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What is the prettiest song you've ever heard?
I've seen so much tough-talking guys around the forum, so I thought I'd try to get us all in touch with our feminine side if you will. Any ladies here are just as welcome to share, of course.

Try to provide a link to the song if you can/


For me, I have to go with "Lullaby" from the anime, "Key The Metal Idol."
I'm not really an anime geek, but I just liked this song.

Link: http://www.westmoon.org/key/songs/Key_no_Lullaby_Original.mp3

No one's answering?

...


I'm really not suprised. I guess there are too many people who are too insecure in their masculinity or something that prevents them from trying to even utilize the anonymity of the internet to admit that something is "pretty."

That song from Azumanga Daioh. That was a good one, but maybe only with the video accompanying it.. Also a few by Boards of Canada are pretty pretty. And that one you posted is ok too, at least the very beggining. I feel like I'm forgetting something seriously pretty though.

The No Seatbelt Song
Brand New

God I love Brand New.

It depends on what you mean by 'pretty'.

"Apart" by The Cure is deliciously melancholy.
"1959" by The Sisters of Mercy is a lovely refrain over sensuous piano.
"Love's Secret Domain" by Coil is disturbing, but hauntingly gorgeous.
"Pre-Original Chaostrophy" by Coil is an enchantingly beautiful interlude.
"Hey, Jupiter" by Tori Amos is very 'pretty'.
"The Letter" or "Your Ghost" by Kristin Hersh are both quite lovely.
"Fait Accompli" or "Split into Fractions" by Curve.
"Bake my Biscuits" by Mazzy Star.

That song from Azumanga Daioh. That was a good one, but maybe only with the video accompanying it.. Also a few by Boards of Canada are pretty pretty. And that one you posted is ok too, at least the very beggining. I feel like I'm forgetting something seriously pretty though.
Raspberry Heaven or Cake of Mishearing?

Mine are:

"Let go" by Frou Frou
"Let me be with you" Chobits OP song
"Canta per me" from the Noir soundtrack
"The Light before we land" by the Delgados

Voices (Macross Plus), written by Kanno Yokou, performed by Akino Arai

Still my favorite song.

Raspberry Heaven or Cake of Mishearing?

I don't actually know the name.

But more importantly, what is with you? Every time I post somethign about Azumanga Daioh you're there. It's happened twice and I'm starting to get really freaked out.

I don't actually know the name.

But more importantly, what is with you? Every time I post somethign about Azumanga Daioh you're there. It's happened twice and I'm starting to get really freaked out.
:confused:

Osaka uber alles!

Haunts my dreams every single night.

The most current pretty song for me would be "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt.

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
And I feel like a-lovin you
Love, you're such a sweet thing
Good enough to eat thing
And it's just a-what I'm gonna do

Ooh love to hold ya
Ooh love to kiss ya
Ooh love I love it so
Ooh love you're sweeter
Sweeter than sugar
Ooh love
I wont let you go

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
And as silly as it may seem
The lovin' that you re giving
Is what keeps me livin'
And your love is like peaches and cream

Kind-a like sugar
Kind-a like spices
Kind-a like, like what you do
Kind-a sounds funny
But your love honey
And honey, I love you

Ba, da, ba, da, da , da, da
Ba, da, da, da, da, da . . .

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
That your love can satisfy
Love, you're such a sweet thing
Good enough to eat thing
And sweet thing, that ain't no lie

I love to hold ya
I love to kiss ya
Ooh love, I love it so
Ooh love, you're sweeter
Sweeter than sugar
Ooh love, I wont let you go

Ba, da, ba, da, da , da, da
Ba, da, da, da, da, da . . .

Sweet thing, yummy yummy
Sweet thing
Sweet thing, yummy yummy
Sweet thing

---

That's me and my boyfriend's song :)

Haunts my dreams every single night.
Funny because I forgot about it :P that's what happens when you work 27 hours within a single weekend.

A.D.I.D.A.S. (All Day I Dream About Sex) by Korn.



Honestly somehow it always seems
That am dreaming of something I could never be
It doesnt MATTER me ´cause I will always be the pimp
That I see in all of my fantasies

I dont know your fucking name
So what? Lets......

Screwing may be the only way that I can truly be free
From my fucked up reality
So I dream and stroke it harder
Cause it´s so fun to see my face staring back at me

I dont know your fucking name
So what? Lets fuck anyways!

All day I dream about sex
All day I dream about fucking


All day I dream about fucking
All day I dream about sex
Yes all day I dream about sex and all day I dream about sex
Yes all day I dream about sex and all day I dream about sex
Yes all day I dream about sex and all day I dream about sex
Yes all day I dream about sex

All day I dream about sex
All day I drem about fucking
All day I dream about sex
All day I dream about fucking

Clair De Lune Composed by Claude Debussy

Stamina Rose-GITS:SAC
Every Heart-BoA (Inuyasha):fluffle:
Journey Home-Ace Combat 5
Adieu-Comboy Bebop
Flying Teapot-Cowboy Bebop
Motherland-Full Metal Alchemist
I Can't Stop Loving You-Ray Charles (Metropolis) :cool:
Fly me to the Moon-Neon Genesis Evangelion :fluffle:
Quiet Night-Gundam SEED
Half Pain-Witch Hunter Robin
Gravity-Wolf's Rain
Mononoke Hime-Princess Mononoke
Bodhisttava Cathedral-Hellsing

Stamina Rose-GITS:SAC
Every Heart-BoA (Inuyasha):fluffle:
Journey Home-Ace Combat 5
Adieu-Comboy Bebop
Flying Teapot-Cowboy Bebop
Motherland-Full Metal Alchemist
I Can't Stop Loving You-Ray Charles (Metropolis) :cool:
Fly me to the Moon-Neon Genesis Evangelion :fluffle:
Quiet Night-Gundam SEED
Half Pain-Witch Hunter Robin
Gravity-Wolf's Rain
Mononoke Hime-Princess Mononoke
Bodhisttava Cathedral-Hellsing

I thought Fly Me To The Moon was a Sinatra song.

And Strangers in the Night is my pick for a pretty song.

The incessant whining of an angry girl I know named peaches. Tis a music as beautiful as Brahms, or Bach.

I like Original Soundtracks. ANd musicals.

I personally don't know whats my 'prettiest' songs. But recently I've been hooked on to

Band of Brothers Suite Two - Micheal Kamen

It's from the Band of Brother series. I'll happily upload if any of you can recommend me a upload website that you guys can hear it. It's 12mb's though :p

"Under the Milky Way" - The Church
"Tonight, tonight" - Smashing Pumpkins
Most of Gin Blossom's & Bush's stuff
"Rain on Tin" & "Teenage Riot" -Sonic Youth
Sponge's "Velveteen" (In fact, all of Wax Ecstatic makes me a little soft inside, but this one's the prettiest)
"Waiting for my Ruca"- Sublime

Wonderwall, of course, but that should be implied.

I'm glad someone mentioned "Under the Milky Way"... I like Jimmy Little's version probably a little more though

Besides that:
John Farnham's "Burn for You"
"Winter" - Tori Amos
"Walking in the Air" - (dunno who)
"If I Could" - 1927
"Wouldn't it be Nice" - Beach Boys
"Sacrifice" - Elton John
"You Were Meant For Me" - Jewel
"Dream a Little Dream of Me" - The Momas and the Papas
"She" - Elvis Costello
"A Little Cruel" - Harry Manx
"Into My Arms" - Nick Cave

(Largely subjective, of course)

Nightwish - Walking in the Air (I know it's a cover... but I don't know the original artist either :p )
Sonata Arctica - Shy
Hammerfall - Always Will Be
Stratovarius - Forever

:')

"Colors and the Kids" - Cat Power
"Sail to the Moon" - Radiohead
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - Neutral Milk Hotel
"True Love Waits" - Radiohead
"Powder Blue" - Elbow
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"Into Dust" - Mazzy Star
"Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset" - Modest Mouse
"Time In a Bottle" - Jim Croce
"Apple Bed" - Sparklehorse
"Essex" - The Album Leaf

Pretty much everything by Sigur Ros

And, just because it makes me deliriously happy with insanity to try and sing along...
"Along Comes Mary" - The Association

God, I love music. And I love this particular thread, since it doesn't involve me getting riled up about matters which are far beyond the understanding of the people actually involved with them, nevermind those of us limited to simply observing/commenting. Thanks!

"True Love Waits" - Radiohead


damn, beaten to it!

also id add to that gorgeous song, these selections...

radiohead, like spinning plates
british sea power, please stand up
tears, lovers
weezer, island in the sun
bloc party, this modern love
graham coxon, bittersweet bundle of misery

If I had to pick just one:

"God only knows"
-Brian Wilson.
(performed by the Beach Boys).

Once Upon a Time in the West Final Theme by Ennio Morricone.

Hm. Hard to say. Perhaps "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie. One of the few upbeat songs that isn't depressing.
Or something with violins.

"Tonight, tonight" - Smashing Pumpkins
Most of Gin Blossom's & Bush's stuff
"Rain on Tin" & "Teenage Riot" -Sonic Youth
Sponge's "Velveteen" (In fact, all of Wax Ecstatic makes me a little soft inside, but this one's the prettiest)+8000 points for mentioning the Smashing Pumpkins, the Gin Blossoms, Bush, Sonic Youth, and Sponge all in one post.

"Colors and the Kids" - Cat Power
"Sail to the Moon" - Radiohead
"In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" - Neutral Milk Hotel
"True Love Waits" - Radiohead
"Powder Blue" - Elbow
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"Into Dust" - Mazzy Star
"Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset" - Modest Mouse
"Time In a Bottle" - Jim Croce
"Apple Bed" - Sparklehorse
"Essex" - The Album Leaf



I was gonna mention Hallelujah, its purrdy

Greensleeves.

Jewel - Foolish Games.

Belle and Sebastian do lots of "pretty" songs.

Creep, by Radiohead, has a very pretty guitar part behind the verses. It's also my favourite song.

Norrlandsschottis med Promenadorquestern
http://punkis.homeip.net/PQ002-NorrlandsShottis.mp3

Man on the Moon by Sugar.

I thought Fly Me To The Moon was a Sinatra song.

And Strangers in the Night is my pick for a pretty song.

It is, but it was redone for the show, and I think Megumi Hayashibara did the vocals. If anyone knows, let me know. There's also another version by Utada Hikaru that I like as well.

Claire de Lune, I guess.

What is the prettiest song you've ever heard?
I've seen so much tough-talking guys around the forum, so I thought I'd try to get us all in touch with our feminine side if you will. Any ladies here are just as welcome to share, of course.

Try to provide a link to the song if you can/


For me, I have to go with "Lullaby" from the anime, "Key The Metal Idol."
I'm not really an anime geek, but I just liked this song.

Link: http://www.westmoon.org/key/songs/Key_no_Lullaby_Original.mp3

Random choice:
Cara - Unspoken Restlessness
Safri Duo - Baya Baya

What is the prettiest song you've ever heard?
I've seen so much tough-talking guys around the forum, so I thought I'd try to get us all in touch with our feminine side if you will. Any ladies here are just as welcome to share, of course.

Try to provide a link to the song if you can/


For me, I have to go with "Lullaby" from the anime, "Key The Metal Idol."
I'm not really an anime geek, but I just liked this song.

Link: http://www.westmoon.org/key/songs/Key_no_Lullaby_Original.mp3No link, but I got the Lyrics

After Midnight
by Mercedies Lackey

In the dead dark hours after midnight
When the world seems to stop in its place
You can see a little more clearly
You can look your life in the face

You can see the things that you have to
Speak the words to true for the day
In the dead dark hours after midnight
Little friend will you listen and stay

In the time when I never knew you
I could view the world as my own
I was God's own gift to his creatures
And I wore an armor of stone

I was wise and faithful and noble
I was pompous, pious and cold
I was cruel when I never meant it
To cold to touch or to hold

[Interlude]

It was you who broke through my armor
It was you who breached through the walls
With your pain and your desperation
How could I not answer your call

How could I have guessed you would touch me
And in ways I couldn't control
How could I have known I would need you
Or have guessed you have seen to my soul

For as I taught you so you taught me
How to love and why to care
For your love had thawed my winter
Taught me how to feel and dare

When I looked tonight I discovered
I could not against and oppose
In the dead dark hours after midnight
I learned that I owed you my heart

Pink Floyd- When the Tigers Broke Free
Pink Floyd- Mother
Pink Floyd- Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Canon in D-Johann Pachabel
Fur Elise, Symphony No. 9 "Ode to Joy"-Ludwig van Beethoven
Suiten fur Violencello (Symphony of Evangelion)-?
New World (Acoutsic)-Roundtable fet. Nino (.hack/Legend of the Twilight Bracelet)
Duvet-Boa(Brit. Band)=Serial Experiments Lain
Velveteen-GITS:SAC

"Goodnight Julia," from that anime classic Cowboy Bebop.

I'm a woman, by the way, so does this still count as showing my feminine side? ;)

there are lots of versions of Hallelujah; the original one is by Leonard Cohen; there's also a cool one by Nicholas Cave (or Cage?). I like Angel Eyes by Wet Wey Wet, and if you're into instrumental, The Ashokan Farewell is fantastic

All that I Feel(DJ Sho Remix)
DJ Tatana Feat.Pee
Ibiza Trance Club Vol.9

theres also a song I heard on "project runway" (i watch too much tv..) it was in the last episode it played for.. kirasaun(sp?). its hawt.

Beautiful Girl by Broken Iris (www.purevolume.com/brokeniris)

Progenies of the Great Apocalypse, by Dimmu Borgir. ;)

Hard to say, really… Nightwish get very sweet sometimes… I don't really go in for sweet bands. Gimme noble templars. Sorry.

I quite like Emiliana Torrini's "Sunny Road".
Also a bunch of stuff by Yuki Kajiura. "Fake Wings", for example.

A lot of Biffy Clyro songs are very moving, but especially Diary of Always, Wave Upon Wave Upon Wave (Seriously, once you get past the start. The "Do you believe in magic?" bit always gives me shivers), and Justboy.

thankyou by dido.

All of Swan Lake- Tchichowski (sp?)
Vivaldi's Spring
Laschia Ch'io Pianga-Handel
Figlio Perduto- not sure who wrote it but the Sarah Brightman version is so pretty
Exodus and Field of Innocence- both by Evanescence
Suteki Da Ne and Zanarkand- from the FFX soundtrack (which is a really good soundtrack; awesome prettiful music)
Here Comes the Sun- the Beatles.
Love Song- the Cure
Empty- the Cranberries
The list could go on for a very long time...

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
And I feel like a-lovin you
Love, you're such a sweet thing
Good enough to eat thing
And it's just a-what I'm gonna do

Ooh love to hold ya
Ooh love to kiss ya
Ooh love I love it so
Ooh love you're sweeter
Sweeter than sugar
Ooh love
I wont let you go

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
And as silly as it may seem
The lovin' that you re giving
Is what keeps me livin'
And your love is like peaches and cream

Kind-a like sugar
Kind-a like spices
Kind-a like, like what you do
Kind-a sounds funny
But your love honey
And honey, I love you

Ba, da, ba, da, da , da, da
Ba, da, da, da, da, da . . .

Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I got love in my tummy
That your love can satisfy
Love, you're such a sweet thing
Good enough to eat thing
And sweet thing, that ain't no lie

I love to hold ya
I love to kiss ya
Ooh love, I love it so
Ooh love, you're sweeter
Sweeter than sugar
Ooh love, I wont let you go

Ba, da, ba, da, da , da, da
Ba, da, da, da, da, da . . .

Sweet thing, yummy yummy
Sweet thing
Sweet thing, yummy yummy
Sweet thing

---

That's me and my boyfriend's song :)

Really....? You do know what it 'means', right?

Sponge's "Velveteen" (In fact, all of Wax Ecstatic makes me a little soft inside, but this one's the prettiest)


Hmmm, not having heard it, I find myself wondering if it is a cover of the Transvision Vamp masterpiece...

+8000 points for mentioning the Smashing Pumpkins, the Gin Blossoms, Bush, Sonic Youth, and Sponge all in one post.From another Burgher, no less.

Yes, my tastes are wide and varied indeed.

Hmmm, not having heard it, I find myself wondering if it is a cover of the Transvision Vamp masterpiece...While I can't find a sample of yours, the lyrics are radically different. It's the last song on a concept album (Wax Ecstatic). As a concept album, it wanders through every Rock genre possible and excels at most of them.

"Goodnight Julia," from that anime classic Cowboy Bebop.

I'm a woman, by the way, so does this still count as showing my feminine side? ;)

i was going to say that one, but i really dislike julia :mad: . she seems to only be there to give spike grief :headbang: , and gets in the way of him and faye hooking up :fluffle: .

oh, a song...
Deep Forest(?)-Inuyasha

"So Far Away" -- Carole King
"God Only Knows" -- Beach Boys
"I Love You" -- Climax Blues Band
"Babe"-- Styx
"Tiny Dancer" -- Elton John
"I Can't Tell You Why" -- Eagles
"Landslide" -- Fleetwood Mac
Oh, and the version of "Hallelujah" I'm familiar with is by Rufus Wainwright (from the Shrek soundtrack)

In addition to "Tomorrow" I'd also like to nominate "Come As You Are" by Nirvana and "Why" by Stabbing Westward.

From another Burgher, no less.

Yes, my tastes are wide and varied indeed.
My tastes are also wide and varied. And +8000 points for being from Pittsburgh. :D

In addition to "Tomorrow" I'd also like to nominate "Come As You Are" by Nirvana and "Why" by Stabbing Westward.


My tastes are also wide and varied. And +8000 points for being from Pittsburgh. :D

Have to respect the nomination of "Come as you are"... which has now made me think of "You Know You're Right".... which still brings a tear to the eye... but not entirely because of the loveliness, perhaps.

Also - nice to see Stabbing Westward mentioned. "Why" is very pretty... but "Violent Mood Swings" is sexier. :)

Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

Nightwish's "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan".

It's sung in Suomi (Finnish), but sounds absolutely beautiful.

Bard's Song-Blind Guardian

I'm hoping the people who mentioned Nightwish, Dimmu, etc. can relate to at least some of those:

Opeth - "Still Day Beneath the Sun", "Harvest"
Ulver - almost anything from "Kveldssanger"
Agalloch - almost anything, period
Burzum - Tomhet
Dimmu Borgir - "Sorgens Kammer", "Det Nye Riket"
Camel - anything from "Snow Goose"
Doors - The End
Death - Regurgitated Guts
Menhir - These 3 songs of which I haven't been able to find the titles
MDB - For My Fallen Angel
Porcupine Tree - "Trains", "Collapse the Light into Earth"
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979

.. and many more I'm probably forgetting.