Well, beauty never hurts me or makes me ache, though I certainly appreciate it. That said, there have been some good calls here: "Edith and the Kingpin," "Alfie," "God Only Knows," "Wichita Line Man," "Think of Me with Kindness," "Aspirations," and probably more that I'm just not familiar with (and I haven't checked out the YT videos yet).
I played this (for the first time) at a wedding the other night; I think it qualifies:
sorry this is such a long list
this is 60's and 70' s and I deliberately avoided The Beatles
Cat Stevens Morning Has Broken
Cat Stevens Mathew & Sons
The Mamas And Papas -Dream A Little Dream Of Me
Etta James -At Last
The Monkees - Daydream-Believer
Frank & Nancy Sinatra - Somethin' Stupid
The Turtles - Happy Together
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Simon & Garfunkel -America
The Doors - People Are Strange
The Rolling Stones -Paint It Black
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
Herman's Hermits - No Milk Today
Simon Dupree And The Big Sound - Kites
The Animals - It's My Life
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay
David Bowie - Life on Mars? [mp3clan.com]
Bob Marley - Is this love
Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Blue Sky
Elton Jhon - Daniel
Elton Jhon - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Lou Reed - Take a walk on the wild side
John Lennon - Imagine
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Madness - It Must Be Love
Paul McCartney - Live And Let Die
Paul McCartney - My Love
Paul Simon - Kodachrome
Paul Simon - Me And Julio Down By The Schoolyard
Supertramp - Goodbye Stranger
The Carpenters - Sing
The Carpenters - There's a Kind of Hush
The Carpenters Yesterday Once More
Sparks This Town Aint Big Enough For The Both Of Us
10cc I'm not in Love
10cc Brand new day
Although I'm generally a very forward looking person, every now and then I hear a song that really moves me in a strange way and brings waves of nostalgia and awakens a real sense of loss of youth and brings out the old "you can never go back" like a kick in the stomach. One day a few years ago Joni Mitchell's song "Court and Spark" did this to me on the radio out of the blue. It reminded me of when I was a kid in the early 70s. Hit me like a speeding truck emotionally. More recently I heard the Outfield's "All The Love In The World" and made me lament the lost days of summer of the mid 80s. The Dream Academy's "Indian Summer" sometimes gives me a similar feeling.
Music is a very mysterious creature...
I'm not much of a POP fan, but a few that stand out for me are:
Beach Boys - Feel Flows
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
Marillion - Easter
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
Moody Blues - Story in Your Eyes
Moody Blues - Never Comes the Day
Beatles - Norwegian Wood
And if there were a god, I think it very unlikely that he would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence - Russell
Well, I learned something new which isn't a bad thing. Alone Again Or was originally by Love and now I've heard it. Cool. So thanks for that.
But I still don't get the song. I don't hate it but I don't think it's all that great. Not enough to want to cover it as has been done. Oh well, each to his own and all that. Maybe it's the context of Lights Out that it doesn't work for me. It drags that album down IMO and that's where I know it from.
I wonder if I had heard it first, the original, then later heard UFO do it but first hearing on that killer album, well, my opinion might be different but it doesn't seem to fit on Lights Out.
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
I could probably list 100 songs if I sat and thought about it. These were some of the first that came to mind ...
Cardigans: Lovefool
Sarah McLachlan: Possession, Angel, I Will Remember You
Sara Bareilles: Between the Lines
Norah Jones: Don’t Know Why
Bob Marley: No Woman No Cry
Fleetwood Mac: Silver Spring
Bread: If
Billy Joel: And So It Goes
Ben Folds Five: Brick
Gary Jules: Mad World
Neil Young: Harvest Moon
Five for Fighting: 100 Years
Coldplay: The Scientist, Fix You, Politik, Life in Technicolor, Lovers in Japan/Reign of Love, 42
Jeff Lynne: Every Little Thing
Tori Amos: Silent All These Years
Gordon Lightfoot: I'm Not Supposed to Care, Beautiful, Early Morning Rain
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Brian Wilson had many, the more I think about it, especially on SMiLE... Like Surf's Up, Cabin Essence...
First one that comes to mind:
Moodies- Nights In White Satin
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
"Everybody's Talkin' ". Whether it be Nilsson's version or the Fred Neil original.
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I'm another one who does not get all the "love" for Alone Again Or. It's OK, but fairly ordinary, and has a very dated sound. I can think of many songs of that era that i like more.
Someone mentioned the Mamas and the Papas - I'd like to nominate "Look through My Window.".
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"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Not too many more 'dart-to-the-heart' than these:
Jefferson Airplane's 'Coming Back to Me'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hziG-cLZW1Y
Matt Finish, Short Note
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITLk-LtDoAM
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Wow! I could have written that about myself, we are very much on the same wavelength. I heard some of Court & Spark the other day & it took me back to the early 80s and my first "proper" girlfriend (for proper read sex ) and like you said it felt like both a happy and a sad kick in the guts.
I find Bread an underrated group- David Gates had a real melodic gift. But James Griffin had a real gem relevant here, 'Just Like Yesterday'. He also co-wrote 'For All We Know'.
I'd say 'We Will' (though this does have a children's choir, not something I usually like but it fits lyrically I suppose) and 'Alone Again (Naturally)' are very much in keeping with this thread. 'Get Down' is a terrific little tune with a clever melody but I don't know if I find it 'beautiful'. In the ear of the beholder I suppose.
An oddball choice but I always thought it was a lovely verse and chorus
Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan (listen to Richie Havens singing it)
Hurting Each Other - The almighty Karen (& Richard)
Hoping Love Will Last - Steve Hackett
I guess a lot of tracks from this thread will fit in here too: http://www.progressiveears.org/forum...g-Ever-Written
Strangely, I heard "If" today playing over the speakers in a restaurant, having not heard the song for years. It was certainly one of their best, along with "Guitar Man".
I have to say that I probably liked Bread more at the time than I do now - my tastes have evolved and I now find that some of their songs sound a bit simple to my ears - not all of them.
I used to have the first David Gates album (appropriately entitled "First"), which is much like Bread I suppose, but a little bit more "edgy", with one multi-part suite that is almost pushing at the door of "prog". His second album wasn't bad either, but then after that he went very schmaltzy with that awful song "Goodbye Girl".
One of the band, Larry Knechtel, was a member of The Wrecking Crew, and was very much in demand at the time as a session musician; he played the piano on "Bridge Over Troubled Water".
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