Yeah I came here to say Clair de Lune. Also on classical i'd say a lot of impressionist classical (like Debussy). Satie Gymnopedie 1. is in a similar vein.
The live performance that introduced this song in 2001 and the studio version from 2016 have different listening experience IMO. For those who never listened to one or the other (or even both), I highly recommend listen to both of them.
The end of how to disappear completely where he sings ahhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh is just so hauntingly beautiful. I don't know how to describe it better hopefully that made sense
The performance of that song during their Central Park set is sublime. Art had such a beautiful voice in his prime, it set that duo apart from the rest just as much as Paul’s brilliant writing did.
Notion by Tash Sultana There is just something about the way this song is composed that is so beautiful. Sometimes I can't listen to it, because it makes me too emotional. I've seen them live and if you watch numerous videos , they never play this song the same way twice and I love that. You get hit with that newness all over again.
I absolutely love this song,the first time I heard it was when she performed it in her TED talk. I was completely blown away and it has been on repeat ever since. Especially that guitar freestyle riff near the end of the song..omg
Florence just sounds so ethereal! What an awesome pic. Have you seen that video where she performs Sky Full Of Song (iirc) during a thunderstorm? It's totally magical.
One of the songs off The Court of The Crimson King by King Crimson, most likely Epitaph but I Talk To The Wind is close. Those songs are beautiful as fuck
I always thought Mykonos by the Fleet Foxes almost felt holy to listen to... and the song Poems by Hippocampus. They both give me this out of body feel where my eyes tear up and it’s like a mental orgasm.
My two favorite bands!! The first time I heard Poems was such an incredible experience. I still get glimmers of that experience every time I listen to it.
I really love the lyrics to ‘You Love Me’ by Devotchka. It’s a simple, beautiful song, and you can just really feel the lifetime of longing, especially the third verse.
Wow I knew Simon & Garfunkel had some great songs but this is just amazing. Beautiful imagery of the lyrics compared with a sweet melody and their heavenly voices, amazing song.
Mark Knopfler's "Romeo and Juliet" from Real Live Roadrunning. Compared to the original you can hear the age and experience in his voice, as if he is reflecting on what was vs just trying to get over it.
Easily From Here to Utopia by Pat the Bunny. It’s kinda everything that he is and that I love about his music. Though it doesn’t have the same ‘epic’ or fantastical vibe others are going for here, but that isn’t my sort of thing.
if I was introducing someone to pat, I think first song part 2 would be a pretty solid summary of what the album's about, but from here to utopia is easily my favorite song and IMO his magnum opus
Hello! The most beautiful song I’ve heard is the Tiny Desk Performance Gaelynn Lea- Someday We’ll Linger in the Sun. The song opens with a gorgeous rising and falling instrumental that sounds like every emotion I’ve ever felt. Her warbling voice makes me tear up every time I listen. I simply love the song, it‘s probably the most beautiful song I’ve ver heard.
Maybe not the absolute most but soothsayer by buckethead blows me away every time and it’s all instrumental. Same with tender surrender and for the love of god by Steve vai. Both will give anyone a new appreciation for guitar music
I just went through and added every song (at the time of this posting) to a public playlist.
Youre doing God's work my friend.
Feel free to add more!!
Love Honeybee. The video and music together is just the goodest.
Holy shit can't wait to listen
Clair de Lune is up there for sure. A lot of classical music actually. Wagner's Tannhauser Overture is another one.
I second Clair de Lune. This song has always been so overwhelmingly beautiful to me it makes me emotional.
Yeah I came here to say Clair de Lune. Also on classical i'd say a lot of impressionist classical (like Debussy). Satie Gymnopedie 1. is in a similar vein.
Pink Floyd’s Us and Them.
Would like to add the rest of Dark Side of the Moon as well, especially The Great Gig in the Sky
Up and down, and in the end it’s only round and round...
space song by beach house. beach house in general makes so many beautiful songs
I'm gonna second this one. Space Song is just so... Everything...
PPP
Myth, even. Norway, perhaps. Sparks, if you must
Honestly, Wishes off of Bloom is my go to for Beach House
I was gonna say take care
True Love Waits - Radiohead
"I'm not living I'm just killing time"
Was just listening to that album!
was just listening to that song haha
Gagging order is a close choice for me.
The live performance that introduced this song in 2001 and the studio version from 2016 have different listening experience IMO. For those who never listened to one or the other (or even both), I highly recommend listen to both of them.
Saturn by Sleeping At Last. But if you want more, both of his Atlas albums are absolutely beautiful
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Jeeze. Thank you for this comment. I may have found my new favorite artist.
First time hearing this - sooo good!
I hadn't thought about this song in years. Thank you for reminding me. Still makes me weep!
I still think it's Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky
The world is not a cold dead place is an amazing album.
Dude I have this in my favorites but i've been putting off listening to it for years. Idk why.
White Ferrari - Frank Ocean
Pink & White is my first choice. Everything about that song is perfect to my ears
The end of how to disappear completely where he sings ahhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhh is just so hauntingly beautiful. I don't know how to describe it better hopefully that made sense
Bridge over troubled water
The performance of that song during their Central Park set is sublime. Art had such a beautiful voice in his prime, it set that duo apart from the rest just as much as Paul’s brilliant writing did.
this and el condor pasa, it’s just so pretty
Same.
I mean I can't actually decide, but Porcelain by Moby is just gorgeous. As is Teardrop by Massive Attack.
Porcelain by Red Hot Chili Peppers is lovely as well.
What a wonderful world
Staralfur by Sigur Ros!
Off the top of my head...White winter hymnal by fleet foxes.
Fleet Foxes in general has such a gorgeous roster.
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Love that song!
It’s definitely up to personal taste, but these are some of the ones at the top of the list for me:
Come away with me. One of my go-tos to test new speaker systems. So gorgeous.
Weird Fishes/ Reckoner- Radiohead
Max Richter's reworking of Vivaldi's Spring 1. I'm not very educated on classical (usually into alt/metal/shoegaze) but it's wonderful:
I love his sleep music.
Ocean - John Butler
The 10 minute one in his home studio is just... completely jaw-dropping.
Ohhh yeaaa man... good call buddy
Somewhere over the rainbow by Israel “IZ” Kamakawiwoʻole. Simply beautiful.
Can't choose between:
Came here to say Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I saw Your Face". Her version of "Bridge over Troubled Water" is a close second for me.
Nice! Also, Roberta Flack’s “Do What You Gotta Do” is so good. So sad.
Hoppipolla by Sigur Rós
New Slang by The Shins
Both GREAT songs
New Slang makes me fucking cry man, it's such a beautiful song.
Notion by Tash Sultana There is just something about the way this song is composed that is so beautiful. Sometimes I can't listen to it, because it makes me too emotional. I've seen them live and if you watch numerous videos , they never play this song the same way twice and I love that. You get hit with that newness all over again.
I absolutely love this song,the first time I heard it was when she performed it in her TED talk. I was completely blown away and it has been on repeat ever since. Especially that guitar freestyle riff near the end of the song..omg
Hello Earth- Kate Bush.
Excellent choice.
No one was expecting Nine Inch Nails on this list, but-
cosmic love
Florence just sounds so ethereal! What an awesome pic. Have you seen that video where she performs Sky Full Of Song (iirc) during a thunderstorm? It's totally magical.
One of the songs off The Court of The Crimson King by King Crimson, most likely Epitaph but I Talk To The Wind is close. Those songs are beautiful as fuck
I haven’t listened to King Crimson in years. Thanks for the reminder.
I always thought Mykonos by the Fleet Foxes almost felt holy to listen to... and the song Poems by Hippocampus. They both give me this out of body feel where my eyes tear up and it’s like a mental orgasm.
My two favorite bands!! The first time I heard Poems was such an incredible experience. I still get glimmers of that experience every time I listen to it.
Space Song - Beach House
Video games - Lana del Rey
Blackbird, Paul Mccartney. It's also kind of a family song as it was a favorite of an Uncle who died much too young.
The Labyrinth Song
I have so much love for asaf avidan. Agree with this wholeheartedly
ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space - spiritualized
God Only Knows, Beach Boys
“Just My Imagination” by The Temptations
My absolute favorite Temptations song...and I was raised by Motown-loving parents!
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
Very much agree
Falling by Julee Cruise
I hope you dance - lee ann womack
AAAAA we have really similar taste in music
Moon River by Audrey Hepburn is also absolutely gorgeous. :0
Noone mentioned The Cure yet? Hard to choose just one song, currently I would say A Letter to Elise.
Boys don't cry 🥺🥺 it hits different
Plainsong!
Fade into you by Mazzy Star or Spinning Away by Brian Eno
Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
Pachelbel Canon in D
I really love the lyrics to ‘You Love Me’ by Devotchka. It’s a simple, beautiful song, and you can just really feel the lifetime of longing, especially the third verse.
I agree, Adagio for Strings is a masterpiece
For Emily Wherever I May Find Her -Simon & Garfunkel
Wow I knew Simon & Garfunkel had some great songs but this is just amazing. Beautiful imagery of the lyrics compared with a sweet melody and their heavenly voices, amazing song.
Ára Bátur by Sigur Rós
This is one of those songs that I can remember the exact details of the first time I heard it. It's EASILY one of my all-time favorites.
Sigur Rós - Glósóli
It's up there:
I Can't Make You Love Me
Neptune by Sufjan Stevens
Into the hollow- queens of the Stone Age
Wait a minute by willow
Everybody here wants you by Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah by Buckley?
kashmir - led zeppelin
Robert Plant stated in an interview that he would rather Led Zeppelin be remembered for Kashmir than Stairway To Heaven. I agree.
Untitled #8 by Sigur Ros
The Day I tried to live-soundgarden
Danny Elfman - Ice Dance (Edward Scissorhands Soundtrack)
Yes to all of that. This song is so beautifully lilting and bittersweet it never fails to make my chest tight and give me eye prickles.
Enya - Only Time
Kansas- Dust In The Wind
Going to California by Led Zeppelin.
If anyone feels inclined to make a Spotify playlist w all these submissions... hit this guy up
Im going to put my name here as well.
Mark Knopfler's "Romeo and Juliet" from Real Live Roadrunning. Compared to the original you can hear the age and experience in his voice, as if he is reflecting on what was vs just trying to get over it.
This whole album is amazing. (As are most T-Bone Burnett collabs. )
First time I heard Sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel.
Easily From Here to Utopia by Pat the Bunny. It’s kinda everything that he is and that I love about his music. Though it doesn’t have the same ‘epic’ or fantastical vibe others are going for here, but that isn’t my sort of thing.
if I was introducing someone to pat, I think first song part 2 would be a pretty solid summary of what the album's about, but from here to utopia is easily my favorite song and IMO his magnum opus
Where’s My Love by SYML is up for there for me. Also Debussy’s Claire de Lune and Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major.
Touch by daft punk. Not beautiful in the way that I think you want, but it’s honestly just a celebration of life and music and everything.
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Sylvian & Sakamoto - Forbidden Colours
Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
When the Sun Hits by Slowdive
Raven's Song - Aaron Embry
Pink Floyd- The Great Gig in the Sky
Talk Talk's "I Believe in You
Rylynn
Polka dots and moonbeams by Nat King Cole
Frank Zappa's
Honey I Sure Miss You - Daniel Johnston
Sleep by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Such a beautiful song. Really, the whole album is beautiful
Fiona Apple’s version of Across The Universe
New grass - Talk Talk
Cat Stevens- Morning Has Broken
Pink Mountaintops - While We Were Dreaming. It almost always causes me to cry tears of joy.
As a film score junkie,
hugely agree!
Maybe not ever, but this is the most beautiful song I've heard recently.
the bug collector by Hayley Heynderickx 💕 absolutely ethereal
Jeniferever - "Alvik"
Múm - Green Grass Of Tunnel
REM - At My Most Beautiful
Feel - Jacob Collier
Bright as Yellow by Innocence Mission
Beck- The Golden Age
Bitter Sweet Symphony by the Verve
Bauhaus - all we ever wanted was everything
Farewell Transmission- Songs Ohia
London Grammar- Interlude
The Trapeze Swinger by Iron & Wine
John Denver- Annie's Song
Red Rabbits -- The Shins
O Children by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Can't pick just one...
A day in the life of a tree by Beach boys
Avril 14th - Aphex Twin
Lacrimosa
Concerning Hobbits - Howard Shore. When I hear that song, I think of literal heaven. Listening to this song feels like coming home.
Facts
Suzanne, Leonard Cohen
Nandemonaiya - Radwips
I’d honestly say I prefer Dream Lantern by a lot for this sorta thing
And there by the river I lost my glasses by Krobak
Aphex Twin - 4
The Glory of it All- David Crowder Band Helped me beyond belief when I was grieving. Can’t listen to it without crying
Children of Planet Earth by MelodySheep
I think
Hand of God - Jon Bellion
I giorni (Arr. for Violin, Piano and String Orchestra) by Ludovico Einaudi, Daniel Hope, Jacques Ammon, Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
Oogway Ascends - Hans Zimmer
Loveology by Regina Spektor
bleed by deadmau5
King Crimson - Prelude - Song Of The Gulls and Islands
Hard to choose a favorite.
Space song - beach house
Pink + White by Frank Ocean is just magical (Rushes off of Endless too)
Hello! The most beautiful song I’ve heard is the Tiny Desk Performance Gaelynn Lea- Someday We’ll Linger in the Sun. The song opens with a gorgeous rising and falling instrumental that sounds like every emotion I’ve ever felt. Her warbling voice makes me tear up every time I listen. I simply love the song, it‘s probably the most beautiful song I’ve ver heard.
Maybe not the absolute most but soothsayer by buckethead blows me away every time and it’s all instrumental. Same with tender surrender and for the love of god by Steve vai. Both will give anyone a new appreciation for guitar music
Mind over time- interpol
Raag Malkauns. Not a song in particular but everything I hear it I'm transported to a liminal, nocturnal place.
“Elegia” New Order
i can’t pick just one!
Helplessly Hoping- Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Alien Observer - Grouper
XO - Elliott Smith
Amber - 311
The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
Sonic Youth - Sugar Kane
Siberian Breaks - MGMT
Eric clapton- wonderful tonight