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The most beautiful moment in music you can think of?

Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
edited November 2008 in Other Music
0:58 to 1:25 in this. I adore choral music in general but this is just amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYg1ntLgDY

What would the rest of you say is the single most beautiful music you can think of?
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  • pearlzepfanpearlzepfan Posts: 456
    Probably "Exit Music (For A Film)" transitioning into "Let Down" on Radiohead's Ok Computer
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • FluttermothFluttermoth Posts: 24
    I'd have to pick Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    "Are You There?" by Mono

    http://www.last.fm/music/Mono/You+Are+There

    note; album is "You Are There" - "Song is Are You There"
    “I know this song so well, I can smoke a cigarette, have a drink, brush my teeth, take a shit, and mow the lawn while singing it. But I'll only be doing a couple of those things during this version.”
  • Blind MelonBlind Melon Posts: 911
    Sigur Rós - "popplagið"
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • Jack_C_GregoryJack_C_Gregory Posts: 540
    The saxophone part in Jungleland off of the album Born to Run.
  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    To this day I don't know what they are, could be horns or guitar, but it's when they come in on the line "I remember when I swore I knew everything" on In My Tree by Pearl Jam.
  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Maybe the end of Hummer by Smashing Pumpkins, that guitar work is incredible - just what came to my head......
  • JSP552003JSP552003 Posts: 222
    dont know about most beautiful but Ive always loved this part of the song

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WdYt9VkVek

    4:58 - 6:21
  • Hurley3038Hurley3038 Posts: 35
    Beatles--A Day in the Life. The piano at the end is the best album coda ever.
  • searchlightsoulsearchlightsoul Posts: 583
    The refrain at the end of "Seasons".
  • muppetmuppet Posts: 980
    The piano intro to 'Because The Night' is another one.
  • KannKann Posts: 1,146
    This part of "Blood on the Motorway" of DJ Shadow :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLUGoRKb_hk
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    http://www.last.fm/music/Stars+of+the+Lid/_/Articulate+Silences+Part+2?autostart
  • K.LOK.LO Posts: 163
    R.E.M.'s Country Feedback is such a heartbreakingly beautiful song to me. I just love it, and most of the fans feel the same way.
  • TrixieCatTrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    Will always and forever be the most beautiful moment in music to me:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_0FsKiS8rg
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • wardenwarden Posts: 99
    Layne Staley's verse at the end of Don't Follow....
  • Dismantle The SunDismantle The Sun Posts: 139
    pearlzepfan wrote:
    Probably "Exit Music (For A Film)" transitioning into "Let Down" on Radiohead's Ok Computer


    That does sent shivers up my spine. Beautiful music.
    I love also Phillip Glass - anything he writes, is sheer intensity, soul moving and music in its finest.

    Patriarch Blues by Victor Krummenacher has plenty of fine moment - Lay This Body Down, Paradise and the jazz/blues take on W.H. Auden's poem 'Stop All the Clocks' is heaven.
    Never heard anything so moving since Peter Stalker's jazzed up tunes of William Blake's poetry.
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun - W.H. Auden
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    One that always sticks out:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPkKA7g_YN8&feature=related

    Starting at 1:40, they hit a groove and for the next several minutes it's just perfect.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
  • Meine liebeMeine liebe Posts: 203
    Off the top of my head

    The entire song "Muzzle of Bees" by Wilco, especially the ending flourish.

    "Heathens" by Drive By Truckers, when Patterson sings "it just gets so hard to keep between the ditches, when the roads wind the way they doooooooo"

    Another DBT song, "World of Hurt"....."it ain't too late to take a deep breath and throw yourself into it with everything you got.....It's Great to Be Alive" and then the coda

    Outro solo on All or None

    Long outro on Present Tense

    I'll stop now......Damn I love music
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  • Rhinocerous SurpriseRhinocerous Surprise Posts: 4,423
    The end of Lord, I'm Discouraged, by the Hold Steady. A whole song about a girl you love from afar being sucked into addiction, and then the last chorus...

    "Excuses and half truths, and fortified wine,
    I know it's unlikely she'll ever be mine,
    So I mostly just pray she don't die."
    Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
  • bobasfeetbobasfeet Posts: 1,168
    Meine leibe wrote:
    Damn I love music

    So simple. So true. I'd marry music if I could.
  • Yellow LedbennerYellow Ledbenner Posts: 54
    Blind Melon wrote:
    Sigur Rós - "popplagið"


    Yes..And Hoppipolla....the video and song itself are unreal.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDxMQaMqsig
  • bobasfeetbobasfeet Posts: 1,168
    The transition from Ballad in Urgency to Wiser Time by the Black Crowes is one of my favorite music moments.
  • AlBorlandAlBorland Posts: 117
    probably a couple of Buckley moments.
    Skeletons ain't got nowhere to stick their money.
  • Meine liebeMeine liebe Posts: 203
    bobasfeet wrote:
    The transition from Ballad in Urgency to Wiser Time by the Black Crowes is one of my favorite music moments.

    Amen!
    I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

    Mitch Hedberg
  • MattyJoeMattyJoe Posts: 1,424
    It's not THE most beautiful for me, buts it's one of the most beautiful:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

    1:32 - 3:26

    Best parts: 1:33, 2:06-2:08 (this is the most moving part for me).

    Fucking amazing.
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    -Reagan
  • dustdust Posts: 133
    Country Feedback is a good one

    Mine would have to be the intro/outro to Gospel Plow by the Screaming Trees, I have goosebumps just thinking about it
  • jamie ukjamie uk Posts: 3,812
    I'm gonna close this thread, so apart from quotes of this post and messages of agreeance, I do not expect to see anything else to top this for beautiful moments in music ;):)
    enjoy
    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6-6xV0uAVpk
    I came, I saw, I concurred.....
  • soclosesoclose Posts: 628
    Meine leibe wrote:
    The entire song "Muzzle of Bees" by Wilco, especially the ending flourish.

    I'm having trouble coming to any conclusions myself, but I have to agree with this one. It's at least Wilco's most beautiful song as far as I'm concerned.
  • BinFrogBinFrog MA Posts: 7,309
    MattyJoe wrote:
    It's not THE most beautiful for me, buts it's one of the most beautiful:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEC8nqT6Rrk

    1:32 - 3:26

    Best parts: 1:33, 2:06-2:08 (this is the most moving part for me).

    Fucking amazing.



    Good call. Also, when Miles comes in after the meandering intro to "Shhh/Peaceful" on "In A Silent Way", it's hauntingly beautiful.
    Bright eyed kid: "Wow Typo Man, you're the best!"
    Typo Man: "Thanks kidz, but remembir, stay in skool!"
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