What is the most beautiful song ever?

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Rain Parade- "Depending On You"

― Blightersrock (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 23 January 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Washer by Slint
Wichita Lineman
Barber's Adagio
Give me another chance by Big Star
I second ROYGBIV by Boards of Canada....

― Carel Fabritius (Fabritius), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty
Adelaide by Thomas Dybdahl

― miss chevious grin (miss chevious grin), Sunday, 23 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

A photo finish between the Buzzcocks' "I Believe," New Order's "Run," and Roxy Music's "If There is Something"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

probably not my usual choice, but Space Needle's Before I Lose My Style sounded particularly good when I got up this morning.

― coco, Monday, 24 January 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A photo finish between the Buzzcocks' "I Believe," New Order's "Run," and Roxy Music's "If There is Something"
-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), January 23rd, 2005.
i just read on New Order site that John denver stopped Run2 beingba insgle because he thought it sounded like leaving on jet plane-i know both songs very well and there are similarities,...do you agree ?

― regretfull, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm pretty sure Run2 was a single in the UK - in fact, I know it was, because I've got it.

It might have been withdrawn, or limited to the first pressing, or something.

― coco, Monday, 24 January 2005 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Beach Boys- In the Back of My Mind

For a new nomination from a reoccuring band.

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 26 February 2005 05:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"a touch of paradise" - the original by mondo rock (john farnham covered it)

― ross wilson jnr, Saturday, 26 February 2005 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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I'm pretty sure Run2 was a single in the UK - in fact, I know it was, because I've got it.
It might have been withdrawn, or limited to the first pressing, or something.

-- coco (coli...), January 24th, 2005.
you're lucky to get this.
is it diferent to the cd mix ?
we're both right.
it was withdrawn....according to official site

― bernard hook, Saturday, 26 February 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

the theme from "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" - Michel Legrand
"How Ghosts Affect Relationships" - His Name Is Alive

I'm not even sure how it's possible that neither has been mentioned already

― davelus (davelus), Saturday, 15 April 2006 05:27 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

"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 (twenty years ago)

"Slowdive - Crazy for You
-- Nanker Phelge"

OTM.

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

trains and boats and planes - astrud gilberto

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

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

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

fz watermelon in easter hay

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

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy pt.2

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

Soon by MBV, for sure.

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

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 (twenty years ago)

"Erev Ba"

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

Bird song.

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

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

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

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

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

Incredible String Band - "Puppies"

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

"Power of Love", Jimi Hendrix

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

"The Power Of Love", Jennifer Rush

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

DeBarge: "A Dream"

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

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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

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

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 (nineteen years ago)

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 (nineteen years ago)

O, welche lust.

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

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