The most beautiful song(s) you've ever heard?

Thought this would make a great non-connection thread to start with...

Crawling
Turn The Sky (Feat. Apocalyptica)
Elephant (incredible, highly recommended)
Never Is A Promise
Time Out From The World
Before The Dawn
Fire Burns Below (very non-typical soundscape based song for the band, works beautifully.. very atmospheric)
Frozen
Oh Father
The Power Of Good-Bye
Time Stood Still
Black Angel
Clear Day

AIDS Wolf.











Just kidding. Penguin Cafe Orchestra, or Menomena's Under An Hour album.

Amazing Grace - Hayley Westerna

It stops me in my tracks

Implicit Audio Frequency - State of Mind Winter, 73

Dream Theater - Eve
atm the most beautiful one I can think of

Endlessly - Muse
I Can Only Imagine - MercyMe
Loneliness - Frozen Silence
Lover, You Should've Come Over - Jeff Buckley
Bedshaped - Keane
The Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd (for some reason...)

but I just thought some of you might like My Lucky Day by Lene Marlin. It's pretty 'beautiful.'

Sanctuary/ Passion by Utada Hikaru - it's really really beautiful

A short list of songs of profound beauty to me:

-- Lilac Wine - Jeff Buckley (all of Grace really...)
-- Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo Part
-- Pieta - Adrian Legg from Guitar for Mortals
-- Under The Moon, Elegy, Hymn, Deep Peace, et al. - Bill Douglas
-- Common Threads - Bobby McFerrin from the compilation On a Starry Night
-- Saturday's Child - Brendan Perry from Eye of the Hunter
-- Spider and I - Brian Eno from Before and After Science
-- No One Would Riot For Less - Bright Eyes
-- Sanvean, and Don't Fade Away - Dead Can Dance from the live album Toward the Within
-- The Child in Us - Enigma from Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
-- In The Morning Of The Magicians, It's Summertime, et al. - Flaming Lips from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
-- Peggy-O - Grateful Dead from St. Paul Civic Center 05-11-77 (best version--by far)
-- What Was That - John Gorka from The Company You Keep
-- The Ocean Cried Blue Murder, Belladonna, Home, et al. - The Legendary Pink Dots from The Maria Dimension
-- Sisters Of Mercy, and so many others - Leonard Cohen
-- Mayfly Too - Lilac Time from Looking for a Day in the Night
-- Elegy, and most everything else she's done - Lisa Gerrard from Immortal Memory with Patrick Cassidy
-- Teardrop - Massive Attack with Liz Fraser esp. the live versions, but also from Mezzanine
-- Into Dust - Mazzy Star from So Tonight That I Might See
-- Northern Sky, et al. - Nick Drake
-- Morning Bells - the amnesiac version, and Fake Plastic Trees from The Bends - Radiohead
-- Set The Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol with Martha Wainwright from Eyes Open
-- Ballerina - Van Morrison from Astral Weeks
-- The Larghetto (2nd Mvmnt) - Frederic Chopin from his Piano Concerto No. 1 in Em (which was actually his second)

and finally, the list would not be complete without:

-- Canon in D - Johan Pachelbel, but I've a favorite version that renders all others virtually unlistenable--because it is so perfect to me!

Sorry if this list got out of hand--I actually had to hold back from listing so many others...

Every song on vidnaObmana's River of Appearance.
Stars of the Lid: "Piano Aqieu" from Tired sounds
Steve Roach: "This moment is a memory" from Mystic Chords
Hammock: The album "Raising your voice to stop an echo"

I cant believe no one has mentioned Sarah Brightman! ;)
"Free", "Eden", and her version of "Adagio de Albinoni" are great... "Deliver me" was what first got me hooked on her about 4 years ago, but even though I still find the melody of that song to be beautiful, the lyrics are just too needy sounding to me now... ><
I also recommend "Blue orb" by Kahimi karie and "Path feat. Sandra Nasic(from guano apes)" By Apocalyptica
alot of stuff by japanese rock artist Janne Da Arc is beautiful to me as well, especially his song "Gaia" :) its fun to sing!
I'm sure I could think of lots more but I'll shush for now X3

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