no sorry, i meant from the album that i have

a few more i remembered

pj harvey- missed
cat stevens- boy with a moon and star on his head
SP- stumbleine
panda bear- untitled #4
slowdive- machine gun

Ratatat - Cherry
Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When / Sometimes
Chemical Brothers - Asleep From Day / Dream on
Death In Vegas - Girls
Bob Dylan - Wigwam / Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands / Dont Think Twice Its Alright / Desolation Row
Nico - These Days
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Littlewing (original by Hendrix)
Johnny Cash & Emmy Lou Harris - Long Black Veil
Air - La Femme D'Argent
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Beck - Lampshade
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond / Echoes / Dark Side Of The Moon Album
Grateful Dead - Morning Dew / Eyes Of The World
Velvet Underground - Ocean / All Tommorows Parties / I'll Be Your Mirror
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
Simon & Garfunkel - America
America - Horse With No Name
Roy Orbison - In Dreams
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Beatles - All You Need Is Love / Within You Without You / Hey Jude / A Day In The Life
Zombies - The Way I Feel Inside
Polyphonic Spree - Section 2 (It's The Sun)
Buffalo Springfield - Expecting To Fly
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Olivia Tremor Control - Define A Transparent Dream
Azure Ray - Displaced
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
Bjork - Possibly Maybe / All is Full Of Love / Cocoon
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
Broken Social Scene - Shampoo Suicide / Anthems For A Seventeen Year Old Girl
Daniel Johnston - True Love Will Find You In The End
Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?
Talking Heads - Heaven

and a ton more.

Seriously, how is Air - La Femme D'Argent a song? Don't songs have to have singing and a particular form and so on? I know that some people say "song" when they mean any piece of music, but it drives me nuts.

kay.

Good one. But really, I mean, uh, Glice mentioned Beethoven's 3rd earlier--how far can this madness go?

this far:

Jimi's little wing

The Beatles - *Within You Without You"

while my guitar gently weeps*

fnord

This did occur to me afterwards (and with Feldman, Part), but at the time I was thinking more of beautiful pieces of music.

In other news, I demand that you 'hook me up' with some 'dope' lieder (probably spelt wrong, I care not).

3 more that came up:
Bobby womack-Across 10th Street
Jimi Hendrix-Crosstown Traffic
Sly Stone-Runnin' Away

Perfection personified.I never tire of these as they are simply perfect.

If anyone would write as great songs as these again,i think we'd have little time to discuss things.

I forgot:
Ice Cube-It was a good day
Justin Timberlake-Cry me a river

Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
Cocteau Twins - Aika Guinea
Ida - Shoe-In
Low - In Metal

yada yada etc

nice thread.....

my bloody valentine- sometimes
joy division- atmosphere
low- everybodys song
xiu xiu- hives hives (not for the lyrical content)
snowpatrol- chasing cars (yeah i know its snowpatrol but its an amazing song)
radiohead- fade out
sonic youth- the diamond sea
r.e.m.- nightswimming
the beatles- while my guitar gently weeps
velvet underground- femme fatale

The theme from Mortal Kombat is beautiful, in a retarded way.

Tom Waits - You Can Never Hold Back Spring
Motorpsycho - Blindfolded
Vømmøl Spellemannslag - Spæll åt Mæ
The Gun Club - Secret Fires
Velvet Underground - Pale Blue Eyes
The Smiths - There Is a Light that never goes out
Tobben & Ero - Et år er gått
Belle & Sebastian - Dog On Wheels
Otis Redding - (Sitting on) the dock of the bay
Sonic Youth - Rain On Tin
Elliott Smith - The Biggest Lie

Holy shit.. someone mentioned William Basinski. That's the first thing I thought of when I thought of this thread.

The second thing was anything by slowdive..

godamn it adam...
forgot all about slowdive! yeah, agreed!!!

pygmalion is so hauntingly beautiful of a record, it's sickening.

Just random stuff that comes to mind

bardo pond - tantric porno
aphex twin - rhubarb
slint - breadcrumb trail
dinosaur jr - poledo (just the noise at the end played on loop for an hour)
kyuss - asteroid
melvins - hide
stravinsky - rite of spring (any of it)
mbv - glider
nurse with wound - soliloquy for lilith (any track)
sebadoh - happily divided
mussorgsky - night on bald mountain
aphex twin - radiator, tree

Nick Cave - Are You The One That I've Been Waiting For

Top Three:

Hear Our Prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell
Ain't Misbehavin' - Fats Waller
Ride - David Sylvian

I was really close to putting that on my mixtape (it's 110th though) but at the last moment opted for Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues instead.

I'm not even going to start on a top 10 of most beautiful songs... but the most beautiful one I heard today was a solo piano version of The Mercy Seat by Nick Cave.

sigur ros - hun joro

My list, although a lot of these have been mentioned

1. Sometimes-MBV
2. The Diamond Sea - SY
3. 198d - At The Drive-in
4. Stars - Hum
5. Modern Romance - YYYs
6. There There (The Boney King of Nowhere) - Radiohead
7. Velouria - Pixies
8. In Heaven - Pixies (especially the recent Kim Deal versions)
9. I'll Be Your Mirror - The VU and Nico
10. France - The Libertines

Yeah dude. Otis is awesome

yeah, so where's my rep for being the first (and only) person to mention a slowdive song?

" im still a friggin cadet here..."

That song couldn't be any sadder. There are a lot of sad songs, but this one nails it, it's perfect.

Sorry i must have missed one number there,mr perfect.

The last song that made me cry was Martha by Tom Waits. So I'll put that for now.

Definitely.
In contrast, God is Love from the same album is about the happiest song ever. His enthousiasm when he sings about Jesus and God gets me every time.. and I'm not religious in the slightest.



You're on the watch list, mr. imperfect!


On topic, today's most beautiful song is David Bowie - I'm Not Quite (the original version of Letter To Hermione)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fxfVmH6L6Y

mad season - wake up

"birds still singing" pia fraus
"come and play in the milky night" stereolab
"don't have to be so sad" yo la tengo
"good friday" cocorosie
"i'll be your mirror" velvet underground
"kust tunnen kodu" veljo tormis
"rockaway" jackie-o motherfucker
"safe in hell" sonic youth
"superstar" sonic youth
"when" vincent gallo

beautiful is suicidial.

jc - sonic youth

took a while to compile, in no order:

B-52s - Give Me Back My Man
Bardo Pond - Green Man
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Helium - Honeycomb
John Fahey - On the Sunny Side of the Ocean
Olivia Tremor Control - Jumpin Fences
Sleater-Kinney - Oxygen
Sonic Youth - Unwind
Stereolab - The Black Arts