ITT: Post the prettiest song you know

Paranoid Android

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1yzY-9I9GI

definitely a strong candidate. I'd have to think about it more though

New Grass

>>74343732
Anything by young Kate Bush

>>74343732
Naomi

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3YfBGR-WSo

>>74343732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_kiOvoloIs

>>74343768
That whole album is the prettiest song I know

>>74343732
MBV's entire discography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkp48SZ0Gf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m8ElO9Y50Y

>>74343732
Curtis Mayfields' stripped down version of The Makings of You from his live album:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OEm2zCSPvI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OefQ-Pr-YH8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9XKLqGqwLA
I never get tired of this

>>74343732
5/26/72 Morning Dew by Grateful Dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS6duOoxctw

And a great music video to go with it

If you can get past the tinnitus inducing feedback it's really pretty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKU2iS4OMq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPM9PllmBY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE7hJzq8RJw

https://youtu.be/-HQ2j-SGBZk

>>74343732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kubSsm5l6k

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https://youtu.be/JTFlVQQSKkA

>>74343732
Not sure if it's pretty, but it's a really nice song regardless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XmbvfxMiUE

Sir Greendown by Janelle Monae

>>74343935
Wow, never actually gave her new shit a chance and I was blown away by that to be honest.

https://youtu.be/nCuvTKM04Jk
This is also beautiful.
Cocteau Twins "pre-raphaelite" era is excellent. This EP and Treasure.

Las Vegas is a good record too. Whole album that one. But it's more motherly and warm than the prettier tracks of their early career.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fruY31DQvb0

>>74344222
This makes me want to eat matzah.

Watermelon in Easter Hay
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3cu8sDa90Y

>>74343784
Great shout son

The whole Moenie and Kitchi

https://clyp.it/abrxae0y

No idea what it's called or who it's by. Taken from an old website I used to visit where people posted short films and this was in one of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p0ADG1XH2E

Yall dont know what pretty is. git on my lvl

>>74344506
Wow.
This is shit

Valet - Naked Acid
This song is "We Went There"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itJ7asBZvNY

Does cute count as pretty?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKztreA6e7Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEx9IBV9cgA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMNDDXmVmr4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YG0ggHM1PLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6rzY2nHpz4

>>74344371
this, simply the prettiest

https://youtu.be/Ifm8pfyG_L0

anything from this band

>>74344345
oh hell yeah

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>>74344652
>first track
>if Blur singer was a chick

I need a can of wife basher now.

So pretty :^)

https://youtu.be/m4qIK5PiSyk

>>74344755
Even prettier version.
https://youtu.be/OGg5zETHKcU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o0wj-gcCgQ

Wayne Shorter - Infant Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gujh-gDJBvw

Stevie Wonder - Golden Lady
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6EXyza_BjU

Bobby Caldwell - My Flame
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hK6IgvZ0CY

Little Feat - Long Distance Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLLme1Temmk

Dayton Ohio 1903
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrTdiNkhnOc

Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5trPeUqOjyc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qNosK7NRs

>>74344866
How is this "pretty"?
It's nice, but not "pretty".

Donny Hathaway - A Song for You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeHiio1sTTI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J841Jil4Fqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuFRqdHp7gs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FMERYxrPnk

>>74345016
does pretty == has a female singer in your mind? You didn't even pick out which of the four songs you're referring to, but if you don't think Infant Eyes is a gorgeous song then your ears are shit.

>>74344995
Good song.

Not pretty though.
Pretty has to have "air" to it.
That's too wet.

>>74345092
see >>74345097

If ya know what I mean.
It's too grounded.
Too Earthy.

Needs the air of angels. The delicate fragility. The glimmer of stars.

>>74345092
Also:
I meant aesthetically. It's a quality, not a judgemental ranking or anything like that.
As I said, it was nice. But it didn't fit.

>>74345120
>>74345097
>>74345146
lemme ponder that. thanks for clarifying what you meant. sorry for getting bitchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KgUeyEltec&ab_channel=BorisL%C3%B3pezF.>>74344866


>>74343768
>>74343798
>>74343993

other top contenders

four tet - angel echoes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpe4id7cLnU

>>74345168
see >>74345059
These are pretty. They got that delicate nature to it. That cute sexiness but innocence too.


To be honest pretty is very hard to explain now that I think about it.
Think "Sirens" (no, not the ones on fire engines).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQG0f0IZiU

Chopin - Nocturne op. 9 no. 1 in B flat minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtIW2r1EalM

Bach - Erbarme dich
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPAiH9XhTHc

Handel - Dank Sei Dir, Herr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35JzFH8Fdm4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJjUEjhB-M

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>tfw you fucked up your post, twice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDVA5nJW2Y

this being a runner-up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUB7e3BtnvU

>>74345241
Very pretty.

Anything Futurepunk/Futurewave tends to be very pretty. But there's that dynamic to in-tenseness at times which kinda exaggerates or brings out the pretty delicateness of the softer parts.

First song on this is to me quintessential of that. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E
But only pretty in it's soft bits and approach to dynamics.
Themes also bring out that aspect. The colours and emotions. The rollercoaster.

Many pretty songs have warm low backs and then very "shiny" and even tinny sounds over it.
And prettiness differs from beauty, which is usually overpowering.

>>74343784
>ctrl-F "new grass"
my nigga

>>74345464
First song is pretty, but the voice needs more air to bring it out. Also needs more separation of sound.
Needs space.

It sounds like im stuck in a very small, cramped closet with a very pretty angel.

>>74345513
>looks up song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuYNidNgQic
>hear the drum sample for "Rabbit in your headlights"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUM97uKfjcM

wew never knew.

>>74343784
this or I Believe in You

>>74343990
I would have chosen Myth personally but really anything from that album works

Please listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOn_7nw_xxk

>>74345570

She's normally a lot better at giving her songs space, but at the same time she shoots way past pretty into being twee.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfGyCMqe-Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7O69oEOmuk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7FhBiF5_ls (not her best song, but it uses binaural audio)

Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSP9Na2ozWM

Satie - Gymnopedie No. 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-Xm7s9eGxU

Pink Orange Red - Cocteau Twins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFN6BaulEX8
bretty gud

>>74345780
no

>>74345780
Woah.

>>74345780
ignore this faggot >>74346204

Sounds like a goddess. Music is so warm with colour and it just melts the vocals into this stunning gentle, bright feeling when you here it.
That's prettiness. It's when you catch the emotion on every part of the vocalization. You don't just listen to the lyrics, you hear what they truly mean to the person through the way it's vocalised.

>>74346320
it was joke. I actually listened to it because I love the Sundays.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zne2aFaPEjE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGIs3fOTc7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo9Hs4NkSkA

bucket makes me cry sometimes

>>74346320
Harriet has/had a beautiful voice indeed

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Guillotine

How to disappear completely

>>74346185
How does she make her voice sound so divine?
That fluttery part..

>>74346542
Kawaii.

>>74346569
This is pretty.. but also morbid. It's an angel that's fallen.

>>74343760
yes

>>74346569
i agree

https://youtu.be/i4RanjlL7sg

PREY's Sountrack is bretty good

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

purrtyy

>>74346747
I want to kill myself now.

Natural Snow Buildings - Go away disappear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELILsuB4LvU

AWVFTS - Steep hills of vicodin tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iaxe5K3Ljo

Rafael Anton Irisarri - Empire Systems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFi0n_odlh8

Motion Picture Soundtrack

>>74347069
Kid A altogether.

Emmylou Harris - Satan's Jewel Crown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5JnZKmawbM

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I appreciate he new grass choice but westward bound takes the cake for me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1tgcpo2N54
On the radiohead front, Codex is a great pretty song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC58867mfiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY-06NX0Klc
this gives me chills everytime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW--ZGJd5Fg

The Posies - Coming Right Along
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ5vv4c8oW8

Joni Mitchell - Edith and the Kingpin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7FP4FEDWrA

Jens Lekman- Your Arms Around Me

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

>>74347888
Also this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZutRhiFmHM

Royskopp - What Else is There
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADBKdSCbmiM

Bedhead - Half Thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmgZS9z4WJw

Merz - Postcard from a Dark Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAXNEgTke4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NivY_iRdSBQ
Or any song off this album

Sparklehorse - Gold Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPebVnhR_D0

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>>74344927
I've basically been listening to exclusively Randy Newman the past couple days, Birmingham is another favorite. Actually the whole Good Old Boys album has been stuck in my head for like a week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlGSmHhkaUc

>>74348457
makes me very happy to find another Randy Newman fan on here. Genius songwriter. Birmingham is indeed the shiznit.

>>74348562
All of it is so great! He's got such a unique style. It sort of makes me think of Warren Zevon, but the atmosphere is more like, music hall or stage show levels of production. Very good all around. Oh and yeah, his songwriting great. It's super intimate and personal, almost like he's always writing about the true experiences of the everyman

>>74343935
This version is beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqXV38WWN6I

david bowie as the world falls down always had me enamored
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VppuD1St8Ec

Lindisfarne I and II by James Blake

Would have to be a Mazzy Star song.
or a really cheesy weeaboo song like Eyes on me.

or BSBD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7b8ztWb1RNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGRV60jAfL0

Makes so god damn emotional every time I listen to this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbzXVq9WgbY

>>74350389
Love that song

John Cale - Paris 1919
both the s/t track and the album as a whole

Lemon tree

>>74343899
nice one

Low - Point Of Disgust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYoxHskCnSo