Songs that are pure Magic

**SKA** · 08-18-2007 10:00 PM

We all know them; Certain songs that can do a whole lot psychologically/emotionally with you. These can be songs that have sentimental value, but generally these are songs that radiate a feeling that really enchants you in the pure magical sense. you know only"those certain songs" can touch you in that way and in that they are unique from all other great music you know.

Now I want you all to share songs like that and, if possible, post a YouTube- or Google video Link of the song in this Topic.

I'll start by this song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2v_XY-wsjs

Manu Chao is great anyhow, but this song really mends my heart when I have experienced things that are utterly shocking, confusing and depressing. This song is to me what Christ is to a true Christian. Holy.

I can't help but feel as if somehow it brings the brightest sunshine inside my heart and make flowers and beautyfull plants flurrish inside. If I'm down, no matter how far down, this song picks me back up and enlightens me. Magic is real and this song proves it to me.

Now people share your miracle songs with me.

**dodobird** · 08-19-2007 11:05 AM

I am now at a place without a sound system, so I cannot listen to this song, but I will later.

Here are my magical songs:

Fotheringay - Fairport Convention
In the Court of the Crimzon King - King Crimzon
Suzanne - Leonard Cohen

**Merlock** · 08-19-2007 11:13 AM

Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer

That was the first clip on YouTube I could find with the song so I posted it.
Though not to say the clip doesn't come together well with the song.

**Ynot** · 08-19-2007 11:51 AM

Passage - Creature in the Classroom

Also, (can't find a full length version of it on youtube or Last.FM)
Clan Zu - One Bedroom Apartment

*edit*
also,
Sly & The Family Stone - It's a Family Affair

always loved that song

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 08-19-2007 02:41 PM

For me alot of Chicago songs are awesome like that and they really play with feeling.

"Hard to say I'm Sorry" is an example. http://youtube.com/watch?v=UIb28iiR2d8

Also alot of Dream Theater songs but specifically "Voices" and "Octavarium"

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6WPl8DaQYdk

http://youtube.com/watch?v=xK3qylwd-M0

**Xox** · 08-19-2007 08:54 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE4-5...elated&search=
nas - you're the man
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uU6a...elated&search=
loving you - minnie riperton
all I can think of now

**mr.faded_glory** · 08-19-2007 09:00 PM

Heaven Beside you- Alice in Chains

and there's alot more just gonna post one though

(it won't sound right unless the volume is up high, it makes the song sound bad when it's quiet)

I remember walking around singing this song in the first (or something like that) grade, the day they found out layne staley died.
(he had actually died two days before my birthday, exactly 8 years after kurt cobain commited suicide.
R.I.P layne.

**Camels, Candles, Castles.** · 08-22-2007 01:03 PM

I don't seem to listen to individual songs often, but rather a playlist. Usually being of the same artist or genre the playlist is part of a journey or path which in essense produces a spectrum of different emotions and feelings. Of course certain songs have certain feelings and emotions which they will emit throughout the journey, and this 'magic' which we speak of seems to be more so situational, emerging in what seems an unpatterned progression throughout the journey.

I find a lot of Can pieces quite magical, most especially those with damo suzuki as a vocal instrument. As dodo has already posted, King Crimson are indeed a group which can produce pure magic. Recently these two bands (also Pink Floyd and Joe Hisaishi- composer for Miyazaki's animes [spirited away etc.]) when played together, seem to compliment each other and also the recent journeys I have had using them.

**Universal Mind** · 08-23-2007 11:01 AM

This Joan Baez performance from the Big Sur Folk Festival (1969)...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=KdAk3596jWA

and this Jefferson Airplane performance at Woodstock (1969)...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=6RDX36IDZEc

and this performance by Janis Joplin with her band Big Brother and the Holding Company at the Monterey Pop Festival (1967)...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mGJynZNr7rk

... to name a few.

pj · 08-23-2007 12:30 PM

The songs that really hit me seem to constantly change. Over the years I've been profoundly impacted by a wild variety of styles and subjects.

A few that are easily remembered:

Biko - Peter Gabriel
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (I saw another Cohen number up there!!!)
When I Go - Dave Carter
St. Matthew's Passion - J.S. Bach
Lock Keeper - Stan Rogers
Santiago - Loreena McKennett

There are SO many more!

**CryoDragoon** · 08-23-2007 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by Merlock

Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer

That was the first clip on YouTube I could find with the song so I posted it.
Though not to say the clip doesn't come together well with the song.

WOW!!!!

That WAS pure magic...

Probably one of the best songs I've ever heard... It's a shame I only heard it just now

... (So: Thanks ^^)
Ah, yes... I've found this longer version of the song...
http://www.lonelyangelsland.com/DantesPrayer.mp3

But Anyway: My magical song is one we probably all know and love:
"Memories", from the musical 'Cats'...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJHzoAmA8Ec

Goosebumps

pj · 08-23-2007 03:23 PM

Ok - here's PURE magic. I've been trying to remember how to get to this one...

This is The Sad Song. Fredo Viola just kind of did this a few years back, using video from a little hand-held digi camera and what I THINK are nonsense lyrics. He has created something that gives me chills and brings me to tears every time I experience it.

And now you can too!

http://www.fredoviola.com/

Enjoy.

**Bearbear** · 08-23-2007 06:11 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk3TD4P1bro
Coldplay - Speed of Sound

**Spartiate** · 08-23-2007 09:48 PM

These are the songs that I "feel" the most when I play/listen to:

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Raindrops Prelude - Chopin
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

Yeah, I like classics

...

**pyroguy305** · 08-23-2007 10:50 PM

I quite like this one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WK9nt1NF7Nw

**Universal Mind** · 08-23-2007 11:14 PM

Since I reached adulthood, only one song has ever made me cry. (Please don't tell anybody.) Being on drugs probably played a significant role, but there has still only been one song. It is "Song to a Seagull" by Joni Mitchell. I couldn't find it anywhere on Youtube. It is on her album by that name, which I think might be the greatest album ever recorded. The whole album is phenomenal. For some reason, it seems to sound the best on rainy days.

http://www.amazon.com/Song-Seagull-J...907329&sr=1-14

**Wildman** · 08-23-2007 11:19 PM

Elliott Smith / Heatmiser - Not Half Right
http://www.projectplaylist.com/music...&search=search (first one from the top), too bad I couldn't find the slower solo version, which is also great.

Elliott Smith again - See You In Heaven (and countless others)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TwvGTEMKA It doesn't need lyrics.

Eagles - Hotel California, of course.
http://www.projectplaylist.com/music...&search=search Pick one.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge and Soul to Squeeze
http://www.projectplaylist.com/music...&search=search 2nd one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFKmzwFMI34

EDIT: The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset and covers by Def Leppard and Elliott Smith.

**PharoahSunrise** · 08-24-2007 09:04 AM

Gates of Delirium, And You And I, Siberian Khatru Awaken, and Close to the Edge by Yes
Kohntarkohz, De Futura, Mekanik Kommandoh Destruktiw by Magma
Sunrise and The Creator Has a Master Plan by Pharoah Sanders
My Favorite Things by John Coltrane
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, and Echoes by Pink Floyd
21st Century Schizoid Man, Larks Tounges in Aspic Parts 1 and 2, I Talk To The Wind, Pictures of a City, and Epitaph by King Crimson
America, Kathy's Song, Dangling Conversation, Old Friends, and Poem on the Underground Wall by Simon and Garfunkel
Its Alright Ma, Gates of Eden, and Its All Over Now Baby Blue-Bob Dylan
Gewerbegebiet-Leo Kottke
A number of live songs by The Grateful Dead
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes, Wooden Ships, and Guineverre by Crosby, Stills and Nash

**Neruo** · 08-24-2007 11:09 PM

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8

somewhere over the rainbow.

Great song. By some awesome huge fat guy.

pj · 08-25-2007 02:02 AM

Originally Posted by Neruo

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=2A2Jt4WOxN8

somewhere over the rainbow.

Great song. By some awesome huge fat guy.

That would be the late Israel Kamakawiwo Ole. He was indeed awesome. What a voice.

**2Fruits** · 08-25-2007 02:16 AM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2KRDCD_O4Cs

Walking in the air- from the snowman (sorry about the clip, i couldnt find the song anywhere else)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_45W-Lq7f...elated&search=
Scarborough Fair- Cover by Hayley Westerna

(this song makes me cry :O)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9y3GLAr9xew
Dunno what this is called but it's the starting theme of the Beatrix potter cartoons!

ETA 2nd time: I found a better version, sorry about the continuous edits I just keep finding AMAZING songs~

**ThePhobiaViewed** · 08-25-2007 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by 2Fruits

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9y3GLAr9xew
Dunno what this is called but it's the starting theme of the Beatrix potter cartoons!

It is called Perfect Day by Miriam Stockley

**TweaK** · 08-25-2007 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by Spartiate

These are the songs that I "feel" the most when I play/listen to:

Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
Echoes - Pink Floyd
Raindrops Prelude - Chopin
Moonlight Sonata - Beethoven

Yeah, I like classics

...

Indeed,

Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin
Echoes by Pink Floyd
Time by Pink Floyd
On The Run / Breathe / Breathe Reprise by Pink Floyd (they all kinda fit together)
Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles
and last but definitely not least, The Masterplan by Oasis.