Top 10 Hauntingly Beautiful Songs 

Aadya Gupta thank you!

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Thankyou.

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Lianchu lol fr

Lianchu yeah...wth?

I ruined your 222

@@lovelyorsummeridc.3153 I ruined your "I ruined your 222"

Grey Goose was so at apple pie

TheKrazysexykool LOVE that version

I totally agree with you....

If you get the chance, listen to Raul Esparza‘s version. It’s just as amazing.

When Coen sings it you get a sense that there is hope when Buckley sings it you feel like all is lost .

Maybe you two should get a room. 😂

Or into Dust

Was the exact first song I thought of before watching this list!

Or Teardrops by Massive Attack

I have that one on my playlist too

I know right

Brenda hilarious mate! Spot on - how to ruin 10 hauntingly beautiful songs. hahaha

PRETERIST LAB - END TIMES not a suggestion I'm talking to the one that is flapping her mouth instead of hearing the music not talking to no one else

Well everyone can just go suck it. I was addressing the one that was hosting this video running mouth instead of hearing the music

Are you the female narrator for this video

To listen to the music, like probably everyone that came here. 😉

yes yes yes yes!! amazing song

How in the hell did that song get omitted? I kept raining for it to be mentioned.

I agree , and love it. J. Mascis does an excellent cover of it , as well.

Into Dust by Mazzy Star too.

You're right...and what an amazing description

Yaaaasssss

Ikr 👌

Yes 👏 yes 👏 yes 👏

I've come to talk with you again

because a vision softly creeping

Left its seeds while I was sleeping

And the vision that was planted in my brain still remains

Within the sound, of silence

I’m sorry, I can not agree! I lost my daughter to Covid last October 1st and when I heard this song for the first time in years I fell apart! Too sone I guess.

@@annek1226 sorry that you have had such a terrible time, from one mother to another, I send good thoughts to you and your loved ones. Please take care of yourselves❤

Robert s The only reason I can imagine for that is to avoid copyright strikes

I was going to say that' it was obviously annoying, how can you know if the songs is good when she's talking while playing songs? Tf.

Because she's telling you why the song was made and such, if you want to listen to all the songs. Google it and download. Duh? It doesn't take that much brain cells to think of that.

Ann inGG It's the whole point of the channel, is to educate you on the song. Again this isn't a playlist channel.

Haha yes! "Hauntingly beautiful" so let's have a shrill voice blast through it O_o

I could choose a stack of Enya songs that are more hauntingly beautiful than Only Time... and I'm kinda burned out on her stuff. I never could abide that song. It was overplayed when it came out and the lyrics never struck me as profound. They sound like something a middle schooler would write for a poetry assignment trying to sound clever. Phrases like "who can say" and "only time" add up to lazy philosophical songwriting. I always wished she had sung it in Irish. Then I never would have known how vapid it was and might have liked it better.

Bee Whistler In Celtic the song wouldn't have had the same impact as it does being sung in English. MHO of course. Cheers!

Bee Whistler if you are burned out on eyna, but still are looking for a beautiful, haunting, high, sweet voice, look up Eurielle.

"Exile" is used BRILLIANTLY in the movie "L.A. Story" (yes, the one with Steve Martin). That's how I first came across it.

Only Time was played a lot and re-released after 9/11. I still get choked up when hearing it.

Angel from Montgomery is also a beautiful song, l like her version best.

Agree.

I believe that " Look on down from the bridge" was there best sad song...

True. And Flowers in December!

Same!! Also the Sunday's version of wild horses is similar

Into Dust.

I completely agree, and that cat is gorgeous.

This Woman's Work by Kate Bush still bring tears to my eyes.

Blue Michael First time I ever heard the song was in the 1988 movie “She’s Having a Baby”. To this day I am just as moved as well.

Agree with both of these, amazing songs ❤

King of the mountain by Kate bush too is hauntingly beautiful

Niko Knight I start singing along then she starts yapping

Absolutely !

So is The Highway Man, one of my favorites of hers

Anything Loreena sings is haunting, beautiful and perfect.

I have that song. It's lovely. Why don't we hear more songs like that on the radio?

Clannad is missing as well, Newgrange is incredible.

MrFanomusic24 what about Sade and Desree pleaseee

raven f. Yeah Johnny’s VErsion is emotional

No way to say that better.

I remember reading somewhere about Reznor's reaction when he first heard Cash's remake. He said it was like watching someone have sex with your high-school girlfriend it hit him so hard. He said the more he listened to it, the more he realized that he didn't write that song for himself. That the song was meant for Johnny Cash the whole time. He just got to use it for a little while. Even now, Trent Reznor refers to it as a Johnny Cash song, not his own.

Even more astounding is that Trent Resner loves his rendition of it too. Maybe more than his own!

I guess I did the tldr version of above, and mispelled Reznor’s name 😜

thats what i came here for too

I know. I mean...... sorry I'm speechless.

Hope Sandoval...the voice of an angel!

Or Look on Down From the Bridge

Yeah, gotta agree with you on Mazzy Star there. A few others, too. Like, it's become a bit of a cliche, but "Sweet Jane" should be there, any version will do. And what the hell "Fade Into You" rips off "Knockin' On Heavin's Door" ?!!!?!?!?!?! That could the worst claim about song ripoff I've ever heard. They barely have any congruence at all. What, they were both recorded on Earth? Both by humans? Oh, I know, they both are set to lyrics and both feature musical intervals. Yeah, ripoff.

T Roberts so much yes! I love that song so much!

No doubt. Brings serious chills. 'Breath deep......'

T Roberts Yes! I was waiting for her to list it!

Yeah. I would put this song and Rainbow's _Street of Dreams_ on the list.

T Roberts You're in for a emotional treat if you take the time to check out the RU-vid video of Robin Zander of Cheap Trick performing Nights in White Satin back in the day in front of a full orchestra before his hometown group in Rockford, Illinois with Rick Neilson's father directing.

Lovers Cross also by Croce. Also, Operator by Croce. He was absolutely fabulous.

Time In A Bottle defantely affected a lot of people emotionally. I remember crying back then when I heard this song too. I'm crying right now too just thinking about it. This hit if I remember right was his hit when he died. I think if Jim Croce were still alive today he would be very popular. He was a genius!

i know EXACTLY what you mean david.. it gets deep into your soul

I prefer Simon and Garfunkel

Couldn’t agree more a lot of Jeff Buckley’s songs are spine chillingly haunting

Absolutely hands down the better version of that song. I’m actually a little mad they didn’t at least mention that there was a cover. Draiman deserves a lot of props for that.

I whole heartedly agree!!!

Raze Placebo does do a very good cover of Running up that hill. Tori Amos imo has many ie-'hey jupiter' 'little earthquakes' being just a few

Raze Down in the Park - Gary Numan

Raze Kate Bush original version of Running Up That Hill.

@@lakshmicostello900 And Dream of Sheep - Kate Bush

Hope you’re doing better now.

I wouldn't necessarily call 'Dreams' haunting. Great track, yes, but not haunting...

Lithium (no, not nirvana 😐)

don't forget Emilliana torrini song from crazy/beautiful the movie dancing by elisa little susie childhood gone to soon heal the world and smlie by Michael jackson kylie minogue ft nick cave confide me by kylie minogue disoriented by delta goodrem 100 years to live and the other song the scientist by coldplay return to innocence by enigma to be free by lisa Gerard i wanna do is touch you and galaxy by dannii minogue then you looked at me that's all coming to me now i surrender to love you more i love you dreaming of you by celine dion ft paul anka celine dion ft clive owen celine dion ft michael jackson celine dion ft the bee gees and call the man by celine dion everytime by britney spears everytime and thinkin bout the ex by janet jackson my obsession by cinama bizarre the band tokio hotel ft kerli world behind my wall monsoon 1000 oceans and rescue me by tokio hotel the band sleeping with you by Leonardo's bride stay by Shakespeare's sister the band falling by a unknown female singer falling by candice alley human and jar of hearts years by christina perri love me like you do by ellie goulding when doves cry by prince nelson and i see you by leona lewis though so

and also don't worry about me and say it again by frances the singer do you realize by the flaming lips the band vampire heart love gone with the sin are and join me in death by his infernal majesty the band sacrifice love you to death and kiss by london after midnight the band don't know why by norah jones by your side by sade adu skinny love by birdy and royals by lorde though so

shade01977 you know good music 👏👏

Even better -- the Dream Academy!

Thank you I thought the same thing

"Animal Instinct" is a beautiful song, too.

Pretty much any song by the cranberries, but I'd have to say the most haunting of them all is Empty

"Bosnia" was always the most haunting song The Cranberries ever created. It always gave me chills.

Absolutely cranberries linger. I still do. Ode to my family. Alot of their songs are haunting.

TheFallenKnight115 right, they are the beat band ever

Like Water Either These Are The Days of Our Lives or Don't Try So Hard.

YES!!!

@Wonderful Me ew 🤢

@Whoo hoo! KEEP UR OPINION TO URSELF

that's some major exaggeration there Steven lmao her voice ain't that bad and what did you expect them to do, play the entire songs??

3 minutes in I can’t take it anymore. STFU

Loud shrill? Lol slight exaggeration no less?

Kings of music in general. Greatest of all time

Whiter shade of pale wouldn't go down too bad either...

Greg Souls I agree.Wholeheartedly.

Although when I was young I was fascinated by the idea of Knights in White Satin, as I aged I became even more fascinated by Nights in White Satin.

Certainly one of them.

How about Forever Autumn, which also features the vocal talent of Justin Hayward..... 🤔

I also love Imogen Heap's version, breathtaking, haunting and just beautiful

Old friends is beautiful as well

Talal Khan Especially since it was written about someone else on the list.

Sweet Jesus YES

Great song, I agree. Have you heard Vitamin String Quartet's rendition? I like it better than the original.

Enya rules

Ever listen to Loreena McKennitt? Especially 'The Lady of Shalott' and 'The Highwayman'?

Couldn't agree more...you're absolutely right..

Yes, when i saw her pic in the thumbnail, I knew these morons will drop her in the honorable mentions.

Carribean Blue

Not could, SHOULD!

Yes to all!!!

blaziken25 YES I AGREE.

The Fog is the definition of haunting.

I agree. I disagree with your list, but I agree. Someone mentioned Phil Collins and Take A Look At Me Now. He did several tunes with Genesis much prettier than that one. Amelia is prettier than Both Sides Now.

It's literally the saddest song on the planet. A lot of depth without over the top dramatics.

Daniel Mart agREED.

Daniel Mart Agreeto

good list

All by Myself is by Eric Carmen

Isn't there a Celiene Dion version? That's the only one I know... so yea...

Me too, that's where all the real gold is!

Ashley jaden smith - batman Lil windex - cleanin up any 3pac song You're welcome btw

Wire - The 15th

James Blake - Lindisfarne | Live @ The 9:30 Club. Search, "James Blake NPR". There is a setlist in the description, skip to, "Lindisfarne".

Ashley hello by Evanescence, lithium by Evanescence, Moonlight sonata by Beethoven, lightning crashes by Live, in time by Mark Collie Idk. how at least three of these didn't make it on this list.

Hannah K iiiii

Hannah K i

They've added Young and Beautiful by Lana Del Rey.

In my place by coldplay

Trouble by Coldplay is a good one too

literally anything by lana 😂😂😂😂

I thought they called themselves plumet

HOSS Delgado Yes! That some is amazing and so is "Sleeping With Ghosts". Right in the feels.

HOSS Delgado Placebo's cover of Running up that hill is a great one!

HOSS Delgado I remember it appearing on the first episode of season 4 of The O.C

Ian Mccown Ew...

I first heard it on WWE as the theme for Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels streak vs career match.

Oh, WOW! 'Identify' was a favorite of mine as a child, and, though I almost never actually remember it exists- every handful of years... something or very, very rarely, SOMEONE (like yourself!) kindly happens to jog my memory of it. I; because of your comment; just heard it again after many more years than I can recall... and I still just fuckin' love it. • Totally pointless comment, this. BUT! - I felt an urge to thank you for inadvertently reminding me of this grossly underrated song.

Its is my pleasure. I understand how you can feel about a song but Identify just speaks to me so I am happy I could help bring it to the forefront of your mind at this time. It really is a hauntingly beautiful song. Happy Listening.

craig doss yes Uninvited should be here. I do love Gary Jules version of Mad world though

craig doss Uninvited is really haunting

Totally

@Theresa Love's You Tube his dad wrote that song but I think he was so much more evocative than his father musically with the hairraising and ethereal tone of his vibrato it's like even if Jeff managed to get past the "27 club" of Cobain, Winehouse, so many others..., It was by only a few brief years and I listen to GRACE now, it's just like Whoa, it's so charged... Electrifying.. how could I not have known that one was already on loan to us more than most... He's going between the two worlds on this record acrobatically and it's just, wow... Incredible. I would like to say that it's "timeless" except that it moves beyond that to the place where I believe songs come from, as a songwriter myself, and timelessness is different, in whatever way I can make sense of it, I just know it's a feeling that I can only say lives outside of time/space, it has not even gotten a chance to take you to the place where you already are because it's already something you can remember before we had time, I guess, I think it's like trying to explain classiness: you can read it across the room, across the street and it is not for sale and can not be bought anyways because it's priceless, but you know it. Jeff managed to so this spectral dance between world's and he had a voice that "haunting" but it's because I believe he was there somewhere in the elbow crook of the moon in the middle of a song, he was very intense but he himself wasn't a haunted man, but just taking the cover of the Leonard Cohen song Hallelujah, he went that place to which I was just referring. The place where songs are born I call it the keep. It's exits outside timespace.

Great series and the best final scene that I've ever seen. I'm tearing up just thinking about it. Breathe Me was an integral part of that final gorgeous montage.

Yeah I was thinking about at least 5 of your pics. She should've made a top 20. My personal favorite is Chris Issak- Wiked Game.

Tim Burr aka ELSE ONE I just found Mazzy Star again through American Horror Story! Definitely a deep song!!!!

Check out the song Into Dust by Mazzy Star if you haven't heard it before. It's even more beautiful and haunting.

Lykki Li- Possibility Natalie Merchant- My Skin Celtic Women- Danny Boy Daughter- Smother Korn- Daddy The Antlers- Wake

yes, i agree completely!

The most beautiful song ive heard is butterfly by bts

Mono - Life in Mono REM - Everybody Hurts Portishead - Sour Times Radiohead - Creep Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U Massive Attack - Teardrops

yea why isnt creep on here

"Cat's Eyes"??

@@laustcawz2089 I thought it was "Cat's Eyes" too, she said that in the lyrics but when I Googled, I keep finding "Cat Size". Maybe it was a 70s pun or something, I still don't get it tho...still learning English here...

@@LadyVoldemort "Cat's Eyes" seemed more logical, but, surprise for me-- apparently, it is "Cat Size".

my immortal..

Great song. I think her song Do What You Have To Do is even better than Angel.

When I first saw their video, I thought I was there living in it and I was nervous cause of the hieght or it was wild danger stuff being in trouble along with them. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3YxaaGgTQYM.html

YES! I love her vocals and all their music. So many memories listening to Evanescence.

The Synthesis album as a whole...

That song reminds me of a painful breakup I went through.

Danny Neyman working a shift at McDonald's.

yes yes yes!!!! I was waiting to hear it but nope, not even an honorable mention :(

Donnie Donkov that song is on Songs that will make you cry

and Wendell Gee..

Danish Birha Beautiful song, maybe. Hauntingly so, not so much.

Daniel Schaeffer

She is brilliant.

And her song I love you

The piano version of Love Comes on Laws of Illusion is stunning.

I don't know how these replies compare to Sweet Surrender, which was so dark the video's director (Sigismondi, who directed Marilyn Manson videos, amongst others) disowned the work.

@@LowLightVideos that’s bizarre. Its a great video.

It's really is so beautiful 😭😭

@@rachetro390 Agreed

Only song that made me cry

gloomy sunday cover matt forbes

The original Tears for Fears version was sarcastic.

Add "Leave out all the rest" and "Shadow of the day" by Linkin Park!

They use it perfectly in the game Gears of War 3 😢

Too on the nose. Original was so much better and more interesting.

Eliot1200 yaaasss

Damn straight

Cheyenne n

love Between The Bars

♡

Rose S couldn't agree more. Especially shallows, smother, lifeforms, how, and tomorrow