Most Haunting Songs
Those tunes that send shivers up and down your spine.Jackie has sung this at just about every concert for the past few years - and she tops herself every time. If you don't feel like you've been knocked out of your socks after hearing her perform Lovers, you'd better check your pulse.
See her PBS Great Performances Dream With Me In Concert presentation of this with traditional Chinese instruments including Taiko drums. Simply amazing!
This is from an older CD and it is amazing but if you want to hear something amazing, listen to her voice today.
If you do not get goose bumps when this girl sings, then perhaps you better check yourself for a pulse!
John Lennon's vocal performance is just... ghostly.
Hear it on Yahoo Music or YouTube. Download it on iTunes or amazon.com on June 10. From her upcoming album "Awakening" due for release September 23rd.
Dark, melancholic, and beautiful - all at the same time
Just heard this,
This is one haunting and beautiful piece of work.
This song came into my head today unexpected, the version sung on the Tonight show. Almost had me in tears. The way she sang it I will never forget.
The extraordinary voice of Jackie Evancho singing this haunting piece of music leaves me happy and sad at the same time.
This song definitely haunts me.
It's the way Jackie Evancho sings it.
How incredible, this girl can really sing!
Can't get it out of my mind.
Traditional folk song performed in Japanese, available only as a bonus track on the Japanese release.
Japanese have a special fine emotion of sadness. So I ordered my CD from Japan.
See the YouTube video.
A soldier is severely wounded (blind and unable to move) and waits helplessly for his death. His only hope is to devise a way to communicate with the hospital staff.
The video's story is intercut with scenes taken from the 1971 anti-war film 'Johnny Got His Gun'.
"I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains..."
That li-li-li chorus with the single drum...
Not haunting
Haunting all the way. This awesome ballad in based on real life events: the singer & lyricist saw two car accidents in one week (same place! ) and a boy and a girl were killed.
The singer & lyricist turned this tragedy into a sad but beautiful story:
Death took the life of the boy by mistake and to make up for it, the reaper comes back to take the life of the girl, who his soulmate would have been in life. The reaper asks the girl: "Would you mind if take you?"
The singer uses several voice intonations to communicate the emotions - angelic, melancholy, innocent, ghostly, funeral, dramatic and harsh.
Also, the long scream at the end is insane - I think this scream represents the pain of the body when the soul leaves it. Then pain goes away.
Amazing vocals start to finish, hands down. This guy will leave you in awe.
Eh Yeah! I loved poetry unit in school!
This is indeed a unique song. Thanks to the cute Hawk who posted it.
Just listened, and I must agree, it is sad and haunting.
Hauntingly sad, I have to say.
My brain goes into a lovely yet spooky state when I play this.
Epic anti-war song. Classic
You wanna shivers up and down your spine? OK, get ready and watch the video.
I agree with Positron Wildhawk; this song is a spiny shiver for me too. Basically, the Beatles are lamenting over how this world is turning for the worse, which is making their guitars weep.
No, you're not. It is a bit spine-racking if you think as you listen.
Am I the only one who finds this song haunting?
A ballad about suicide and right to choose whether to live or die (if you feel you don't fit in). It's a controversial viewpoint but the song is awesome.
In the song, the character's life was saved once but he didn't want to be saved and he will try to kill himself again. He's maybe in coma and his thoughts come from this place between life and death.