this is a hella stupid thread but...

[Seanindarkness]

what do you think are some of the best songs ever written?

 

[BanginTheDead]

Bethlehem's Tagebuch Einer Totgeburt is absolutely stunning in creativity for the time, as well as pure representation of sullen emotion.
That's just one, I'm out the door to work, so I'll get some more later.

 

[opeth_353]

If i got started.. I'd find it hard to stop

 

[Seanindarkness]

Here's a few, in no particular order:

Kayo Dot: The Manifold Curiosity
Agalloch:In The Shadow of our Pale Companion
Negura Bunget: Terasul De Lumini
Alcest: Pretemps Emerald
Ulver: The Future Sound of Music
Clad in Darkness: Nepenthe
maudlin of the Well: The Birth Pains of Astral Projection

Fuck, I have a million more.

 

[August Gales]

I could probably make a pretty lengthy list as well.

Just a couple right quick off the top of my head, I would say...
When Day Descends - Discovery
Metallica - Orion/To live is to die
Opeth - Just about anything
I will most likely add more later.

 

[CladInDarkness]

Bethlehem's Tagebuch Einer Totgeburt is absolutely stunning in creativity for the time, as well as pure representation of sullen emotion.
That's just one, I'm out the door to work, so I'll get some more later.

Here's a few, in no particular order:

Kayo Dot: The Manifold Curiosity
Ulver: The Future Sound of Music

Metallica - Orion/To live is to die

Others are good, but I like other songs by those groups more.

 

[Fury of the Storm]

Ulver: The Future Sound of Music

.

 

[Seanindarkness]

Coy are you telling me that Kayo Dot has a better song than The Manifold Curiosity? Possibly Wayfarer, maybe The Antique, but I doubt it. As far as The Future Sound of Music goes, Ulver probably has better songs than that, but that's just what came to mind for me.

 

[CladInDarkness]

No the ones I quoted are ones I agree with. The ones I didn't quote, Agalloch for example, there are other songs I like more. All good choices all around though.

 

[BanginTheDead]

I also think all four of the Interludes on Leaving Your Body Map and Bath are mindblowingly beautiful.

 

[Seanindarkness]

my mistake sir, though Agalloch has so many great songs it's hard to pick which one.
Odal
As Embers Dress the Sky
You were but a ghost in my arms
Not unlike the waves
The Mishappen Steed

desicions, desicions.

Also I forgot to mention just about any GY!BE song

 

[Seanindarkness]

I also think all four of the Interludes on Leaving Your Body Map and Bath are mindblowingly beautiful.

agreed

 

[August Gales]

I would also add...
Cynic - Textures
Ulver - In the red/Porn pieces

 

[opeth_353]

I'll have a stab at this.. This is going to be fucking hard at points, as i'm going to try and pick just 1 from each band, a song that i have the best memories connected to, or just clicks with me the most.. I'll also try and note a few artists that haven't been mentioned.

Weakling - Dead As Dreams. (Coy will know why it's one of my favourite songs ever).
Esoteric - The Order Of Destiny. (Ffffffffffffffffffffffuck that was hard )
Ulver - Sadface. (Even harder!).
Akira Yamaoka - Sickness Unto Foolish Death (probably the hardest choice for me overall).
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Rockets Fall On Rocket Falls (extremely tough again).
Enslaved - The Crossing.
Neurosis - Stones From The Sky (another toughy).
Tenhi - Vilja.
Venetian Snares - Hajnal.
Tool - Rosetta Stoned.
Skinny Puppy - deep down Trauma Hounds.
Cult Of Luna - Echoes.
Opeth - Moonlapse Vertigo.
Akercocke - Shelter From The Sand.
Aphex Twin - Nannou.
Blut Aus Nord - Level-2 (Nothing Is Not).
Callisto - The Fugitive.
Deathspell Omega - II.
Camel - Migration.
Hawkwind - Hassan-I-Sabah (The live version on one of their most recent DVDs.. That version is fucking insane!)
The Meads Of Asphodel - Paradise.
Isis - Weight.
Radiohead - Morning Bell.
Smohalla - Les Yeux Du Temps.
Leftfield - Afrika Shox.
Mare - Sun For Miles.
Negură Bunget - Ţesarul De Lumini.
Primordial - The Golden Spiral.
Niroth - Seventeen.
Scott Walker - Hand Me Ups
WITTR - Cleansing.
Sleep - Dopesmoker.

 

[Seanindarkness]

awesome list Phennyboy

I'd also like to add: A Silver Mt. Zion-Sow some lonesome flowers so many flowers bloom
Mono:Yearning
WITTR: I will lay my bones among rocks and roots

 

[BanginTheDead]

awesome list Phennyboy

I'd also like to add: A Silver Mt. Zion-Sow some lonesome flowers so many flowers bloom
Mono:Yearning
WITTR: I will lay my bones among rocks and roots

All beautiful songs..

 

[JohnInDarkness]

Many of the songs mentioned already I agree with fully. I'll add the Pulse version of Comfortably Numb, by Pink Floyd. It's bliss. The ending makes me swoon.

 

[Seanindarkness]

I forgot to mention Comfortably Numb, and Wish you were here and of course Shine on you crazy diamond

Here are some more:

maudlin of the Well: Catharsis of Sea Sleep and Dreaming Shrines
Enslaved: Return to Yggradsil
Isis: So did we
Neurosis: Stones from the sky/Burn
Alcest: Le Secret
Ameseours: Bonhuer Ampute

 

[opeth_353]

^ Ya. And now for a load more.

Underworld - Born Slippy.
Esoteric - Passing Through Matter.
Ulver - Gnosis.
Akira Yamaoka - Theme Of Laura.
Enslaved - Convoys To Nothingness.
Peccatum - In The Bodiless Heart.
Alcest - Printemps Emeraude
Diagnose: Lebensgefahr - Transformalin.
Paatos - Sensor.
Sikth - Skies Of Millenium Night.
Tool - Disgustipated.
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleep Is Wrong.
Aphex Twin - Windowlicker.
T/M/K - Dopecity.
Ved Buens Ende - You, That May Wither.
The Mars Volta - Eriatarka.
Arcturus - Nightmare Heaven.
Manes - Terminus Rmx.
Porcupine Tree - Gravity Eyelids.
Neurosis - To The Wind.
Maudlin Of The Well - The Blue Ghost/Shedding Qliphoth.
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky.

 

[opeth_353]

Oh.. and not to be a suck up:

Clad In Darkness - Undulations.