Songs You Think Are Absolutely Beautiful

[jaycee]

Here are some preliminary entries, off the top of my head:
"Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" - The Korgis
"Love Child" - Diana Ross
"Into The Night" - Benny Mardones
"Sister Golden Hair" - America
"Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
"Follow You Follow Me" - Genesis
"Only Love Can Break A Heart" - Gene Pitney (my favourite song on the radio station 1278 AM, which apparently plays the best songs of all time... I prefer 1377 AM though.)
This post is bound to be edited with a whole lot more entries... anyway, let's hear it from everyone else in the meantime!

[Ghost_Tracker]

Well I just HAVE to mention some Stevie songs lol!

Beauty and the Beast
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You?
Nightbird
Love is
24 Karot Gold


Others -

Open Arms by Journey

Amanda by Boston (as it ties in to the entire album, which i.m.o. is a work of art...)

Imagine by John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band

By Cindy Lauper:

from ABCDEFG, all the way through to the very last thing she's written so far.

[tilthefirefades]

To me everything on Pieces Of You by Jewel is breathtaking, especially Adrian and Don't.

Also It's Gonna Take A Miracle by Laura Nyro & Labelle
Come Back To Me by Janet Jackson
Jesus Christ by Brand New
The Interview by A.F.I.
Name by Goo Goo Dolls
Yellow Butterflies by Meg & Dia
The One That Got Away by Random Thoughts
Not A Second To Waste by A Rocket To The Moon
Your Own Disaster by Taking Back Sunday
and of course Beautiful Child by FM:D

[GypsySorcerer]

Blue - Joni Mitchell
River - Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Jolene - Dolly Parton
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Dante's Prayer - Loreena McKennitt
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hurt - Johnny Cash version
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
Winter - Tori Amos
Adia - Sarah McLachlan (normally not a fan of hers, but this one kills me)

Tons more I'm forgetting...

[David]

"Man Out of Time" - Elvis Costello
"Blow Away" - Kate Bush
"High-Flying Bird" - Elton John
"My Back Pages" - Dylan
"I Love You Goodbye" - Thomas Dolby
"Quality Street" - Van Morrison
"We Work the Black Seam" - Sting

[Street_Dreamer]

Fields Of Gold - Sting and/or Eva Cassidy
I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying - Sting
Pachuca Sunrise - Minus The Bear
Wings Of A Raven - John Stewart
Dreamers On The Rise - John Stewart
Across The Milky Way - John Stewart
Great White Cathedrals - John Stewart
Any Day Now - Ronnie Milsap's version
High Steel And Memories - Keith Whitley

Matt

[Musicman408]

First classic that comes to mind is "At Last" by Etta James.

[mylittledemon]

Why - Annie Lennox
Most of the Time - Bob Dylan
Fields of Gold - Sting
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Gladys Knight & the Pips
Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground - Coldplay
Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
It's a Motherf**ker - The Eels
Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Room At the Top - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
I'll Remember - Madonna
Untitled 4 - Sigur Ros
One - U2
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

[Sleepless-Child]

Blue - Joni Mitchell
River - Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Jolene - Dolly Parton
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Dante's Prayer - Loreena McKennitt
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hurt - Johnny Cash version
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
Winter - Tori Amos
Adia - Sarah McLachlan (normally not a fan of hers, but this one kills me)


I absolutely love this list (Well, except for Buckley's Hallelujah, but that's just me)

Something-The Beatles
Here comes the sun-The Beatles
Since I've Been Lovin' you-Led Zep
Going to California-Led Zep
Child in Time-Deep Purple
The Promise You Made-Cock Robin (:D)
Patience-Guns n' Roses
The Sides-Ataxia
Sad Lisa-Cat Stevens
Morning Has Broken-Cat Stevens
Last Love Song-Cat Stevens
Love Song-The Cure
Candle in the Wind-Elton John (clichéééé)
In the Death Car-Iggy Pop
Can you bend your back like this ?-Milla Jovovich
Song to Sing when i'm lonely-John Frusciante
Look on-John Frusciante
Wuthering Heights-Kate Bush
Roslyn-Bon Iver
Wet Sand-Red Hot Chili Peppers
...

And a lot more, but I don't really know what's beautiful, and what's not...
+ Mac songs, of course, I don't need to cite.

[TrueFaith77]

Two most beautiful songs I can think of:

"A Little Knowledge" from Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
"Locked" from White Bread, Black Beer by Scritti Politti

[sara1998]

Sara - Fleetwood Mac (Hands down the most beautiful song I've ever heard.)
Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby
A Long December - Counting Crows
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Constellations - Jack Johnson
Imagine - John Lennon
Try for the Sun - Lindsey Buckingham
Wonder - Natalie Merchant
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
The Last Song Ever - Secondhand Serenade

[golddustdrummer]

a few...I left out the FM and Stevie ones.

Northern Sky - Nick Drake
It Makes No Difference - The Band
Helpless - Neil Young
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
American Baby - Dave Matthews Band
Beautiful is Gone - The Ruse
Stage Fright - The Band
Carry On - Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young

[Black_Moon]

Here's a few of mine, that aren't Stevie or Fleetwood Mac. Sara is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard though.

Moments of Pleasure, This Woman's Work, And So Is Love & Watching You Without Me - Kate Bush
Here Comes The Flood & Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
Winter - Tori Amos
Siren Song - Bat For Lashes
My Number - Tegan and Sara
Woman In Chains - Tears for Fears
Love is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
Call Me On Your Way Home - Ryan Adams
Avalon - Roxy Music

[sara1998]

Sara - Fleetwood Mac (Hands down the most beautiful song I've ever heard.)
Mandolin Rain - Bruce Hornsby
A Long December - Counting Crows
Crash Into Me - Dave Matthews Band
How to Save a Life - The Fray
Constellations - Jack Johnson
Imagine - John Lennon
Try for the Sun - Lindsey Buckingham
Wonder - Natalie Merchant
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan
The Last Song Ever - Secondhand Serenade

Are we talking lyrics or music or both? I tend to be a sucker for lyrics, and that's what my list is mainly based on.

[chriskisn]

Beautiful Child - Fleetwood Mac (Stevie Nicks)
Hallelujah - John Cale (much better than the Jeff Buckley version IMO)
Mad World - Gary Jules
Wedding Song - Bob Dylan
She is His Only Need - Wynonna Judd
My! My! Honeycomb - Bonnie Tyler
Diamonds & Rust - Joan Baez
Dragonfly - Fleetwood Mac (Danny Kirwan)
Falling of the Rain - Billy Joel
Songbird - Fleetwood Mac (Christine McVie)
Man of the World - Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green)
Maria De Santiago - Jeremy Spencer
Jessica's Song - Bekka Bramlett
Sixty Years On - Elton John (if you fast forward through the start of the song)
From Little Things Big Things Grow - Kev Carmody (nothing like a good political statement)
Listening to Levon - Marc Cohn
True Companion - Marc Cohn


There are probably others but this is all I can think of right now...

[Amlyn]

Scanning through my music library, here's some songs that fit this category for me, either musically or lyrically and haven't already been mentioned:

Beautiful in My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
I Have to Say I Love You in a Song - Jim Croce
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Sadness - Enigma
Fear - Sarah McLachlan
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Wicked Game - Chris Issak
Fade into You - Mazzy Star
Yellow - Coldplay
Pictures of You - The Cure
Here with Me - Dido
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Africa - Toto
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

[jannieC]

Why- Annie Lennox (beautiful, almost perfect song)
At 17- Janis Ian
Evergreen- Barbara Streisand
Same Old Lang Syne- Dan Fogelberg
These Are the Days of Our Lives- Queen
Bridge Over Troubled Water- Simon and Garfunkel
All I Know- Art Garfunkel
Morning Has Broken- Cat Stevens
Dog and Butterfly- Heart
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face- Roberta Flack
The Rose- Bette Midler (another perfect song, IMO)
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
Memory- from Cats

I could keep going on and on. I love beautiful songs. :o

[tilthefirefades]

Blue - Joni Mitchell
River - Joni Mitchell
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Fast Car - Tracey Chapman
Jolene - Dolly Parton
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
The Sound of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Dante's Prayer - Loreena McKennitt
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Hurt - Johnny Cash version
Going to California - Led Zeppelin
Winter - Tori Amos
Adia - Sarah McLachlan (normally not a fan of hers, but this one kills me)

Tons more I'm forgetting...

how could i forget this one!!! :distress: it breaks my heart to listen to it
another one i thought of, as weird as it may be is Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus, yes I mean the buffalo bill song haha :D

[Zombie]

Ooo, fun.

Let's see. In no particular order, and excluding obvious Mac-related items like Sara and Beautiful Child:

From Dead Can Dance:
"Song of the Sibyl" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j1lBFaYv70)
"Cantara" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVjmSfUEnJI) and
"Desert Song" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy5TQiUuNQ) all from the amazing Toward the Within.

Eh, screw it - actually, the entirety of Toward the Within. Haha. If I believed in such a thing as the divine in a deity sense, I'd swear up and down that Lisa Gerrard is its mouthpiece. If you've never heard Dead Can Dance before, I urge you to check out those links. I also really love what she did for the movie Man on Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c1x55t51uc).

From Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:

"Oh My Lord" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uny3pYb1fsI) - This is, to me, a perfect song. I'm pretty sure Warren Ellis is the bastard love child of Paganini and Rasputin.

"Into My Arms" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0-cncMpt8) and "The Ship Song" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlaV-9Vzsk) (yes, that's John Cale & Chrissie Hynde on the stage there - at one point in that show, they all do "Ship of Fools" together, very cool).

From Tori Amos:


This version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssuXZ_seN5Q) of "Doughnut Song" (with a little bit of "Apollo's Frock" at the beginning) from the 2 Meter Sessions. The wail on the "you can tell me" starting at about 4:48 kills me every time.

"Cooling" with the brambles bridge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2IpXHYjOcU). She very rarely plays the bridge live, which I think is a damn shame. It's my fav part of the song, and I have a future tattoo planned around it.

This particular live version of Led Zep's "Thank You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nunxgGQpSQ).

I also love this mash-up of "Whole Lotta Love" and "Thank You." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRg8UGQGXUE) That **** is HOT. When she starts belting out those "baby, baby, baby"s and "I, I, I"s, I get total goosebumps every time.


From Leonard Cohen:
"Dance Me to the End of Love" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki9xcDs9jRk)

Jeff Buckley's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" It's just stunning. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83OIx5lwhY0) I love Leonard Cohen with a mad passion, but Buckley's version of his song is so good. I also like John Cale's version, but think Rufus Wainwright ought to knock it the hell off.

From The Sisters of Mercy:
"Some Kind of Stranger" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjy5TQiUuNQ)

The gorgeous piece "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dPS-EHl-FE) from Michael Nyman's amazing soundtrack for the movie The Piano.

ETA: Forgot some! Fear Factory's "Resurrection" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGgqJI0Hpmg) & Opeth's "Harvest" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaFANthouM) and anything off of The Gathering's Mandylion.

[Zombie]

how could i forget this one!!! :distress: it breaks my heart to listen to it
another one i thought of, as weird as it may be is Goodbye Horses by Q Lazzarus, yes I mean the buffalo bill song haha :D

Oh, I like that song, too - I have a really cool remix of it that I listen to all the time.

[CelticGypsy]

Sara - FM
Has Anyone Ever Written Anything for You
Landslide - FM
Beauty and the Beast - Stevie

The Bridge - Maurice, Sam and Adam Gibb
Viva La Vida - Coldplay
Never Alone - Barlow Girls
Only One - Alex Band
Tonight - Alex Band
Believing - The Calling/Alex Band
Candle in the Wind - Elton John
Something - Beatles
Imagine - John Lennon
Woman - John Lennon
A Day in the Life - Beatles
Words - Bee Gees
Livin Eyes - Bee Gees

[bucklind17]

Hardly a complete list, but ones that I'm finding particularly so lately:

"At My Most Beautiful" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdHMJ39M0JU&feature=related) - R.E.M.
"You and I Undercover" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0qNKxqVkBw) - Steel Train
"Georgia" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SnLeR5zYZU) - Hanson
"The Gambler" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT-5NY83OYI) - fun.
"Garden" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBTtoOuZM1I) - NeedtoBreathe
"Evangeline Rose" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN0j1KH-iaE) - Marc Broussard
"Manhattan" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqUX_u_3jTI)- Kings of Leon
"Hallelujah" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfYmMt92Otg) - Justin Timberlake and Matt Morris

[Nico]

I could never ever compile a complete list of songs I think are beautiful...but I have been listening to the following a lot lately, and I'm really crazy about all of them at the moment...

I Don't Know What It Is ~ Rufus Wainright
Afraid ~ Nico
In my Life ~ Beatles
Hallelujah ~ Jeff Buckley
River Deep, Mountain High ~ Ike & Tina Turner
Be My Baby ~ John Lennon
Goodbye Joe ~ Laura Nyro
God Only Knows ~ Beach Boys
No Secrets ~ Carly Simon
Fire and Rain ~ James Taylor
A Day in the Life~ Beatles
Bleed to Love Her ~ Fleetwood Mac
Why Be Blue ~ Carlene Carter
Storms ~ Fleetwood Mac
Exit Music (For a Film) ~Radiohead
The Boxer ~ Simon & Garfunkel
What a Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong
Here Comes the Sun ~ Beatles
Catherine ~ Polly Jean Harvey
Turn It On ~ Lindsey Buckingham
They Can't Take That Away From Me ~ Frank Sinatra
Don't Worry Baby ~ Beach Boys
Someday Baby ~ Bob Dylan
Maybe I'm Amazed ~ Paul McCartney
Well I Wonder ~ The Smiths
Take This Longing ~ Leonard Cohen
Sunday Morning ~ Velvet Underground
Killing Me Softly ~ Roberta Flack
Free as a Bird ~ "Beatles"
La Vie en Rose ~ Edith Piaf
Waterloo Sunset ~ The Kinks
Love Will Tear Us Apart ~ Joy Division
No Surprises ~ Radiohead
One of These Things First ~ Nick Drake
Both Sides Now ~ Joni Mitchell
The Pretender ~ Jackson Browne
Oh My Love ~ John Lennon
Let It Roll (Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ~ George Harrison
New York State of Mind ~ Billy Joel
Banana Pancakes ~ Jack Johnson
Suzanne ~ Leonard Cohen
Edelweiss ~ Christopher Plummer/daughter from The Sound of Music

[Lindsfan]

I could never ever compile a complete list of songs I think are beautiful...but I have been listening to the following a lot lately, and I'm really crazy about all of them at the moment...

I Don't Know What It Is ~ Rufus Wainright
Afraid ~ Nico
In my Life ~ Beatles
Hallelujah ~ Jeff Buckley
River Deep, Mountain High ~ Ike & Tina Turner
Be My Baby ~ John Lennon
Goodbye Joe ~ Laura Nyro
God Only Knows ~ Beach Boys
No Secrets ~ Carly Simon
Fire and Rain ~ James Taylor
A Day in the Life~ Beatles
Bleed to Love Her ~ Fleetwood Mac
Why Be Blue ~ Carlene Carter
Storms ~ Fleetwood Mac
Exit Music (For a Film) ~Radiohead
The Boxer ~ Simon & Garfunkel
What a Wonderful World ~ Louis Armstrong
Here Comes the Sun ~ Beatles
Catherine ~ Polly Jean Harvey
Turn It On ~ Lindsey Buckingham
They Can't Take That Away From Me ~ Frank SinatraDon't Worry Baby ~ Beach Boys
Someday Baby ~ Bob Dylan
Maybe I'm Amazed ~ Paul McCartney
Well I Wonder ~ The Smiths
Take This Longing ~ Leonard Cohen
Sunday Morning ~ Velvet Underground
Killing Me Softly ~ Roberta Flack
Free as a Bird ~ "Beatles"
La Vie en Rose ~ Edith Piaf
Waterloo Sunset ~ The Kinks
Love Will Tear Us Apart ~ Joy Division
No Surprises ~ Radiohead
One of These Things First ~ Nick Drake
Both Sides Now ~ Joni Mitchell
The Pretender ~ Jackson Browne
Oh My Love ~ John Lennon
Let It Roll (Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp ~ George Harrison
New York State of Mind ~ Billy Joel
Banana Pancakes ~ Jack Johnson
Suzanne ~ Leonard Cohen
Edelweiss ~ Christopher Plummer/daughter from The Sound of Music

Edelweiss and God Only Knows really stood out...I LOVE those songs too...and anything by Frank Sinatra is fine by me. I saw him in 1984 ( my friend and I were the youngest ones there by far - and we were up and dancing to everything :D )

[Lindsfan]

Why - Annie Lennox
Most of the Time - Bob Dylan
Fields of Gold - Sting
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
The Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me - Gladys Knight & the Pips
Now My Feet Won't Touch the Ground - Coldplay
Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
Wintersong - Sarah McLachlan
It's a Motherf**ker - The Eels
Streets of Philadelphia - Bruce Springsteen
Room At the Top - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
I'll Remember - Madonna
Untitled 4 - Sigur Ros
One - U2
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

I love that one too :nod:

[Lindsfan]

Scanning through my music library, here's some songs that fit this category for me, either musically or lyrically and haven't already been mentioned:

Beautiful in My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
Into the Mystic - Van Morrison
I Have to Say I Love You in a Song - Jim Croce
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Sadness - Enigma
Fear - Sarah McLachlan
I'm on Fire - Bruce Springsteen
Wicked Game - Chris Issak
Fade into You - Mazzy Star
Yellow - Coldplay
Pictures of You - The Cure
Here with Me - Dido
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Africa - Toto
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac

Haven't heard that in a long time...such a pretty song.

This thread is cool, bringing back so many memories :)

[Lindsfan]

OK, here's my list ( In no particular order ):

End of the Innocence ( Don Henley )
Ain't Even Done With the Night ( John Cougar )
Beautiful In My Eyes ( Joshua Kadison )
Por Una Cabeza ( The Tango Project )
I Got a Name ( Jim Croce )
Fire and Rain ( James Taylor )
Samba Pa Ti ( Santana )
Memory – from “Cats”( Betty Buckey )
What a Wonderful World ( Louis Armstrong )
Street of Dreams ( Lindsey )
Not Too Late ( Lindsey...best version with Little Big Town doing the harmonies)
Cast Away Dreams ( Lindsey )
Save Me a Place – LIVE version only ( Lindsey )
Say Goodbye – LIVE version only ( Lindsey and Stevie )
OK, obviously I could go on and on with Lindsey's songs...
So anyways...Let It Be ( Beatles )
The Long and Winding Road ( Beatles )
Fool On the Hill ( Beatles )
The Last Song ( Elton John )
If You Could Read My Mind ( Gordon Lightfoot )
Songbbird ( Christine )
Moon River ( Andy Williams )
The Boxer ( Simon and Garfunkle )
Bridge Over Troubled Water ( Simon and Garfunkle )
In the Arms of an Angel ( Sara McGlaughlin )
The River ( Bruce Springsteen )
The Way We Were ( Barbara Streisand )
California Dreamin' ( The Mamas and the Papas...or Queen Latifah )
We May Never Pass This Way Again ( Seals and Croft )
She Loves Him Still ( Stevie )
A Dream Goes On Forever ( Todd Rundgren )
That's the Way of the World ( Earth, Wind and Fire )
Easy ( Commodores )
Still ( Commodores )
Angel Eyes ( Jeff Healey )
Loving Arms ( Dobie Gray...or better still Dixie Chicks or Etta James )
Best Thing That Ever Happened To Me ( Gladys Knight )

So many more...

[chriskisn]

The Boxer ~ Simon & Garfunkel


If you ever feel like hearing that song completely murdered then check out the Bob Dylan version where he does a duet with himself. ;)

[chriskisn]

The Rose- Bette Midler (another perfect song, IMO)


Yes I forgot this one, although I don't actually have the Bette Midler version I do have it by Bonnie Tyler

[Richard B]

So many beautiful songs in this world.
These immediately come to mind for me:

Pale Horses - Moby
You Have Been Loved - Sia
Born At The Right Time - Paul Simon
Spirit Voices - Paul Simon
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Josephine Of The Swamps - Grant-Lee Phillips
Blue Spanish Sky - Chris Isaak
As The World Falls Down - David Bowie
Wrap Your Arms Around Me - Agnetha Faltskög
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Marta's Song - Deep Forest
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Science of Silence - Richard Ashcroft
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
Where Beauty Lives In Memory - Dolly Parton
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (from the film, Once)
Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
Going To California - Led Zeppelin
Marrakesh Night Market - Loreena McKennitt
In My Heart - Moby
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
Back To The Earth - Rusted Root

[WildHeart69]

I will try not to repost a lot (but I agree with a TON of them). I think these are all beautiful regardless of subject matter :


"If I Should Fall Behind" - Springsteen (the version from Live in NYC)

"Land of Hope and Dreams" - Springsteen

"My City of Ruin" - Springsteen

"Long Walk Home" - Springsteen (live w/ Steve's vocal solo)

"Tomorrow is Today" - Billy Joel

"Shayla" - Blondie

"Joey" - Concrete Blonde

"Shine" - Cyndi Lauper

"Life on Mars?" - Bowie (preferably live backed by solo piano)

"Send in the Clowns" - various - prefer Sinatra

"I'll See You in My Dreams" - various - prefer Joe Brown

"Nessun Dorma" - Pavarotti

"Power of Goodbye" - Madonna

"Dream a Little Dream of Me" - The Mammas and the Pappas

"Only the Lonely" - The Motels

"I Am an Animal" - Pete Townshend

"A Heart to Hang Onto" - Pete Townshend

"Take Me Home" - Phil Collins

"Losing My Touch" - The Rolling Stones (Keith on Vocals)

"Room at the Top" - Tom Petty

"Echo" - Tom Petty

"Miss Sarajevo" - U2 and Pavarotti

"Hasten Down the Wind" - Warren Zevon

[CelticGypsy]

So many beautiful songs in this world.
These immediately come to mind for me:

Pale Horses - Moby
You Have Been Loved - Sia
Born At The Right Time - Paul Simon
Spirit Voices - Paul Simon
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Josephine Of The Swamps - Grant-Lee Phillips
Blue Spanish Sky - Chris Isaak
As The World Falls Down - David Bowie
Wrap Your Arms Around Me - Agnetha Faltskög
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Marta's Song - Deep Forest
Dreamboat Annie - Heart
Science of Silence - Richard Ashcroft
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
Where Beauty Lives In Memory - Dolly Parton
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova (from the film, Once)
Please Read The Letter - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
The Winner Takes It All - ABBA
Going To California - Led Zeppelin
Marrakesh Night Market - Loreena McKennitt
In My Heart - Moby
Carnival - Natalie Merchant
Nightswimming - R.E.M.
Back To The Earth - Rusted Root



The Winner Takes it All always makes me cry when I hear it. Love ABBA! I forgot Gypsy and there are a few Lindsey songs I love that are truely beautiful!!! Too many great songs out in the world:nod:

[DoubtfulMiracle]

The Rose - Bette Midler (This one has always stood out to me; probably my pick for the most beautiful song ever.)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (No disrespect to the wonderful Judy Garland, but this version kills me every time. Kills me I tell you.)
Today - Jefferson Airplane
Comin' Back To Me - Jefferson Airplane ("The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long." One of the greatest opening lines ever.)
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
All I Want Is You - U2
I Love You - Sarah McLachlan
Moonshadow - Cat Stevens
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Con Te Partiro - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
The Beautiful Ones - Prince (though I first fell in love with Mariah Carey's cover *flinches*)
Unforgettable - Natalie and Nat King Cole
More Than This - Roxy Music
The Scientist - Coldplay
Fix You - Coldplay
Collide - Howie Day
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel
She's Always A Woman - Billy Joel
Lightning Crashes - Live
In My Life - The Beatles
Tiny Dancer - Elton John (I'm not sure if beautiful is the word for this one, but if not, it's very close)
Your Song - Elton John
A Little Ray of Sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9QH9bceSZ8) - Axiom
Because I Love You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKE2hmgzUgo) - Masters Apprentices (Still not crazy on the chorus, but the verses are exquisite.)
Mr Bojangles - Harry Nilsson
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Tenterfield Saddler (http://video.google.com.au/videoplay?docid=-8019155413628604028&ei=l9FiS5aUGoygqQOqrqXiAw&q=tenterfield+saddler+peter+allen&hl=en&client=firefox-a#) - Peter Allen
Walking After You - The Foo Fighters
You Belong to Me - Vonda Shephard and Tori Amos get my top votes, but the song is beautiful regardless of who sings it.
And to wrap-up with the FM ones... Crystal; Sara; Landslide; Songbird; Storms; Beautiful Child; Dragonfly

[Zombie]

This was such a good idea for a thread. I am finding all sorts of songs I never really listened to before thanks to y'all.

I wanted to add 2 more:

This cover of Tom Waits' "Time" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xdhwXIzFKY) done by Tori Amos makes me cry. I love Waits, but this performance always makes me tear up not only because she does it beautifully but because this was the first episode of Letterman after 9/11. It's so heartfelt that I'm pretty sure Dave's trying not to cry at the end when he hugs her. It's beautiful.

And I'll throw this one in because while this is a spoken word version, there's also a song version. Leonard Cohen's "A Thousand Kisses Deep." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YygNf2PW2S4) I like it done as spoken word much better than the song version, it's fantastic. I got to hear him do this at the show I was lucky enough to attend, and I think I held my breath the whole time. "My mirror twin, my next of kin, I'd know you in my sleep. And who but you would take me in, a thousand kisses deep?"

[GypsySorcerer]

Thought of a few more:

Romulus - Sufjan Stevens
Man With The Child In His Eyes - Kate Bush
Run - Snow Patrol
Street Spirit - Radiohead
Take a Bow - Madonna
Sky Blue and Black - Jackson Browne

[blondyy-x]

Alone - Heart
Going To California - Led Zeppelin
Maybe I'm Amazed - Paul McCartney
Piece of My Heart - Janis Joplin with Big Brother & the Holding Company
Rules For Living Live - Blondie
Hello Joe - Blondie
End to End - Blondie
Brite Side - Debbie Harry
Rhiannon - FM
Everywhere - FM
Rooms On fire - Stevie Nicks
Under The Sky - Heart
In Walks The Night - Heart
Mistral Wind - Heart
I Love You - Heart
(Okay you get the drift... Anything by Blondie, Fleetwood Mac or Heart :D )
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin
River - Joni Mitchell
Sand - The Lovemongers
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones
Hey Jude - The Beatles

[Ghost_Tracker]

So speaking of beautiful Bruce Springsteen songs, how about "I'm on Fire?" Simple but beautiful at the same time, i.m.o.

[Richard B]

The Winner Takes it All always makes me cry when I hear it. Love ABBA!

Right! It is so moving and sometimes I still get teary eyed when I hear it. ABBA has lots of beautiful songs, but The Winner Takes It All is just truly spectacular.

[WildHeart69]

So speaking of beautiful Bruce Springsteen songs, how about "I'm on Fire?" Simple but beautiful at the same time, i.m.o.

I agree, I didnt add it b/c a bunch of others had it in their lists and I didn't want to repeat anything because I would have a list the size of texas otherwise

[WildHeart69]

Rules For Live - Blondie
Hello Joe - Blondie
End to End - Blondie


Nice to know I'm not the only person who loves The Curse of Blondie!

[WildHeart69]

More Than This - Roxy Music


Agreed :thumbsup:

[Amlyn]

I agree, I didnt add it b/c a bunch of others had it in their lists and I didn't want to repeat anything because I would have a list the size of texas otherwise

While we are talking about specifically about The Boss...I forgot to add this one to my earlier list:

Secret Garden - Bruce Springsteen

[Amlyn]

I will try not to repost a lot (but I agree with a TON of them). I think these are all beautiful regardless of subject matter :

"Power of Goodbye" - Madonna


I just rediscovered this song last week and I've been listening to it nonstop.

[KarmaContestant]

I Know by Fiona Apple

There are so many, but this is the first that came to mind.

[sara1998]

I just rediscovered this song last week and I've been listening to it nonstop.

I tend to rediscover it every few years myself. Absolutely love it.

[blondyy-x]

Nice to know I'm not the only person who loves The Curse of Blondie!

Not at all, there's a few of us on here :D

(And my post should have read Rules For Living Live, i missed out a word... Got too distracted by the Curse cover :laugh: )

[goldustsongbird]

I will try not to repost a lot (but I agree with a TON of them). I think these are all beautiful regardless of subject matter :

"Shine" - Cyndi Lauper

"Take Me Home" - Phil Collins


I like you.

[Lindsfan]

If you ever feel like hearing that song completely murdered then check out the Bob Dylan version where he does a duet with himself. ;)

I'll probably regret asking, but do you have it, and can you post it here??

BTW, I love your avatar...reminds me so much of the best cat I ever had. He died 7 years ago and I still miss him.

[WildHeart69]

I just rediscovered this song last week and I've been listening to it nonstop.

I wouldnt consider myself a madonna fan really, but that album is just great. I think the song Ray of Light itself is my least favorite even though it was probably the biggest hit. Overall its a really great and relaxing album in its own techno sort of way...

[darklinensuit]

Kind of Woman, The Highwayman, Garbo, If Anyone Falls, She Still Loves Him, Maker of Birds, Silver Springs, Landslide – Stevie Nicks

Wish You Were Here, Come A Little Closer, All Over Again, Why – Christine McVie

Moon River – Andy Williams

Born Free – Matt Monro

Long Long Time – Linda Ronstadt

Georgia On My Mind – Ray Charles

A Woman Left Lonely – Janis Joplin

Danny’s Song – Kenny Loggins

Bridge Over Troubled Water – Art Garfunkel

Desperado – Don Henley

Dream a Little Dream – Mamas and the Papas

Sentimental Lady – Bob Welch

Eli Eli – Ofra Haza

Do You Know – Diana Ross

Straight from the Heart – Bryan Adams

We’ve Got Tonight – Bob Seger

Lizard People - Mick Fleetwood

Sweet Baby James – James Taylor

Bonny Portmore – Loreena McKennitt

That’s The Way I’ve Always Heard It Should Be – Carly Simon

It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop

Just Once - James Ingram

Dance With My Father – Luther Vandross

I Don’t Believe You - Pink

Yeah, I was kidding about the Mick one.


- Jake

[iamnotafraid]

Shelby Lynne's "Where I'm From".
As only a Southerner could sing it.

[Nico]

Shelby Lynne's "Where I'm From".
As only a Southerner could sing it.

I love her music so much.

[iamnotafraid]

I love her music so much.

She's the real deal that's for sure.

[DavidMn]

This is a really cool thread. here are some of mine off the top of my head:



Gypsy-Fleetwood Mac
Sara-Fleetwood Mac
Landslide-Fleetwood Mac
Alone Again Naturally-Gilbert O'Sullivan
Lying In The Sun-Stereophonics
Getaway-Stereophonics
Vincent-Don Mclean absolutely stunning!
Castles In The Air-Don Mclean
Send In The Clowns-Judy Collins
Forever And Always-Shania Twain
Rocky Mountain High-John Denver
Carribean Blue-Enya
Only If-Enya
A Day Without Rain-Enya
Boadicea-Enya
Watermark-Enya. Hands down the best instrumental Ive ever heard!
On Earth-The Sundays
Wild Horses-The Sundays
Life Goes On-The Sundays
This Is The Time-Billy Joel
Strawberry Blonde-Ron Sexsmith
Under The Skin-Lindsey Buckingham
Kind Of Woman-Stevie Nicks

[Dodfather]

Love this thread idea! I haven't read the whole thread yet so apologies if this song has a;ready been mentioned but for me it's got to be:

Falling Slowly - The Swell Season (from the film Once).

It almost makes me cry whenever I hear it! I'll be posting a longer list soon though...

[ButterCookie]

Nice to know I'm not the only person who loves The Curse of Blondie!

:wavey:

I doo. I'm still building my list of sings for in here into a playlist in iTunes though :D

[GypsySpinsNVeil]

Having fun seeing everyones choices and plan on Utubeing to hear many. Fun thread! :)

Stevie Nicks~Alice ,Sleeping Angel (too many to list!!!!!!)
FM~Beautiful Child, Landslide
Candlebox~Blossom
Chris Cornell~Redemption Song (Bob Marley cover)
Zeppelin~Thank You
CSN~Helplessly Hoping
Dixie Chicks~Traveling Soldier
Climax Blues Band~I love you
Tesla~ Caught Up In A Dream and What You Give
Heart~Love Me Like Music
Blind Melon~Sleepy House
Dolly Parton~Coat of Many Colors
and her duet with Ricky Van Shelton~ Rock of Ages
Rascal Flatts~Skin

[GypsySpinsNVeil]

The Dolly~Ricky song is Rockin Years not Rock of Ages :thumbsup:

I also forgot to add UFO's Love to Love,,BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[chriskisn]

I'll probably regret asking, but do you have it, and can you post it here??

BTW, I love your avatar...reminds me so much of the best cat I ever had. He died 7 years ago and I still miss him.

Well sadly I can't post it here as it is still commercially available, but we'll discuss this via PM... :)

Ah yes my avatar is Cola our alpha-male cat. He'll be 11 this year and some days I'd like the chance to miss him. Our nickname for him is Darth Cola which might give you some idea of how much of a pain he can be. We love him dearly of course... (most of the time).

[samthrax]

The first thing that comes to mind is Peter Gabriel's "Scratch My Back" album. It's simply gorgeous.

I'll come back with a list of single songs. I'll have to really put some thought into it.

[GypsySpinsNVeil]

Sara1998~Love your list :)

[Richard B]

I want to add to my list:
Danny's Song - Loggins and Messina

[gypsy4life]

Rhiannon-Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy-Fleetwood Mac
Love Is-Stevie Nicks
(many more by these people, but I will move on)...

Alone-Heart
Crazy On You-Heart
Mistral Wind-Heart
California Dreamin'-Mamas and Papas
Simple Man-Lynyrd Skynyrd
At Last-Etta James
Vicitm Of Love-The Eagles
Layla-Eric Clapton
Dust In The Wind....I could go on forever!

[Ghost_Tracker]

I usually don't go in much for classical music - - sorry folks I guess I'm a 'yut there - - But there's a song that was used in GE lightbulb commercials quite awhile back - - - I never have been able to get the name into my memory - it goes like, "DOOOO, dooo, dooo, dooo, dooo, dooo, DOOOO, DOOO!" Anybody know just what the heck I'm talking about? . . . :lol:

Anyway I think that song is absolutely beautiful! ....:)

Oh, and of course, Handel's Messiah.

[Musicman408]

Trouble By Ray Lamontagne is a beautiful song that I've been getting into recently. Saw it on American Idol, and I do like it at that slower tempo, but it is a great song!

[jaycee]

Here are some preliminary entries, off the top of my head:
"Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime" - The Korgis
"Love Child" - Diana Ross
"Into The Night" - Benny Mardones
"Sister Golden Hair" - America
"Don't Give Up" - Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush
"Follow You Follow Me" - Genesis
"Only Love Can Break A Heart" - Gene Pitney (my favourite song on the radio station 1278 AM, which apparently plays the best songs of all time... I prefer 1377 AM though.)
This post is bound to be edited with a whole lot more entries... anyway, let's hear it from everyone else in the meantime!

Just a few additions...
"Mind Games" - John Lennon
"Father And Son" - Cat Stevens
"Wings Of An Eagle" - Russel Morris
"Fast Car" - Tracy Chapman
"It Never Rains In Southern California" - Albert Hammond
"Moonlight Lady" - Albert Hammond/Julio Iglesias
"Ain't No Sunshine" - Bill Withers
"Just The Two Of Us" - Grover Washington Jr./Bill Withers
"Another Day In Paradise" - Phil Collins
"Blue Eyes" - Elton John
"I'm On Fire" - Bruce Springsteen
"The Boxer" - Simon & Garfunkel
"Wicked Game" - Chris Isaak
"Under The Milky Way" - The Church
"Drive" - The Cars
"Yellow" - Coldplay
"Eleanor" - The Turtles
"Romeo's Tune" - Steve Forbert
"Valerie" - Steve Winwood
"State Of The Heart" - Rick Springfield
"Fall At Your Feet" - Crowded House
"Message To My Girl" - Split Enz (almost an all time favourite of mine for quite a while)
"Bitter Sweet Symphony" - The Verve (ditto above)
"Nights In White Satin" - The Moody Blues (buy the 2008 remaster of their Days Of Future Passed album immediately if you haven't already! :nod: :nod:)
"Cello Suite Prelude" - Bach (A classical music entry)
And any songs from Roxy Music's Avalon album. And pretty much any songs by Dido... let alone CM and SN!
Also, "Imagine" - John Lennon, but that's always implied! :laugh: Actually, there are of course too many Lennon songs that are beautiful to pragmatically list, but "MG" and "I" are the most beautiful of all! :nod:
There are so many other beautiful songs I will probably never be able to mention them all. However, everyone else here seems to be doing a pretty good job of it (with several songs listed I also find beautiful (mostly the pre-90s material))! :blob2:
Keep them coming! I know I will! :laugh:

[WildHeart69]

Ah! Good call with "Mind Games" and "Drive"!

[silversprings62]

silver springs by FM!!!!!!!!!

[petep9000]

"Under The Milky Way" - The Church


Yes yes yes. In a top 10 list of favorite songs of all time, forever and ever, I would put this song.

[Lindsfan]

I usually don't go in much for classical music - - sorry folks I guess I'm a 'yut there - - But there's a song that was used in GE lightbulb commercials quite awhile back - - - I never have been able to get the name into my memory - it goes like, "DOOOO, dooo, dooo, dooo, dooo, dooo, DOOOO, DOOO!" Anybody know just what the heck I'm talking about? . . . :lol:

Anyway I think that song is absolutely beautiful! ....:)

Oh, and of course, Handel's Messiah.

Dooo dooo dooo...LOL. :laugh: Is this the song? :shrug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g

It's called Canon in D...it's the theme from the movie "Ordinary People"

[LukeA]

Rhapsody In Blue.

[Fiver]

Well, I'll give this a shot.. my list won't be very varied. My parents didn't let us kids listen to anything outside old country, pop from the 50s-60s, cajun music and bluegrass, and even some of AKUS's albums caused a mini scandal, with songs titled Let Me Touch You For a While. Hehehe.

Didn't start branching out til I was 20, when I found out mah favorite singer was making an album with the Led Zep dude. So I checked out some Led Zeppelin, loved it, and listened to whatever I felt like since. OK... blah blah blah, here's my list:


Alison Krauss; New Favorite, When You Say Nothing at All, Borderline
with Robert Plant; Polly Come Home, and Please Read the Letter
Led Zeppelin; Going to California, Battle of Evermore
Nickel Creek; Why Should the Fire Die? Seven Wonders, When You Come Back Down
Simon and Garfunkel; Sounds of Silence, Scarborough Fair
Kate Bush; Wuthering Heights, Moving, Suspended in Gaffa
the Duhks; I See You,Turtle Dove, Annabel
Ron Block; Someone, Blackness of the Need..( he doesn't have an amazing voice, but he writes amazing songs )
Collective Soul; The World I Know
Fleet Foxes; Mykonos, White Winter Hymnal
Foo Fighters; Acoustic version of Times Like These
Linda Ronstadt; Blue Bayou (reminds me of home :D)
The Beatles; Hey Jude, Yesterday, Something
the Cranberries; Linger
The Carpenters; Goodbye to Love, Close to You
the Killers; All These Things That I've Done
the Shins; New Slang
Yeah Yeah Yeahs; Maps
Sean Watkins; Let it Fall
Yasunori Mitsuda; Unstolen Jewel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D8Cz9kHYFQ) Gotta throw a videogame track in here :laugh: Nerd cred.

Instrumental Stuff -
Chris Thile; Raining at Sunset.. Actually ALL of Not All Who Wander Are Lost
Bela Fleck; Throw Down You Heart, The Over Grown Waltz, Three Bridges Home
Jerry Douglas: We Hide and Seek
Bryan Sutton: Walk Among the Woods
Alison Brown; Hello Mendocine, Without Anastasia

This is off the top of my head.

Love this thread, gotta lot of new stuff to check out from it.

[jaycee]

And a handful more...
"Your Latest Trick" - Dire Straits (btw, "Sultans Of Swing" is a near favourite song for me)
"Great Southern Land" - Icehouse
"Black Velvet" - David Tyson/Christopher Ward/Alannah Myles/Robin Lee
"Sparrow Song" - The Seekers
"We Belong" - Pat Benatar
"Anyone Who Had A Heart" - Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Cilla Black
"Orinoco Flow" - Enya
And all the songs on Sting's album Soul Cages. And mostly anything by Alan Parson's Project, Al Stewart and Don McLean...
(As a side, my favourite DM song is "Everybody Loves Me Baby", which I wouldn't consider beautiful, but most enjoyable! :nod:)
And, just for the sake of it...
"Brown Eyes" - Fleetwood Mac
It deserves a special mention, even though almost any song by CM or SN is beautiful...
Also, I'm sure that I'm not the only one musing over how quite a few of the most beautiful songs have quite depressing themes...

[Ghost_Tracker]

Dooo dooo dooo...LOL. :laugh: Is this the song? :shrug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZHw9uyj81g

It's called Canon in D...it's the theme from the movie "Ordinary People"

YES!!! THAT!!! :) And now I'm FINALLY gonna get that darn name into my memory lol!

Isn't it beautiful!? :)

[Lindsfan]

YES!!! THAT!!! :) And now I'm FINALLY gonna get that darn name into my memory lol!

Isn't it beautiful!? :)

Yes, it's a pretty one :nod:

[chiliD]

Just off the top of my head:

Layla - Derek & The Dominos
In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Bros Band
Without You - Badfinger/Harry Nilsson/Heart/Mariah Carey/Air Supply/Shirley Bassey
A Song For You - Leon Russell/Joe Cocker/The Carpenters
This Masquerade - Leon Russell/George Benson
The Long & Winding Road - The Beatles
I Will - The Beatles
Julia - The Beatles
And I Love Her - The Beatles
Woman - John Lennon
My Love - Paul McCartney
Once Upon A Long Ago - Paul McCartney
Stuck Inside A Cloud - George Harrison
Not Alone Anymore - Traveling Wilburys
Crying - Roy Orbison
HAEWAFY - Stevie Nicks
Someone To Lay Down Beside Me - Linda Ronstadt
Love Has No Pride - Linda Ronstadt/Bonnie Raitt
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
Change The World - Eric Clapton & Kenny Edmonds
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Sunny Side Of Heaven - Fleetwood Mac
Why - Fleetwood Mac
Born In Time - Bob Dylan/Eric Clapton
Europa - Santana
Take Five - Dave Brubeck Trio
All Blues - Miles Davis
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Riviera Paradise - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Angel - Jimi Hendrix
Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix/Derek & The Dominos/Concrete Blonde/Stevie Ray Vaughan
South City Midnight Lady - Doobie Brothers
Red Streamliner - Little Feat

[petep9000]

That song sang by Olivia Neutron Bomb in the 1970's, went something like
"I love you,
I honestly love you.
I honestly...love you."

So pretty. Especially the "if we both were born, in another place and time..." part.

[jannieC]

That song sang by Olivia Neutron Bomb in the 1970's, went something like
"I love you,
I honestly love you.
I honestly...love you."

So pretty. Especially the "if we both were born, in another place and time..." part.

Yes! You're making me want to listen to this now, but my husband would think I'd lost it if I cranked this right now...

there you are with yours
And here I am with mine
So I guess we'll just be leaving it at this

[petep9000]

it was a very tender vocal, I think I remember getting a lump in my little 6-year old throat when I heard it as a kid.

[jannieC]

it was a very tender vocal, I think I remember getting a lump in my little 6-year old throat when I heard it as a kid.

I loved ONJ as a kid. Our basement was finished and had two poles(?) from floor to ceiling. I used to play Hopelessly Devoted to You on my record player and pretend I was her. Singing my little heart out as I held onto the pole like she did in Grease.

[petep9000]

Against All Odds- Phil Collins
Eagle- ABBA
Fernando- ABBA
Year of The Cat- Al Stewart
I Swear- All 4 One
Love Don't Live Anymore- Madonna
Could It Be Magic- Barry Manilow
Do You Want To Dance- Bette Midler
I Can't Make You Love Me- Bonnie Raitt
I'm Gonna Be Strong- Cyndi Lauper
Foolish Beat- Debbie Gibson
Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)- Diana Ross
Touch Me in The Morning- Diana Ross
Save A Prayer- Duran Duran
Every Day I Write The Book- Elvis Costello
Untouchable- Girls Aloud
Will You Be There- Heart
Hold On- Jamie Walters
Come Back To Me- Janet Jackson
Wuthering Heights (the one with the newer vocal)- Kate Bush
How Can I Ease The Pain- Lisa Fisher
Secret- Madonna
Live To Tell- Madonna
Forbidden Love- Madonna
This Used To Be My Playground- Madonna
We Belong Together- Mariah Carey
Can't Let Go- Mariah Carey
Fade Into You- Mazzy Star
Precious Pain- Melissa Etheridge
San Andreas Fault- Natalie Merchant
I Dreamed A Dream- Neil Diamond
I Honestly Love You- Olivia Newton John
Shadows of The Night- Pat Benatar
West End Girls- Pet Shop Boys
Dance With The Tiger- Rosanne Cash
No Ordinary Love- Sade
Cherish The Day- Sade
Your Love is King- Sade
Greatest Day- Take That
Head Over Heals- Tears For Fears
Let It Flow- Toni Braxton
Why Does It Hurt So Bad- Whitney Houston
I Have Nothing- Whitney Houston
If You Say My Eyes Are Beautiful- Whitney Houston/Jermaine Jackson
She Is His Only Need- Wynonna
Circle In The Sand- Belinda Carlisle
Long December- Counting Crows
Sarah Smile- Hall and Oates
18 Wheels and a Dozen Roses- Kathy Mattea
Lady- Kenny Rogers
Live Forever- Oasis
Show Me- The Pretenders
Walk On- U2
Simple Man- Graham Nash
Be Yourself- Graham Nash

[petep9000]

I loved ONJ as a kid. Our basement was finished and had two poles(?) from floor to ceiling. I used to play Hopelessly Devoted to You on my record player and pretend I was her. Singing my little heart out as I held onto the pole like she did in Grease.

Well, who didn't do Grease? My sister and I totally wore out the album, we used to do little 'shows' in our backyard. The only song I was allowed to participate in were the Danny songs, but in truth I wanted to sing Hopelessly Devoted To You or Sandy's part in You're The One That I Want. We even made fake cigarettes to do the scene where she gets dressed up as the biker chick, LOL.
I had a portable phonograph, the kind that was like a suitcase and you could carry. Grease and the Saturday Night Fever album got much airplay.

Did you ever do backyard shows? Here's a controversial one we did: Donna Summer's famous 'Bad Girls' album. Picture THAT, a bunch of 9 year olds pretending to be hookers. We even made a fake streetlight for one of the girls to pose under, swinging her purse waiting for a John, LOL!!!!!

[jannieC]

We even made fake cigarettes to do the scene where she gets dressed up as the biker chick, LOL.
Tell me about it...stud.


Did you ever do backyard shows? Here's a controversial one we did: Donna Summer's famous 'Bad Girls' album. Picture THAT, a bunch of 9 year olds pretending to be hookers. We even made a fake streetlight for one of the girls to pose under, swinging her purse waiting for a John, LOL!!!!!
Girl, please. I was forever forcing my parents to watch my routines. I had my own show, aptly named "The Janet ___ Show." Starring...me. My younger brother was my sidekick. I was very bossy and made him do whatever I thought was necessary for the show.

I love your hooker story. Do you think this is all because of where we grew up? Are there others like us? lol

[Ghost_Tracker]

Tell me about it...stud.



Do you think this is all because of where we grew up? Are there others like us? lol



Me, all I know is that that wasn't the end - - -
It was just the beginning. ;)

[petep9000]

Girl, please. I was forever forcing my parents to watch my routines. I had my own show

Oh, and we did Saturday Night Fever too! I forgot that. And Star Wars, and I think we did a whole 'Solid Gold' singing Andy Gibb, Debbie Boone and Air Supply, including Solid Gold dancers.

Maybe it's a Long Island thing, heehee. And no small wonder I turned out to be my mother's only gay son. My two brothers were busy playing street hockey and stickball. LOL

[slipkid]

Just off the top of my head:

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac



FINALLY! (chiliD saves that day) Those who are not pre-1975 Fleetwood Mac fans need to hear this instrumental, along with Danny Kirwan's "Sunny Side of Heaven". While I'm not going to question the choices some of you list, you may want to check into the back yard of the band forum you post, you may be surprised.

For years one of my favorite Beatle songs was "Sun King" from "Abbey Road". I would certainly list it in the beautiful category. It was years later I learned that "Sun King" came from Fleetwood Mac's "Albatross". Just a thought.

[Ghost_Tracker]

FINALLY! (chiliD saves that day)

When has he not? :shrug: :D

[jaycee]

Today's entries are...
"Aquarius/Let The Sunshine In" - Fifth Dimension
"Sweet Caroline" - Neil Diamond
"If You Leave Me Now" - Chicago
"Hello" - Lionel Richie
"I'm Not In Love" - 10cc
"When You and I Were Young, Maggie" - George Washington Johnson
"She's Always A Woman" - Billy Joel
"Ferry Cross The Mersey" - Gerry & The Pacemakers (particularly the single version... at least I think that's right...)
"Africa" - Toto (another near favourite of mine)
And anything from Norah Jones' album Come Away With Me, Bryan Ferry's album Boys And Girls, and Tracy Chapman's self-titled album.

[ragrsrocalot]

Albatross, Why, Sara, Warm Ways - Fleetwood Mac
BATB & HAEWAFY- Stevie Nicks
Angie - The Stones
Mozambique, Forever Young - Bob Dylan
In My Life-The Beatles
Hey Jude - The Beatles ( also my husband's beautiful name )
Here Comes the Sun - George Harrison
Imagine - John Lennon
A Face in the Crowd - Tom Petty
While You See A Chance - Steve Winwood
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boy's - Traffic
Seagull - Bad Co.
All of My Love - Led Zeppelin
See You on the Other Side - Ozzy Osbourne
On and On - Stephen Bishop
When I Need You - Leo Sayer
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce
Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow
Samba Pa Ti - Santana
The Thrill Is Gone - BB King
Angel From Montgomery - Bonnie Raitt
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Miracles - Jefferson Airplane
Bolero - Ravel
Why - Annie Lennox
Wooden Ships - Live- CSNY
Seven Bridges Road-Live- The Eagles
Tupelo Honey- Live- Van Morrison
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed & Blue Sky- The Allman Bros.
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
I've Been Loving You - Ottis Reeding
The Rose - Bette Midler
Little Wing-Jimi Hendrix, and the Eric Clapton\Sheryl Crow/David Sanborn version
My Love is Alive - Gary Wright
Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young

[David]

Bolero - Ravel
An unusual choice for a beautiful song, but also an unusual choice for a Ravel composition. Have you heard the final section of Ravel's "Ma mere l'oye" ballet music suite? It's called "The Enchanted Garden" (or "The Fairy Garden").

[seekerj]

Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Why -Fleetwood Mac
Black - Pearl Jam
Believe -Elton John
Cortez The Killer - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Anna Begins - Counting Crows
Pretty Maids All In A Row - The Eagles
Moonlight Mile - The Rolling Stones

[ragrsrocalot]

An unusual choice for a beautiful song, but also an unusual choice for a Ravel composition. Have you heard the final section of Ravel's "Ma mere l'oye" ballet music suite? It's called "The Enchanted Garden" (or "The Fairy Garden").

I think it is beautiful and extremely sexy at the same time. It starts off real soft and low, then starts to blend and holds real steady, until the full experience and climax of the song, so fragile and powerful at the same time. I have not heard the other suggestions you mentioned but I will give them a listen. I also really love Carmen.
Those are my two favorite classical pieces.

[Stew_Matthews]

Lots of my favourites have been listed but I'd add -

Caroline No - Brian Wilson/Beach Boys
Come pick me up - Ryan Adams
Don't leave me now - Supertramp
My love is leaving - Steve Winwood
So Amazing - Luther Vandross
Landed - Ben Folds

[gretchen]

There are so many...but here are the songs I can think of:

(in no particular order)

Mirror To My Woman's Mind - Peter Murphy
Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem - Peter Murphy
A Strange Kind Of Love - Peter Murphy
English Rose - The Jam
Down In The Seine - The Style Council
Monsoon - Luka Bloom
Gone To Pablo - Luka Bloom
Don't Stop The Dance - Bryan Ferry
Shape Of Things To Come - Love And Money
Just The Way You Are - Billy Joel
Night Flight - Joe Sample
I Just Wanna Stop - Gino Vannelli
Fragile - Sting
Go Insane (Acoustic Version from The Dance) - Linds
Keep Looking - Sade
Tell Her This - Del Amitri
In A Lifetime - Clannad & Bono
No Pretties - Wire Train
Help Me - Joni Mitchell
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind - Level 42
Lying Still - Level 42
Gypsy - Fleetwood Mac
Breaking Us In Two - Joe Jackson
Driving - Everything But The Girl

[jaycee]

Today's extras are:
"Lovin' You" - Minnie Riperton
"Can We Still Be Friends" - Todd Rundgren
"She's A Rainbow" - The Rolling Stones
"Clocks" - Coldplay
"Heart Of Glass" - Blondie
"Total Control" - The Motels
"Woman In Love" - Barbra Streisand
"Careless Whisper" - George Michael
"Alone Again (Naturally)" - Gilbert O-Sullivan
"Seasons In The Sun" - Jacques Brel
"Nothing's Gonna Change My Love For You" - Gerry Goffin and Michael Masser
"As I lay Me Down" - Sophie B. Hawkins
"A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton
"Smooth Operator" - Sade
"The Way It Is" - Bruce Hornsby
"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" - Dusty Springfield
"Baby It's You" - Promises
"Baker Street" - Gerry Rafferty (every time I hear this song it always sounds ever so slightly different to any other time... I've no idea why!)

[LukeA]

Saw a Sade song listed... I've always loved "By Your Side". Can't wait to hear her new album. Wish she wasn't addicted to smack/was more prolific.

Another song I just thought of... Peter Gabriel/"It Is Accomplished"

[Silver Springs]

Why/17 Again/Sylvia - Eurythmics
Has Anyone Every Written Anything For You?/Beauty And The Beast - Stevie Nicks
Everybody Hurts/At My Most Beautiful/Tongue/Camera/Country Feedback - R.E.M.
Journey's End - Annie Lennox
Strange Wierdos/Your Mother And I/Missing You/Dreaming - Loudon Wainwright III
Oh - Dave Matthews Band
Make You Feel My Love - Bob Dylan
Silver Springs/Storms/Beautiful Child - Fleetwood Mac
Catch The Wind - Donovan
Angel - Aerosmith
Not As We/This Grudge/That I Would Be Good - Alanis Morissette
Dimming Of The Day/Nobody's Girl - Bonnie Raitt
A Rose In April/The Lark/Underneath The Stars - Kate Rusby
Black And Blue - Counting Crows
I Wandered By A Brookside - Eva Cassidy
A Case Of You/Little Green - Joni Mitchell
Forgiveness/Ice/Angel - Sarah McLachlan
Go Insane/I'm So Afraid - Lindsey Buckingham (Live version)
Lover's Cross - Melanie
Sigh No More - Mumford And Sons
Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Carbon/Marianne - Tori Amos
Happiness - Grant Lee Buffalo
Naked As We Came - Iron And Wine
They Shoot Horses, Don't They - Racing Cars (My all time favourite)
One - U2 (Pains me to say it as I hate the U2....Yep. It's a Bono thing)
The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Puncture Repair - Elbow
Street Spirit (Fade Out)/Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

[Ghost_Tracker]

*ahem!* EHGHrgh-hegm! EGGGGH-HEGH-HEEGHMMM!!!
Oh, sorry, I had something caught in my throat. ;)


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[jaycee]

Hmm... haven't seen this thread in a while... :D
(There's probably other artists I could add, but it would take a little more thinking than I'm currently capable of...)
"The Actor" - The Moody Blues
"Never Comes The Day" - The Moody Blues
"Candle Of Life" - The Moody Blues
"Watching And Waiting" - The Moody Blues
"One More Time To Live" - The Moody Blues
"You Can Never Go Home" -The Moody Blues
"My Song" - The Moody Blues
"New Horizons" - The Moody Blues
"Isn't Life Strange" - The Moody Blues
"Remember Me (My Friend)" - Justin Hayward & John Lodge
"Blue Guitar" - Justin Hayward & John Lodge
"Here, There And Everywhere" - The Beatles
"For No One" - The Beatles
"She's Leaving Home" - The Beatles
"A Day In The Life" - The Beatles
"The Fool On The Hill" - The Beatles
"Hello, Goodbye" - The Beatles
"Strawberry Fields Forever" - The Beatles
"All You Need Is Love" - The Beatles

[Nikolaj]

There's a version of Bob Dylan's "I'll Keep It With Mine" that is amazing.
I have no idea who the female singer was, but she changed the lyric a bit, to 'come on, give me your heart, I'll keep it with mine' and it was a dreamy, gorgeous performance- the original Dylan lyric was 'come on, give it to me, I'll keep it with mine'-- but the 'give me your heart' change made it an even more beautiful song.
I wonder if it may have been Sandy Denny, who had recorded it with Dylan's original lyric with Fairport Convention and maybe later re-recorded it, solo, I don't know. It certainly is not the version by Nico!
Suzanna Hoffs did a Stevie-ish take of the song on an album; and while she isn't the singer Stevie Nicks is, the recording seems Stevie-esque to me. It's on youtube, but can't compare to the version I've been trying to find forever.

The out-take of just Janis Joplin playing guitar and singing 'Me and Bobby McGee' on the Legacy 2 cd expanded edition of 'Pearl' has a lot of beauty, sensitivity and nuance that was masked in the released, hit version. It's folk music, without the slurring of the word 'McGee' in the hit version and hearing it feels like a peak into what her soul was, but in an understated way, which makes it the version for me, now .
Others mentioned 'All I Know' by Art Garfunkel, and surely, it's a gorgeous vocal and recording.
For some reason, Neil Young's "Heart of Gold" and "Like A Hurricane' are beyond beautiful to me, as are Linda Ronstadt's covers of Neil's "I Believe In You" and "Look Out For My Love."
Gay as it may be of me to think so, I think Streisand's version of 'Memory' from Cats is a beautiful vocal and recording. When my testosterone side kicks in, and it does, nothing is more beautiful to me than the original 'Layla' by Derek And The Dominoes. When it calms down, Roberta Flack's versions of 'Jesse' and 'Suzanne' are both really beautiful, to me. She takes the beauty in the poetry of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne" further than in any version of it I've heard. Gosh, many of these songs remind me of my late cousin, she shared a lot of music with me, and was older, and knew more.
Someone mentioned 'Morning Has Broken' by Cat Stevens, who was another favorite of my cousin's, Susa, and though I haven't heard it in more than 20 years, my memory of it is that yes, it was extremely beautiful. As was 'Who Knows Where The Time Goes'-- though I can't say I like Judy Collins a whole lot, my cousin sure did, and it's a beautiful performance and song.
( And it always makes me think of Susa, eyes closed and lungs exhaling heavily and breathily, singing along to 'Who Knows'...)

[cliffdweller]

Slow Show - The National
That's How I Knew This Story Would Break My Heart - Aimee Mann
Can't Find My Way Home - Swans (cover)
Wild is the Wind - Nina Simone
Storms - Fleetwood Mac
Wish You Were Here- Fleetwood Mac
What Would You Do - Edie Brickell
Helpless - CSNY
As I Sat Sadly by Her Side- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Evangeline - The Angels of Light
Polly Come Home - Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
Alicia Ross - Kathleen Edwards
Watercolor - Virgil Shaw
Jesus Mentioned - Warren Zevon

[cliffdweller]

Mirror To My Woman's Mind - Peter Murphy
Marlene Dietrich's Favourite Poem - Peter Murphy
A Strange Kind Of Love - Peter Murphy

I LOVE Peter Murphy :thumbsup:

[gretchen]

^^ He is fantastic. His voice is like deep velvet.
He is the voice of the night.

[chiliD]

Ok, lets get the FMac (or related) tunes outta the way first:

ALBATROSS
LOVE THAT BURNS
OH WELL, PART 2
UNDERWAY
ALTHOUGH THE SUN IS SHINING
SUNNY SIDE OF HEAVEN
WOMAN OF 1000 YEARS
SHOW ME A SMILE
SPARE ME A LITTLE OF YOUR LOVE
SENTIMENTAL LADY
DID YOU EVER LOVE ME?
WHY
COME A LITTLE BIT CLOSER
WARM WAYS
SONGBIRD
WISH YOU WERE HERE
MYSTIFIED
AS LONG AS YOU FOLLOW
DO YOU KNOW?
APOSTLE - Peter Green
THE WORLD IN HER HEART - Jeremy Spencer
SECOND CHAPTER - Danny Kirwan
THE SMILE I LIVE FOR - Christine McVie
HAS ANYONE EVER WRITTEN ANYTHING FOR YOU - Stevie Nicks
ALL MY SORROWS - Lindsey Buckingham
CASSIOPEIA SURRENDER - Mick Fleetwood
INTUITION - Rick Vito
THE BIGGER THE LOVE - Billy Burnette

And, the rest:

WONDERFUL TONIGHT - Eric Clapton
THORN TREE IN THE GARDEN - Derek & The Dominos (Bobby Whitlock)
BORN IN TIME - Bob Dylan
SOMETHING - The Beatles
GOOD NIGHT - The Beatles
I WILL - The Beatles
THE LONG & WINDING ROAD - The Beatles
AND I LOVE HER - The Beatles
WOMAN - John Lennon
FAR EAST MAN - George Harrison
MY LOVE - Paul McCartney
AVALON - Roxy Music
MY ONLY LOVE - Roxy Music
FRAGILE - Sting
DOG & BUTTERFLY - Heart
LOVE ALIVE - Heart
DREAMBOAT ANNIE - Heart
ANGIE - The Rolling Stones
WILD HORSES - The Rolling Stones
WILD MOUNTAIN THYME - The Byrds
GUINNEVERE - David Crosby
GOD ONLY KNOWS - The Beach Boys
CAROLINE, NO - The Beach Boys
I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME - Bonnie Raitt
SOMEONE TO LAY DOWN BESIDE ME - Linda Ronstadt (Karla Bonoff)
EUROPA - Santana

[Travis]

k.d. lang
love affair

[starshine]

I really enjoyed reading over everyone's lists. Its so hard to list all the songs you really like cause its hard to recall 'all' the songs you like....plus its easy to forget some of them.....I'm gonna try but I'm sure I'll have to add more to it. But for this list I'm not gonna list Stevie or Mac......those are hard enough.......here it goes.........

Eagles: Hotel California/The Sad Cafe/Desperado/Dooling& Dalton-Despardo reprise/Tequlia Sunrise/Best Of My Love/Lyin Eyes/New Kid In Town/Wasted Time/Try & Love Again/The Last Resort/Seven Bridges Road-live/probably others....etc
Steely Dan: My Old School/Josie/FM/Hey Nineteen/Reelin In The Years/etc more will have to come back....
Heart: Dog & Butterfly/Straight On/Heartless/Even It Up/more....
Led Zeppelin:Going To California/Stairway To Heaven/Dazed & Confused/Communication Breakdown/....more...
Don Henley: The Heart Of The Matter/My Thanksgiving/New York Minute/The Boys Of Summer/End Of The Innocence/Talking To The Moon/Sunset Grill/Everything Is Different Now.....more....
K.T. Oslin: 80's Ladies/Do Ya/....
Steve Wariner: Life's Highway/Some Fools Never Learn/What I didn't Do/Starting Over Again/I Should Be With You/.....
Dolly Parton: Jolene/Coat Of Many Colors/I'll Always Love You/Here You Come Again/Its All Wrong But Its Alright/Old Flames Can't Hold a Candle To You/Potential New Boyfriend/more....
Pink Floyd: Comfortably Numb/Wish You Were Here/Run Like Hell/more....
Natalie Merchant: Wonder/Carnival/Break Your Heart/These Are The Days/Kind & Generous/Life Is Sweet/Ophelia....etc.

Ok theres more so I'll probably just add another post to this......this can take awhile ya know cause I know theres alot of solo artists and bands that I didn't write....so more will be posted sometime.......:thumbsup::shrug:

[PenguinHead]

"Man Out of Time" - Elvis Costello
"Blow Away" - Kate Bush
"High-Flying Bird" - Elton John
"My Back Pages" - Dylan
"I Love You Goodbye" - Thomas Dolby
"Quality Street" - Van Morrison
"We Work the Black Seam" - Sting

Wow..great obscure choices. I love "High Flying Bird", "Man Out of Time", and "Quality Street." I have to break out my 'Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" album now. Then Elvis Costello and then...

[Meowi]

This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
Wow - Kate Bush
Sunset - Kate Bush
Nocturn - Kate Bush
Final Duel - John Williams (Star Wars VI)
Binary Sunset - John Williams (Star Wars IV)
Bells for Her - Tori Amos
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Sara - Fleetwood Mac
Crystal - Fleetwood Mac
Brown Eyes - Fleetwood Mac
Storms - Fleetwood Mac
Beauty and the Beas - Stevie Nicks

[Zombie]

^^^^^

I love that you have Star Wars compositions on your list.

[bluefox4000]

For Crying out Loud-Meat Loaf
I Won't hold You Back-Toto
Anthem, Hallelujah-Leonard Cohen
For My Wedding, End of the Innocence-Don Henley
And so it Goes-Billy Joel
Clair de Lune-Debussy
Pity the Child-from the musical Chess
Entangled- Genesis
Washing of the Water-Peter Gabrel
It Makes No Difference-The Band
Wrote A Song for Everyone-CCR

That's only a small taste......I'll be back need to think of more

Mick

[Sleepless-Child]

Slow Show - The National


Love this song ! I'm bumping this. Tastes change.

For Emma, Forever Ago- Bon Iver (this whole album is beautiful)
Wuthering Heights-Kate Bush (it's crazy how this song captures the spirit of the book)
My father's gun-Elton John
Song to the Siren-Tim Buckley
Long Long Time-Linda Ronstadt
Diamonds and Rust-Joan Baez
Bridge over troubled water, The Boxer-Simon and Garfunkel
Shut us down-Lindsey Buckingham
The book of love, Don't Give up-Peter Gabriel
Into White, Last love song-Cat Stevens
God only knows-The Beach Boys
She's leaving home-The Beatles
Helplessly Hoping-Crosby,Stills and Nash
Why-Fleetwood Mac
Ball and Chain-Janis Joplin
Goals-John Frusciante
How deep is your love?-The Bee Gees
It's only love, Not make believe-Stevie Nicks
Stephanie says-The Velvet Underground
Death-Goran Bregovic
Islands-The XX

[ryguy2010]

Secret Garden _ Springsteen

Oh Billie Please - Donna Summer

Pearl Jam- Betterman

Fleetwood Mac- Songbird

Stevie - Storms (amongst many others- She can't get all the attention

Izdatso - Someone I used to be

More later ( narrow attention span)

[markolas]

Oh, I think lots of songs are beautiful. Off the top of my head:

1. Angel Eyes - Ella Fitzgerald
2. When Your Lover Has Gone - Frank Sinatra
3. In a Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
4. Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker
5. You Go to My Head - Billie Holiday
6. 'Round Midnight - Miles Davis
7. Les Feuilles Mortes - Yves Montand
8. Clair de Lune - Debussy
9. That Was Another Country - The Innocence Mission
10. River - Joni Mitchell
11. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
12. Heart Like a Wheel - Linda Ronstadt
13. Love Has No Pride - Bonnie Raitt
14. Amsterdam - Jacques Brel
15. Come Down in Time - Elton John
16. She - Marianne Faithfull
17. Lush Life - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman
18. Fleurette Africaine - Duke Ellington
19. Hymne à L'amour - Edith Piaf
20. Help - Tina Turner

[bluefox4000]

Why Worry-Dire Straits
All I know-Art Garfunkel
One more Matinee-Mark Knopfler
Sip the Wine-Rick Danko
Ripples-Genesis
And So It Goes-Billy Joel
Whispering Pines-The Band

Mick

[ryguy2010]

Another fave of mine I just thought of is Joan Baez rendition of 'Lily Rosemary and the Jack of hearts'