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Beautiful Songs
Andrea Krause
· 21 years, 8 months ago
What are some beautiful songs to you? Not just simply songs that are great...but ones that strike you with the gorgeousness of the mood or the images or the orchestration. Ones that you close your eyes while listening to because it just needs to wash over you.
Me: Birgit - Peter Mulvey Pray Your Gods - Toad the Wet Sprocket Across the Universe - The Beatles Wrapped in Grey - XTC Fell in Love - Moxy Fruvous And many more. You? Cat Stevens- "Father and Son." Very poignant. Also from the same album, "Sad Lisa" mostly for the melody and sweeping piano. Also, from BF5's Reinhold Messner CD, "Don't Change Your Plans" for the simple eloquence and "Narcolepsy" for the orchestration. Down the Line's "Wait Til Tomorrow" (which they haven't recorded yet) becuase it's very full and sounds like something Jeff Buckley would have recorded if he'd overdubbed himself in doing harmonies, soo pretty. Monkees' "Porpoise Song" from the Head soundtrack. Carole King rules. The Flaming Lips "Waitin' for a Superman." It wasn't intended this way, but this one gets me down when I drink. With this knowledge, I steer clear of it ;) Crowded House's "Fall at Your Feet." Gaaaaaaah. Same for Martin Sexton's "Can't Stop Thinkin' Bout You." Andy Stochansky's "Stutter" for his wispy vocal and the great hook. Gorgeous. There's tons more, but I have to go be productive
Oooh, I'm with you on Fall at Your Feet. The original, as well as the Jennifer Kimball cover.
Three of us for FaYF. Especially the JenK cover. And speaking of amazing cover songs by former members of The Story, check out Jonatha Brooks cover of "Blecker Street". Mindbendingly beautiful.
oh, god, yes. "porpoise song" and "as we go along." both beautiful songs and beautiful scenes in the movie.
Word!! Another beautiful song by the Monkees is "Sometime In The Morning" I'll add my vote for "I Will" and my other beautiful Beatles songs are "Something", "Here, There, and Everywhere", and "Because" "Bridge Over Troubled Water" may be hokey, but it gets to me. So many Simon and Garfunkel songs do- like "El Condor Pasa" and "America" Because I can't do a list of beautiful songs without Joni, I'm adding "A Case Of You" and "Michael From Mountains" And I certainly cannot leave out The Beach Boys- , "Good Vibrations" , "Add Some Music To Your Day" and um.. pretty much the entire Pet Sounds album, really. Last but not least, "Under Your Spell" from Once More With Feeling
*squee* "michael from mountains," "urge for going," "song to a seagull," "blue" (the original or the sarah mclachlan cover).
and yeah, pet sounds (esp. "god only knows," "you still believe in me" and "caroline no") and "under your spell."
Oooh....good call on "America," I forgot that one somehow. :)
"oh very young," cat stevens
"here comes the sun," "something," "julia," dear prudence," and "i will," beatles
"pablo's lights," vance gilbert
"lady lilah," eric schwartz
dvn;'s cover of "what a wonderful world"
lots more. i gotta get back to this.
How about the Louis Armstrong version of "Wonderful World?"
October by Russell Wolff One Caress by Depeche Mode Fat Bottom Girls by Queen
In no particular order..
Additions made necessary by my morning drive. Yum. Simon & Garfunkel
America Bridge Over Troubled Waters (emphatically NOT the arrangement Clay sand on American Idol last night. Yuck. Whoever arranged that version should be flogged.)
Dude, that show is still on? Are these people that indecisive?
They always drag it on for as long as possible to maintain ad revenue and ratings. They did that over here with pop idol and it seeemed like years before anything got decided with a choice between bland 16 year old boy and bland posh gay man. The latter one the former has had more sucess due to the fact that 13 year old girls seem to have an unquenchable appetite for cover versions and soulless nonsense.
Oh, AI also reminded me how very much I love Here, There and Everywhere by the Beatles. And Clay did OK on that one. :)
Ruben butchered Imagine. Grrr. You do NOT put vocal runs into that song. You just don't. Um...yeah...I should put Imagine in here too then, because that is a beautiful song. :)
they were talking about those annoying musical runs on some show I was watching... they're called "melismas," I think? That's why I couldn't watch the vocalists last season- this season's have been marginally better. Clay in particular, he knows how to actually hold a note ;)
Dust in the Wind - Kansas My Little Town - Simon & Garfunkel (or just Simon? I never know, because it's on my Paul Simon boxed set which contains both eras)
Oh, and:
She's Got a Way - Billy Joel Goodnight Saigon - Billy Joel
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 21 years, 8 months ago
I guess I should mention my favorite song.
1952 Vincent Black Lightning - Hoopoe the Clown
emilie is CRANKY
· 21 years, 8 months ago
damn! 'fell in love' already taken. *sulk* :D 'how can you mend a broken heart?', al green there are others, i'm sure. (oh, and sorry, gordondon, but i really really dislike 'tupelo honey'. i have to study it in depth for my a-level music exam and it drives me up the wall) ;)
ooh, I know where there's a good little mp3 of Gershwin... Cole Porter too... go to www.onthedancefloor.com and go to the sound bites... adorable vocalist Dan sounds HOT on "Love is Here to Stay." I requested it when I saw them and all the women swooned.
also. forgot to mention that des'ree song off baz luhrmann's romeo and juliet soundtrack. i know, i know, it's clich�d, but yeah. it's purty. :)
Doktor Pepski, kommie
· 21 years, 8 months ago
Blackbird Across The Universe the Beatles No More Lonely Nights Paul McCartney Heaven Can Wait Meat Loaf Stay (Faraway So close) U2 How Deep Is Your Love? Bee Gees
soul groove feline
· 21 years, 8 months ago
A girl named Becca
· 21 years, 8 months ago
Galileo, Love Will Come to You (Indigo Girls) These are the songs I wish would be longer...the ones I close my eyes while singing along to...and the ones I always play again as soon as they end.
Y'all are totally not allowed to laugh at me for any of these ;)
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Beatles Dog On a Chain - Stephen Fearing Shine - Junkhouse Lace and Pretty Flowers - Willie P. Bennett Let's Take the Long Way Around the World - Ronnie Milsap All the Time - Barry Manilow Massachusetts - Bee Gees Magic - Ben Folds Five Luckiest - Ben Folds Cruel Kindness - Inside Out A Cappella Old Park Bench - Inside Out A Cappella And So It Goes - Billy Joel For Me This Is Heaven - Jimmy Eat World
Arbie
· 21 years, 8 months ago
many great somgs have already been mentioned.... a few others come to mind Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
siobhan's a londoner
· 21 years, 8 months ago
Hallelujah- The Jeff Buckley verson not the one from Shrek or the original and You Do Something to me by Paul Weller as I like love songs that express real emotions. It also sends me to summer which is nice as it is consistently drizzling here lately.
re Hallelujah... I don't know the Jeff Buckley one, but I was opting for the Rufus Wainwright cover (from Shrek) and the original Leonard Cohen... and for my 0.02$.. Daddy I'm Fine - Sinead O'Connor enough... oh.. and When I Fall - BNL
Gordondon son of Ethelred
· 21 years, 8 months ago
I went back to look at a tape I made of my favorite songs and found these which are also beautiful.
Kentucky Kesia
· 21 years, 8 months ago
Many of these songs have special memories for me. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her - Simon and Garfunkel A Most Peculiar Man - Simon and Garfunkel Go On - Ookla The Mok Home - Ookla The Mok My Secret Origin - Ookla The Mok The Cat Carol - Meryn Cadell The Last Unicorn - America When Maribel Runs - Deirdre Flint Leader of the Band - Dan Fogelberg California Dreamin' - The Mamas and The Papas Red Rubber Ball - The Cyrkle My My She Cries - Carole King
That's all I can think of right now. I'm certain I'll think of more later.
The Cat Carol - Meryn Cadell That song makes me cry every time I Hear it!
Samantha
· 21 years, 8 months ago
beautiful songs?...hrmmmmm Catch the Wind - Donovan Standing at the Edge of the Earth - Blessid Union of Souls To Where You Are - Josh Groban Adiemus - Enya Universal Soldier - Buffy Sainte Marie Fly - Moxy Fr�vous Don't Tell Me You Do - Rockapella Far Away - Five O'Clock Shadow Say Goodnight - Beth Nielsen Chapman
Dig in deep ;x
· 21 years, 3 months ago
Bella Morte - Whispers�& December Dreams�� Can of Xymox - There is no Tomorrow Don't Look Down - Brainwashed Erasure - My Heart... So Blue & Rock me Gentaly Evanesence - Feilds of Innocence [older stuff, not the new stuff everyone loves ^_^]������������������ From Autumn to Ashes - Short Stories with Tragic Endings [screamy scream mixed with a femme voice, very pretty]�� Juanes - Nada & La Tierra�� Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki [Japenese love song]���� Mr. Mister - Broken Wings [no not "Kyrie" that song makes me hate my name, although I was named after it >.<]� OhGr - Lusid & Watergate� Selena - Dreaming of you����������������������������������������������� Siouxsie and the Banshees - Lost Little Girl & Placebo Effect� The Cure - Pictures of You������������������ The Turtles - So Happy Together� Collective Soul - Decemeber Dreams I love these songs, so very pretty ^_^ Kyrie-- Lol. Never thought it wasn't supposed to be depressing to be beautiful. Just like loves comes with hate, beauty comes with sorrow. ^_^ Kyrie--
dave "buh"
· 21 years, 3 months ago
Ben Folds Five: "Smoke"
Big Head Todd & the Monsters: "Bittersweet" Bruce Springsteen: "Meeting Across the River" Counting Crows: the whole of VH1 Storytellers Dead Can Dance: "The Carnival is Over" Eddie From Ohio: "Jerusalem" "Bookends" "From Dacca" "Fifth of July" and the Three Rooms versions of "Step Into the Outside" "Continents of Time" Everything But the Girl: "Troubled Mind" "Get Me" "Two Star" Charles Mingus: "I.X. Love" "Celia" Miles Davis: "It Never Entered My Mind" Moxy Fruvous: lots but I didn't see anyone mention their cover of "Early Morning Rain" yet. When i got up to "M" i hit the musicals... Carousel: "Soliloquy" and the pas de deux dance music Company: "Marry Me a Little" Five Guys Named Moe: "Azure Te" Holly Cole Trio: "Losing My Mind" "Color and Light" (Sondheim songs) Hair: "Easy to be Hard" Hedwig! "Origin of Love" "Wig in a Box" Kiss of the Spider Woman: "Anything For Him" Once on this Island: whole thing Secret Garden: whole thing .. "Where In The World/How Could I Ever Know" ok i'll stop. You must first create an account to post.
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