Sticking strictly to the theme of “The Most Beautiful Song I’ve Heard Lately”, I’d have to admit that I’m quite taken with Dido’s “Here With Me”. On the scale of “Most Beautiful Songs I’ve Ever Heard”, however, it would not rank particularly highly.
If we can throw classical music into the pot, I was listening to Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater sung by Emma Kirkby and James Bowman the other night. Not a “song”, strictly speaking, but definitely beautiful.
A resounding second for Everlong - foo fighters
Oooh, yeah! Where Did You Sleep Last Night - Nirvana. Haunting.
Glycerine - bush
very very many Tori Amos songs
current favorite - her cover of Angie
“with no money in our coats
and no lovin in our souls
you can’t say we’re satisfied
. . .
oh angie, i still love you
ev’rywhere i look i see your ~eyes~”
Of course, my life is FILLED with enormous wonder at the gorgeous songs that are always around. Are we lucky, or what?
-Mothra
Lately?
Dido’s “Thank You.”
Current plans are to see her live in Detroit with RickQ. It doesn’t get better than that.
Just finished listening to it, actually… Peter Gabriel’s “Blood of Eden” from the Us album.
The funny thing is, it’s about breaking up with his first wife. Not at all a pretty topic. But the song is achingly beautiful.
I still get chills when I hear Nightswimming by R.E.M.
Sorry, not recent, but only recently did I see the amazing video for this lovely song. I’m not much into videos but this one is piece of art unto itself and truly enhances the song. Dammit, why can we hardly ever see some of the more interesting videos? Watching MuchMusic (and I expect MTV too) is painful. At least there’s The Wedge, their short weekly ‘alternative’ show.
“Free” by Savage Garden.
“Sogno” by Andrea Bocelli
and the ballad from Stillwater in one of their concerts. You only hear the beginning of it in the movie “Almost Famous” and I have no idea what the title of it is. Don’t believe it’s on the soundtrack.
When I saw the thread title, I just had to let you know my current favorite. Then, as I read the replies, I see that exchicagoan beat me to it. In fact, I put in the “romanza” CD right before logging on. It’s just a beautiful song. I like both versions, with and without Sarah Brightman.
As far as baseline favorites go, I am deeply moved by Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand”. It makes me feel very small in an incredible universe.
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*Originally posted by toonerama *
**Sorry, not recent, but only recently did I see the amazing video for this lovely song. I’m not much into videos but this one is piece of art unto itself and truly enhances the song. **
There’s a video for “Isobel”? Coolness! I wanna see!
“Love is Blindness” by U2… gives me the chills. In that good way. 
Don’t Forget Me - Marianne Faithfull
100,000 Fireflies by The Magnetic Fields.
Absolutely beautiful, but also absolutely depressing. Opening lyrics: I have a mandolin/I play it all night long/It makes me want to kill myself.
Whoa.
It’s Coldplay. And God help me, I love this song. The lyrics are lukewarm, but the voice just melts me. Just bought the CD and am listening to it now.
Another one I just listened to the other day was “Twin Falls Idaho” by Built to Spill. It’s sorta melancholy but very nice. Wistful.
La Mer by Nine Inch Nails.
Studi
“Untouchable Face” by Ani DiFranco. The music is beautiful, her voice is perfect for the lyrics, and the song totally sums up my life right now. My favorite part is how lovely the music is compared to the anger of thelyrics:
Also, “Kissing You” by Des’ree is one of my all-time most beautiful songs, equal only to “These Foolish Things” by Billie Holliday. I’m also a sucker for “My Antonia” by Emmylou Harris with Dave Matthews. I bought the CD two days ago and have listened to it nonstop.
“Imitation of Life” by REM is surely pretty.
Anything by Nickel Creek is sure to be beautiful.
“Smoke from Yur Cigarette” by Lillian Leech and the Mellows. Possibly the most beautiful song ever recorded, and completly unknown outside of the NYC R&B scene in the early 50s (the stuff you find on Mp3s . . .) Someday someone is going to take this song, put it in a movie, and make millions on the soundtrack.
Fiona Apple - “Never is a Promise”
A new one that I heard on the Sopranos Sunday and can’t get enough of is, Kasey Chambers - “The Captain”
“Rushing,” by Moby, has some lovely piano in it.
That’s all that comes to mind right now.
This couldn’t come at a more appropriate time. However, I’m stuck between 3 songs which I heard at mass on Sunday (note: normally, I don’t come across so fundie-ish, but Easter mass at the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at Notre Dame at 11:45 is amazing). They would be:
Gloria: Mass of Light
Alleluia, My Father
Come to the Living Stone (new verse added!)