Pictures Of You - The Cure
She's An Angel - They Might Be Giants
Marsha - Tom Waits
I'm Still Here - Pearl Jam (Untitled song from Lost Dogs Promo, mp3 is around)

Forgot this one:

Antiseen: "Animals... Eat 'em!"

Sarah McLachlan "Angel"

Led Zeppelin "Thank You"

Beatles "In my life"

Journey "Winds of March"

Sammy Hagar "Eagles Fly"

Fleetwood Mac/Stevie Nicks - Landslide

God Only Knows, Don't Worry Baby, Wouldn't it be Nice, Surfer Girl - The Beach Boys

I Need You - The Beatles (The Organ at the end...)

Transatlanticism - Death Cab for Cutie

High Hopes - Neil Halstead

Helplessly Hoping - CSN

Walk Away - Ben Harper

California, The River - Joni Mitchell

Smile - Josh Rouse

The Carter Family : Anchored in Love

Hope of the States - "Sts'ikel" (hand's down one of the most spectacular neo-classical pop songs ever written, its achingly beautiful, as if a giant hand threw into the heavens and catapulted you through to the end of the universe, simply stunning!)

Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees/Nice Dreams

Mojave 3 - "Some Kind of Angel"

Jim Gordon was the drummer for Derek and the Dominoes, and he wrote the extended piano coda for "Layla". He later killed his mother by hitting her over the head repeatedly with a baseball bat. AFAIK he is still institutionalized.

Gordon was one of the top studio drummers of the early 70s. In addition to playing on Layla and Assorted Love Songs his credits also include John Lennon's Imagine.

Judy Garland: Over the Rainbow

Def Leppard - Hysteria (the song, not the album)

Some of my favorites that I consider "Beautiful":

Sigur Ros - Untitled 3
Zwan - Ride a Black Swan
Bjork - Bachelorette
Faye Wong - New Tenant
The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Radiohead - Let Down
Beck - Lost Cause
The Cardigans - For What It's Worth
Angelo Badalamenti - Laurens Walking (The Straight Story)
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
Beth Gibbons & Rusin' Man- Mysteries
Godspeed You Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues
Joni Mitchell - Willy
Michael Galasso - Angkor Wat Theme
Michelle Shocked - Anchorage
Pulp - Bob Lind (The Only Way is Down)
Tori Amos - Sister Janet

...and a whole bunch more.

Tori Amos - Gold Dust
Sarah McLachlan - Fallen
Live - Overcome
Aimee Mann - Invisible Ink
Josh Groban - Remember When It Rained

Midnight&Nobody's Diary...Yaz
Nietzsche's Eyes...Paula Cole
Come Back Down&Walk on the Ocean...Toad The Wet Sprocket
Gravity...Vienna Teng
Sweet Evening Breeze...John Mellencamp
Round Here...Counting Crows
In Demand...Texas
Kayleigh...Marillion
Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough...Patty Smyth
Jezebel&Verdi Cries...10, 000 Maniacs
Silent All These Years...Tori Amos
Beautiful Girl&This Time...INXS
Angel...The Eurythmics
Who Let in the Rain...Cyndi Lauper
Joey...Concrete Blonde
Two Hearts...Chris Issak
Uninvited&Flinch...Alanis Morissette
The Bluest Eyes In Texas...Nina Persson
Brick...Ben Folds Five
Pictures of You...The Cure
Belong...REM
Thunder Road&You're Missing...Bruce Springsteen

Ruby's Arms - Tom Waits
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Winter - Tori Amos
You Take My Breath Away - Queen
Where The Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave
Love Me Tender - Elvis
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Flamingos
Earth Angel - The Penguins
In The Still of the Night - The Dells
Tears On My Pillow - The Imperials

hell...any slow Doo-wop!


Ghost - Indigo Girls
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
Sacrafice- Seinade O'Conner
One - U2

and, finally, anything from the first two albums by Julee Cruise

This Boy - The Beatles
Beautiful In My Eyes - Joshua Kadison
Against All Odds - Phil Collins
Goodbye To Love - The Carpenters

Us and Them - Pink Floyd

ooo ooo... i want to add a critical one to my list. one that makes me cry (or, at least, almost cry) every time i hear it...

"Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain" Willie Nelson

Where do you go to my lovely - Welfare Heroine

cover of a Peter Sarstedt polka-ish song ... of all things. Found on the Ruby Trax: NME Roaring Forties circa ~ early 90's 4cd set. Lead vocals by someone and background support by Saint Etienne's Sarah Cracknell.

Hauntingly beautiful.

Must have been a one-off since I can't find anything about Welfare Heroine.

If anyone knows more about this particular track i'd love to hear about it. Thanks.

I've been converting Cocteau Twins over to MP3. Just heard buckets of beauty.

"Pur" is a gorgeous song.

Aphex Twin - 4
Aphex Twin - Xtal
Aphex Twin - Arched Maid Via RDJ
Aphex Twin - Pancake Lizard
Autechre - Second Bad Vilbel
Boards of Canada - High Scores
Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV
Boards of Canada - Nlogalax
Orbital - Chime
Orbital - Halycon+on+on
Underworld - Born Slippy Nuxx
Joey Beltram - Energy Flash
Biosphere - Poa Alpina
Vangelis - Love Theme (Blade Runner)
Vangelis - Memories of Green
Rachel's - Water From the Same Source
B Fleischmann - A Letter From Home
iamrobotandproud - The Catch
John Lennon - Mother
Pinback - Loro
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Sonic Youth - Diamond Sea

um..i'll add more later.

Jersey Girl - Tom Waits.

When he breaks into "Sha la la la la la", I break down.

U2--The Unforgettable Fire
Joy Division---Love Will Tear Us Apart
Killing Joke---Adorations
Bob Dylan----Most of the Time
Pretenders-----Talk of the Town
The Cure--High
Sonic Youth---Diamond Sea
Peter Murphy---Blind Sublime

"Angeles" - Elliott Smith
"Hallelujah" - Jeff Buckley
"Mad World" - Gary Jules
"Steven" - Denison Witmer
"Strange and Beautiiful" - Aqualung
"A Day Without Rain" - Enya
"Where The Streets Have No Name" - U2
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
"Someone Like You" - Van Morrison

Two immediate ones:

"Songbird" , Fleetwood Mac (or half of Christine McVie's songs for that matter)
"I Was Brought To My Senses" , Sting

A few other thoughts:
"Every Hour" , Sue Foley
"This Night" , Billy Joel
"Mansfield" , Elton John (this song just takes me to another place emotionally)

Pillar of Davidson by Live