What is the most beautiful song ever?

wait are badfish actually from around here or are they just playing the state theatre every six minutes?

also, can we just turn this into a badfish discussion thread?

whoa nevermind they're from PROVIDENCE, badfish is n01z3

I've been pretty sure that it's "My Wandering Days Are Over" for a while now.

They play Columbia multiple times each year.

"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.

..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

Girls Aloud - No Good Advice
Daft Punk - One More Time
The Avalanches - Two Hearts in 3/4 Time

the first 8 bars of christopher cross "sailing" on a loop

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

"once upon a time," sonny sharrock

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

"I Kill Everything I Fuck" by GG Allin

...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'!!!

haha yep

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.

I like "Cupid de Locke" by smashing pumpkins. At the moment, that's my choice. A few years ago I would have said "Agateis Byrjun" or however you spell it.

I apologize for criticizing someone's choice of Pink Floyd upthread. I was in a bitchy state of mind that day.

everybody's coming down

"once upon a time," sonny sharrock

-- andrew m., Friday, July 20, 2007 7:00 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

dude on point for seriously

kersal massive

i can't believe there's only one mention of "over the rainbow".

eno "always returning"

a bay bay

Lately I'm in love with "When the Body Speaks" by Depeche Mode and "Shine" by Ulrich Schnauss.

todd rundgren - boat on the charles

Quadrant - Dub

Some neglected bands+songs on this thread:

Mogwai - either 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong or Kids Will Be Skeletons
Yes - And You And I
The The - Lonely Planet
Bark Psychosis - Rose
Mercury Rev - Frittering

Nice to see the new(ish) Eluvium album with some representation here, but I'd have chosen 'Indoor Swimming At The Space Station' rather than 'Repose In Blue' myself.

Morning, from the Peer Gynt Suite

christmas in oaxaca

I would now have to add a couple of Vashti Bunyan songs to my picks above - especially "Glow Worms" and the demo version of "Winter Is Blue."

Also: Radiohead's "Everything In Its Right Place" and "Pyramid Song." Both beautiful and nightmarish.

Madvillian (MF Doom + Madlib) - Fancy Clown (originally titled "Pretty Blood")

Until She Comes - Psychedelic Furs

method man & raekwon - respect mine

It's Rosehip November

Canon in D?!?!?!?!

King Creosote - Counselling
(hands down)

that is my final answer

props to those who said:

Beach Boys - Til I Die
Kraftwerk - Computer Lover

Anyway, my answer is:

Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy Pt. 2

or

Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in Dm

or

Beethoven - String Quartet No. 14 in C#m (if we're not limiting ourselves to songs)

^I agree with you there (obviously)

Steve I was 16 in 2004 and attended too many weddings that year

also it wasn't my real answer

even Pachelbel beats NMH in my book though

abba - the day before you came

What is it with Canon in D and weddings anyway. Yargh.

Most beautiful Radiohead song is 'Meeting In The Aisle'

mmm, probably 'kind of girl' by low

arg the beuty of the song I picked is so beautiful. His voice.... has more heart than...[fill in the blank]. yes I am spamming. sorry.

'When You Were Young' by The Killers

Follow me through
A city of frost-covered angels
I swear I have nothing to prove
I just want to dance in your tangles
To give me some reason to move
But to take on the world at all angles
Requires a strength I can't use
So I'll meet you up high in your anger
Of all that is hoping and waiting for you

not sure about the music, but right now, that verse seems like the most perfect series of words ever written (lol emo)

'When You Were Young' by The Killers
-- Ismael Klata, Thursday, October 4, 2007 4:50 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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