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Tell me the songs that are most beautiful to you, the ones that make you have goosebumps.

My picks:
"Plainsong" by The Cure
and "Storms" and "Beautiful Child," both by Fleetwood Mac

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Cool topic BMG! And goose bumps? That's a lot of songs. Apologies if I've belabored any of these in the past:

Some New Wave:
The Damned - Alone Again Or
The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime
B-Movie - Nowhere Girl
Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
Yaz - Too Pieces
The Cars - Good Times Roll
The Church - Under the Milky Way
New Order - Run Wild
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The Chameleons - Tears
The Jesus & Mary Chain - April Skies
The Plimsouls - Now
Thomas Dolby - Airwaves

Some NNW:
Dion & the Belmonts - Abraham Martin & John
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth
Pink Floyd - Us and Them
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
ELO - Can't Get It Out of My Head
Neil Young - Like a Hurricane
The Who - Love Reign O'er Me
Yes - Survival
Pat Metheny - September 15th & It's For You
Bruce Springsteen - Point Blank
Carole King - It's Too Late
Little River Band - Reminiscing
Badly Drawn Boy - I Was Wrong/You Were Right
Nick Drake - Hazey Jane 1
Simon & Garfunkel - Homeward Bound
Blur - This Is a Low
Lenny Kravitz - The Difference Is Why
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Radiohead - Exit Music for a Film
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
British Sea Power - Lately
Goldfrapp - Pilots (on a Star mix)
Metric - White Gold
Scissor Sisters - Mary

Shit, that looks like a big regurgitation...but I swear it's not! All these songs give me goosebumps. [:I]

I'll save the new wave songs for next time but for now a few beautiful music picks for me are

Robin Trower - Long Misty Days

CSN and Young - Helplessly Hoping

Grateful Dead - Box of Rain

A few songs come to mind-right off the bat:

Landslide-Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac
I'm Not In Love-10cc
Dream Weaver-Gary Wright
New Gold Dream-Simple Minds

but these i think are cool...

the promise you made-cock robin
cupid le locke-smashing pumpkins
the nude-catherine wheel
second chance-38 special
drifting and falling-ocean blue
honey be good-the bible
can't do a thing to stop me-chris isaac

i love to listen these when i travel along w/ my new wave collection...

"Rainy Season," Howard Devoto (I know, I answer this to every question)
"Too Pieces," Yaz (with Blir on this one)
"Crystal Days," Echo & the Bunnymen
"Hold Me Now," Thompson Twins (cheezy, I know)
"Nightporter" and "Swing," Japan
"Bizarre Love Triangle," New Order
"Dazzle," Siouxsie & the Banshees
NNNW
Tannhauser overture, Immolation music, Journey of the Gods to Vahalla, Siegfried's Funeral music, Wagner
Any Chopin nocturne
Winterreise, Schubert
"Evil," Interpol

Just the first ones that came to mind...


U2 - "With or Without You"
The Young Dubliners - "Don't You Worry"
Gary O'(Connor) - "Shades of '45" (covered atrociously by Red Rockers)
Kate Bush - "Cloudbusting"
Gerry Rafferty - "Right Down the Line"
Gin Blossoms - "Found Out About You"
Spoons - "Waterline"
Savage Garden - "To the Moon and Back"
Missing Persons - "Surrender Your Heart"
Mondo Rock - "State of the Heart"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Don't Fear the Reaper"
Dexy's Midnight Runners - "All in All (This One Last Wild Waltz)"
The Stranglers - "Golden Brown"
The Pogues - "Tuesday Morning"
Fay Ray - "Cold as Steel"
The Lotus Eaters - "The First Picture of You"
Thompson Twins - "Lay Your Hands on Me"
Alan Parsons Project - "Eye in the Sky"
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams"
Blue Rose - "Find My Way [Back] Home"
Simon and Garfunkel - "The Boxer"
Payola$ - "Where Is This Love"
Face to Face - "Why Do I Say"
Frozen Ghost - "Promises"
Cyndi Lauper - "Time After Time"
Mike + the Mechanics - "Silent Running"
Crowded House - "Don't Dream It's Over"
Paul Davis - "I Go Crazy"
The Church - "Under the Milky Way"
Kansas - "Dust in the Wind"
The Cure - "Lovesong" (well, and "Plainsong," but mostly "Lovesong")
Idle Eyes - "Tokyo Rose"
Roaring Boys - "House of Stone"
Men at Work - "Overkill"
Prefab Sprout - "Appetite"

There were also a lot of songs where a certain part would do that and the rest wouldn't. Like for instance the bookending keyboard riff of The Producers' "She Sheila" and the guitar that kicks off New Musik's "This World of Water" and the violin that does likewise for Peter Murphy's "Cuts You Up." Of course, the rest of those songs aren't especially moving.

Two for me that immediately come to mind"

Over The Rhine - Rhaposodie (that's how they spell it)........this song is hauntingly beautiful musically, lyrically, and Karin Bergquist's voice is as angelic as it ever gets on this song. This song should never be attempted by anyone else ever, it is as perfect as it can ever get.

Illusion - Beautiful Country. From their CD Out of The Mist. Jane Relf's vocals are at their best, the song just flows beautifully from start to finish. This was essentially whay would morph into Renaissance before Annie Haslam. A PERFECT song IMO.

Many others, but these two just immediately come to mind.

Excellent topic - THANKS

Just about everything from Virginia Astley falls into this category for me. I just got an update from her website http://www.virginiaastley.com/ about some upcoming releases including a cd with her daughter.

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Great songs suggested so far. Here are a few others -

Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
David Sylvian - Orpheus
White and Torch - What Ever Happens on Sunday
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Kate Bush - Hello Earth - how can you not get ovetaken by the choir in this one?

Wow.. Great Topic!
(Hopefully I'm not duping the great ones already named..)

NW

AFOS - Wishing (I Had A Photograph Of You)
Allison Moyet - Invisible
Alphaville - Forever Young (WLIR Synth Ver)
Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
Black - Wonderful Life
Cocteau Twins - A Kissed Out Red Float Boat
Cowboy Junkies -Sweet Jane
David Bowie - Loving The Alien
DM - Shake The Disease
Enya - Orinoco Flow, Storms In Africa
Fiction Factory - Feels Like Heaven
Hubert Kah - The Picture
Icehouse - No Promises
Julee Cruise - Falling
Julian Cope - Charlotte Anne
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Killing Joke - Adorations
KTP - One Step
Los Lobos - Will The Wolf Survive?
Malcom McLaren - Madame Butterfly
Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're On My Mind
Midge Ure - Dear God
New Order - Your Silent Face
OMD - Forever Live and Die, So In Love
Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest
Peter Murphy - Indigo Eyes
Roxy Music - Avalon
Sarah Mclachlan - Vox
Sting - Little Wing
Tears For Fears - The Working Hour
The Human League - Human
The Ocean Blue - Between Something And Nothing
The Other Ones - We Are What We Are
The Blue Nile - The Downtown Lights
The Police - Tea In The Sahara
Thompson Twins - If You Were Here
Thomas Dolby - One Of Our Submarines
Xymox - Imagination

NNW
60's
Astrud Gilberto - The Girl From Ipanema
Paul Mauriat - Love Is Blue
Simon & Garfunkel - The Dangling Conversation
The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
The Mamas & The Papas - Monday Monday

70's
10cc - I'm Not In Love
Barry White & TLUO - Love's Theme
Bread - Baby I'm A Want You
Carole King - Jazzmann, So Far Away
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
CSN - Suite Judy Blue Eyes, Southern Cross
ELP - From The Beginning
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams, Sara
Gary Wright - My Love Is Alive
Gordon Lightfoot - Sundown, Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
Janis Ian - At Seventeen
Jim Croce - I Got A Name
Nicolette Larson - Lotta Love
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pts 1-9)
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water

80's
Basia - New Day For You
Bebe & Cece Winans - Heaven
David Blamires Group - Deep As The Midnight Sea
Hiroshima - One Wish
Pat Metheney - Are You Going With Me
Simply Red - It's Only Love, Enough

90's
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Enya & Loreena Mckennitt - The Mummers Dance
Maxwell - Ascension
Moby - Porcelain
Sarah Mclachlan - Angel, Building A Mystery
Seal - Violet
Tasmin Archer - Sleeping Satellite.
The Cranberries - Linger

I'll stop now..[:I]

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"Talking With People That Agree With You Is Like Jogging In A Cul-de-sac" - Bill Moyers

The ones I play over and over in the car on a long drive:

"Rainy Season" Howard Devoto (the acoustic guitar kills me)
"My Ever-Changing Moods" Style Council (amazing drummer Steve White)
"Life On Mars?" David Bowie
"See How We Are" X (one of the best songs ever written)

Great songs everyone.


Wonderful by Adam Ant
King for a Day - XTC
Bitterest Pill - The Jam
My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council (same as SuNomi)
New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)- Simple Minds
Close to You - Nine Ways to Win
No More "I Love You's" - The Lover Speaks
AutumnSoupGirl - Kirsty MacColl
Caravan of Love - The Housemartins
The Distance Between Us - Fra Lippo Lippi
Feels Like Heaven - Fiction Factory
Felt - Primitive Painters
Coming Up Close - Till Tuesday
Linger - Cranberries
Deep and Wide and Tall - Aztec Camera
She Breaks for Rainbows - B 52's
Will you Stay Tonight? - Comstat Angels
Sweet Fire of Love - Robbie Robinson and Bono
Happy Day - Book of Love
Avalon- Roxy Music
Midnight - Yaz

off genre,
At Last - Etta James
Your Love is King - Sade

I don't feel that my list is gonna be any different from what I've seen but it's a really cool thread:
Behind blue eyes- The Who
Strawberry fields forever- The Beatles
Turn, turn, turn- The Byrds
All my love- Led Zeppelin
Comfortably numb- Pink Floyd
Avalon- Roxy music
Thursday's child- David Bowie
Under pressure- Queen
Every little thing she does is magic- The Police
Home by the sea- Genesis
Tears in heaven- Eric Clapton
Imitation of life- R.E.M.
The boy with a thorn in his side- The Smiths
A letter to Elise (or Plainsong or Just like heaven)- The Cure
Ordinary world- Duran Duran
Don't dream it's over- Crowded House
The killing moon- EATB
Atmosphere- Joy Division
Regret- New Order
Blue dress- Depeche Mode
High and dry- Radiohead
Live forever- Oasis
Kayleigh- Marillion
True- Spandeau Ballet
C'mere- Interpol
Tender- Blur
The Cedar Room- Doves
All this time- Sting
If you leave- OMD
Yellow- Coldplay
The unforgettable fire- U2
Interstate love song- Stone Temple Pilots
Black hole sun- Soundgarden

And I'm stoping it right now. [:I]



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Many of the tracks from just about any Barclay James Harvest CD. Two songs that come to mind from them are:

Poor Man's Moody Blues and Hymn, both from the BJH release of Gone To Earth.

This was a band that put out some absolutely stunning releases. Even when they reformed and released new material in the 90s, it was as graceful and lush as their early days.

Etta James - At Last
Andy Williams - Moon River
Henry Mancini - Moon River
Tony Bennett - Fly Me To The Moon
Perry Como - It's Impossible, and And I Love You So
Children of A Lesser God Soundtrack