Songs that are just SOMETHING special!

[William Ustav]

Let's list all the songs/music pieces that are really something special! It's not just music that you like, but music that is magical somehow! Music that somehow just oozes quality! It can be any genre!

I'll begin!

Beethoven - Für Elise
Beethoven - 5th Symphony
ABBA - S.O.S.
ABBA - Fernando
Elvis Presley - That's All Right
Elvis Presley - Are You Lonesome Tonight
Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode
Tom Jones - I'll Never Fall in Love again
Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night
Frank Sinatra - Bewitched
Sissel - Summer Snow
Whitney Houston - I will always love you
Mariah Carey - Hero
2Pac - Changes
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Céline Dion - Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore

Can't think of any more right now!!!

Post your all-time special songs!!! /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Vlad]

Hi girl!

[Oakleys]

james taylor - fire and rain
kansas - dust in the wind
live - lightning crashes
slipknot - vermillion, part 2
story of the year - sidewalks
chevelle - send the pain below
dave matthews band - let you down
guns n' roses - november rain
incubus - i miss you
led zeppelin - thank you
led zeppelin - stairway to heaven
p.o.d. - alive
the used - yesterday's feelings
eric clapton - tears in heaven
jimmy eat world - night drive
jimmy eat world - 23
bush - superman
bush - land of the living
my chemical romance - cemetery drive
oasis - stop crying your heart out

yes I can be a girl sometimes.

[XenoWang]

The Nurse Who Loved Me- A Perfect Circle
A Change of Seasons- Dream Theater
Space Dye Vest- Dream Theater
Hell's Kitchen- Dream Theater (I highly suggest that everybody checks this particular song out- the buildup and climax are mind blowing...)
Disappear- Dream Theater
Sick Sad Little World- Incubus (this song alone displays Incubus's genius)
The Drapery Falls- Opeth
April Etherreal- Opeth
BE (the entire album as a whole)- Pain of Salvation
Beyond the Pale- Pain of Salvation
Heartattack in a Lay By- Porcupine Tree
For the Love of God- Steve Vai
Last Chance- Vinnie Moore
Daydream- Vinnie Moore

[William Ustav]

Awesome songs, guys! I haven't heard any of them, 'cept for Tears in Heaven (good pick!). Gonna have to check 'em out! /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Kitosho]

Dream Theater - Hell's Kitchen, Stream of Consciousness, The Spirit Carries On, Metropolis Pt. 1, Anna Lee... hell, WAY too many to list. /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force, Like an Angel, Heaven Tonight, My Resurrection, Dreaming (Tell Me)

The Mars Volta - Take the Veil Cerpin Taxt, Son et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP, Drunkship of Lanterns

Soundgarden - Like Suicide, Black Hole Sun, Superunknown, Sleep Tight, Burden In My Hand, Blow Up the Outside World (and many, many, many more)

Stratovarius - Eagleheart, Stratofortress, Learning To Fly, We Are The Future, Tears Of Ice, A Drop In The Ocean

Kansas - Carry On my Wayward Son, Dust In The Wind

Rush - Free Will, Closer To The Heart, Tom Sawyer, Test For Echo

Coheed and Cambria - Faint of Hearts, Three Evils, Time Consumer

The Eagles - Hotel California, Desperado

Elton John - Funeral For A Friend (Love Lies Bleeding)

I have WAY more, but I have to stop before the list gets too long. :P

[thevoice]

Tell me a lie- (shawn Michaels tribute song)
Oasis- Stop Crying your heart out
oasis- Slide away
Oasis- Some might say
Stone roses- Made of stone
Boston- More than a feeling
Broken arrow theme tune
Bruce Springston- Dacing in the Dark
Counting Crows- A long December
Don Henly - Boys of Summer
Fleetwood Mac - Albatros
George Harrison -Stuck Inside A Cloud
Handbags and Gladrags
hurricane#1 - Step into my world
Led Zepplin - Stairway to Heaven
Moby - Play - Why does my heart feel so bad
Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
SigurRos-Njosnavelin(NothingSong)
REM - Me in Honey
Robbie Williams - Angels
Starman (Movie) - Main Theme
The Vines - Homesick
Tom Petty - Freefalling
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

[Big MatT]

Basically any Iron Maiden song. Nuff said!

[littleamazon]

Oh wow! Is it because we are close to Valentine's Day that everone is getting mushy? /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Stop before it is too late! /forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif
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Amazon

[Vlad]

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[Vlad]

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I completely disarmed ya! /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Oakleys]

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Oh wow! Is it because we are close to Valentine's Day that everone is getting mushy? /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

Stop before it is too late! /forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif
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Every bodybuilder has his girly side /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif It doesn't hurt when the song is good too.. forgot who mentioned The Nurse Who Loved Me by A Perfect Circle, but that's one of my fav's too.. along with 3 Libras, A Stranger, The Noose, Pet, and Over. APC is one of my fav. bands /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Edit: Will, let me know if you like any of the songs I listed, got a ton more you'd like if so..

[rev]

I'll try and post some lesser-known artists/songs /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Elliot Smith - Last Call
Elliot Smith - Fond Farewell
Failure - Another Space Song
Zao - The Rising End (The First Prophecy)
Shai Hulud - Anesthesia
Poison the Well - Nerdy
Poison the Well - Apathy Is A Cold Body
Year of the Rabbit - Absent Stars
Hum - I'd Like Your Hair Long
Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Mike Patton RULES!)
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Sepultura - Propaganda
Deftones - Like Linus
Southern Culture On the Skids - Soul City

[Oakleys]

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Elliot Smith - Last Call
Elliot Smith - Fond Farewell
Failure - Another Space Song
Zao - The Rising End (The First Prophecy)
Shai Hulud - Anesthesia
Poison the Well - Nerdy
Poison the Well - Apathy Is A Cold Body
Year of the Rabbit - Absent Stars
Hum - I'd Like Your Hair Long
Mr. Bungle - The Air-Conditioned Nightmare (Mike Patton RULES!)
The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
Sepultura - Propaganda
Deftones - Like Linus
Southern Culture On the Skids - Soul City

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Love The Postal Service.. have you heard "Such Great Heights", "Nothing Better" and "This Place is a Prison"?

[rev]

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.. forgot who mentioned The Nurse Who Loved Me by A Perfect Circle, but that's one of my fav's too..

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Download the original by Failure (The Nurse Who Loved Me).

[KrYptic.x]

Yeah some of them are soft ... but hey ... what can I say...

Dave Matthews - Crush, Grace is Gone, Crash Into Me
Eric Clapton - Layla (Acoustic), Tears in Heaven
The Eages - Hotel California (Hell Freezes Over Tour)
Mason Williams - Classical Gas (Still amazed at what one man and a guitar can sound like)
Linkin Park - My December
Ben Folds - The Luckiest
Deftones - Change (In the House of Flies)
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Hymns (yeah, quite the jump) - What a Friend we Have in Jesus, Lift Hight the Cross, Glory to God

There are prolly more, but these are ones I can think of now...

[IronKnuckle]

A way of life- Hans Zimmer

[rev]

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Love The Postal Service.. have you heard "Such Great Heights", "Nothing Better" and "This Place is a Prison"?

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Yeah, I have Give Up. the whole CD is really, really good. A friend recommended it to me and I have to admit, I was skeptical /forum/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[Tuf]

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the original by Failure (The Nurse Who Loved Me).

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Great song. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[DukeOfEarl]

ABBA??? lol

[sandspawn]

Oakley, My chemical romance and the used rock.

My chemical romance- Honey this mirror isn't big enought for the two of us
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Bright Eyes - Its cool we can still be friends
Butterfly Effect - Anything by them
Beatles - Oh Darling

I'm going to be here for a while if i list all the songs so i'll stop there.

[Oakleys]

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Oakley, My chemical romance and the used rock.

My chemical romance- Honey this mirror isn't big enought for the two of us
A Perfect Circle - 3 Libras
Bright Eyes - Its cool we can still be friends
Butterfly Effect - Anything by them
Beatles - Oh Darling

I'm going to be here for a while if i list all the songs so i'll stop there.

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Yeah both are some of my fav. bands to listen to. Have almost all of their albums. Nice choice on 3 Libras.. one of my fav's also /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[DukeOfEarl]

Yesterday... all my troubles seemed so far away
Now it looks as though they’re here to stay
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly... I’m not half the man I used to be,
There’s a shadow hanging over me.
Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don’t know she woldn’t say.
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Mm mm mm mm mm.

[EarlGrey]

These songs are what gets you guys all pumped up in the gym? LOL /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Pesca]

Hanson: Mmm Bop

[STEVEsteveSTEVE]

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Hanson: Mmm Bop

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LOL

[Tuf]

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Hanson: Mmm Bop

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Pesca, people probably think you're kidding. I would have too if it wasn't for Paul Cole.../forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[WatchTheHands]

Gustav Holst - The Planets album (especially Mars, Neptune)
Bela Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta album
Clint Mansell w/ Kronos Quartet - Requiem for a Dream SOUNDTRACK
Phillip Glass - Glassworks album
Art Tatum - Tiger Rag, Too Marvelous
King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic Pt.2
Frank Zappa - too many to name, really
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine album (especially Terrible Lie)
APC - Mer du Noms album (especially Brena)
Tool - Sweat, Intolerance, Opiate, Prison Sex, Sober, Jimmy
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia album (especially Trains, Gravity Eyelids)
Morphine - I'm Free Now
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
MESHUGGAH - Destroy Erase Improve album (especially Sublevels, Suffer in Truth)
Bumblefoot - Hands album (Dirty Pant'loons is a good one)
Carcass - Heartwork, Buried Dreams, Arbeit Macht Fleisch
Opeth - Deliverance

okee, better stop for now...

[Vlad]

ABBA - Dancing Queen
Village People - YMCA
Whoever - It's raining men

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[William Ustav]

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ABBA - Dancing Queen
Village People - YMCA
Whoever - It's raining men

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I didn't know you liked ABBA! /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Vlad]

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ABBA - Dancing Queen
Village People - YMCA
Whoever - It's raining men

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I didn't know you liked ABBA! /forum/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

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You are so naive. Look at my post again.

ABBA is ok btw, some of their songs. I've Metal Tribute To ABBA..their songs metalized! wooma!

[sta63bmx]

PESCA.

Hanson = unclutch

[DukeOfEarl]

Man i love 60s, 70s, 80s music, but ABBA is the one band from that time period i simply cannot stand. How can you listen to that trash?? /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif

[Ultra Man]

Rush - Resist
Steve Vai - Feathers
Type O Negative - We Hate Everyone (probly just because i'm conservative /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif)
Lynryrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Jason Becker - Images
Jason Becker - Altitudes
The Moody Blues - The Voice
Neil Young - Old Man
BlackFoot - (Train Train)
Type O Negative - (We Were) Electrocute
Bob Seger - Traveling Man... Beautiful Loser
Bob Seger - Fire Lake
Bob Seger - The Famous Final Scene
Dream Theatre - Learning to Live
Electric Light Orchestra - So Fine
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend
Eric Clapton - Can't Find my Way Home
Eric Johnson - Zap
Iced Earth - Ghost of Freedom
Iced Earth - I Died for you
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle
Joe Satriani - Chords of Life
Marty Friedman - Lust for Life
Marty Friedman - Lovesorrow
Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Red Rider - Wish you Well
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
The Highwaymen - American Remains
The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

[Jrdouglas24]

I'll just list the top ten I can think of:

1. Wonderful World (Loui Armstrong)
2. Lady in Red (Chris Deberg)
3. Amazing Grace
4. Your Song (Elton John)
5. The Dance (Garth Brooks)
6. Fire and Rain (James Taylor)
7. Father and Son (Cat Stevens)
8. Help! (Beatles)
9. Behind Closed Doors (Tom Jones)
10. That's my job (Conway Twitty)

Lyrics for Conway Twitty's That's my Job:

I woke up crying, late at night,
When I was very young.
I had dreamed my father,
had passed away and gone.
My world revovled around him.
I couldn't lie there anymore.
So I made my way,
Down the mirrored hall,
And tapped upon his door.
And I said :
"Daddy, I'm so afraid,
How will I go on with you gone that way?
Don't want to cry anymore.
So may I stay with you?"
And he said :
"That's my job.
That's what I do.
Everything I do is because of you,
To keep you safe with me.
That's my job you see."

Later we barely got along,
This teenage boy and he.
Most of the fights it seems,
Were over different dreams,
We each held for me.
He wanted knowledge and learning.
I wanted to fly out west.
Said I could make it out there,
If I just had the fare,
I got half will you loan me the rest?
And I said :
"Daddy, I'm so afraid.
There's no garuntee,
In the plans I've made.
And if I should fail?
Who will pay my way back home?"
And he said :
"That's my job.
That's what I do.
Everything I do is because of you,
To keep you safe with me.
That's my job you see."

Every person carves his spot,
And fills the hole with light.
And I pray someday I might,
Light as bright as he.

Woke up early one bright fall day,
To spread the tragic news.
After all my travel,
I settled down,
Within a mile or two.

I make my living with words and ryhme.
And all this tragedy,
Should go into my head,
And out instead,
As bits of poetry.
But I say:
"Daddy, I'm so afraid,
How will I go on,
With you gone this way?
How can I come up,
With a song to say I love you?
That's my job.
That's what I do.
Everything I do is because of you,
To keep you safe with me.
That's my job you see.
Everything I do is because of you,
To keep you safe with me."



There's a ton more I could list but these never get old for me.

[William Ustav]

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Man i love 60s, 70s, 80s music, but ABBA is the one band from that time period i simply cannot stand. How can you listen to that trash?? /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forum/images/graemlins/confused.gif


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It's not trash /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif Not only is the composing, both music and text-wise, pretty good, but the songs are very enjoyable too /forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Tanuki]

Will, are you forgetting the "My Sassy Girl" soundtrack!?!?!

Ahem..."I believe (then a bunch of Korean)..." Man, that song makes me wanna cry sometimes. My ex and I used to watch that movie together, she was my sassy girl. /forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif Haha, okay, enough of the pity party. SHAUNA I STILL LOVE YOU!!! /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Oh, and also Canon is the most shiznitty song of all time in my book. It is also used in the movie. I am having it played at my wedding. Oh man, I sound like such a girl right now... /forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif

[rev]

I can't believe I forgot to mention one of my major music influences: Alice in Chains.

Pretty much everthing that they've ever done has been good, ESPECIALLY he acoustic/electric EP's and Unplugged Album. Really and truly incredible stuff. RIP Layne Staley /forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Stand out songs:
Frogs (8:18 version)
Over Now
Rain When I Die
Got Me Wrong
Brother
Down In A Hole
Nutshell
Rotten Apple
Would

. . . such incredibly emotional, soulful music.

[Kitosho]

Alice in Chains ROCKS. Definately one of my favorite grunge bands. I love "Over Now".

[NJIron]

Jackson Browne - Looking into You
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville

[sta63bmx]

I am going to have to chime in with a song that's special to me. It's "Beautiful People" by Rusted Root, off of When I Woke.

Come and hear the funeral marching
Maybe this is your suicide
Maybe this is more pure
Pure than simple
Maybe this is all I have for home

The reason the song is special for me is because I have listened to this entire album a million times. We used to play it all the time in the bike shop when I was maybe 22-23, the year after I graduated from college and started grad school. When we first got married, we lived in this little apartment over in Urbana. The bathroom had this nasty maize-colored shower surround, and we had a CD player in there, and I used to listen to the album every morning getting ready to go to work.

That summer was probably the most fun I've ever had in my life, no homeworks, no research, no responsibilities except getting up and working. Riding every day, working at something I enjoyed every day...every time I hear the song I can vividly see every detail of that bathroom, even the patch in the shower surround. /forum/images/graemlins/smile.gif For me, that album is everything good about that time in my life, and I wish I could go back there.

I feel like that was a million years and another lifetime ago. It's depressing sometimes, when you think about how much time has gone by. I'm almost done with school, but sometimes I feel like it has destroyed my life and there's nothing to do but finish and keep going until the bitter end.

[William Ustav]

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Will, are you forgetting the "My Sassy Girl" soundtrack!?!?!

Ahem..."I believe (then a bunch of Korean)..." Man, that song makes me wanna cry sometimes. My ex and I used to watch that movie together, she was my sassy girl. /forum/images/graemlins/frown.gif Haha, okay, enough of the pity party. SHAUNA I STILL LOVE YOU!!! /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Oh, and also Canon is the most shiznitty song of all time in my book. It is also used in the movie. I am having it played at my wedding. Oh man, I sound like such a girl right now... /forum/images/graemlins/blush.gif

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Holy cow! /forum/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I can't believe I forgot!!!

Yeah, Canon in D by Pachelbel, OWNS! /forum/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Also, a great song, Hitori Bocchii no Haburashi, by the group TOKIO. It kicks (I love Jesus!). Tanuki, if you want to, I can send it to you!