Please post some ethereal / spooky songs...

"Where the Wild Roses Grow," Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave

The Dark Dresses Lightly by Aurora. Kinda Kate Bush-adjacent.

I think this one would count...

Laurie Anderson - "Poison"

Lovers' Day - 'Til Tuesday

Goldfrapp - Utopia

DOA by Bloodrock 1970. Big hit in my Junior High back then. Goths had nothing on us.

Strange Desire...

MH must've had something written in his contract -

R9 That song scared the absolute shit out of me when I was a kid.

Madonna 1=

Madonna 2 =

Madonna 3 =

Little Dragon - Mirror

Fade To Grey perhaps?

I heard this for the first time last night.

I was mesmerized.

Apparently, Joaquín Rodrigo, who was blind, composed it in Paris in 1939. His wife was in labor -- for ten days. She lost the child. Every day, he would walk to the hospital to see her. When he would return home at night, he sat at the piano and wrote it.

"Cruel" by Tori Amos

I died in a car crash two days ago

Was unrecognizable

When they pulled me from the gears

No one's fault, no one's bottle

No one's teenage pride or throttle

Belinda's partner in GOs2 -

The White Stripes big hit tune could've been a Star Trek film theme with aliens invading...

Was a lot spookier before it was made into a perfume ad.

Maybe not so much spooky but very ethereal

The classics never go out of style.

Hold my beer 🍺

Very ethereal with spooky lightning sounds in a faraway place...

Duran2 No. 1

Duran2 No. 2

Get lost

You have shit tastes

A big taste for shit!💩

That Blue Oyster Cult song about Joan Crawford rising from the dead

Seriously Pink Floyd's songs about the human condition are the scariest out there.

That Blue Oyster Cult song about Joan Crawford rising from the dead

Seriously Pink Floyd's songs about the human condition are the scariest out there.

In the air tonight is about a fart

Agree, r32. Especially these:

Goodbye Horses

Bye cunt

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Bjork: Come to Me

You want ethereal? I'll give you ethereal.

Captain Of My Heart

“Flying”, by the Beatles

“2,000 Light Years From Home”

Dancing Barefoot — Patti Smith Group

Sisters of the Moon - oeak Witchy Stevie / Fleetwood Mac

Jackie - Sinead O

come Calling (slow version) - Cowboy Junkies

oh one more,

Cities in Dust - Siouxsie

"Be There" by Unkle featuring Ian Brown

R9's selection used to open for Grand Funk Railroad back in '70.

𝐈'𝐦 𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧 (𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐞) (1970):

"Tinseltown in the Rain" by The Blue Nile. Wistful and enigmatic.

Hypnotic track from Scritti Politti

“In The Rain” - The Dramatics

Elton John's 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝐀 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐝 / 𝐋𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 (1973):

This was played over the closing credits.

𝐌𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐘𝐨𝐮, by Deerhoof (2018):

Sauners Ferry Lane by Sammi Smith

Lay it Down by the Cowboy Junkies Actually you could pretty much play and of their CDs it get this start to finish.

Winter's Going by Bonnie Dobson

Jennifer

Wuthering Heights

Creepiest lullaby ever.

"Heaven and Hell" -- Vangelis

When it comes to Duran Duran, this is the one:

𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐞 𝐄𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 (1986) by the Butthole Surfers:

I think Driver’s Seat by Sniff n the Tears is kind of spooky.

Cowboy Junkies: This Street, That Man, This Life. A beautiful song despite the spookiness.

Thread Closed.

After Dark by Mr. Kitty

"The Beast " from the movie Sicario.

The Attic Song is another spooky ethereal song -

Dolly's spooky tune =

Has nobody included the OG?

Thanks, R62. I forgot about that one.

This Mortal Coil's version of "Another Day". I actually prefer it to "Song To the Siren"

Knights In White Satin - Moody Blues Full version - Listen if you're not familiar with it.

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Ethereal- Hooverphonic's 2 Wicky:

Ethereal- Massive Attack's Teardrop:

the theme to happy days

Ethereal and spooky-Portishead's Glory Box:

He Hit Me and it Felt Like a Kiss

Billie Holiday - For All We Know

From her penultimate album" Lady In Satin" -the last to be released in her lifetime.

[quote]Ray Ellis made his arrangements of the songs to match Holiday's voice. By the mid- to late-1950s, Holiday's voice had changed drastically due to years of alcohol and drug abuse, altering its texture and giving it a fragile, raspy sound. Despite her voice's condition, its distinctive edge had not been lost, and the style of phrasing that had made her a popular jazz singer remained at her command. Ray Ellis said of Holiday's voice:

[quote]I heard her voice [and] I dug it. I was in love with that voice and I was picturing a very evil, sensuous, sultry, very evil...probably one of the most evil voices I've heard in my life...Evil is earthy to me. When you say someone is evil, it means very, very bad. I don't mean bad.

wikipedia

Listening Wind - Talking Heads

I agree about Driver's Seat. It used to make me wonder what happened to Jenny who was "sweet" and always smiled for the people she'd meet.

This cover by Chelsea Wolfe that was featured in the horror movie "X" is phenomenally spooky and ethereal (as is most of her music ).

Also almost anything by Nicole Dollanganger

Pink Martini's version of Qué sera sera. If I ever become I serial killer this is going to be my theme song while I'm slicing and dicing.

This Nicole Dollangager tune especially gives me the fucking creeps. The lyrics are beyond morbid, but I find the sparse, echoing guitar riff extremely haunting.

cowboy junkies - this street, that man, this life

it's pretty much a victim's family letter to a the serial killer who killed her.

That man wears his skin like a dancer wears her veils That man stalks his victims like a cancer stalks a cell That man's soul has left him, his heart's as deadly as a rusty nail That man sheds his skin like a veil

So many songs from The Art of Noise fit the bill for this thread, but Moments in Love is especially good.

Ooooh good one, R90 / R91 . That whole album (Black Eyed Man) was a treasure.

.. and from around the same time period (early 90s), Mazzy Star, Into Dust

Lord you play a hard game.

You know we followed every rule.

Then you took the one thing that we thought we'd never lose.

all I ask is if she's with you please keep her warm and safe and if it's in your power please purge the memory of this place

Those Whole Girls (Run In Grace) -- Suzanne Vega

It took 96? We're slipping.

A very spooky song with ethereal overtones -

This is on my iPod.

Chelsea Wolfe, "Pale on Pale" (she has a lot of other songs that would fit in this list)

I find this pic spookier than the song...

Concrete Blonde owns this thread =

Bloodletting- C. Blonde

The Sky Is A Poisonous Garden - C. Blonde

Tomorrow Wendy's Going To Die - C. Blonde

please don't go. . . . . .

R106 That was beautiful. Thanks 4 posting that.

Halloween season bump.

Seven Devils by Florence & The Machine

Goldfrapp, Lovely Head

Twin Peaks theme.

Beautiful, but listening to it is like instantly being transported back to the early 90’s. The nostalgia makes me want to cry.

The Mummer’s Dance

"Half Light" by Low

Main theme from "The Mothman Prophecies"

Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult

"The Host of Seraphim" by Dead Can Dance.

Laura's Theme, The Lasy Farewell, Pino Donaggio

Lasy=Last

Haunted by Feast of Smoke, they have a spooky vibe

"Black Cat Bone" - Laika

"Window to Your Soul" - Delerium

"Marooned" - Balligomingo

YT put this up as a new selection today...

Sting, Desert Rose

Angie Baby by Ms. Helen Reddy.

Sinead's version of The Skye Boat Song

^ I was scrolling down & thought R128 wrote Sinbad (as in the comic) instead of Sinead for a second there LOL.

LITA FORD & OZZY OSBOURNE - Close My Eyes Forever

Sine we're in Halloween season:

Marin Mazzie, And Eve Was Weak

Alison Moyet - Sleep Like Breathing

Dialogues Des Carmelites (final scene / Salve Regina) Francis Poulenc

Enigma - Sadeness (Full Version)

Devo really doesn't do spooky stuff but this one sounds like it could've been on an 80s Beastmaster film soundtrack =

Halloween season bump

This doesn’t have words but it’s both ethereal and spooky. It’s the music to the final scenes in the movie Midsommar. It’s called “Fire Temple.”

At first i thought I found it very chilling because of my memories of what’s happening in the movie while it’s playing, but I played it for a friend and she said, “Wow, what was THAT? It’s scary.”

Another one that’s very creepy is the body rendering music in the movie “Under the Skin.”

Jeanny by Falco - creeped me out from the first time I heard it in the 80s

R136 You're right about Devo, but that reminded me that The Flaming Lips did a brilliant cover of Devo's "Gates of Steel" that is pretty ethereal-spooky. The first time I heard it, it kind of blew me away.

Another ethereal cover is the Crabtree Remix of Blondie's "Heart of Glass" by Philip Glass and the band. It was featured in The Handmaid's Tale.

Ah I forgot about that one r142, it's so gorgeous.

Here's Cherry Glazerr (the band) doing, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"- it was done for Insidious 2 or 3.

101 - Sheena Easton - written and produced by Prince.

Night Moves - Marilyn Martin

Her screams in this song are a bit scary as is the background music (plus it's about pain) =

A spooky song about paranoia =

This song also by Jane Wiedlin has some ethereal /spookiness music in it =

Another spooky song about paranoia

Spooky:

Vera Gemini, by Blue Oyster Cult.

Heaven and hell...

^ Wow! That post was an entire adventure at over 20 minutes.

Anything else as we get closer to Halloween?

I find the entire Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me soundtrack very eerie and beautiful but this short track is very unsettling. Turn out all the lights and just listen to the ominous soundscape

Mylene Farmer et Jean - Louis Murat

Are 'Friends' Electric? ⚡️

An ethereal / spooky tune from Madge...

The runner up?

Happy Nation...

He Decides...

Bela Lugosi's Dead.

Blue Bell Knoll

Sixteen Days/Gathering Dust

Christine

Come to Me by Bjork

I lose myself every time I listen to this song - it’s absolutely magical to me.

Enya - Boadicea

No idea what this song is about but it's beautiful and creepy as hell

10cc - I'm Not In Love

Always found this one unsettling. Very ethereal backing track and the whispery background vocals are very eerie

R168

“Be quiet: big boys don’t cry. Big boys don’t cry.”

*shudders*

Nina Simone

I Put a Spell on You

Belinda Carlisle's "Should I Let You In" sounds like a stalker is being dealt with...

HELL IS FOR CHILDREN - Pat Benatar

Surely the ouvre of Diamanda Galàs?

Whenever I hear this song I imagine a video of the Grim Reaper chasing the singer until she falls to her death at the end =

Post Halloween bump for more.

Transylvanian Lullaby from Young Frankenstein

This song reminds me of one of those Cuban spiritualism ‘s songs in a spiritual seance or a hoodoo ceremony in Louisiana.

The Fearless Vampire Killers, Krystof Komeda

If you watched Search Party, you'll know this song as the theme, but befor Search Party it was simply an amazing, moody, sexy song by Purity Ring. I give you "Obedear."

One of the sexiest, slinkiest, most mysterious, moodiest "nighttime" songs of all time, "Face The Fire" by Boy Harsher. I cannot EVER get enough of this song.

The Cure are always good for an ethereal, vibey song. Here's a gossamer confection, "All Cats Are Grey" from 1981's Faith LP.

Peter Pears sings Britten

Roxanna's song. (Ethereal and gorgeous)

Possibly creepiest and scariest singing and dancing to be found on youtube

Waiting For The Night - Depeche Mode

In The Nursery - Hallucinations (Dream World Mix)

This was in Street Fighter II in the scene right before Vega attacks Chun Li in her apartment.

This scene:

A countrified spooky sounding tune =

Afternoon Delight by the starland vcal band.

Dream Sweet in Sea Major is everything you are looking for.

Alone at the edge of a universe humming a tune For merely dreaming we were snow

Vanessa Daou has a lot of songs with this sort of "mood," I think.

For Anything:

Babooshka- Kate Bush

Masked Ball from Eyes Wide Shut

I feel the rainfall of another planet...

Blue Oyster Cult:

𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐫 (1975), The Eagles:

Dog Star Girl - Debbie Harry

A friend sent this link today. I guess I would describe its genre as Indian/Fusion. Using Indian singing style, if I'm understanding the singer's introduction correctly, she's setting the suicide note or last letter of a man from India in English. It's quite beautiful and haunting.

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