Simply Beautiful Songs

Lovin You - Minnie Ripperton

Make it With You - Bread

Revolution # 9 The Beatles

 

Please, Boom, please, please tell me you're joking.

 

My choice would be 'Multicolored Lady."

Bonnie Raitt: "I'm Blowin' Away."

If I had to choose a Lightfoot song, it would be "Affair on 8th Avenue." Haunting.

And from a surprising source: Delbert McClinton, "You Were Never Mine." Just a great, great song.

Late add: 'I'll stand by you," the Pretenders. It was the closing music in a great 'Homicide" episode, about a biker gang member who gets himself killed to save his daugher.

 

I love Townes Van Zandt's cover of Rolling Stones "Dead Flowers."

 

It's so devastatingly sad, but it's beautiful ...

I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt.

 

Devastatingly sad = beautiful

 

indeed, ygbkm.





take a bow by madonna

stay by lisa loeb

lost in love by air supply

 

Another two from me:
• "Fallen For You," Sheila Nicholls.

• "Brothers in Arms," Dire Straits

 

93D, thanks for putting my favorite REM song. I'm listening to it now.

 

I saw an interview with Kevin Smith about a year ago, can't remember where, but he talked about how for years he had wanted to use the Live song "Hold Me Up" in one of his films, but could never find exactly the most appropriate place until he made "Zack and Miri Make a Porno" and he used it in the scene when the two of them finally do the deed.

Anyway, I remember that got me to thinking about movies where the absolute appropriate song is played over the absolute appropriate scene. One of my favorites has always been, for some reason or another, at the end of "The Royal Tenenbaums" when Van Morrison's "Everyone" is played while the family leaves Royal's grave. Wes Anderson is largely a master at this craft, though.

Back to the task at hand, though. Here's some of my favorites in this most beautiful category off the top of my head:
"Dy'er Mak'er" - Led Zeppelin
"Atlantic City" - Bruce Springsteen
"Look Around" - Blues Traveler
"Into the Mystic" - Van Morrison
"Heard 'Em Say" - Kanye West and the guy from Maroon 5
"Early Sunsets Over Monroeville" - My Chemical Romance
"Cut Up Angels" - The Used
"Across the Sea" - Weezer
"I Am Trying to Break Your Heart" - Wilco
"Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab For Cutie
"Call and Answer" - Barenaked Ladies
"The Scientist" - Coldplay

 

Looks Like Rain by the Grateful Dead

Eyes of the World by the Grateful Dead with Branford Marsalis on sax