Haunting melodies

[Carla777]

Not sure if this songs are already in this post:

- Nazareth/Love Hurts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2BjJbKQkgc
- Grand Funk Railroad/Heartbreaker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW3nPqPPBDw
- Uriah Heep /Sunrise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gShe87qWeBw

and this others haunting sounds...

- Scorpions/ always somewhere http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kxQ4kBwFBc
- Judas Priest /The Hellion; Electric Eye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TopkgGxGzQs
- W.A.S.P./ Sleeping in the fire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLD0CBFU ... re=related
- Twister Sister/ The Price http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHFAP2vH ... re=related

[Onestepper]

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but...

Sia- Breathe Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Ugh! Thats terrible....and here I thought AP's Superbowl vocal was rough...his sounded smooth compared to this persons gravel growling..couldn't even listen to the whole thing.

To each is own. I was posting it because of the melody, which is what the thread was about.

[StoneCold]

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but...

Sia- Breathe Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Ugh! Thats terrible....and here I thought AP's Superbowl vocal was rough...his sounded smooth compared to this persons gravel growling..couldn't even listen to the whole thing.

To each is own. I was posting it because of the melody, which is what the thread was about.

I liked it. Don't usually dig girls with a rhaspy voice but she was ok. Can't stand Bonnie Tyler, actress Holly Hunter ugh.

The melody was cool Sia's voice reminds me of Shakira whose voice I can sometimes handle. Especially if she's doing a belly dance.

Not really haunting but needed for example:

Shakira - Suerte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4KSz71fCxY

[Carla777]

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but...

Sia- Breathe Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Ugh! Thats terrible....and here I thought AP's Superbowl vocal was rough...his sounded smooth compared to this persons gravel growling..couldn't even listen to the whole thing.

To each is own. I was posting it because of the melody, which is what the thread was about.

I liked it. Don't usually dig girls with a rhaspy voice but she was ok. Can't stand Bonnie Tyler, actress Holly Hunter ugh.

The melody was cool Sia's voice reminds me of Shakira whose voice I can sometimes handle. Especially if she's doing a belly dance.

Not really haunting but needed for example:

Shakira - Suerte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4KSz71fCxY

oh please no shakira ewww hahaha

i love females raspy voices..makes me remember Jan King, i never saw anything about her after this, she participed in the soundtrack of the horror film Pet sematary part II..and her song stay in my mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDG5xkdH ... 1&index=15

[Blueskies]

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but...

Sia- Breathe Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

Ugh! Thats terrible....and here I thought AP's Superbowl vocal was rough...his sounded smooth compared to this persons gravel growling..couldn't even listen to the whole thing.

To each is own. I was posting it because of the melody, which is what the thread was about.

I liked it. Don't usually dig girls with a rhaspy voice but she was ok. Can't stand Bonnie Tyler, actress Holly Hunter ugh.

The melody was cool Sia's voice reminds me of Shakira whose voice I can sometimes handle. Especially if she's doing a belly dance.

Not really haunting but needed for example:

Shakira - Suerte
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4KSz71fCxY

Raspy can work if thats their natural sound..like Stevie Nicks. My biggest problem with it is when it's a fake put on rasp like Sia did in parts, other parts the rasp is not there....well, it's not even really a rasp she's doing in that song anyway..some kind of growling...guess the idea was to project the idea of pain but it just sounds terrible IMO.

[Noelle1]

Bon Jovi
~Dry County
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5SNJfc3tc8

[Don]

Lea - Say that you love me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPHUJGQya4c

[tammy]

I love that one, I remember the Miami Vice episode that was in, lol. There's a few of his I love, that one, Blood of Eden, Solsbury Hill, Red Rain, and In Your Eyes.

Thanks Melissa, I'll link up the ones you mention a little later.

Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJzo_l_u-p8

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

The Killing Moon - Echo and The Bunnymen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCB835WJsgs

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

[Triple S]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg


Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

[Triple S]

Ozzy Osbourne - Dreamer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJqswLi3uE

[Don]

Red Ryder - Lunatic Fringe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TksAGzfw8Z0

[Triple S]

One of my favorite opera tunes, Neal Schon style:

Caruso
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCYcPfKuZdM

[StoneCold]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

THAT WAS AWESOME.

I need to find this "cover song" cd mentioned in the clip.

[Triple S]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

THAT WAS AWESOME.

I need to find this "cover song" cd mentioned in the clip.

It is, isn't it? (awesome, I mean). I could be wrong, but i don't think that 'covers' CD actually exists (officially, anyway). I've heard samples of some of the songs here and there but was quite surprised to find some of them on YouTube, just took a shot and searched. Some of the posters more expert on everything JSS could maybe fill us in?

[Blueskies]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

THAT WAS AWESOME.

I need to find this "cover song" cd mentioned in the clip.

It is, isn't it? (awesome, I mean). I could be wrong, but i don't think that 'covers' CD actually exists (officially, anyway). I've heard samples of some of the songs here and there but was quite surprised to find some of them on YouTube, just took a shot and searched. Some of the posters more expert on everything JSS could maybe fill us in?

Wow! I haven't heard that either..would love to hear the rest!

[StoneCold]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

THAT WAS AWESOME.

I need to find this "cover song" cd mentioned in the clip.

It is, isn't it? (awesome, I mean). I could be wrong, but i don't think that 'covers' CD actually exists (officially, anyway). I've heard samples of some of the songs here and there but was quite surprised to find some of them on YouTube, just took a shot and searched. Some of the posters more expert on everything JSS could maybe fill us in?

I just put a thread asking about it in his forum so we'll have an answer by morning.

[tammy]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg


Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

Thanks for posting that - that was cool I never heard JSS's cover. I only heard this song for the first time several months ago when I stumbled upon it on youtube while looking for something & immediately loved it. The sad thing is that the youtube I found was a memorial to the young New York model who had killed herself by jumping from a building...the photo montage of her (she looked like a Raphael angel) and the song was soooo sad...I always think of her now when I listen to the song.

[Don]

All Angels - Nothing Compares To You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuentpbZIMY

[tammy]

Not sure if it's been posted in this thread but...

Sia- Breathe Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6PGrub3jUc

I like it.

[Don]

Breathe - Hands to heaven

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY-FRsoJ ... ted&fmt=18

[twinklestar]

GENTLE RAIN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ndU7GK ... annel_page

[Rhiannon]

Evanescence -- My Immortal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idd_92ajjwY

[Ehwmatt]

Don Henley - New York Minute

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOVDr2IeYZg

[SunshineTwilight]

Forever Young - Alphaville
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7CuJ8cR9sg

Ah, I was gonna post "Forever Young" Alphaville! Good one.

I love the JSS version of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KduS9j12dqg

THAT WAS AWESOME.

I need to find this "cover song" cd mentioned in the clip.

It is, isn't it? (awesome, I mean). I could be wrong, but i don't think that 'covers' CD actually exists (officially, anyway). I've heard samples of some of the songs here and there but was quite surprised to find some of them on YouTube, just took a shot and searched. Some of the posters more expert on everything JSS could maybe fill us in?

I just put a thread asking about it in his forum so we'll have an answer by morning.

It's actually a cover on the Alex Rudi Pell CD "The Ballads". It also showed up on a bootleg called 'Cover 2 Cover' that was sold on eBay, but wasn't an official release.

[amaron]

Within Temptation - All I Need

[StoneCold]

Man On The Corner - Genesis
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smejqhzfnnM

[StoneCold]

Don't Talk - 10,000 Maniacs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am1LXE2Rvb0

[tammy]

Don't Talk - 10,000 Maniacs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am1LXE2Rvb0

I've always liked Natalie's voice. Was this one already posted?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4qMUmWA ... re=related

[tammy]

Definitely Journey "Send her my Love" and "Little Girl" (actually I find a lot of their songs have a hauntingly beautiful quality).
Also, Keane has a lot, especially this one: "Atlantic": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkG7a3GQnSg

Now what exactly defines "haunting melody"? Is it a feeling of isolation? associated with a sad event? the way the instruments are played? I've been thinking about this and the songs that would come to my mind I'd listen to on youtube and then they didn't seem as "haunting" as I always thought. So is sad & haunting the same thing? Because there are many songs I find sad but not exactly with a haunting quality.

Anyway, here's another that I always felt falls somewhere in there:
Christopher Cross: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYEWeBarLww

Another one I always think of as haunting is a Beatles song and I can't for the life of me figure out the title! It sounds very ethereal/dreamy (or drug induced -lol) with the lyrics something like, "someone calls out my name"...and then a female voice says "John".....somebody help me cuz it is gonna drive me batty now.

#9 Dream (Lennon, not the Beatles)

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=CEsB3-SMr5s

THANK YOU! I thought it might be Lennon 'cuz of the lyric.

[BobbyinTN]

As far as a Journey song with the most haunting melody, it'd have to be WINDS OF MARCH.

Otherwise, Boz Skaggs "Look What You've Done To Me" is one of the most haunting I've ever heard.