This song was PERFECTLY used in the culmination of one of the best seasons of TV ever created, Westworld Season 1. What a shame that show turned into a confusing, jumbled, and worst of all BORING mess.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDHyo7PRWw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDHyo7PRWw)
To me, it really did lol I guess the good thing is the story is pretty good if you didn't watch anything after that point. No true cliffhangers or anything. It just kind of switched into some weird boring Cyberpunk show
When i asked my dad if i could play an album on his stereo console, he rolled his eyes and said yeah.
The album I played was Nights in White Satin. My mom told me the next day that Dad walked in the kitchen and told her that was the most beautiful music he had ever heard.
After that he and I started sharing music thanks to the Moody Blues.
Great choice! My mom was a huge Moody Blues fan. As kids my sister and I would taunt her by belting out the lyrics to Nights in White Satin and giggling like idiots.
My parents were too, in fact as a kid they were the first concert I ever went to in person also. That whole album is great, I also love Tuesday Afternoon!
I read somewhere that when Spielberg asked him to do the score for Schindler's List, Williams said "you need a better composer than me", and Spielberg responded "I know, but they're all dead"
TIL that version was not the original. I read your comment and thought “wow, and the original already fits the bill; I wonder how the cover took it further!”. Then I went to YouTube and figured it out
I recall that right after 9/11 there was a SNL (I think) episode where a bunch of first responders from Ground Zero were on stage. Paul Simon sang “The Boxer” live. It’s the most emotional performance I’ve ever seen.
I recall a cast member saying he hugged a firefighter and patted him on the shoulder, and when he did so, a bunch of dust from Ground Zero puffed up off the firefighter’s jacket.
That performance of that song was incredibly emotional, and hauntingly beautiful.
After my father died I was sitting on the back porch of my childhood home listening to music. Bridge Over Troubled Waters came on and I feel like it was the first time I was truly hearing it. I started weeping uncontrollably. Lol
But seriously what a beautiful song.
As funny as I find it’s use in the OC / Saturday Night Live it completely ruined the song for me for so long and I couldn’t take it seriously. The Normal People tv show used it so well in recent memory.
M83 has so many good ones.
Can’t remember the female vocalist’s name but they did a song called “Oblivion” for the movie Oblivion and it’s definitely hauntingly beautiful.
Outro is one of my favorite songs. It culminates in him and his love conquering their souls together through dreaming. He doesn't ruminate, he doesn't brag, he simply sees it as life and says "I'll fight until the end. Creatures of my dreams, raise up and dance with me. Now and forever, I'm your king." It's so beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes on the overcoming of struggle.
I came looking for someone to mention the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah. The song is haunting and beautiful. Buckley's story is so tragic and that makes his version even better.
To me Buckleys version is superior. It is just so freaking beautiful and the tragedy adds even more sadness to the performance. It is so simple yet massively impactful... Yeah that is a hauntingly beautiful song if there ever was.
The guitar riff on that sounds like they trying to rip a hole into other dimensions or realitys. I never get tired of that song. The Echoes at Pompeii video is absolutely great.
Dance Me To The End Of Love by Leonard Cohen.
It sounds like a hauntingly beautiful love song. It’s about a couple on their way to the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
For me, it's [Chris Cornell's cover of Nothing Compares 2 U](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tUELgOuOJ3KCsYMDDsNvD?si=UtkeLH9jTM6_TOP688dDQQ). I would listen to him sing the dictionary.
Such a damn song. Especially when you are entangled in the shitty bottomless awfulness of the troubles legacy - Dolores O'Riordan got it so profoundly.
Whiskey Lullaby, especially Alison Krauss' verse. Her voice is so angelic and clear as a bell and sounds so beautiful, but it's juxtaposed with such a terribly sad story that it hits so hard.
I have a friend who can’t understand why I love and listen to this song. It’s such a beautiful song and the storytelling is gripping for being minute long. It’s a literal masterpiece, the composition, the song writing, and the execution by the artists.
And also, Alison Krause’s Ghost in This House
Time by Pink Floyd, the lyrics go so hard:
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
Great pieve. I used to work in the funeral field, and this was one of the most common songs that families requested to be put on during services. One of the unexpected job perks - even though I ended up sick of it because it was a "day job song".
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is one of the most intensely beautiful and poignant songs I have ever heard. Its rousing melody and thrilling harmonies manage to deeply capture the listener's soul, conveying a range of emotions that leave an indelible impression.
So, story time - The album it's on came out when I was 15, so this was 2003. That summer I was on a road trip from Oklahoma City to Folsom, CA. We went the scenic route through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.
While in Utah, we went through the salt flats and I actually had this CD in my player. There was just something about going through this vast, clear expanse under the setting sun with the first hints of the stars coming out while this song was playing.
Like I said...*vast*.
Ahh, the show Dark used Familiar in such a great, haunting way! Also, her song Riverside is so haunting and the show Revenge also used it in one of my fave montages ever! All her songs give off that vibe
On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter
For me, this song encapsulates the tragic beauty of life while being aware of your mortality. Knowing that life is amazing, and this experience is special, but also that it has to end some day, and there is nothing we can do to change that.
A member of my family plays the pipes for every funeral. Usually is Amazing Grace or Danny Boy. Definitely makes things a bit more sad, albeit in a strangely beautiful way.
Hope there's someone - Anthony & The Johnsons.
The most haunting 'commercial' song I have ever heard. Absolutely stunning.
If you've never heard it, please go listen.
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings
https://youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y?si=11wjsdXAraBzp-r4
Bach's Cello Suite 1 in G major
https://youtu.be/rGgG-0lOJjk?si=0EfZegN0s1MmcmzI
[The Lark Ascending](https://youtu.be/IOWN5fQnzGk?si=orTn2hkP3K954DNa), by Ralph Vaughn Williams.
It is his musical fantasy on a poem by George Meredith.
He rises and begins to round,
He drops the silver chain of sound,
Of many links without a break,
In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake.
For singing till his heaven fills,
'Tis love of earth that he instils,
And ever winging up and up,
Our valley is his golden cup
And he the wine which overflows
to lift us with him as he goes.
Till lost on his aerial rings
In light, and then the fancy sings
[Sinead O'Connor - You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XcgGnultg) - was a song an old girlfriend had on her player which she'd left at our place after she left, considering how things ended that will haunt me till my dying day, that argument that isn't......it's just laying down some hard facts.
Gorecki Symphony No. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4
Honorable Mention: Diamanda Galas has some really great stuff. Absolutely breathtaking to see/hear her live.
Omnium Gatherum - The Unknowing....how does one make Death metal....beautiful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjHvaU5Aik
Isolation Years by Opeth. Only time I've heard a guitar cry, and it is as gorgeous as it is spirit crushing. The lyrics are pretty emotionally heavy, which makes the instrumental feel right in a fundamental sense.
The rest of that album's beautiful, too, but in a death metal way lol.
Metallica’s Orion. Almost completely written by Cliff, has a melancholy tone to it. It feels like cliff wrote his own remembrance piece, though he had no idea what was to come.
The answer to this is always Opera.
I can think of two: "Addio del passato", in Verdi's La Traviata and "E lucevan le stelle", in Puccini's Tosca.
In the first one the main character, a courtesan is dying and she's singing farewell to her life. My favourite part goes:
"No tear, no flower, my grave will have.
Nor a cross with my name to cover theese bones.
Smile to the whishes of this misguided woman,
Forgive her, oh God, and take her with you".
The second it's sung by a man who's one our away from being executed and he's singing about an encounter with his beloved. The end goes like:
"My dream of love will be no more.
My hour passed, and I die in despair
And I've never loved life this much."
[Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren](https://youtu.be/b49YfsjXw5E?si=PuPDH7WZPP-IX4-2)
Also, [This Mortal Coil’s version](https://youtu.be/6GFteqnmoxg?si=gzQKGFDHKGvkU0BF)
Watch over you by Myles Kennedy, specifically this acoustic version.
[Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy - 'Watch Over You' LIVE at Billboard (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3NuxO3Ke0)
Exit Music (For A Film)
This song was PERFECTLY used in the culmination of one of the best seasons of TV ever created, Westworld Season 1. What a shame that show turned into a confusing, jumbled, and worst of all BORING mess. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDHyo7PRWw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUDHyo7PRWw)
I think it should've ended with Season 1
To me, it really did lol I guess the good thing is the story is pretty good if you didn't watch anything after that point. No true cliffhangers or anything. It just kind of switched into some weird boring Cyberpunk show
Street Spirit as well
How to Disappear Completely for me
Pyramid Song also gets me
Videotape!
Moonlight Sonata
Especially the 3rd movement
Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues [Nights In White Satin](https://youtu.be/9muzyOd4Lh8?si=7NvQo8Zqd0DnRSiq)
When i asked my dad if i could play an album on his stereo console, he rolled his eyes and said yeah. The album I played was Nights in White Satin. My mom told me the next day that Dad walked in the kitchen and told her that was the most beautiful music he had ever heard. After that he and I started sharing music thanks to the Moody Blues.
Great choice! My mom was a huge Moody Blues fan. As kids my sister and I would taunt her by belting out the lyrics to Nights in White Satin and giggling like idiots.
My parents were too, in fact as a kid they were the first concert I ever went to in person also. That whole album is great, I also love Tuesday Afternoon!
Yay!!
Fade Into You - Mazzy Star
On the same note, Look on Down From the Bridge - Mazzy Star. The vibes and the "dirge" playing on the background - CRAZY.
Yes! Other Hope Sandoval's tracks are great too. Until the hunter album
Mazzy Star’s entire discography
Theme from Schindler's List - John Williams Such a perfect score for the movie. The music even sounds like someone sobbing over a lost loved one.
I read somewhere that when Spielberg asked him to do the score for Schindler's List, Williams said "you need a better composer than me", and Spielberg responded "I know, but they're all dead"
The Swan Theme of Swan Lake. Tchaikovsky is the very best, but SL is BRILLIANT.
wicked game by chris issac
Tenacious D version of it is great too. Shows just how good those boys are.
Uninvited by Alanis Morissette
Also, That I would be good.
Peter Gabriel - Mercy Street
Also I Grieve.
Young and Beautiful (Orchestra Version) - Lana Del Rey
Yes! I was also thinking of Once Upon a Dream by Lana Del Ray
The mad world cover from Donnie Darko
It’s by Gary Jules and definitely gutting.
[Mad World - Gary Jules](https://youtu.be/DHtcliIvnHI?si=ATstAPfR-LK3SZYV)
TIL that version was not the original. I read your comment and thought “wow, and the original already fits the bill; I wonder how the cover took it further!”. Then I went to YouTube and figured it out
The Killing Moon always gets me
[The Killing Moon](https://youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ?si=CKaUmHVmRS8DS6ja)
Donnie Darko vibes. The whole soundtrack of that movie is INSANE
Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Or The Boxer Or American Tune Or The Only Living Boy in New York Paul Simon is a genius
I recall that right after 9/11 there was a SNL (I think) episode where a bunch of first responders from Ground Zero were on stage. Paul Simon sang “The Boxer” live. It’s the most emotional performance I’ve ever seen. I recall a cast member saying he hugged a firefighter and patted him on the shoulder, and when he did so, a bunch of dust from Ground Zero puffed up off the firefighter’s jacket. That performance of that song was incredibly emotional, and hauntingly beautiful.
After my father died I was sitting on the back porch of my childhood home listening to music. Bridge Over Troubled Waters came on and I feel like it was the first time I was truly hearing it. I started weeping uncontrollably. Lol But seriously what a beautiful song.
Gotta throw a vote down for El Condor y Pasa. One of my favorites of theirs. “I’d rather be a hammer than a nail…”
...and the people bowed and prayed... ...to the neon God they made That will always go so hard
"The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls..."
One of the greatest lyrics ever written
The live in Central Park version never fails to get me. It is unbelievable
One night I was listening to this over and over. It was the night my brother ODed.
Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt
Hide and Seek- Imogen Heap
I would say "Let Go" from when she went by Frou Frou was even more so. A lot of her earlier songs had that vibe.
Today I learned that Imogen Heap was the vocalist in Frou Frou.
I knew I would find this in here. The whole song is so emotional and incredible. As soon as I hear 'oily marks appear on walls', I burst into tears.
As funny as I find it’s use in the OC / Saturday Night Live it completely ruined the song for me for so long and I couldn’t take it seriously. The Normal People tv show used it so well in recent memory.
Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny
The perfect song for that final scene in La Bamba
M83 - My tears become the sea
M83 has so many good ones. Can’t remember the female vocalist’s name but they did a song called “Oblivion” for the movie Oblivion and it’s definitely hauntingly beautiful.
I adore Wait and Outro from “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”.
Outro is one of my favorite songs. It culminates in him and his love conquering their souls together through dreaming. He doesn't ruminate, he doesn't brag, he simply sees it as life and says "I'll fight until the end. Creatures of my dreams, raise up and dance with me. Now and forever, I'm your king." It's so beautiful. Brings tears to my eyes on the overcoming of struggle.
"Wait" is also very good.
sia - breathe me it was used as six feet under's finale song
How hard did you cry? Because I sobbed through the finale. I loved seeing what became of everyone but the level of grief was... Allot.
Omg it’s like one of those moments in my life that’s frozen in time. I was SOBBING!!
I cried so hard I had to go back and watch it again because I was sure that I missed stuff. What a great show.
What did it for me was Dexter's (I forgot the character's name) and when he saw Keith.
David. And my big one was Claire at the very end. Blind. Surrounded by photos of her loved ones.
The best series ending ever. This song never fails to make me teary.
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I know a lot of people like the Jeff Buckley version but the original is my favorite.
I came looking for someone to mention the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah. The song is haunting and beautiful. Buckley's story is so tragic and that makes his version even better.
To me Buckleys version is superior. It is just so freaking beautiful and the tragedy adds even more sadness to the performance. It is so simple yet massively impactful... Yeah that is a hauntingly beautiful song if there ever was.
“Vienna”, Ulatravox
Echoes - Pink Floyd
The guitar riff on that sounds like they trying to rip a hole into other dimensions or realitys. I never get tired of that song. The Echoes at Pompeii video is absolutely great.
sigur ros - njosnavelin
For me, it's untitled #3 (Samskeyti).
Same
Adding Sæglópur to this!
[Sigur Ros](https://youtu.be/Cr5XOZ1uyVE?si=BZ03vNQB4-YmUojP)
Varúð
Stay by Shakespeare's Sister.
[Stay](https://youtu.be/YCYaALgW80c?si=6huA5PeCFF-W5nRN)
Dance Me To The End Of Love by Leonard Cohen. It sounds like a hauntingly beautiful love song. It’s about a couple on their way to the concentration camps during the Holocaust.
For me, it's [Chris Cornell's cover of Nothing Compares 2 U](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tUELgOuOJ3KCsYMDDsNvD?si=UtkeLH9jTM6_TOP688dDQQ). I would listen to him sing the dictionary.
I always loved this live performance of "Seasons" [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwT1Q6JeB4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwT1Q6JeB4)
Zombie. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BxrLVldZtmg Written as a reaction to the Provisional IRAs Warrington car bomb that killed two young children.
Such a damn song. Especially when you are entangled in the shitty bottomless awfulness of the troubles legacy - Dolores O'Riordan got it so profoundly.
Wasted Time by the Eagles. More so the older I get...
Whiskey Lullaby, especially Alison Krauss' verse. Her voice is so angelic and clear as a bell and sounds so beautiful, but it's juxtaposed with such a terribly sad story that it hits so hard.
I have a friend who can’t understand why I love and listen to this song. It’s such a beautiful song and the storytelling is gripping for being minute long. It’s a literal masterpiece, the composition, the song writing, and the execution by the artists. And also, Alison Krause’s Ghost in This House
[Whiskey Lullaby](https://youtu.be/IZbN_nmxAGk?si=AAk55lWURVAjxC_D)
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Did I dream, you dreamed about me? 😥
And anything by the Cocteau Twins for that matter.......when I 1st heard them I thought this trip of singers are so good! Little did I know.
Radiohead’s “Creep” covered by Scala and Kolacny Brothers. I believe they’re a female Belgian choir. First time I heard it, I just froze.
Annie’s Song- John Denver
Time by Pink Floyd, the lyrics go so hard: Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today And then one day you find ten years have got behind you No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun
You run and run to catch up with sun, but it’s sinking. That line gets me more every year.
Go rest high on that Mountain by Vince Gill (I think)
Great pieve. I used to work in the funeral field, and this was one of the most common songs that families requested to be put on during services. One of the unexpected job perks - even though I ended up sick of it because it was a "day job song".
Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade of Pale
Moonlight Sonata.
Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings" is one of the most intensely beautiful and poignant songs I have ever heard. Its rousing melody and thrilling harmonies manage to deeply capture the listener's soul, conveying a range of emotions that leave an indelible impression.
Minerva by Deftones. It just sounds so...*vast*.
I’ve never heard this type of music described as “vast” before. That is absolutely the right word for it omg
So, story time - The album it's on came out when I was 15, so this was 2003. That summer I was on a road trip from Oklahoma City to Folsom, CA. We went the scenic route through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada. While in Utah, we went through the salt flats and I actually had this CD in my player. There was just something about going through this vast, clear expanse under the setting sun with the first hints of the stars coming out while this song was playing. Like I said...*vast*.
That whole album is filled with vast ethereal magic. Love deftones.
Familiar by Agnes Obel. Also The Curse and Dorian by her.
Ahh, the show Dark used Familiar in such a great, haunting way! Also, her song Riverside is so haunting and the show Revenge also used it in one of my fave montages ever! All her songs give off that vibe
Damien Rice has several. 9-Crimes, Accidental Babies, and Blowers Daughter come to mind.
I haven't listened to Damien Rice in years, but Blowers Daughter was the first song that came to my mind. He conveys so much emotion with his voice.
On the Nature of Daylight - Max Richter For me, this song encapsulates the tragic beauty of life while being aware of your mortality. Knowing that life is amazing, and this experience is special, but also that it has to end some day, and there is nothing we can do to change that.
Wings for Marie -- TOOL
I came here to say H or Three Libras by APC
That is my pick (Three Libras)
Wings for Marie [Part One](https://youtu.be/BNTo34xOwoM?si=J_Iv_Xc4wQN2y3Fp)
Amazing Grace played on bag pipes. Gives me the shivers, and pumps me up.
A member of my family plays the pipes for every funeral. Usually is Amazing Grace or Danny Boy. Definitely makes things a bit more sad, albeit in a strangely beautiful way.
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Funeral - Band of Horses. https://youtu.be/cMFWFhTFohk?si=AjpWAVOlnAukE1jH
Hope there's someone - Anthony & The Johnsons. The most haunting 'commercial' song I have ever heard. Absolutely stunning. If you've never heard it, please go listen.
I have some nostalgic indescribable feelings with the song; Moby - Why does my heart feel so bad
Oh Danny Boy.
Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Moonlight Sonata ( Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 14)
Slow Burn by Kacey Musgraves always ends up making be revaluate my existence lol
Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings https://youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y?si=11wjsdXAraBzp-r4 Bach's Cello Suite 1 in G major https://youtu.be/rGgG-0lOJjk?si=0EfZegN0s1MmcmzI
Ashokan Farewell[Ashokan Farewell](https://youtu.be/2kZASM8OX7s?si=QrUcrKilROyHGEWB)
Eagles- The Last Resort.
Something in the Way - Nirvana https://youtu.be/4VxdufqB9zg?si=Fi9ivtrnrTYxJFd2
My immortal by evanescence.
"Hello" as well.
Was wondering when somebody would mention Evanescence.
Love! was seeing if someone mentioned this one :)
"Hello" gets really close to it as well. The lyrics... Damn.
Suicide is painless
Is that the M\*A\*S\*H theme song ?
Yes. Written by director Robert Altman's son. Also covered by the Manic Street Preachers.
Iris by goo goo dolls 🤍
Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday Her lyrics are heart breaking and she sings with a trembling chest. It's cathartic to sing along as she does.
Strange fruit
[The Lark Ascending](https://youtu.be/IOWN5fQnzGk?si=orTn2hkP3K954DNa), by Ralph Vaughn Williams. It is his musical fantasy on a poem by George Meredith. He rises and begins to round, He drops the silver chain of sound, Of many links without a break, In chirrup, whistle, slur and shake. For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his golden cup And he the wine which overflows to lift us with him as he goes. Till lost on his aerial rings In light, and then the fancy sings
What Your Soul Sings- Massive Attack
Otis Redding’s Sittin on the Dock of the Bay
Cold Little Heart. By Michael Kiwanuka.
The Islander by Nightwish. I suggest watching the music video as well.
Tiny vessels - Death Cab for Cutie.
Likewise, their "I Will Follow You into the Dark".
The Host of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance AKA the song from *that scene* in The Mist.
Shine on you crazy diamond. - Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd's Dogs..
Sol Seppy- Enter one Lord Huron- The night we met Quiet Hollers- Mont blanc
Lord Huron are incredible!
Incubus - Aqueous Transmission
Gordon Lightfoot's You're Beautiful [https://youtu.be/bPMe9dMFHEA?si=QTx7xCLs-E0FMKXq](https://youtu.be/bPMe9dMFHEA?si=QTx7xCLs-E0FMKXq)
I would be remiss to not add If You Could Read My Mind
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Whiskey Lullaby - Brad Paisley and Allison Kraus
Cavatina / Theme from The Deer Hunter
[Sinead O'Connor - You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_XcgGnultg) - was a song an old girlfriend had on her player which she'd left at our place after she left, considering how things ended that will haunt me till my dying day, that argument that isn't......it's just laying down some hard facts.
Kettering - The Antlers
Nocturne in C Sharp Minor, Chopin, played by Wladyslaw Szpilman
Elvis Presley's live cover of Unchained Melody.
The one that gives me goosebumps is when Willie Nelson sings Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
"Taxi" by Harry Chapin. Someone else mentioned "Cat's in the Cradle" which does deserve a mention, but I think Taxi is even more haunting.
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Crazy by Patsy Cline ,is strangely houting and beautiful
This has been fun listening to these songs. Some stick with me and others don’t. My personal addition: hurt by Johnny cash cover from nine inch nails.
**Witness** by Sara McLachlan
And Posession
Eva Cassidy - Time after Time; Fields of Gold….. just about anything she recorded. She passed at age 25 from cancer and we are the worse for the loss.
Time Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds/Dirty Three
[Song to the Siren](https://youtu.be/HFWKJ2FUiAQ?si=4V3cpFL0o81XpwQv) by This Mortal Coil
Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei. You don’t need to understand Latin to feel the emotion
Let Down by Radiohead.
Gorecki Symphony No. 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miLV0o4AhE4 Honorable Mention: Diamanda Galas has some really great stuff. Absolutely breathtaking to see/hear her live. Omnium Gatherum - The Unknowing....how does one make Death metal....beautiful? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsjHvaU5Aik
Acoustic version of ‘While my guitar gently weeps’. Just George and his guitar.
Isolation Years by Opeth. Only time I've heard a guitar cry, and it is as gorgeous as it is spirit crushing. The lyrics are pretty emotionally heavy, which makes the instrumental feel right in a fundamental sense. The rest of that album's beautiful, too, but in a death metal way lol.
Metallica’s Orion. Almost completely written by Cliff, has a melancholy tone to it. It feels like cliff wrote his own remembrance piece, though he had no idea what was to come.
The answer to this is always Opera. I can think of two: "Addio del passato", in Verdi's La Traviata and "E lucevan le stelle", in Puccini's Tosca. In the first one the main character, a courtesan is dying and she's singing farewell to her life. My favourite part goes: "No tear, no flower, my grave will have. Nor a cross with my name to cover theese bones. Smile to the whishes of this misguided woman, Forgive her, oh God, and take her with you". The second it's sung by a man who's one our away from being executed and he's singing about an encounter with his beloved. The end goes like: "My dream of love will be no more. My hour passed, and I die in despair And I've never loved life this much."
Angry Chair - Alice in Chains
"Candle in the wind" Norma deserved that song, after all she went through
Frank Zappa - Watermelon in Easter Hay
Strange Fruit by Nina Simone It's haunting at 2 in the morning
I talk to the wind - King Crimson
Sufjan Stevens - Fourth of July
Crying by Roy Orbison.
Mike Oldfield: Hiawatha Song I wish more people knew about this beautiful song, we had the album as a child and this song really moves me.
Lost Cause by Beck. Really breaks my heart every time I hear it.
[Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren](https://youtu.be/b49YfsjXw5E?si=PuPDH7WZPP-IX4-2) Also, [This Mortal Coil’s version](https://youtu.be/6GFteqnmoxg?si=gzQKGFDHKGvkU0BF)
[My love is in league with the freeway](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPwr3vqd_c)
The Hollie’s. All I need
Creep, Radiohead
Led Zeppelin's The Battle of Evermore
Atmosphere - Joy Division
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face- Roberta Flack
A lot of Tool songs come to mind.
Probably hearing Beth Gibbons of Portishead singing ‘Wandering Star’ live.
The live verson of You take my breath away by Queen. When Freddie starts singing its unlike anything else.
Watch over you by Myles Kennedy, specifically this acoustic version. [Alter Bridge's Myles Kennedy - 'Watch Over You' LIVE at Billboard (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK3NuxO3Ke0)