What is the most beautiful song you've ever heard? I'm looking for pieces that really move you - pieces that rise above it all. Would you mind posting a youtube link? I'm really interested in hearing them.
For me, quite a few Explosions in the Sky songs come to mind.
What Do You Go Home To:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd8NntItlio
Thanks.
its kind of sad, but the song "Mad World" by Gary Jules. It wasn't originally done by him, i ofrget who it was by.
100 Bottles of Beer on The Wall
That song just kicks all forms of ass!!
Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus...it just makes me want to party...a lot!
Levon Helms - Wide River to Cross.
Just heard it today. Honestly, made me cry, mostly because I learned what Levon Helms has been through in his life, and that song seemed so appropriate for him. I don't know who wrote the song originally (Buddy Miller?), but Levon's versions is my favorite. It's a great song for anybody who has struggled in life, which includes most of us.
D2 analyst wrote:
its kind of sad, but the song "Mad World" by Gary Jules. It wasn't originally done by him, i ofrget who it was by.
Definitely a good one.
As for Party in the USA, I mean...it's alright ;) It makes me want to move (out of the country), but it doesn't move me.
100 bottles of beer on the wall, I can't deny, is a great song to sing on roadtrips. It's not moving either, though.
The McGarrigle Sisters "Go Leave":
Mad World was a Tears for Fears song.
My favorite is "Unloveable" by The Smiths.
March of the Volunteers
Can't understand it, but "Svefn-G-Englar" by Sigur Ros. Beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xow2gnVTUjs
Once listened to this while drunk and watching Planet Earth's "Ocean Deep." I swear there was a jellyfish pulsing in perfect time with the song.
*Helm, not Helms.
vivalarepublica wrote:
Levon Helms - Wide River to Cross.
Just heard it today. Honestly, made me cry, mostly because I learned what Levon Helms has been through in his life, and that song seemed so appropriate for him. I don't know who wrote the song originally (Buddy Miller?), but Levon's versions is my favorite. It's a great song for anybody who has struggled in life, which includes most of us.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2_7o8DGtI
lyrically.. not so much wrote:
Can't understand it, but "Svefn-G-Englar" by Sigur Ros. Beautiful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xow2gnVTUjs
A lot of Sigur Ros' stuff is sung in a made up language.
Gorecki Symphony no. 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuF7uG6wis
It is minimalist. If you can't deal with a piece of music that is more than 3 minutes, you won't get this.
Big Balls by AC DC.
Lotta love here for 'Mad World,' which is a good call.
'Forth Eorlingas' from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack moves me pretty powerfully, but I think that's because when I saw the movie, I got really stoked up watching the charge of the Rohiriim down to Helm's Deep. It's a really well done scene, and the music pairs up perfectly with the cinematography.
The Summer Requiem is a very powerful piece of music as well, I've heard it attributed to Mozart, but mistakenly I believe, as he wrote a summer Requiem, but it's not the one typically referred to... I'm talking about this one
Surprise! wrote:
A lot of Sigur Ros' stuff is sung in a made up language.
I would say something by Sigur Ros, Explosions or Mogwai would be my choice.
To your post... they get angry when people say it is a made-up language. It's not like he sat down and thought of some dorky, made-up language like elvish or something, he just uses his voice as an instrument, not unlike many English-language singers.
Ludovico Einaudi - Le Onde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irs-ogdlKMc&annotation_id=annotation_210069&feature=iv
or this:
themanontherun wrote:
The Summer Requiem is a very powerful piece of music as well, I've heard it attributed to Mozart, but mistakenly I believe, as he wrote a summer Requiem, but it's not the one typically referred to... I'm talking about this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkNZUsqU71s
Mozart wrote a Requiem, no particular season. The link is to part of the soundtrack for Requiem for a Dream which was written by Clint Mansell. No idea how Mozart got attached to that soundtrack.
also anything by composer Thomas Newman
This is the theme from Shawshank Redemption
clint mansell - death is the road to awe (from 'the fountain' ost)