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’
God this is fun, thanks guys and gals...continuing on:
PART 2
From the Chess soundtrack (a musical) ‘Anthem’. This one gets me every time, that voice on the last few notes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWLlB41GlvU
Elf power “The spider and the fly’ & ‘Back to the web’
Kerli ‘Love is dead’
Elbow ‘An audience with the the pope’
Folk Implosion ‘Insinuation’
Fossil Collective ‘Brother’
The Future of forestry ’The earth stood still’ chills every time.
Freelance Whales ‘Broken horse’
Gin Wigmore ‘Satruday Smile
Greg Laswell ‘Come Clean’
The Deathray Davies ‘Gone against the Tide’
The Dead weather’ ‘I can hear you’
John Vanderslice ‘Continuation’
Band of Skulls “Honest', and ‘Lies’
Henry Mancini (3 songs) ‘Peter Gunn, Fallout!, Experiment in Terror’
I don't think anyone has a list of well written haunting/sad songs as Elton John, albeit they're not his most popular songs - but they're some of his favorites. He admits he prefers sad music and he certainly included alot on his albums that many might not have heard. To me, this is his best work. I could have included more. But this shows elton the artist as opposed to the entertainer. Check out my quick list below.
Elton John list of darker, haunting, and inspired works
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.
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.
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.
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:
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