top 10 most beautiful songs?
 

Here are mine:

Television- Marquee Moon
Gang of Four- We Live As We Dream, Alone
Sonic Youth- Expressway to Yr Skull
Sonic Youth- Schizophrenia
Jimi Hendrix- The Wind Cries Mary
David Bowie- Sweet Thing- Candidate- Reprise
Pink Floyd- Breathe
John Cale- Amsterdam
Joy Division- Atmosphere
My Bloody Valentine- To Here Knows When
Pavement- Grounded

rep.

'American Flag' - Cat Power
'Modesto' - Beck
'Nothing Left To Bury' - Death Vessel
'Good Feeling' - The Violent Femmes
'Dreams' - Boudleaux Bryant

Top five, for now.

Your lists are ever soooo boring.

Suit yourself, gobshite. Have you heard Death Vessel?

Wasn't talking to you idiot.And,yes,i've heard all that stuff and it still remains a boring list.What are you gonna do about that?EHHHH????

Stevie Wonder 's "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer"

Why, I'll.. I'll..

10? why "!0"?

fucksacks, i am not going to count to 10 i am not even going to try to sort out this over that over the other, as if this was my full time job. fuck that! however i'll throw in some names. not sure if my definition of "beautiful" leans towards the melancholy, and i favor strongly female vocalists ("songs" are "sung", right?), but anyway, fuck.

randomly:
lour reed- walk on the wild side
beatles/siouxie & the banshees - little prudence
king crimson - starless & bible black
nico - chelsea girl
roxy music - avalon, more than this
beth orton - stolen car (surely lowbrow: suck me)
nick drake - pink moon
mazzy starr- fade into you
blonde redhead - elephant woman

hm maybe my definition of beauty is "sentimentally horny". well then, eat shit motherfuckers. :P

You big softy!!

The second track from William Basinski's Disintegration Loops is probably the most hauntingly beautiful thing I've ever heard. Evah.

Sonic Youth- I Love You Golden Blue
Daniel Johnston- Some Things Last A Long Time
Beck- Blackhole
Van Morrison- Crazy Love
Yo La Tengo- Deeper Into Movies
Cat Power- I Dont Blame You
Robert Johnson- Love In Vain
White Stripes- Sister, Do You Know My Name?
Flaming Lips- Superhumans
Animal Collective- Winter's Love

........
 

How about some romantic lieder? Schumann's Dichterliebe comes to mind. Or the Mörike-Lieder of Hugo Wolf.

Or some Gershwin maybe. It's in English.

Or on a different tangent, some Beach Boys. I like You Still Believe In Me from Pet Sounds.

He was talking to me.

My taste in music is just way too typical for him.

I'm just way too unhip and into old stuff, just look at my last FM

 

I do agree it is a problem of mine, BUT there are reasons the bands I love are popular.

I think "Sometimes" is better for this topic.

Not that you actually ARE, but don't be ashamed for liking popular stuff. I can't stand people who ONLY like things that are either not popular or are unheard of. They are trying so hard not to be categorized and put into a group, but at the same time, that's exactly what they are doing to themselves.

Sorry, this is not the right thread to post this in. Continue on with your list making activities, and all appy-polly-ologies for the distubance.

Here's some, I'm in a brainfreeze

Boris / Sunn0))) - The Sinking Belle
Sonic Youth - Wish Fulfillment alt. version
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea
Aphex Twin - Kladfvgbung Micshk
Jim O'Rourke - Halfway to a threeway (minus the lyrical aspect)

here are five off the top of my head

white stripes- cold, cold night
velvet underground- venus in furs
john lennon- imagine (it's a song close to my heart)
neutral milk hotel- in the aeroplane over the sea
and to repeat joel, winter's love by animal collective


and right around 5:04 into teenage riot is a beautiful moment. but that's another thread.

the split hernia expieriance - momma don't drink that puss

sandy and the vag - tampon mold

etc.

Beautiful...

Elliott Smith - Speed Trials
Clinic - Distortions
Bonnie Prince Billy/Superwolf - I gave you
...trail of dead - how near, how far
The Connells - 74, 75
Christy Moore - Ride on
Can - Future Days
Jonny Cash - If you could read my mind
Mogwai - R U still in 2 it
Elliott Smith - Junk Bond trader.

beautiful in various ways

Cat Power - Ice Water, Faces, Nude As The News
Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives, Apistat Commander
Joanna Newsom - "En Gallop"
Parenthetical Girls - The Weight She Fell Under
Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
the Smiths - This Charming Man
Jewel - Foolish Games

Cat Power- I found a reason, wild is the wind, say, names
joanna newsom- en gallop, swansea, sawdust & diamonds
the cure- pictures of you
dmb - crash ha ha i love this song
modest mouse - dramamine, stars are projectors, teeth like god's shoeshine
mum- smell memory
beatles- blackbird
panda bear- track 02
grizzly bear- colorado, a good place
j & m chain- just like honey
my bloody valentine- sometimes, to here knows when, when you sleep
animal collective- banshee beat live is the most beautiful thing ive ever heard...loch raven, la rapet, happy singing band

yeah i didnt include any PJ Harvey, but id have to mention Shame from Uh Huh Her. Its a wonderful song.

fairly traditional, but what the hell:

Sonic Youth - Shadow of a Doubt
Sun Kil Moon - Carry me Ohio
Cat Power - Nude as the News
Mogwai - Friend of the Night
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Sebadoh - Drama Mine
Iron&Wine - Naked as we came
Broken Social Scene - 7/4 (Shoreline)
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Bardo Pond - Tantric Porno

Can - Mother Sky
Bardo Pond - Destroying Angel
Six Organs Of Admittance - School of the Flower
Sonic Youth - Xpress Way to your Skull
Einstürzende Neubauten - Salamdrina
Dead C - Bitcher

And a special twosome that I keep listening to like 10 times a day recently:

Black Dice - Endless Happiness
Paavoharju - Puhuri

Fuckin ace.

i cant think of specifics at the moment but some charalambides would be on there as would jacki o motherfucker, jim o'rourke and alice coltrane. also wilco's version of at my window sad and lonely would be there.

SY-Hey Joni
MBV-Sometimes
Smashing Pumpkins-Spaceboy
Smashing Pumpkins-Mayonaise
Radiohead-Treefingers
Interpol-Hands Away
Rites of Spring-All Through a Life
REM-Sitting Still
REM-Pilgrimage
Matthew Good-Fine Art of Falling Apart
Matthew Good-Weapon

oh no!

i've been outed!

ha ha

well...

i'll have to confess-- i'im not 100% bitter-- not even 50% really.

im just quick to anger, but that's another story.

btw i did not mention cat power because it was hard to pick the few among the many.

In no order, except for no. 1 -

1. Carpenters - Goodbye to Love
Purple Trap - The Reassembling Place of Dispersed Holy Murderous Thought
The Fall - The Acute
Arvo Part - Sarah was 90 years old (or the whole of Miserere)
Beethoven's 3rd
Special D - Come with Me
Erasure - Hide Away
Datblygu - Blonegmeddliau
Morton Feldman - Coptic Light
Ground Zero - Die Kapple Von Kersplatz

Pejorative list, subject to my suddenly remembering something else.

To me, the concept of a "song," is much more narrowly defined than it is for most of you guys, apparently. I guess I misunderstood the topic.

i can't think now so i just say what comes to my mind first:

nico - afraid
velvet underground - sunday morning
vashti bunyan - diamond day
jesus & mary chain - about you
morrissey - i know very well how i got my name
the fall - entitled
the mice - little rage
syd barrett - wined and dined
comus - the herald
beach boys - all i wanna do

I can't be bothered to make a whole list of songs that i love right now but my favourite song of all time is Glen Campbell's 'Witchita Lineman'.I'll never ever tire of that one.Never.

You big girl you!

From An American Tale or from the James Bond film?

theres loads.

now, husker du has been growing on me now , all of their songs are fucking beautifull.

i only have warehouse songs and stories. i have to get more.

You have all the songs but you need to get more?Eh?Just kidding,internet kid.

yeah yeah yeahs - maps (acoustic)!