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Pretty much anything from Tenhi
Prelude: Song of the Gulls - King Crimson
Cirkus - King Crimson (at least the first part)
Early Birth - Focus
Cymbaline - Pink Floyd
A Louse Is Not A Home - Peter Hammill
Julia - Pavlov's Dog
Isn't it Quiet and Cold - Gentle Giant
Zero the Hero and the Witches Spell - Gong

That's all I can think of now, none of them all really rare and have propably been mentioned by others before. But, I've only been listening to the classics for the past month now. So it's only natural that all my suggestions are made by those.
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

from Triumvirat's Spartacus album, three songs stand out as particularly beautiful-
The Deadly Dream Of Freedom
The Hazy Shades Of Dawn
The Sweetest Sound Of Liberty


Funny you should mention Triumvirat because I just heard Spartacus for the first time a week ago after I had been listening to school of instant pain for a couple of days on youtube. Loved it so much that I listened to Illusions on a double dimble today. Both great albums.
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

How could i forget Different Strings! 

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It's a great song. Cant figure out why I didn't mention it myself.
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Though it wasn't originally it's own song, it was released as a single: "Soon" by Yes
Also some others that may or may not have already been mentioned such as:
I Talk to the Wind-King Crimson
To Be Over- Yes
Nights in White Satin- The Moody Blues
 
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Jethro Tull - Reasons For Waiting
Jethro Tull - Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
Moody Blues - Visions of Paradise
Moody Blues - Are You Sitting Comfortably?
Yes - And You and I
ELP - From the Beginning
ELO - Can't Get It Out of My Head
Genesis - The Carpet Crawlers
Genesis - Entangled
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Traffic - Hidden Treasure
Harmonium - Histoire Sans Parole 


Edited by The Dark Elf - October 12 2011 at 22:20
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...
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Many that have been said, but also:





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Tortoise - Glass Museum / Charteroak Foundation
King Crimson - Starless
Porcupine Tree - Lazarus
Radiohead - Exit Music / Let Down
Yes - Soon
Mogwai - Stanley Kubrick / R U Still In 2 It
Supersilent - 7.6 / 6.4
VDGG - Refugees

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Talk Talk - After The Flood
Talk Talk - I Believe In You
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New Horizons - The Moody Blues
Watching and waiting - The Moody Blues
Eyes of a child (part 1) - The Moody Blues
Entangled - Genesis
Blood on the rooftops - Genesis
Silent sorrow in empty boats - Genesis
The Lamia - Genesis
Undertow - Genesis
Turn of a century - Yes
Awaken - Yes
Islands - King Crimson
At The harbour - Renaissance
Merlinda More or less - Curved Air
Aspirations - Gentle Giant
Panacea - Rush
Different Strings - Rush
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King Crimson - Starless
Frank Zappa/Mothers of Invention - Aybe Sea

The former is self-explanatory (others have mentioned it as well), but the latter is a sea shanty made in heaven! Odd that something so beautiful comes from an artist who cared so little about beauty.
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Originally posted by HarbouringTheSoul HarbouringTheSoul wrote:

Odd that something so beautiful comes from an artist who cared so little about beauty.

And you'd know, how? 

- Watermelon In Easter Hay
- Blessed Relief 
- Sofa
- Peaches en Regalia

All beautiful. 




Edited by irrelevant - October 17 2011 at 08:53
New album!
http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385
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"Aspirations" - Gentle Giant

"Storm and Thunder" - Earth and Fire
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1-Pink Floyd - Echoes
2-King Crimson - Epitaph
3-Camel - AirBorn
4-Genesis - Entangled
5-Le Orme - una dolcezza nuova
 
For me, this 5 songs have a surreal beautiness
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These 3 songs get me choked up. Breathtaking vocals too:







And other songs which I really love too
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Rush-Rivendell and In The End
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That Kamelot - Anthem song is a good choice!
 
But my favorite 'beautiful' song by them would have to be Don't You Cry:
 
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Originally posted by JS19 JS19 wrote:

Oh hundreds and hundreds....

Dredg - Bug Eyes
Anathema - Dreaming Light
The Decemberists - The Hazards Of Love 4 (The Drowned)
Dirty Three - Authentic Celestial Music
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
Gazpacho - Winter Is Never
Godspeed You Black Emperor - BBF3
Iona - Woven Cord
Karnivool - New Day
Moon Safari - Southern Belle
Pendragon - Masters Of Illusion
Pendragon - Am I Really Losing You?
Phideaux - Crumble (either one)
Pink Floyd  - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Porcupine Tree - Collapse Light Into Earth
Rush - Different Strings
Rush - Losing It
Sigur Ros - Vaka (Untitled 1)
Talk Talk - Wealth
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
Sylvan - A Kind Of Eden
Sylvan - Posthumous SIlence
Transatlantic - We All Need Some Light
Ulver - Eos
Vanden Plas - Quicksilver
Yes - Wondrous Stories
Yndi Halda - Illuminate My Heart, My Darling

(As you can see, me and beautiful music get on pretty damn well :P)





Great list of truly beautiful songs. Good to see the Decemberists mentioned!
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Beautiful but not necessarily the best:

  1. White Mountain - Genesis
  2. The Hangman and the Papist - Strawbs
  3. Closet Chronicles - Kansas
  4. From the Beginning - ELP
  5. Starless - King Crimson
  6. Mithrandir (This Fading Age) - Glass Hammer
  7. The Deadly Dream of Freedom Triumvirat
  8. Mother Russia - Renaissance
  9. 700,000 Anni Fal'Amore - Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
  10. Give a Little Bit - Supertramp
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Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - October 22 2011 at 00:09
            
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REALLY nice suggestions, thanks!  I have many bands to track down! 

I've always been partial to this particular song, Fripp's solos are classic!! 
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