I know it's not very manly but I'm compiling a 'quiet stuff' playlist to send me to sleep. My favourite tunes are probably Agnes Obel 'Familiar' and Lamb `Gabriel' with an honourable mention to Kate Bush for 'This Woman's Work'.
Wondering if anyone feels brave enough to let me know their favourites so I can add them?
For me it's Vincent by Don McLean, but another that comes to mind for 'beauty' is Motorcycle Drive By by Third Eye Blind. A bit rocky in parts so maybe not bedtime music.
Mentioning "rock" and "beautiful" made me think of this:
Birdy - Not About Angels
Aquilo - I Gave it All
Halsey - Ghost
Låpsley - Hurt me
A Great Big World - Say Something
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Skipinish - alive
Teardrop - MA. Maybe a bit clichéd, but beautiful nonetheless.
Ballade de Melody Nelson - Serge Gainsbourg.
Julie Fowlis - Lon-dubh
‘ goodbye kiss ’ Lana del Ray, ‘love is’ dinosaur jr, ‘abilene’ Damian Jurado
I love getting the chance to hear stuff that most likely would have passed me by. Will check out every single suggestion.
What no mention for Little Fluffy Clouds by the Orb?
+1 for teardrop although I'm afraid the album deserves a mention in "crap albums you bought off the back of one track" thread
For me
Tiny tears - tindersticks
Wish you were here - Floyd
In care of 8675309 - lambchop
Cardiacs - The Whole World Window or Is This The Life. Can't make my mind up. About as quiet as it gets though for me.
Blows the Rod Stewart version out of the water..
It's beautiful man ..!
in care of 8675309 - yes!
Lamb chop are amazing
A song of overwhelming beauty.
Sigur Ros - the whole of the Takk album
Hoppipola (sp?) has a great video and a wonderful track
Aqualung Strange and beautiful
You need a bit of Al Green too many to choose from but either For the good times or maybe Funny how time slips away both cracking covers
Don't be put off by old wobbly head, or the fact that it's a cover, but this gets me...
Radiohead - Nude. Especially if you hear them play it live.
107 degrees citizen cope
Summer The First Time - Bobby Goldsburgh
Surely every young man’s dream?
La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
Easy peasy lemon squeezy..
Sade
Bulletproof Soul..
Jeff Buckley's 'Hallelujah' is another favourite of mine.
Oh dear, where do I even start! There are already a couple posted, Mazzini Star and This Mortal Coil, but there are many others. I’m off to the pub for a couple of beers shortly, but I’ll be thinking about this now.
Karan Casey singing Donal Og on Michael McGoldricks Fused.
Almost anything by Alison Krauss...
Edit: start with "A Living Prayer"
Half the man by Jamiroquai
you do something to me - Paul Weller
A bit of Terry Callier has got to fit in somewhere round here.
Into My Arms - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
Joga by Björk
So many strong but beautiful songs on the Homogenic album.
Shmaltzy pop
Or old skool?
Sorry music threads always get me going. I keep thinking of more
I'd also add Brian eno's An Ending - a piece of music rather than a song, but beautiful is what it is.
Then there is all that trance / chillout stuff like this
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Anything by emmy the great.
sweet innocent voice with poignant lyrics in a folky style
EDIT: her latest stuff is Shyte
King Creosote is a good shout. Paupers Dough can reduce me to tears, for some reason it reminds me of a dearly missed friend. Your Young Voice and My Favourite Girl are good too. Actually most of his stuff does it for me, his voice and the production, it's really raw and so rare these days to hear something that hasn't been overproduced.
This stuff
The Raconteurs - Together
Gomez - Free to Run
Emiliana Torini - Love in a Time of Science (album)
Air - You Make it Easy
Motzart laudate dominum
Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence.
Then when you want it a bit louder, the The Disturbed version.
Both equally beautiful IMO.
Many songs (or even entire albums) by The National.
Power of Love - Frankie. Teenage slow-dance heaven.
Zappa's Watermelon in Easterhay.
Little Feat's Voices On The Wind
I will enter Sarah McLachlan’s album Surfacing, especially Do What You Have to Do.
This is a great thread!
Kate rugby, blooming heather.
The White Buffalo, could have picked so many! Went for wish it were true.
Finally, the Wilderness of Manitobia, nothings ever said.
What is Love? Howard Jones.
BRMC. The Line. The song starts fairly meh but it transforms about 3 mins in.
The breeders - driving on nine
Sting (yeah, I know!) - I'm so happy I can't stop crying.
Paramore, the album is “after laughter” the track is “26” and it’s just lovely.,,
Some fantastic shouts, plus ones on Eno's Ending and Mitchell's Both Sides, and I too shall check out everything else what I don't know (which is most stuff). My ha'porth worth are Battery Human by Stornaway and Claire De Lune by Debussey.
Acoustic version of sound of silence always gets me. The live version even more so
+1 Song To The Siren, This Mortal Coil
Wraps & Arms - Gene Loves Jezebel
She Moves Through The Fair - All About Eve
The Sound Of Silence - Simon & Garfunkel
Can't beat a bit of shoegaze for beautiful songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6dNwNP6h0I
And then still on a 90s tip...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4
More upbeat, but beautiful perfection for me.
Make sure you listen beyond 2:20.
Or staying with Simon and Garfunkel:
"I get the news I need from the weather report"
Some great shouts so far. OP mentioned Lamb. I prefer their track Gorecki from a beautiful standpoint.
Massive Attack, Terry Callier, Groove Armada, and Gil Scott Her on are good shouts. I would add
DJ Shadow and Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Souls
Seba- So Long
Zero 7 - Warm Sound
4 Hero - Les Fleurs
Portishead - Glorybox
Not a big fan of Sounds of Silence. However by Paul Simon Hearts and Bones is fantastic. Or perhaps Something so Right.
I'd also suggest the Killers cover of Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet.
good call on this mortal coil and all about eve.
and its partner
However by Paul Simon Hearts and Bones is fantastic.
IMHO the finest album he has ever recorded. Reneé And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War is stunning, as is The Late Great Johnny Ace. All killer, no filler
Talking to my mate over the pub about this thread, and there were two that popped up, with a connection between them:
Kristin Hersh - Your Ghost
Indigo Girls - Kid Fears
Few of my favourites.....
Sebastian Tellier - La Ritournelle
Air -All I Need
Bonobo - Kiara / Eyesdown / Pick Up (almost any of his stuff)
Little Dragons - Twice
Zero 7 - Destiny / Give it Away
Telepopmusik - Breathe
Yuna - Live your life
Jose Gonzalez - Heartbeats / Crosses
Avalanches - Since I left you
Craig Armstrong - Balcony scene