What is the most beautiful song ever?

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYDrkG2EGwg

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)

Pretty Things - "Parachute"

June Tabor - And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spiegel
Morita Doji - Our Failure
Singers & Players - Moses
Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21: II Andante
Leonard Cohen - The Partisan
Massive Attack - Black Milk
Kelan Phil Cohran and Legacy - White Nile (obscure, but jawdroppingly beautiful)
Michel Moulinie - Lente Course
Sarah Gorby - Moyde Ani
Ewan MacColl - Sweet Thames Flow Softly (an idiosyncratic choice perhaps)

Arvo Part - Spiegel Im Spiegel

Great choice. Would add Brian Eno's "An Ascent" too.

That's a pretty nice list, actually, crimpback (the ones I know, anyway).

Right now, T.G.T.T by Duke Ellington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThVjVO3YBdU

Can't pick one, but it's probably somewhere on here: http://www.rawkblog.net/2009/02/elliott-smith-the-complete-live-covers/

The Association - Never My Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCniFuHlPG0

Not 'ever' but this year at least.

Scritti Politti - P.A.s

http://youtu.be/vqWzwJ8RTkI

Clammbon - Folklore

http://youtu.be/t8_Yg6yXLMI

Blue in Green - Miles Davis

Not a song but the entirety of David Darling's Cycles. Here's the first track:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QarJeXxCrvg

This thread is a nice read.

keith m's post up top still makes me laugh

Brian Eno - The Big Ship
― tipustiger, Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9:17 PM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Is it the canonical "Canon in D Major"?

― Curt1s St3ph3ns

ugh, yeah, and the saddest song is valse triste, right?

"Not Sport, Marital Art" by Jim O'Rourke.

Gentle Movement Toward Sensual Liberation by Naomi Punk

There are probably 100 songs that, while I am listening to them, seem like the most beautiful song of all.

Peter Hammill, "This Side of the Looking Glass"
Leonard Cohen, "Take This Longing"
10,000 Maniacs, "Verdi Cries"

Let's Stay Together by Al Green

Little Fluffy Clouds

I feel like going with Miles Davis's Flamenco Sketches today, or Beethoven's Hammerklavier sonata, adagio sostenuto.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62xHsMa1siI

came to mind

Cecil Taylor's recording of "This Nearly Was Mine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrwd6J5HO2U

Some David Axelrod songs. . . stuff like 'The Human Abstract', 'Song of Innocence', 'A Dream', Price's 'A Hope. . .that stuff is so gorgeous, it almost aches to listen to.

And, of course, Miles has some: 'Fran-Dance' comes to mind, in addition to what's already been mentioned. And, even though the mid-70's electric stuff isn't usually associated with being "pretty" music, there are some passages on 'Gondwana' that definitely fit the mood.

And, Bill Evans. Always. 'Peace Piece', 'Blue in Green', 'Waltz for Debby', 'RE: Person I Knew.' Just to scratch the surface, but man, just about 90% of what he played qualifies.

Sorry, that should be Pride's 'A Hope.'

La Mer

O My Stars by Michael Hurlsey

*michael hurley

Should poll these once its got to 50

Either Song to the Siren by This Mortal Coil or Hammond Song by Roches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPvnIKCJYA

Such a difficult question, but my first reaction was Pleocene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvjXDAfPhk

stopping by the thread to say that I listened to "info freako" on Keith M's suggestion and it is indeed very very bad.

what's the most beautiful song ever? idk..."For No One"? "Caroline No"? "A Case of You?"?

Probably a different Jesus Jones song

on a serious tip, Golden by My Morning Jacket isn't the most beautiful song of all time, but maybe it's the prettiest?

Judee Sill - The Donor

I would like to put in another vote for "Hammond Song"

Ghostwriter by The Arcana

https://youtu.be/ACZ1b5MUVEQ

The Andante moderato movement from Mahler's 6th:

https://youtu.be/YsEo1PsSmbg?t=1480

"the ballad of red buckets" yo la tengo

Lil Uzi Vert - XO TOUR Lif3

Most beautiful song of all time:

Claude Debussy - Clair de Lune

― Moka,

TS: Yo La Tengo's "I Heard You Looking" vs Yo La Tengo's "Blue Line Swinger"

The Donor is a good shout. I'd want to rep for No End by Sandy Denny - especially this home-recorded version:

https://vimeo.com/97535751

New Grass

Gilberto Gil - Toda Menina Baiana
Gilberto has such a joy when he sings almost every song in his catalogue.

Caetano Veloso - Terra
Composed while he was in jail... so gorgeous. Specially live versions. I was in Switzerland when I saw him live and there was a huge Brazillian crowd. That chorus sang by the audience is the closest I've been to a spiritual experience in a concert.