Most beautiful non classical music
Posted by: chimp on 12 March 2012
What is the music that touches the heart that is non classical?
To get the ball rolling;
Mike Oldfield, In High Places.
Porcupine Tree, Sentimental
Alf, Where Hides Sleep.
Dead Can Dance 'Host of the Seraphim' from 'The Serpents Egg' (1989)
Peter Hammill 'Afterwards' from 'The Peel Sessions' (1974-88)
Steven Wilson 'Deform to form a Star' from 'Grace for Drowning' (2011)
Joni Mitchell 'The Same Situation' from 'Court and Spark' (1974)
Pearl Jam 'Garden' from 'Ten' (1991)
and lots more I can't think of right now, but a few contributions anyway.
Blue
Love - Forever Changes certainly fits the bill. The whole album is beautiful but "You set the scene" stands out above the rest.
Here are a few
O Caroline by Robert Wyatt performed by Matching Mole
This Shirt written and performed by Mary Chapin Carpenter
Gilderoy is a traditional song performed by Shirley Collins
Fortheringay by Sandy Denny performed by Fairport Convention
Almost every song performed by Shirley or Sandy has a haunting quality even the jolly ones paint a picture. I guess what, for me, sets Sandy at the pinnacle of singer songwriters is there is absolutely no self indulgence; her songs are not about her or her experiences they are songs in the folk tradition.
There are lots of great songs performed quite beautifully - Nick Drake has to come to mind with Hazy Jane, HMHB with For What Is Chatteris, Trees with the Garden of Jane Delawny, Christie Moore singing I Wish I Was Back Home in Derry or, of course, Sorry by Karine Polwart.
All the best, Guy
Love - Forever Changes certainly fits the bill. The whole album is beautiful but "You set the scene" stands out above the rest.
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What is the music that touches the heart that is non classical?
To get the ball rolling;
Mike Oldfield, In High Places.
Porcupine Tree, Sentimental
Alf, Where Hides Sleep.
From Porcupine Tree also, I would add;
Lazarus
Collapse the Light into Earth
For You by Judie Tzuke.
Hamam/Norwegian Wood by Eric Roche
Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges
Voicething by Goldfrapp
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
Fruit Tree by Nick Drake
Jono
"Here before" by Headless Heroes, has an ethereal quality, quite beautiful.
"Year of the Cat" Al Stewart, I could listen to this song anytime whatever mood I am in and be touched by it.
QE2 by Mike Oldfield, to me it seems he has captured the excitement of a big cruise liner coming into port, thrilling.
On every street by Dire Straits, such a sad song.
Blue
Have to say the Swans who I recently discovered having missed them the first time. Really envious of everyone with their Naim systems when this stuff came out, must have been quite something.
Blue
Yep.
Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constant in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar."
Yep.
Just before our love got lost you said "I am as constant as a northern star." And I said, "Constant in the darkness, Where's that at? If you want me I'll be in the bar."
I could drink a case of Bud. Winky, this truly is an amazing album. The depth of feelings, emotions she put in this - well, I've never experienced before. NO music collection should be without this album.
Exile on Main Street.....seriously. G
Today my top list could be in no particular order:
- Loneliest Person by Pretty Things (from S.F. Sorrow)
- Perfect Day by Lou Reed (from Transformer)
- Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis by Tom Waits (from Blue Valentine)
Of course addition to these there is always the all time break up song MacArthur Park by Jimmy Webb, sung by Richard Harris.
Shine by Joni Mitchell is not too bad ...
C'mon folks. Since when was 'classical' music limited to the sentimental? What about scale, the heroic, cojones...call it what you will! G
C'mon folks. Since when was 'classical' music limited to the sentimental? What about scale, the heroic, cojones...call it what you will! G
Okay here is something different - It's a Beautiful Day
Air - "Biological"
Robert Wyatt - "Shipbuilding"
Something recent; King Creosote and John Hopkins: DIamond Mine is quite remarkably lovely, it is so beautifully 'right' I think, especially the electronic additions.
Bruce
Beautiful music, of the gut-wrenching sort:
- Steve Vai - Tender Surrender, a beautiful, beguiling gem, as intellectual as it is visceral
- Focus - Live at The Rainbow, Answers? Questions! - Questions? Answers!, specifically from 6:40 onwards where Jan Akkerman launches into a blistering guitar solo over four minutes long that, for me at least, plumbs the depths and scales the heights of a human spirit wholly given over to expressing the truth of music in all its sadness and joy.
- Steely Dan - anything from Aja or Gaucho, the beauty in those compositions, the truth of the stories told, goes straight to the pit of my stomach and lifts me to a place I never want to leave...
Bruce
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Bubble from Diamond Mine