Ok. What is the most beautiful ALBUM ever? Of course, we probably all define this differently but hey whatever man...I'm just drinking a little wine and watching the rain.
― SourPatchCorpse, Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:46 (fourteen years ago) link
don't mean to snub you, but i spent all day listening to the ethel waters and ella fitzgerald versions of "miss otis regrets" and that is absolutely without a doubt the most beautiful song ever.
― facepalm death (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Nah it's cool, I mean yeah...first and foremost this thread is for individual tunes. Just curious, what's theeee most beautiful record as a whole?
― SourPatchCorpse, Thursday, 25 March 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Dark globe-Syd barrett
― nakamura, Friday, 26 March 2010 00:26 (fourteen years ago) link
beauty=truth
― ❽ (M.V.), Friday, 26 March 2010 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
the waters of march
― symsymsym, Friday, 26 March 2010 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
midnight train to georgia and rainy dayz are also pretty nice
― symsymsym, Friday, 26 March 2010 08:00 (fourteen years ago) link
lately I'm digging on this song (not the most beautiful song ever but this thread has gotten to the point where we post the most beautiful songs of the moment)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMVlggVeGuk
― cold hands of monkeys on my heart (CaptainLorax), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
this one gives me chills every time, I've actually had to shut it off mid-song...his music is usually pretty but this is just eerie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rk7c3Dz-u4
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 03:55 (thirteen years ago) link
spider & i -- eno
― i have a tbh (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
when my friends wrote this we called it "the money song' because it was so pretty. it did not result it any money, itself. but it is still pretty. I gave it the final name.
charles atlas: antiphon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Wi4rfHwog&feature=related
― akm, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Most beautiful song of all time:
Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune
Current favorite:
Ben Watt - Some Things Don't Matter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwpiFg8Oc6o
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 08:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://youtube/crkXA_aZvdk
Mark Hollis - The Colour of Spring
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crkXA_aZvdk
Actually forget about Ben Watt. This is my current favorite: Wulu Bunun & David Darling - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lAI5QFXEFM
― Moka, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 10:26 (thirteen years ago) link
The Moon's a Harsh Mistress - Jimmy Webb
― Bloody Snail, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 10:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Scott Walker - Montague Terrace (in blue)
― Umm, I think that's my glass. (laser precise purpose maker era), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 15:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Wulu Bunun & David Darling - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi
love that record. i don't think it'd be my #1, but one of the song of the -- pieces on there (lots of Ms in the title, blanking on the name) is mindblowing
― sensual bathtub (group: 698) (schlump), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIPfKi6IHTQ
― Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 16:32 (thirteen years ago) link
honestly think it's this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDR4-VJxMx4
― sonderangerbot, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Ben Watt - Some Things Don't Matter
I'll see that and raise you
Everything but the Girl - The Night I Heard Caruso Sing
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Big Star, "Blue Moon."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Probably "I Only Have Eyes For You" for me as well, but a bunch of other good ones here not mentioned (for those making mixes etc.):
Kraftwerk "Tanzmusik"—All-time favorite Kraftwerk song, could listen to it foreverhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M5sV-IWQlE
Grateful Dead "Stella Blue"—Big reason you should not hate Jerry Garcia, or the DeadLow/Springheel Jack "Bombscare"Sea and Cake "Parasol"Lambchop "The Book I Haven't Read"—Maybe sentimental favoriteMayo Thompson "Dear Betty Baby"Robert Wyatt "Just As You Are"Led Zeppelin "Ten Years Gone"—In remembrance of my sappy 13-year-old self
― grandavis, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Til Tuesday - "Coming Up Close"
― jer.fairall, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"Ten Years Gone" is totally justifiable, grandavis! Most of my candidates have been covered somewhere on-thread, but my for-serious choice hasn't: Mahalia Jackson and Duke Ellington, "Come Sunday" from Black, Brown, and Beige. The wordless part at the end...oh, man.
― bentelec, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh...that one gives me the creeps every time I hear it. No idea why but it has such a surreal atmosphere to it. I find it hard to listen to because it's so emotionally powerful.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:38 (thirteen years ago) link
It is creepy, as well as almost so clinically pretty that it is overwhelming. I eat it up though, just so good.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, not most beautiful ever, but on that "clinically pretty and creepy" angle, I always think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNgo-ppXZt0&feature=related
― grandavis, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mecNrIaWOA
― Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh, and a bunch of Innocence Mission songs make it to misty-eyes-from-beauty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr25sF18DZY
― Four Shouters Shouting (Eazy), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
I was looking for the original, but this cover is not bad at all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXxlQ1rPu8U&playnext=1&list=PLA7E5C0549FD17B49
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDrkG2EGwg
― Wacky Way Lounge (Evan), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Hello [on a cellphone], greetings, it's me, an outlaw, I ask you, my love, to accept happiness. Hello, hello, it's me, Picasso, I sent you a beep [cellphone signal], and I'm brave [or strong], But you should know that I'm not asking for anything from you.
You want to leave but you don't want don't want to take me, don't want don't want to take me, don't want don't want don't want to take me. Your face and the love from the linden trees, And I remember your eyes.
I call you [over the phone], to tell you what I feel right now, Hello, my love, it's me, your happiness. Hello, hello, it's me again, Picasso, I sent you a beep [cellphone signal] and I'm brave [or strong], But you should know that I'm not asking for anything from you.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, July 20, 2007 12:26 PM (3 years ago)
― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 19 April 2011 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty Things - "Parachute"
― Davey D, Tuesday, 19 April 2011 22:29 (thirteen years ago) link
June Tabor - And The Band Played Waltzing MatildaArvo Part - Spiegel Im SpiegelMorita Doji - Our FailureSingers & Players - MosesMozart - Piano Concerto No. 21: II AndanteLeonard Cohen - The Partisan Massive Attack - Black MilkKelan Phil Cohran and Legacy - White Nile (obscure, but jawdroppingly beautiful)Michel Moulinie - Lente CourseSarah Gorby - Moyde AniEwan MacColl - Sweet Thames Flow Softly (an idiosyncratic choice perhaps)
― crimplebacker, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spiegel
Great choice. Would add Brian Eno's "An Ascent" too.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:24 (eleven years ago) link
That's a pretty nice list, actually, crimpback (the ones I know, anyway).
― emil.y, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
Right now, T.G.T.T by Duke Ellington
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVjVO3YBdU
― insert witticism here (hypehat), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Can't pick one, but it's probably somewhere on here: http://www.rawkblog.net/2009/02/elliott-smith-the-complete-live-covers/
― The Teardrop ILXplodes (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 January 2013 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
The Association - Never My Love
― Chris S, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 20:02 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCniFuHlPG0
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 23 January 2013 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
Not 'ever' but this year at least.
Scritti Politti - P.A.s
http://youtu.be/vqWzwJ8RTkI
Clammbon - Folklore
http://youtu.be/t8_Yg6yXLMI
― MaresNest, Thursday, 24 January 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
Blue in Green - Miles Davis
― 29 facepalms, Thursday, 24 January 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
Not a song but the entirety of David Darling's Cycles. Here's the first track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarJeXxCrvg
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 June 2017 01:38 (seven years ago) link
This thread is a nice read.
― jmm, Friday, 2 June 2017 02:43 (seven years ago) link
keith m's post up top still makes me laugh
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Friday, 2 June 2017 03:43 (seven years ago) link
Brian Eno - The Big Ship― tipustiger, Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:17 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Treeship, Friday, 2 June 2017 03:59 (seven years ago) link
Is it the canonical "Canon in D Major"?
― Curt1s St3ph3ns
ugh, yeah, and the saddest song is valse triste, right?
― Cyborg Kickboxer (rushomancy), Friday, 2 June 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link
"Not Sport, Marital Art" by Jim O'Rourke.
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 June 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
Gentle Movement Toward Sensual Liberation by Naomi Punk
― Treeship, Friday, 2 June 2017 04:27 (seven years ago) link