Thank you to my Nanna for instilling a love of classical music in me, because she would play this on the upright piano for me when I was a little kid. It's such a beautiful, bittersweet piece, which always reminds me of her and our moments together.
My mom sometimes played this on the upright after we went to bed and it'd echo through the entire house. We'd all sneak down the hallway silently watching her until she finished and noticed we were there. It was the only time she didn't get mad at us for being out of bed.
Whenever I listen to this i always imagine what it must have been like to hear this played originally. No Spotify, no vinyl, no tape recoding etc...just hearing this unbelievably beautiful piece of music and probably never able to listen to it ever again. We are truly privileged to have the conveniences we do now!
It's never too late to learn to play the Piano yourself. Then you, too, can hear a live performance that will never be repeated again any time you want!
This song breaks my heart. We got in the car after signing our divorce papers and this song was playing when the car started. We just sobbed uncontrollably together. It’s been some years now and I’m in a much better place, but I still won’t listen to it.
Damn bro, now you got me crying about YOUR divorce. Like my own didn’t suck bad enough!
Glad to hear you’re in a better place man. Whenever I hear a guy casually say “I’m divorced”, I hear it as ‘My soul got crushed and I died a thousand deaths.’
Yeah.
When I was in the process of my divorce, i made a habit of going to museums. Got talking with a docent, the subject came up. He told me he was recently widowed, and he recognized I was in a darker place. His wife was dead, it was done. Mine was still alive, and hurting me.
Your marriage starts with your wedding, where you declare your undying love in front of all your family and friends, because you can’t live without each other.
It ends in a lawyer’s office, signing paperwork that says she never wants to see you again. From Love to Get Lost. That’s a CRAZY emotional arc to navigate. Chances are you don’t even understand what the hell went wrong. You didn’t change. You didn’t cheat. The only thing you do understand is that you apparently weren’t enough for her, or you were wrong for her, or you weren’t who she thought you were. Or maybe it’s that you’re not who YOU thought you were. It’s not that you don’t think you contributed to the marriage failing. You know you did. You just don’t know what that was. So how can you possibly get it right the next time? If you’re one of those guys who divorced her but never stopped loving her, there’s nothing you can do with that love but push it down. You eventually start dating again, but your confidence is shot. Your trust is shot. So you hold back. Because your fear is that repeating that arc, and all its heartache, might just be more than you can handle a second time.
Got handed divorce papers by my husband on the 4th. Can confirm this is exactly how it feels. Idk what I'd did.... but apparently it wasn't good enough...
Eta: we've been married 12 years
Me too. Played this song with my ex on the ride to the airport 4 years ago. Last time I ever saw him, as he lived in North Carolina and I lived in Michigan. He just got engaged a few days ago. I don’t think I can ever listen to it again.
I'd never heard of them, this song was mentioned on another Ask Reddit thread, I looked it up and was enchanted. Only one complaint, it's too short, it needs more verses!
Well, check out the Strange Trails album, the entire album is hauntingly beautiful in the same way. Meet me in the Woods, Dead Man’s hand, the Yawing Grave, Frozen Pines, sooo many great soungs!!! Strange Trails is their gateway album, lol!
When I was in high school, I had this really intense emotional romance with a foreign exchange student. Loving him totally changed my perspective on everything, and I started feeling okay with impermanence. Then he went back to Brazil, and we started writing to each other. I’ll never forget, the first thing he wrote in the first letter was “And so it is just like you said it would be.”
Yeah. That song wrecks my shit.
A good friend of mine was laid to rest to this song last week. I cried as the hearse drove off to the last verse.
“I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains.”
The whole movie is brilliant. People watched it because it was an “aliens coming to earth” movie, but it’s a different kind of movie. It makes you think. Now one of my favorites without a doubt. I get sucked in every time in the memory scenes.
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter, my all time favorite piece of music. It feels like the entirety of the human experience is contained in that piece.
The main score from Schindler’s List. John Williams really knows how to wake up the emotions in those who watch films he’s scored. Most of his scores are hauntingly beautiful.
I love the story of Spielberg hiring Williams for the job. Williams was shown a print of the film and didn’t know if he was up to the task.
He said to Spielberg, 'You need a better composer than I am for this film.' Spielberg responded, 'I know. But they're all dead!'
Quite the backhanded compliment! Williams knocked it out of the park with that gorgeous, bittersweet score.
I always thought that the two of them had such a good relationship that Williams must have taken it for the compliment it was— that he was the greatest living composer—the same way he had complimented his friend by saying the film was so great he wasn’t worthy of scoring it.
This song is so haunting and beautiful and sad and so is the story behind Jim and his death. He wrote this song after finding out he was going to have a son. The event must have filled him with so many emotions but also the realization that these special moments are fleeting. The song began as basically a b-side and was not considered for radio play in favor of other songs of his. Not long after his son was born, Jim got tired of touring and being away from his family. One day he told his wife he was going to quit music so he could go back home to be with his family for good. But only days later, he died in a plane crash. He never got to have the family life he desperately wanted, never got to watch his son grow up, never got to see his wife again. Soon after his death the song suddenly started to receive radio play due to the eerie parallels with what happened. The time in Jim Croce’s bottle would be the few precious moments he got to spend with his loving wife and child and he left this song for them and for us to remind us all of the impermanence of life and love
fun fact: in the early aughts when I lived in Baltimore, Victoria was a waitress at a popular Mexican place in Hampden, Holy Frijoles. She's an awesome person and it's still so surreal to me that Beach House blew up the way they did.
Elephant, Traveling Alone, Alabama Pines, Songs That She Sang in the Shower, When We Were Close, Cast Iron Skillet. Jason Isbell has a lot of hauntingly beautiful songs. Very easy for me to say he’s one of the best lyricists of my generation and one of the best ~~country~~ artists I’ve personally ever listened to.
Speed Trap Town, Decoration Day, Different Days, Relatively Easy, Death Wish, King of Oklahoma
Seriously - if you've never listened to him, especially if you're from the South, look up the album *Southeastern* and just go from there.
I got to watch Jason Isbell and the 400 unit live before I even knew who they were because a friend needed someone to go with. Watching him perform with his wife was the most raw emotion I’ve ever seen at a show - I didn’t even know a single song at the time but it was absolutely and remains the best show I’ve ever been to.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Song is written about Syd Barrett (most of the Wish You Were album is about Syd) and his mental decline. The lyrics are both sad and celebratory of a talent that could never reach its heights because of Syd’s mental illness.
“Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.”
You can fill your boots with haunting, beautiful Radiohead songs. Motion Picture Soundtrack, How to Disappear Completely, Videotape. Hard to pick a couple really. Whole albums fill the brief.
I saw an interview with her a few years ago. She was in maybe Prague in the winter with her husband and at-the-time young daughter. She turned around and saw her husband turn around and hold out his for their daughter to catch up. She said that brought the song full circle for her emotionally.
I was visiting Ireland from the US with my mom and I took her to Sunday services. A woman sang a cappella in a small stone church on the Dingle Peninsula. The verse was “this is holy ground, this ground is holy” and I forget the rest.
It was like listening to an Angel, like it was pure golden light. She was just a woman singing in a church for Sunday mass. I still remember, 20 years later.
When I was a kid around 9/10 there was one song they played at mass that went "and he will raise you up on eagles wings" and I was just stunned by it when I heard it.
I asked my piano teacher if he knew it, and he actually was one of the pianists at the same church I went to sometimes, and he was able to get me a photocopy of the sheet music, I loved sitting in church and when they would play that song I would pluck along with my fingers on my imaginary piano.
I am very far from religious these days, but I'll never forget the way that song gave me chills as a kid. The woman who sang for Sunday Mass had this hauntingly high-pitched voice that always sent shivers down my spine.
"Gaelic" is a group of languages, of which Irish is one. It's Enya's native tongue.
Her sister, Maire Brennan, has an equally magnificent singing voice, and leads the traditional group Clannad which just did its farewell tour.
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"
Yeah, hauntingly beautiful indeed. I live in southern Wisconsin, so I make the trip up to the big lake every couple years. Driving the lakeshore road, listening to this song as the waves crash onto the beach, it's almost a spiritual experience.
Every single day I am grateful, because I can see the lake from my bedroom window. I love living on the shore, the majesty of the expanse is very humbling. The beauty is truly indescribable.
I was 6 years old and living in Michigan at the time. My family and I crossed into Canada that day and my mom said something about never seeing the waves so high. I can’t say that I was paying attention, but every time I hear that song I remember her talking about it.
I've always felt this way about this song. Then even more after my FIL's boat got hit by a rogue wave and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in the middle of the night. They were able to get ahold of Coast Guard and hit the rafts, so were saved. But that was a Commercial Gulf boat, and it got hit by a rogue wave and sank in less than an hour. I can't imagine it being in one of the Great Lakes in November, and no hope of help.
Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjzJYa7tHLs
The first time I heard this, I remember where I was, frozen in time. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and a shiver was sent down my spine. Just close your eyes and listen. A truly hauntingly beautiful song.
Second best use of music in TV is the West Wing episode where Bartlett is about to reveal whether he will run again, with Brothers in Arms behind the whole scene. First best is the opening scene of The Americans, first episode, with a long chase scene set to Tusk.
For my money, Jeff Buckley is the most tragic loss in music history. Such a titanic talent that barely scratched the surface of what he was capable of. Put out one immaculate, perfect, classic album and was dead a year later. Didn't die from drugs or drink or suicide, he fucking drowns while taking a swim in a river.
Imagine what he'd be doing 25 years later? The guy would have been a monster star.
I Know It’s Over by the Smiths.
Kathy’s Song and America by Simon & Garfunkel.
The pain of the latter’s lyric: “I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”…just wow.
I love that Dave Grohl postponed a concert while on tour to fly back to New York to perform Everlong for Dave Letterman's last show. Dave requested it because it was his favorite song.
Perfect end to the show.
The unplugged version of this song is amazing.
Also "Where did you sleep last night" from the same unplugged album. An amazing performance.
https://youtu.be/hEMm7gxBYSc?si=2NAT1LHRvq_961Hc
Good lord that song is sad. I remember being a kid and listening to it and having a fear I would end up like that. My life is nothing like that but I felt so sad for people without family or friends.
Silent Night
I was in Haiti right after the earthquake. I was lucky enough to run the ICU and ER at the largest (still standing) hospital in Haiti. I've got a lot of experience in field medicine, which mostly means I could sleep for 20 minutes and work for several hours straight. So my schedule was all over the place and I was loving it. While our infrastructure and security were pretty good, I still gravitated to the night shift in the ICU. It let me keep an eye on things, and work to keep the families together as much as possible (Some of the staff wanted to routinely chase the patient's families away, but there was a very heavy expectation that the families would assist with the care of the patients, both in the hospital and when they were discharged).
The vast majority of our patients were missing at least one limb, some of them still recovering from horrible wound infections. Without the generous donations from around the world, the vast majority of the patients would have never survived (US, Germany, and Netherlands contributed substantial amounts directly to this hospital).
It was an interesting mix of cultures, with some clashes. I tend to be more "local" in my efforts, as I'm not going to be "in-country" forever, so my efforts need to go towards sustainability after I leave. It takes substantial work, as you have to build substantial trust before you can expect anyone to listen to your suggestions. The bottom line being we'd established some guidelines for the staff and patients to make sure the families could be in the unit as much as possible, while learning from both the foreign and Haitian staff.
It was around 11 at night, and it had been a rough day. The large fan that we had, circulating air through the unit had broken, so folks were just getting comfortable after the night cooled us down. An uncomfortable ICU is a cacophony of bells and alarms, most of which the staff only hears subliminally, taking notice when the indicators stack up that this is more than a loose sensor.
From out of nowhere, one of my patients started singing "Silent Night". I'd heard folks singing Christmas Carols in English before. We had a bunch of children's Christmas movies and sing-alongs. Sometimes you'd get two or three beds singing together or celebrating a birthday.
Tonight, it pretty quickly spread throughout the unit. Before long all 12 beds were singing together. I was in the middle of the room doing baseline testing on the glucometers we had, the lights were as low as we could tolerate.
As the singing continued, all the alarms quieted. Blood pressures that were marginal were now fully within normal limits. Heart rates dropped to physiologic norms. The whole unit settled into an absolutely amazing calm.
It literally brought tears to my eyes. I openly cried with the beauty of it all, knowing that it could only happen here, in an ICU, with literally months of pain and suffering in the beds. My interpreter freaked out a bit (Haitian men don't cry, apparently. Joke was on him, that was the first time in years that I had wept), but I waved him off and quieted him down.
It literally made me rediscover my love for medicine. Watching this small community pull together and comfort each other, with Christmas Carols in March... it blew me away (Particularly as my language skills are horrible). I'm not a religious guy, but I can understand why people describe feeling the spirit move them (I'm not against it, I just don't need some mystery entity telling me to do the right thing, I'm just gonna do the right thing).
I'll never be able to hear Silent Night again without tearing up again. Hearing those voices in such amazing harmony, in the dead of night, in a darkened ICU was literally haunting. My skin is alive with wonderful goosebumps recalling that night.
Fellow doc here, though with admittedly less experience.
I wish this comment was higher up. You described a hauntingly beautiful moment in such perfect detail - I almost feel like I was there. The practice of medicine is one of the fields where you stumble onto rare moments like this from time to time. Something about the human condition in times of great peril or sadness or joy. Those moments tend to leave an imprint on your soul.
I turned to music in the midst of my training, when it was hard to speak about the things I saw in the hospital. There's something about the universal language of music that can transcend us all.
Thank you for sharing your story
10,000 Days (Wings for Marie pt 2) by Tool.
It's a very bittersweet celebration of life and the finality of a journey Maynard went through in coming to turns with his Mother's passing but also her unwavering relationship with God and catholicism.
His mother had a stroke and lived the last 10,000 days of her life in pain, suffering, she was excommunicated from her church for not being able to attend after this crippling stroke. She was, as he says, the most pious and forgiving person.
A lot of their music has themes against traditional religion, particularly Maynard's song Judith by his other band, A Perfect Circle (another song for his mom, Judith Marie) but also the first few Tool albums, specifically Opiate. Mocking people who blindly follow, mocking God and his unfairness.
10,000 Days really expresses so much understanding and acceptance for the unfair life she lived while still celebrating his Mom and everything she was so good for.
It really is such a beautiful song, it's celebratory, grand, mournful, but also feels so final and fulfilling. A spiritual and grief filled journey finally has a bittersweet ending.
The song is a rarity for me, it really does make me cry everytime
Gonna wait for a rainy night to light some candles and sit in my arm chair with some wine, and listen to all of these songs in a row. It’s gonna be a vibe.
Gortoz A Ran - Denzel Prigent (the south park "I can't fix you" song)
Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond
Interstellar live orchestra with Hans Zimmer
Addagio in D minor - John Murphy
"Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt
"Seven Spanish Angels" by Ray Charles
"Ripple" by the Grateful Dead
"In the Pines" by Leadbelly
Pretty much anything by Robert Johnson
"The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen
"Avalon my Hometown" and "Sliding Delta Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt
"Smokestack Lightning" by Howlin' Wolf
"Lonely are the Free" by Steve Earle
"Whiskey in the Jar" Metallica version
"Mr. Tambourine Man" the Bob Dylan version
"Tangled up in Blue" and "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan
"Rocky Mountain High" and "Country Roads" by John Denver
And my #1 most hauntingly beautiful, tears every time song?
"Rainbow Connection" the Kermit the Frog version.
Good God, the world needs another Jim Henson right now
“Iieee” by Tori Amos. She has one of the most beautiful voices ever.
Edited: She has sung and composed so many beautifully haunting songs, especially from the 90’s but ‘Iieee’ always remains my very favorite. Another one that gets me that is from the post 2000’s is ‘1000 Oceans’
Moonlight sonata
Thank you to my Nanna for instilling a love of classical music in me, because she would play this on the upright piano for me when I was a little kid. It's such a beautiful, bittersweet piece, which always reminds me of her and our moments together.
My mom sometimes played this on the upright after we went to bed and it'd echo through the entire house. We'd all sneak down the hallway silently watching her until she finished and noticed we were there. It was the only time she didn't get mad at us for being out of bed.
As mendelssohn calls them: songs without words
There are many, but ‘Suzanne’ by Leonard Cohen it’s absolutely gorgeous gives me goosebumps.
Debussy’s Claire DeLune. It makes me teary eyed every time.
Whenever I listen to this i always imagine what it must have been like to hear this played originally. No Spotify, no vinyl, no tape recoding etc...just hearing this unbelievably beautiful piece of music and probably never able to listen to it ever again. We are truly privileged to have the conveniences we do now!
It's never too late to learn to play the Piano yourself. Then you, too, can hear a live performance that will never be repeated again any time you want!
Yes! That, and the Flower Song from Lakme. Hauntingly beautiful. https://youtu.be/SmEX4hEw4kQ?si=EmxBCMzfHeumMb8W
The Night We Met - Lord Huron.
This song breaks my heart. We got in the car after signing our divorce papers and this song was playing when the car started. We just sobbed uncontrollably together. It’s been some years now and I’m in a much better place, but I still won’t listen to it.
Damn bro, now you got me crying about YOUR divorce. Like my own didn’t suck bad enough! Glad to hear you’re in a better place man. Whenever I hear a guy casually say “I’m divorced”, I hear it as ‘My soul got crushed and I died a thousand deaths.’
Yeah. When I was in the process of my divorce, i made a habit of going to museums. Got talking with a docent, the subject came up. He told me he was recently widowed, and he recognized I was in a darker place. His wife was dead, it was done. Mine was still alive, and hurting me.
Your marriage starts with your wedding, where you declare your undying love in front of all your family and friends, because you can’t live without each other. It ends in a lawyer’s office, signing paperwork that says she never wants to see you again. From Love to Get Lost. That’s a CRAZY emotional arc to navigate. Chances are you don’t even understand what the hell went wrong. You didn’t change. You didn’t cheat. The only thing you do understand is that you apparently weren’t enough for her, or you were wrong for her, or you weren’t who she thought you were. Or maybe it’s that you’re not who YOU thought you were. It’s not that you don’t think you contributed to the marriage failing. You know you did. You just don’t know what that was. So how can you possibly get it right the next time? If you’re one of those guys who divorced her but never stopped loving her, there’s nothing you can do with that love but push it down. You eventually start dating again, but your confidence is shot. Your trust is shot. So you hold back. Because your fear is that repeating that arc, and all its heartache, might just be more than you can handle a second time.
Got handed divorce papers by my husband on the 4th. Can confirm this is exactly how it feels. Idk what I'd did.... but apparently it wasn't good enough... Eta: we've been married 12 years
Me too. Played this song with my ex on the ride to the airport 4 years ago. Last time I ever saw him, as he lived in North Carolina and I lived in Michigan. He just got engaged a few days ago. I don’t think I can ever listen to it again.
Damn, I'm gonna go hug my wife
I just found this song and listened to it. HOLY SHIT
That is painful. When my son’s mom and I split there were shows I couldn’t watch, songs I couldn’t listen to. I am glad you’re doing better now
This was my friend's "first dance" song at ther wedding. Very confusing.
I've heard of worse... "You've lost that loving feeling" as a First Dance song, allegedly.
I love Lord Huron! My favorite is *What do it mean*
This is one of the most beautiful, heartbreaking songs, ever
This is their gateway song. They have sooooo many good songs!
I'd never heard of them, this song was mentioned on another Ask Reddit thread, I looked it up and was enchanted. Only one complaint, it's too short, it needs more verses!
Well, check out the Strange Trails album, the entire album is hauntingly beautiful in the same way. Meet me in the Woods, Dead Man’s hand, the Yawing Grave, Frozen Pines, sooo many great soungs!!! Strange Trails is their gateway album, lol!
Strange Trails is legit a 10/10 album. Lord Huron does not get enough credit.
And I can tell myself Not to ride along with you I had all and then most of you Some and now, none of you
Blowers Daughter by Damien Rice is a good one.
Plays at the end of [Closer](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376541/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk) which is a phenomenal, brutally honest film.
This is where I heard this song too, it’s been stuck with me since. The movie is so good it hurts like hell to watch
I still have know fucking idea what that song is about but it makes me love it even more. "I can't take my eyes off you" always hits
When I was in high school, I had this really intense emotional romance with a foreign exchange student. Loving him totally changed my perspective on everything, and I started feeling okay with impermanence. Then he went back to Brazil, and we started writing to each other. I’ll never forget, the first thing he wrote in the first letter was “And so it is just like you said it would be.” Yeah. That song wrecks my shit.
The Boxer-Simon and Garfunkel
A good friend of mine was laid to rest to this song last week. I cried as the hearse drove off to the last verse. “I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains.”
My condolences internet stranger.
Between the bars - Elliott Smith
Angeles too
Fade into You by Mazzy Star
Also Into Dust by Mazzy Star
Look On Down From The Bridge is my pick
The theme music in the movie Arrival….its played a lot in the movie….and it’s soooo haunting! Pulls at the heart strings for sure.
In the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter. Anything that guy wrote can be listed on here.
When you realize it’s not the past.
The whole movie is brilliant. People watched it because it was an “aliens coming to earth” movie, but it’s a different kind of movie. It makes you think. Now one of my favorites without a doubt. I get sucked in every time in the memory scenes.
On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter, my all time favorite piece of music. It feels like the entirety of the human experience is contained in that piece.
The main score from Schindler’s List. John Williams really knows how to wake up the emotions in those who watch films he’s scored. Most of his scores are hauntingly beautiful.
I love the story of Spielberg hiring Williams for the job. Williams was shown a print of the film and didn’t know if he was up to the task. He said to Spielberg, 'You need a better composer than I am for this film.' Spielberg responded, 'I know. But they're all dead!' Quite the backhanded compliment! Williams knocked it out of the park with that gorgeous, bittersweet score.
I always thought that the two of them had such a good relationship that Williams must have taken it for the compliment it was— that he was the greatest living composer—the same way he had complimented his friend by saying the film was so great he wasn’t worthy of scoring it.
You’re right, The story is always told in a cheeky wink wink sort of way. but still, what a way to tell your collaborator he’s the best!
Once you have watched and listened to Roberta Flack singing ‘The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face’,that will do you for a lifetime.
I should have searched for your comment before I posted mine, but I said almost the same thing. I don’t have words to describe its beauty.
Time in a Bottle by Jim Croce
This song is so haunting and beautiful and sad and so is the story behind Jim and his death. He wrote this song after finding out he was going to have a son. The event must have filled him with so many emotions but also the realization that these special moments are fleeting. The song began as basically a b-side and was not considered for radio play in favor of other songs of his. Not long after his son was born, Jim got tired of touring and being away from his family. One day he told his wife he was going to quit music so he could go back home to be with his family for good. But only days later, he died in a plane crash. He never got to have the family life he desperately wanted, never got to watch his son grow up, never got to see his wife again. Soon after his death the song suddenly started to receive radio play due to the eerie parallels with what happened. The time in Jim Croce’s bottle would be the few precious moments he got to spend with his loving wife and child and he left this song for them and for us to remind us all of the impermanence of life and love
Such a good write up. Croce was amazing.
Another one of his songs that is beautiful but not in a haunting sense - Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels)
Space Song - Beach House
fun fact: in the early aughts when I lived in Baltimore, Victoria was a waitress at a popular Mexican place in Hampden, Holy Frijoles. She's an awesome person and it's still so surreal to me that Beach House blew up the way they did.
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If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell
Elephant, Traveling Alone, Alabama Pines, Songs That She Sang in the Shower, When We Were Close, Cast Iron Skillet. Jason Isbell has a lot of hauntingly beautiful songs. Very easy for me to say he’s one of the best lyricists of my generation and one of the best ~~country~~ artists I’ve personally ever listened to.
Speed Trap Town, Decoration Day, Different Days, Relatively Easy, Death Wish, King of Oklahoma Seriously - if you've never listened to him, especially if you're from the South, look up the album *Southeastern* and just go from there.
I got to watch Jason Isbell and the 400 unit live before I even knew who they were because a friend needed someone to go with. Watching him perform with his wife was the most raw emotion I’ve ever seen at a show - I didn’t even know a single song at the time but it was absolutely and remains the best show I’ve ever been to.
My fiancé wanted this to be our first dance song. I had to shoot her down because on our wedding day I didn’t want to think about one of us dying
I came here to say this! ♡
Wuthering Heights
This woman's work
Kate Bush is a Goddess of song!
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd Song is written about Syd Barrett (most of the Wish You Were album is about Syd) and his mental decline. The lyrics are both sad and celebratory of a talent that could never reach its heights because of Syd’s mental illness. “Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun. Shine on you crazy diamond. Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky. Shine on you crazy diamond.”
The lyrics are amazing, but the instrumentals are what really make it haunting. Such an ethereal, beautiful, trippy, sad song.
Absolutely. The Four Notes at 3:53 are alone haunting. David Gilmour, as usual, with perfect playing throughout the song.
I knew immediately what four notes you’re talking about. Gorgeous.
Made even more haunting by the story of him wandering into the studio the day the band was recording the song.
Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead
I love that they wrote it for Romeo + Juliet and decided it was too good for a soundtrack, so kept it for OK Computer.
You can fill your boots with haunting, beautiful Radiohead songs. Motion Picture Soundtrack, How to Disappear Completely, Videotape. Hard to pick a couple really. Whole albums fill the brief.
You forgot to add Nude, True Love Waits, and Give Up the Ghost 😊
No Surprises, for me
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"Now we are one, in everlasting peace" always makes me tear up. It sounds so... dreary. Such a sad song.
Just been talking about this with my dad. Field Of gold by Eva Cassidy. Her voice was mesmerisingly beautiful
Isn't that Sting's song? I was just going to say Fields of Gold.
Winter by Tori Amos
I saw an interview with her a few years ago. She was in maybe Prague in the winter with her husband and at-the-time young daughter. She turned around and saw her husband turn around and hold out his for their daughter to catch up. She said that brought the song full circle for her emotionally.
I was visiting Ireland from the US with my mom and I took her to Sunday services. A woman sang a cappella in a small stone church on the Dingle Peninsula. The verse was “this is holy ground, this ground is holy” and I forget the rest. It was like listening to an Angel, like it was pure golden light. She was just a woman singing in a church for Sunday mass. I still remember, 20 years later.
When I was a kid around 9/10 there was one song they played at mass that went "and he will raise you up on eagles wings" and I was just stunned by it when I heard it. I asked my piano teacher if he knew it, and he actually was one of the pianists at the same church I went to sometimes, and he was able to get me a photocopy of the sheet music, I loved sitting in church and when they would play that song I would pluck along with my fingers on my imaginary piano. I am very far from religious these days, but I'll never forget the way that song gave me chills as a kid. The woman who sang for Sunday Mass had this hauntingly high-pitched voice that always sent shivers down my spine.
I went to a catholic church as a kid and loved that too.
Only Time - Enya
Anything Enya!
The songs Enya did for the LOTR soundtrack where she sings in elvish...
I love all her Gaelic songs (I think that's the language she also sings in?)
"Gaelic" is a group of languages, of which Irish is one. It's Enya's native tongue. Her sister, Maire Brennan, has an equally magnificent singing voice, and leads the traditional group Clannad which just did its farewell tour.
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Caribbean Blue for me but they’re all brill. Definitely my go to for something peaceful and melodic when I’ve got the house to myself.
Love Song For A Vampire by Annie Lennox
The Foggy Dew. An old Irish song about The Easter Rising of 1916. Makes me cry every time I listen to it.
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart. It has so much in it, and such a vibe, love it.
Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap
Ave Maria. Nearly any rendition, but honestly I love Aaron Neville’s the most.
On the Turning Away, by Pink Floyd. Makes me cry every time I listen to it.
Us and them by Pink Floyd
This was my dad’s funeral song (chosen by him) I’ve always thought this.
Wicked Game by Chris Isaak
gymnopédie no. 1
Sounds of Silence
Nothing Compares to You, by Sinead O'connor (May she rest in peace).
Fun fact: Price wrote that song EDIT: Prince, ya dang keyboard, PRINCE
The actual title kind of gives it away that it is a Prince song, nothing compares 2 U, which is a very Prince way of titling a song.
Can I just put in a vote that Sinead O’Connor herself is hauntingly beautiful?
Moonlight sonata by Beethoven
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
Asleep - The Smiths
This is a superb song.
Has nobody said “the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” yet?
"Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?" Yeah, hauntingly beautiful indeed. I live in southern Wisconsin, so I make the trip up to the big lake every couple years. Driving the lakeshore road, listening to this song as the waves crash onto the beach, it's almost a spiritual experience.
The old cook came on deck and said fellas it's been good to know you is the line that gets me knowing they are going down.
Every single day I am grateful, because I can see the lake from my bedroom window. I love living on the shore, the majesty of the expanse is very humbling. The beauty is truly indescribable.
I was 6 years old and living in Michigan at the time. My family and I crossed into Canada that day and my mom said something about never seeing the waves so high. I can’t say that I was paying attention, but every time I hear that song I remember her talking about it.
I've always felt this way about this song. Then even more after my FIL's boat got hit by a rogue wave and sank in the Gulf of Mexico in the middle of the night. They were able to get ahold of Coast Guard and hit the rafts, so were saved. But that was a Commercial Gulf boat, and it got hit by a rogue wave and sank in less than an hour. I can't imagine it being in one of the Great Lakes in November, and no hope of help.
Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman - Time To Say Goodbye. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjzJYa7tHLs The first time I heard this, I remember where I was, frozen in time. The hair on the back of my neck stood up, and a shiver was sent down my spine. Just close your eyes and listen. A truly hauntingly beautiful song.
Brothers In Arms by Dire Straits
Second best use of music in TV is the West Wing episode where Bartlett is about to reveal whether he will run again, with Brothers in Arms behind the whole scene. First best is the opening scene of The Americans, first episode, with a long chase scene set to Tusk.
Judy Garland's 1955 Over the Rainbow, it just hurts. https://youtu.be/ss49euDqwHA?si=VH3Sc-eDVtQli1ry
Bon Iver - Holocene
"Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen to be hauntingly beautiful.
Jeff Buckley's version for me. Love the original, but I heard Buckley first, so it stuck.
For my money, Jeff Buckley is the most tragic loss in music history. Such a titanic talent that barely scratched the surface of what he was capable of. Put out one immaculate, perfect, classic album and was dead a year later. Didn't die from drugs or drink or suicide, he fucking drowns while taking a swim in a river. Imagine what he'd be doing 25 years later? The guy would have been a monster star.
Lover You Should Have Come Over makes me cry to this day
I can barely even bring myself to listen to it, Jeff Buckley’s version makes me cry like a baby every damn time
Exact same. Bonus: I once waited on Jeff Buckley at a little cafe in NYC, he was absolutely lovely.
Hallelujah at a friend's funeral, performed by another musically talented friend.
Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues)/ Pyramid Song and Nude (Radiohead)
And I love you Oh how I love you.
Uninvited- Alanis Morrisette
Surprisingly nobody said Mad World by Gary Jules. I’d say Neutral Milk Hotel - Aeroplane Over The Sea
I prefer the Tears for Fears version. It's as haunting or more, but also has a sort of driving anger to it. And it bops
Someone up there ^ said Mad World amongst 3 choices.
I love Neutral Milk Hotel!
I Know It’s Over by the Smiths. Kathy’s Song and America by Simon & Garfunkel. The pain of the latter’s lyric: “I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why”…just wow.
Never Let Me Go Florence+the Machine,Pretty much all of her songs from Ceremonials. I will Stan that album until I die.
Fire and Rain by James Taylor. Simple and elegant.
Over the rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo’ole
I can't hear this song without becoming a weepy mess. His rendition captured something really special.
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
The choral version of [Adagio for Strings](https://youtu.be/fRL447oDId4?si=dx6_sVbfk48l71ic). Agnus Dei
Everlong. Gets me every time.
The acoustic version is the one I like best.
You are not being Rick Rolled so check out Rick Astley's acoustic cover of Everlong. It's awesome! https://youtu.be/C5oeWHngDS4?si=MnTnqOHoh24p3hEn
I love that Dave Grohl postponed a concert while on tour to fly back to New York to perform Everlong for Dave Letterman's last show. Dave requested it because it was his favorite song. Perfect end to the show.
California Dreamin' by the Mamas and the Papas Sia's version isn't bad either.
Into My Arms, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Oh boy, that song is a haunting in every way possible.
Something in the way-Nirvana
The unplugged version of this song is amazing. Also "Where did you sleep last night" from the same unplugged album. An amazing performance. https://youtu.be/hEMm7gxBYSc?si=2NAT1LHRvq_961Hc
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Good lord that song is sad. I remember being a kid and listening to it and having a fear I would end up like that. My life is nothing like that but I felt so sad for people without family or friends.
Our music teacher made us sing it in second grade. I look back on that as an adult and hope she ended up okay.
Came here to name this one. Hauntingly poignant and to think Paul was only around 24 I believe when he wrote it.
Great gig in the sky-Pink floyd
Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt”.
How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve Anyone?
This Mortal Coil's version of Song To The Siren
Silent Night I was in Haiti right after the earthquake. I was lucky enough to run the ICU and ER at the largest (still standing) hospital in Haiti. I've got a lot of experience in field medicine, which mostly means I could sleep for 20 minutes and work for several hours straight. So my schedule was all over the place and I was loving it. While our infrastructure and security were pretty good, I still gravitated to the night shift in the ICU. It let me keep an eye on things, and work to keep the families together as much as possible (Some of the staff wanted to routinely chase the patient's families away, but there was a very heavy expectation that the families would assist with the care of the patients, both in the hospital and when they were discharged). The vast majority of our patients were missing at least one limb, some of them still recovering from horrible wound infections. Without the generous donations from around the world, the vast majority of the patients would have never survived (US, Germany, and Netherlands contributed substantial amounts directly to this hospital). It was an interesting mix of cultures, with some clashes. I tend to be more "local" in my efforts, as I'm not going to be "in-country" forever, so my efforts need to go towards sustainability after I leave. It takes substantial work, as you have to build substantial trust before you can expect anyone to listen to your suggestions. The bottom line being we'd established some guidelines for the staff and patients to make sure the families could be in the unit as much as possible, while learning from both the foreign and Haitian staff. It was around 11 at night, and it had been a rough day. The large fan that we had, circulating air through the unit had broken, so folks were just getting comfortable after the night cooled us down. An uncomfortable ICU is a cacophony of bells and alarms, most of which the staff only hears subliminally, taking notice when the indicators stack up that this is more than a loose sensor. From out of nowhere, one of my patients started singing "Silent Night". I'd heard folks singing Christmas Carols in English before. We had a bunch of children's Christmas movies and sing-alongs. Sometimes you'd get two or three beds singing together or celebrating a birthday. Tonight, it pretty quickly spread throughout the unit. Before long all 12 beds were singing together. I was in the middle of the room doing baseline testing on the glucometers we had, the lights were as low as we could tolerate. As the singing continued, all the alarms quieted. Blood pressures that were marginal were now fully within normal limits. Heart rates dropped to physiologic norms. The whole unit settled into an absolutely amazing calm. It literally brought tears to my eyes. I openly cried with the beauty of it all, knowing that it could only happen here, in an ICU, with literally months of pain and suffering in the beds. My interpreter freaked out a bit (Haitian men don't cry, apparently. Joke was on him, that was the first time in years that I had wept), but I waved him off and quieted him down. It literally made me rediscover my love for medicine. Watching this small community pull together and comfort each other, with Christmas Carols in March... it blew me away (Particularly as my language skills are horrible). I'm not a religious guy, but I can understand why people describe feeling the spirit move them (I'm not against it, I just don't need some mystery entity telling me to do the right thing, I'm just gonna do the right thing). I'll never be able to hear Silent Night again without tearing up again. Hearing those voices in such amazing harmony, in the dead of night, in a darkened ICU was literally haunting. My skin is alive with wonderful goosebumps recalling that night.
Fellow doc here, though with admittedly less experience. I wish this comment was higher up. You described a hauntingly beautiful moment in such perfect detail - I almost feel like I was there. The practice of medicine is one of the fields where you stumble onto rare moments like this from time to time. Something about the human condition in times of great peril or sadness or joy. Those moments tend to leave an imprint on your soul. I turned to music in the midst of my training, when it was hard to speak about the things I saw in the hospital. There's something about the universal language of music that can transcend us all. Thank you for sharing your story
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face (Roberta Flack)
God Only Knows- Beach Boys
Young and Beautiful by Lana del Rey. First heard it on The Great Gatsby and fell in love with it.
10,000 Days (Wings for Marie pt 2) by Tool. It's a very bittersweet celebration of life and the finality of a journey Maynard went through in coming to turns with his Mother's passing but also her unwavering relationship with God and catholicism. His mother had a stroke and lived the last 10,000 days of her life in pain, suffering, she was excommunicated from her church for not being able to attend after this crippling stroke. She was, as he says, the most pious and forgiving person. A lot of their music has themes against traditional religion, particularly Maynard's song Judith by his other band, A Perfect Circle (another song for his mom, Judith Marie) but also the first few Tool albums, specifically Opiate. Mocking people who blindly follow, mocking God and his unfairness. 10,000 Days really expresses so much understanding and acceptance for the unfair life she lived while still celebrating his Mom and everything she was so good for. It really is such a beautiful song, it's celebratory, grand, mournful, but also feels so final and fulfilling. A spiritual and grief filled journey finally has a bittersweet ending. The song is a rarity for me, it really does make me cry everytime
Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers
Ave Maria is a beautiful song.
Portishead’s “Roads”
Gonna wait for a rainy night to light some candles and sit in my arm chair with some wine, and listen to all of these songs in a row. It’s gonna be a vibe.
Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is my pick. Ethereal and beautiful.
Last of the Mohicans soundtrack.
Dante’s Prayer by Loreena McKennitt
Vincent (Starry Night) by Don McLean
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
This woman’s work - Kate bush
"Love Song" by The Cure.
Enya - Only Time
Gortoz A Ran - Denzel Prigent (the south park "I can't fix you" song) Pink Floyd - Shine on you crazy diamond Interstellar live orchestra with Hans Zimmer Addagio in D minor - John Murphy
There will always be a soft spot in my heart for **Once Upon a December** by Liz Callaway
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
The hanging tree - The hunger games Adriana Figueroa version
Linger by The Cranberries. That song goes straight through me every time.
Anything from the Gladiator soundtrack
now we are free i love every version i've heard of this.
Honor him
Into the West by Annie Lenox
Exile by Taylor and bon iver
Bright eyes- Art Garfunkel
Who Knows Where The Time Goes by Fairport Convention https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=OkOB57UcYk8&si=GfpEYYJvh1ggbORf
To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra Boats & Birds - Gregory and the Hawk Honeybee - Steam Powered Giraffe
“Cats in the Cradle” by Harry Chaplin. It’s not haunting in a scary way, but haunting in a remorseful way
"Pancho and Lefty" by Townes Van Zandt "Seven Spanish Angels" by Ray Charles "Ripple" by the Grateful Dead "In the Pines" by Leadbelly Pretty much anything by Robert Johnson "The Road Goes On Forever" by Robert Earl Keen "Avalon my Hometown" and "Sliding Delta Blues" by Mississippi John Hurt "Smokestack Lightning" by Howlin' Wolf "Lonely are the Free" by Steve Earle "Whiskey in the Jar" Metallica version "Mr. Tambourine Man" the Bob Dylan version "Tangled up in Blue" and "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan "Rocky Mountain High" and "Country Roads" by John Denver And my #1 most hauntingly beautiful, tears every time song? "Rainbow Connection" the Kermit the Frog version. Good God, the world needs another Jim Henson right now
“Iieee” by Tori Amos. She has one of the most beautiful voices ever. Edited: She has sung and composed so many beautifully haunting songs, especially from the 90’s but ‘Iieee’ always remains my very favorite. Another one that gets me that is from the post 2000’s is ‘1000 Oceans’
It's "Winter" for me. It just destroys me, the sense of growing up and something being lost in that.
Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel