The most beautiful moment in music you can think of?

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  • mavi
    mavi Posts: 941
    Mozart's Requiem, all of it and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqrCRaFb2I in particular
    Herbert von Karajan directing the Philharmonic of Berlin remains the most beautiful interpretation in my opinion.
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  • GivenToJam88
    GivenToJam88 NJ Posts: 1,187
    WeaponX655321 wrote:
    The saxophone part in Jungleland off of the album Born to Run.

    i agree with you, the whole song is amazing
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  • Blind Melon
    Blind Melon Posts: 911
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Not THE most beautiful, but that silence in the last line in 'Where Did You Sleep Last Night' off of Nirvana Unplugged. Wow.

    Especially when you see the video... he's had his eyes closed, and then BOOM, he opens his eyes really quickly and closes them to close the song... someone described it as if his soul leaves his body at that point... haha, it's so creepy!
    If I could, think I would give in.
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    I had to write a paper about this song in school and I fell in love with it. It has a mood that just paralyzes me (in a good way).

    http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=x3MMEseZ2Fs&feature=related

    It's a Mahler song called Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

    There are a hundred gorgeous songs around, but I think of this one when I think of that kind of stillness.
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  • Jellyrolls
    Jellyrolls Posts: 523
    Mayonnaise - Smashing Pumpkins. Yes, the whole song.
  • TransplantedNewf
    TransplantedNewf Posts: 805
    Hands down, one of the best.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf2YGbTjAGc
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  • Hawk123
    Hawk123 Posts: 2,369
    I have always thought 'An Ending Ascent' by Brian Eno is one of the most incredible ambient songs ever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeGdUMynSOU
  • JP2026766
    JP2026766 Posts: 1,125
    WeaponX655321 wrote:
    The saxophone part in Jungleland off of the album Born to Run.

    I agree 100%.

    Also, The Rain Song by Led Zeppelin. Probably one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard, musically and lyrically.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKZyqZNID0

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  • prytocorduroy
    prytocorduroy Posts: 4,355
    A Warm Place - NIN
  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    Fluttermoth wrote:
    I'd have to pick Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for Strings'

    Agreed ......simply beautiful
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  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    WeaponX655321 wrote:
    The saxophone part in Jungleland off of the album Born to Run.

    Oh, I love that part too. :)
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  • Yellow Ledbenner
    Yellow Ledbenner Posts: 54
    Great Gig In The Sky

    Man Clare Torry...that little white girl has some pipes on her..and a pretty face.

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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    mick hucknall dying by choking on his own vomit after a Babycham binge... its not happened yet, but when it does it will be the most beautiful thing in music... until then i think it might be the guitar solo of Midlake's - Head Home... (2.49 into this video ... which gives me goose bumps every time... and it makes me do the guitar face. :)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    john cage - 4'33"

    :p
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  • JordyWordy
    JordyWordy Posts: 2,261
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOJbXRm5H84&feature=related

    This song is called "Architecture", by Chequerboard. Its short, and most likely not THE most beaufitul moment....but i heard it once and never forgot it. live versions of it go on and on.

    the calming effect that this one minute acoustic arrangement has on me is astounding. others dont seem to get it, but its one of my favourite recorded pieces ive ever heard
    some amazing pieces in this thread
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    http://www.last.fm/music/Stars+of+the+Lid/_/Articulate+Silences+Part+2?autostart
    Nice choice.

    Requiem for Dying Mothers is another beautiful Stars of the Lid song.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • pearlzepfan
    pearlzepfan Posts: 456
    Maybe the part in Van Morrison's "Madame Geoge" where he repeats the line "And the love that loves the love that loves to love" about 15 times. Phenominal
    "I'm a thief, and I dig it"
  • LineOneMightyFine
    LineOneMightyFine Posts: 347
    Here's one that hit me today while I was at the gym. QOTSA, Misfit Love. I couldn't find the studio version online, here's a live version.

    From 4:46 to the end of the song, this just rocks:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYw0KhwXdAY
  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    JSP552003 wrote:
    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

    This is 9:25 of pure beauty. Beautiful Instrumental track off of a perfect album
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  • DiRtyFranK38
    DiRtyFranK38 Posts: 3,131
    euphoria morning
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