Oh man now it's got to be "Uncle Meat" by The mothers of invention |
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! |
No one for "Tubular Bells"? |
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Wild flowers...mark lanegan... |
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. |
Barber's Adagio for Strings is up there... |
If anyone can identify this very haunting tune, please post it, thanks. |
Richard Wagner's prelude and liebestod. |
"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. |
michael mantler/edward gorey "the hapless child" |
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. |
#1 at the blue whale from the original dark shadows series soundtrack. |
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. |
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. |
Two more for the mix
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saens
A Night on Bald Mountain - Modest Mussorgsky/ Rimsky-Korsakov |
Pet Cemetery - Soundtrack
Crimson Glory - 'Lost Reflection' |
Thanks to the above posters for helping, I'll keep searching. |
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! |
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. |
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. |
Pet Cemetery was haunting. No soundtrack required. |
"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 |
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. |
"strange fruit" - cassandra wilson |
Harold Budd's "The White Arcades". |
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The soundtrack to Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
Gheorge Zamfir
Bruce Smeaton
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Bartok, 6th string quartet, final mvt. comes to mind for me. |
