# Really Beautiful Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 23, 2002, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484 "2002-10-23T06:00:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/61 "2002-10-24T20:05:23Z")
Some good ones listed so far. I’ll add; **Landslide** Fleetwood Mac - Haunting music, lyrics, and vocals. Just a great song **Scared** The Tragically Hip - Another great song that really just needs to be listened to, not sung along with. Pachelbel’s **Canon** - Yeah, yeah, I know. Totally overplayed and overpopular. There is a reason it’s so popular though, it’s simply sublime. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Sexchange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@Dr.Sexchange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Sexchange)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/62 "2002-10-24T20:06:58Z")
oh, and I Will Always be Beat Down - **John Frusciante** Good stuff 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/63 "2002-10-24T22:12:34Z")
Ditto on Nightswimming by REM. Also: Fred Jones pt. 2 by Ben Folds Tell Her This by Del Amitri Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright or Jeff Buckley Blackbird by the Beatles Trouble by Coldplay Come Here Boy by Imogen Heap ---
**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/64 "2002-10-24T22:34:12Z")
OLP’s “Innocent” ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/65 "2002-10-24T23:05:35Z")
From BoardReader, here’s a thread that was lost in The Winter of Our Missed Content: [Classical songs that bring tears to your eyes](http://www.boardreader.com/scripts/texis.exe/viewthread?query=&postid=3dae077213c) One of my recommendations from that thread: the duet from Bizet’s “The Pearl-Fishers”, “Au fond du temple saint…Oui, c’est elle, c’est la deésse”. Used in the film “Gallipoli”. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/66 "2002-10-24T23:32:00Z")
Nick Drake, **River Man** The Beatles (John Lennon), **Julia** The Beach Boys, **In My Room** Simon & Garfunkel, **Scarborough Fair** Stevie Wonder, **You and I** Cast of Godspell, **By My Side** The Flamingos, **I Only Have Eyes for You** Wilhelmina Wiggins Fernandez, Aria from **La Wally** ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2002, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/67 "2002-10-24T23:45:39Z")
**When You Dream** - The Barenaked Ladies **Both Hands** - Ani Difranco **Somebody’s Crying** - Chris Isaak **The Shining** - Badly Drawn Boy I’m sure there’s more, but thats all for right now. ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/68 "2002-10-25T00:19:38Z")
Oh - I forgot: **It’s a Motherfucker** - the Eels Sounds like it would be funny, and for about the first 5 seconds it is, then you realize its about the most beautiful and sad thing you have ever heard. ---
**Author:** ![Trancey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Trancey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancey)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/69 "2002-10-25T00:57:56Z")
I agree with meyer on the Eels song. I got quite the list so bare with me 🙂 The Anathema List: -A Fine Day to Exit (song and entire album) -Barriers -Deep -Everwake -Inner Silence “When the silence bekons, and the day draws to a close, when the light of your life sighs, and love dies in your eyes, only then will I realize, what you mean to me…” -Parisenne Moonlight -Release Ani Difranco - She Says, You Had Time Coldplay - Trouble, Yellow, In my Place, Don’t Panic Flowing Tears - The Day You Took my Breath Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday Louis Armstrong - What a Wondeful World 4 Non Blondes - What’s Up Alice In Chains - I Stay Away David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World Pearl Jam - Jeremy Pulp - Common People REM - At my Most Beautiful, Loosing My Religion Paradise Lost - One Second, Say Just Words Stone Sour - Bother (This is the only big-time radio played song I like) The opening song for American History X ( I have no idea what it’s called) Blind Melon - No Rain Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me Martina Sorbara - Bonnie & Clyde II Meatload - I Would Do Anything for Love Soul Asylum - Runaway Train The Turtles - So Happy Together Stutterfly - Gun In Hand Moby - Landing Foo Fighters - Tired of You Telepopmusik - Breathe (such a relaxing song) That’s all I can think of at the moment hehehe I’ll post more when I think of them… ---
**Author:** ![Giselle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e495f1/32.png) [@Giselle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giselle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/70 "2002-10-25T01:56:30Z")
“Adagio for Strings” by Samuel Barber is absolutely gorgeous, as is “Prayer of St Gregory” by Alan Hovhaness. An orchestra I play in had the good fortune of performing the latter piece at one of our concerts last year. It’s amazing and heart-wrenching and lots of other good adjectives. Also, I like “Fixing Her Hair” by Ani Difranco and “The Heart’s Cry” from Riverdance. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/71 "2002-10-25T03:08:50Z")
Steve Goodman - **The Dutchman** (Which he credited to Mike Smith.) Great sentiment, a great love, and a great song. Tris ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/72 "2002-10-25T03:16:26Z")
**Landslide** by Fleetwood Mac **Ode to my Family** by The Cranberries Mozart’s 23rd Piano Concerto, K. 588… also his Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major, K. 364 ---
**Author:** ![WSLer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WSLer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WSLer)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/73 "2002-10-25T03:38:58Z")
I came up with some more, if that’s okay.😃 The Who: **Behind Blue Eyes** The Beach Boys: **Caroline, No** Don Henley: **New York Minute** R.E.M.: **Drive** The Beatles: **Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight/The End** Bob Segar: **Turn The Page** Bon Jovi: **Wanted Dead Or Alive** Poison: **Every Rose Has It’s Thorn** Poison: **Something To Believe In** Saigon Kick: **Love Is On The Way** The Black Crowes: **She Talks To Angels** Bruce Springsteen: **Born To Run** (the acoustic version on the _Chimes Of Freedom_ EP) Bruce Springsteen: **Trapped** (Live) on the _USA For Africa_ album Mason Williams: **Classical Gas** REO Speedwagon: **Keep On Loving You** The Cars: **Drive** Benjamin Orr: **Stay The Night** Benny Mardones: **Into The Night** Richard Marx: **Right Here Waiting** Richard Marx: **Hold On To The Nights** Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell: **Ain’t No Mountain High Enough** Diana Ross: **Ain’t No Mountain High Enough** Willie Nelson: **Always On My Mind** ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/74 "2002-10-25T03:41:26Z")
**TigoleBitties** , I think it’s Nick _Cave_ and the Bad Seeds. Nick Cave is a very dear favorite of mine. From him, “God is in the House”, “Time Jesum Transeuntum, et non Riverentum” and “Are You the One I’ve Been Waiting For”. The Beatles – “I’ve Just Seen a Face” Einstürzende Neubauten – “Sabrina”, “Stella Maris” and “Redukt” Nina Hagen’s renditions of “Ave Maria” and “Der Wind hat mir ein Lied Erzählt” Portishead – “Kissing the Day” and “This Time Last Year” Velvet Underground – “Pale Blue Eyes” and “New Age” The entire album _Songs of Faith and Devotion_ by Depeche Mode Nearly anything by Björk and Tori Amos ---
**Author:** ![Wearia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Wearia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wearia)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/75 "2002-10-25T03:47:15Z")
Yellow by Coldplay- Just listen to this song with no distractions. You can feel the love… Epiphany by Staind- Slighly depressing maybe but also really powerful. Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong- an old favorite of mine. Freshman by Verve Pipe- Very powerful. ---
**Author:** ![hegel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cab0a1/32.png) [@hegel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hegel)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/76 "2002-10-25T04:28:23Z")
“Dumb”–Nirvana. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/77 "2002-10-25T04:58:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Giselle \* > **"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber is absolutely gorgeous** William Orbit does a great version of this. And I just love love love the Ferry Corsten remix. I’ll toss in another: **Glory Box** by Portishead. ---
**Author:** ![PRNYouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PRNYouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PRNYouth)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/78 "2002-10-25T05:45:40Z")
“Out of My League” by a nearly-unknown group called Stephen Speaks You MUST MUST MUST listen to this. “All These Things” by the same group They have 'em available for download on their website – [www.stephenspeaks.com](http://www.stephenspeaks.com) I second (or third?) the nomination for “All I Know” by Art Garfunkel “When Somebody Loved Me” by … um … just slipped my mind. Anyway, it’s from Toy Story 2. (Go ahead, laugh. But listen to it!) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/79 "2002-10-25T06:55:09Z")
My favorite for 46 years: “Moonglow and Theme from Picnic.” The two are combined into one piece on the _Picnic_ soundtrack. 2nd place is the original “Girl from Ipanema.” I’m wild about any Antonio Carlos Jobim bossa novas. 3rd place: Pink Floyd’s “Great Gig in the Sky” for DSOTM. Listen to it while you go for a late night ride with the top down. Barber’s _Air on a G String_ – although the title makes me titter. _Rhapsody in Blue_ and _An American in Paris_ by Gershwin. _Are You Going With Me?_ by Pat Matheny was the only music at my wedding and the title is engraved inside my wedding band. PLEASE don’t make me stop! I haven’t gotten to opera or jazz yet! ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2002, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484/80 "2002-10-25T06:57:41Z")
Oops! No wonder it made me titter. It is Adagio for Strings instead of Air on a G String! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/really-beautiful-songs/133484.md?page=5)