Some very good songs named so far.


Untitled 1 (vaka) - Sigur Ros
How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Thirty Three - Smashing Pumpkins
Wave of Mutilation - Pixies
Miss Misery - Elliot Smith
Girls - Death in Vegas

I would have to vote for Mr. M's posting of

Bill Evans - My Foolish Heart

Sometimes it is the notes he doesn't play that breaks your heart.

This is to Mother You--Sinead O'Connor

Some fantastic rec's so far. Here's a few from me:

He Went to Paris - Jimmy Buffett
One of the few songs w/ lyrics that nearly bring me to tears every damn time

Silent Lucidity - Queensryche
On the Turning Away - Pink Floyd
Captain of Her Heart - Double
Caribbean Blue , Orinoco Flow - Enya (and sooo many others, too)
Drops of Jupiter - Train
Sailing - Christopher Cross

I Believe - Stevie Wonder
The Rose - Bette Midler
It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday - Boyz II Men
Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Hello Again - Neil Diamond
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
Fumbling Towards Ecstasy - Sarah McLachlan
Hey Jupiter - Tori Amos
And Dream of Sheep - Kate Bush

I could really go on indefinitely.

Pachabel-Canon in D minor
Don Mclean-Vincent (Josh Groban's is almost as good)
George Gershwin-Rhapsody in Blue
Many, Many Hymns (How Great Thou Art is a fav...)
Sarah Macglachlin-Angel

Just about anything by Nick Drake, especially Cello Song, Time of No Reply and Pink Moon

Man, a lot of yous picked songs that I would've chosen, as well.

But here's some others (off the top of my head...i love these threads, so i'll try to add more if i remember to):

Sondre' Lerche - You Know So Well
Julie Delpy - Waltz For A Night (from Before Sunset)
Josh Ritter - Come and Find Me
Mason Jennings - Darkness Between the Fireflies
Eels - Fresh Feeling
Secret Stars - Some Sinatra
Rob Rule - Only Thing (featuring a member of Mary's Danish)
Louie Prima - A Banana Split for My Baby
Badly Drawn Boy - One Plus One
Eva Cassidy - Songbird (cover of Fleetwood Mac's)
The Ataris - I Won't Spend Another Night Alone
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds
The Pixies - Ana
Self - Ilovetoloveyourlovemylove
Sinead O'Connor - Mandinka
Unwritten Law - Rest of My Life
Keane - Everybody's Changing
Travis - Flowers in the Window
Coldplay - Shiver
Beulah - Emma Blowgun's Last Stand
The Promise Ring - A Picture Postcard
The Posies - You're the Beautiful One
The Replacements - Can't Hardly Wait (original version, not the "Tim" version)
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Iron & Wine - Lion Mane



and for R&B

Maxwell - This Woman's Work
Babyface - When Can I See You Again (the remix version is the one i prefer)
Ginuwine - Differences
New Edition - Still In Love With You


and

Sisqo - The Thongs Song (hell yeah, baby! ... "ooh, that dress so scandalous. and you know anutha' *****' can't handle it..")

Vincent by Don McLean - the hauntingly beautiful tale of painter Vincent Van Gogh. Melodic and sad.

(Alone Again) Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan

"Verdi Cries"- 10,000 Maniacs

Peter Gabriel- In Your Eyes
Carly Simon- Boys In the Trees
John Lennon- Beautiful Boy
Alison Krauss- Forget About It

Man, alot of wonderful choices by artists I like.....

Fear- Sarah Mclachlan
Europa- Santana
Watching The Wheels- John Lennon
Just Ain't Easy- Allman Brothers
Cloudbusting- Kate Bush
The Sensual World- Kate Bush
A Case Of You- Joni Mitchell
Every Night- Paul McCartney
No More Lonely Nights- Paul McCartney
Frozen- Madonna
Take A Bow- Madonna
Mistral Wind- Heart
Beware Of Darkness- George Harrison

A few of my favorites off the top of my head:

Runaway - The Corrs
The Most Beautiful Girl In The World - Prince
You Take My Breath Away - Queen
Sonny Cried - Harry Connick, Jr.
For The Love Of God - Steve Vai (if instrumentals count here)

"Little Wing" by either Jimi Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughn both are outstanding!

Not a fan of the version by Derek and the Dominoes though.

I was watching reruns of Lost and at the end of an episode a song played and I literally cried and it was just about 15-20 seconds.

I looked it up and downloaded the song immediately. While listening to it, I cried again.

I urge you to try and download this song and if you like it get the cd, as I am going to be getting it ASAP.

It is a cover of the same Ben Harper song (and is much better, IMO and I like Harper).

<b>I Shall Not Walk Alone</b>, <i>Blind Boys of Alabama</i>

The performers are gospel oriented so it has the Gospel sound to it by their voices, but that really shouldn't turn you off.

Boa - "Duvet" - Amazing song...perhaps my favorite pop song of all time
Badfinger - "Without You", "Day After Day"
Matthew Sweet - "Devil With the Green Eyes"
Marillion - "Afraid of Sunlight" (the whole album is beautiful)
Elton John - "Someone Saved My Life Tonight"
A Perfect Circle - "Orestes"
Michael McDermott - "Moonlight Prayer", "The Idler, the prophet and a girl called rain", "Summer Days", "Bourbon Blue" - Just about any song of his strikes me emotionally at a level few songs ever do.
Queen - "Who Wants To Live Forever", "The Show Must Go On"

Michael

You, sir, rock!

Btw, do you like any of Fish's solo stuff? I know he is in the early era of the band, but I was just wondering.

I am more partial to Brave, myself.

I can take or leave most of Fish's work. Sometimes his sound is great, others he just sounds Phil Collins-lite.

I agree with several of the post above... here are a few additional off the top of my head:

"And I Love Her" - The Beatles
"Here, There and Everywhere" - The Beatles
"In the Morning of the Magicians" - The Flaming Lips
"Ave Maria" - Anthony Inglis ( a nice copy can be found on the Cowboy Bebop "Blue" OST)
... I'm sure I'll think of more

Agree. I had forgotten about that song....it is beautiful. I also like the song "Libby" about torch singer Libby Holman.

Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Pearl Jam - Black
U2 - With or Without you
Metallica - One, Fade to Black
Queensryche - Suite Sister Mary

Not sure if most of these have been listed, but here goes:

So this is Christmas - John Lennon (recently sang ata high school choir
Christmas show and tears just started streaming down my face)

Pagan Poetry - Bjork (love it more from her concert in a NY Church)

Seekers who are lovers - Cocteau Twins

God Only Knows - Beach Boys (loved how PTA used it in Boogie Nights)

All You Need is Love - The Beatles

Sight of You - Pale Saints

What's going on - Marvin Gaye
Mercy, Mercy me (The Ecology song) - Marvin Gaye
Let it be - The Beatles
All I want is you - U2
Nothing compares 2 U - Prince/Sinead O'Connor

That's all I remember from the top of my head. I'll post some more later.

I gotta tell the one thing that gets me EVERYTIME is the U2 Performance back in 2002 when the Patriots won their first SuperBowl.

When they do the songs and scroll the 9/11 victims on the screen and Bono puts his hands in the shape of a heart I lose it EVERYTIME!

I bought that DVD just for that performance and Idon't even like the Pats.

But this gets me everytime!

Greg

FYI - the Lennon song is titled Happy Xmas (War is Over) -wink- ... and yes, it is a nice song

"Blood Brothers" - Iron Maiden
"Helpless" - Faith No More
"True Colors" - Cyndi Lauper
"Every Little Bit Hurts" - The Clash