Most beautiful...

[bedhead_dl]

I'm on my break from work at the moment and I was just reading the depressing music thread on here and I thought I might brighten the mood a tad by asking you all what's the most beautiful song or album you know?

You know what I'm saying, the song that makes you smiles and reminisce about that time under the maple tree with Debbie Rogers or laying in bed on a Sunday morning knowing you have all day and nothing to do... hmmm

Yeah so what song is beautiful to you?

I have to say "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John. There's something about this song that makes it so beautiful. It is a beautifully written song and beautifully performed by good old Reg. Seriously, I could be near suicidal and be saved by listening to this. Beautiful.

Jeff Buckley's classic "Grace". This whole album from start to finish is a work of true art and brilliance. I have only just picked up his two live albums (Mystery White Boy and Live A L'Olympia) and they reak of beauty... every song tinged with tragedy...

And Finally -

"Kid A" by you know who (Radiohead). There's no doubt that it's an acuired taste and it does take time to grow on people, but I see this as a work of art, beauty and intelligent brilliance. Each song on their own may not be so impressive but if you view it as a whole album you can do nothing but appreciate what you're listening to.

All bootaful!

[bob]

Pale Blue Eyes-The Velvet Underground
Wild World-Cat Stevens
Oh Yoko!-John Lennon
Let Down-Radiohead

More later...

[RicochetShaw]

"Do you Realize?" - The Flaming Lips

[bowieee]

Originally posted by RicochetShaw
"Do you Realize?" - The Flaming Lips

Great song.


The Colors and the Kids: Cat Power
Geographic North Pole: Laurie Anderson
Black Hair: Nick Cave
Oh Comely: Nuetral Milk Hotel
Leif Erickson: Interpol
Lost Someone: James Brown (beautiful in a soulfull sort of way)
Diamond Sea: Sonic Youth
Ultra Violet (Light My Way): U2
Slip Away: David Bowie
L-O-V-E (Love): Al Green
Satellite of Love: Lou Reed
Reel around the fountain: The Smiths
Lilac Wine: Jeff Buckley

[Annie Hall]

Please Please Please Let me Get What I want - The Smiths

America - Simon and Garfunkel

Hallelujah - as done by Rufus Wainwright (don't hurt me, bowieee)

At My Most Beautiful - R.E.M.

Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush

Sometimes Always - Jesus and Mary Chain

Breathe in Now - George

As the World Falls Down - David Bowie

Pictures of You - The Cure

Hard Candy - Counting Crows

Song For Whoever - Beautiful South

Dreams - Cranberries

[BorderEevilIII]

Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins

[bowieee]

Originally posted by Annie Hall


Hallelujah - as done by Rufus Wainwright (don't hurt me, bowieee)



UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

*bites lip*

[electriclite]

Aimee Mann - Wise Up

Alana Davis - God of Love

Badly Drawn Boy - Once Around the Block

Betchadupa - Lucy's Song

Blind Melon - Soul One

The Church - Under the Milky Way

The Cure - Pictures of You

Dave Matthews Band - Christmas Song

Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby

Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight

Elton John - Sacrifice

Fleetwood Mac - Sara

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World

John Lennon - Oh Yoko

KD Lang - Miss Chatelaine

Louie Armstrong - Wonderful World

Louie Armstrong - We Have All the Time in the World

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

Moby - My Weakness

Pete Yorn - On Your Side

Rufus Wainwright - Poses

Siouxise and the Banshees - The Ghost in You

The Smiths - Well I Wonder

U2- 40

U2 - One

Wilco - Airline to Heaven

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps

[blankpage]

With a Little Help From my Friends ~ The Beatles
Penny Lane ~ The Beatles
I Wanna Hold Your Hand ~ The Beatles
Two of Us ~ The Beatles
Maxwell's Silver Hammer ~ The Beatles
Have a Cigar ~ Pink Flyod
The Ocean ~ Led Zeppelin
Poor Tom ~ Led Zeppelin
Misty Mountain Hop ~ Led Zeppelin
The Joker ~ The Steve Miller Band
You're My Best Friend ~ Queen
Bicycle Race ~ Queen
Under Pressure ~ Queen
Under Pressure ~ Queen f/ David Bowie
The Show Must Go On~ Queen f/ Elton John
Instant Karma! ~ John Lennon
Oh Yoko! ~ John Lennon
Karma Police ~ Radiohead
Wooly Bully ~ Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs
Someone Saved My Life Tonight ~ Elton John

[Annie Hall]

Originally posted by bowieee
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGH

*bites lip*

It's not superior to the other version! Nay! It's just...really pretty....but, I listed David Bowie AND that This Mortal Coil song...surely that must mean something? (yes, yes, I know, don't call you Shirley)

[notchreturns]

God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Possibly Maybe - Bjork
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Pictures of Me - Elliott Smith
Rabbit In Your Headlights - UNKLE
After The Gold Rush - Neil Young
Lost Cause - Beck
Playground Love - Air
Untitled #8 - Sigur Ros

[BakeTheMooCow]

David Bowie - "Sound and Vision"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "The Ship Song"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
Pearl Jam - "Wishlist"
Mirah - "Cold Cold Water"
The Cure - "Pictures of You"
The Delgados - "American Trilogy"
Radiohead - "True Love Waits"
Manic Street Preachers - "You Stole the Sun From my Heart"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Cupid De Locke"
HIM - "Heaven Tonight"
Counting Crows - "A Long December"

[one_crow_sorrow]

Pearl Jam - Nothingman, Wishlist, Black
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Gary Jules - Mad World (his version is so much more beautiful and haunting than the original)
Depeche Mode/Scott Weiland - But Not Tonight

[bowieee]

Originally posted by Annie Hall
It's not superior to the other version! Nay! It's just...really pretty....but, I listed David Bowie AND that This Mortal Coil song...surely that must mean something? (yes, yes, I know, don't call you Shirley)

It's just that it's a cover of a cover and copies John cales cover note for note, voice tone for voice tone. John Cale took that song and created an original outstanding cover version of it. Then that schmuck copies John cales cover stealing everything that made it intimate and cool.


Arrrgh.

but I do like your other choices :)

[bowieee]

Originally posted by BakeTheMooCow
David Bowie - "Sound and Vision"
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - "The Ship Song"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
Pearl Jam - "Wishlist"
Mirah - "Cold Cold Water"
The Cure - "Pictures of You"
The Delgados - "American Trilogy"
Radiohead - "True Love Waits"
Manic Street Preachers - "You Stole the Sun From my Heart"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Cupid De Locke"
HIM - "Heaven Tonight"
Counting Crows - "A Long December"

I really like these songs bake. Nice calls all around.

[Morgana]

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
London - Queensryche
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles
Time and Tide - Basia
I Let the Music Speak - Abba
Time Stand Still - Rush

[jackson13]

Beautiful - HIM


I cant listen to it without tearing up. Just to love someone that much to write a song that powerful about them, ugh, gets me everytime.

[Raymond Babbit]

REM- Find the River, Gardening at Night

Barenaked Ladies- Light Up My Room

The Who- Behind Blue Eyes

Led Zeppelin- Stairway to Heaven

Rolling Stones- Moonlight Mile

The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony

[jeo4]

Let It Be - The Beatles

Love Walks In - Van Halen

Nothing Else Matters - Metallica

Black - Pearl Jam

A Beautiful Day - U2

Long December - Counting Crows

Who's Crying Now - Journey

Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - Elton John

Big Empty - Stone Temple Pilots

Dreams - Fleetwood Mac

Time Of Your Life - Greenday

(Well this list could go on for a while...I'll stop while I can.) ;)

[Deep Blue Sea]

Eric Clapton - "Tears In Heaven"
Evanescence - "My Immortal" (Version off of Daredevil without the band)
Brian McKnight - "Back At One"

[Jerk Shapiro]

"Stairway To Heaven" ~ Led Zeppelin

"Misty Mountain Hop" ~ Led Zeppelin

"Here Comes The Sun" ~ The Beatles

"Over the Hills and Far Away" ~ Led Zeppelin

"The Christmas Song" ~ Dave Matthews Band

"Santeria" ~ Sublime

[BadCoverVersion]

Always Coming Back To You - Scott Walker

Heroes - David Bowie

Last Day Of The Miners Strike - Pulp

Pagan Poetry - Bjork

Don't Give Up On Me - Solomon Burke

Ne Me Quitte Pas - Jacques Brel

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Ah! Melody - Serge Gainsbourg

[loserkid]

asleep -the smiths
untitled 3 and 8 - sigur ros
untitled 13 - spy
maps - yeah yeah yeahs
alive - ryan adams
slide show - travis
my immortal - evanesence
rabbit in your headlight - UNKLE
motion picture soundtrack - radiohead

[one_crow_sorrow]

The Beatles - Across the Universe

[Grebdron]

I'm a sucker for a good piano line...

Elton John - Funeral For a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

Supertramp - Child of Vision

Cyndi Lauper - True Colors

Jim Croce - Operator and I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song

Don McLean - American Pie

[Indiana Sev]

American Pie - Don McLean
Let it Be - The Beatles
Across the Universe - The Beatles
True Love Ways - Buddy Holly
It Ain't Me Babe - Bob Dylan

[The Heart Collector]

I'm surprised no "comedy geniuses" have posted Cannibal Corpse songs yet.

[piglet5]

Texas flood and Aint gone 'n' give up on your love - SRV
After the love is gone- Earth Wind and Fire
Photographs and memories, and Time in a bottle - Jim Croce
I'm still in love with you - Al Green

[Shiny Demon]

Beautiful stuffs...

Whispering A Prayer- Steve Vai
Until We Say Goodbye- Joe Satriani
Riviera Paridise- Stevie Ray Vaughan
Little Wing- Jimi Hendrix
Hotel California- The Eagles
Angel Flying Too Close To The Ground- Willie Nelson
Lights- Journey
"Moonlight Sonata"- Beethoven

That's all for now...

"be you angels?"

[bedhead_dl]

Is it strange that I find "That Feel" by Tom Waits beautiful?

Nope. :)

[Jerk Shapiro]

Let me add "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd.


So beautiful...

[POLYDISTORTION]

- "Running To Stand Still" - U2

- "Pearl" - Chapterhouse

- "Catch The Breeze" - Slowdive

- "Straight To Hell" - The Clash

- "Message Personel" - Dot Allison

- "Wild Horses" - Rolling Stones/The Sundays

- "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - George Michael

- "Noah's Dove" - 10,000 Maniacs

- "10,000 Angels" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

- "Thursday's Child" - David Bowie

- "One More Time" - The Cure

- "When The Body Speaks" - Depeche Mode

- "Fisherman's Blues" - The WaterBoys

- "Hope" - Toad The Wet Sprocket

- "Eyes Without face" - Billy Idol

- "Art Lover" - The Kinks

- "Woman In Chains" - Tears For Fears

- "Please,Please,Please Let Me Get What I Want" - The Smiths

- "Stay" - Shakespear's Sister

- "Baby,Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman

[Avid_Fan]

"Politik"___Coldplay
"Clocks"___Coldplay
"Maps"___Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Do You Realize?"___The Flaming Lips
"Come Away With Me"___Norah Jones
(Just about anything with Norah Jones)
"My Immortal"___Evanesence
"Hands Down"___Dashboard Confessional
"Tiny Dancer"___Elton John

and the list goes on and on. . .

[bowieee]

Originally posted by bedhead_dl
Is it strange that I find "That Feel" by Tom Waits beautiful?

Nope. :)

Tom Waits performs some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. So that doesn't make you strange at all.

[one_crow_sorrow]

The main theme from Requiem for a Dream. I also posted this in the disturbing songs thread, but no matter how disturbing it may be it is also a very beautiful piece of music.

[Avid_Fan]

Originally posted by one_crow_sorrow
The main theme from Requiem for a Dream. I also posted this in the disturbing songs thread, but no matter how disturbing it may be it is also a very beautiful piece of music.

Ditto

[bedhead_dl]

Originally posted by bowieee
Tom Waits performs some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. So that doesn't make you strange at all.

Yeah I guess.

It's amazing how much fear a man can put in a song... yet remain beautiful...

Hey played real bones for gods sake!

I love Tom Waits.

[Avid_Fan]

All the music in the movie The Hours was beautiful.

[fevers]

Anything by Slowreader.

[Hucksta G]

Deftones - Knife Party
Deftones - Pink Maggit
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin - Tangerine
Led Zeppelin - Over the Hills and Far Away
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
U2 - With or Without You
The Smashing Pumpkins - Luna
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

[POLYDISTORTION]

Some More Songs:

- "Loving The Alien" - David Bowie

- "The Revolving Door" - American Music Club

- "Bad" - U2

- "Walk On The Ocean" - Toad The Wet Sprocket

- "This Is Where The Story Ends" - The Sundays

- "These Are The Days Of Our Lives" - Queen

- "Purple Rain" - Prince

- "Avalon" - Roxy Music

- "Broken Wings" - Mr. Mister

- "Into The Mystic" - Van Morrisson

- "Nights In White Satin" - The Moody Blues

- "Mockingbirds" - Grant Lee Buffalo

- "Taking It All Too Hard" - Genesis

- "MMMM MMMM MMMM" - Crash Test Dummies

- "This Woman's Work" - Kate Bush

- "Slave to Love" - Byan Ferry

- "Lady In Red" - Chris DeBurgh

- "Captain Of Her Heart" - Double

- "Forever Live And Die" - OMD

- "Late For The Sky" - Jackson Browne

[electriclite]

Originally posted by POLYDISTORTION
Some More Songs:


- "Bad" - U2





Even MORE beautiful when played LIVE!!!! ;)

[Sigur509]

Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight the most beautiful song ever.

Others:




Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
The Smashing Pumpkins - Landslide
U2 - With or Without You
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Sublime - Santeria
Dave Matthews Band - Crush
Dave Matthews Band - Crash
Dave Matthews Band - #41
The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
The Verve Pipe - Freshman
311 - Amber
Bush - Glyserne
The Cure - Pictures Of You
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Evanesence - My Immortal
Coldplay - Clocks
Coldplay - Trouble
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead - Karma Police
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Pearl Jam - Black

More to come.

[erinachan]

hmm... so many!

Stairway to Heaven- Led Zeppelin
Maps= the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Apple Blossom= White Stripes
Shadowboxer- Fiona Apple
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Paranoid Andriod- Radiohead
My Immortal- Evanescence
Hallelujah- Rufus Wainwright
Save Me- Aimee Mann
A Day in The Life- Beatles
Across the Universe- Beatles
Your Song- Elton John
Take My Hand- Dido
With or Without You- U2
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Eva Adore- Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
Karma Police- Radiohead
Creep- Radiohead
Changes - David Bowie
American Pie- Don Mclean
Milk- Garbage
Number 1 Crush- Garbage

[Raymond Babbit]

REM- At My Most Beautiful, Find the River
Elton John- Tiny Dancer
Beatles- I Will, Two of Us
Rolling Stones- Moonlight Mile

[Batgirl1979]

Not beautiful songs but ones that make me smile....

Alive-Edwin

AM180 by Grandaddy (28 days later)

Good Enough by Cindy Lauper (goonies)

Beautiful Day by U2

People are strange by The Doors

Sweet Carolina Rain by Christian Kane

Living Dead Girl by Rob Zombie

Ready to go by Republica

Everything about you by Ugly Kid Joe

Painted Black cover by Gob

[Shakamaker]

Sway - Bic Runga

You Make It Easy - Air

Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Thank You - Led Zeppelin

Some Devil - Dave Matthews

Do You Realise? - The Flaming Lips

Kite - U2

Green Eyes - Coldplay

Look What You've Done - Jet

Sounds Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Angel - Jimi Hendrix

Crying Like A Church On Monday - New Radicals

So Beautiful - Pete Murray (not sure if US or UK released yet, but I highly recommend.)

In The Morning Of The Magicians - The Flaming Lips

Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Nina Simone

Across The Universe - The Beatles

Shiver - The Screaming Jets

[X-Nightcrawler]

Originally posted by notchreturns
Possibly Maybe - Bjork I agree but thenagain, I find anything Björk to be beautiful. She's one of the most truly 'artistic' artists.