Danzig - Let It Be Captured
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Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
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Fever Tree - San Francisco Girls
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You want mysterious, mystical and haunting?: Dead Can Dance. Nuff said. |
Two hypnotic tracks that may be what you seek are:
Pink Floyd: Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (agree with Dweller) and
(Jazz) John Coltrane: Ole Coltrane
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You want mysterious and haunting - Listen to the soundtrack from "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"
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Don't Fear the Reaper is by BOC.
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Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
Takes me on a mind trip every time.
Time Passages - Al Stewart
Year Of The Cat - Al Stewart
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Only one I've ever heard, Bernard's Pycho OST.
He ame close for DePalma's Sister's 12 years later.
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Probably nearly every song by Nick Cave.
I respect positions he has adopted on certain matters of principle.
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A lot of great songs on the list, I have many but I am going to have to go through it and check out the rest.
All three of these are from growing up, when I got older I tracked them all down which wasn't easy at the time. Before internet so I had to try and catch the name on the radio and then go to music stores and search for them.
Thunder Island - Jay Ferguson
I come alive - Jay Ferguson
Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison
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Mr. Tambourine Man
Eight Miles High
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Dwarfland Love Theme - Badalamenti
Before The Devil Knows Your Dead - Carter Burwell.
I’m Sam Too - Clint Mansell.
Lux Aeterna - Ligeti
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When you include Classical, the list can be endless...
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You want mysterious, mystical and haunting?: Dead Can Dance. Nuff said.
First thing to entered my mind.
Most recorded very well, too.
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Lots of stuff by Mike Oldfield.
Especially: Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, and Ommadawn.
Ommadawn
Almost anything by Loreena McKennitt.
Lots of stuff by Irish band, Clanad.
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Italian prog band, Eris Pluvia made a great one in the mid 90's called, "Rings of Earthly Light", that is haunting from open to close.
Rings of Earthly Light
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Tons of Celtic, Brit folk rock. Traditional Brit music tops for me here, stories from times when the mystical was truth.
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Emmylou's version of Pancho and Lefty.
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"Roads to Moscow" Al Stewart
"Riders of the Storm" The Doors
"The Black Plague" Eric Burden & The Animals
"The Supernatural" Peter Green
"The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)" Fleetwood Mac
"The Messiah Will Come Again" Roy Buchanan
"Wild Is The Wind" David Bowie
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Given the wide range of music already listed in this thread, it looks like there are many individual definitions of mystical and haunting. Very cool to see what certain tracks can haunt someone to their very core.
I won't list individual tracks, but some artists that come to mind:
Heilung
Wardruna
Huun-Huur-Tu
Enya
Loreena McKennitt
Secret Garden
Dead Can Dance
Cigarettes After Sex
Beach House
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This: Laura Palmer’s theme from Twin Peaks:
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Thanks for this cool list. I'm familiar with many of them but its been awhile so I will enjoy going through it. Some of them are completely new to me. I'll add Lana Del Rey.
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The Urge for Going
Joni, and Tom Rush
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“Requiem For The Americas - Songs From The Lost World” by Jonathan Elias. The entire album has a weird dusk/twilight time of day feeling.
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The Rythm of the Heat - Peter Gabriel/Security
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Fleetwood Mac, Bare Trees album, everything but especially “Dust.”
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@dweller+1.
l like this list but I was just not seeing someone. Peter Gabriel. I'll take that as one of his most haunting. Maybe the song Intruder but that's plain creepy.
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Wow. Urge for Going by Tom Rush. I listened to the tune on what was KROQ before it was called KROQ. Or was it on one of L.A.'s hippie underground, beg-a-thon, bottom-of-the-FM-dial stations? In any case it was one of those cuts that primed me for being a Joni Mitchell fan before Joni actually recorded/released anything. I bought a copy of the record at the local hippie record store. I still have it, too. I just checked.
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Byrds “Chestnut Mare”
Eva Cassidy “Fields of Gold”
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Fleetwood Mac..Oh Well…Parts 1&2
Fleetwood Mac…Hypnotized
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The mention of "Twin Peaks" reminded me of a couple good ones.
Julee Cruise - "Rockin' Back Inside My Heart"
Julee Cruise - "The World Spins"
By themselves these tracks are haunting enough, but when used in this scene are just bone chilling. Totally bizarre and surreal.
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I hope some of these fit the bill (some might just be romantic and melancholy.) Thanks for the question (I now have new playlist.) Enjoy!
Your the One - Kate Bush
Song of Solomon - Kate Bush
Somewhere In Between - Kate Bush
Everest - Ani Defranco
Galaxy of Emptiness - Beth Orton
I Must Have Been Blind - Brendan Perry
Voyage of Bran - Brendan Perry
The World Spins - Julee Cruise
Small Hours - John Martyn
The Unfolding - Lisa Gerrard and Pietre Bourke
Oomingmak - Cocteau Twins
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Definitely agree with Dead Can Dance and would also add…
Genesis: The Waiting Room (from Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
Peter Gabriel : Passion (The entire album. Spiritual rather than haunting)
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Grateful Dead - Stella Blue
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Hurt - Johnny Cash
Disturbed - Sound Of Silence
Tracy Chapman - Behind The Wall
Leonard Cohen - Suzanne
Bobby Gentry - Ode To Billy Joe
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Rush "Losing it"
Airborne Toxic Event "Sometime Around Midnight"
Peter Murphy "Cuts You Up"
ELO "Can't Get It Out Of My Head"
Eva Cassidy "Falling Leaves"
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Paddy McAloon (Prefab Sprout) I Trawl the Megahertz
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Some Velvet Morning - Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra
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Ultravox have a catalogue of such:
My Sex, and
Death in the Afternoon, for example.
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