What is the most beautiful song ever?

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (594 of them)

Sunny by Bobby Hebb.
Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell.
The platform on the ocean by Arthur Russell
Dry the rain by the Beta Band.
At last I am free by Chic.

I'm doing a 'songs that, in the right circumstances, in the right company, can make me cry like a baby' CDR at the the moment.

― Ant, Saturday, 15 April 2006 22:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I kinda think it might be "The Building" by the Mekons (original version). But i'm drinking alone on a Saturday night, so...

also, the correct V.U. song is "Jesus."

or Afterhours.

oh shit and Thelonious Monk's "This Is My Story, This Is My Song"

― A|ex P@reene (Pareene), Sunday, 16 April 2006 00:52 (eighteen years ago) link

"New Grass" - Talk Talk: Beatific English spiritualism set against tumbling drums and glancing glinting guitars angled like sunlight
"Boy Child" - Scott Walker: Shoegaze 20 yrs before it actually existed, ambient sinatra for orphans

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:01 (eighteen years ago) link

"Slowdive - Crazy for You
-- Nanker Phelge"

OTM.

― gekoppel (Gekoppel), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link

trains and boats and planes - astrud gilberto

― timmy tannin (pompous), Sunday, 16 April 2006 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

"The Other Side of Mt. Heart Attack" is a beautiful song.

― Freud Junior (Freud Junior), Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:03 (eighteen years ago) link

fz watermelon in easter hay

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 16 April 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy pt.2

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Sunday, 16 April 2006 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

TMC - As she moves through the fair, or perhaps 'Another day'

― dave c, Thursday, 27 April 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link

the one that goes "pigs are cool, they're so cool, they're the best so be qui-ET!" Actually I don't know which song that is, but there MUST be one like that, because pigs are cool (so be qui-ET!"

― george washington jr., Friday, 28 April 2006 01:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Soon by MBV, for sure.

― Harrison Barr (Petar), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Slowdive - Blue Skied And Clear
A Silver Mt. Zion Orchestra - Thirteen Angels...
Beach Boys - In My Room
Keith Fullerton Whitman - that last track on "Playthroughs"

John Cage - In A Landscape (especially performed on the harp by Susan Allen)
Debussey - Claire de LunI e
Webern - Bagatelle No. 5
Seconded: Gorecki - Symphony No. 3 (hardly a "song" though) and the piano / cello movement from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time.

The *real* winner though for me is Messiaen's "O Magnum Mysterium"--honestly I think the most beautiful song I've ever heard.

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link

"Erev Ba"

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 28 April 2006 01:51 (eighteen years ago) link

First song I thought of was "Still There" by the Autumn Rhythm frome a few years ago, especially the version off what I think is the self titled EP (I have the CD of the Secret Songs album, on which lies a slightly different version, but only an mp3 of the EP track). Not sure why this wasn't bigger, at least on ILM. Good lord it's gorgeous.

― Maciej Kasperowicz (Maciej), Friday, 28 April 2006 02:51 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

How nobody has listed Pink floyd's "Wish you were here" as one of the most beautiful compositions ever recorded eludes me. I guess that i have a purpose in life after all.

Thank you all though for introducing me to some of my new favorite artists. Especially This Mortal Coil.

― violoncellos, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

beautiful songs I have been thinking about lately:

The Chameleons - "View From A Hill"
Brian Eno/John Cale - "Spinning Away"
Ulrich Schnauss - "Clear Day"

― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

John Cale's "Paris 1919" (the song). When the cellos come in, my knees go weak. The way it's both minimal and lush. Then the sepia images, the notion of a ghost, trouble with the church. It transports me, and after 18 years of regular listening, I still don't tire. My favorite melody delivered with "la la la la la" ever.

(and I was writing this just as Curt1s posted his Eno/Cale tune

― bendy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 22:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Babenzele Pygmies - "song about a swarm of bees"
Wire - Map Ref etc.
boredoms - jungle taitei

― Fetchboy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Bird song.

― blunt, Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Cocteau Twins "Thinner the Air" is one of mine. Gorgeous song.

― Trayce, Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Mothers of Invention (Ray Collins, mainly), "Anything"
The Band, "It Makes No Difference"

― Rock Hardy, Saturday, 12 May 2007 23:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Incredible String Band - "Puppies"

― King Kitty, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Sleep The Clock Around

-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 February 2004 01:48 (3 years ago)

dom OTM, at least in the context of B&S. Their most affecting song.

My own choice would still be Orbital - Out There Somewhere (last 4:50)

― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 May 2007 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Thievery Corporation – Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes

Do you mind if I always love you?

― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 13 May 2007 08:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Mahler's 9th.
Also, I believe more and more every day: Neil Young's Old Man.

― Mordechai Shinefield, Sunday, 13 May 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Another vote for Eno's "The Big Ship."

― Jazzbo, Sunday, 13 May 2007 14:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It's not "the" most beautiful but it's up there: The Power of Love by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

― craven, Sunday, 13 May 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Power of Love" by Huey Lewis & the News

― latebloomer, Sunday, 13 May 2007 15:54 (seventeen years ago) link

"Power of Love", Jimi Hendrix

― Euler, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Power Of Love", Jennifer Rush

― henry s, Sunday, 13 May 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously, "Wish You Were Here"??

― billstevejim, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure the most beautiful Pink Floyd song is "Green Is The Colour."

Every gorgeous song I can think of has already been listed here.

― billstevejim, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:16 (seventeen years ago) link

DeBarge: "A Dream"

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti: "Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups"

― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 13 May 2007 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

off the top of my head

Vashti Bunyan "Rosehip November"
Skygreen Leopards "A Child Adrift"
My Morning Jacket "Come Closer"

― Drooone, Sunday, 13 May 2007 23:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Most beautiful intro ever="You Never Give Me Your Money".

― chap, Sunday, 13 May 2007 23:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Some people have really curious ideas of what is beautiful. I mean I'm not saying thats a bad thing.

I want to add "Silver Ball" by Eno/Budd to mine, or well, anything from "The Pearl" really.

― Trayce, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I know beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but seriously, ~~"Wish You Were Here"~~"The Power Of Love"??

Fixed.

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:25 (seventeen years ago) link

O, welche lust.

― jim, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:28 (seventeen years ago) link

observatory crest - beefheart
i'll be waiting - archer prewitt
love and mercy - brian wilson

― AmyCamus, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:52 (seventeen years ago) link

"Song to the Siren" by Tim Buckley.

― inhibitionist, Monday, 14 May 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

whoever said john cale's "paris 1919" was so totally OTM it's scary.

um.

four tet - unspoken
the books - take time
joanna newsom - only skin
massive attack - teardrop
sam cooke - a change is gonna come
sufjan stevens - casimir pulaski day (shut up, the lot of you!)
devotchka - we're leaving
bob marley - no woman, no cry
brian wilson - surf's up
the zombies - beechwood park
all of nusrat fateh ali khan like ever
and of course
a love supreme a love supreme a love supreme

and about a thousand more.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 14 May 2007 02:35 (seventeen years ago) link

still "Fade Into You"

― milo z, Monday, 14 May 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"Paradical" still does it for me.

― aaron d.g., Monday, 14 May 2007 02:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks bendy! I hadn't heard "Paris 1919" before, but I've listened to it, like, 25+ times today. It's gorgeous!

― Tape Store, Monday, 14 May 2007 03:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Take That - "Back for Good" - but only in the context of 'The Office' Christmas Specials.

― mysterbey, Monday, 14 May 2007 03:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Mmm "Fade into You" is indeed v beautiful milo!

― Trayce, Monday, 14 May 2007 03:32 (seventeen years ago) link

-that one section from Holst's Jupiter
-Ludwig Von, 9th Symphony, Chorale bit
-Ludwig Von, 5th Symphony, 2-4th movements
-MBV, "Come In Alone"

― kingfish, Monday, 14 May 2007 04:18 (seventeen years ago) link

big and beautiful: wagner's liebestod from tristand and isolde
soft and beautiful: buffy st. marie, "guess who i saw in paris"

― poortheatre, Monday, 14 May 2007 04:26 (seventeen years ago) link

In Heaven from "Eraserhead"
The KLF - Wichita Lineman Was A Song I Once Heard
Red House Painters - Moments
The Glove - A Blues In Drag
Moby - God Moving Over the Face Of The Water
The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children
The Cure - Plainsong
Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot
Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
Arthur Russell - Lucky Cloud
Eluvium - Repose In Blue
Prefab Sprout - Goodbye Lucille #1
New Order - Your Silent Face

― Sum Fitch, Monday, 14 May 2007 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Skipping 494 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.