Top 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Songs

Top 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Songs

These songs aren’t just listened to when you’re sad, they’re the hauntingly beautiful songs that make you think, even become melancholic. Songs like “How to Disappear Completely” by Radiohead, “Angel” by Sarah McLachlan, “Breathe Me” by Sia, “Mad World” by Michael Andrews feat. Gary Jules, and “Tears in Heaven” by Eric Clapton are some of the songs on our list.

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[Aadyagupta]

SAVE TIME :P TIA.
10. How to disappear completely- Radiohead
9.Angel-Sarah McLaughlin
8. TRANSATLANTICISM - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
7. BREATHE ME - SIA
6. MAD WORLD- MICHAEL ANDREWS
5.The wolfs act 1 and 2- BON IVER
4.TEARS IN HEAVEN- ERIC CLAPTON
3.SOUND OF SILENCE- SIMON
2.HURT - JOHNNY CASH
1.HALLELUJAH-Jeff Buckley

Honorable mentions;
AUTUM LEAVES, YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL-Lana, ONLY TIME - Enya.

[BRENDAJASON]

Well if we can hear the songs instead of the narrator running her mouth that would be good

[Lian-Chu]

"Top 10 songs that you will not hear because of our chatter"

[TheKrazysexykool]

Jeff Buckley's cover of "Hallelujah" is transcendent. The depth of emotion on his face and in his voice while he sings is pure and raw

[DollnAbox]

•Sneaker Pimps - "Lightning Field"
•Massive Attack - "Teardrop"
•Vitamin String Quartet - "Teardrop"
•Placebo - "Sleeping With Ghosts"
Placebo - "Running Up That Hill"
•Sade - "No Ordinary Love
•Annie Lennox - "No More I Love Yous"
•George Michael - "Jesus To a Child
•PJ Harvey - "A Perfect Day, Elise
•The Beatles - "Eleanor Rigby"
•Duran Duran - "Come Undone"
•Depeche Mode - "Only When I Lose Myself"
•The Church - Under The Milky Way
•The Verve - "Weeping Willow"
•DJ Shadow - "Midnight in a Perfect World"
•A Perfect Circle - "3 Libras"
•IAMX - "Mercy"

... And a bunch more I can't think of right now.

[muflatu]

I hope you'll learn to not talk when the music plays. It's so annoying.

[masonsteven]

It’s exactly what I want in a hauntingly beautiful song: a loud, shrill narrator destroying it.

[CappyLarou]

Mazy Star: Fade Into You. How did you not include this?

[DanielMartActor]

Other HM's:
My Immortal - Evanescence
Bother - Stone Sour
Nothing Else Matter - Metallica 
All By Myself - Celine Dion
Love Me Tender - Elvis Presley
Vermillion Part 2 - Slipknot 
Mockingbird - Eminem
Someone Like You - Adele
Memory - Elaine Page
One Last Goodbye - Anathema
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Judy Garland
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Zombie - The Cranberries
Identify - Natalie Imbruglia
Uninvited - Alanis Morissette
Something In The Way - Nirvana
The Blowers Daughter - Damian Rice
What A Wonderful World - Louie Armstrong
Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
Some Riot - Elbow
Jeremy - Pearl Jam
Hymn For The Missing - Red
Sleeping Sun - Nightwish
Fhear A Bhata - Sandy Denny
Who's Got My Back Now - Creed
Castle Of Glass - Linkin Park
Three Horses - Joan Baez
Moon River - Audrey Hepburn
A Lover's Concerto - The Toys
Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - The Four Aces
Evergreen - Roy Orbison
Everybody Hurts - REM
This Used to be My Playground - Madonna
Time After Time - Cindy Lauper
Love Don't Live Here Anymore - Jimmy Nail
Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Un-Break My Heart - Toni Braxton
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot
Fire And Rain - James Taylor
Wild World - Cat Stevens
House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
Billie Jean - Chris Cornell
Jealous - Labrinth

[mfstormy]

Phil Collins - Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)
You're the only one who really knew me at all
So take a look at me now
Well there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me
Just the memory of your face
Take a good look at me now
'Cause I'll still be standing here
And you coming back to me is against all odds
It's the chance I've got to take
Take a look at me now

[Young_Bourdain]

"Fade into you" - Mazzy Star. This song absolutely melts my skin. It feels like I swallowed a bottle of melatonin and had an edible. At the same time it makes you feel those feels for someone you haven't met yet.

[Elysian_Angel_]

What about these:
Unchained Melody - Righteous Brothers
Now We Are Free - Lisa Gerrard
Vincent - Don McLean
Sound of Silence - Disturbed (this version is quite a bit more impressive vocally and brings out the emotions better - imho)
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother - The Hollies
Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon - Neil Diamond
Father & Son - Cat Stevens
Nights In White Satin - Moody Blues
A Whiter Shade Of Pale - Procol Harum
House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
Hello - Evanescence
Blue Eyes - Elton John
End Of The World - Skeeter Davis
Only You - The Platters
Careless Whisper - George Michael
One Day In Your Life - Michael Jackson

That's just off the top of my head...

[robtberardi]

1. Mysteries of Love - Julee Cruise
2. He Moved through the Fair - Sinead O'Connor
3. No Surprises - Radiohead
4. Enquanto Isso - Marisa Monte
5. Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard & Marketa Irlkova
6. Nights in White Satin - Moody Blues
7. I Only Have Eyes for You - The Flamingos
8. You Don't Miss Your Water - Brian Eno
9. Awful Sound (Oh Eurydice) - Arcade Fire
10. Hide & Seek - Imogen Heap

[mateimanta]

"To build a home" - The Cinematic Orchestra
and every Sleeping at Last song

[jdax]

"You Belong to Me" - Jason Wade

"My Immortal" - Evanesance

"Say Something" - Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera

"What About Now?" - Daugherty

"Winter" - Tori Amos

[else]

Pearl Jam-Indifference
Mazzy Star-Fade
Anything but the Girl-Missing
Sinead OConnor-Nothing Compares 2 U
U2-New Years Day
Evenescence-My Immortal

[LadyVoldemort]

My personal favorites:
Beach House - Space Song
Mono - Life in Mono
REM - Everybody Hurts
Portishead - Sour Times
Radiohead - Creep
Blur - To The End
Enigma - Return to Innocence
Coldplay - Fix You
Lighthouse Family - Lost in Space
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Massive Attack - Teardrops
Christina Aguilera - Hurt
Evanescence - My Immortal
Suzy Quatro - Cat Size (I don't know if this was the real title...I just found it in my ex hubby's computer and it haunt me for months).
Cliff Richard - Ocean Deep, Vision
Tommy Page - A Shoulder to Cry On
Queen - Love of My Life, Somebody to Love, Bohemian Rhapsody
Mayumi Itsuwa - Kokoro No Tomo
Michael Jackson - Earth Song, Ben
Britney Spears - Everytime
Many Artists - You Are My Sunshine
Im Sun Hae - Will Be Back
D'Masiv - Rindu Setengah Mati
Christina Perri - A Thousand Years
Bee Gees - Don't Forget to Remember Me
Once Mekel - Dealova
Boy George - Crying Game
Teresa Teng - The Moon Represents My Heart (Chinese love song)
Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again
The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe
Sarah Brightman - Naturaleza Muerta
Louis Armstrong - What a Wonderful World
Daniel Sahuleka - Don't Sleep Away
Al Bowlly - Midnight, Stars, and You

...and "Say Something I'm Giving Up On You..." 😢 This song made me cry the loudest when I was filing for my divorce...

[Stephanie-voss]

Unfortunately I don't _hear_ the songs. Just the commentating voice. Which is...unfortunately choose for a video meant to show music, ain't it?

[KOMET]

Ten (10) Hauntingly Beautiful Songs (according to me)
1) Hummingbird - Seals & Croft
2) Baby, I'm for Real - The Originals
3) Southern Cross- Crosby, Stills & Nash
4) Long, Long Time - Linda Ronstadt
5) Theme from a Summer Place - Percy Faith
6) How Much I Feel - Ambrosia
7) People I Belong To - Gino Vannelli
8) Scarborough Fair - Simon & Garfunkel
9) I Only Have Eyes for You - Art Garfunkel
10) One Less Bell to Answer - The Fifth Dimension

[kadajsnightqueen]

Enya deserved an actual spot on the list, not merely an honorable mention. However, as gorgeous and haunting as "Only Time" is, there is one song from her library that eclipses it: "Exile" from the Watermark album. It's a song about loneliness and fear, and yearning to reunite with a lost loved one. Enya's voice is at its purest, the subdued melody helps to highlight the singer's isolation, and the song itself just grips the heartstrings even if you don't follow the lyrics.