What is the most beautiful song ever?

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Tim Buckley, "Once I Was"
Missy Elliott, "Take Away"
Crooked Fingers, "New Drink for the Old Drunk"

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 5 June 2004 15:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"Flower to Hide" by Catherine Wheel
"Lazy Calm" by Cocteau Twins
"Pleasure Gardens" by Snowpony
"Zoo" by Curve
"Things We Never Did" by Sad Lovers and Giants
"Never-Never" by Lush

― auuV (auuuV), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

"Autumn's Child" by Captain Beefheart

― auuV (auuuV), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Todd Rundgren: Zen Archer (later section especially)

In fact, about 80% of his work from "Ballad of TR" through to "Todd"...

― Tom May (Tom May), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

How you gonna see me now - alice cooper

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:45 (nineteen years ago) link

aphex twin - xtal
biggie - juicy
eno - leeks hills
syl johnson - i'm sorry i walked away
vybz kartel - send on

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 5 June 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link

I choose "I Wanna Be a Cowboy"

― Unknown User, Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U"
Chris Bell - "Look Up"
Scott Walker - "Angels of Ashes"
Kate Bush - "Running Up That Hill"
Beatles - "A Day in the Life"

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 5 June 2004 17:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Surely:
"Blown A Wish" by My Bloody Valentine
"All I Wanna Do" - Beach Boys (Sunflower, not the similarly titled hollering song on 20/20)
"Back Of A Car" - Big Star
"Hot Burrito No. 2" - Flying Burrito Brothers

― John Allison (John Allison), Saturday, 5 June 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link

George McCrae, "Rock Your Baby"

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 5 June 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Pulp's "Something Changed".

Obviously.

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Saturday, 5 June 2004 21:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Disco Inferno, "The Long Dance"

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Saturday, 5 June 2004 22:54 (nineteen years ago) link

New Order (or even the JD version) - Ceremony
Neil Young - "Cortez The Killer" live version off Weld

― Bimble (bimble), Saturday, 5 June 2004 23:23 (nineteen years ago) link

one of the smithsonian folkways albums has a field recording of an appalachian congregation (circa 1940s?) singing "amazing grace" ... this is the most beautiful song i have ever heard.

― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 6 June 2004 02:50 (nineteen years ago) link

IN C

― HAMBURGER NEURON GROUP (ex machina), Sunday, 6 June 2004 04:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Last month or so. Techno basslinem track I haven't heard. And suddenly, somewhere, buffeted like a moth between walls of speakers: 'Love Will Tear Us', unmistakable, heartbreak soft, magical, private.

Words, etc.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 6 June 2004 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Big Star- "Thirteen"
Jeff Buckley- "Everybody Here Wants You"

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Sunday, 6 June 2004 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link

king crimson - moonchild

― emma cleveland (emma cleveland), Sunday, 6 June 2004 04:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Mazzy Star - "Fade Into You" or "Halah"
the Breeders - "Happiness Is A Warm Gun"

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 6 June 2004 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

woman-boat song - czukay/dammers
renegade snares - omni trio
these days - nico
big loise - scott walker

― mullygrubber (gaz), Sunday, 6 June 2004 05:35 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Fluffy Tufts - Cocteaus Twins

― metalmickey, Friday, 20 August 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Fluffy Tufts - Cocteau Twins, even

― metalmickey, Friday, 20 August 2004 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link

blah blah blah same artists

beach boys - dont worry baby
beach boys - in my room
beach boys - heroes and villains
my bloody valentine - off your face
brian eno - here come the warm jets
big star - september gurls
rolling stones - i am waiting
beatles - ive just seen a face
neu! - hallogallo
bob dylan - sad-eyed lady of the lowlands

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Most beautiful intro ever: "You Never Give Me Your Money" by the Beatles.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Duk Koo Kim - Sun Kil Moon

― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Múm - Sunday Night Just Keeps On Rolling

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Lilac wine or lover you should've come over by jeff buckley

― garrod, Friday, 20 August 2004 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I only have eyes for you - the Flamingos
Girl from north country - dylan
Im so young - beach boys
6am morningside - clientele
magnetic fields - it's a crime / the luckiest guy on the lower east side

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Many brilliant ace nominations (esp Eno/"Under Pressure") but NO-ONE thus far has said "You Still Believe in Me" by UM the BEACH BOYS so I have to

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd say Magnetic Fields as well, only "My Sentimental Melody". And "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" is one of two songs that has made me cry my eyes out (the other one being something from the Langley Schools Music Project - hey, I was really sensitive at the time...)

― secretive girl (marian), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh and I just checked and Prefab Sprout's "Wild Horses" really is I think as gorgeous as the R Stones' one, go Paddy

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 August 2004 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link

"You Still Believe in Me" by UM the BEACH BOYS

a jaw-droppingly beautiful song indeed. but is it more beautiful than the classical piece that brian wilson borrowed the angelic vocal melody from? (composer, name of piece, and all other details excape me at the moment. but the melody wasn't a brian original.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link

M83 - Gone

― mentalist (mentalist), Friday, 20 August 2004 13:37 (nineteen years ago) link

arvo part- tabula rasa
satie- gnossiennes
eno- golden hours
pram- mother of pearl
broadcast - accidentals
bjork- all is full of love
my bloody valentine- no more sorry

― firstworldman (firstworldman), Friday, 20 August 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

For a while I thought it was "The Tourist" by Radiohead. These days it's still up there, but not #1.

― billstevejim, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:39 (nineteen years ago) link

some left-field choices:
-The Chills, "Heavenly Pop Hit" (getting literal chills just thinking about it)
-Belle & Sebastian, "Stars of Track & Field"
-Roxy Music, "Avalon"

Most of my other choices are already covered above: "'Til I Die," "Northern Sky," "In My Life," "God Only Knows," "Walk Away Renee," "Perfect Circle," etc.

― mike a, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link

schubert ganymede

― amateur!!st, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Or on the power pop tip:

* The La's, "There She Goes"
* Marshall Crenshaw, "Cynical Girl"
* Raspberries, "Let's Pretend"

― mike a, Friday, 20 August 2004 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Jacques Brel - Ne me quitte pas
Rickie Lee Jones - Company

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Someone's just mentioned it on another thread and reminded me

Fleetwood Mac - Sara

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Nine Inch Nails - A Warm Place

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 20 August 2004 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Some more, some by oft-mentioned artists:

Arvo Part - Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten (put to chilling effect in Farenheit 9/11)
Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit, Simple Twist of Fate, Don't Think Twice It's Alright, Mr. Tamborine Man
Prince - Sometimes It Snows In April
Patty Griffin - Rain, Top Of The World
Emmylou Harris - The Pearl
Gillian Welch - Orphan Girl, Barroom Girls
Julie Miller - By Way Of Sorrow
(I've seen the last 5 this week, that's why they come to mind)
Neil Young - Borrowed Tune, See The Sky About To Rain
Richard Thompson - 1955 Vincent Black Lightning, From Galway To Graceland, Dimming Of The Day, Beeswing, Keep Your Distance
American Music Club - Firefly, What Holds The World Together, Gratitude Walks
Mark Eitzel - Mission Rock Resort
Joni Mitchell - River, Circle Game, pick any of a bunch more

I second all of the Big Star/Chris Bell calls up there.

I suppose I could go on and on.

― southern lights (southern lights), Friday, 20 August 2004 18:36 (nineteen years ago) link

"Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Verdi's Nabucco (Also for the fact that it was illegal to sing this in Italy for years because it was incendiary)
"Hallelujah" Rufus Wainwright version
"Cold Blooded Old Times" Smog
Muzsikás - "Szerelem, Szerelem"
"Farewell, Farewell"-Sandy Denny w/ Fairport Convention

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Friday, 20 August 2004 18:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Nina Simone - 'Wild is the Wind' (live version from At Town Hall), probably.

― Orange, Friday, 20 August 2004 19:00 (nineteen years ago) link

farewell farewell is a good one

― peter smith (plsmith), Friday, 20 August 2004 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link

"Magnificent Dreams" - Television Persomalities

― holojames (holojames), Sunday, 22 August 2004 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

pram 'chrysalis'
'farewell farewell' by the proctors? probably not that farewell farewell, unless theirs was a cover, i have no idea.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 August 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"Duk Koo Kim" seconded.

― steve hise, Sunday, 22 August 2004 22:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Disco Inferno's 'Second Language'.

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:20 (nineteen years ago) link

mahler's adagio from the 9th symphony.

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― you will be shot (you will be shot), Monday, 23 August 2004 03:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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