# The Most Beautiful Song You've Heard Lately **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 17, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313 "2001-04-17T19:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/1 "2001-04-17T19:37:59Z")
My choice is the version of “Mansion On The Hill” on Bruce Springsteen’s “Live In NY City” album. It opens with some absolutely lovely slide guitar work by Nils Lofgren. And then Bruce starts singing and he is filled with emotion as he tells the tale of the lyrics. There are some absolutely stunning harmony vocals and then the band drops off for a verse and the twenty thousand people in Madison Square Gardens are silent as he sings a capella. The song ends on a falsetto yodel that complements the arrangement perfectly. So what is your nomination? Keith ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/2 "2001-04-17T20:45:01Z")
I think I’d have to say either “Speedway” or “Chelsea” by Counting Crows. “Speedway” sums up my feelings on life at the moment, and “Chelsea” is just all around beautiful…piano and horns working in perfect union. Sample lyrics: Speedway- “In all this time The bottom line’s you don’t know how much I feel You say you see Well, I don’t agree You don’t know…don’t know how I feel” Chelsea: “It’s good for everybody To hurt somebody once in a while But the things I do to people I love Shouldn’t be allowed… Is anything different these days? The light in her eyes goes out I’ve never had light in my eyes anyway… I dream I’m in New York City some nights Angels flow down from all the buildings Something about an angel just kills me I keep hoping something will” ---
**Author:** ![RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5daacb/32.png) [@RocknRoll\_Killing\_Machine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RocknRoll_Killing_Machine)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/3 "2001-04-17T21:18:01Z")
If by “lately”, you mean the last couple of months, I’d say _Moya_ by Godspeed You Black Emperor. If it’s really recently, I’d say something by Sigur Ros, or Mogwai. ---
**Author:** ![xekul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/838e76/32.png) [@xekul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xekul)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2001, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/4 "2001-04-17T23:17:08Z")
A song called ``Snare, Girl’’ from Sonic Youth’s _A Thousand Leaves_. Particularly these lines: Hold out your hands and take these poems I’ve been given; they are wild with beauty faded and they can guide this child to heaven. That seems completely Hallmark when it’s written out like that, but it sounds great when Thurston sings it on top of all the droning wah-wah noises. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/5 "2001-04-18T00:13:33Z")
Prior to this weekend, _Tears in Heaven_ by Eric Clapton. So beautiful it makes me cry every time I hear it. After this weekend, _Truly, Madly, Deeply_ by Savage Garden (although I’ve heard an unbelievable a capella version that isn’t them). Because this is now what I consider to be “our song” for my SO and me. It just says exactly what I feel. jayjay (newly in love…fear the sugar-death!) ---
**Author:** ![VarlosZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d78d45/32.png) [@VarlosZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VarlosZ)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/6 "2001-04-18T00:17:41Z")
“Spanish Guitar” by Gene Clark. Or maybe the closing track to Radiohead’s new disc. Can’t remember the title of the song, regrettably. “Crazy”? ---
**Author:** ![AETBOND417](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@AETBOND417](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AETBOND417)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/7 "2001-04-18T00:18:13Z")
I’m narrowing my time frame to the last 4 days. Funniest song: “There’s Always the Backseat” [Live] - Lucky Boys Confusion. Best song: “All Apologies” - Nirvana. Most Beautiful song: “Everlong” - Foo Fighters. ---
**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/8 "2001-04-18T02:01:22Z")
Come on, people, get serious. This is about beautiful songs. Let’s deal with somthing with a haunting melody and heartfelt lyrics that has some significance in life. As middle age slips away my vote is for “The Parting Glass” sung by some whisky vioced old Mick with a tear in his eye and a lump in his throat. ``` Oh, all the money that e're I spent, I spent it in good company. And all the harm that e're I done' Alas it was to none but me, And all I've done for lack of wit To memory now I can't recall. So fill to me the parting glass, Good night and joy be with you all. Oh, all the comrads that e're I had Are sorry now I'm going away, And all the sweethearts that e're I had Would wish me one more day to stay. But since it falls unto my lot That I must rise and you should not, I'll gently rise and softly call Goodnight and joy be with you all. ``` If I didn’t think that the righteous would creat a spectacle to the dishonor of the whole congregation, I’d have that sung at my funeral, preferably as the moldering corpse in drug out to the dead wagon. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/9 "2001-04-18T02:21:45Z")
It’s a toss-up! It’s either Goodbye Girl by David Gates (the real brains behind Bread), or anything by Loggins and Messina, but especially Celebrate Me Home. ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/10 "2001-04-18T02:34:40Z")
Yellow by Coldplate. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/11 "2001-04-18T03:41:12Z")
Where Did You Sleep Last Night by Nirvana…the way Kurt’s voice craks at the end gives me the chills. ---
**Author:** ![Randy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2acd7d/32.png) [@Randy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/12 "2001-04-18T03:59:35Z")
"May God bless and keep you always May your wishes all come true May you always know the truth And see the light surrounding you May you build a ladder to the stars Climb on every rung And may you stay…" **Forever Young** by Bob Dylan. Lately or whenever, it’s a pretty song. **Mary** by Patty Griffin is a fairly new song that qualifies. A song she wrote about her Grandmother. And I gotta say it once again; **I Still Cry** by Julie Miller. ---
**Author:** ![MrVisible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@MrVisible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrVisible)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/13 "2001-04-18T04:29:14Z")
Just heard it now for the first time… **Mogwai** - 2 Rights makes 1 Wrong Wow. Also, **Wheat** - Summer There is some incredible music out there these days, ya know? ---
**Author:** ![HalberMensch242](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@HalberMensch242](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HalberMensch242)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/14 "2001-04-18T05:22:29Z")
**Rammstein** -Sonne **Depeche Mode** -Dream On ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/15 "2001-04-18T06:02:06Z")
The only time I hear a beautiful song is when I play CON TE PARTIRO. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/16 "2001-04-18T06:21:44Z")
“Tonight We Fly” by the Divine Comedy. _Tonight we fly over the mountains, the beach and the sea over the friends that we’ve known and those that we now know and those whom we’ve yet to meet and when we die will we be that disappointed or sad if heaven doesn’t exist what will we have missed? This life is the best we’ve ever had_ ---
**Author:** ![Monster104](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Monster104](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monster104)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/17 "2001-04-18T07:06:14Z")
Nothing really sounds beautiful to me right now. A lot of sad stuff though. ---
**Author:** ![DMC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dmc/32/18049_2.png) [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/18 "2001-04-18T07:46:21Z")
It’s quite old, but I hear it much more often now that it’s used in a car commercial. 🙂 “At Last” by Etta James ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/19 "2001-04-18T07:56:58Z")
**Bernadette** by Leonard Cohen, but especially as sung by Jennifer Warnes. _“So many hearts I find Hearts like yours and mine Torn by what we’ve done and can’t undo…”_ [Edited by Eutychus55 on 04-18-2001 at 03:54 AM] ---
**Author:** ![Monkey\_Chews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2001, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313/20 "2001-04-18T08:24:02Z")
**Love Letter** by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds “_Two hundred words; I live in hope._” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-beautiful-song-youve-heard-lately/62313.md?page=2)