Most beautiful songs?

5uspect

some good stuff here,
some weird stuff here too...

anyway here are one or two off the top of my head:
Frank Sinatra - Summerwind
Josh Ritter - Thin Blue Flame
The Frames - What happens when the heart just stops
The Wallflowers - One headlight

Dudess

I'm just surprised it hasn't been lobbed over to Music yet.

Pink Bunny

Face of Love -Jewel

Jeanne- Air

China Roses- Enya

By your Side- Sade

Landslide - Stevie Nicks


Beautiful Child - Stevie Nicks

Anto McC

1 or 2 of the ones already mentioned and

Out on the weekend - Neil Young
Pinball machine - Bellx1
Beautiful madness - Bellx1

There is just too many to name really!!

Squaddy

The power of love by frankee goes to hollywood.
At my most beautiful and Everybody hurts by REM.
Thats whats on my mind at the moment.

5uspect

normally i don't like nick cave and I'm an atheist but i love:
into my arms
god is in the house
and
Darker with the day

also deserves a nod:
mad world (gary Jules version)
Alabama 3 - Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness
Eels - its a motherfcuker
Eels - fresh feeling

so many beautiful songs...

cashback

REM - Perfect Circle
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Doves - The Cedar Room
Satie - Gymnopédies
Interpol - Untitled
Husker Du - Hardly Getting Over It

Dave!

The Marino Waltz - John Sheahan/The Dubliners

Package

angel from heaven by dextra. beautiful song

Anything by Damien Rice - I just love his music
Same goes for David Gray
Hallelujah - I like the shrek version and the Jeff buckley version
A few of bob marleys songs too
Sarah mc lachlan - In the arms of an angel
Sinead O Connor - Nothing compares to you

Bixmoo

Asleep by the Smiths or Falling by Ben Kweller

Dudess

Ride - Vapour Trail
New Order - Thieves Like Us
Nick Cave - Into My Arms
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Bell X1 - Rocky Took a Lover
Jeff Buckley - Dream Brother
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost

Sauron

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead...
No Surprises - Radiohead
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
Pyramid Song - Radiohead...

etc etc... :P

Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Teardrop - Massive Attack
Running to Stand Still - U2
Boots of Spanish Leather - Bob Dylan
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley

Dudess

Oh, Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
David Bowie - Life On Mars?

Bixmoo

Nick Drake - Day Is Done

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

cEvin Key - Shortwave Connector
Laibach - Illumination
VNV Nation - Standing
EVERYTHING Klaus Schulze has done
Kraftwerk - The Robots ( from The Mix )
Autechre - Lowride
Suicide - Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne
Air - Ce Matin-La
Skinny Puppy - Riverz End
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electic?
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light In Darkness ( or most of the Technodelic album for that matter )
VNV Nation - Perpetual
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Maifestspiele ( The middle of Fiat Lux ) Perpetuum Mobile, Total Eclipse of the Sun, The Garden
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea, Vit Drowning, Omnipresence
Skinny Puppy - Film
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes, Stone In Focus
The Prodigy - Climbatize
Tangerine Dream - All of Force Majeure, Phaedra
DAF - Wer schoen sein will muss leiden


phew! That's a lot of songs...though they are the first ones that come to mind when I think of the word "Beautiful", I could go on for hours!. The vast vast majority of these are wholly electronic, very few ( if any ) don't feature any form of electronic synthesis...personally I don't view acoustic instruments as "beautiful" or as aesthetically pleasing as the ethereal qualities of synthesisers...of course this is a matter of personal taste...


edit: Actually, personally I think that list would make a lovely electronic music compilation/sampler ( if you removed the few non electronic ones such as EN and Joy Division for consistency and chose select pieces from the full albums )

il gatto

REM - Electrolyte
Puccini - Nessun Dorma (Pavarotti's version. Ah Italia '90)
Suede - The Wild Ones
Radiohead - No Surprises
Blur - This is a Low:)

Dudess

I keep remembering other ones: Nick Drake - Riverman
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
The Sundays - cover of Wild Horses (even better than the Stones)

Fusion251

1. How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
2. Grace - Jeff Buckley
3. Zion - Lauryn Hill

They'd be my top 3 at the mo, just got a Ray Lamontage album and one of the tunes on that is pretty close too...great album!

Fusion

blastman

Someone mentioned Boots Of Spanish Leather already....I'm impressed!

Kentucky Avenue - Tom Waits
Ride On - AC/DC
Helpless - Neil Young

il gatto

Also Nick Drake - At The Chime of a City Clock
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Wilco - Misunderstood
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road

projectmayhem

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote:

cEvin Key - Shortwave Connector
Laibach - Illumination
VNV Nation - Standing
EVERYTHING Klaus Schulze has done
Kraftwerk - The Robots ( from The Mix )
Autechre - Lowride
Suicide - Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne
Air - Ce Matin-La
Skinny Puppy - Riverz End
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electic?
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light In Darkness ( or most of the Technodelic album for that matter )
VNV Nation - Perpetual
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Maifestspiele ( The middle of Fiat Lux ) Perpetuum Mobile, Total Eclipse of the Sun, The Garden
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea, Vit Drowning, Omnipresence
Skinny Puppy - Film
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes, Stone In Focus
The Prodigy - Climbatize
Tangerine Dream - All of Force Majeure, Phaedra
DAF - Wer schoen sein will muss leiden

i am so gay for you right now

kc66

Crowded house- fall at your feet

Bixmoo

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI wrote:

cEvin Key - Shortwave Connector
Laibach - Illumination
VNV Nation - Standing
EVERYTHING Klaus Schulze has done
Kraftwerk - The Robots ( from The Mix )
Autechre - Lowride
Suicide - Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne
Air - Ce Matin-La
Skinny Puppy - Riverz End
Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electic?
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Nine Inch Nails - La Mer
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light In Darkness ( or most of the Technodelic album for that matter )
VNV Nation - Perpetual
Einstuerzende Neubauten - Maifestspiele ( The middle of Fiat Lux ) Perpetuum Mobile, Total Eclipse of the Sun, The Garden
Future Sound of London - Papua New Guinea, Vit Drowning, Omnipresence
Skinny Puppy - Film
Aphex Twin - Parallel Stripes, Stone In Focus
The Prodigy - Climbatize
Tangerine Dream - All of Force Majeure, Phaedra
DAF - Wer schoen sein will muss leiden

Shwayt!!!

more Aphex Twin: Alberto Balsalm, Avril 14th, Jynweythek Ylow and Kraftwerk: Europe Endless

Magnetic Fields: 100,000 Fireflies
Richard Hawley - The Nights Are Cold
Plastikman - I Don't Know
Camera Obscura - Keep It Clean
Stereolab - Op Hop Detonation

eddyc

The Orb - Ubiquity , Toxygen
FSOL - My Kingdom
Deftones - Change ( In the house of Flies )
Massive Attack - Teardrop
Neotropic - Cornershop Candy
Smashing Pumpkins - Soma

Tar.Aldarion

Too many to possibly name, so many beautiful songs, for very different reasons.
I find most classical music to be beautiful.

DarkJager

The most beautiful song I've heard in a long time is a house track by Solu Music feat KimBlee called Fade. Don't confuse this with the crappy remix going around at the moment, the original is a beautiful slice of midnight chill out.

Nightwish

Anything by Tuomas Holopainen.

tracert

My pop-y choices:
Most songs by Elliott Smith
Suzanne by Cohen
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Dylan
Atlantic City, The River and Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) by Springsteen

blastman

Johnny Cash's version of If You Could Read My Mind is just heartbreaking.