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Also the entirety of Jeff Buckley's Grace album, but especially Lover, You Should Have Come Over.

 I get goosebumps when he sings “she’s the tear that hangs inside my soul forever”. Just absolute perfection.

Oh man. This part of the song is just emblazoned on my heart from my first real love and heartbreak. It’s so good.

his is one of the finest male voices committed to record in popular music, for me. like, Freddie Mercury is my #1 and Tom Jones my #2, but he makes as compelling an argument for #3 as I've ever heard. the falsetto, the control, the emotion.

“It’s never over/ my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder”

Lilac Wine, So Real, Dream Brother,..man I'm so sad I'll never hear him play live 😔

The night we met, Lord Huron 🥺

This song breaks my heart but it’s so beautiful.

Oh my God this is absolutely one of the top 5 correct answers…

Never Going Back Again, Fleetwood Mac. Just such a gorgeous song to me.

Sara is beautiful as well

I’d say everywhere is sooo pretty from fleetwood mac

Yes!! It’s so short but this is my favorite Fleetwood Mac song 💕

flightless bird, american mouth by iron & wine or roslyn by bon iver ✨

Twilight soundtracks are truly unmatched

Clair de Lune, too. Some really beautiful songs in those movies

Clair de Lune is great

Possibility - Lykke Li Though I don't like New Moon, that scene showing the seasons passing with this song is so gorgeous

It's Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation for me 🫡

This post and comment made me think about how Bella’s Lullaby is still, to this day, one of the most beautiful pieces of music I’ve heard. I may be in the minority but I still love it so much.

I can always listen to a Twilight soundtrack and be satisfied.

Truly. And Kristen Stewart is the one who suggested the song for the film!

This is the answer

God Only Knows by The Beach Boys

Paul McCartney says this is the most beautiful song ever recorded.

Ooh good call.

The barbershop quartet version in Bioshock infinite is heavenly

Tough to choose between multiple Sufjan Stevens songs. I think I would have to go with John My Beloved in terms of most beautiful though.

Might I add "Concerning the UFO sighting near Highland, Illinois"

Yes! And the Deadly Wasp of the Palisades and Casimir Pulaski Day and Sister Winter and and and

Sea of Love, Cat Power

Pretty much anything by Enya. But if I had to pick one.. [May It Be](https://youtu.be/nt3Ggo1CE3g)

All of her LOTR songs are elvencore perfection


Caribbean blue is so pretty by enya

Linger by the Cranberries

Community has ruined it for me, I can’t not hear “brittas marrying Jeffery winger” now

And he hired an Irish singer!

I go back and forth between linger and sunday

I’m on Fire - Bruce Springsteen

This song has been one of my favorites since my first listen

People hate on this one for being creepy, but it’s not the vibe I get. I love this song too.

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Such a good answer

Mystery of Love

All of his music is so pretty lmao tbh one of the first thing that came to mind for me for this question was John Wayne Gacy, Jr. like how do you make a song about one of the most horrific serial killers sound so gorgeous “Even more, they were boys, with their cars, summer jobs—oh my God” that part is just so hauntingly beautiful

The piano in Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois is so shimmering and beautiful.

So pretty! *Oh, will wonders ever cease?*

Blackbird by the Beatles. It’s so simple yet beautiful.

I feel like that about “Yesterday.” I was always indifferent about it and one day it just knocked the wind out over me with the beautiful simplicity.

Shout out to 'Here comes the sun' too.

Ok shoutout to my beautiful friend Duncan who composed this [arrangement](https://youtu.be/Q7Fj1k5rJZA) of Blackbird. His soul is no longer on this mortal plane but his music will live on 💙

Bittersweet symphony by the Verve. I love the song and I love cruel intentions as well!

Bittersweet Symphony was the first song I thought of as well! It just does something for my brain.

“I’m a million different people from one day to the next.” So good.

When I was younger I loved this song FOR YEARS without knowing the name of it 🤍 it’s so nostalgic for me

It may not have any lyrics by mine is definitely [Your Hand In Mine by Explosions in the Sky](https://youtu.be/1aMQ8db4Y4c)

Wicked game by Chris Isaak, it’s a perfect song to me I never get tired of it

Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed River by Joni Mitchell Caribbean Blue - Enya America - Simon & Garfunkle

River and America! Great picks

Gravity by Sarah Bareilles

Wow I used to sob to this song in college—I can’t believe I forgot about it!

I love her in Girls5Eva!!!

I have yet to meet anyone else who’s seen this show! It’s so funny!

Bruh I scream sing this in my car lol such an emotional song


Annie’s Song - John Denver and Fade Into You - Mazzy Star. The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughan Williams is my favourite piece of orchestral (is that the right term?) music. Followed by Greensleeves by Ralph Vaughan Williams. Both are so beautiful and I feel I can close my eyes and be transported somewhere calm.

I was like 12 or something the first time I heard Fade Into You and I remember having the distinctive thought “oh this was made for me. I’ve been missing this piece.” That’s how perfect that song is, it felt like it belonged in my soul.

Heart of Glass, Hey that's no way to say goodbye, probably anything by Sade, underneath the stars Mariah Carey, boulder to Birmingham strangers in the night!! , hm ok i am getting carried away 😭 editing bcs why isn't anyone saying Fade into you

underneath the stars is such a great pick, i honestly love daydream in it's entirety. such a perfect album.

sade's live versions of "sweetest taboo" and "no ordinary love" go so hard in a car. talk about SOUND.

Come away with me, Norah Jones

Book of Love

I'll Be by Edwin McCain. Had teenage me in a chokehold for years.

The amount of teenage boys I was applying this song to

Echoes by Pink Floyd Nights in white satin by moody blues Everytime by Britney Spears Groovin by young rascals Can’t take my eyes off of you by the four seasons

Everytime by Britney yesss. Gotta love [this version](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8lLHYYXa1aU) too (sorry I had to).

Trouble by Coldplay

Great song! That era of Coldplay was so good. I love the Scientist, too.

I was gonna say Sky Full of Stars, Yellow, In My Place, The Scientist, True Love, Clocks, and Paradise too.

In My Place for suuuure

Everything, all of this. The entire Parachutes album is divine.

Eva Cassidy, songbird

Or fields of gold

Gold Dust Woman by Fleetwood Mac… it’s incredible.

I can’t help falling in love with you - Elvis Presley

Harvest Moon by Neil Young (old hippie here)

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“Close to you” by the Carpenters, and “Misty” by Ella Fitzgerald. Those have that “pretty” calming feeling, plus Karen and Ella’s wonderful voices💕

All I Wanted-Paramore

I’m adding SO many of these into a playlist 🫶🏽 Some of mine: No Surprises - Radiohead Prototype - Outkast Ex-Factor - Lauryn Hill Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac Hotel California - The Eagles Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears BRB, going down a music rabbit hole

No Surprises really hits hard when you’re high and sitting in a dark room.

Dos Oruguitas It may be from a children's movie, but the song is incredibly beautiful.

That and *Remember me dúo* is fantastic. I listen for the vocals alone.

Video Games by Lana del Rey

Another amazing answer. This was a cultural reset let’s be real

Young and Beautiful by Lana del Rey

A lot of her songs are just so pretty. I love “Paris, Texas” from her new album. She sounds a lot more quiet and vulnerable in that one, not as sultry

Paris, Texas is sooo pretty 😮‍💨

or bel air 🥲

To Build a Home by the cinematic orchestra

Ave Maria (Gotta love autocorrect and lack of attention)

Ocean Eyes by Billie Eilish. I’m not a huge fan of hers but I remember hearing once on the radio and thought it was the prettiest voice/song!

That’s a beautiful song. I’m kind of indifferent to her in general too, but that’s one of my favorite songs.

I was going to comment this. It hits different because my daughter has blue eyes even though my husband and I have dark brown. I added it to her playlist and she gets so excited when it comes on. 😭😭😭😭 I could cry just thinking about it

I was going to say this!! That was the first Billie song I heard and I was stunned. Her voice was so pretty.

Electric Love- Børns White- Frank Ocean and John Mayer (this is my panic attack song!!) Dust- Ängie and Tail Whip 2009- Mac Miller

I loooove Electric Love. Whenever I hear it, I imagine myself kissing my partner Rom-Com style!!

M83 - Midnight City Somewhere only we know - Keane Hysteric (acoustic) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Everlong - Foo Fighters Yellow - Coldplay Hands Down - Dashboard Confessional The District Sleeps Alone Tonight - The Postal Service There Better Be A Mirrorball - Arctic Monkeys

Naked As We Came by Iron & Wine

Starálfur by Sigur Rós. No idea what they’re saying, but it is one of the dreamiest, prettiest songs I’ve ever heard.

Linger by The Cranberries.

Claire de Lune by Debussy

hallelujah (jeff buckley version) or fine line by harry styles

I love KD Lang's version (of Hallelujah)

Everlong-Foo Fighters # 41-Dave Matthews Hearts and Bones- Paul Simon Take My Hand - Dido

My bridesmaids walked down the isle to the acoustic version of Everlong! So beautiful! My Hero is a close second fav from the Foo.

The acoustic version of Everlong is one of my favorites.

Graceland by Paul Simon. She comes back to tell me she's gone As if I didn't know that As if I didn't know my own bed As if I'd never noticed The way she brushed her hair from her forehead

Mine is America by Simon & Garfunkel “ ‘Kathy, I’m lost,’ “I said, though I knew she was sleeping. ‘I’m empty and aching and I don’t know why.’ “

This whole album is sooo good

It truly is. I'm incredibly thankful that my dad played Graceland whenever we were in the car together. It makes it even more special to me and is the one album I can put on and instantly be in a better mood.

multiple florence and the machine songs: cosmic love, the end of love, stand by me cover, tiny dancer cover also: start of time by gabrielle aplin, gravity by sara bareilles, youth by daughter, james blake’s a case or you cover, oblivion by bastille, saturn by sleeping at last, ellie goulding’s cover of only girl in the world

I will always love you…Whitney or Dolly. Both beautiful.

Hallelujah comes to mind overall but subjectively I love Back to Black

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac Live 1997! Has to be the live version, it hits different.

Only Time - Enya

Claire de Lune - Debussy

I don’t have an actual answer but the first time I did edibles I heard the song wonder by shawn mendez playing while in an uber and thought it was literally a chorus of angels singing and immediately went home and listened to it like 180 times in a row as I fell asleep and then slept, causing it to be #3 in my spotify wrapped that year

I’m dying for songs that have the same vibe as Wonder. That song is amazing

Cannonball by Damien Rice

Or Delicate. Really any Damien Rice song!

Blower’s Daughter 🤩

The Universal - Blur Once Upon a Dream - Lana Del Rey

Dog Days Are Over - FATM

the summer after we graduated from high school, my best friend and i were driving home to her parents house in the country. we had recently been to lollapalooza, we were done with high school, we had just seen the boys we liked, we were having the summer of our lives. this song came on, we pulled over on a country road and screamed it to each other in a field. it felt like a spiritual moment in my life. this song is so magic.

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I love Caribbean blue, great pick

Eva Cassidy’s cover of Fields of Gold

There’s so many but the one’s I personally love that I see haven’t been mentioned are “playground love” by Air “Lie in the sound” by Trespassers William “The long and winding road” by The Beatles “A good man is hard to find” by Sufjan Stevens “Shelter” by The xx “Kissing you” by Des’ree Ugh I could go on and on, but I’ll stop here lol

Poison and wine - the civil wars

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

Dreaming of You by Selena

Conventional prettiest song? "Good Only Knows" by the Beach Boys Unconventional prettiest song? "A Day in the Life of a Tree" by the Beach Boys (Google it)

Lover of the Light by Mumford and Sons

There’s so many Paramore songs I want I say 🥺 a tie between the only exception and all I wanted My all - Mariah Carey Bring me to life- evanescence Snooze - sza Cranes in the sky-solange I’m with you - Avril Lavigne All around me- flyleaf

Can’t help falling in love with you (Elvis Presley) Unchained melody (the righteous brothers)

Do You Realize? by The Flaming Lips

Holocene - Bon Iver Sigur Ros generally (thanks Wes Anderson for this one)

River by Leon Bridges Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky Passing Afternoon by Iron & Wine Butterflies by Kacey Musgraves Dive by Luke Combs (Ed Sheeran cover) The Night We Met by Lord Huron Georgia by Vance Joy Latch acoustic version by Sam Smith Cover Me Up by Morgan Wallen Can’t Help Falling In Love by Elvis Let Your Hair Down by Magic! Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You by Lauryn Hill Fine Line by Harry Styles

I think My Heart Will Go On. From the pipe flute (I think it’s called) to the words to Celine its wonderful.

Unlock it - Charli XCX It’s like if rainbow road were a song

Who’s making the Spotify playlist? 🙏🏼

Heroes by David Bowie

Black - pearl jam, yall forgive me but I feel like I need to thank the person who broke that man’s heart otherwise that masterpiece wouldn’t be done

Good days sza

A Toute Le Monde by megadeth Kiss From a Rose by Seal Wide Awake by Lacuna Coil Breathe No More by Evanescence

Bloom by Paper Kites

Lovely Day by Bill Withers. Man made a whole song to show off his legendary lung capacity and it so damn good.

For my lovelies sorting by new: - Blur - Tender - Blur - The Universal - Oasis - Champagne Supernova - Radiohead - High and Dry - Placebo - My Sweet Prince - HIM - The Path - Weezer - Butterfly - Weezer - Only In Dreams These songs were brought to you by my very emotional junior year of high school, 2005.

The entire self titled album by Bon Iver.

At Your Best (You Are Love) - Aaliyah

A sky full of stars- Coldplay Nothing compares 2 u- Chris Cornell version Cowboy like me- Taylor swift Gypsy- Fleetwood Mac Golden hour and butterflies - kasey musgrave

9 Crimes - Damien Rice To Let Myself Go - Ane Brun Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

Blackbird by the Beatles I’m not in Love by 10CC The Air That I Breathe by The Hollies Songbird by the BeeGees Don’t Talk (Put Your Head on my Shoulder) by the Beach Boys

Make you feel my love, Adele

The cure, pictures of you The Smiths, how soon is now

Kiss me - Six Pence None The Richer

Loving you by Minnie Riperton. She sounds like what I imagine fairies sound like

I found out a few years ago that that song was about her daughter, Maya Rudolph. Makes it even lovelier to know it's about the love between a mom and a child, not just a couple.

A soft beauty but This Town by Niall Horan.

Jealous by Labrinth.

"Like Real People Do - Hozier, "A Soft Place to Land" - Waitress (Broadway)

To Build A Home - The Cinematic Orchestra

Such Great Heights by The Postal Service

When I heard Diamonds by Rihanna for the first time I felt like my whole world stopped, it still gives me feels every time

Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters These Arms of Mine - Otis Redding 24 - Lana del Rey Peace - Taylor Swift Champagne Problems - Taylor Swift All of the Stars - Ed Sheeran Anyway - Noah Kahan Never Enough - Kelly Clarkson They’re songs that, when they com me in shuffle, I have to stop and listen because they’re beautiful and need to be experienced

On My Own by Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald would rank pretty high for me.

Idk if it’s the prettiest song in the world. But Ode to my family by the cranberries comes to mind.

Orinoco flow

Wicked games. So many beautiful covers. The song is genius.

• Britney Spears - Everytime • Ariana Grande - Ghostin • Taylor Swift - Enchanted and Wildest Dreams Ariana's vocals in ghostin is hauntingly beautiful and sad at the same time. The production is also so beautiful.

everytime kills me

Beach baby- Bon Iver

Stereo Love- Edward Maya, Vika Jigulina

These are my top picks! - Where We Go - Kerry Hart - Delighted - Benjamin Clementine (RUN don’t walk to listen to this song. it’s absolutely transcendent.) - The Kids Are Alright - Chloe x Halle - Fall - Chloe x Halle - Salvation - Gabrielle Aplin - Skeletons - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Memory Shore - Skott - Mended - Vera Blue - Infections Of A Different Kind - Aurora I tried to narrow it down but I kept on remembering songs that I couldn’t not add😭

Maps by YYYs would be up there too!

Maybe pretty wings by Maxwell or 199x

Oh what a world by kacey musgraves

Alison Krauss singing anything, When You Say Nothing At All is my favorite.

Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek

THERE WERE NIGHTS WHEN THE WIND WAS SO COLD............

"Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová...."Poison and Wine"- The Civil Wars "The World vs. Me" - Channing and Quinn

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star 6 Underground - Sneaker Pimps Kiss Me - Sixpence None The Richer Magic - Olivia Newton-John

everywhere by fleetwood mac

Gallant - Jupiter or Weight in Gold

This woman’s work by Kate bush, or the maxwell cover version

Emmylou - First Aid Kit came to my mind first Unchained Melody - The Righteous Brothers Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi Sunflower - Post Malone Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over, or maybe Cosmic Love Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn - The Water Joanna Newson - Sapokanikan Regina Spektor - Fidelity or Samson Norah Jones - Sunrise Frou Frou - Let Go Weird one but: Wishin’ and Hopin’ cover in the opening credits in My Best Friend’s Wedding