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― Sum Fitch, Monday, 14 May 2007 04:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Steve Martin/Bernadette Peters' take on "Tonight You Belong to Me" is really beautiful. Probably not "the most beautiful song ever" but as beautiful as most of the songs listed in this thread...
― Tape Store, Thursday, 19 July 2007 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
Somewhere in the 219 messages I skipped there may be a vote for "Little Wing" as recorded by Hendrix. Lovely, lovely song and the only extant version of it without a 49-minute wankeriffic guitar solo, I'll bet.
My Beefheart pick is "My Head is My Only House Unless it Rains." "I'll let a train be my feet if it's too far to walk to you...My arms are just two things in the way until I can wrap them around you"--good stuff.
― ellaguru, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
Oh that is an awesome lyric ella :D
― Trayce, Friday, 20 July 2007 00:55 (seventeen years ago) link
Spiritualized - "I Think I'm In Love" Massive Attack - "Teardrop" Radiohead - "Planet Telex" My Bloody Valentine - "Soon" Kraftwerk - "Autobahn"
― Stevie D, Friday, 20 July 2007 01:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Since already a number of mentions for good ones from Low (though I'd put in my 2 cents for "I Started A Joke" and "Venus"), "Protection," Nick Drake, etc. here are some others:
JJ Cale - "Magnolia" Van Morrison - "Astral Weeks" Gene Clark - "With Tomorrow" The Dixie Cups - "People Say" Lloyd Price - "Lawdy, Miss Clawdy" Townes Van Zandt - "If I Needed You" Cowboy Junkies - "Sweet Jane" Bonnie Raitt - "Angel From Montgomery" The Allman Brothers - "Blue Sky" Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - "Christina" Dionne Warwick - "Walk On By" Thea Gilmore - "The Old Laughing Lady" Gilberto / Getz - "Corcovado"
― that's not my post, Friday, 20 July 2007 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
Good call on Hendrix's "Little Wing."
― Lostandfound, Friday, 20 July 2007 06:47 (seventeen years ago) link
oh curtis
― jergïns, Friday, 20 July 2007 06:56 (seventeen years ago) link
what
― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 20 July 2007 12:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Nico - "Afraid"
― henry s, Friday, 20 July 2007 13:03 (seventeen years ago) link
Easy: Prince, "Condition of the Heart." I have only recently realized that this is possibly my favorite song of all time.
― pshrbrn, Friday, 20 July 2007 13:05 (seventeen years ago) link
'this is why i'm hot'
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 20 July 2007 13:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"Gold Soundz"... I say that because I heard it on the radio today.
Also "Oh Comely" or "Two Headed Boy pt. 2" by NMH.
― duestown, Friday, 20 July 2007 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link
"What does your soul look like? Pt. 1 (Blue sky revisit) / transmission 3" - DJ Shadow. I think that's the whole title, anyways it's the last track on Endtroducing.
I'm sure a few tracks off Fennesz's Endless Summer would rank up there for me, perhaps the title track and "Happy audio"
"Sligo River blues" - John Fahey
Somebody a few years back mentioned Tom Waits' "Tom Traubert's Blues", that's a good pick. Those Eno picks were OTM, too, especially "Big Ship", I'd throw "Becalmed" on there, as well.
John Coltrane, "Seraphic Light" off the Stellar Regions album. So majestic... I just think of some kind of otherworldly kind of royalty when I here this amazing song.
William Basinski, Dlp 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 - they're all variations on the same piece. So expansive, gorgeous, really moving. I didn't see what the big deal was them at first but now I think they're so beautiful.
Track 4, on Wolfgang Voigt/Gas' Pop.
Some Tim Hecker stuff on Radio Amor is doing it for me, too, but I haven't digested it as well as the other stuff on I mentioned.
I think it's interesting that, with few exceptions, what we consider to be beautiful songs are often tinged with a lot of sadness, melancholy, etc., they're almost tragic how beautiful they are. If I played most of the songs I think are beautiful for people who are more casually into music or who usually just want to hear something "upbeat", they would probably find them really depressing.
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:20 (seventeen years ago) link
badfish
― 69, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:22 (seventeen years ago) link
lol badfish. the dc metro area's best sublime tribute band!
good lookin out on "sligo river blues"
"i saw your photograph," merrell fankhauser
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:26 (seventeen years ago) link
A tie between Ishrab Sharab ahl as- Safa & Bil Hawa Qalbi Ta'alaq
And in english:
http://www.divshare.com/download/1322250-c5f & shenandoah
― Heave Ho, Friday, 20 July 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link
wot, no Joni? A Case of You!
― Finefinemusic, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
I interviewed the drummer from Badfish. It went something like this: "So, why are Sublime important?" "Uh, they're not...But that's why they're good!"
― Tape Store, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
that opinion is cool!
― 69, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
wait are badfish actually from around here or are they just playing the state theatre every six minutes?
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 20 July 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
also, can we just turn this into a badfish discussion thread?
whoa nevermind they're from PROVIDENCE, badfish is n01z3
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link
I've been pretty sure that it's "My Wandering Days Are Over" for a while now.
― quickbrownfox, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:24 (seventeen years ago) link
They play Columbia multiple times each year.
― Tape Store, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
"I Believe She Will" by Eddie & Ernie (thx John Peel) "Truth Is Marching In"/"Our Prayer" by Albert Ayler
Both are contenders for continually putting a lump in my throat.
― city worker, Friday, 20 July 2007 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
..a few thoughts;
Bennie Green - You're Mine, You Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra - Adagio for Strings Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78 Version) VU - Ride Into the Sun Grateful Dead - It Must Have Been the Roses (ala Reckoning) Marion Williams - Just to Behold His Face Brother Joe May (actually his daughter, Annette)- Vacation in Heaven
― christoff, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Girls Aloud - No Good Advice Daft Punk - One More Time The Avalanches - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time
― groovemaaan, Friday, 20 July 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link
the first 8 bars of christopher cross "sailing" on a loop
― andrew m., Friday, 20 July 2007 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link
for real, though, lots of otms up there.
i'll add "just my imagination," temptations "ain't no woman like the one i've got," four tops
actually, tons of temptations and four tops qualify. i'll add a few.
"pink frost," the chills "computer love," kraftwerk "child of the ghetto," horace andy "new broom," horace andy "my only friend," opal "alberto balsalm," aphex twin "wet tip hen ax," aphex twin
― andrew m., Friday, 20 July 2007 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
"once upon a time," sonny sharrock
― andrew m., Friday, 20 July 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (78 Version)
I agree, but I think the Barroom version is sooooo much better!!! He seems to sing the chorus differently in the 78 one, pronouncing the "when you dream" part in some kind of flat way that doesn't hit me as hard as it does in the barroom one.
The first time I heard the song (the barroom version) was in the film Smoke, during Harvey Keitel's monologue story at the end of them... it almost had me in tears.
Also: "alberto balsalm," aphex twin "wet tip hen ax," aphex twin
completely OTM, see also "Fingerbib" on the RDJ album
― Mark Clemente, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
"I Kill Everything I Fuck" by GG Allin
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link
...I think the Barroom version is sooooo much better...
Agreed. I didn't remember which version i was thinking of - but yes, the barroom version really gets the ol' pints rollin'!!!
― christoff, Friday, 20 July 2007 19:24 (seventeen years ago) link