Prettiest track

[g_angel]

I don't usually post rubbish threads like this, but after catching this track on one of the iTunes radio stations it got me thinking.

What are peoples thoughts on the prettiest songs (non-classical) ever released?

I have two nominations:

Massive Attack: Tear drop

Chicane: No Ordinary Morning

Both stunning tracks, and both of which have some beautiful memories for me.

Both of these songs are a few years old now (around the 10 year old mark...) and so some of the younger members on the forum could do well to look them up and have a listen.

G.

[Yerascrote]

Spice Girls-Viva Forever

[Thunderstruck]

Aphex Twin - IZ-US
Aphex Twin - Flim

[Infinite]

Little Wing or Cortez the Killer.

[Cazzoo]

Most definately something by Regina Spektor, probably Samson. :heart:

[icey]

Without a doubt, Eva Cassidy - Fields of Gold

[Skive]

Spice Girls-Viva Forever

:yes:

[olaola]

the streets - fit but you know it

[1983]

Hoppipola.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS.

[Char_Baby]

The Streets- Dry your eyes

Katie Melua- I cried for you

Charlotte Church- Even God

[clementine_the_tangerine]

Most definately something by Regina Spektor, probably Samson. :heart:

:heart: agree

[sophia]

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[briggi]

Air - You Make It Easy. Beth Hirsch rocks my world.

Honourable mention must go to Leonard Cohen - Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye.

[Skive]

Dune's cover of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's Power of Love.

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Frank Zappa - watermelon in easter hay. Its instrumental but its so beautiful.
Etta James - I would rather go blind

[GoodFella]

Hoppipola.
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS.

I agree.

[Bri-namite]

The saxophone version of Can You Feel The Love Tonight.

Oh the goosebumps :blush:

[Amnesiac]

Auqalung - Strange and Beautiful
Air - Playground Love

[FireyFirenze]

definitely.
not the album version though, the uber slow and gorgeous version.

yes, i love the slow one.

i dont pick samson though I think like, field below or something. they're ALL pretty.

ooh or let go by frou frou :yes:

[Hayz]

A whole new world from Alladin. :P

[bluesneakersben]

yes, i love the slow one.

i dont pick samson though I think like, field below or something. they're ALL pretty.

Yes, Regina all the way.

Regina Spektor - Ode to Divorce / Us
Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye (perfect rather than pretty)
Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life

[lea_uk]

Ronan Keating's This I Promise You and So Far Away.

[1983]

I quite like Bloc Party - This Modern Love, too.

[Skive]

Marianne Faithful - Ruby Tuesday

Simply an amazing voice. :thumb:

[clementine_the_tangerine]

definitely.
not the album version though, the uber slow and gorgeous version.

This version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEar3E_BKrc

The vid is for my fave kiddy movie The Last Unicorn :heart:

[bluesneakersben]

That's the "Songs" version is it not?

http://cdbaby.com/cd/spektor2

[clementine_the_tangerine]

Maybe. Not sure. Sound not working on PC. Gr.

[Kermit]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Boxer
Theres loads of lovely pretty songs on that album actually.
Bridge over troubled water, The only living boy in new york, So long Frank Lloyd Wright.

[Skive]

Simon and Garfunkel - Bright Eyes ...though for some it may bring back memories of Watership Down which certainly isn't a 'pretty' film.

[Franki]

Bright Eyes - First Day of My Life
:heart:

Also Athlete - You Know

[SuzyCreamcheese]

Joan armatrading - The weakness in me.

[1983]

Damien Rice - Delicate. Mmhm.

[Skive]

DJ Force & Evolution - High On Life

[FireyFirenze]

That's the "Songs" version is it not?

http://cdbaby.com/cd/spektor2

Yeeah, on the Songs CD its the slow version but on the album 'Begin To Hope' Samson is just the same but faster and its not as pretty as the slowed down version.

:)

[g_angel]

Simon and Garfunkel - Bright Eyes ...though for some it may bring back memories of Watership Down which certainly isn't a 'pretty' film.

My mum used to sing that to mewhen I was a kid.

It still brings tears to my eyes :crying: :) Kind of a sad, but happy feeling.

[Addict]

I quite like Bloc Party - This Modern Love, too.

Best song on that album. I suppose Blue Light is quite a 'pretty' track too.


I'd probably say something like Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

[Thunderstruck]

Simon & Garfunkel - April She Will Come
Led Zeppelin - Bron Yr Aur
Lynryd Skynyrd - Every Mother's Son
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice

[1983]

Best song on that album. I suppose Blue Light is quite a 'pretty' track too.


I'd probably say something like Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

It's my favourite Bloc Party/love song evaaaar. It's just so loverly. Yup.

Ooh Ben Harper - She's Only Happy In The Sun and old favourite Snow Patrol - Run are a bit amaze too.

[1983]

Ooh! Ooh! And! Shout Out Louds - But Then Again No is quite nice, too.

[Makoto]

Good choice Angel G.

Above & Beyond - Alone Tonight

Tricky - Hollow

Zero 7 - Destiny

Zero 7 - Somersault

Plus many more.

[I'm With Stupid]

Massive Attack: Tear drop
Disturbing maybe, not pretty. But here's mine.

Radiohead - No Surprises
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
REM - Perfect Circle
REM - Nightswimming
The Stone Roses - Mersey Paradise
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
David Bowie - Life On Mars?
Pretty much everything by Tim Buckley and Jeff Buckley

[Foxxy_Cymru]

Joan armatrading - The weakness in me.

:heart: I agree

[g_angel]

Disturbing maybe, not pretty. But here's mine.

LOL

Pretty as in a flower wilting in the autumn twilight can be. :)

I am enjoying the individual interpretations of "pretty". Gives a nice cross section of the online society.

[Amnesiac]

The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out


YES!:thumb:

i think this thread should be renamed "songs that make me cry". Whether its because they beautiful or make me depressed, i dont know yet.

[FilthyChav]

I like the new Snow Patrol song, ft. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar.

But its not doing much to 'lift' my mood at the moment.

[pill 'ed]

'Stop Crying Your Heart Out' and 'Wonderwall' by Oasis,
'Lucky' by Britney Spears

[Bunnie]

Joan armatrading - The weakness in me.
:yes: this is such a lovely song.

[1983]

Imogen Heap - Goodnight And Go
Imogen Heap - Hide And Seek
Arcade Fire - In The Backseat
Sugababes - New Year
The Cure - Caterpillar
Editors - Fall
Snow Patrol - You Could Be Happy
David Gray - This Years' Love
John Legend - Ordinary People
John Mayer - Comfortable
Des'ree - Kissing You
Craig Armstrong - Glasgow Love Theme
Boy Kill Boy - Shoot Me Down
Corrine Bailey Rae - Til It Happens To You

[*Snow White Queen*]

Evanescence- Good enough

[pill 'ed]

A few more that I forgot...

'Broken' - Seether feat Amy Lee
'Sugar We're Going Down (Acoustic)' - Fall Out Boy
'Angels' - Robbie Williams
'My Immortal' - Evanescence
'Baby I'm Amazed By You' - Tim McGraw

[katralla]

Maybe something by Doris Day. Blue Skies perhaps, or maybe Love Somebody.

[Kermit]

The Verve - History, The Drugs Don't Work
Tom McRae - Border Song
REM - Nightswimming
Antony & The Johnsons - Fistful of Love
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Wednesday Morning 3am
Isobel Campbell - Amorino

[lucifer devil]

the verve - sonnet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiQgEn5ibYg

dido - thank you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsgRjeNNSHs

rem - losing my religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye2LoCaZKCY

jet - move on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Kjo4mo3_Q

doves - caught by the river
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-WN69li06U

the verve - lucky man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyTO0jW8T2o

lucie silvas - last man standing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JxMxkq11gI

bloc party - blue light

[Acrobat]

REM - Nightswimming


:heart: I agree.

[GeorgeZip]

Placebo - Running up that Hill
Chicane - No Ordinary Morning
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score
Jimmy Eat World - Hear You Me

[Bri-namite]

Lionel Richie - Stuck on You
Hayley Sanderson - Something in The Air
Dido - White Flag

[I'm With Stupid]

Sigur Ros - ()

all of it.

[briggi]

I've always found the prettiest Paul Simon song to be 59th Bridge Street Song (Feelin' Groovy) but there are so, so many. Still Crazy After All These Years, American Tune, The Boxer, The Only Living Boy in New York.

I also love Duncan - more for the instrumental parts rather than the lyrics, but I find "my father was a fisherman, my momma was a fisherman's friend" very cute :)

Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna, You Angel You, and Mr Tambourine Man

"Then take me disappearin' through the smoke rings of my mind,
Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves,
The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach,
Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow.
Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free,
Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands,
With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves,
Let me forget about today until tomorrow."

Sting - Shape of My Heart
Tom Paxton - The Last Thing on my Mind
Tom Waits - Martha, Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
Devendra Banhart - Korean Dogwood
Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
Belle & Sebastian - Piazza, New York Catcher
The Saw Doctors - Red Cortina
Ben Harper - When She Believes
Flying Burrito Brothers w/ Gram Parsons - Wild Horses
The Earlies - Wayward Song
I Am Kloot - To You
Joan Baez & Judy Collins - Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
Leonard Cohen - Joan of Arc

[Franki]

I like the new Snow Patrol song, ft. Martha Wainwright - Set The Fire To The Third Bar.
I :heart: that song soooooo much ;o.

[Miffy]

Fiona Apple - I Know
Tori Amos' version of A Case of You
Julie London - Cry Me A River
Jonatha Brooke - Because I Told You So
The Connells - 74 75
The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin
David Gray - Sail Away
Sarah MacLachlan - Angel

[Addict]

Kings of Leon - Milk is a beautiful track.

[**Helen**]

I'm going on gut reaction here:

Smash Mouth - Force field

[Franki]

Snow Patrol - Make This Go On Forever

:yes:

[murf]

pizzicato five- baby love child
baz lurhman- sunscreen
rob d- clubbed to death
polyphonic spree- light and day / soldier girl
wyclef jean and mary j blige- 911
jamiroquai- king for a day
al green- just the two of us

[Acrobat]

wyclef jean and mary j blige- 911


Aww, that came on when I was out on Wednesday last week, and brought back so many good memories!

[Kermit]

Tom McRae - Restless
Tori Amos - Winter
Seal - Kiss from a Rose
The Smiths - Reel Around the Fountain
Alison Krauss & Brad Paisley - Whiskey Lullaby
Ralph McTell - Streets of London
Don McLean - Vincent
Natalie McMaster - Welcome to the Trossachs

I could go on all day with this.

[LuckyStrike]

awww tough one....

off the top of my head:

Damien Rice - Blowers daughter
Snow Patrol - Run
The Beatles - Long and winding Road
Eva Cassiddy - fields of gold
Cyndi Lauper - True Colours
David Grey - This years love
Bright Eyes - First day of my life
Angie Hart - Blue
James Taylor - Fire and rain
Everclear - Wonderful
Elton - Your Song
Eric Clapton - Wonderful tonight

probably 100s more tho, i love soppy stuff ;D

[purplebutterfly]

Evanesance - My Immortal
Fall out Boy - Nobody puts baby in the corner (acoustic version)
Lostprophets - 4 am forever

[Bri-namite]

Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I prefer the Judy Garland type version to the Eva Cassidy type version, but it's such a beautiful song either way :heart:

[spartaalbion]

The cure just like heaven
the verve history
beautiful south song for whoever
coldplay warning sign
counting crows colourblind
cranberries ode to my family
the smiths there is a light that never goes out.

[clementine_the_tangerine]

Ohhh. Imogen Heap- Just for Now

[Samael]

Anything from john ledgend's first album. :hyper:

gotta love the jazz influence!

[I'm With Stupid]

Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I prefer the Judy Garland type version to the Eva Cassidy type version, but it's such a beautiful song either way :heart:
I like the one off that advert from a while back, by some bloke.

[Ace_Ventura]

Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats
Sia - Breathe Me (and The Remix)
Peter Cetera - The Glory of Love
Orbital - Halycon + On + On
Karl Sanders - Of the Sleep Of Ishtar
Black Sabbath/ Pantera - Planet Caravan
DJ Sammy - Heaven
Tool - Disposition
Tool - Wings Part 2
Tool - Parabol
Near Enough EVERY Ozric Tentacles Songs

[mystifymysoul]

I definately agree with

Snow patrol and martha wainwright- set the fire to the third bar
Sigur Ros- Hoppipolla

I :heart: those songs

and I'm randomly gonna throw in "Such great heights" by Iron and Wine (the version by The Postal Service just isn't as good!)