I’m going to add “Overjoyed” by Stevie Wonder. It makes me cry almost every time!
Here ya go.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19GQbdfktLI I forgot how to put the link as part of the sentence, sorry. I should mention that I really ought to put this song on the “Songs that make you cry” thread.
I love many of the songs mentioned on this thread, but one I find particularly beautiful is an instrumental from The Piano soundtrack, “The Heart Asks Pleasure First” by Michael Nyman.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tu1CSw49U0
Southern Cross - CSN
Allison Crowe’s cover of Leonard Cohen’s Halleluiah:
…what a voice.
Everytime- The Samples
Coming Back to Me, by Jefferson Airplane and Windy and Warm, played by Doc Watson.
Particularly the Ferry Corsten remix of William Orbit’s version.
Airwave by Rank 1.
First of all thanks so much for the memories and the new suggestions. I’m going to try to listen to all the songs in some reasonable amount of time.
I have so many to add to the list. Too many. But since Pink Floyd is mentioned, I’ll add my two favorites.
Wish You Were Here:
Comfortably Numb:
OK, one more. Down to theRiver to Pray, by Allison Krause:
Listening as I type. That’s a fantastic song and she does well. I really like Cale’s version, but maybe that’s b/c I heard it first, in Shrek. Somehow, I think it’s best sung by a man.
Well, it’s a complicated question the OP asks. Someone once said that writing about music is like tap dancing about architecture. But okay. What moves me, without even lyrics to support it?
Londonderry Air (with lyrics, Danny Boy). And no, I’m not Irish.
The Nimrod IX from Enigma Variations/Sir Edward Elgar
The Last Spring/Edvard Grieg:
So many…Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker, for instance? I could go on. But if I’m also allowed lyrics?
Vincent/Don McLean…a poet’s paradise of internal rhyme, alliteration, and so on.
(Watching: dayum, I didn’t realize he’d painted “Potato Eaters.”)
Let It Be/The Beatles (nope, I’m not Catholic)
Without You/Nilsson
Bridge Over Troubled Water/Simon and Garfunkel
OK, stopping now.
Another beautiful Loreena McKennitt song is Bonnie Portmore (a song about a tree). I first encountered it in the movie Highlander 3. The movie was pretty lousy, but I watched the closing credits several times.
Ach, Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein, the final chorale from Bach’s St. John Passion. After all the suffering of the Crucifixion, it’s such a joyous, hopeful movement to end the piece.
A notable section from Vangelis’ 12 O’Clock.
The version above was put to a video of Der Untergang—there used to be one that used footage from “Chronicles of Narnia,” which was only slightly less poignient (and still had German bombs going off, now that I think about it).
THn you will enjoy this
The Dance by Garth Brooks
This Christmas Day by Trans Siberian Orchestra.
My current choices (guaranteed to change tomorrow) are:
The Unplugged version of Ilusion. The original version, by Mexican pop star Julieta Venegas, is Spanish-only. Here it’s a bilingual duet with Brazilian pop star Marisa Montes.
Lullaby, the Dixie Chicks. There doesn’t seem to be a proper video on YouTube actually by the Dixie Chicks, so search and watch at your own peril. But it’s a beautiful song.
I have to second this choice. Totally beautiful.
Also “Snowfall” by The Manhattan Transfer.
Debussy:
Nuages, Nocturne #1 for orchestra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h2tAPMLMTc
Clair de Lune
Ravel: “La Flute Enchantee” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiQTqfPBU9s#t=1m20s
Randall Thompson:
Alleluia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIEqxCW6pPY
The Last Words of David http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBnLIzZuNNM
Some of my favorites (three of which, I now realize, are from movie soundtracks):
The powerful, evocative “Into the West” by Annie Lennox, from The Return of the King: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVVWDSFFhc
The very moving “Heavenly Day” by Patty Griffin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWzuLAHnGBQ&NR=1
The slow-building Baroque triumphalism of “Zadok the Priest” by G.F. Handel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPkzt9vklAw&feature=related
The haunting and lyrical theme from Cast Away by Alan Silvestri: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hb2-0aAmyAI
The tranquil yet powerful piano theme “Dawn” from the 2005 film Pride and Prejudice, by Dario Marianelli: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kww5FmhjgaI&feature=related