# What's your favorite "haunting" song? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741 "2016-04-09T23:48:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/21 "2016-04-10T06:21:13Z")
A lot of cuts off of Marvin Gaye’s _What’s Going On album_ fit this category. My favorite example is [“Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Ykv1D0qEE). Another song, in a completely different genre, is King Crimson’s [“In the Court of the Crimson King”](https://vimeo.com/142512117). Finally, shifting genres again, there is [this version of “Ocean”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUQ9tmwup2Q) by The Velvet Underground. ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/22 "2016-04-10T06:35:00Z")
Jeff Buckley’s [Vancouver](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0_pFAh6cbw). ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/23 "2016-04-10T06:53:46Z")
[Exit Music For A Film](https://youtu.be/iMqXj-eVCjI) by Radiohead. The other half nominated [Ghost Town](https://youtu.be/RZ2oXzrnti4) by the Specials before taking it more seriously and nominating [Julie](https://youtu.be/HtykSv-wiCg) by The Levellers Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/24 "2016-04-10T07:25:49Z")
_[Your Ghost](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfW4-nP2G1Q)_ by Kristin Hersh feat Michael Stipe _[Song To The Siren](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFWKJ2FUiAQ&nohtml5=False)_ by This Mortal Coil feat Elizabeth Frazier _[Fortune Presents Gifts Not According To The Book](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGXnI7CM1k&nohtml5=False)_ by Dead Can Dance _[1959](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGtNeeLabJg&nohtml5=False)_ sisters of mercy ---
**Author:** ![Lorne\_Armstrong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/87869e/32.png) [@Lorne\_Armstrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorne_Armstrong)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/25 "2016-04-10T08:50:16Z")
Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel Par Avion - Mike & The Mechanics Spectral Mornings - Steve Hackett Someone Else’s Dream - Tony Banks We Fly So Close - Phil Collins ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/26 "2016-04-10T09:38:04Z")
[Hijo de la Luna](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpWXyRq-SIw) by Mecano [Blue Light](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkGfDklqus) by Mazzy Star [China Roses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eszdFO27dGw) by Enya [Haunted](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8oyxrrEk58) by Sean McGowan and Sinead O’Connor [Dante’s Prayer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dge_MOBGxjo) by Loreena McKennitt [I Am Stretched On Your Grave](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8mU8kBvSnI) by Sinead O’Connor ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/27 "2016-04-10T09:58:59Z")
> [@Nars\_Glinley](#): > > …Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. You hit mine right off. I’ve heard lots of haunting songs, but this is the one that comes to mind instantly every time. I’ve talked here about the first time I heard it before. A friend and I were out on an errand when it came on the radio, and neither of us had heard it before. He immediately turned it up, I pulled into a parking lot and stopped, and we just sat there listening to it, with goosebumps on our arms. Then we put off our errand to go to a music store. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/28 "2016-04-10T10:54:26Z")
Not in a spooky sense, but still haunting and sad. [Past Caring](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCaGYH-UHS4) ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/29 "2016-04-10T11:56:15Z")
> [@Balance](#): > > You hit mine right off. I’ve heard lots of haunting songs, but this is the one that comes to mind instantly every time. I’ve talked here about the first time I heard it before. A friend and I were out on an errand when it came on the radio, and neither of us had heard it before. He immediately turned it up, I pulled into a parking lot and stopped, and we just sat there listening to it, with goosebumps on our arms. Then we put off our errand to go to a music store. Being a Brit, I’d never heard of the _Edmund Fitzgerald_, but, after hearing the song, learned the story and that made me really appreciate it. I’ll also second **Mr Dibble** with This Mortal Coil’s _Song To The Siren_ I’ll put forward Barbara’s _[L’Aigle Noir](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHWiw7lRdPQ)_. (It’s in French, but the link contains subtitles.) I should also mention that R. Dean Taylor’s _There’s A Ghost In My House_ is one of my all time favourites, but I’m not sure that’s what the OP was looking for… ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/30 "2016-04-10T12:02:03Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Roberta Flack’s “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” +1 ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/31 "2016-04-10T14:07:25Z")
“Ghost Song” - Jim Morrison & The Doors “Spooky” - Mike Sharpe “I Am Haunted” - Indians ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2016, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/32 "2016-04-10T14:51:59Z")
Adam Again: [The 10th Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP32eg6q-xE) ---
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Lhasa - [El Desierto](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiF34SxL_wY) ---
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The original Burl Ives [recording](https://youtu.be/j2klh2cTa_Q?list=RDj2klh2cTa_Q) of Ghost Riders In The Sky. ---
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[In the Air Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA) – Phil Collins [More I Cannot Wish You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHoOgT9vfk&nohtml5=False) – Guys and Dolls [Turn Around](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCh13Rsd-WU&nohtml5=False) – Malvina Reynolds ---
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[Haunted - Poe](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3lBF2h-Pl0) ---
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Dead Can Dance - _The host of Seraphim_ [The Host of Seraphim | Stephen King's The Mist Wiki | Fandom](http://stephenkingsthemist.wikia.com/wiki/The_Host_of_Seraphim?file=The_Mist_Theme_Song) ---
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> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > How about The Doors ‘ **Riders on the Storm** ’. +1 ---
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[Ocean Gypsy](http://youtu.be/qGhUVX3-A18), by Renaissance ---
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