The Most Haunting Score? — Page 3

OMIGOSH YES PARADE YES YES YES!!!!!!

The dissonant Parade theme in the background, the funeral song "It Don't Make Sense," the sound of the young girls singing and that amazingly freakish Hey YEAHHHHHH song with the simple awesome clapping (title escapes me).

Floyd Collins - "Ballad of Floyd Collins - simple, appealing folk song with the darkest lyrics and Jesse Lenat's voice is the f***in s***!!!!!! Also "I Landed On Him," "The Carnival" and the dream sequence. Gosh - it's all so beautiful, dark and creepy eerie.

People write Floyd Collins off - but it's SO AMAZING. The first time I listened, I was on the couch in the dark after I read about the story -which is disturbing enough on it's own. Just knowing the outcome as you listen to the score - you just want so bad for Floyd to...... I won't give it away.

LISTEN TO IT.

PS - My definition of haunting is achingly beautiful, somewhat dark and very moving.

I'm sure I'm breaking some kind of law - but what te h*** -

Listen to songs from Floyd Colins.


http://www.myspace.com/floydcollins (has a L5Y song in error)


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Updated On: 3/12/07 at 05:15 PM

Haunting to me is something that is dark, and brooding without being obvious about it. I think Phantom is too obviously trying to be haunting. It just comes off as 80s power ballads instaed of haunting.

I think Titanice is haunting. The fact that these people are singing these songs and stuff and sailing to their deaths is just heartbreaking.

Not sure how Piazza is haunting, but to each their own.

Nine
Passion
In Trousers
The Cradle Will Rock

Everything Kurt Weill has ever written; particularly, The Threepenny Opera and Lady in the Dark.

Opera: Eugene Onegin (I can't get through the final scene without crying), Jenufa, La Traviata, A Streetcar Named Desire

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-Definitely agree with parts of "Carrie." I heard "And Eve was Weak" a long time ago and I still can't get that last verse out of my head.
-"Parade"
-"Passion"
-Parts of "Grey Gardens"

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"Passion." No contest as far as I'm concerned.

Left Behind and Whispering from Spring Awakening-
so powerfully poignant and haunting.

I would have to agree with "The Secret Garden" or " Phantom"

Secret Garden, Floyd Collins, and I definitely think parts of Grey Gardens and Spring Awakening are haunting.

By the way, is there a recording of William Finn's Elegies? I know a few of the songs but would really love to get the recording if one exists.

SUNSET BOULEVARD

Grey Gardens
Light in the Piazza
Passion
Sweeney Todd