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Prettiest songs you've ever heard?

  
  

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Peach Pie
16:07 / 20.11.08
If - The Divine Comedy

The Man I Love - Kate Bush

Til I Die - Brian Wilson

Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac

Adiemus - Karl Jenkins

You'll Never Walk Alone - Gerry and the Pacemakers

It Must Be Love- Madness

Dreamland - Bob Marley

Don't Talk (Put Your Head on My Shoulder) - The Beach Boys

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Cigarretes and Coffee - Otis Redding

Who Loves the Sun - The Velvet Underground

Jesus Was Way Cool - King Missile

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
 
 
Papess
17:24 / 20.11.08
Is this spam?
 
 
dark horse
17:45 / 20.11.08
i dont think this is spam but does it want moving into music?

i will add my contribution then.
 
 
StarWhisper
17:54 / 20.11.08
I think it's only spam if it tries to make you buy something

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWvFm4-Yzyo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFU74UeBgpo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJNwdGqjQuw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMTJ8ddX4

spam me with beautiful music any time
 
 
Spatula Clarke
19:13 / 20.11.08
As a list thread with no discussion whatsoever, this should stay precisely where it is.
 
 
Tsuga
21:33 / 20.11.08
stop talking, Randy. put up some links!
 
 
StarWhisper
21:46 / 20.11.08
how could I have left this one out? <3 the dolly parton


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1qpQb11YWc
 
 
Alex's Grandma
05:52 / 21.11.08
l can't help wondering if whoever it was that started this thread couldn't, in the future, usefully restrict himself to bothering people at the bus stop, by the school, from now on? Presumably he'd have a reason to be there, outside the school?
 
 
whatever
06:39 / 21.11.08
it's funny to use youtube like this

The Pastels - Nothing to Be Done

The Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance

here's some
 
 
Peach Pie
17:26 / 21.11.08
"l can't help wondering if whoever it was that started this thread couldn't, in the future, usefully restrict himself to bothering people at the bus stop, by the school, from now on? Presumably he'd have a reason to be there, outside the school? "

Moan moan, bitch bitch bitch. If I'd put this thread in music you'd have moaned even more. Please list your prettiest songs if you have any.
 
 
StarWhisper
17:46 / 21.11.08
seconded
 
 
electric monk
18:22 / 21.11.08
I'm listening to it now.

Lard - The Power of Lard

Next time we have sex.
Just pretend that I'm Ed Meese.
 
 
Peach Pie
18:27 / 21.11.08
beach boys = proof of heaven

Amateur - Aimee Mann


God Only Knows


So Real - Jeff Buckley
 
 
electric monk
18:29 / 21.11.08
Who's gonna babysit the babysitters?

Who's gonna babysit the babysitters?

Who's gonna babysit the babysitters?

Who's gonna babysit the babysitters?

The power of Lard.

The power of Lard.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
18:56 / 21.11.08
Which came first? Max Headroom or Gerald Ford???

Jourgensen/Biafra FTW.
 
 
iamus
18:59 / 21.11.08
The Pastels - Nothing to Be Done

What a tune that is. I used to be a mad Pastels fan. Did my school work-experience as a greasy-haired wee slebber of a lad alongside Stephen Pastel in a painfully hip little record department of John Smith and Son bookshop.

One of their best tunes, from waaaay back in their inception. Not written by Stephen, I don't think, but definitely one where his charming inability to sing really works.


Mama Cass - Dream A Little Dream Of Me is one of the most beautiful songs going in my opinion.

As is Stina Nordenstam's Little Star.

And I'm partial to a bit of Code 4 by, um, Polysics.
 
 
iamus
19:04 / 21.11.08
And while this isn't exactly pretty, Peach Pie, I keep thinking you should change your name to Peach Pie on the Beach
 
 
grant
19:05 / 21.11.08
What's really fun is opening several of the links in different tabs all at the same time.

Or, El Minotaur Blanco.
 
 
Peach Pie
15:56 / 23.11.08

In any normal film soundtrack,
Gently Johnny would be a contender for its greatest song. But The Wicker Man dropped it, leaving the seduction substory hopelessly mangled. A big shout out to Gary Carpenter for having the foresight to save the soundtrack master copy, thereby ensuring any any of this film's music saw the light of day...

I love a lot of Bob Marley's music but Redemption Song particularly leaves a lump in my throat.

And then, Nitin Sawhney's
Immigrant is a very moving account of his parent's emigration from India to Britain, and some of their emotion surrounding it.
 
 
Liger Null
23:20 / 24.11.08
The soaring chorus to VHS or Beta's "Fall Down Lightly" is so lovely it sends chills down my spine, unfortunately none of the YouTube videos I can find seem to be able to do it any justice. This is the only one that even comes close.

Heart's "Dog and Butterfly" made me cry ever since I was a little kid. It's making me cry right now.
 
 
Jot Evil Rules During Weddings
15:49 / 25.11.08
I believe that John Lennon-Jealous Guy is one of the most beautiful songs ever written
 
 
Peach Pie
16:49 / 25.11.08

Yes, very nice... That whole album is very tender. Lennon was being incredibly open on that album, particularly striking in light of his macho behavior for much of his time in the Beatles.

Heart's "Dog and Butterfly" made me cry ever since I was a little kid. It's making me cry right now.

That's a male voice, right? It's incredible!


'Swinging' by Black Box Recorder has the most beautiful mid 8 I've ever heard, complete with elctronic scrambling and saw.

Jellyfish's 'New Mistake' is a much more uplifting tale of a love affair. It's so *cute*.
 
 
Liger Null
23:26 / 25.11.08

That's a male voice, right? It's incredible!

Um, no, Ann Wilson's a woman; she just has a really rich, velvety singing voice.
 
 
Liger Null
23:33 / 25.11.08
Then of course there's the immortal Me and Bobby McGee.

For those days when trading "all my tomorrows for one single yesterday" sounds like a tempting proposition.
 
 
Peach Pie
16:00 / 27.11.08
Neil Hannon is really amazing... Most great composers still seem to need a period of time to learn the craft, but he appeared to be fully formed at 18. Here is
The Wreck of the Beautiful, his strange and captivating tale of maritime tragedy.

And here is Charmed Life, his wonderful ode to his little girl.
 
 
Tsuga
21:34 / 10.12.08
"Jesus Christ"
 
 
Liger Null
21:58 / 10.12.08
Those dancers' outfits are made of out of sequins and win.
 
 
Liger Null
17:22 / 23.12.08
Not only is The Bagman's Gambit a heartbreakingly beautiful song, but it's also a song about secret agents!

DOUBLE WIN!
 
 
astrojax69
18:51 / 27.12.08
i must say, i've been a bit besotted with emiliana torrini's beautiful 'sunny road' for a while now... lilting, simple, poignant and beautiful.

"i've travelled through the deserts on my horse/
but jokes aside, i wanna come back home/
that night, i said i had to go/
you said you'd meet me on the sunny road/

it's time, meet me on the sunny road..."
 
 
Eek! A Freek!
11:59 / 29.12.08
Broken Social Scene - Anthems for a 17-yr-old Girl

Flaming Lips - Do You Realise?

Mazzy Star - Fade into You

Massive Attack - Teardrop

Yoav - Beautiful Lie

Jeff Buckley - Lover, You Shopuld Have Come Over

Les Cowboys Fringantes - Plus Rien

I would like to recommend Pascale Picard's whole album, "Me, Myself & Us", especially the song "Half Asleep" but I couldn't find a copy so I'll leave you with her song Annoying instead...
 
 
gu
00:25 / 01.01.09
I can't find a complete version on YouTube but I'm going to say 'Memorial' by Explosions in the Sky. Also, I believe Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline is noteworthy as well.
 
 
Baroness von Lenska
01:08 / 02.01.09
Stars of the Lid make wonderful late night or early morning music.

Robyn Hitchcock - Glass Hotel

I kind of want to drop this in Lyrics of Your Life '09, but that would be a bit redundant, so close your eyes and imagine me doing that. And you reading it. In your imagination, I am much wittier and prettier, also. Everyone is. Because you're an awesome person like that.
 
 
Baroness von Lenska
01:13 / 02.01.09
Yoav - Beautiful Lie

And hey, this too.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:34 / 04.01.09
Christ on a fucking bike. Seriously, why would you start a thread like this? What's wrong with you?
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
12:38 / 04.01.09
And that song list! Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah is "pretty?" You have got to be having a laugh.

Please tell me you're having a laugh.
 
  

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