What is the most Beautiful Song you've ever listened to ?
About Me…I like Music…...A lot.
What is the most breataking and inspiring song you’ve ever heard? Favorite artists of all time ?
Right now my favorite song is “A Mi Manera” by the Gipsy Kings.
I know this might more difficult for some people (including me) who have a lot of Music, but It can be anything as far as Genre or Language goes.
I am trying to get a big music list compiled, and would like everyone’s input. Thanks :)
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Sometimes I think it might be the Blumenduette from Lakhme. Sometimes I think it might be Mir Ist So Wunderbar from Fidelio.
There are too many songs that get me. Ditto classical music. I adore the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, the English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. I never heard a piece of his music that didn’t/doesn’t move me. I’m also nuts for the music that plays toward the end of the Jeff Bridges film “Fearless.” It’s called “LENTO SOSTENUTO TRANQUILLO MA CANTABILE” from Symphony No. 3 (“Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”), written by Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki. Never fails to bring tears to my eyes.
Any music without words! You might have to go WAAAY back to find Real music in my opinion. Good Music these days is hard to find. Add some Betty Davis or Nat King Cole to your list.
“Summer Sunshine” from The Cross.
Anything from Cinema-Serenade-Itzhak-Perlman.
I won’t listen to it anymore, though. We played that CD non-stop when my Mom was dying in the hospital. Now, I’m not able to handle a second of any of the songs.
And, like dpworkin, I dig Blumenduett aus der Oper “Lakme”.
@Scarlett….If you like that song…you must hear “Habla Me” and “No Volvere” from the Gipsy Kings album, “Este Mundo.” These songs are two beautiful classics. I think “Este Mundo” is one of the best albums they have produced. I recommend it highly.
Those songs are Kleenex-worthy. :)
I will have to think of my own favorite beautiful songs….and will post later.
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This performance of Tupelo by John Lee hooker is one of the best blues performances ever. Talk about emotion.
This is a tough one. I think for me, at the moment, it’s a tie between Ageless Beauty by Stars and Song to the Siren as covered by This Mortal Coil. I’d highly recommend that you give them a listen, dear reader.
I can still remember the first time I heard The Ecstasy of Gold.
@Randy, you and I have EXACTLY the same taste in music.
@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard I tend to stray all over the place. I’ll listen to someone like Norma Jean, (Don’t click this link if you don’t like hard music! You’ve been warned.) one minute and then switch over to Lovedrug then over to Lil Wayne then to The Zep. My musical tastes have been compared to a drunk driver; all over the road. I just find that I appreciate the art as long as it is such. Nickleback is NOT art!
Puccini – Maria Callas – O mio babbino from Gianni Schicchi
All Love Can Be – Charlotte Church – from a Beautiful Mind
Claire de Lune – Debussy
Cello Suite 1 – by Yo Yo Ma, Bach
Ave Maria – Celene Dion
Havana – by Jesse Cook
Moments in Love – Art of Noise
Europa – Carlos Santana
Aqueous Transmission – Incubus
Um Amor Puro – Djavan
Stardust – Nat King Cole
Sao Paulo – Morcheeba
Extraordinary Woman – Rocky Dawuni
If I Should Die Tonight – Marvin Gaye
Blaahhhhh There is just way too much good music out there….. but here’s a VERY Short list of some of my Favs….
@Randy – ” My Musical tastes have been compared to a drunk driver – All over the Road ”—HA ! ME TOO !! I can go from Rock to Rap, to Soul, to Oldies, to Classical, and then to Mainstream Pop, and then back around to Foreign music in a second! I love it all !
I think any song by Celtic Woman such as when one of the girls sang You’ll Be In My Heart is really breathtaking. Celtic Woman is my favorite singing group. I guess if you’re patriotic then you would like the song O, America! but it’s up to you. They’ve redone Amazing Grace, and their song Goodnight My Angel makes me tear up it’s so beautiful.
Halleluja, by Leonard Cohen. If only other singers would leave it alone Sarah’s cover is not bad though.
Bjork has a lot of Beautiful music too, if you’re into Avante-Garde songs.
Bjork is great!, took me a while to get used to her, but then, I love her!
Anything by Enya, Celtic Woman, Clannad, Loreena McKennitt is beautiful. As you can see I’m a fan of Celtic music. But if you watch the Celtic Woman concerts (I have two of them on DVD) they always wear these beautiful dresses and gowns and it makes the songs even more spectacular.
Nessun Dorma sung by Pavorotti
Come Away With Me-Norah Jones
My Funny Valentine sung by Frank Sinatra
Lover Man sung by Billie Holiday
Vivaldi’s Spring
Sade-Haunt Me
are a few of my favorites
Boy, you all have listed some EXCELLENT CHOICES!!!! Here are a few others that I really like:
Dansen aan Zee (in Dutch) by Blof but I love this version by Sarah Bettens and here is Sarah Bettens singing with Blof.
Oh Yoko! by John Lennon
Sibelius 7th (Not a song, but as beautiful as music ever gets, in my opinion)
I could write a very long list indeed, but I’ll spare you.
DeBussy’s Clair de Lune
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Van Morrison’s Into The Mystic
Aretha Franklin’s Until You Come Back To Me
Linda Ronstad’s Round Midnight
Clair de Lune
Gershwin
U2
Leonard Cohen
Dear Prudence
Terrapin Station
Looks like rain
Mad World – Gary Jules’ and Michael Andrews’ cover
@LeoCol-A friend sent this song to me.I like it very much too :)
“Thank you” by Alanis Morisette
“Love Theme” by Jackie Presti from Metal Gear Solid 4. It was played on /b/ when moot tried to troll everyone into thinking he was shutting it down. The song actually brought me to tears.
So many to choose from…
The melody that always brings tears to my eyes is the theme of the 2nd movement (largo) of Dvorak’s 9th (“New World”) Symphony—first played by the English horn. It was later adapted into a song called “Going Home.”
Runners-up:
La Vie En Rose
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Wonderful choices, my fellow jellies. May I throw in just two more for your consideration:
Sad And Deep As You – Traffic (Dave Mason), “Welcome to the Canteen” (Live)
Phantasmagoria in Two – Tim Buckley, “Dream Letter – Live In London (1968)”
By the way, I believe Tim’s kid, Jeff Buckley, did a pretty nice job on the previously mentioned Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. Jeff included it on his “Grace” album, but here is a very nice clip.
Ahhhhhhhhhhh…..music!
See ya…...Gary/wtf
Gorecki, Symphony # 3. Beethoven 7th symphony second movement comes in second.
At the moment it is this but we all weary even of the most exquisite music.
It’s a toss up between Olsen by Boards of Canada and Rhubarb by Aphex Twin.
Il Mio Miracolo by Vittorio Grigolo
“Fast Car” – Tracy Chapman
I find this song absolutely gorgeous and soothing.
The Dance by Garth Brooks. You can listen to this song at the beginning or end of a relationship and it is powerful in either circumstances.
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