Share MYSTICAL, HAUNTING songs


I want to thank everyone who contributed to my last request for albums where all the songs were good. I find myself going back to my favorite genre of music (if it is such a thing), Mysterious, Mystical, Haunting type songs. My ‘Best of Mysterious’ CD’s have a lot of playtime.
I don’t want to overwhelm everyone right off the bat, so here are a few from my playlist:

Would welcome your contributions. Thanks in advance.  Corey

Mysterious, Haunting songs

BTO ‘Don’t fear the reaper’
Donovan ‘Hurdy Gurdy Man’
Highwaymen ‘Highwayman’
Deep Purple ‘Blind’
Shins New slang’
America “Horse with no name’
Eagles ‘Hotel California’
Creedence Clearwater ‘Susie Q”
Hooverphonic ‘  from the album-Jackie Chan ‘Forever connected’
Bif Naked ‘We are the lucky ones’
Procol Harum ‘Whiter shade of pale’
Donovan or Kinks ’Season of the Witch’
Traffic ’40,000 headmen’
The Doors ’The End’
Jefferson Airplane ‘White Rabbit’
Zombies ‘Time of the Season’
Cream ’Strange Brew’
Wishbone Ash ‘Leaf and Stream’
Death cab for Cutie ‘When Soul meets body’
Uriah Heep ‘Tales’
Baxter ‘Love again’
Prince “When Doves cry’
The Byrds ‘8 miles high’
Love ‘7 and 7 is’
Marketts “Out of Limits’
Eurythmics ‘Julia’ and “English Summer’
Dan Fogelberg ‘Changing Horses’
Keane ’Somewhere only we know’
S&Garfunkel ‘Sound of Silence’
Roger Hodgson ‘Only because of you’
Chris Issac ‘Wiked Game’
Beach Boys ‘Good Vibrations’
Black Motorcycle Club ‘Beat the Devil’s Tatoo’
Angus & Julia Stone ‘Living on a rainbow’
Antimatter ‘Psalms’ and ‘The last laugh’
Aqualung ‘Strange and Beautiful’
Apocalyptica “Fade to black’
Beatles ‘Within you, Without you’
Band of Skulls ‘Lies’
The Black Keys ‘Psychotic Girl’
Black Rivers ‘Coral Sea’
Black Sabbath “A national Acrobat’
Broken Bells ‘The High Road’
Toy Matinee ’Toy Matinee’
Stephin Merritt “Some Summer Day”
Ten Years After “ The band with no Name’

 

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Aqualash, "They Say Surrender"

Christina Aguilera, "Birds of Prey"

Duran Duran, "The Chauffeur"

 

Add to this list Philip Glass’ “Koyaanisqatsi” and the depressing, but incredibly well done decay Timelapse documentary named after the same Hopi term (Life out of Balance) released in 1982. Couldn’t be any more pertinent today.

Anything from Mazzy Star and her solo work (Hope Sandoval). Start with her most well known Mazzy Star album “So That I Might See”. It doesn’t get any more haunting than her sound.

Albums:

Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale  (every song)

Distant Dream - It All Starts From Pieces  (all songs, except Waiting for Silence)

Alynn - Dawn  (the first half of the album)

Draconian - Sovran  (warning: Beauty and the Beast vocals)

 

Songs:

David Maxim Micic - Universe in a Crayon

Oceans of Slumber - The Banished Heart (I prefer watching the video)

Sade - Pearls, Like A Tattoo

Xanthochroid - To Lost and Ancient Gardens, In Deep and Wooded Forests of My Youth, To Souls Distant and Dreaming, The Sound of a Glinting Blade

Buckethead - Electric Sea, For Mom

Candlemass - Samarithan

Dio - As Long as It's Not About Love

Sinistro - Partida  (in Portuguese)

Opeth - Sorceress 2

 

 

 

Bruce Cockburn dancing in the Dragon’s jars.

Mallons bridge by mustard‘s retreat

2 from a great college band that had a smidge of success

1. She divines water

2. All her favorite fruit

by Camper Van Beethoven

A Fine Day To Die - Bathory

 Anything by Burzum - see: Norwegian Black Metal 

Carmina Burana - Carl Orff

 Nick Drake's entire catalog

Among many, a few:

Love:  Alone Again Or  (or anything from Forever Changes)

Mazzy Star:  Fade into You

10cc:  I'm Not In Love

Taylor Swift:  The Archer

Leonard Cohen: Alexandra Leaving

Linda Ronstadt:  Someone to Lie Down Beside Me

Ryan Adams: La Cienega Just Smiled

Lyle Lovett:  North Dakota

REM:  Country Feedback

Van Morison--On Hyndford Street

Lady Jane - Rotary Connection

Behind Grey Walls - Richard Thompson

Ride My See-Saw - Moody Blues

In Search of Space - Hawkwind/entire album

Bint Baladna - Hamza El Din/Lily of the Nile

 

Not quite what most folks would think of, but listen to 'Bus Station' by Dave Alvin.

 

Nothing mysterious about it, but the picture he paints remains with you long after your first listen . . . . . and for many it hits down 'hard'.

There are some great songs on this thread. Bravo. 
 

“Roads to Moscow” by Al Stewart would be my contribution. 

If you want to listen to your mother’s mother, mother, mother, mother ,mother, mother, mother, mother, mother,mother,mother,mother,mother, etc, go back 3 thousand years at least like that trough many generations...Shusha is trained in classical singing and in Persian one...The most virginal pure feminine voice i know about, the mother and the daughter and the spouse and the eternal feminine in one voice...Try to remember farsi language if you want to remember some of  your past incarnations ....

This is the one...

Renaissance - Trip to the Fair

Haunting, with the incredible 5 octave voice of Annie Haslam.

Trip to the Fair

 

David Gray's album - "Mutineers" has an overall mystical sound to it. Here are 3 songs that are particularly mystical...

"Birds of the High Arctic"

"Beautiful Agony"

"Gulls"

Great album, if you're in the mood for that sort of thing...

In honor of her passing, BE MY BABY by Ronnie Spector and the Ronettes.

Some "experts" say this is the best ever...Personally, I just love the sound they were able to achieve given the high quality of the TUBE recording gear and analog tape they used.

Cheers!

Into My Arms by either Nick Cave or Shelby Lynne both great.

Hallelujah Jeff Buckley

Grantchester Meadows Pink Floyd

One Sunday Morning Wilco

Not Dark Yet Bob Dylan

Winnardt,

Ha, can't argue with that... I get it but they play the crap out of those commercials. I mean when comedy shows parody them you know its to much.

Now its polar bears, elephants...

Any ways fortunately the commercial hasn't turned me off her music, she has an amazing voice and the lyrics and music to go with it.

Anything from the Finnish band Hedningarna......Dhafer  Youssef, the song Delightfully Odd.... ( there is a long live version on youtube...or short version on spotify)....Plus lots of chanting songs by any of the Sami people.

Peter Gabriel: Mercy Street

https://www.songfacts.com/facts/peter-gabriel/mercy-street

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But when Sarah McLachlan does those ASPCA commercials, even the dogs think she's being a little heavy handed (credit to Jim Gaffigan).

Warhammer 40K Mechanicus- Children of the Omnissiah (YTube)

"To be pure, is to be machine"

Dawn of War soundtrack

The Dream Academy - The Edge of Forever

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Airborne Toxic Event "Sometime Around Midnight"

I really like that one, as well as Airborne Toxic Event - "Numb"

 

For what its worth in this category..... my favorite song from my 80's new wave collection

"It must have been love" by Roxette

Big plus for almost anything by Dead Can Dance. 

Can't believe no one has yet listed Avalon by Roxy Music. 

And finally Mountains of the Moon by The Grateful Dead 

Beck - Say Goodbye

Kate Bush - Under Ice

Neko Case - Prison Girls or Deep Red Bells

Cranberries - What You Were

Bryan Ferry - Chain Reaction

Golden Palominos - Heaven

OMD - Souvenir

Richard Thompson - Hide It Away

 

 

Change Gonna Come - Otis Redding (over Sam Cooke)

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

+1 for Hurt - Johnny Cash

Somebody needs to make a playlist with all these and share on Tidal or something.