Beautiful songs

[bpdp3]

This is one of those threads where I feel I'll have to go back and listen to some of the many songs already mentioned...

I'm going in with:

"We let the Stars go" - Prefab Sprout
"Iceskating at Night" - Ocean Blue
"Sugar Hiccup" - Cocteau Twins

[marie3]

I forgot about the Cocteau Twins. They have so many beautiful songs, like "A kissed out Red Floatboat, Pearly Dewdrops' Drop, ect.

[darwinsky]

Before I opened this thread, I thought it would be full of the sourpusses dissing what a "beautiful song" is, how it's all relative and how many of the songs listed are terrible - blah blah. I'm glad there's none of that.

Mine:

No Stars - Figures on the Beach
On Paper - Three O' Clock
When Lovers Walk - 16 Tambourines
If You Don't Love Me, Goodbye Lucille No. 1, Cars n Girls - Prefab Sprout
1963, Touched by the Hand of God, Regret, Subculture (12in", Leave me Alone, Loveless - New Order
Pure, Joy, Lucky You - Lightning Seeds
Graceland, Honey Be Good - The Bible
If I Was, Uncertain Smile - Midge Ure
This is the Day - The The
Saturday Night, Sunday Morning - River Detectives
Time is Right - Fiction Factory
Lean on Me - Red Box
Catch Me I'm Falling - Real Life
Heaven, I Want You - Camouflage
White Lies, Modigliani, Pretty Boys n Pretty Girls - Book of Love
... so many more

I'll be sure to check out as many of the songs listed by everyone in this thread.[8D]

dar

[SomebodySomewhere]

I forgot a whole bunch of my favorites. Shame on me. It's a mix of the new wave... and the schmaltz!

Toto - "Africa"
Sarah McLachlan - "Possession"
Spider - "It Didn't Take Long"
The Narcs - "Heart & Soul"
Vertical Horizon - "Everything You Want"
England Dan and John Ford Coley - "Love Is the Answer"
Todd Rundgren - "I Saw the Light" (because the above band's cover version of "Love Is the Answer" was superior to his original)
Stone Temple Pilots - "Sour Girl"
The Waterboys - "Whole of the Moon"
Wire - "Kidney Bingos" (too bad the lyrics are nonsense)
Starship - "Sara"
America - "You Can Do Magic"
Wet Wet Wet - "Wishing I Was Lucky" (an oddly moving song)
The Bangles - "Eternal Flame"
Madonna - "Live to Tell"
Winger - "Miles Away"
Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?"
The Beach Boys - "Wouldn't It Be Nice"
Tom Robinson - "Still Loving You"
Ultravox - "Hymn" (the chorus)
Genesis - "Taking It All Too Hard"
Phil Collins - "Another Day in Paradise"
Peter Gabriel - "Games Without Frontiers"
The Police - "Invisible Sun"
Thin Lizzy - "The Sun Goes Down"
Journey - "Who's Crying Now"
Wham! - "Careless Whisper"
The Beatles - "Yesterday"
Paul McCartney - "So Bad"
John Lennon - "Woman"
Led Zeppelin - "Stairway to Heaven"
Whitesnake - "Is This Love"
Player - "Baby Come Back"
Heart - "These Dreams"
Eurythmics - "Here Comes the Rain Again"
FM - "Dream Girl" (can't believe I forgot this -- it singlehandedly got me into the electric mandolin)
Al Stewart - "Year of the Cat"
Benny Mardones - "Into the Night"
Patrick Swayze - "She's Like the Wind"
Private Lives - "Living in a World (Turned Upside Down)"
Tori Amos - "Caught a Lite Sneeze"
The Breaks - "Fire in the Wire"
Dan Fogelberg - "Leader of the Band"
Billy Joel - "She's Always a Woman"
'Til Tuesday - "What About Love" (they did a stripped down version in concert that was more powerful than the album version)

[DevoManiac101]

Altered Images - I Could Be Happy

Altered Images - Bring Me Closer

Bananarama - Rough Justice

Cocteau Twins - Love's Easy Tears

Clare Grogan (Altered Images) - Las Vegas Lullaby

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumors

Dion And The Belmonts - A Teenager In Love

Men Without Hats - The Great Ones Remember

Peter Schilling - The Different Story (World Of Lust And Crime)

The Vogues - You're The One

Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson And Clover

[Panorama]

Bel Canto - Die Geschichte Einer Mutter
~ it is the most beautiful song ever recorded

Tera Jadoo Chal Gayaa - Seene Se Yeh Dil Gaya

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[iposse]

Here's mine (some NW, some not):

Stars - Elevator Love Letter
Fairground Attraction - Perfect
Maria Taylor - Song Beneath the Song
Rockpile - Heart
The Cure - Halo
The Jam - Ghosts
Hum - Stars
Ratcat - Don't Go Now
Slowdive - Alison
The Lemonheads - Into Your Arms
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Robyn Hitchcock - The Bones in the Ground
The Bangles - If She Knew What She Wants
Moonpools and Caterpillars - Soon
The Smithereens - Strangers When We Meet
Squeeze - Up the Junction
Bram Tchaikovsky - Girl of My Dreams
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Song from the Edge of the World
Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Sebadoh - Willing to Wait
Echo and the Bunnymen - Seven Seas
Mazzy Star - Halah
Lush - Light from a Dead Star
Hoodoo Gurus - My Girl
Travis - Driftwood
Mercury Rev - Nite and Fog
The La's - There She Goes
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
Roxy Music - Dance Away
Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
Crowded House - Into Temptation
Magnetic Fields - All My Little Words
Neil Young - Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Harry Nilsson - Everybody's Talkin
Big Star - September Gurls
The Trashcan Sinatras - Obscurity Knocks
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

[Bitter Almonds]

Mine's also gonna be a mix of New Wave, New Romantic, Alterno, and - primarily - Crap[}:)] They're definitely placed in order of relevancy/importance. I could go on listing for hours, but here are twenty for those who bother to read such lists.

"Words" by F.R. David
"Don't Answer Me" by The Alan Parsons Project
"Ashita Ga Suki" by Mitsuko Horie (theme for "Candy")
"Que Porque Te Quiero" by Carlos Mata (theme for "Topacio")
"Quizás Sí, Quizás No" by Sabú (theme for "Luisana Mía"?)
"Theme From Hill Street Blues" by Mike Post
"Susanna" by The Art Company
"The Flame" by Cheap Trick
"Don't Dream It's Over" by Crowded House
"Baker Street" by Gerry Rafferty
"Corazón De Poeta" by Jeanette
"You Belong To The City" by Glen Frey
"Theme From Taxi Driver" by Bernard Herrmann
"Diamond Girl" by Seals And Crofts
"More Than This" by Roxy Music
"(Can't Do A Thing) To Stop Me" by Chris Isaak
"Todidoki Blue" by Yuka Tachibana (theme from "Kimagure Orange Road")
"Single Bed" by Sharan Q (theme for "DNA^2")
"See You" by Depeche Mode
"Runes And Men" by Death In June

[WolverineSyr]

I love Layla from Derek & the Dominoes - always gives me chills.
I could also listen to Rambling Man from the Allmans over & over, along with "Heard it in a Love Song" from Marshall Tucker. There's something about the last two - maybe for sentimental reasons, but I think the musicianship is astounding on them.

Other than those 3...
If I Could - Anne Clark
Pacific Symphony - Transformer 2
Most anything by Sade
Dog & Butterfly, Mistral Wind, Crazy on You - Heart
Space Age Love Song - Flock of Seagulls
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
One Paper Kid, Tennessee Rose & a slew of other songs by Emmylou Harris.
Sara, Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

[popreactor]

Gary Jules and Michael Andrews "Mad World" and the whole Donnie Darko OST

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[MARV]

I love topics like this, BMG!

I Bet You're Mad At Me (acoustic), Erasure
Lost In The Stars, Martin Gore
Freelove, Depeche Mode
Leave Me Alone, New Order
Turn, New Order
Oh Boy, the Feeling When You Held My Hand, Sarah Cracknell
Madeleine, Saint Etienne
Winter, Tori Amos
Like Someone In Love, Bjork
Don't Cry For Me Argentina, Sinead O'Connor
Interlude, Morrissey w/Siouxsie Sioux
Don't You Worry, The Beloved
London (Genuine piano mix), Pet Shop Boys
Decadence, Pet Shop Boys
Closer to Heaven, Pet Shop Boys
Miracles, Pet Shop Boys
Walkaway, Cast
Crestfallen, Smashing Pumpkins
Everything Must End, Client
For America, Red Box
For A Friend, Communards
Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem, Peter Murphy

There were lots of other songs other people mentioned that easily could have been on my list as well. Marie mentioned She Breaks For Rainbows.....that one just lifts me to another place. I'm gonna follow Blir's precedent and list some non NW/Alternative songs too:

Look to the Rainbow, Astrud Gilberto
To Each His Own, Al Martino
I'll Be Seeing You, Johnny Mathis
Thank Heaven 4 You, Esthero
Fly Me To The Moon, Frank Sinatra
Because Of You, Tony Bennett
I'm On Fire, Bruce Springsteen
Give My Love to Rose, Johnny Cash
Your Love Is King, Sade
Across 110th Street, Bobby Womack
Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Marvin Gaye

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[plagiarism]

Bouncing around genres in random order, as songs come to mind:

"Solsbury Hill" and "Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel
"Wuthering Heights" and "Running Up That Hill" - Kate Bush
"Crystal Frontier" - Calexico
"What a Wonderful World" - Satchmo
"What About Me?" - Moving Pictures
"Pure" - Lightning Seeds
"Drop" - Cornelius
"Imagine" - John Lennon
"Don't Open the Door to Strangers" - The Church
"Let It Ride" - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
"Our Way to Fall" - Yo La Tengo
"Ballerina Out of Control" - Ocean Blue
"Every Beat of the Heart" - Railway Children
"Stumblin' In" - Suzy Quattro and Chris Norman
"Your Ghost" - Kristen Hersch and Michael Stipe
"True Colors" = Cyndi Lauper

Pretty much everything by Cocteau Twins and Enigma.

[rotator]

[b]Ash "Goldfinger"
Nada Surf "80 Windows"
Simple Minds "Someone Up There Likes You"
China Crisis "Christian"
Codiene "Realize"
David Sylvian "Ride"
Depeche Mode "The Sun And The Rainfall"
The Durutti Column "Take Some Time Out"
Miasma "Lupine Stare"
Everything But The Girl "Apron Strings" (LP version)
Fatboy Slim "Next to Nothing"
Killing Joke "Unspeakable"
Kraftwerk "Computer Love"
The Lemonheads "Stove (acoustic)"
LOW "Starfire
LOW "Violence
LOW "Laugh"
LOW (fuck it - all Low)
OMD "The Beginning And The End"

this list could go on....and on....[/b]


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[marie3]

Has anyone heard the new INXS song Afterglow?
It's a great song and could easily be in this category.

[Opera Prima]

I could name a thousand... here are the first 10 that have come to my mind:

OMD - Sealand
B-movie - The Great Divide
Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität
A-ha - The Swing of Things
A Drop in the Gray - All the Same
Comsat Angels - More
A flock of Seagulls - Rainfall
The Armoury Show - The Glory of Love
Blue in Heaven - Close your eyes
White Door - In Heaven