'Beautiful' songs

[j00ni]

Ben Folds - Still Fighting It

Agreed, though I prefer The Luckiest

My current favourites are:

Joshua Radin - Closer
Rachael Yamagata - Jesus Was a Crossmaker
Ben Harper - Reason to Mourn
David Ford - Can't Go Back
Tunng - Jenny Again

 

[deej]

R.E.M - Nightswimming

 

[Redman]

Haunted - Sinead O'Connor & Shane MacGowan

(A strange one, but it just works - and Sinead really did have a truely beautiful tone to her voice)

 

[red11]

Just remembered another one:

Here Comes The Flood - Peter Gabriel (The version with the piano).

 

[Murf]

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Definitely. Heard this for the first time last week. Excellent song.

Led Zeppelin - Going To California

 

[Chronos-X]

James Blunt-You're Beautiful
U2-Beautiful Day

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

 

[Big Chris]

Women Who Love Men Who Love Drugs - Oceansize
The Kidnapper Bell - Mono
3 Days - Jane's Addiction
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin

 

[MadMan-JaMeS]

Wet Wet Wet - Goodnight Girl !
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
REM - Everbody Hurts !

 

[tsinc80697]

Solomon Burke - Don't give up on me

 

[Roberta]

R.E.M - Nightswimming

I love driving home in the dark listening to this.

 

[Martynt74]

Joshua Radin - Closer

Ooh good call

 

[KotFM]

Do You Realize?? - The Flaming Lips
Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

 

[Cybermyk]

Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
California - Joni Mitchell

 

[Retorted]

Hoppípolla - Sigur Rós

I'd say most work from Sigur Rós could be classed as beautiful, although Hoppípolla certainly stands out.

 

[Carzy]

Go on then, seeing as I'm bored:

Ef - Misinform The Uninformed
65daysofstatic - Fix The Sky A Little
65daysofstatic - Aren't We All Running
Audrey - Mecklenburg
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
Explosions In The Sky - Memorial
Mogwai - Tracy
Sigur Ros - Dauðalagið (The Death Song)
This Will Destroy You - There Are Some Remedies Worse Than The Disease
Yndi Halda - Dash And Blast
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr.
Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us
Elliott Smith - Between The Bars
Elliott Smith - Tomorrow Tomorrow
Elliott Smith - Roman Candle
Elliott Smith - Coast To Coast
Elliott Smith - Angeles
Elliott Smith - Christian Brothers
Elliott Smith - Alphabet Town
Elliott Smith - 2.45AM
Elliott Smith - Everything Reminds Me Of Her
Radiohead - Knives Out
Cursive - The Lament Of Pretty Baby
Cursive - The Martyr

 

[j00ni]

Since I'm bore too, i'm going to list a few more old faves:

Ryan Adams - La Cienega Just Smiled (fave song of all time, could listen to it on repeat)
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Counting Crows - Colorblind
Gram Parsons - Love Hurts
Stephen Fretwell - Do You Want To Come With?
Elliott Smith - Bottle Up And Explode (would come top of his songs for me, though perhaps a little too upbeat!)
Smashing Pumpkins - Stumbeline
Lifehouse - Simon
Iron & Wine - Each Coming Night
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

plus, I forgot Lijie - Roam from my earlier list

 

[Northwind]

Good call on Colorblind there, j00ni...

I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You- Colin Hay

Counting Crows- Goodnight LA
Breatheher- Biffy Clyro
Keep Smiling- Biffy Clyro
There's No Such Man As Crasp- Biffy Clyro (and it's acapella too!)
Bad Time To Be Having a Bad Time- the Wildhearts
Desert Song- My Chemical Romance
Minerva- the Deftones.
Everyone's a VIP to Someone- the Go! Team
New Kid- Finch
Six Soon To Be Seven- the Crocketts
Beautiful Day- 3 Colours Red
Monkey Zoo- Silver Ginger 5
Trashy Broken Heart- the Slingbacks
That's What I Go To School For- Jimbob from Carter USM acoustic cover.
In Your Corner- Joie Dead Bline Girlfriend
In the Morning Of the Magicians- the Flaming Lips
The Dark Is Rising- Mercury Rev

 

[MadMan-JaMeS]

some of the songs in here are good keep it up !

 

[pmbuzz]

Eva Cassidy - Songbird

Always makes me cry.

 

[Zip]

Christina Aguilera - Beautiful

Now we are getting somewhere

Shame that song is far from Beautiful though