Most beautiful songs?

Kali

Slowdive - Alison
Mojave 3 - Candle Song 3
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Brian Eno - First track off Ambient 1: Music For Airports.

Basq

Far too many for me... just a couple off the top of my head!

(Haven't read this thread so sorry about any repeats!

Anything by Elliott Smith (especially 'Waltz #2', 'Angeles'.... hell, anything he ever did!)
Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
Frou Frou - Let Go
Zero 7 - In The Waiting Line
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into The Dark
David Gray - Sail Away
David Gray - Freedom
Green Day - Time Of Your Life
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
John Hiatt - Have A Little Faith In Me
Johnny Cash - Hurt

.... loads more where that came from!

Dudess

Kali wrote:

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Man, I feel stoopid for forgetting such an obvious gorgeous, heartbreaking song...

Tar.Aldarion

That damien rice stuff
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Rockerette

Lover, You Shouldve Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Dont Think Twice Its Alright - Bob Dylan
Twilight - Elliott Smith
Delicate - Damien Rice
The Wind - Cat Stevens
Nocturne in C# Minor - Chopin

ANarcho-Munk

Breadcrumb Trail - Slint
Dag Nasty - 13 Seconds Under Water
Johnny Cash - I hung My Head
Sonic Youth - schitzophrenia
Opeth - Harvest
TSOL - Flowers By The Door
Husker Du - Standing By The Sea
Husker Du - Pink Turns To Blue
Fugazi - Ex-Spectator
Fugazi - Cashout
Duvall - Angels We Have Heard On High
Dag Nasty - The Godfather
Any Napalm Death song

Timans

Radiohead - Creep
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
The Jam - That's Entertainment
The Who - Real Good Looking Boy
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Pearl Jam - Elderly Women Behind The Counter In A Small Town
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Placebo - Song to Say Goodbye
Bob Marley - Redemption Song

eddyc

Gotta love pearl jam , one of my mates said he used to get a lump in his throat listening to 'Black' , the 'I know someday you'll have a beautiful life' part, classic stuff

Xavi6

kc66 wrote:

Crowded house- fall at your feet

Yes! Delighted that song got a mention.

My favs would be:

Bright Eyes - Somethin Vague
REM - At My Most Beautiful
Muse - Unintended
Lifehouse - Hangin By A Moment (Cheesy yes but also great)
Bush - Glycerine
Wilt - Open Arms
Seafood - What May Be The Oldest
Bell X1 - Eve Is The Apple Of My Eye
Bon Jovi - Bed Of Roses
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Doves - Cedar Room, Satellites
Embrace - Gravity
JJ72 - Brother Sleep
Idlewild - American English, Goodnight
Kula Shaker - Drop In The Sea

That's the lot I think!!

Dudess

I think Distant Sun by Crowded House is way more beautiful than Fall at Your Feet. It was used on Reeling In The Years for the IRA ceasefire in 1994 - a goosebumps and lump-in-throat moment.

Edit: anyone know where I could get the Rolling Stones version of It's All Over Now, Baby Blue? It's utterly stunning, and better than the original.

Rockerette

Bell X1 - In Every Sunflower, also may i add

Cake Fiend

Massive Attack - Protection
Björk - All Is Full Of Love
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII Aeris' Theme

melekalikimaka

Tilt - Berkley Pier
Air - All I Need
Pixies - Where Is My Mind
Björk - Glora
Alec Empire - Silence And Burning Ice
Sonic Subjunkies - Central Industrial

eddyc

Loads mentioned 'Hallelujah' by Jeff Buckley, have to add for myself 'Dream Brother' as well, great tune, also Veruca salt have some great ones ,'Spiderman' and 'One last time' are definately beautiful, oh and 'Eternal Flame' by the Bangles

Padwick

My favourites: (in no particular order)

3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Dina Carroll - Don't Be A Stranger
Sinéad O'Connor - One More Day
Within Temptation - Angels
Autamata - Out Of This
Steve Earle - Nothing But A Child
Damien Rice - Cannonball
Evanescence - My Immortal
Default - All She Wrote
REM - Strange Currencies
Garth Brooks - If Tomorrow Never Comes
Dire Straits - Romeo And Juliet
Natasha Bedingfield - The One That Got Away
Billy Joel - Vienna
Cyndi Lauper - I'm Gonna Be Strong
Rob Thomas - Ever The Same
The Sounds - Night After Night (Slow Version)

Kevster

Air Supply - All Out Of Love
Alanis Morissette - Thank U
Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass
Avril Lavigne - Tomorrow

Baccara - Yes Sir, I Can Boogie
Band, The - The Weight
Bette Midler - From A Distance
Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings
Boy Meets Girl - Waiting For A Star To Fall
Byrds, The - Mr. Tambourine Man

Carly Simon - Coming Around Again
Cast - Walkaway
Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now
Climie Fisher - Love Changes Everything
Cranberries, The - Dreams
Creedence Clearwater Revisited - Bad Moon Rising
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over

Def Leppard - When Love & Hate Collide
Donna Summer - This Time I Know It's For Real

Eagles, The - Journey Of The Sorcerer
Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
Elaine & Barbara - I Know Him So Well
England Dan & John Ford Coley - I'd Really Love To See You Tonight
Eurythmics, The - Thorn In My Side

Faces, The - Ooh La La
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Foreigner - I Wanna Know What Love Is

Gigolo Aunts - Where I Find My Heaven
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street

Haddaway - What Is Love
Heart - Alone

Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme (Miami Vice)
Jefferson Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
John Denver - Annie's Song

Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Katie Melua - The Closest Thing To Crazy

Louis Armstrong - We Have All The Time In The World

Madonna - Live To Tell
Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven

Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights
Prefab Sprout - King Of Rock 'N Roll
Primitives, The - Crash

Rita Coolidge - All Time High
Robert Miles & Maria Nayler - One & One
Roxette - It Must Have Been Love

Scorpians, The - Wind Of Change

Tammy Wynette - Stand By Your Man
Thin Lizzy & Gary Moore - Parisienne Walkways
Tom Petty - Freefallin'

UB40 - Can't Help Falling In Love

Whitesnake - Is This Love
Wilson Philipps - Hold On

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George Frederic Handel - The Messiah, Hallelujah
Georges Bizet - Habanera
Gustav Holst - The Planets, Jupiter

Johann Pachelbel - Canon In D Minor
Johann Strauss II - Blue Danube Waltz
Joseph Maurice Ravel - Bolero

Piotr Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture
Piotr Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto #1

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - The Marriage Of Figaro, Overture

blastman

ANarcho-Munk wrote:

Any Napalm Death song

You suffer is just *sniff* beautiful, man!

Anam

Sico wrote:

Nobuo Uematsu - Final Fantasy VII Aeris' Theme

Yeah definately this one,also the piano version of Terra's theme.



Pink Floyd - Breathe

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Death In June - Giddy Giddy Carousel

Rockerette

joni mitchell - all i want

TwoBrackets

"Starálfur" by Sigur Rós, hands down.

ZWEI_VIER_ZWEI

Covenant - Brave New World/The Men from their new album Skyshaper gg.

Xavi6

Two others that I criminally overlooked:

The Scorpions - Winds of Change and Men At Work - Overkill (particularly the acoustic version. Winds of Change is easily in my top 3 favourite songs of all time.

BaZmO*

SIGUR ROS - Untitled (part 3) from ( )
GRANT LEE PHILLIPS - Sleepless Lake
BELL X1 - I'll See Your Heart & I'll Raise You Mine

Macka

Tonight, tonight - Smashing Pumpkins
Your hand in mine - Explosions in the sky
Fall back down - Rancid
There is - Box Car Racer
Passenger - Deftones
Fields of Elysium - Hans Zimmerman
Hurt - Johnny Cash
The mission - John Williams
Jerusalem - Matisyahu
The unforgiven - Metallica
Somewhere over the rainbow - Ray Charles
A thousand miles - Vanessa Carlton
Your ex-lover is dead - Stars
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gustavo

Supersonic - Oasis
Politik - Coldplay

Bodhidharma

"Sex Farm " - Spinal Tap.

According to Bass player Derek Smalls it "takes a sophisticated look at working on a sex farm". I agree, such beautiful lyrics


Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

Scratching in your henhouse
Sniffing at your feedbag
Slipping out your back door
Leaving my spray

Sex farm woman, I'm gonna mow you down
Sex farm woman, I'll rake and hoe you down
Sex farm woman, don't you see my silo rising high?

Working on a sex farm
Hosing down your barn door
Bothering you livestock
They know what I need

Working up a hot sweat
Crouching in your pea patch
Plowing through your beanfield
Planting my seed

Sex farm woman, I'll be your hired hand
Sex farm woman, I'll let my offer stand
Sex farm woman, don't you hear my tractor rumbling by?

Working on a sex farm
Trying to raise some hard love
Getting out my pitch fork
Poking your hay

There is a lump in my throat, God bless em.

Dudess

Since Love's Arthur Lee has passed on, it's appropriate to give a mention to the incredible Alone Again Or. I should have mentioned it long ago.

metrovelvet

Any Puccini aria.
Arvo Part's Fur Alina
Into My Arms -sung by John Cale
Moon River - sung by Morrisey
California Dreaming - Sung by Queen Latifah
A Kiss on the Window - Gabriel Yared
Birthday - Sugarcubes
Conte de l'incroyable amour - Anouar Brahem
Suitcase Calling - Polyphonic Spree

the list could go on and on....

aidan24326

John Lennon- Woman
Thin Lizzy- Sarah
A Perfect Circle- Orestes
The Carpenters- Close to You