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Haunting - a mixtape
Once again, I am posting something I didn't plan to post. I was going to post a few happy songs to brighten up Sunday (as it's raining over here) but I made the mistake (or not) of reading the last few chapters of Let the Right One In, and I am haunted by it in the best possible way. These songs reflect that, not just haunting in relation to ghosts or monsters, but in all senses of the word (but mostly sadness).
65daysofstatic Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here (Instrumental)
Contrary to popular belief in RL, I don't just like this song because of the title. It makes me feel restless, like my life is a time limit and that I have to run from it, or that there's this monster chasing me, except it has no form and it's right there, or even a heartbeat. It gets a little repetitive at times, but it manages to tell a story without words, and I love that.
Adele Hometown Glory
The first minute or so of this song is enough to bring tears to my eyes. The song itself I don't really feel fits in here, mostly for the lyrics and the fact that her voice is slightly too reminiscent of Amy Winehouse. But the intro makes it worth it, as it is haunting, in the way that makes you think of funerals or someone's back when they walk away or the credits at the end of a movie that leaves you unsatisfied.
Gary Jules Mad World
I think this song was made famous by Donnie Darko, and it's the first image that comes to mind when I listen to it. But after that image's come and gone, I close my eyes and imagine myself lying down in the middle of a field of flowers just to shut the world out. Sometimes I think this song defines haunting.
Cloud Cult When Water Comes To Life
This song has always been a little creepy to me, with an undertone of sorrow. The song itself highlights loss, and what happens beyond it, but every time I hear it all I can hear or really register is the vocalist's voice and the way it kind of garbles at one point, and you can really imagine that he's not so much drowning as turning back into water.
Imogen Heap Have You Got It In You?
Honestly, I think I could have chosen any one of her songs and put it here, because it's not so much the song that haunts you as it is her voice, which is a Godsend imo.
Iron & Wine The Trapeze Swinger
This is one of my favorite songs ever, and it's because I love everything about it. From the vocalizing to the beginning to the guitar strumming to the "nanana"s to the way his voice sounds at the beginning of each verse, but mostly I love it because you can feel it.
Nina Simone Ne Me Quitte Pas (French vocals)
I don't get this song, but I'll listen to it once and not be able to stop thinking about it, or the way he sounds so forlorn during the chorus, for hours at a time.
Stars Celebration Guns
The first time I heard this song I felt it was very misleading. After having it on repeat for a few days, I realize that it's not that at all, but under the lyrics and the rhythm, it's hiding something.
The Knife Forest families
Her voice is creepy, and yet pleasant. It's a weird mix, which is why I avoided this song for a while, but when looking for songs for the mix, I was listening to this I instantly thought of a ghost or a phantom wandering through a forest for decades after a tragedy, and who finally finds another source of life and just... starts stalking it. When I looked up the lyrics I realized it was, in reality, a song about women.
Thirteen Senses Undivided
This song is sad, and every time I listen to it, it makes me feel like I should be longing for something.
Kimya Dawson Stinky Stuff (Hold My Hand)
If Undivided was sad, then this is downright depressing, seeing as it's basically about child abuse from the eyes of an abused child. Now, that's not a weird or uncommon premise, but this one is better than the other, I think, because with Kimya's voice is so heartwrenching and realistic, and she actually sounds like a child without making it seem forced, and there's this part where her voice breaks and another where the word ends with a sigh, and it's just so beautiful in its sadness.
Giulio Caccini Ave Maria
On the surface a fairly simple song, with Ave Maria being constantly repeated in different ways and intercepted by some vocalization. But, geez, there's a funeral somewhere out there that's playing this, I just know it.
→ download ; 66.35MB
Bonus tracks!
Death Cab For Cutie:
Passenger Seat
Brothers on a Hotel Bed
...I swear my next post will have some happy songs in it. D:
65daysofstatic Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here (Instrumental)
Contrary to popular belief in RL, I don't just like this song because of the title. It makes me feel restless, like my life is a time limit and that I have to run from it, or that there's this monster chasing me, except it has no form and it's right there, or even a heartbeat. It gets a little repetitive at times, but it manages to tell a story without words, and I love that.
Adele Hometown Glory
The first minute or so of this song is enough to bring tears to my eyes. The song itself I don't really feel fits in here, mostly for the lyrics and the fact that her voice is slightly too reminiscent of Amy Winehouse. But the intro makes it worth it, as it is haunting, in the way that makes you think of funerals or someone's back when they walk away or the credits at the end of a movie that leaves you unsatisfied.
Gary Jules Mad World
I think this song was made famous by Donnie Darko, and it's the first image that comes to mind when I listen to it. But after that image's come and gone, I close my eyes and imagine myself lying down in the middle of a field of flowers just to shut the world out. Sometimes I think this song defines haunting.
Cloud Cult When Water Comes To Life
This song has always been a little creepy to me, with an undertone of sorrow. The song itself highlights loss, and what happens beyond it, but every time I hear it all I can hear or really register is the vocalist's voice and the way it kind of garbles at one point, and you can really imagine that he's not so much drowning as turning back into water.
Imogen Heap Have You Got It In You?
Honestly, I think I could have chosen any one of her songs and put it here, because it's not so much the song that haunts you as it is her voice, which is a Godsend imo.
Iron & Wine The Trapeze Swinger
This is one of my favorite songs ever, and it's because I love everything about it. From the vocalizing to the beginning to the guitar strumming to the "nanana"s to the way his voice sounds at the beginning of each verse, but mostly I love it because you can feel it.
Nina Simone Ne Me Quitte Pas (French vocals)
I don't get this song, but I'll listen to it once and not be able to stop thinking about it, or the way he sounds so forlorn during the chorus, for hours at a time.
Stars Celebration Guns
The first time I heard this song I felt it was very misleading. After having it on repeat for a few days, I realize that it's not that at all, but under the lyrics and the rhythm, it's hiding something.
The Knife Forest families
Her voice is creepy, and yet pleasant. It's a weird mix, which is why I avoided this song for a while, but when looking for songs for the mix, I was listening to this I instantly thought of a ghost or a phantom wandering through a forest for decades after a tragedy, and who finally finds another source of life and just... starts stalking it. When I looked up the lyrics I realized it was, in reality, a song about women.
Thirteen Senses Undivided
This song is sad, and every time I listen to it, it makes me feel like I should be longing for something.
Kimya Dawson Stinky Stuff (Hold My Hand)
If Undivided was sad, then this is downright depressing, seeing as it's basically about child abuse from the eyes of an abused child. Now, that's not a weird or uncommon premise, but this one is better than the other, I think, because with Kimya's voice is so heartwrenching and realistic, and she actually sounds like a child without making it seem forced, and there's this part where her voice breaks and another where the word ends with a sigh, and it's just so beautiful in its sadness.
Giulio Caccini Ave Maria
On the surface a fairly simple song, with Ave Maria being constantly repeated in different ways and intercepted by some vocalization. But, geez, there's a funeral somewhere out there that's playing this, I just know it.
→ download ; 66.35MB
Bonus tracks!
Death Cab For Cutie:
Passenger Seat
Brothers on a Hotel Bed
...I swear my next post will have some happy songs in it. D: