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Martha Wainwright 'Proserpina'..... just amazing.
Sorry.......I can't help myself.
Waiting for an influx of drunken emotional posts after people stumble in from the pub😉.
Heard Sting's Fields Of Gold on the radio today for first time in ages, very mellow tune.
Phil Collins' Father To Son is another tune that springs to mind.
The utterly beautiful Amy. What a voice. An absolute tragedy
Right! I’m starting the drunken over-emotional stuff then.
If you can watch this girl, having done this gig, after everything, with a dry eye, then you’ve a heart of stone. Watched this with my wife and my two daughters and we all cried like babies.
Manchester. One love. Beautiful indeed...
Fields of Gold was played many times as our alcoholic friend waited for her liver to fail nearly 20 years ago. Memorable for all the wrong reasons. (Just in from a terrible pub-crawl event in Vienna, they don’t have a problem drinking culture as you can’t get served).
The entire, yet achingly brief, output of Nick Drake is full of beauty
and gave rise to more of it
Surely it's got to be Lady in Red...?
But on a serious note, I don't know if it's going to sleep music but "Things the grandchildren should know" by Eels always gives me goose bumps.
Ruby Tuesday by Melanie
Trollbundin by Eivor
Go on then.
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Disco sucks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huavJMGUbiI
Would you make toasts with me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwaDUgHjXJk
Floorfilla
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJSwGc4lsA
Dreaming your Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9E9TKX3A2M
The lesser spotted remix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMlyOUJE9nI
Loads of Trancy ones, Sal****er, Tears from the moon, Galaxia etc.
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Love this one.
Peppino Gagliardi - “Che vuole questa musica stasera”
Francis Cabrel - Je t'aimais, je t'aime et je t'aimerais
Another from me, big fan of this chap.
Ray LaMontange - Trouble (live on Joules Hootananny)
Could list a number of Simon & Garfunkel, together or solo material.
Metallica’s Nothing Else Matters has particular personal meaning to me.
Johnny Cash version of Hurt
This Mortal Coil obvs, Bjork - Hyperballad, might have alread been done?
vocal on this always tugs at me
a few apparat songs... this is gorgeous
Not necessarily my favourite but one of my favourites this morning. A beautiful album from Daughter
Heard this for the first time recently, written with the war in Kosovo in mind but for me as we approach the 100th anniversary of the armistice this seems a beautiful evocation of the terrible loss that war brings
Bonnie Raitt and Richard Thomson
Good call Dezzy Baby. Great track, but also a contender for the other recent thread ‘albums that you bought on the strength of one track that turned out to be crap’
Define "beautiful".
Define beautiful
Sorry, I need a list of defined deliverables so I make sure I'm posting the right stuff. Personally, I find some really heavy music "beautiful", but that may not fulfill the OP's criteria.
Define “beautiful”.
Red the OP's post - songs to listen to before going to sleep. I only just read it, but think mine fit. 🙂
I loved the FC Kahuna album, Binners.. nothing quite matches Hayling on there, 'tis true 😀
Red the OP’s post – songs to listen to before going to sleep. I only just read it, but think mine fit.
I've been listening to the Devin Townsend before I go to sleep, but I suspect that might not be appropriate. Anyhoo, here you go:
Heard this for the first time in ages today: as covers go, not a bad one.
Beck Paper Tiger and Volcano, plenty of BOC and most of Selected Ambient Works.
This gets me right in the feels around the 3.40 minute mark.
but I suspect that might not be appropriate
Puts me to sleep anyway 😉
The soothing sound of Cate Le Bon singing 'O Am Gariad':
Playing music from phone on a drive today and this gem came up;
Snow Patrol; Turn the fire to the third bar ft. Martha Wainwright.
I'd post the video, but I can't for the life of me get it work on this shit forum platform.
Of Monster and Men; Little Talks is another beautiful song.
And, somewhat surprisingly, Slipknot; Snuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXEKuttVRIo
OK, so it's the preview that's ****ed. Who knew?
On the basis of something beautiful that helps me get to sleep (re-reading the OP 🤢) well for the last 10 years I’ve been listening to Arvo Parts Kanon Pokajanen last thing at night in my bed (although recently I’ve taken to playing it RFL on my Walkman).
apparently it’s the Canon of Redemption sung in Church Slavonic. To me, it’s just sheer unadulterated minimalist beauty. This gives a flavour:
it has a sister piece (Symphony No 4 Los Angeles - based on Canon of the Guardian Angel). The cd I have also has ‘fragments’ after it so it also gets frequent listening, but in a more normalised setting.
Doesn't have to be bedtime music, just something that's either hauntingly beautiful or that really connects with you when you're in a 'reflective' mood.
Preferably no Slipknot😉.
Well worth a listen
Arvo Part meets both those requirements...
Snow Patrol earns the first card of the thread. And its a straight red! 😉
I’ve just realised that this thread has unbelievably managed to get this far without anything from the high queen of gorgeousness. Quite an achievement to make something utterly beautiful about drowning at sea
Kate Bush is mentioned in the OP...
As you can't even read the first post properly I am calling on the video ref to disallow your red card. 😀
Curses!!! Not bothering to read the OP properly. 😃
Carol King: will you still love me tomorrow.
Brilliant choice from Thepurist there
I've got an ipod I listen to at night.. here's a few that are on it
Also Moby's recent "Long Ambients" album is a gorgeous thing. I don't think I've heard much of it cos I just sleep with it playing 🙂