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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: CaptainLorax on 25 Dec 2006, 03:28
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Examples: Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heals
Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark - Joan Of Arc, Souvenir, Maid of Orleans
Yes - **Clear Days, **Yesterday and Today, Time and Word
Post em! I guess a lot of 80s songs would fit :?
*King Creosote - Counselling (short also and very beautiful) :angel:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/9ifzh2 (http://www.sendspace.com/file/9ifzh2)
*Thingy - Nod (real short one) :laugh:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/titkrx (http://www.sendspace.com/file/titkrx)
*Grifters - Founder's Day Parade 8-)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bwhd7e (http://www.sendspace.com/file/bwhd7e)
*these files are supposed to make you go out and buy the albums! :-P
**these two yes songs are very beautiful :-D
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FLOCK OF SEAGULLS - I RAN
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"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
i don't usually listen to her, but that's an amazing song.
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The Decemberists - Odalisque
Wonderful song.
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oh, and "The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron & Wine
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Agree.
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Deep Forest - "Night Bird" (http://download.yousendit.com/140C26E700EBBFEA)
I uploaded this for the LISTEN OR DIE thing. It's maybe not the most beautiful song ever ("Sweet Lullaby" by the same people edges it anyway), it's pretty close.
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Deep Forest - "Night Bird" (http://download.yousendit.com/140C26E700EBBFEA)
I uploaded this for the LISTEN OR DIE thing.
"The link has expired"
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Clann Zu. Seriously, Clann Zu.
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The twenty most beautiful songs of all time (no contest):
1. Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
2. Current 93 - A Song For Douglas After He's Dead
3. Paul Giovanni & Magnet - Willows Song
4. My Dying Bride - Your Shameful Heaven
5. Sol Invictus - The Praties Song
6. Dead Can Dance - The Wind That Shakes the Barley
7. My Dying Bride - Sear Me MCMXC III
8. Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
9. Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Va(r)nitas, Vanitas... (...Omnia Vanitas)
10. Sieben - Loves Promise
11. Ulver - Hyme 01: Of Wolf and Fear *
12. Skyclad - Moongleam and Meadowsweet
13. Death in June - Rose Clouds of Holocaust
14. My Dying Bride - The Crown of Sympathy
15. Coil - Red Birds Will Fly Out of the East and Destroy Paris in a Night
16. Waylander - Awakening
17. Burzum - Han Some Reiste *
18. Death in June - Little Black Angel
19. Neuroticfish - The Bomb
20. Finntroll - Under Varje Rot Och Sten *
I doubt anyone will agree with me, but if anyone has not heard 'The Host of Seraphim' by Dead Can Dance I urge you to do yourself a really big favour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tluogv9EGTQ).
*These are in no way jokes.
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17. Burzum - Han Some Reiste *
Nah, I'd say it's one of Vikernes' poorest tracks, he is simply not a keyboardist. Burzum has way better tracks, Det Som En Gang Var being on my top.
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Clann Zu, guys.
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1. Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim
Wow. Just wow. That was pretty moving and beautiful. Amazing.
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True, nice track. Wonder why I never heard them before. :/
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Easily Burzums most evocative keyboard track. The track is an incredible exercise in minimalism. I can barely think of anyone who could take, what, ten notes and one basic riff and turn it into something so atmospheric and powerful, with just the keyboard. It's excellent, and its incredible communication: even before I knew the tracks name meant 'He Who Journeyed', It conveyed the sense of travelling through a forest to me. I just think it's brilliant: it's a milestone I strive toward in my own electronic music. Simple, un-pretentious, and marvellous. No, it's not the best Burzum track (Ea, Lord of the Depths) but it is the most beautiful.
Besides, on any objective level, how can you call Han Som Reiste poor next to, say, Svart Troner, or Dungeons of Darkness?
EDIT; At their best, Dead Can Dance are electrifying, and at their least they are still a very entertaining ethereal take on world music. Check out:
The Wind That Shakes The Barley (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd-8Jos6VrA)
Yulunga (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuavAxbStDs)
There's plenty more on youtube. Lisa Gerrards voice is just...unbelievable.
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Bjork's "All Is Full Of Love" and Metric's "Calculation Theme" and "Love Is A Place."
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1) Well, the best keyboard track - yes. I tought you meant the best overall track.
2) True, as to the beauty by minimalism, it is amazing. I compose music myself, and I can say Vikernes' music has meant a lot.
3) Svarte Troner and Dungeons Of Darkness truly are crap, and I guess it's that kind of neo-modern crap that makes you think it's good because you don't inderstand it. Like other noise ambient.
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I wonder if anybody's noticed that only one person on this board gives a fuck about this band called Clann Zu or whatever.
A song I've been listening to a lot lately that I would classify as 'beautiful' would be Harvest by Opeth. It's pretty awesome. Also, the opening of Edge of Sanity's Crimson has a very ethereal quality to it for my ears.
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A lot of post-rock is quite beautiful too. I'm thinking especially of "Kids Will Be Skeletons" by the Mogwais.
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Well, if he's the only one, it has to be hip!
(Theory of hipster relativity and so on)
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"Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap
i don't usually listen to her, but that's an amazing song.
I had to remove everything Frou Frou related from my computer the other day (I'm so fucking sick of her), but I kept that one song. It really is gorgeous.
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@ Storm: You mean Crimson II right? Because Crimson just starts with Dan Swano growling and rocking some guitar. Which is awesome, but not exactly ethereal.
If we were to mention any EoS track, I would mention Enigma. The clean singing and violin are beautiful, but there are also unbelievable moments in the pure DM portions.
"ENIGMA! UNHOLY! UNGODLY! COMMANDER OF THE REGENERATION!
INSIDIOUS AND CAUGHT. IMPLOOOORED...BY DISGRACE
INHUUUUUUMAAAAATION! THE BUUUUURIAL OF MAAAAN!
CONFESSSIOOOOOOOON! UNIFY ALL EEEEEEEEVIL!"
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No, I actually meant the original Crimson. The guitar tone just has a spacey quality that I really like, and Swano's voice just sounds sort of... I dunno, distant. It works so well and I really think it has a sort of quality that I classify as beautiful.
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The Beatles - Something In The Way She Walks
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It's just called something.
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Nothing Compares to You - O'Conner
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song (the whole Rock Bottom album is beautiful in its melancholy. The dude made it after crippling himself from a fall from a 3rd story window)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/21ihkj
Silent Night, Holy Night
Camel - Snow Goose
Lennon - Jealous Guy
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I like Clann Zu after he introduced 'em to me
KharBevNor - Death in June is just great... not always their message. All Pigs Must Die is my favorite. I guess I like daydream music.
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Most anything by Therion is very beautiful.
Face of Melinda, Hope Leaves, Death Whispered A Lullaby, and especially To Bid You Farewell by Opeth.
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KharBevNor - Death in June is just great... not always their message. All Pigs Must Die is my favorite. I guess I like daydream music.
Nothing wrong with Death in Junes message. The only political tie I've heard of them having is to the green anarchists. The reason they're called fascist is partly misinterpretation of their lyrics, partly because Douglas P is wierd and deliberately controversial, partly because the British socialist left considers any political movement that references neitzschean or darwinist ideas fascist, and, well, there you go. Fascists tend to be boring, tawdry, middle class farmers and shop keepers. Not avant-garde musicians. You can confirm this by actually reading DI6's lyrics, although, to be honest, they don't make it easy. Rose Clouds of Holocaust is about the break-up of a long term relationship, believe it or not.
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I'm seriously just shouting at a brick wall, aren't I. I might as well be saying "Dude, Funhouse."
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Dave Brubeck- Take Five
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8. Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence
if i had to pick a Simon & Garfunkel song it'd either be "For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her" or "Kathy's Song"
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Toad the Wet Sprocket- "Windmills"
The Real Tuesday Weld- "The Pearly Gates"
Polaris- "As Usual"
Peter Gabriel- "Washing of the Water"
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19. Neuroticfish - The Bomb
What?
Also, enough with the Clann Zu. It has gotten to a point where it is like some annoying forum meme, only it is perpetuated by a single person. Please make it stop.
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Guys, Spiderland is pretty beautiful.
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19. Neuroticfish - The Bomb
What?
There's a good few EBM/futurepop songs that I just think are, well, beautiful. Uplifting music that makes me want to run somewhere, makes me feel something transcendent. The trancey interlude in that song is one of the best fucking things to ever happen to electronic music. I was also considering 'Approaching Lightspeed' by Wolfsheim and 'Call the Ships to Port' by Covenant.
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Guys, Spiderland is pretty beautiful.
the dynamics, man
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Yeah, man. Also, Funhouse.
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Tsewer Beta- "Marl 1 (You'll Never Guess Mix)" is wonderful, IMHO.
Brian Eno's Music for Airports is fairly beautiful, too, in a subdued, ambient sorta way.
http://www.djtrx.com/profiles/Tsewer+Beta/tracks (http://www.djtrx.com/profiles/Tsewer+Beta/tracks)
The Marl 1 track is at the bottom.
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Right now I've been in love with Destroyer's "Painter In Your Pocket" for months now. I just like his singing/talking style. :)
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Just a few...
Tim Hecker - Chimera (On "Harmony in Ultraviolet".)
Boards of Canada - Julie and Candy (On "Geogaddi")
Aphex Twin - Petiatil Cx Htdui (On "Drukqs")
Philip Glass - Opening (On "Glassworks")
Nine Inch Nails - Right Where It Belongs V.2 (On "Quiet Tracks"....Not a big fan of NIN, but GOD I love that song... His voice toward the end actually puts tears in my eyes.)
o9 - No Delay For Days (On "The Cosmic Forces of Mu", a compilation)
The top three and the bottom one you can find on www.bleep.com
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Imogen Heap - The Moment I Said It
!T.O.O.H.! - Kali (quite possibly the most beautiful grindcore I've ever heard)
that's all for now.
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Right now I've been in love with Destroyer's "Painter In Your Pocket" for months now. I just like his singing/talking style. :)
What baffles me about this is that you're totally right. I never think of Destroyer as particularly beautiful because of the weird trembling croak of Bejar's voice but at the same time he has a knack for making some singularly sublime tunes.
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It is weird isn't it? Something about the way he'll be singing and then rush in a long sentence that normally wouldn't fit with the beat. Plus he just sound extremely honest and it's addicting!
"You looked okay with the others, you looked great by yourself." makes me smile :D
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This thread is now about Dan Bejar, I think.
Destroyer's Rubies is so damn awesome. It gets better with every listen, and each new listen reveals better cohesion from track to track. It's one of the best, most well-thought-out albums released this year.
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Bah, I'll try and re-upload that Deep Forest track. Or the better one. I'm having trouble thinking of a definitive answer to this thread so if I upload anything it might be something else, I just thought that mp3 was still on Yousendit.
19. Neuroticfish - The Bomb
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'Call the Ships to Port' by Covenant.
Yes.
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This thread is now about Dan Bejar, I think.
Destroyer's Rubies is so damn awesome. It gets better with every listen, and each new listen reveals better cohesion from track to track. It's one of the best, most well-thought-out albums released this year.
Yeah definitely...I think i'm going to move it up on my top 10 list.
Also Wolf Parade - I'll Believe In Anything has to be on this list.
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The most beautiful Wolf Parade song for me would be "Same Ghost Every Night." Sunset Rubdown's "Us Ones In Between" is beautiful too, in a weird, haunting sort of way.
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Great lyrics on that SR song.
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Well, Krug is a fantastic lyricist.
Surprises abound in this "Beautiful song" thing, though: the final track on Barenaked Ladies' Maroon is a bizarre little waltz about crashing your car and it's quite pretty as is, considering how absurd it is, but then right before the four-minute mark a hidden song comes up and damned if it isn't absolutely gorgeous. (For the record, the track comes up as "Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel / Hidden Sun" on my iTunes, the latter being the hidden track and the former being the song proper.)
Oh, and I am pretty sure that like eight to ten Final Fantasy songs (Owen Pallett, not Nobuo Unspellablename) should be mentioned in here.
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this thread seems too broad...any song can be a beautiful one if you really like it.
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Well, yes and no - I like a lot of stuff off of Raw Power but I'm hesitant to call it "beautiful." I also wouldn't call anything the Eagles Of Death Metal have ever done "gorgeous" despite the fact that their new one is probably one of my favourite albums of the year.
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Hmmmm. Lemme see.
Epilogue [For Lisa] by Shawn Lane is a very beautiful song, one of my favourites
Midnight Tango by Al DiMeola is also a beautiful song, I love it
Angelica by Anathema is beautiful
Pachelbel's Canon is beautiful, full stop
Saw you Drown by Katatonia is very nice
Sand and Mercury and Mandylion by The Gathering are very very nice songs
That is all for now.
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Lauryn Hill - Cant take my eyes of U
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Khar, I'm with you on the DCD stuff - in fact, I was listening to The Host Of Seraphim tonight, because I bought my mum a copy of Baraka for Christmas. Song Of Sophia, which is a little one-and-a-half minute vocal solo by Gerrard, never fails to floor me.
Vector Lovers' Neon Sky Rain is a tune I would call "beautiful" - simple, ambient electronic with a jazz, cyberpunk feel. I love it to bits. Also, heaps of stuff by the Waifs, and so much more.
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Elliott Smith- The White Lady Loves You More and The Biggest Lie.
Also, basically any Nick Drake song.
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soitenly untitled #3 by sigur ros is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard, especially when it's played live and it's melded with untitled #2.
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A Silver Mt. Zion - "Tho' You Are Gone I Still Often Walk With You"
Ben Folds - "Narcolepsy"
Deftones - "Change (In The House Of Flies)"
just about anything by Elliot Smith, alhough the songs on From A Basement On A Hill tend to choke me up a little more than others...
I could probably list about 1000 songs from my own collection that make me cry, in a good way...but I shall leave it at these for now
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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
that is the song that does it for me
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the beatles - Julia (truly!)
elbow - flying dream
mirah - don't die in me
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Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah
The Beatles- Blackbird
Frostman- Guided by Voices
Going to California- Led Zeppelin
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I always liked Fran?oise Hardy's Tr?ume, but that's probably just me.
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1) The Art Teacher - Rufus Wainwright
2) That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! - Sufjan Stevens
3) I Found a Reason - Cat Power
4) The Greatest - Cat Power
5) Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
6) At the Bottom of Everything - Bright Eyes
7) My Heart Is an Apple - Arcade Fire
8 ) Neighborhood #1 - Arcade Fire
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This is going to take me some time.
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I'm going to be in and out of this thread like t'were a whore's vagina, but let me first add in almost all of the songs from Ryan Adams' Jacksonville City Nights.
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Gravity Rides Everything - Modest Mouse
I Am A Scientist - Guided by Voices
Back and Forth - The Dismemberment Plan
Fight Test - The Flaming Lips
Stockholm Syndrome - Yo La Tengo
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles
That's all I got for now.
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5) Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
Oh.
Good pick.
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The Knife - The Captain
Low - July
Nick Drake - River Man
Erik Truffaz - Nina Valeria
Charles Mingus - Theme for Lester Young
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
Boris - Feedbacker part 2
The Jesus Lizard - Zachariah
Radiohead - Idioteque
Oren Ambarchi - Girl With Silver Eyes
At The Drive-In - Invalid Litter Dept.
Death in June - Crush My Soul
Death In June - The Accidental Prot?g?
Fugazi - Forensic Scene
Maudlin of the Well - Geography
Team Sleep - Blvd Nights
Miranda Sex Garden - A Fairytale About Slavery
Built To Spill - I Would Hurt a Fly
Q And Not U - Kiss Distinctly American
Mission Of Burma - Mica
Silkworm - Slow Hands
Atheist - Your Life's Retribution (seriously)
Chet Baker - Lament For The Living
Sol Invictus - A German Requiem
Sol Invictus - December Song
Sol Invictus - Old London Weeps
Sol Invictus - A Window to the Sun
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
Anathema - Kingdom
I think that's enough for now.
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Some odd choices for SI tracks. Won't argue with 'December Song', but I'd have had things like 'Our Lady of the Wild Flowers, 'The Praties Song', 'Come, Join the Dance', 'The Silver Swan' and 'The Hill of Crosses' and 'Amongst the Ruins above the others you posted. Have you ever heard 'The Praties Song'? It's staggeringly beautiful.
"Oh I wish that we were geese,
Night and morn, Night and morn
Oh I wish that we were geese!
And could live our lives in peace!
Till the hour of our release!
Night and morn! Night and morn!"
'Twa Corbies' as well possible.
Do you know Dead Can Dance?
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You know, I happened across the poem "Twa Corbies" the other day, and if the song is as gorgeous as that little piece of wordcraft then I'm satisfied.
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Khar, I'm going to make another list soon with more SI songs, and some DCD songs (mainly from the first album, though). I wanted to take just one or two songs from each album, otherwise I'll just post the entire Hill of Croses and most of The Devil's Steed.
Also, I dont know that song, I kind of promised myself to stop downloading SI album untill I buy them. So far I havent found any, and I cant order from the interwebs untill I'm 18.
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I have a feeling my music tastes will raise some eyebrows, but it is what it is. A few that come right to mind without looking through my collection are the following:
Steve Vai, "For the Love of God"
Spock's Beard, "The Door"
Spock's Beard, "June"
The Gathering, "Shrink"
Kip Winger, "How Far Will We Go" (Yes, I said it. Kip Winger. His solo stuff is very good.)
Tori Amos, "Your Cloud"
Tori Amos, "Gold Dust"
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Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
that is the song that does it for me
forgot that one...have you seen the video, with the footage of Kittinger's jump?
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I'll arbitrarily limit myself to one selection per artist, here.
Tool - H
A Perfect Circle - The Noose
Sublime - 40 Ounces To Freedom
Nine Inch Nails - The Day The Whole World Went Away
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan
Opeth - The Drapery Falls (this one is INEXPLICABLY beautiful)
Pink Floyd - Time
Gary Jules - Mad World (yeah, well, it's much better than the Tears For Fears original)
...and I'll arbitrarily cut myself off here.
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Khar, I'm going to make another list soon with more SI songs, and some DCD songs (mainly from the first album, though). I wanted to take just one or two songs from each album, otherwise I'll just post the entire Hill of Croses and most of The Devil's Steed.
Also, I dont know that song, I kind of promised myself to stop downloading SI album untill I buy them. So far I havent found any, and I cant order from the interwebs untill I'm 18.
I don't suspect you'll have much luck as far as buying it goes, it's on 'In a Garden Green', and as far as I'm aware every Sol Invictus album except The Devils Steed is currently exceedingly hard to get hold of, because they're either out of print or have very poor distribution.
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ok how on this particular site no ones managed to mention "do you relize" by the flaming lips one will have to enlighten me, other than that i would have to say the whole of the album "sounds of pain" by Uaral is a very strong contender for this prize i don't think even the fact that it uses growl vocals can bring it down
i agree with khars first option on his list as well as bridge over troubled water
also in my time of need by opeth and breath by pink floyd
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Listen:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/uk0ser
http://www.sendspace.com/file/o54vfy
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elliott smith - last hour
pink floyd - echoes, is there anybody out there
radiohead - you and whose army?
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Actually, all of 'Nattens Madrigal' by Ulver is beautiful. Just listening to it again for the goodness knows what time. It really tugs at something inside you. Best bits of album, the acoustic break and just after that on 'Of Wolf and Fear', the end of 'Of Wolf and Hatred', and the openings of 'Of Wolf and the Passion' and 'Of Wolf and the Night'. Fucking incredible work. Such beauty in such ugliness. One of my favourite albums of all time for sure.
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Ataraxia by Team Sleep is another one that is pure beauty. Actually, just about anything where Chino Moreno sings instead of screams is probably a win.
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The Weakerthans have been playing a song called "Night Windows" live for over a year. It's really gorgeous. Can't wait for the new record, where it'll hopefully make an appearance.
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How 'bout Ulver's Perdition City in its entirety...
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Folky stuff here. All really beautiful, and they have special meaning to me as well.
Deanta - Harvest of Culloden
Someone who lived hundreds of years ago - A Health to the Company
Words possibly by Shakespeare, music by someone else - The Rain it Raineth Every Day (although probably a lot of people have set this one to music. It depends on which version you're hearing, I suppose. I think the one I've heard is incredibly gorgeous.)
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As Far as beautiful songs go, I can't get past Jesu's Silver. The ending is so amazing. Here are some other beautiful ones though:
Altered Course by Isis
The whole Harmony in Ultraviolet album by Tim Hecker.
Almost all of Sigur Ros's back catalog.
Peacock Tail by Boards of Canada.
I could probably go on for a long time, but these are all fairly beautiful and awesome.
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Ataraxia by Team Sleep is another one that is pure beauty. Actually, just about anything where Chino Moreno sings instead of screams is probably a win.
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The whole Harmony in Ultraviolet album by Tim Hecker.
i agree! also, the entier body of eluvium's work, 'eingya' by helios and 'Raising Your Voice...Trying To Stop An Echo' by hammock (all 3 also terrific ambient stuff) are incredibly beautiful. great stuff, all.
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Apart from 'Va(r)nitas Vanitas... (...Omnia Vanitas)' the top ten most beautiful Sopor Aeternus songs are probably (in rough order):
Hades 'Pluton'
The Goat
Holy Water Moonlight
On Satur(n)days We Used to Sleep
The Conqueror Worm
?ber den Fluss
There Was a Country By The Sea
Todeswunch (Vers)
Daffodils
Consolatrix Has Left the Building or The Feast of Blood
Am I the only person here that listens to this glorious stuff, by the way?
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Led Zeppelin- The Rain Song
Led Zeppelin- Ten Years Gone
David Bowie- Life On Mars?
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Radiohead- Paranoid Android
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There are a lot of Radiohead songs I would pick before Paranoid Android. What about "Exit Music (For A Film)"?
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Dream Theater - Wait For Sleep
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Radiohead- Paranoid Android
agreed
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radiohead - you and whose army?
I agree here. I think what marks this song's real beauty is that the first half of it or so is really shit, quite tuneless and ugly. But then the piano kicks in, and suddenly it takes off into the stars.
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There are a lot of Radiohead songs I would pick before Paranoid Android. What about "Exit Music (For A Film)"?
Ah, but wasn't the thread called "Beautiful Songs," not "The most beautiful song by any given band?"
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If you send a team to the Olympics, you do not initially choose your B- and C-list athletes.
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either:
My Dying Bride - The Snow in My Hand
or
Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina of the Vast Oceans
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Belle & Sebastian.
Game, set. and match. See you all in the showers.
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Guys, guys.
Mother Love Bone - Chloe Dancer / Crown Of Thorns
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If you send a team to the Olympics, you do not initially choose your B- and C-list athletes.
But they're still beautiful.
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"I'll Follow You Into The Dark", "Passenger Seat", or "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab. especially the first one.
yay for being lame and sappy! :D
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But they're still beautiful.
My point was a little to the left. Care to try for it again?
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How about this: your olympic athlete metaphor was excruciatingly irrelevant. Paranoid Android is a beatiful song, actually much more beautiful than Exit Music (For A Film).
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You know, I happened across the poem "Twa Corbies" the other day, and if the song is as gorgeous as that little piece of wordcraft then I'm satisfied.
I can't imagine that there's more than one Twa Corbies (As I was walking all alane/I heard twa corbies making a mane, right?) although I have heard it sung in completely different ways. It's my very favourite ballad (came up in A-level poetry too and the rest of the class looked at me funny for knowing it already).
Also Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan - I think I heard it on a mobile phone advert and loved it so much I had to track it down.
Lastly, Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, very beautiful lyrics and a great deal of personal meaning.
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Yeah, it uses a version of the original text, some minor changes in the language to make it fit the song better. It's one of my favourite poems of all time, gets so much better if you've also read 'Three Ravens'. Cynicism isn't a new thing, kids.
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Hehe, yeah, they made us compare the two in English class. I definitely prefer Twa Corbies. I think I orginally heard it on Radio 4 - they had some 3-part documentary series about ballads. I think one of the others may have been The Selkie. That's another great folk song. But Twa Corbies really stuck in my mind.
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How about this: your olympic athlete metaphor was excruciatingly irrelevant.
As you can probably guess I greatly disagree!
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I wholeheartedly agree with anything Jeff Buckley related mentioned in this thread, though I do prefer Leonard Cohen's original Hallelujah to Buckley's.
I cry lots at The Velocity of Saul at the Time of His Conversion by Okkervil River. This is an actual conversation, "Why are you crying, Brittany? Are you okay?" "*sniff* This song is so gorgeous..." All their songs are beautiful, but this is the MOST.
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How about this: your olympic athlete metaphor was excruciatingly irrelevant.
As you can probably guess I greatly disagree!
I implore you to understand how much more I disagree with you than you disagree with me!
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Now you're just being contrary.
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Now you're just being contrary.
That's not true!
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Now you're just being contrary.
Ah, but no. . . I am not.
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my top 4:
1. Hot Hot Heat- Middle of Nowhere
2. Hellogoodbye- Here(in your arms)
3. Elefant-Now that I miss her
4. Regina Spektor- Samson
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soitenly untitled #3 by sigur ros is one of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard, especially when it's played live and it's melded with untitled #2.
I think I like Staralfur better, but that is an excellent song
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5) Naked As We Came - Iron & Wine
Oh.
Good pick.
it is indeed :]
that's a fun song to play too.
2. Hellogoodbye- Here(in your arms)
i like that song too much... :/
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Remember the Mountain Bed- Jeff Tweedy, his solo version is stunning.
Three Peaches- Neutral Milk Hotel. That song is incredible, every time I listen to it, I'm all shivers.
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Porcupine Tree-Collapse the Light Into Earth
" " -Feel so Low
" " -Stars Die
And a good chunk of their "Pink Floyd of the 90's" era
Smashing Pumpkins-Disarm
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A few:
Nick Cave - I Still Love You
Sneaker Pimps - Destroying Angel
Emm Gryner - Green Goodnight
Tom Waits - Barcarolle
A few unconventional choices:
Download - Suni-c (this is all in Ka-Spel's vocal work, really)
Skinny Puppy - Worlock (all versions are good, but I have to make special mention of the 'Eye of the Beholder' mix - when it gets to a certain pitch and has this dual layered straight voice/vocoder voice and incredibly haunting strings rising--it's just breathtaking)
Tear Garden - In Search of My Rose
Assemblage 23 - 30 kft
Interlace - Missing Link
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The Luckiest by Ben Folds is beautiful.
Also. Lazarus by Porcupine Tree and P.S. You Rock My World by The Eels. They're just awesomely wonderful pretty songs.
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Mogwai Fear Satan - Mogwai off Young Team. Anyone? No? Good.
I could say this for a lot of Elliott Smith and Nick Drake, but that's probably because I like them, which makes sense as to why I would say that.
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a LOT of Modest Mouse:
Baby Blue Sedan
Grey Ice Water
Whenever You Breathe In, I Breathe Out (Positive, Negative)
Broke
The World At Large
Talkin' Shit About a Pretty Sunset
Wild Pack of Family Dogs
and way more, this is just the cream of the crop IMHO.
Casmir Pulaski Day- Sufjan
Camera- REM
You Are the Everything- REM
Communist Daughter- Neutral Milk Hotel
KC Accidental- Broken Social Scene
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl- BSS
Metal Heart- Cat Power (actually pretty much all of Moon Pix)
Frou Frou Foxes and Midnight Fires-Cocteau Twins
Zombie- The Cranberries
Lovesong- The Cure
Pictures of You- The Cure
Lullaby-The Cure
9 Crimes- Damien Rice
Accidental Babies- Damien Rice
On The Bus Mall- The Decemberists
Eli, The Barrow Boy- The Decemberists
Something from Electro Shock Blues- Eels
Kings Crossing- Elliot Smith
Everything theyve done- GY!BE
Sawdust and Diamonds- Joanna Newsom
aw fuck it i got bored looking through my music, but those are songs I think are beautiful up through J. Probably more then you wanted me to post, but I guess you all get a bonus.
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Right now it is a tie between Love - Andmoreagain and King Crimson - Epitaph.
Actually, there is no contest: Andmoreagain is amazing. The chorus has me swooning, it is that good.
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Peach, Plum, Pear - Joanna Newsom
After Hours - The Velvet Underground
Soldier Girl - The Polyphonic Spree
Owen Pallett's cover of This Modern Love and pretty much any other cover he's done.
Or song.
Ok, just Owen Pallett.
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Actually, pretty much any song by Love is fucking beautiful. Andmoreagain is probably at the top of the list, though. Good pick
My picks:
Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues
Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
Donovan - Atlantis (I can't quite understand what it is about this song that gives me the beautiful-music chills every time.)
Acid Mothers Temple and the Melting Parasio UFO - Le La Lo
Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues
Kyuss - Phototropic
Kyuss - Whitewater
Masters of Reality - 100 Years (Of Tears on the Wind)
Masters of Reality - Lover's Sky
Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues
Dungen - Du E For Fin For Mig
Ramona Cordova - Giver's Reply
Ramona Cordova - Chesser
Ramona Cordova - Heavy On My Head
The Incredible String Band - A Very Cellular Song
Jack Rose - Sunflower River Blues
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Wooden Ships
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Helplessly Hoping
Colour Haze - Peace, Brothers and Sisters!
JACK ROSE - SUNFLOWER RIVER BLUES
OK, seriously, just get the album "Kensington Blues" by Jack Rose, and the album "The Boy Who Floated Freely" by Ramona Cordova, and you will be totally set for beautiful music. Dead serious. Really.
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Dead Can Dance - Severance
Ween - I Don't Want It
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
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"Landslide" the Fleetwood Mac version. i haven't heard the Dixie Chicks version, but the version by the Smashing Pumpkins isn't as good as the FM one.
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Good god, Ghost Song by Patrick Wolf is WAY! up there. I like to play it just to make people in the room sad. Hearbreaking.
Folk Song by the Standard is really sad, makes me feel epic, or something.
Analyse, by Thom Yorke made me sad about the first fifty times I listened to it, but I am kind of burn-ed out about it.
Something about the first bar or so of vocals of The Iliad by Tapes n Tapes also is quite heartbreaking.
Well, that's all I got right off the top of my head.
Oh, I'll be back.
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The Crane Wife by The Decembrists
Silver by Jesu
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Stars - Set Yourself on Fire, no not just the song the entire fucking album
David Bowie - Life on Mars?, Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World, and Ziggy Stardust (less than the others)
and most importantly, Robin Trower - everything off of Bridge of Sighs and Victims Of The Fury
actually, more like all of Robins first 7 or so albums and then from 20th Century Blues onward
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How about this: your olympic athlete metaphor was excruciatingly irrelevant.
As you can probably guess I greatly disagree!
I implore you to understand how much more I disagree with you than you disagree with me!
Was that a Kung Pow! reference?
On topic: "Violence" by Anathema. I usually don't care for Anathema, but this song was like, soundtrack epicness+gorgeous.
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Hmm, as well as the songs I posted earlier, I think I could add:
Peter Murphy - Indigo Eyes
White Stripes - I'm Bound to Pack It Up
David Bowie - After All
Joy Division - Ceremony
Chrissy Hynde and some other dude - State of Independence
Blackbox Recorder - It's Only The End of the World
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I'm glad someone mentioned that Spiderland is beautiful. I think the most beautiful song on that album is "Washer."
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On topic: "Violence" by Anathema. I usually don't care for Anathema, but this song was like, soundtrack epicness+gorgeous.
Meh Violence is ok but I wouldn't call it beautiful "Temporary Peace" of "J'ai Fait Une Promesse" I'd call those beautiful
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mine are:
Doves - Words (along with most of the songs off Last Broadcast)
Radiohead - Let Down
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (everyone else heard this one too often or something?)
Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrop's Drops
Something For Kate - Hawaiian Robots
Dappled Cities Fly - Blame It On The Boys
Halogen - You Get To Me
and I'll second whoever said Death Cab For Cutie's What Sarah Said. Huzzah for lame and sappy!
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Billie Holiday's 1938 recording of "On the Sentimental Side".
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Autechre - Corc
Boards of Canada - Everything you Do is a Balloon
Aphex Twin - Tha
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There are so many beautiful songs. I'll try to list some of the ones that I find the most effective.
Regina Spektor - Samson
Charlotte Martin - Wild Horses (screw it, this is so much better than the Stones' version)
Dead Can Dance - Host of Seraphim
Explosions in the Sky - Your hand in Mine
Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone
Eluvium - Under the Water It Glowed
Eluvium - Prelude for Time Feelers
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Matthew Good Band - Flight Recorder From Viking 7
Jethro Tull - Wond'ring Aloud
Jethro Tull - Cheap Day Return
Broken Social Scene - Lover's Spit
Tom Waiits - Anywhere I Lay My Head
Tom Waits - Alice
Tom Waits - Nirvana
Miles Davis - Blue in Green
Port Royal - Regine Olsen
All I feel like listing at the moment. There are some awesome songs already listed, so I tried to list a bunc that haven;t, with a few exceptions that needed to be in here.
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mine are:
Doves - Words (along with most of the songs off Last Broadcast)
Radiohead - Let Down
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps (everyone else heard this one too often or something?)
Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrop's Drops
Something For Kate - Hawaiian Robots
Dappled Cities Fly - Blame It On The Boys
Halogen - You Get To Me
and I'll second whoever said Death Cab For Cutie's What Sarah Said. Huzzah for lame and sappy!
I mentioned Maps before. It's a lovely song.
I'll second Pearly Dewdrop's Drops, too.
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On topic: "Violence" by Anathema. I usually don't care for Anathema, but this song was like, soundtrack epicness+gorgeous.
Meh Violence is ok but I wouldn't call it beautiful "Temporary Peace" of "J'ai Fait Une Promesse" I'd call those beautiful
The last third or so of the song, the happy sounding, ambient part is what really got me. It made me really happy and almost moved me to tears.
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J'ai dormi sous l'eau - Air
Let Go - Frou Frou
White Whisper - Deep Forest
Distractions - Zero 7
Sven-g-englar - Sigur Ros
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Lilly Allen- LDN - as long as you don'tpay attention to the lyrics, its beautiful
The Sparks - Dick Around - quirky quirky lyrics, but still TOTALLY AWESOME
Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
JohnnyCash - There'll Be Peace In The Valley
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a few that i can recently remember to have moved me to tears or swoonage:
" I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind" - vashti bunyan
"Lay and Love" - Bonnie Prince Billy
"Major Label Debut" - Broken Social Scene
"Smile Around the Face" - Four Tet
"Fingerbib" - Aphex Twin
"Cast Anchor" - Hanne Hukkelburg
"Mother Heroic" - Bjork
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"The Luckiest" by Ben Folds is pretty freaking gorgeous. I'm absolutely in love with that song right now.
Next door, there's an old man,
who lived to his ninties,
and one day passed away in his sleep.
And his wife, she stayed a couple of days,
and then passed away.
I'm sorry I know, that's a strange way to tell you, i know,
we belong.
That I know.
That I am,
I am,
I am,
the luckiest.
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These are songs that I somehow manage to think are beautiful:
1. Savage Circus - Beyond Reality
2. Rhapsody - Echoes of Tragedy
3. Rhapsody - The Magic of the Wizard's Dream
4. Wintersun - Death and the Healing
5. Sonata Arctica - Tallulah
...yeah, I may have a bit weird thoughts about which songs are beautiful. Maybe it's because I really don't listen much of really happy and beautiful music, just listening that what brings up memories, has odd/cool/fantastic atmosphere in the music or just something that sounds great, even though it might be very sad, angst and heavy. :)
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radiohead - a reminder (and lots of stuff)
elliott smith - king's crossing (and lots of stuff)
lcd soundsystem - someone great
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Tom Waits - Closing Time
The whole album with these exceptions:
- Virginia Avenue
- Midnight Lullaby
- Lonely
- Ice Cream Man
I really like Tom Waits's early stuff, the new stuff is good too but somehow I still prefer the older albums.
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Celtic Frost - Tristesses de la Lune
There's something about Female's singing in French that is inexplicably beautiful...
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John Butler Trio - Ocean