beautiful songs?

mondymike · 13-08-2007 7:36pm #1

Tryin to pu together a compilation of beautiful music/ 'songs to make grown men cry'

have stuff like 'into my arms' by nick cave/jack L
Gallileo-declan o'rourke
the live long version of The river by Bruce Springsteen,
and a few more......

Any ideas?

frobisher · 13-08-2007 9:02pm

It's in the Drugs by Low.
Messenger by Daniel Lanois.
One of the Three by James.
Without Or Without You, U2.
La Ritornelle (the remix) by Sebastien Tellier.
Everybody Hurts, REM.
Ghost Of Tom Joad, Bruce Sprinsteen.
Better Be Home Soon, Crowded House.
Died In Your Arms Tonight, Foreigner.
Bird On a Wire, Leonard Cohen.
Halleluiah, Jeff Buckley.

To name a few.....

laney82 · 14-08-2007 11:54am

Bridge over troubled water - Simon & Garfunkel
At my most beautiful - REM
Nothing else matters - Metallica
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
By your side - Sade
You belong to me - Jason Wade
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy version
Time to say goodbye - Andreas Bocelli & Sarah Brightman

There's others that I can't think of...

JæKæ · 14-08-2007 1:05pm

Sufjan Stevens – The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!
Decemberists - The Crane Wife 1 & 2

Frankiestylee · 14-08-2007 1:53pm

Good thread, good thread. I'll get back with some suggestions when I have access to music... especially liking the Into My Arms suggestion, crackin' song that.

mondymike · 14-08-2007 7:32pm

loving these responses folks, keep em coming! The andreas bocelli came from a little left of field but cheers, i forgot how amazing his voice is

Rossibaby · 29-08-2007 2:48am

may angels lead you in

Steve_o · 29-08-2007 10:07am

Winter - Joshua Radin

ps, very nice thread idea, i'll get back to ya with more...

Steve_o · 29-08-2007 10:14am

Just thought of another one.

"I'll Follow You Into the Dark" - Death Cab For Cutie.

joe_chicken · 29-08-2007 10:21am

"What a Curious Notion" by Mic Christopher

Not too fond of a lot of his stuff, but I can't get enough of this song.

Cullen82 · 30-08-2007 9:51pm

Ok this is me playing on you tube but what you think anyway-beautiful?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGC6cluQSFk

bluesman07 · 01-09-2007 8:35am

bells of freedom-bon jovi

smilyhat · 10-09-2007 10:56am

Steve_o wrote:

Winter - Joshua Radin

ps, very nice thread idea, i'll get back to ya with more...

I was just going to put that one down- sorry just joined the site so my reponse is particularly slow. I love that song though, its amazing.:D

CathyMoran · 10-09-2007 11:12am

Softly Whispering I Love You - Paul Young version, I know that he is on Hells Kitchen at the moment but my husband and I can not get that song out of our head, if you listen to the lyrics they are breathtakingly beautiful, though you really have to be in love to appreciate them.

Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen. I am not a fan of theirs but this is beautiful and poignant.

I Believe In You - Talk Talk. Just breathtaking.

Alanthroneus · 10-09-2007 12:11pm

The Noose _ a perfect circle

CountingCrows · 10-09-2007 12:16pm

Counting Crows - Round Here & Raining In Baltimore

CathyMoran · 10-09-2007 3:01pm

A Long December - Counting Crows. If you have ever been heartbroken this is very poignant.

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day. I can not actually listen to this song it has me so upset. September was when a lot of bad stuff happened in my life (my mum's illness, my cancer). It is actually about the death of the singers father.

Dord · 11-09-2007 12:28am

CathyMoran wrote:

Wake Me Up When September Ends - Green Day. I can not actually listen to this song it has me so upset. September was when a lot of bad stuff happened in my life (my mum's illness, my cancer). It is actually about the death of the singers father.

Yeah its a very sad song. Billie Joe's father died of cancer

Its strange as none of their previous songs have dealt with this. Its like all of it combined into one song.

I'm gonna add to this list with a pretty new song, by Bedouin Soundclash (Canadian band). The song is 12:59 Lullaby, I think it sounds pretty sad.

smilyhat · 15-09-2007 6:08pm

counting crows definitley have alot of songs that would go in this thread, would have to go with 'have you seen me lately' 'angles of the silences', however they have to be the live versions from the live album 'acroos the wire', classic stuff

Anto McC · 15-09-2007 11:06pm

frobisher wrote:

Died In Your Arms Tonight, Foreigner.

This song is by Cutting Crew not Foreigner.

Lullaby - David Gray
Mystery Of Love - David Gray
Falling Free - David Gray
Shine - David Gray

stick-dan · 07-12-2007 2:36am

Try the song "Better Man" by james morrission,

A relatively new artist only public bout a year or so now although i know of him for like 4 years he has very emotive music that half the time doesn't get released. Try "BETTER MAN" brilliant song in my opinion.

Stereomaniac · 07-12-2007 10:01pm

What Else Is New by Dinosaur Jr. is a retty emotional one I think but it's more teary if youc an get your hands on the Peel Session version. It comes as an extra track on the reissue of Where You Been which came out last year. Can probably download it somewhere.

Timans · 07-12-2007 10:09pm

Nutshell - Alice n Chains , get the MTV Unplugged version.
Black - Pearl Jam, any version, Unplugged Version is exceptional though.
Song to Say Goodbye (with Video) - Placebo.

Another video is the Paul Potts audition for "Britains Got Talent". Astonishing.

Paulbronco · 17-01-2008 8:30pm

"What If It Was?" dedicated to the memory of Miami Showband members Fran O'Toole Tony Geraghty and Brian McCoy murdered in 1975

http://www.myspace.com/hurleypaul

Stereomaniac · 19-01-2008 2:10am

H. by Tool

donomo · 21-01-2008 9:21am

Columbine-Towns van zandt. stunning song.

MattKid · 23-01-2008 8:11pm

Mindy Smith - One Moment More

Adrianco1978 · 29-01-2008 5:19pm

One of my favourites is "Broken Things" by Juliet Turner. I Heard it first at the service that was held for the people killed or injured a week after the Omagh bombing. Juliet sang it on the stage. It is a fantastic song and it is made extra special by her voice.

Bonj15 · 31-01-2008 5:40pm

5:19 by matt wertz
Youll Think of me-Tyler Hilton

dar_cool · 31-01-2008 5:44pm

Scorn Not his simplicity wrote by phil coulter best sung by Luke Kelly

kev_s88 · 01-02-2008 2:11pm

the first day of my life by Bright Eyes

and my song of the moment is Lost by Michael Buble

gollyitsolly · 02-02-2008 10:47am

Love, look what youve done to me,...........never thought Id fall again so easily......... Bozz Skaggs.

Cillers27 · 02-02-2008 9:29pm

boston - augustana

6th · 02-02-2008 9:33pm

I have a little girl and a little boy ..... I never want them to hear this song after I'm gone.

Dance With My Father - Luther Vandross

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ-47iMOJzo

Lloyderz · 24-11-2008 11:37pm

Any JOSHUA RADIN songs. Have a listen!

Mateivena · 25-11-2008 2:19am

Amy Winehouses' version of 'Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow'...i think her voice sounds so beautiful!

boringteetotal · 25-11-2008 2:43am

Lifehouse- 'Everything' .......stunning song
Lifehouse- 'Hanging by a moment'
Lifehouse-' Broken'
Counting Crows- 'Colorblind'
Travis- 'Love will come through'
Britney Spears -'Everytime'

mardybumbum · 25-11-2008 2:49am

"The Drugs Dont Work" by The Verve

seanybiker · 25-11-2008 2:55am

old friends - shooter jennings.
Every rose has its thorn -poison

shakespeare · 01-12-2008 12:17pm

jesus was an only son - springsteen

"theres a loss that can never be replaced,
a destination that can never be reached,
a light you'll never find in anothers eyes,
a sea whose distance cannot be breached...

jesus kissed his mothers hands,
whisperer mother still your tears,
remember the soul of the universe,
willed a world and it appeared"

or at least i think thats how some of it goes....
its not even a religous song of sorts...can be looked at in many ways and fits in amazingly with the other themes on Devils and Dust.

love it.

markesmith · 01-12-2008 12:20pm

CathyMoran wrote: »

I Believe In You - Talk Talk. Just breathtaking.

QFT, my second favourite song. 'Inheritance' on that album is amazing too. But 'New Grass' is my favourite song of all. Heavenly, and that's coming from an agnostic.

~nop~ · 01-12-2008 5:54pm

Johnny Cash singing One. Omg.

froosh69 · 01-12-2008 8:35pm

man in the mirror-michael jackson
nothing man-pearl jam
last kiss-pearl jam
fast car-tracy chapman
why?-tracy chapman

i'll think of more soon...give them a listen...they get me every time!

gagomes · 03-12-2008 2:29am

Klimt 1918 - Undressed Momento
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu66lpit2QU

U2 - Drowning Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ildQ6MXdQ

Suzanne Vega - Queen and the Soldier
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt0sXRBLfJM

Suzanne Vega - Knight Moves
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqIclJjrCgU

Tells · 08-12-2008 5:58pm

Bon Iver (For Emma, forever ago).

In fact any song by these guys.....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=jDj44n5bjWU

JBuffet · 16-12-2008 12:45pm

In Dreams by Roy Orbison.

Beautifully sung by the Big O.
The song form is unusual but fantastic use of melody and harmony throughout.

and what about that ending...!

markesmith · 16-12-2008 1:18pm

JBuffet wrote: »

In Dreams by Roy Orbison.

Sorry to plug, just got to say we had this as song of the day last month:
http://thishereboogie.com/in-dreams-roy-orbison-1963/

It's an unbelievable tune, and I only got into it after seeing 'Blue Velvet'.
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Aridstarling · 07-01-2009 5:45am

Top of the list ; Ryan Adams - Oh my sweet Carolina

then I suppose Land Lock Blues by Bright Eyes, Johnny Cash doing Hurt, Cohen's Halleluja, Sinead O connor doing nothing compares to you acousticly is beautiful. Lost Cause by Beck too.

niallon · 08-01-2009 2:37pm

Martha - Tom Waits

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=QBtlmdV_ZLY

Marie - Randy Newman (I'm far more a fan of Freddie White's version of this but it ain't on YouTube unfortunately!)

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=_xtVZjVj2Dc

Leader Of The Band - Dan Fogelberg - What a song!!

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=l8mml7n4FmA

The Magdalene Laundries - Christy Moore - Heartbreaking

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw4gcbjHcSw

Zangetsu · 08-01-2009 2:40pm

Origional version of Cats in the cradle, live one if possible.

"This song scares the hell outa me."

Zangetsu · 08-01-2009 2:42pm

The Magdalene Laundries - Christy Moore

Just listened to that, holy ****...

beautiful songs?

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