I know it’s largely subjective, but some songs just blow one away with their beauty. It could be waves of nostalgia, or that heart-wrenching minor key, and they just make you want to weep.
This is one of mine: The Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Splash 1 (1966)
This one always does it for me. And they just don’t make music videos the way they used to. Whatever happened to the sloooooow zoom?
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
Yeah, I was 12 when that came out. It blew me away.
I’ll add another. This never fails to bring a tear to my eye.
The Pogues - I’m A Man You Don’t Meet Everyday (1985)
Good grief, there are so many from which to choose.
Most of mine are songs whose resonance never fades across continents or shituations.
This one always renders me asunder…
Portishead: ‘Glory Box’.
Fucking amazing production!
Lovely! The great Bristol period of Portishead, Tricky, Massive Attack…
Come on, you lot. Don’t make me have to post Chris De Burgh and Bryan Adams.
this one might be slightly different than the above, but a great song nonetheless.
Funny I do kinda like that song but for another reason. I had just gotten laid for the first time and that song was all the rage on the radio then. It kinda would remind me when I hear it.
For me Iv always had a thing for ‘AND I LOVE HER’ by the beetles.
I challenge anyone to come up with something more sublimely beautiful than this:
The Webb Sisters - If It Be Your Will (2008)
And for the incomparable original:
Leonard Cohen - If It Be Your Will (1992)
Hard to choose:
Patti Smith – scroll along to about 2:20
Nick Drake ‘… for the lilac time’ ‘… and the movement in your brain, sends you out into the rain’
Amn’t I good to you?
Lovely list, Ms BC! Have you ever heard Thin White Rope’s version of “Some Velvet Morning”?
I have now! that’s good - i haven’t really heard that band before.
This one is very special.
You are going to walk a long mile to find an acapella more beautiful than this:
Geoffrey Oryema - Nomad (1993)
Here’s some nice jazz from Grant Green
Down Here on the Ground.
Isaac Hayes’ version of Walk On By
Marcia Griffths Dreamland
The Skatalites with King Tubby Every Day I Pray
Dub Specialist Starring Du
(The dub of Cornell Campbell’s Stars)
damn… I want to smoke now
I Knew I could rely on you for some beautiful reggae, Mr Funk. Saves me the trouble of posting it myself! 
This Mortal Coil, “Song to the Siren” had me for a few years back in the 80s. Originally by Tim Buckley.
There’s more where that came from 
for example
Bizarre, Mr Urodacus! That was my next post! 