Simply Beautiful Songs

No idea if metioned... Hell, I could have mentioned it already this thread is so old.

So Long Sweet Summer, Dashboard Confessional -

We're Going to be Friends, White Stripes -

 

Don't know if she's been mentioned but back in the '70s Roberta Flack was recording simple beautiful songs...

--Killing Me Softly
-- Feel Like Making Love
-- First Time I Ever Saw Yor Face
-- You've Got a Friend
-- Where Is The Love

Diana Ross recorded Touch Me In the Morning around the same period.

Badfinger had three beautiful tracks on Side 1 of its seminal No Dice album, too:

-- No Matter What
-- Without You
-- Love Me Do

Also, moving into the '80s, another favorite, Ricki Lee Jones, recorded We Belong Together, which was about her breakup with Tom Waits.

 

I have no idea what the standard for this thread is. I find every song I love beautiful in its own way. OK, I might not use the word to describe "Creeping Death," but it still has a level of beauty.

I'd guess some of these favorites might make more sense in the thread:

"Purple Rain," Prince and the Revolution
"Backstreets," Bruce Springsteen:

"Lost in the Supermarket," The Clash:

"Candle in the Wind," Elton John:

"Don't Cry," Guns N' Roses:

"In My Life," The Beatles:

"Love and Happiness," Al Green:

 

Fairport Convention - "Farewell, Farewell"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNrVEi54yA

The Pentangle - "Willy O'Winsbury"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNn2TDDru0


Both songs are based on the same 16th century Scottish ballad.

 

Pretty much every one of Nick Cave's ballads.

 

Girl From Impanena - Gilberto and Getz

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=UJkxFhFRFDA&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DUJkxFhFRFDA

 

I know it's supposed to be popular music but I honestly believe this might be the most beautiful song ever written and this is a stunning performance by Jose van Dam. While it's not literally about death it's the song I want for any funeral or memorial service held for me.

The translation of the text:

I am lost to the world
with which I used to waste so much time,
It has heard nothing from me for so long
that it may very well believe that I am dead!

It is of no consequence to me
Whether it thinks me dead;
I cannot deny it,
for I really am dead to the world.

I am dead to the world’s tumult,
And I rest in a quiet realm!
I live alone in my heaven,
In my love and in my song!