "Never Gonna Give You Up" is beautiful, haunting, and melancholy, isn't it?

;)

[Symarip]

5. I was thinking of something else that is beautiful and haunting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqNfY8DMXOg

I assure you, this is not a RickRoll.

[Arugula Latte]

10. OMG, that is pure gold.

Makes me proud to be a white person. :cry:

[RandomThoughts]

71. Yea, great song,

It is a bit staccato, the way they sing it, but great song!

Here is another one I like when thinking on things.

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

This song too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CBNE25rtnE

Another one!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-zJHgaoVa4

Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Symarip]

84. .

It never gets old.

[backtoblue]

115. ok, so this is probably a stupid question

but what is a RickRoll? :dunce:

[Dr. Strange]

156. Top Secret

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT--CsBh5TM

[Dinger]

125. I'm Gonna Embarrass Myself Here, But What The Hell?

What is a "RickRoll?

[Ptah]

4. Mavis Staples - Waiting for my Child to Come Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XioCj_lwro

[Arugula Latte]

9. Ooh, that's a heartbreaker.

I know it really resonated with you.

[lost-in-nj]

31. oh ptah....

:hug:


lost

[Ptah]

32. Thanks, lost

He's home now, and doing ok.

:hug:

[MadMaddie]

86. The Staples music is amazing....

[Ptah]

90. I first heard her on my birthday last December.

My good friend Jessica played that for me.


Mavis Staples is a world class performer.


:thumbsup:

[BeachBaby]

6. The theme song from "Twin Peaks".

[Dr. Strange]

26. Good call!

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

[HopeHoops]

7. I've got one of the best right here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cnMqd7t76E

Early Heart - Sylvan Song / Dream of the Archer

The graphics are rather nice too.

[DFW]

21. OMG--"Sylvan Song" ???

I did a piece with that title on the first album I ever recorded!!!

I recorded it in 1974, finished it in early 1975. When did this come out?

[HopeHoops]

29. "Little Queen" was released in May of 1977

"Sylvan Song" is the guitar solo introduction to "Dream of the Archer". By the way, the first song on the album is "Barracuda" and it is about sleazy music executives. After they did the cover shots for Dreamboat Annie, they were at a party and were shocked by all of the innuendos (lesbian sisters type of thing). They were propositioned repeatedly. The line "you'd have me down, down, down, on my knees, now wouldn't ya - barracuda" isn't random crap. I wondered for years why a song like that would have made it into an otherwise ambient album, but I found out why about a year ago.

[DFW]

42. Very interesting

My album was recorded in December 1974, and my "Sylvan Song" was also a guitar solo,
double tracked on a 12 string guitar. Probably coincidence, but friends of mine who
had copies of my album in 1975 soon moved to Seattle. You never know, I guess.

[HopeHoops]

59. I have a 74 Giannini craviola - they didn't make many of those.

Actually, they only made them for two years and most of them have broken because people put steel strings on a nylon guitar with wood that can barely handle nylon tension. My dad bought this one (and I have a guitar made by the same company but called "Combo" that is also nylon) and he gave it to me a few years back. There is nothing out there that can match the sound when it is played with a felt pick.

It has a very similar sound to the bowl-belly guitar-like thing Anne is playing in that clip. I tried a few 12 strings, but I sucked at it so I decided it wasn't honorable for me to inflict myself upon the instruments.

Do you have a recording of your "Sylvan Song" in a format fit for electronic dissemination?

You have to love the early Heart stuff. Those women rule.

Tom

[DFW]

102. I'd have to record it from vinyl to CD.

I'm not equipped for that, but should be able to find a local studio here in Germany that can.
I have no idea what happened to the studio where I recorded the version that went onto the record.
It was in Landsdowne, PA, outside of Philadelphia.

I haven't heard the Heart stuff, but one thing I heard that freaked me right out was when I was
in Massachusetts in 1976, and heard a riff on the radio that matched almost exactly note for note
the main melody of my Sylvan Song. I had first recorded my piece in 1970 at age 18 as background
music to a slide-tape of forest scenes (hence the name), and only got it onto vinyl 4 and a half
years later. Suddenly here was this top 40 hit song with my melody NOTE FOR NOTE. I almost ran
my car off the road when I heard it on the radio. My piece was first heard in the Boston area,
and guess who had a hit with the same melody? A band named "Boston." I never met them, but I
always wondered if any of them had heard me. This could also have been pure coincidence, of course.
In those days, I recorded exclusively on old Guild 12 string guitars. An old mid-sixties 212-XL,
for the mellow stuff, and a new (at the time!) 412 maple body that was miked for the brassy
stuff. The few 6 string parts I did on a guitar made by a friend of Emil DiLucia, who had a
guitar/violin business in downtown Philly (I was in college there). His friend's name was
Antonio LoPrinzi, and he made a 6 string guitar that was just perfect for lead melodies. I
still have it, although from what I understand, LoPrinzi sold his name to a larger company,
and he didn't personally make the guitars with his name much after I bought mine. A few years
after that, I had the privilege of meeting Božo Podunavac, and after you have heard one of HIS
12-string guitars, it's difficult to look back.

One thing I do remember was an early Heart song, "Magic Man." It nearly stopped me in my tracks,
it was that good. Those sisters did indeed rule!

[southpaw]

8. Snow Patrol 'Run'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAQOWViUm0I

[Arugula Latte]

27. That's a good one. At first I was thinking it'd be this "Run"

the one by Collective Soul, also a beautiful song:
http://new.music.yahoo.com/videos/Collective+Soul/Run--2140437

[bif]

11. Latika's Theme

From "Slumdog Millionaire"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfjj8BOebMM

Also "Dreams on Fire"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzTUQto3_0c

[Arugula Latte]

12. "Mercy Street" -- Peter Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gu-OQcZXU8&feature=related

[Lyric]

13. Two of them here: NIN and Fleetwood Mac

NIN - Something I Can Never Have: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy5gXC2AgbY

Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs (the version on 1997's "The Dance" album)

[RetroLounge]

91. Have you seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEW8riKU_tE&feature=related

RL

[Lyric]

109. Indeed. It's a punch in the gut to watch him sing it.

I always used to say, if I ever decide to take my own life, this would be what I'd play while doing it. Thankfully I am not quite so depressed as I used to be.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

129. Been there...

:hug:

RL

[Richardo]

14. I can't link to youtube, but "American Tune" by Paul Simon.

[ghostsofgiants]

15. M83's "Skin of the Night"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Pg-2LP76g

[Arugula Latte]

16. "Between the Bars" -- Elliott Smith

Missing you, Elliott. :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37k_Ri1XxEc

[ceile]

17. How about anything by Leonard Cohen?

Hallelujah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzWeN-bVDUc
Dance Me to the End of Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9xcDs9jRk&feature=related
Everybody Knows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh9AC0jCGjY&feature=related

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

127. Agreed, and adding one

The Stranger (also part of the soundtrack of "McCabe and Mrs. Miller")
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLq7Aqd_H7g

[DFW]

18. I'll get bashed for this from here to Sunday, but

Stephen Bishop's "On And On" is still one I could listen to again and again.

Bruce Hornsby's "Mandilin Rain" is another, as is Bonnie Raitt's "One Part Be My Lover (One Part Go Away)"

[Arugula Latte]

19. "Fake Plastic Trees" -- Radiohead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeowFbvpu0U

[EastTennesseeDem]

24. That was for a long time my favorite song

And still remains up there.
:thumbsup:

[av8rdave]

116. One of my favorite Radiohead songs!

Thanks for posting.

[raccoon]

20. This song defines haunting! (but it's not melancholy).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8fNDfdjXd8

[DFW]

23. Whew!! your title scared me for a moment

I though you were post "Ghostbusters"

[elana i am]

22. ok

i'm not telling you who it is because i know most of you will automatically turn your nose up at it and not even click if you knew...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-gCQUq6M4U

[EastTennesseeDem]

25. Band of Horses - The Funeral

Much better than the official video, which trims 1:10 off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao8FIszjKZg

[Taverner]

28. Lost Cause by Beck

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

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

30. "Northern Sky" by Nick Drake

"The Banks of the Nile" by Sandy Denny and Fotheringay
"Mother Russia" by Renaissance

[nomorenomore08]

141. "Northern Sky"! YEAH!

Such beautiful music, but then I listen to it and I'm like "Goddamn, no wonder the guy killed himself!" :(

[Amerigo Vespucci]

33. The Pink Floyd-ish song "Time" by The Alan Parsons Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvwrSdMY7dQ

:toast:

[MissMillie]

34. believe it or not--Allison Krauss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2pIC2dP78

[GreenPartyVoter]

96. I just posted her singing "Molly Ban". :^D

[Dr. Strange]

35. Cloud in the Sky

Cloud in the Sky

[Arugula Latte]

36. "Helpless" -- Neil Young

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmeeXTkU3Cc

[Skittles]

81. ooh

:cry:

[Patiod]

120. Lovely

Neil Young really does haunting

Harvest Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3zALb-DB3s

After the Gold Rush
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLbSSWZcVVY

[Deep13]

37. Cemetery Gates, Pantera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyczwqRD2NI

[Arugula Latte]

38. And here is "Cemetery Gates" by the Smiths

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbBdWNqxkR0

The tune is kinda upbeat and the lyrics could only have been written by Moz:

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
So I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
While Wilde is on mine

So we go inside and we gravely read the stones
All those people all those lives
Where are they now?
With the loves and hates
And passions just like mine
They were born
And then they lived and then they died
Seems so unfair
And I want to cry

You say: "ere thrice the sun done salutation to the dawn"
And you claim these words as your own
But I've read well, and I've heard them said
A hundred times, maybe less, maybe more

If you must write prose and poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarize or take "on loans"
There's always someone, somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall
Who'll trip you up and laugh
When you fall

You say: "ere long done do does did"
Words which could only be your own
And then you then produce the text
From whence was ripped some dizzy whore, 1804

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
Oh Keats and Yeats are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I meet you at the cemetery gates
Keats and Yeats are on your side
But you lose because Wilde is on mine

[Rhythm]

85. That is perhaps my second favorite Smiths song... The first fits into this category nicely

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

There is a Light That Never Goes Out

Take me home tonight
where there's music and there's people
who are young and alive
driving in your car
I never never want to go home
because I haven't got one anymore

Take me home tonight
because I want to see people
and I want to see life
driving in your car
oh please don't drop me home
because it's not my home, it's their home
and I'm welcome no more

And if a double-decker bus
crashes in to us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

Take me home tonight
take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
and in the darkened underpass
I thought Oh God, my chance has come at last
but then a strange fear gripped me
and I just couldn't ask

Take me home tonight
oh take me anywhere, I don't care
I don't care, I don't care
driving in your car
I never never want to go home
because I haven't got one
no, I haven't got one

And if a double-decker bus
crashes in to us
to die by your side
is such a heavenly way to die
and if a ten ton truck
kills the both of us
to die by your side
well the pleasure, the privilege is mine

There is a light that never goes out

[unpossibles]

39. how about two? "Little Person" and "We're In Love"

"Little Person"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IA_ubhYgjAc

"We're In Love"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRJ3StM7Tc

[bif]

40. "Someone New" by Scala

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2HFUi-6IS8

[Red State Rebel]

41. This Woman's Work by Kate Bush

I don't have the YouTube link but it's magnificent!

[Arugula Latte]

58. Here ya go:

I like Kate Bush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw1fqgg42vo

[Doc_Technical]

43. Steve Miller- Journey from Eden.

Fleetwood Mac- Dust.
Steeleye Span- Rogues in a nation.

http://www.marksverylarge.com/recordings/lemmings.html

[mtowngman]

44. October Project-Ariel

Check this out:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UXJCLDXjTY
Also, this kid's acoustic guitar cover of Jackson Browne's "Sky Blue and Black": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sebGopuojlc

[backtoblue]

45. Another Lonely Day - Ben Harper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_I3TIMohw0

[Jean Louise Finch]

72. I love this song

But it definitely makes me ache.

For me, the most melancholy song I have ever heard is Nightswimming, by REM.

[Jean Louise Finch]

73. Actually

Thinking about it, another Ben Harper song you could have posted is "Walk Away". It's my favorite of his, but it is SO sad.

[backtoblue]

111. That's a good one, too

Burn One Down is a good one that could be classified as a "downer" too :hippie:

[Odin2005]

46. "I'm Alive" by Disturbed

[backtoblue]

112. Good song (and band)

Down with the Sickness is my ringtone.

"Happy" by Mudvayne is my song of choice when the going is really, really tough.

[fizzgig]

47. the dark is rising - mercury rev

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A102xE-Wnfk

it always makes me tear up

[zippy890]

48. a few from Fleet Foxes. nice vocals

Tiger Mountain Peasant Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfBqoGVFXc&feature=related


White winter Hymnal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrQRS40OKNE

[retread]

49. "Gloomy Sunday" Billie Holiday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48cTUnUtzx4

[Overseas]

136. That's the one I thought of too. //nt

[hellbound-liberal]

50. Dante's Prayer-Loreena McKennitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTLX7h54jIg

When the dark wood fell before me
And all the paths were overgrown
When the priests of pride say there is no other way
I tilled the sorrows of stone

I did not believe because I could not see
Though you came to me in the night
When the dawn seemed forever lost
You showed me your love in the light of the stars

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Then the mountain rose before me
By the deep well of desire
From the fountain of forgiveness
Beyond the ice and the fire

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me

Though we share this humble path, alone
How fragile is the heart
Oh give these clay feet wings to fly
To touch the face of the stars

Breathe life into this feeble heart
Lift this mortal veil of fear
Take these crumbled hopes, etched with tears
We'll rise above these earthly cares

Cast your eyes on the ocean
Cast your soul to the sea
When the dark night seems endless
Please remember me
Please remember me

[Odin2005]

52. OMG, that brought me to tears!

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

51. "Fields of Gold" -- Eva Cassidy

She died much too young.

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

[Odin2005]

54. Another beautiful song!

I sang that in high school choir and has a special place in my heart.

[hellbound-liberal]

55. That song belongs to Eva Cassidy now!

I think Sting even agrees!

[PassingFair]

138. I'm glad YOU posted it. Frickin worst fricken song EVER.

Makes me cry EVERY TIME.

I'm glad you posted it so
I didn't have to look it up
and chance having to hear it!

I'm having it played at my
memorial service, just so
everyone will HAVE to cry.

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

157. Ha ha ... Good plan!

:hi:

[KansDem]

53. Heinrich Isaac's "Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen"

YouTube

[kimmerspixelated]

56. Hejira

-Joni Mitchell

[Enrique]

165. oh yeah

and Song for Sharon too.

[abq e streeter]

57. Quirky, but gets to me every time : Jonathan Richman's That Summer Feeling

(Mr.low-tech here hasn't figured out how to post a you tube link, but that song is there for those who want to hear it)

[Missy Vixen]

60. Aqualung's "Brighter than Sunshine"

I love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q536JTSe40M

[Genevieve]

61. The one Susan Boyle sang.

[rug]

62. Our Town by Iris Dement

and company.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FikZwgj89HI

[BurtWorm]

63. Phaedra

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W-RrFIHVx4&feature=related

[BurtWorm]

64. Flowers Duet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpT7pK9A61A

[Lydia Leftcoast]

87. That's one of my favorite opera duets

:-)

even though I've never seen the actual opera that it comes from. I followed the links to Lily Pons' rendition of The Bell Song, and now I know why the opera isn't performed more often.

[BurtWorm]

93. It's been in a lot of movies.

Not to mention TV commercials. Still, it's lovely, isn't it?

[RagAss]

65. Trower

"Daydream"......with the late James Dewar on vocals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7dh8qTDcAc&feature=related

[Xipe Totec]

66. Black Shadow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnVZE5I8Os

[hellbound-liberal]

67. There's no song more beautiful, haunting and melancholy than this one

especially THIS version at THIS time in her career.

Joni Mitchell-Both Sides Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKQSlH-LLTQ

[Forkboy]

68. Swans - Blind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OK1kDLj8MM

[Starbucks Anarchist]

69. Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Inr22ZBmdw&feature=channel

Apparently, George Clinton told guitarist Eddie Hazel to "play like his mama died" or to play the first half of the song as if it were true and then the second half as if he found out she was actually alive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_Brain_(song)

[whistler162]

70. Have Yourself A Merry little Christmas

http://www.41051.com/xmaslyrics/haveurself.html

[MrScorpio]

74. Infinity by Inara George

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA3NU8kVH-M

[Ahpook]

75. I was going to go with that one:)

Next thing that came to mind:)

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

[tigereye]

76. Morcheeba's Enjoy the RIde

my husband can't stop listening to this


Warning - it's a serious earworm.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8405514042670553692

[cherish44]

77. The Ballad of Lucy Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KV-PTK0UZ4

I'll have this song in my head the rest of the day now

[I Have A Dream]

78. That pretty much defines much of Sarah McLachlan's music...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akjHwk9ur2Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMuEw-9t9Xs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDU8U6X4QyA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFDHia51Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AFDHia51Do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzoNInZ2ClQ

[backtoblue]

118. building a mystery is one of my favorite songs!

:)

[I Have A Dream]

79. "The Ghost of Tom Joad" - Bruce Springsteen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DEtA5fhk4k

:cry:

[mix]

80. Pulp - Something changed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skdjcv9Pbwo

[DarkTirade]

82. Beethoven's 7th, 2nd movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdfNTO_o-3k

[BurtWorm]

92. Along that line: Mahler's 5th, 4th Movement (Adagietto)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duSL3y2LASI

[Art_from_Ark]

149. There actually was a time when I could not bear to listen to that

2nd movement because it was so sad.

[Rhythm]

83. Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You"

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

I want to hold the hand inside you
I want to take a breath thats true
I look to you and I see nothing
I look to you to see the truth

You live your life
You go in shadows
You'll come apart and youll go black
Some kind of night into your darkness
Colors your eyes with whats not there.

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think its strange you never knew

A stranger's light comes on slowly
A stranger's heart without a home
You put your hands into your head
And then smiles cover your heart

Fade into you
Strange you never knew
Fade into you
I think its strange you never knew

[Swede]

88. Here are a couple that don't have lyrics,but they are melancholy.

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA93ybVGCeg


Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbq5YCIhbn0

[Lydia Leftcoast]

89. This is actually a Christmas/Epiphany song, but I'll post it anyway for Chanticleer fans

"Here is the Little Door" by Herbert Howells, one of England's most notable 20th century composers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7PqbGQIyv8

[Lydia Leftcoast]

94. One of my favorite Russian songs

captured on an old Soviet telecast of the Pyatnitsky Choir. Early to mid 1960s, judging from the hairstyles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp9qCc4kKtM

"Lyubov Kak Lodochka"

[GreenPartyVoter]

95. One of my faves....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpY0wQdJ5w

[Withywindle]

97. This thread's calling me!

Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream

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


John Cale, Shawn Colvin, and Richard Thompson - Heartbreak Hotel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDe-HcHJsX0

Haunted When the Minutes Drag - Love & Rockets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvS9YTi7VXI

Atmosphere - Joy Division

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

Sinnerman - Nina Simone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6_BWNzThJY

Will the Circle Be Unbroken - Carter Family

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Y2hFEWE68

Avalanche - Leonard Cohen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-oLmOm9vk0

Take This Waltz - Leonard Cohen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSWgnSE8A-I

Angels and Fuselage - Drive-By Truckers (note: this is from their 'Southern Rock Opera', a concept album about Lynyrd Skynyrd and what they meant to rocker kids looking for an identity. This is the end of the album - the plane-crash song.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oE1Fn-oQxI

Swan Swan H - R.E.M.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_QG6tr9mjo

Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground - Blind Willie Johnson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g

Time - Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40FjQH3Xw0M

Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXeQ_3oPidU

Fairytale of New York - Pogues & Kristy MacColl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrAwK9juhhY

[Lethe]

98. I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls

it was mentioned in a movie i just watched, so i looked it up.

take your choice of Enya:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl6zg92sP3I

or Celtic Woman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvdBVJjPi48

i prefer the Enya version.

quite a beautiful song.

[ornotna]

99. Johnny Hollow - Nova Heart

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zPsQF9Clv8

[Contrary1]

100. How about this:

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

[backtoblue]

114. beautiful song

the comments were a bit narrow-minded, though. :hug:

[Malikshah]

101. From 1976....I still remember hearing this for the first time as a 9 year old and

being entranced....back in the day when you had to wait by the radio... (no money for 45s....)

Gordon Lightfoot The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw

[Muttocracy]

169. I remember rushing to the radio when that came on

I didn't quite get the story as a little kid, but hearing a song-story was so different from most of what was on the radio.

[MilesColtrane]

103. "Calling You" performed by Jevetta Steele

From the movie "Bagdad Cafe".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHkW0Cw5w94&feature=related

[Dammit Ann]

104. Hallelujah by damien rice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEKCsSlK3jg

by Leonard Cohen, for him.

[lost-in-nj]

110. damn just when I thought

I heard about every version, you post this

what could be better
Damien Rice and Hallelujah

thanks


lost

[Dammit Ann]

130. You are so welcome. His version haunts me...

like no other.

[Dammit Ann]

131. you are welcome.

he is so underrated.

[enigmatic]

105. "Bum Leg"- Joe Pernice

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/04/bum-leg-pernice-brothers.html

[HCE SuiGeneris]

106. Gracias a la Vida

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_h5CZPyjQ

[oxygen destroyer]

107. Diamanda Galas - Gloomy Sunday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qu7wdUPnas

[Dulcinea]

108. "Hallelujah" by Jeff Buckley.

I know, Leonard Cohen wrote it, but the late Jeff Buckley's rendition pulls at my heartstrings.

[backtoblue]

113. Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

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

[Muttocracy]

170. I just pulled out some old Soundgarden today

I can listen to them over and over and over and over and I did.

[zabet]

117. The Rolling Stones....

Cold, cold winter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwu0MQrk_ec

[Patiod]

119. Joe Jackson's slow version of "Hometown"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGal9QAw4kU (the first 4 minutes - after which he segues into another song)

I don't know why Joe Jackson isn't more commercially popular, but we've seen him about 20 times live, and he still gives me shivers. This is my favorite

A month ago, I would have posted Gary Jules' "Mad World" from "Donnie Darko", but American Idol has....well, American Idolized it....

[3.14158675309]

121. Wishing you were somehow here again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5rsc4GLrd0&feature=related

[flvegan]

122. Glasvegas "Daddy's Gone"

I love the accent and the music is very good. Saw them on Graham Norton and they hooked me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSdQxKaBfU

How you are my hero
how your never here though
remember times when you put me on your shoulders
how i wish it was forever you would hold us
right now im too young to know
how in the future it will affect me when you go
you could have had it all
you, me, and mum y`know
anything was possible

i wont be the lonley one
sitting on my own and sad
a fifty year old
reminiscing what i had

i wont be the lonley one
sitting on my own and sad
forget your dad, he's gone

all i wanted was a kick-a-bout in the park
for you to race me home when it was nearly getting dark
how i could've been yours, and you be mine
it could've been me and you until the end of time
do what you want, when you want
be as fuckin' insincere as you can
what kind of way is that to treat your wife
to see your son on saturdays
what way is that to live your life?

i wont be the lonley one
sitting on my own and sad
a fifty year old
reminiscing what i had

i wont be the lonley one
sitting on my own and sad
forget your dad, he's gone

[Bertha Venation]

123. "I'm Just A Ghost In This House" by Alison Krauss and Union Station

don't have a link; maybe someone else can look it up

[redqueen]

124. Jenny Lewis - Happy

None of the clips on youtube do it justice.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

126. "Charlie Darwin" by The Low Anthem. (n/t)

[Trailrider1951]

128. Moody Blues/Justin Hayward

Nights in white satin


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l59IPomH7Q

I win!

[leftyladyfrommo]

132. Yep. I love that one, too. I also love White Bird n/t

[Tikki]

133. "Holding Back The Years"....Simply Red

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WzqT3yq-7s


Tikki

[Nicole Lambeth]

134. "Mad World" by Gary Jules, from Donnie Darko

here

[sammythecat]

137. That one certainly meets all the criteria

Beautiful, haunting, and melancholy. Great song.

Oh, and welcome to DU! :hi:

[Nicole Lambeth]

140. thanks! n/t

[sammythecat]

135. Lenny Welch - Since I Fell for You

Beautiful and very sad song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBDfju1F76M&feature=related

[semillama]

139. This one blew me away when I first heard it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqFoqtpUFY8

If you're feeling emotional today, grab a tissue.














(Yes, it's really Motorhead)

[Inspired]

142. Uninvited - Alanis Morissette

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTB6EG3xGo

[mykpart]

143. Peggy Lee: Is That All There Is?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9kKf7SHco

[Mike 03]

144. Mazzy Star: "Blue Light"

Do you know that one?

[X_Digger]

145. O Death, Ralph Stanley

Not my usual cup of tea, but it stopped me dead in my tracks the first ten times I heard it.

Better on the 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack..

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=45794451

[triguy46]

146. Brian Eno: "Always Returning" if this aint' haunting and melancholy, then I give up.

I usually play this on my way home from vacations in New Mexico, when I know I'm heading back to face the reality life. This coupled with the expanse of the high desert pulls at my heart. (If you care for this in any way, please, please try Bruce Kaphan's "Slider" (check it out on Amazon).)




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Wdd8UBZUI&feature=related

[triguy46]

147. What the heck, I'll double down with Bruce Kaphan's "Arc of Flight"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKR4H6yo6qs

[nomorenomore08]

148. The Pogues - "Thousands Are Sailing"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEz5mS_XQcQ

The Replacements - "Skyway": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2APba_cCDg

[Art_from_Ark]

150. Long, Long, Long by the Beatles

from the White Album

[Arugula Latte]

154. Whoa ... I'd completely forgotten about that song.

George always did the prettiest Beatles songs, IMO.

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

[Arugula Latte]

155. And, wow, I found this Elliott Smith cover of "Long, Long, Long"

He and George are both gone ... :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehanwikt8qI&feature=related

[He loved Big Brother]

151. Oh wow

Mazzy Star's "Fade into You" and "Mothers of the Disappeared" by U2 were the first ones I thought of when I saw the topic...

"An Echo, a Stain" by Bjork. Actually, the whole Vespartine album.

I just listened to the The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking album again last night for the first time in ten years. That had a couple of really pretty haunting songs. And it's Roger Waters, so yeah, melancholy abounds.

I don't have many "haunting" songs in my collection- my music is the exact opposite of my personality. I get over-sensitive and depressed easily. Which would be okay but I cry and I can't help it. Like the church giggles. I cry during Dave Matthews Band songs and commercials with starving kids or endangered baby animals.

And I will never be able to make it through all 8 minutes of "Suite Judy Blue Eyes" without tearing up. So I try to listen to happy fluffy sparkle bubbly stuff. Not Britney Spears. More like Ween, or Groove Armada. Sigh. There are worst things. :)

[redqueen]

152. Mazzy Star - Halah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnne6N0c9ho

[Brother Buzz]

153. Elizabeth Cotten - Shake Sugaree (granddaughter, Brenda Evans sings the haunting lyrics)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2D8Ec2y3Ws&feature=related

[astral]

167. I love that song

I never knew who was singing the vocal. I don't remember how I heard it years ago I think I caught it on cassette off the radio.

[sakabatou]

158. "Be Human"

http://video.yahoo.com/watch/392073/2326442

[pitohui]

159. johnny cash...hurt

this is the best cover ever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

[Muttocracy]

172. it's an amazing thing in so many ways. nt

[lumberingbear]

160. Il Divos's "Mama"

Listen closely to the lyrics.
I have listened to this often since my mother died last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJTKc2-SWU


:cry:

[RandomThoughts]

161. I always liked this song.

Spandau Ballet - True
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e4WLdLNajs


Spandau Ballet - Through The Barricades
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLR9yyI9CHg

I like these songs, and singers

So many times I hear the comments of people just wanting to get out, but I choose to believe I take in what I want, and reject the parts that are bad, I do not accept in my heart controlling attitudes, despair, anger, or sadness.

But instead accept the better things.

And in accepting love, kindness, and joy of spirit, no matter what may be around, what challenges are there, I get to make my world.

I am free.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

162. Shenandoah. The acappella version at the end of "Nixon".

It makes you equate the invincible forces of nature with the trials of man.

[Redneck Socialist]

163. Hell, I got a million of 'em, but I'll restrain myself. Here are two by Dry Branch Fire Squad

Aragon Mill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1XeGhWKnFk&feature=related

Black Lung: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms7VYIDy7b4&feature=related

Once you get past Ron Thomason's funny bit (2:20) the song just tears me up. :cry:

[begin_within]

164. Here's a classic:

http://www.dizzler.com/music/Frank_Sinatra/It_Was_A_Very_Good_Year

[Enrique]

166. "Whispering Pines" the Band

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLr0aRU8Wwk

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

168. Kate Wolf - Across the Great Divide

http://www.rhapsody.com/kate-wolf/close-to-you--2009/across-the-great-divide/lyrics.html

[Muttocracy]

171. "Hunger Strike", Temple of the Dog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjNjJR9jUGo

[Muttocracy]

173. Neko Case, "Deep Red Bells"

http://www.nekocase.com/music/2006/02/blacklisted.html#more

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/03/1070351646089.html :cry:

[IDemo]

174. "Lorraine's Dream", Brendan Power

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgV0WludxNg

[redqueen]

175. Mogwai - Dial/Revenge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efUTCMd9Do8

[redqueen]

176. Mogwai - New Paths to Helicon part 1

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

Warning in case anyone actually listens to this... it gets loud around 4 minutes in.


And part 2... so beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdFv3j1yRjw&feature=related


And also, Take Me Somewhere Nice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHO6pbjQ9ec


I love love love this band.

[RagAss]

177. The Dolphins....Fred Neil...Extremely Haunting !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjAlICPF8M

[OwnedByFerrets]

178. Its a Beautiful Day's "White Bird"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbA_TZn35LA Very rare video here.

"Girl with no Eyes" is also haunting.

[HughBeaumont]

179. Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY&feature=related

Seven minutes of poverty at it's most trying.

[redqueen]

180. Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Should Have Come Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq9R9Iu4EEs