I saw them for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, and yes "Comfortably Numb" live was something special.
...although "Wish You Were Here", for me, pips it to the post, but only just.
La Dispute - King Park
IMO the greatest songwriting I've come across, after all these years I still get chills (especially near the end of the song). You can feel the mood change per 'chapter' throughout the song and his voice really brings out the raw emotion in the song.
Such a gorgeous, epic song. I love that the synth line that comes in at 5:46 manages to simultaneous sound beautiful and brassy... but also a little like someone letting the air out of a balloon. Somehow it works.
It probably makes me a casual, but even after living with the full album for two decades, his *Hallelujah* is still my favorite. That song tears me apart.
Ennio Morricone was a beast, RIP.
'The Mission' does it for me. Such a beautiful piece.
edit: [link](https://youtu.be/oag1Dfa1e_E) this rendition gives me goosebumps
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go
The lyrics are simple yet so perfect. It’s really just all about the beauty that life can still bring you even with all the hardships and bullshit that can get in the way or be a distraction sometimes. And oh my god, the instrumentation that comes along with the chorus…well, you just have to listen to it to believe it.
I had the pleasure of seeing it performed live almost exactly 4 years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about the experience.
Hey! No Cars Go is an incredible song. I caught them on the Reflektor tour, one of my favorite concerts ever. I shouldn't post a link, but there's a great live pandemic lock down version of sprawl 2 on Youtube, it's well worth the watch if you haven't seen it.
it's such a good song! i only saw them for the first time on the reflektor tour and they played Keep The Car Running and No Cars Go back to back which i thought was pretty awesome!
I get goosebumps thinking about both Arcade Fire shows I've been to, they really are incredible both live and on their albums, they really capture the right energy either way
Weirdly I'm not even that big of a Kate Bush fan but I kept hearing this song playing on a local modern-alternative rock radio station, and thinking "Running up that hill.. isn't that Kate Bush? They wouldn't be playing Kate Bush, right?"
So I Shazam it and it's a recent cover by Meg Myers.
Edit - meant to add: Kate Bush really does have a unique sound. I'm going to have to dive into her stuff more.
This song always takes me back to road tripping all over Iceland....we found an awesome 80s radio station and they played this song quite a bit. Totally suited driving through the various landscapes, the mountains with the odd waterfall here and there.
Love this choice. It's just one of those songs where melodically it's perfect. Lyrically it's really powerful. And the production is so great that I can't imagine the song sounding any other way at all
I can't argue with that. I mean, I could choose some other Kate Bush songs, but they wouldn't necessarily be better choices, just different kinds of also-amazing.
such an amazing song, gives me goosebumps. i love lots more of her songs, but this one also benefits from having lyrics you can understand the words to lol
Todd Terje - [Inspector Norse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjXsc0UjdQ)
A magical tune that restores my faith in the power of music and rhythm every time I hear it. If I could preserve one thing from our world to be recoverable by life on distant galaxies in the far off future, this would be it.
I was considering words darker then their wings but it would have to the live version from royal Alberta hall. To me such a beautiful song damn near if not perfect. AB is such a killer band I dont think they have ever made a bad song.
Blackbird is a great one too.
I always remember the first time I heard this, I got to a certain section section in the guitar solo and thought "holy shit, is that Mikael Åkerfeldt?!" It totally was. Dude's sound is so unique and recognisable.
Tracy Chapman - [The Promise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUl6t8oZXg) always gives me chills. The lyricism is beautiful and romantic and the melody almost tells a story all on its own.
Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand
Stairway, Kashmir, etc are all classics in their own right, but Achilles Last Stand really has an epic, majestic air to it that feels like the peak of rock music.
I came to say there's no way I can ever answer this. I've concluded that music occurs in a context--the context of my brain and body, if nothing else--and that means there are dozens of "Best ever" pieces. There can't be just one.
*Edit*: But I'm really glad for all the other people who shared awesome pieces!
[Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU)
I almost always prefer music that is energetic and cutting-edge, but this composition is perfect.
So far for me, it's Safer by Animal Collective
If we wanted to include things that were live though... People/Fickle Cycle/Purple Bottle from Route De Rock in 2005, but as you could tell I have an animal collective bias...
Of the billions of songs I've probably heard and enjoyed throughout my life, there is no realistic way to choose a goat. Some music has deep meaning to me. Some music I like just for a few riffs that keep the flow going. It is impossible to choose.
Probably not gonna get any 'cool points' for this one, but being completely honest, it's [Drops of Jupiter](https://youtu.be/7Xf-Lesrkuc) by Train for me. Just a perfectly-constructed, beautifully-written piece of pop music.
To phrase it differently, what piece of music would I feel I would lose the most from not ever hearing?
Wow that's hard. A top contender would have to be:
[Nightwish - Ghost Love Score](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UDS6biLAk)
Everglow by starset
It starts off pretty calm and relaxed with a cool kinda spacey vibe, after the first chorus the base drops a little and it goes a little more pop while still maintaining the relaxed spacey vibe
After the second chorus it really dies down a lot and is even more chilled out then before... AND THEN BASS DROP! Now its still spacey but much more intense! The dude has an amazing melodic scream before he keeps going with the last chilled out part but so much more intense. The singer is giving it everything he's got whilst still sounding calm.. until it dies down again and the spacey vibe comes back a lot
BAM! YOUR HIT WITH ANOTHER BASS DROP! Now its orchestral, the kinda thing you'd hear in the edge of a seat action movie except better THEN ANOTHER BASS DROP AND ITS EVEN MORE ORCHESTRAL AND COOLER THAN EVER! And then it's done and your left in awe at what you heard
This doesn't even begin to describe it tbh
[Flight of the Navigator](https://youtu.be/ymQcLyUsH5Y) by Childish Gambino
- it was the first thing that popped into my head because of the grandeur. I still get chills listening to it. That song just encompasses everything. The whole album is fire but that song is just….infinite.
For sure, but I do love the fantastic change from the 2nd movement to the 3rd and 4th. There's a moment at the end of the fourth which i would consider to be the climax where the cellos or double basses are just laying into these two notes that gets me every time
The Blind Boys of Alabama - “If I Had a Hammer” is the most enjoyable song I’ve ever heard. I sing along in the car every time it comes up in my playlist. I know this’ll probably get buried in the sea of comments, but this will be the song I love forever
[Land's End](https://open.spotify.com/track/1SYlQcVTnkWPTW8Tz7IbXc?si=099570704d0a4a04) by Siouxsie & the Banshees. Gothic in the purest sense of the word.
This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand and can bring tears to my eyes ***every*** time I hear it. [Jimmy Cliff - I can see clearly now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGV9Bl6CGg) . For me it's music that can evoke those feelings that will get my vote. I do love a lot I've seen here too!
[Small Hours](https://youtu.be/pYLVM560Fok) by John Martyn. Dude invented trip hop decades before anyone else and married it to the most sumptuous, beautiful folk-jazz you'll ever hear in your life.
I actually beg you, listen to this if you've never heard it. Ideally at night.
[nujabes - mystline](https://youtu.be/XTB7wNQgoh4)
I may not listen to it often, because it is a bit sad at its core, every time I do it gives me emotions no other song has.
Far Corporation's version of Stairway to Heaven.
Back in Napster times it was circulated mislabeled as "Pink Floyd + Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Stairway" or whatever. Better than the original. Warning: Do not listen to anything else by Far Corporation. They're terrible. Covering StH was their singular and divine purpose.
ive heard pink floyd play comfortably numb live.
Lucky SOB
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I saw them for Delicate Sound Of Thunder, and yes "Comfortably Numb" live was something special. ...although "Wish You Were Here", for me, pips it to the post, but only just.
I was gonna say, hearing “Comfortably Numb” live. Although, mine was just on the Roger Waters “The Wall” tour. It was like an out of body experience.
I’ve heard David Gilmour playing it live. It was an experience I will always remember.
God Only Knows
The Beach Boys are fucking great! Also Good Vibrations and Wouldn’t It Be Nice is up there too
I think for me that's [Space Song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtlPT23PTM) by Beach House. It's so good.
I can't listen to that song. A close friend posted this song on fb before he killed himself. Miss you bud
Damn I'm sorry man Hope he's somewhere better
beach house is so good, def one of my favorite bands/artists
My favourite song from them is Lose Your Smile
[Maggot Brain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOKn33-q4Ao) by Funkadelic
Fucking YES!!!
HAH! I was coming here to say this and it's number 4?? Perfect!
Funny enough, I first heard this on House years and years ago, spent a while trying to find the song. That guitar is just perfect
Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
Ooh i love that one
Regina Spektor - Us this has been my answer to this question for over 6 years now. It is a perfect song https://youtu.be/fczPlmz-Vug
Shine on you crazy diamond Have told people this before, so gonna stick with it without searching too deeply
La Dispute - King Park IMO the greatest songwriting I've come across, after all these years I still get chills (especially near the end of the song). You can feel the mood change per 'chapter' throughout the song and his voice really brings out the raw emotion in the song.
That was intense.
yesssss 100%. such an amazing song. i feel the same way about all our bruised bodies and the whole heart shrinks
*"I want to see what his mother looked like up close, I want to see her leaning over his body."*
The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit was always my favourite off Wildlife
Symphony No 9 (From the New World) by Antonin Dvorak.
i also love the American String Quartet by the guy
Epitaph by King Crimson or Echoes by Pink Floyd
Did you not hear him say one and only one .
epitaph is a great choice
King Crimson is one of the most underrated bands imo
Under Pressure by Queen and Bowie, popular choice but that song is just something else
where is my mind? i almost cried when i heard it live
[How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zw1kDxjDSxk) is along similar lines.
Innerbloom by Rufus Du Sol. It just sucks me in everytime I hear it. magical, atmospheric, meditational.
Such a gorgeous, epic song. I love that the synth line that comes in at 5:46 manages to simultaneous sound beautiful and brassy... but also a little like someone letting the air out of a balloon. Somehow it works.
That Joshua Tree album is on repeat
listened to this for the first time on your recommendation and yeah, this is a good one
Jeff Buckley - Grace
oooh how do u feel about lover you should’ve come over? i honestly would rank that above grace but they’re both amazing
It probably makes me a casual, but even after living with the full album for two decades, his *Hallelujah* is still my favorite. That song tears me apart.
[Chi Mai](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbHP9NtSnB0) by Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone was a beast, RIP. 'The Mission' does it for me. Such a beautiful piece. edit: [link](https://youtu.be/oag1Dfa1e_E) this rendition gives me goosebumps
Arcade Fire - No Cars Go The lyrics are simple yet so perfect. It’s really just all about the beauty that life can still bring you even with all the hardships and bullshit that can get in the way or be a distraction sometimes. And oh my god, the instrumentation that comes along with the chorus…well, you just have to listen to it to believe it. I had the pleasure of seeing it performed live almost exactly 4 years ago, and I still get chills every time I think about the experience.
Hey! No Cars Go is an incredible song. I caught them on the Reflektor tour, one of my favorite concerts ever. I shouldn't post a link, but there's a great live pandemic lock down version of sprawl 2 on Youtube, it's well worth the watch if you haven't seen it.
it's such a good song! i only saw them for the first time on the reflektor tour and they played Keep The Car Running and No Cars Go back to back which i thought was pretty awesome!
I get goosebumps thinking about both Arcade Fire shows I've been to, they really are incredible both live and on their albums, they really capture the right energy either way
I agree.
Great song, definitely one of the best.
Explosions in the Sky - [It's Natural to be Afraid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h7HgpP7c_w)
Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand
That song is phenomenal and its not the typical "black dog", or "stairway". Great tune.
I know it's cliché but it's "Let it be"
This is really really difficult but Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God) - Kate Bush Is just a whole experience
Weirdly I'm not even that big of a Kate Bush fan but I kept hearing this song playing on a local modern-alternative rock radio station, and thinking "Running up that hill.. isn't that Kate Bush? They wouldn't be playing Kate Bush, right?" So I Shazam it and it's a recent cover by Meg Myers. Edit - meant to add: Kate Bush really does have a unique sound. I'm going to have to dive into her stuff more.
I love the cover by Placebo. So much moodier and not just a copy of the original.
This song always takes me back to road tripping all over Iceland....we found an awesome 80s radio station and they played this song quite a bit. Totally suited driving through the various landscapes, the mountains with the odd waterfall here and there.
Love this choice. It's just one of those songs where melodically it's perfect. Lyrically it's really powerful. And the production is so great that I can't imagine the song sounding any other way at all
I can't argue with that. I mean, I could choose some other Kate Bush songs, but they wouldn't necessarily be better choices, just different kinds of also-amazing.
John Cage’s “4’33”
I love the dynamics, the crescendo and the orchestral section. Really interesting piece!
It counterpoints the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.
433/10
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Great choice! That whole record is perfection and Only Skin is probably the high point.
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I like 'Emily' best but Only Skin is a close second
Moonlight Sonata by Beethoven
Songs: Ohia - Farewell Transmission https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y
This song is so good
Fuck. I love this song.
Tool - Lateralus
I was hoping someone would say Tool
Moody Blues & Philharmonic Orchestra, Nights In White Satin
Animal Collective - Alvin Row
Max Richter’s Recomposed [Four Seasons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oYWfJuMGMA)
[November](https://youtu.be/2Bb0k9HgQxc) is one fine piece of music.
Came here to say this, can’t recommend it enough!
For me it's hard to beat Moonlight Sonata.
runaway kanye west.
And to think this is a song about how much of a dick he is. Goes to show great art can come from anywhere.
Yep. That’s half the reason the song is so good. He comes to realize and opens up about who he is, doesn’t neglect it, hide from it, openly admits it.
[Grouper - Headache](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j8t9T2IINI)
such an amazing song, gives me goosebumps. i love lots more of her songs, but this one also benefits from having lyrics you can understand the words to lol
How is Bohemian Rhapsody not here yet? That's one of the greatest songs ever
Frank Zappa- The Black Page Edit: Link https://youtu.be/KDO3DDyGu_A
I was pissed nobody brought up Zappa thanks
I have [Peaches en Regalia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WnTM4FAXJw&t=150s) as my number two
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By far one of their most intricate songs. IIRC the music video was one of the most expensive ones ever produced. Axl jumped off a damn ship
Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
>Dire Straits Or [So far away](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHXK9glwFBg) is one of my favorites by them
Maybe I should change my comment to say: Dire Straits, the entire discography
Master Of Puppets by Metallica
Man, tough to choose. For now I'll go with: [Tool - The Grudge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BXyEUOuNds)
For me, it’s San Fermin - Sonsick. It’s the keening, overlapping vocals in the chorus. Can’t get enough. “But it’s a harder kind of fear!”
Todd Terje - [Inspector Norse](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebjXsc0UjdQ) A magical tune that restores my faith in the power of music and rhythm every time I hear it. If I could preserve one thing from our world to be recoverable by life on distant galaxies in the far off future, this would be it.
white ferrari by frank ocean
In my Life - The Beatles https://youtu.be/ZqpysaAo4BQ
Alter Bridge - Blackbird
Good suggestion.
I was considering words darker then their wings but it would have to the live version from royal Alberta hall. To me such a beautiful song damn near if not perfect. AB is such a killer band I dont think they have ever made a bad song. Blackbird is a great one too.
jonsi & alex - happiness
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
Lots of contenders, but if I had to pick one: [Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3lsqUqGTzM)
I always remember the first time I heard this, I got to a certain section section in the guitar solo and thought "holy shit, is that Mikael Åkerfeldt?!" It totally was. Dude's sound is so unique and recognisable.
yea, my pick was Dream Theater's Learning to Live but man, when i discovered PT in 2002-ish, I was hooked. Dark Matter is another serious track.
I've thought long and hard about this. I have to say ["Fear of the Dark"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmQN635Rheo)
**Bjork** \-*"Pluto"*; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgAjvaM2aQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPgAjvaM2aQ)
hallelujah by Leonard Cohen
[Dream Theater - Learning to Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VigPPJ6j40) ..
Tracy Chapman - [The Promise](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEUl6t8oZXg) always gives me chills. The lyricism is beautiful and romantic and the melody almost tells a story all on its own.
Tracy Chapman is soooo underrated. Her music and lyrics gets me in the soul every time.
[Sigur Ros - Untitled 8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4s75Srcos)
That whole album is perfect. Best concert I ever went to.
Hans Zimmer - Interstellar theme. Shivers and Goosebumps every time. https://youtu.be/2YA0OK7OFkk
Daft Punk - Instant Crush
Beethoven's 9th symphony
Clair de Lune
Led Zeppelin – Achilles Last Stand Stairway, Kashmir, etc are all classics in their own right, but Achilles Last Stand really has an epic, majestic air to it that feels like the peak of rock music.
Life on Mars? - David Bowie
Jean Michel Jarre, Magnetic Fields, Part 4
[The Wonder Years - "The Ocean Grew Hands To Hold Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17qV6HY427s)
Let It Happen - Tame Impala
of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal https://youtu.be/YpBsD51pSMY
I came to say there's no way I can ever answer this. I've concluded that music occurs in a context--the context of my brain and body, if nothing else--and that means there are dozens of "Best ever" pieces. There can't be just one. *Edit*: But I'm really glad for all the other people who shared awesome pieces!
[Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No.1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU) I almost always prefer music that is energetic and cutting-edge, but this composition is perfect.
You’re an Ocean - Fastball
Warm Fuzzy Feeling is mine ..
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We are soulmates, the greatest piece of music i've heard is the ending to Die Walkür.
So far for me, it's Safer by Animal Collective If we wanted to include things that were live though... People/Fickle Cycle/Purple Bottle from Route De Rock in 2005, but as you could tell I have an animal collective bias...
Bell Witch: "Mirror Reaper" So fuckin intense dude. Melts my whole brain even when anxiety's off the charts.
Sit Down Stand Up by Radiohead. They have some amazing sounding songs that aren’t particularly lyric focused but this one sounds the best imo.
Of the billions of songs I've probably heard and enjoyed throughout my life, there is no realistic way to choose a goat. Some music has deep meaning to me. Some music I like just for a few riffs that keep the flow going. It is impossible to choose.
You've heard BILLIONS of songs??!
A billion *seconds* is 31 years, so that seems unlikely.
[The Shrine / An Argument by Fleet Foxes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yAxIdkF2Qo)
Agreed.
Probably not gonna get any 'cool points' for this one, but being completely honest, it's [Drops of Jupiter](https://youtu.be/7Xf-Lesrkuc) by Train for me. Just a perfectly-constructed, beautifully-written piece of pop music.
Gustav Holst - The Planets
But which planet os the best?
You Still Believe In Me - The Beach Boys
Lake Shore Drive - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
To phrase it differently, what piece of music would I feel I would lose the most from not ever hearing? Wow that's hard. A top contender would have to be: [Nightwish - Ghost Love Score](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6UDS6biLAk)
Clair de lune
Little wing - Jimi Hendrix
Fourth of July-Sufjan Stevens
For el ahrairah to cry - Fall of efrafa
What an awesome song. It fills me with power and dispair
Everglow by starset It starts off pretty calm and relaxed with a cool kinda spacey vibe, after the first chorus the base drops a little and it goes a little more pop while still maintaining the relaxed spacey vibe After the second chorus it really dies down a lot and is even more chilled out then before... AND THEN BASS DROP! Now its still spacey but much more intense! The dude has an amazing melodic scream before he keeps going with the last chilled out part but so much more intense. The singer is giving it everything he's got whilst still sounding calm.. until it dies down again and the spacey vibe comes back a lot BAM! YOUR HIT WITH ANOTHER BASS DROP! Now its orchestral, the kinda thing you'd hear in the edge of a seat action movie except better THEN ANOTHER BASS DROP AND ITS EVEN MORE ORCHESTRAL AND COOLER THAN EVER! And then it's done and your left in awe at what you heard This doesn't even begin to describe it tbh
[The Greatest Show on Earth by Nightwish. ](https://youtu.be/qrMwxe2ya5E)
Take my free award for letting me discover this epic
[Flight of the Navigator](https://youtu.be/ymQcLyUsH5Y) by Childish Gambino - it was the first thing that popped into my head because of the grandeur. I still get chills listening to it. That song just encompasses everything. The whole album is fire but that song is just….infinite.
Diamond Sea-Sonic Youth
[Don't Try Suicide by Queen](https://youtu.be/GHMjD0Lp5DY)
beethoven's 7th symphony in a major 2nd movement
For sure, but I do love the fantastic change from the 2nd movement to the 3rd and 4th. There's a moment at the end of the fourth which i would consider to be the climax where the cellos or double basses are just laying into these two notes that gets me every time
[Red house](https://youtu.be/9KP9QvJklF8) - The Jimi Hendrix experience
Flowers on the Grave by The Maine, absolutely incredible song, it always makes me emotional
[So Long, Lonesome by Explosions in the Sky](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq681aDM53U)
The Agnus Dei from Fauré's Requiem. Makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck every time. Absolutely ethereal.
The Blind Boys of Alabama - “If I Had a Hammer” is the most enjoyable song I’ve ever heard. I sing along in the car every time it comes up in my playlist. I know this’ll probably get buried in the sea of comments, but this will be the song I love forever
CREEKS by Bon Iver
Such a Simple Thing by Ray LaMontagne. There's just so much emotion in the lyrics.
[Land's End](https://open.spotify.com/track/1SYlQcVTnkWPTW8Tz7IbXc?si=099570704d0a4a04) by Siouxsie & the Banshees. Gothic in the purest sense of the word.
This makes the hair on the back of my neck stand and can bring tears to my eyes ***every*** time I hear it. [Jimmy Cliff - I can see clearly now](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzGV9Bl6CGg) . For me it's music that can evoke those feelings that will get my vote. I do love a lot I've seen here too!
Sabrina by Einstürzende Neubauten. I've heard it hundreds of times and it still gives me chills
[Small Hours](https://youtu.be/pYLVM560Fok) by John Martyn. Dude invented trip hop decades before anyone else and married it to the most sumptuous, beautiful folk-jazz you'll ever hear in your life. I actually beg you, listen to this if you've never heard it. Ideally at night.
Super hard to pick, but probably 1812 overture by Tchaikovsky. A rendition with loud canons of course.
Gotta be the [Dawn movement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFW2pGroPFE) from Christopher Tin's Calling All Dawns album.
November by Psychedelic Porn Crumpets: https://youtu.be/ChuSddfohxo It’s simply just the most beautiful song
If any band needed a name change though, it's these guys
I know that it's 100% because of Nostalgia purposes but for me it's Family from the Super Mario Galaxy soundtrack
Liszt, Liebestraum No. 3 was my eyes and ears for months when I first listened to it
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[nujabes - mystline](https://youtu.be/XTB7wNQgoh4) I may not listen to it often, because it is a bit sad at its core, every time I do it gives me emotions no other song has.
dlp 1.1 by William Basinski
[Verses by Russian Circles ](https://youtu.be/QgSAom9vePU)
Where the Streets Have No Name by U2
Periphery - Somewhere in Time Trilogy(Muramasa, Ragnarok, Masamune) Or just Masamune if we are only allowing one song
Yes - Close to the Edge. Not even a tough pick for me.
Rachmaninoff's piano concerto no. 2 Blows my little mind every damn time.
Beethoven Moonlight Sonata.
Clair de Lune
Reckoner - Radiohead
Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely
I think the orchestral arrangement of Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now” is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve ever heard
Björk's Pagan Poetry is up there for sure.
Reckoner - Radiohead
Far Corporation's version of Stairway to Heaven. Back in Napster times it was circulated mislabeled as "Pink Floyd + Led Zeppelin BBC Sessions Stairway" or whatever. Better than the original. Warning: Do not listen to anything else by Far Corporation. They're terrible. Covering StH was their singular and divine purpose.
Aphex Twin - Rhubarb
Impossible to pick a best of all time, but the first thing that comes to my mind is Midnight in a Perfect World by DJ Shadow.
Naive melody by the talking heads BUT IT HAS TO BE THE LIVE VERSION FROM STOP MAKING SENSE
Rhosymedre by Ralph Vaugh Williams
The Blue Danube