Beautiful songs
Share beautiful songs in this thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuiI0kV4joQ
And You And I by Yes. I was also going to post Close to the Edge by Yes, but it's 20 minutes long (listen to it if you get the chance though)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuiI0kV4joQ
And You And I by Yes. I was also going to post Close to the Edge by Yes, but it's 20 minutes long (listen to it if you get the chance though)
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Gantz Graf by Autechre.
I've heard that song before, I remember having a row with my friend about how the guitar part at the start should've been played on a piano
Anyway Romeo & Juliet by Dire Straits maybe it's obvious, but some things are popular for a reason
It is available for free on his site, but I really recommend buying it.
Ennio Morricone - Finale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrKIZMO0lnY
Five For Fighting - I Just Love You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzB-3Ff5GZM
The Righteous Brothers - Soul and Inspiration
Vincent ~ Don McLean
and just about anything by Jim Croce
Good choice! if you're a guitar loser like myself check out Chet Atkins cover as well, it'll send your Joe Satriani's and Vai's and Gilbert's back home cryin' to their mommas
I could list over a dozen Within Temptation songs that classify as "beautiful", but this is the first to come to mind.
Type O Negative - September Sun.
A less conventional choice, but I'd definitely consider it "beautiful" in it's own way.
Also (no, not death metal):
Children of Bodom- Needled 24/7
To be fair, most people don't care for the differences between death metal/black metal or power metal or whatever you wanna call Children of Bodom, it all sounds very similiar anyways to the casual observer (which is what I am
Dire Straits - Brother In Arms (live)
Such a good melancholic song, all the Dire Straits’s genius in one theme. I quite don’t like Rome&Juliet… if it comes to romanticism, I prefer Alchemy’s version of the Tunnel of Love
There is also some Neil Young songs I’d like to share, like Cortez The Killer (for the music, not the lyrics ^^), Danger Bird, or On the Beach
I’m also a huge fan of Pink Floyd, but I can’t classify their work under the « beautiful » term. It’s something else, more profound.
Good song my man
Overrated?
*lalala - not listening*
I would say trippy. And it’s the best musical trip I’ve ever made ^^ Atom heart mother suite, echoes, the great gig in the sky, shine on you crazy diamonds (I-IX), dogs, pigs, sheep, another brick in the wall (part I + The Happiest Days Of Our Lives + part II, those three should never be split).
Didn’t know Rush until your post. I quickly listened to some extracts, and what I can say is, whether I like it or not, it has nothing to do with Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd’s masterpieces are about 10+ minutes long progressive slow musical tracks divided into acts. Snake and Arrow is a lot more tailored for broadcasting, with short 5 minutes aggressive-mixed (sad time
Thom Yorke's singing is amazing
The songs require a little more than extracts to be properly appreciated.
It's not off the "Snakes and Arrows" album, but Rush do have a song called "2112" which runs for over 20 minutes and is divided into seven parts.
I mentioned Rush because they to are a progressive rock band. Same genre, so I decided to give them a mention.
That's why I said "to my ears".
True, "Snakes and Arrows" does have fairly short songs on it and some of the songs are a little erratic and/or heavy-ish, but I mentioned the album because I think that there are some really nice songs on there that deserve a mention in this thread - "Hope", "Faithless", "The Way the Wind Blows" (mostly for it's lyrical content than anything else, as it's not soft the whole way through), and "A Larger Bowl".
I'm sorry for linking my post to Pink Floyd though, I do understand that they are two bands that are quite different from each other. The only reason I linked them to Pink Floyd was because they come under the same genre classification, it was unfair to do so.
I prefer short songs to long songs in general, simply because a lot of song writers who write 10 minute songs aren't good enough songwriters to hold my interest that long, that's not to say that they're bad, but writing a fluid ten minute piece of music that stays interesting is very hard. This is probably why a lot of metal fails in my eyes
Try Type O Negative. Most of their songs are at *least* six minutes long, and many times nearing or surpassing ten minutes, but it never becomes repetitive. (Note: having an appreciation/hatred for goth metal is required. They simultaneously contribute to and parody the genre... leading to a very divided fanbase, incidentally)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Cvq416zuQ Beauty and the beast
Two songs I find the most inspiring.
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata; 1.mvt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--1IIe1CGKo
Deep Purple - Soldier of Fortune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BGwEulYs8c
John Lennon - Imagine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAHFrLAxzM&feature=fvst
Paul McCartney - My love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SB3x6KtNi4
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcL---4xQYA
And to add some new spice for the non-scandinavians, this song is from Sweden:
Björn Afzelius - Tusen Bitar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-ZcFgDj-4
The music video is a bit hilarious, but the music is great.
It’s quite fun, I’m at the opposite ^^ (no offense at all)
Short tracks are just songs, and what I’m looking for in music, is more than just songs. I sure have a lot of songs, but most of them are not really music. It’s more entertainment than art. That’s why I love so much Dire Straits’s Alchemy for example, where they do 10 to 15 minutes live variations of their studio themes, Pink Floyd, with their 20 minutes long studio tracks, where you go through the core of the melody, from acoustic to electronic, passing by electric. I love when a song take the time to develop itself. Same for Neil Young, with studio track Ordinary People (18 minutes, short theme with variations of instruments, pure seventies genius), or the live track Southern Man (13 minutes).
Ne0n posted for us Pink Floyd’s Pulse’s Shine On You Crazy Diamond. This live is 10 minutes long. In the studio track (from the album Wish You Were Here — PF are far better in studio than live in my opinion), this part is about 13 minutes, and is completed by another part of 12 minutes, taking the main theme to anger. That’s what music for me is about. It’s a real trip, it’s talking with sound.
See their last « group » album, called Animals. There is only five tracks, two of them are just very short acoustic intro and outro, and the three main tracks are just evolving around very near musical themes, it’s a totally symbiotic album. And it’s my favorite album so far, because once I hear just the beginning of one track, I just can’t skip, it leads me to the end. Time stops for me (and run in my watch).
I wish I’d post those tracks, but I don’t want to have any copyright trouble ^^
Since "beautiful death metal" and long songs have been discussed I feel that Opeth must be mentioned (one of the best bands ever).
One of the most beautiful songs ever are also Fuori Dal Mondo.
In a bit of a contradiction to my previous comments, I've really been loving Pink Floyd's "High Hopes". Lyrically and musically, this is one of the best and most beautiful songs I've heard in quite some time - enough to make me buy 'The Division Bell' simply so I can own the song legally (I hadn't even heard the other tracks prior to the purchase). It's excellent, a masterpiece, and probably the best song to finish the band's career with.
Also, I must also link Nightwish's cover of the song. This is the closest thing you will get to a perfect live performance, I think. And they certainly did the song justice, staying true to the style of the original whilst giving it more power.
Also, the piano echoes by UNKLE is very nice, I posted it a while ago but no one seemed bothered
Iron Maiden - Journeyman
This is the electric version. I personally prefer it to the normal version.
Shakespear In Love by Layla Kaylif
Chand Sifarish from Fanaa.
Yes, I actually watched that version after I had heard the song for the first time (as I was curious to hear a live rendition of it). And yes, I agree, it's an improvement upon what is already a perfect song, which I didn't think was possible
I gave it a listen on Youtube then; it certainly belong s in this thread
Really? I personally prefer the original. I would have thought that I'd have preferred the electric version since it would have a little more power, but I just felt that the original, acoustic sounds fitted the track so much better.
Also, on the topic of Maiden, I think that "When the Wild Wind Blows" is quite a beautiful song; very profound, lyrically, and perfectly complemented by that great melody.
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Yes 'Soon' - Good contemplative synth. The 45 version put on the Best Of Yes is slightly better, but it always sticks in my mind as one of the most striking Yes songs.
Nightwish 'Ghost Love Score (Instrumental)' - I will argue that this is actually better than the standard release version. It's 10 minutes of undiluted awesome.
Regina Spektor 'Laughing With' - A simple but effective little song that fits my sense of irony. Spektor has a unique vocal quality I quite like and it works well with a bare bones instrumental backup.
The Killers 'Smile Like You Mean It' - Lyrics aren't quite as punchy as 'When You Were Young', but this is one of those songs that always cheers me up when I listen to it.
New Order 'Bizarre Love Triangle' - This is an obscure as hell song, and it's the lyrics rather than the instrumentation that I really like. Also it's used in the trailer for the best movie that never was, which made me far happier than it should have.
Gordon Lightfoot ' Don Quixote' - a simple song with paradoxical lyrics, this one made my list if only because it has some sentimental value to me as it was one of the songs my dad used to sing to my sister and I when we were little and couldn't sleep.
'Way of Life (Deep Inside My Mind Mix)' - I have a confession to make guys; I'm a total sucker for Shin Megami Tensei game soundtracks. Have been for years. I didn't even have to play P3P to want to listen to the soundtrack, and this is a great expansion on the already great Persona 3 soundtrack. Also, don't be surprised if this isn't the last SMT OST song to make my posts on this thread.
David Bowie 'As The World Falls Down' - My favorite song from Labyrinth. It's just a solidly good ballad that David Bowie elevated with a fantastic performance.
Daft Punk 'Night Vision'/ 'Something About Us'/ 'Make Love' - Daft Punk are kings of great atmospheric pieces and these three are some of the best. 'Make Love' in particular is one of those songs I need to sit down and listen to when it comes on my iTunes shuffle.
Pink Floyd 'Eclipse' - Awesome song. End of discussion.
'Never more' - Persona 4 is probably the closest (in my mind) that I will ever get to a perfect RPG experience. The murder plot was clever, the characters quirky and memorable, the dungeons creative and the art well done. The music being awesome (this IS and SMT game) was sort of a foregone conclusion, but I wasn't expecting this gut punch of a song at the end of the game. I mean, we've just come off an awesome boss fight (with appropriately epic music), the FACT that the ending was starting to roll already had me in tears and then this kicks on as it plays? The first time I played P4 was with a friend and I'll admit, this song had me bawling like an idiot. Hell listening to it TO THIS DAY will get me all choked up, but in a good way.