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’
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.
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 ....
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.
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.
I heard a live version of breath.... "celebrating the dark side of the moon" with ngyuen le and osi orchestra.It was really pretty well done for live.Ngyuen is one of fave guitarists but the rest of show was a little too interesting.Liked the one tune though.
Mysterious, Mystical, Haunting means something different to each one of us. SO a song that stops you in your tracks and leaves you with a blank stare as you are deep in reflection and/or in a contemplative emotional state...whatever the genre.
When I was a child, it was Cat's in the Cradle.
Today, I come across many from acoustic, rock to classical.
Maybe a tad off topic, but has anyone heard of the young Russian singing sensation Diana Ankudinova? Very unique voice as she's a dynamic contralto (very rare) and has polyphonic overtones She had a very sad start in life but now starting to gain Worldwide recognition The performance below is from a Russian TV show similar to the voice and created for underprivileged children Some of her performances has over 200 million views Vocal coaches that try to analyze her voice are mostly dumbfounded! ln this performance she's 15!!
Watch "Ты супер! — Wicked Game — Диана Анкудинова, 15 лет, г. Москва" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/7jv-DQnf2UY
Marissa Nadler, dreamy, folk haunt and I’m not into folk but now I am as they she blends haunt is incredible. Try these albums from her, 1. The Path of the Clouds. 2. July 3. Instead of dreaming 4. Drone flower and 5. For my crimes
Any of the early Andreas Vollenwieder albums (the first 5?)
I just played Side 1 of Caverna Magica for an old buddy of mine, and he exclaimed how amazing it sounded, and that he probably hadn't heard that in 20 years. It's one of those albums that once you start listening, you don't want to stop it.
yoyoyaya -- I truly liked Ultravox. I have my share of Ultravox records. I saw them, too. At one of those I-can't-remember-which West Hollywood night clubs.
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