Bartok, 6th string quartet, final mvt. comes to mind for me. |
The soundtrack to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Gheorge Zamfir
Bruce Smeaton
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Harold Budd's "The White Arcades". |
"strange fruit" - cassandra wilson |
Warren Zevon - My Shit's Fucked Up
Jenny Hoyston and William Whitmore- Hallways of Always. The whole album seems to work to a more and more haunting finish. |
"Flaming," Syd Barrett and The Pink Floyd
"Who are you this time?" Tom Waits
"Hall of the Mountain King," Edvard Grieg
"Misguided Angel," Cowboy Junkies
"Revolution #9," Beatles
"Cry Baby Cry," Beatles
"The Glass Spider," David Bowie
"Ghosts," Strawbs
"Cousin Kevin," The Who
"La Notte," Vivaldi |
Pet Cemetery was haunting. No soundtrack required. |
I'll go with Egoben on this one. Wish all of my cds sounded as good as Wrecking Ball (Emmylou Harris) and Teatro (Willie Nelson). Lanois creates a compelling soundscape in both. Also, both are excellent albums. Of course, he has taken the helm at many more.
Can it be that Lanois inspires or, by collaboration, helps his artists to achieve greater heights? I think so.
Oh Mercy is Dylan's most underrated post -70s record IMHO. |
to get slightly off track, my issue with daniel lanois is that he makes everyone sound exactly the same--whether it's dylan, emmylou harris, peter gabriel (hell, he even produced raffi), their records all have that hazy, gauzey sound that's sorta depressing.
i feel much better having vented and can now return to work. sorry to digress. |
Bob Dylan
His albums produced by Daniel Lanois, Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind are both haunting and beautiful in his very special way. Try the track Man In The Long Black Coat and you will stop doing anything else! |
Thanks to the above posters for helping, I'll keep searching. |
Pet Cemetery - Soundtrack
Crimson Glory - 'Lost Reflection' |
Two more for the mix
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens
A Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky/ Rimsky-Korsakov |
Rx8man, it strongly resembles the music of Robert Rich. If you like it, I suggest you check out his discography. It may be buried in there somewhere or you may find other things you like. |
Rx8man,
There is a music site that has some sample clips that sound virtually identical to your link. The site is royaltyfreemusic.com and a couple of cuts that sound just like the music in that video are titled "waterlands" and "watery grave". You can use the search box in the upper right of the home page for those titles and click on the green speaker icon to listen to the clips. Unfortunately, you buy the rights to use the music from that site, and it is not so useful for someone looking just to buy a song. The cost seems to be $59.95 per track, but hey, you own it. Kind of a fun site to check out though. |
#1 at the blue whale from the original dark shadows series soundtrack. |
Rx8man it sounds like a film score. Probably science fiction or supernatural. I realize that's a fairly large genre but I don't think it is classical or even jazz so that's what I am left with. |
michael mantler/edward gorey "the hapless child" |
"Snowed In At Wheeler Street" from Kate Bush's latest album is a current release that has that quality.
Furtwangler's recording of Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" symphony on DG.
"Gentle On My Mind" as recorded by John Hartford in "Natural To Be Gone" also comes to mind. |
Richard Wagner's prelude and liebestod. |
If anyone can identify this very haunting tune, please post it, thanks. |
Barber's Adagio for Strings is up there... |
Seems like it depends a lot on what "haunting" means to a person. Just off the top of my head, these are two I find haunting: Springsteen's Stolen Car and Chris Isaak's Wicked Game. |
Wild flowers...mark lanegan... |
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No one for "Tubular Bells"? |
04-01-08: Timrhu
"John Wayne Gacey, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens. When Sufjan sings "oh my God," if you don't get goose bumps, your dead. No pun intended.
So True! |
Oh man now it's got to be "Uncle Meat" by The mothers of invention |
I would second Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". I also have the remastered Jeff Buckley version, but Cohen's original on a top set up sounds so rich and holographic and the chorus sends a chill up my spine. I would also put Peter Gabriel's "Dont give up" in the same class, with Kate Bush singing the chorus. |
Richard Strauss "Metamorphosen" A piece he composed for strings, if I remember correctly, his response as a German, to finding out about the existence of concentration camps. |
You want haunting, even transporting. Find the original 1970 Exuma LP. Transcendent. |
I spoke of this song in a different thread...on the Stereophile Test CD 2 (from '92): track no. 7, "Ave Maria" - the famous Schubert piece performed flawlessly by a solo violinist accompanied by a chamber organ - recorded by Stereophile in a church on the highest caliber equipment. It is a haunting and beautiful performance. Truly moving. |
Two songs on the John Hartford tribute album, done just before his death, are definitely haunting. Gillian Welch's version of "Tall Buildings" and John Cowan's version of Merle Travis's "Dark as a Dungeon". |
Emerson String Quartet plays Bela Bartok works on me. |
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" by J. J. Cale or Jeff Buckley or the original 15 verse composition by Cohen himself which I heard hom perform once. |
Anything by Genesis after Hackett and Gabriel departed, and anything after Waters 'Mr Floyd' left Pink Floyd. Still haunts me after all these years. |
What about Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis?
FWIW I concur with the Acoustic "Under the Milky Way" I have it,its lovely.
Check out the Bax Quintet for Harp and Strings,Elegiac Trio for Harp and Violin Fantasy Sonata for Harp and Viola and Sonata for Flute and Harp by Mobius on a Naxos CD . |
''Reunited'' by Peaches and Cream. OK that's a bad joke. For me, ''Cavatina'' from the movie The Deerhunter if pretty haunting. A few more can be heard on the Cd ,''John Williams plays the Movies''.
There's something about movie themes and music that I find mysterious and engaging at the same time. |
Check out the album "The Swell Season" by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. The album includes studio versions of many of the songs from the soundtrack of the movie "Once". The mostly (entirely?) acoustic album is some of the most beautiful and haunting song writing, singing and playing I have heard all in one place in a long time. For audiophiles, I think "The Swell Season" has higher production values than the soundtrack, although the play lists are slightly different. You might want to watch the movie before buying either CD. |
I remember Dory Previn. A couple of years ago I sold most of my lps. Some were harder to part with than others and "Mythical Kings and Iguanas" was a sentimental favorite that was really hard to let go. |
Johnny Cash- American V - deserves a mention. |
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One of my neighbors was playing some spooky music on their porch for halloween. |
James Taylor singing "Overcoat" on Jerry Douglas' "Look Out For Hope" is both sad and haunting.
Dory Previn (anybody remember her?) "Doppleganger" This one really gave me the willies every time a buddy played it during my college "daze"
I think "Yulunga" from Dead Can Dance "Into the Labyrinth" fits this category too. |
I nominate "Ghost in the wind" by Richard Thompson. Especially the cut on his dvd "Live in Austin" |
Alison Krauss' "Jacobs Dream" off the CD "A Hundred Miles or More" should be added to the list. Haunting and heart wrenching. |
amethystium, dead can dance, delerium and loreena mckennit.
all masters of their very fine craft. |
Dawn Upshaw, Sergio & Odair Assad Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, "Il la Luna Esta Muerta" on White Moon - Songs to Morpheus
John Williams and Yo Yo Ma, "The Invasion" on Seven Years in Tibet (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Branford Marsalis Quartet "Eternal" on Eternal
Rickie Lee Jones "Comin' Back to Me" on Pop Pop
Jack Johnson "Belle" on In Between Dreams |
Brian Eno-Another Green World, Fourth World, "Energy Fools the Magician" from Before and After Science
Robert Fripp/Brian Eno - "Wind on Water" and "Wind on Wind"
T. Rypdal - Decendre
Jade Warrior - Kites
Ralph Towner - Rumours of Rain - Blue Sun
John Abercrombie - Timeless
Pat Metheny - certain pieces on New Chautauqua
Vangelis - China
Vangelis - Beaumborg
Weather Report - Mysterious Traveler, "Badia" from Tale Spinnin
Alan Parsons - "Fall of the House of Usher" "To One in Paradise" from Tales of Mystery and Imagination
John Lennon singing "Julia" on the White Album,
other Beatles tunes, come to think of it:
Tomorrow Never Knows - Revolver
Blue Jay Way - Magical Mystery Tour
Long, Long, Long - White Album
For Benefit of Mr. Kite - Sgt. Pepper
how about Moody Blues "Dear Diary" "Have you Heard/the Voyage"
Genesis - "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats" on Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Camel - Intro to "Lumar Sea" on Moonmadness
Ravel - Mother Goose Suite |
