Beautiful songs

[Rat_Scabies]

so many of the above that I would list and many I do not recognize!

Swamp Thing - Chameleons
Uncertain Smile - The The
Biko - Peter Gabriel
Mannish Boy - Muddy Waters

[Sean]

Hunting High & Low - A-ha
Lassie Comes Home - Alphaville
Souvenir - OMD
Violence (Hacienda Version) - The Pet Shop Boys
Doot Doot - Freur
Woman In Chains - Tears For Fears
Midnight Sun - Hubert KaH
King's Cross - The Pet Shop Boys
Living A Boy's Adventure Tale - A-ha
Close (We Stroke The Flames) - Camouflage
Animals - Second Sight
Believe - Blue October
Flame - Alphaville
Lament - Ultravox

[I Crave New Wave]

More Than This- Roxy Music
First Time (Ever I Saw Your Face)- Roberta Flack

"Oh I've just come, from the Land of the Sun, from a war that must be won in the name of truth. . ."

[Synthpopfan]

Rialto - Underneath A Distant Moon
Lightning Seeds - Pure
Leiahdorus - Wake
Anything Box - Every Single Day
Camouflage - Together
Candyflip - Strawberry Fields Forever
Erasure - Magic Moments
Hungry Lucy - Open Window
Red Flag - Rain
Alphaville - Summer Rain
The Chameleons - Tears

[Spit]

These songs may not be cool but I think they fit here on this thread .

Alan Parsons Project - Time

Cat Stevens - Sad Lisa

Great White - She Only

Don Mclean - Vincent

[earthloop]

Love Will Tear Us Apart : Joy Division.
Protection : Massive Attack.
Doctor My Eyes : Jackson Brown
The Point Beyond Which Something Will Happen : Single Gun Theory.
Silver Mountain : Neil Young.
Under The Milky Way : The Church.
Dreams : Fleetwood Mac.
Your Song : Elton John.
Fire And Rain : James Taylor.
Father And Son...and almost everything else on Tea For The Tillerman :Cat Stevens !


...and so many more. Great topic. Just goes to show how much music brings joy to the soul ![:D]

[react010]

First tracks that spring to mind are:

China Crisis - Wishful Thinking
China Crisis - Christian
Cocteau Twins - Ivo
Fiat Lux - Secrets
Dead Can Dance - De Profundis
Marc Almond - Madame De La Luna
Passions - I'm In Love With A German Filmstar
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kiss Them For Me
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Associates - Breakfast
Cocteau Twins - Crushed
Depeche Mode - Leave In Silence
Yazoo - Tuesday
Echo & The Bunnymen - Seven Seas

[guyinsf]

Pure - Lightning Seeds
Golden Brown - Stranglers
En Dulce Decorum - The Damned
Maid of Orleans - OMD
Butterfly Collector - The Jam
Picture This - Blondie
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen
Berlin - Take my breath away
The Hurting - Tears for Fear
Under the Milky Way tonight - The Church
Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper
The Ghost in You - Psy. Furs
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
Across the Wire - Blue States
A few Cocteau Twins songs - They sound similar to me but beautiful and lush!
Life in Mono - Mono

Non-NW
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
Heart Full of Soul - Chris Isaak
Love is all around - the Troggs
Whiter Shade of Pale - Procal Harum
Killing me Softly w/ Song - Roberta Flack
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Flamingo Sketches - Miles Davis
Love is Blue - Paul Mauriat
Tajabone - Ismael lo
Sante Fe - Ottmar Liebert
Angel Baby - Rosie and the Originals
A Summer Song - Chad and Jeremy
Bang Bang - nancy sinatra
Crazy - Patsy Cline

Fuck the Pain Away - Peaches

[zalasta]

One More Time - The Cure
Waiting for the Night - Depeche Mode
Jennifer - Eurythmics
Under the Ivy - Kate Bush
It Couldn't Happen Here - Pet Shop Boys
Under the Milky Way - The Church
I Believe/All I Need to Know - Duran Duran
Vienna - Ultravox


those are a few of my faves [:)]

[New Wave Dave]

Moonlight Mile (The Rolling Stones)
Silver Springs (Fleetwood Mac)
The Flame (Cheap Trick)
In God's Country (U2)
Enya - Orinoco Flow
Woman In Chains (Tears For Fears)
Spanish Eyes (Madonna)

I think I just got a yeast infection thinking about some of those songs. Nevertheless...

[Spaz]

I love tons of upbeat stuff, but when I hear the 'term' beautiful, I think of things that are semi-mellow musical moments like:

Neil Diamond-"Stones"
10cc-"I'm Not In Love"
Thomas Lang-"Feels So Right"
Blanket Of Secrecy-"Say You Will"
Spandau Ballet-"True"
Midge Ure-"Dear God"
Thomas Dolby-"Airwaves"
Paul McCartney-"Waterfalls"
Fischer-Z-"Further From Love"
Peter Gabriel-"Don't Give Up"
Big Country-"Chance"
Marillion-"Easter"
Fixx-"Are You Satisfied"
Rupert Hine-"Heart Of The Matter"
Tears For Fears-"Closest Thing To Heaven"
Split Enz-"Stuff And Nonsense"
Kingston Trio-"Scotch And Soda"

and many more....those are just the ones poised at the top of my head..





SPAZ
Born of innocence. Free of ignorance.

[profpike]

My picks:

Cattle and Cane-by the Go-Betweens

Assembly-Never, Never-I swear to god Feargal sings this song with so much emtion-I think his voice is going to crack open. As much as I love my 'tones music-Feargal sings this as though he was born to sing this one song.

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[Spectre General]

I would interpret "Beautiful songs" to be ones that are slower and very melodic, and just downright good songs no matter how you slice it. And for that reason, many of them were hits.

A few I love are:

38 Special - Second Chance
Steve Perry - Foolish Heart
The Lover Speaks - No More "I Love You's"
Chris DeBurgh - Lady In Red
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Howard Jones - No One is To Blame
Breathe - Hands to Heaven
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere
Martika - Toy Soldiers
Dan Fogelberg - Lonely in Love
Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
Madonna - Live to Tell
Benjamin Orr - Stay the Night

Of course, not all beautiful songs are hits. Baltimora's "Pull the Wire" and Evelyn Champagne King's "'Til Midnight" are both amazing songs, and pretty much anything by Freur is beautiful.

Then there are songs that give me goosebumps, which isn't neccessarily because they're beautiful, but because they're evocative in some way or another. Songs such as: Mike & The Mechanics - Silent Running or Icehouse - Trojan Blue, which is truly haunting. Also, I get goosebumps whenever I hear the film score from "Transformers: The Movie" but that's probably just me....

[bpdp3]

After hearing Cock Robin's "When your heart is weak" last night, I'd absolutely add it to this thread.....

[KYYX4ever]

[quote][i]Originally posted by Spectre General[/i]
<br>Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is
Madonna - Live to Tell[/quote]

you know, I have to agree with these 2. They just pop out at me for being quite beautiful. And the singing (vocals). "Live to Tell" came out when I did not care for Madonna at all, and I still loved it. There is a certain evocative quality about these 2.