Most spiritual song on Earth?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 06 Jun 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

AmounrA	06 Jun 2003
The most spiritually awakening song on Earth? ..at this time for me its on an obscure album called ‘amused to death’ by Roger Waters. A track called ‘perfect sense pt I & II’. Awakening. OmManiPedmeHung- who needs information?:-)

oceanpoetry	07 Jun 2003
It would be hard for me to name any one song as the most spiritual, I think lots of music is spiritual and uplifting. For example, the "Pachebel Canon" reminds me of heaven on Earth. Pretty much anything Baroque I find inspiritational. Also "Star Wars" is fantastic to listen to when I want a little creativity boost. :)

skytwig	07 Jun 2003
The symphony of birds at dawn. I soar in the resplendant greeting! :)

Sobeknofret	07 Jun 2003
Loreena McKennitt's musical version of St. John of the Cross' "Dark Night of the Soul." Very beautiful and very uplifting. --Sobe

Kismet	07 Jun 2003
I'm unsure what song I'd consider the most spiritual, but I do love the purity of "The Prayer" by Celine Dion and Andre Borcelli. It is overwhelming. I also enjoy Sting's "I Was Brought to My Senses".

ihcoyc	08 Jun 2003
I can think of many candidates: The hymn Amazing Grace; Claudio Monteverdi's setting of the psalm Dixit Dominus domino meo from the 1610 Vespers; Most of Mozart's Requiem that's actually by Mozart, but especially the Introit, the Lacrimosa, and the setting of the words Sed signifer sanctus Michaël repræsentat eum in lucem sanctam; Guillaume Dufay's setting of Petrarch's Vergine bella che di sol vestita; Guillaume de Machaut's Vostre tres doulx regart; The Pentangle's version of the Lyke-Wake Dirge.

Alissa	08 Jun 2003
Tchaikovksy's "Symphonie Pathetique" is the musical version of who I am (on the inside). So, to me, it's very spiritual, but I doubt others would find it so moving. Gluck's Dance of the Blessed Spirits, from "Orpheus and Eurydice" Albinoni's Adagio in G minor.

Maan	08 Jun 2003
I love the lyrics of some of Jewel's songs. ( see signature ;) Especcialy form the cd spirit and the song Hands. But on her new album are some good songs too I know a lot more songs that touch me deeply but there all form dutch artist. Herman van Veen has some truely beautiful songs and his lyric's are very deep and meaningfull. He once wrote a song for Nelson Mandela and Mandela heared about it and found it so beautiful that he contacted him. Its a shame that i can't share them with you :(

wavebreaker	08 Jun 2003
I love Everybody Hurts by R.E.M., because it's a beautiful song with very positive lyrics. And Lightning Crashes by Live, another beautiful song, about reincarnation.

Diana	08 Jun 2003
AmounrA: Is is unclear to me what you mean exactly by a spiritually awakening song. Does it mean when you listen to it, you feel like you're entering some kind of nirvana? Or does it mean that when you listen to it, you suddenly understand things that you have never understood before? Or is it the song that you think that if everyone would listen to, half of the world's problems would be solved? Or is the song that moves you to tears because it makes your heart burst with some kind of longing for a lost paradise? Would you mind explaining what you had in mind with this term "spiritually awakening song"?

AmounrA	08 Jun 2003
Hello Diana, I guess a bit of all 4 :-) Can I add another 3 from the classical side of life? Mozarts requiem, Wagners 'Magic fire music' & Beethovens glorius ninth....oh sheer audio joy ;-)

SingingTarot	08 Jun 2003
Oh my gosh, I am getting out of control. There is so much music out there... Gosh... I cannot think of what to put here, because there is so many things that stirr a deep emotion in me. I like Baroque music very much, yet the romantic era offered a lot as well. I think it is a difficult question to answer because spirituality has so many aspects. And no song can emcompass them all. Being a music student, I have to listen to lots and lots of new material every week, and there's always something new that just transport my heart. At the moment I am listening to a lot of 1500 choir music is just strickingly beautiful. But again, tomorrow, I will be appealed by something different, and there will be something out there that will touch me, that's the beauty of music. Alice

anjocoxo	08 Jun 2003
"Hallelluja" from Handel (sends chills down my spine) Anjo

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