beautiful songs

[stevib]

i want songs of beauty.

is that too hard to ask?


ok, go

[Sketcher]

What genre? What do you consider beautiful?

[greg vs greg]

Vast - A Better Place

or just about any Vast song

[KingCrimson]

i want songs of beauty.

is that too hard to ask?


ok, go
Done.
Listen to:
"A Warm Place" by Nine Inch Nails.
It is a very slow ambient song. If you can't find beauty in that song then you can't find it anywhere else.
Except with Pink Floyd. Always and forever.
Peace out.

[YouEnjoyMyself]

Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven
Don't Panic - Coldplay
Something - The Beatles
Somewhere Over The Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Canon and gigue, for 3 violins & continuo in D major, T. 337: Canon in D
II. Andante - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
So What - Miles Davis
Mediterranean Sundance - Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia , John McLaughlin

[wrathchild]

Quo Vadis - Dream
Alice in Chains - Anything from "Jar of Flies" or "Sap"

[camjoe87]

Echos by Pink floyd.
Dogs by Pink floyd
Pyramid song by radiohead
Street Spirit (fade out) by radiohead - Love this song, beautiful guitar driven song.


Porcupine Tree---A lot of stuff from their last 2 albums, and some from Lightbulb Sun
Agreed.

Especially "arriving somewhere but not here"

[Baneofevil3]

What BigMattTheHobo said. Classical music is some of the most beautiful music you will ever hear.

These artists make beautiful music:

Explosions in the Sky
Sigur Rós
Iron & Wine
Sufjan Stevens
Beck (The albums "Sea Change" and "Mutations", specifically)

These are a few beautiful songs:

Love Song by The Cure (but only if you like 80's music)
Night on the Sun; Bankrupt on Selling; Gravity Rides Everything; Lives; Life Like Weeds; Custom Concern; Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset by Modest Mouse (but only if you can tolerate the vocals)
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels); Une Annee Sans Lumiere; Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles); Wake Up; In the Backseat by The Arcade Fire are all at least semi-beautiful
New Slang by The Shins
Subterranean Homesick Alien; Exit Music (For a Film); The Tourist by Radiohead
The Engine Driver; On the Bus Mall; Of Angels and Angles by The Decemberists
The Killing Moon by Echo & the Bunnymen
Elevator Beat by Nancy Wilson
Rain, Rain; Roscoe; The Pioneers; Good Dog, Happy Man by Bill Frisell
In the Morning of the Magicians; Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell; Do You Realize?? by The Flaming Lips

Yeah, I could list for a while, but I think I'll stop here.

[Pat The Baker]

For The Love Of God

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4361950700544015447&q=Steve+Vai

Watch it. Just dont open it and listen to it, watch it.

[stevib]

What genre? What do you consider beautiful?

its not so much a case of me, but you. stuff you find beautiful.

like, anything.

The suggestions so far have been real fly, keep em comin.


ill post what i think when ive heard all of them/when i feel like it.

[Banzai]

Beautiful in the sense of relaxing probably Reggae:
Steel Pulse
Inner Circle
Reggae On Mango
Black Uhuru

and I've always liked 'Doesn't Remind Me' by Audioslave

[MiKe]

Jaco Pastorius---Portrait of Tracy, 3 Views of a Secret, Onkonkole Y Trompa, and a shitload more.

Porcupine Tree---A lot of stuff from their last 2 albums, and some from Lightbulb Sun

[Takeoff]

Nine Inch Nails-Hurt

and no, it's not a cover of a Johnny Cash song...and yes, I have to clarify that...

only song I've ever cried at (I have no clue why) ----> Arch Enemy-We Will Rise

[strikeandburn]

Pink Floyd - On The Turning Away
Pink Floyd - One Slip

[cushlinkes]

A lot of stuff by Queen or Pink Floyd

[MiKe]

Down---Learn From This Mistake

I'm listening to it now, I forgot how much I loved this band.

[NiNJaCYaNiDe]

Face of Melinda - Opeth
Rotten Apple - Alice in Chains

[ypsidan04]

Within Temptation - Mother Earth (the whole album)

The Gathering - Almost anything (check out "Amity", "Travel")

Barenaked Ladies - What A Good Boy

[heaven's satan]

It's All Over Now, Baby Bluse - Bob Dylan
Julia - The Beatles

[RaVaG3r]

Ode to a Superhero - Weird Al :raiseeyeb

[KEALYBOY]

Sergei Rachmaninov - Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini
Van Morrison - Madame George
Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches
King Crimson - Exiles
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

[chronotub]

Aphex Twin - rhubarb (SAWII disk 1 track 3)
Very minimalistic, consists almost entierly of 2 melodies that change slightly as the song progresses

[Jumpin_Jack]

Yasmin the light, explosions in the sky

[Ænema]

Cherub Rock and Disarm by Smashing Pumpkins. Two great songs.
Elderly Woman Behind The Counter In A Small Town - Peral Jam. (Hearts and Thoughts song)
Suggestions - System of a Down

Those are my two cents.

[marshalldylan10]

John Lennon-Imagine
most of all Beatles songs....

[emericanlegend]

CB4 - Straight Outta Locash
The flowing, melodic harmony relaxes even the most furious of minds.

[islamabub]

hmm...wheres the 3 libras video when i need it?


anywho

[el_real_madrazo]

hmm, a lot of what i was going to recommend has been mentioned already. so i'll go with these because i didn't see them ,sorry if they were mentioned already.

sting - englishman in new york
john willams and boston pops - indiana jones theme
jonny l - hurt you so
ralph tresvant - sensitivity
laquer - behind
manu chao - me gustas tu, bixo, trapped by love, papito (basically the entire cds these songs are found in)
jimi hendrix - little wing
pantera - planet caravan
nacha pop - lucha de gigantes
cafe tacuba - eres, avientame

theres so much more that i can list, i have a really diverse taste in music, i just love music.

[FonsecaWalls]

Stairway to Heaven

[Aclepa]

anything from radiohead
anything from godspeed you! black emperor
anything from explosions in the sky
anything from mogwai

[temp100]

Opeth - To Bid You Farewell, Credence, A Fair Judgement, Benighted...

The list goes on...

[BrainStew]

Opeth - To Bid You Farewell, Credence, A Fair Judgement, Benighted...

The list goes on...
Quoted for truth... or just mutual love of Opeth. A Fair Judgment pwns that list. :)


Quo Vadis - "Dream"
Katatonia - "Tonight's Music"
The Black Crows - "She Talks to Angels"
Dredg - "The Tanbark Is Hot Lava" (and most anything else by Dredg)
Cannibal Corpse - "I Will Kill You" (sorry, had to throw something ridiculous in)

[Casey]

Breathe Me-Sia
A Sorta Fairytale-Tori Amos
Sleep Tonight- The Stars
Bleed Like Me-Garbage
Leif Erikson- Interpol

[DJ_critikaL]

2Pac - Fame
2Pac - I Ain't Mad At Cha (Video Version)
2Pac - I Wonda If Heaven Got A Ghetto
2Pac - Life's So Hard
2Pac - Nothing To Lose
2Pac - Pain
2Pac - Still I Rise
2Pac - Thugz Mansion (Acoustic)
2Pac - Tradin' War Stories
2Pac - Unconditional Love
The Roots - Star / Pointro
The Roots - Why (What's Going On?)

These aren't your average rap songs, these are like soul music.

[NiNJaCYaNiDe]

Quoted for truth... or just mutual love of Opeth. A Fair Judgment pwns that list. :)


Quo Vadis - "Dream"
Katatonia - "Tonight's Music"
The Black Crows - "She Talks to Angels"
Dredg - "The Tanbark Is Hot Lava" (and most anything else by Dredg)

A Fair Judgment does pwn that list hardcore...great song...not the others aren't too tho.

Cannibal Corpse - "I Will Kill You" (sorry, had to throw something ridiculous in)

rofl.

[ypsidan04]

Hayley Westenra. This girl is 18, from New Zealand, and good looking. I was listening to her CD at B&N the other day, and man she must have the best singing voice in the world. Just makes all your cares go away for awhile, seriously. I just don't know how someone can possibly be that gifted.

http://images.google.com/images?q=Hayley+Westenra&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hayley%20Westenra&hl=en&sa=N&tab=iw

sorry, had to throw something ridiculous in

Godsmack - "I Fucking Hate You"

[Kiki J]

The Verve- Bittersweet Symphony
Bedouin Soundclash- When the night feels my song

[Thefridge]

Wake Up-Coheed and Cambria
The Light and the Glass-Coheed and Cambria
Matroshka-Dredg
Osmosis in C-Kaddisfly
I Will Breathe Fire-Strata
Everlong (acoustic)-Foo Fighters
The Widow-Mars Volta

[dickstain]

cream whiteroom

[Pat The Baker]

Always With Me, Always With You - Joe Satriani

For some reason I think instrumentals really get a message across better than words in some cases.

Ten Years Gone by Led Zeppelin is really awesome too.

[KEALYBOY]

2Pac was an overrated MC and a fucking pussy, he chose to adopt a shallow, violent 'thug' lifestyle then moaned when it got him down and is consequently hailed as a 'credible artist', I mean fair enough if he had portrayed a chilling criminal mind set or painted vivid pictures of horror, but that was way beyond him.

I like the odd tune but his lyrics are fucking pitiful and his flow is pretty mediocre, tries to be eloquent and falls way short. If he were alive he wouldn't get half the praise he does, I cannot seriously believe people speak of him as the greatest rapper of all time, it's like calling Nick Mason the world's best drummer, oh wait, sycophantic Floyd fans do that too...

[temp100]

Hayley Westenra. This girl is 18, from New Zealand, and good looking. I was listening to her CD at B&N the other day, and man she must have the best singing voice in the world. Just makes all your cares go away for awhile, seriously. I just don't know how someone can possibly be that gifted.

http://images.google.com/images?q=Hayley+Westenra&hl=en
http://www.google.com/search?q=Hayley%20Westenra&hl=en&sa=N&tab=iw



Godsmack - "I Fucking Hate You"
Wow, you've heard of Hayley Westenra! She's huge here in NZ. I think she was trained as an opera singer but she doesn't use vibrato and other operatic skills because the average person apparently doesn't like to hear them.

And also, I think she writes her own songs, but I'm not sure.

[Eegoog]

1. Close to the edge - Yes
2. Hemishpheres - Rush
3. That Particular Time - Alanis Morisette
4. Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow
5. Drops of Jupiter - Train
6. Show me the way - Styx
7. Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
8. Angel - Sarah McLaughlin
9. Holiday - Scorpians
10. Racing in the street (live version) - Bruce Springsteen

[Pajman]

"Letter From India" - Al DiMeola, Paco de Lucia , John McLaughlin

[/Tilt/]

Queen - Save Me

I'm too lazy to post more, but that one stood out in my mind.

[ypsidan04]

Wow, you've heard of Hayley Westenra! She's huge here in NZ. I think she was trained as an opera singer but she doesn't use vibrato and other operatic skills because the average person apparently doesn't like to hear them.

And also, I think she writes her own songs, but I'm not sure.

I first heard her name when I was in Australia last August, but I didn't know much more than the name and the face. Until the other day when my eye caught her CD at the store, and I was hooked.

When people take the vibrato overboard (Mariah Carey, Beyonce) it just sounds shitty. But when it's used carefully (Nightwish) it sounds good. But I much prefer those who don't. Like her, and the singers from The Gathering, Within Temptation, or Xandria. I'm familiar with Delta Goodrem as well. She's different, but also good.
I Will Breathe Fire-Strata

Wow, somebody else has heard of Strata. :)