Most Haunting Songs

[Jamesadin]

Originally posted by electriclite

E.S. Posthumus - Nara

Ahh, very very good song.

[Cottonmouth]

Suicide is Painless - Johnny Mandel
Goodbye Horses - Q Laazuras

[one_crow_sorrow]

Comus - Drip Drip

A tale of a brutal murder, this song is all acoustic featuring a shifting, swirling mire of guitars, violins, and various percussive instruments. Roger Wootton's frantic, disturbed vocal delivery adds much to the atmosphere of the song, as do his rather graphic lyrics.

And just a bit of trivia, the line of the song As I carry you to your grave, my arms your hearse is where Mikael Åkerfeldt got the title for Opeth's album My Arms, Your Hearse.

[therealjohng]

I Am The Sun - The Swans



Or anything of their Great Annihilator album.

[RandalGraves]

My Chemical Romance: The Ghost of You

[therealjohng]

How does that one go again?


Oh yeah, that's a decent one.

[Tom4558]

Radiohead- We Suck Young Blood
Radiohead- Wolf At The Door
Thom Yorke- Harrowdown Hill

[dmar]

my two favorite, most haunting songs

The Beatles - Because
(also check out the Across the Universe rendition, the cello will give you goosebumps)

Frou Frou - Hear me Out

[dmar]

also,

Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros. no you don't have a head injury, song's in Icelandic

[PSU80]

Twin Peaks score Angelo Badalamenti
One Metallica
Comfortably Numb Pink Floyd
Boys of Summer Don Henley
Witch Hunt Rush
Hemispheres Rush
Blue Velvet Bobby Vinton

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Big Star- "Thirteen"
Bonnie "Prince" Billy- "I See a Darkness"
Nick Drake- "Way to Blue"
Paul Westerberg- "Meet Me Down the Alley"
Elliott Smith- "Single File"

[Mr. Guiltless]

Anathema - The entire Judgement album
Ayreon - "2084"
Genesis - "The Lamia"
Fates Warning - "A Pleasant Shade Of Grey Part IX"
Ministry - "Revenge"
Tears For Fears - "Pale Shelter"
Siouxsie And The Banshees - "Overground"(1984 Version)
Pat Benatar - "Painted Desert"
Pat Benatar - "I'm Gonna Follow You"
Saraya - "Into The Shade Of The Sun"
Crimson Glory - "Lost Reflection"(this one is the very definition of haunting)
Labyrinth - "Falling Rain"
Terry Reid - "To Be Treated Rite"
Kamelot - "A Sailorman's Hymn"
Lacuna Coil - "A Current Obsession"
After Forever - "Silence From Afar"
Blutengel - "When The Rain Is Falling"
Danzig - "Dominion"
Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1, 2nd movement
Elton John - "Sixty Years On"(haunting to the Nth degree)
Threshold - "Narcissus"
Symphony X - "Candlelight Fantasia"
Magenta - "Envy"(the whole Seven album actually)
Marcome - "Arabica"
Subsignal - "Finesterre"(best album last year too)
The Church - "Under The Milky Way"
Bruce Dickinson - "Omega"
Paatos - "Falling"
Chalice - "Abyss"
Black Sabbath - "Solitude"
Black Sabbath - "Air Dance"
Zebra - "Lullaby"(GREAT band)
Budgie - "Parents"

If you don't fall in love with one or more of those songs.....you ain't human.

[hrdude]

Anything from Nick Cave's Murder Ballads

[Buck Turgidson]

A lot of Mazzy Star songs fall under this rubric (especially Into Dust and Take Everything) and so do a lot of Concrete Blonde songs. There I would single out Tomorrow Wendy but you also need to include their cover of George Harrison's Beware of Darkness and their definitive version of Leonard Cohen's Everybody Knows.

[God of War]

Julie Cruise - Falling

[MisoGenie]

"Space Odyssey" - David Bowie

[one_crow_sorrow]

Boards of Canada - Beware the Friendly Stranger, You Could Feel the Sky

Just about any song on Geogaddi, really.

[Lost in Space]

Johann Johannsson - Sun's Gone Dim

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv4CuIIspdE

Maybe I'm partial to him because I lived in Iceland for a good period of my life, but the songs sweet either way.

[SS-Block]

The Woman You Are by Arafna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=QR9VAAoK5-A

Candyman by Cazazza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=bCGoNNbi9wA

and a lot of synth pop is creepy/haunting, but in an unpleasant way. Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=22ltlLZkFlE

[Beard_of_Meat]

Radiohead-How to Disappear Completely

Radiohead-The Tourist

Emperor-The Wanderer

Explosions in the Sky-It's Natural to be Afraid

Explosions in the Sky-Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean

[jaw2929]

EDITED.

[Jim Colyer]

Already Gone by Kelly Clarkson has a haunting quality.

[PSU80]

Got a new one:

"Lazarus" -Porcupine Tree.

I just discovered this song last week. It's just gorgeous. I love it.

[Dirtyfrog]

Originally Posted by Mr. Guiltless

Anathema - The entire Judgement album
Ayreon - "2084"
Genesis - "The Lamia"
Fates Warning - "A Pleasant Shade Of Grey Part IX"
Ministry - "Revenge"
Tears For Fears - "Pale Shelter"
Siouxsie And The Banshees - "Overground"(1984 Version)
Pat Benatar - "Painted Desert"
Pat Benatar - "I'm Gonna Follow You"
Saraya - "Into The Shade Of The Sun"
Crimson Glory - "Lost Reflection"(this one is the very definition of haunting)
Labyrinth - "Falling Rain"
Terry Reid - "To Be Treated Rite"
Kamelot - "A Sailorman's Hymn"
Lacuna Coil - "A Current Obsession"
After Forever - "Silence From Afar"
Blutengel - "When The Rain Is Falling"
Danzig - "Dominion"
Beethoven - String Quartet Op. 18 No. 1, 2nd movement
Elton John - "Sixty Years On"(haunting to the Nth degree)
Threshold - "Narcissus"
Symphony X - "Candlelight Fantasia"
Magenta - "Envy"(the whole Seven album actually)
Marcome - "Arabica"
Subsignal - "Finesterre"(best album last year too)
The Church - "Under The Milky Way"
Bruce Dickinson - "Omega"
Paatos - "Falling"
Chalice - "Abyss"
Black Sabbath - "Solitude"
Black Sabbath - "Air Dance"
Zebra - "Lullaby"(GREAT band)
Budgie - "Parents"

If you don't fall in love with one or more of those songs.....you ain't human.

I like how you included so many style ... Anathema and Pat Benatar in the same list , who knew ! Good choices

Personally , Type O Negative - Haunted wins the prize tho

pretty much anything by My Dying Bride would win 2nd prize but if I have to pick one ......... i'd guess Two Winters Only

[Mr. Guiltless]

Originally Posted by Dirtyfrog

I like how you included so many style ... Anathema and Pat Benatar in the same list , who knew ! Good choices

Actually one Pat Benatar track I forgot about is even more haunting than those others. It's a short song; but listen to how somber it is at the same time reflecting on how the lyrics chillingly pertain to the present economy.

Pat Benatar - Suburban King(Vinyl)

[bowieee]

Hammock- Raising your voice trying to stop an echo. I used to rock my baby to sleep in her stroller with this one during her first year and the whole album still resonates but that one track makes time stop

[jaw2929]

I want to throw most of the soundtrack of 28 Days Later into the mix as well.

[DuncanIdaho]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1vxJb6MQ34