Most achingly-beautiful music


Ultimately, we listen to music to be moved, for example, to be elated, exulted, calmed or pained. Which are the 3 most affecting pieces of music do you find the most affecting?
hungryear
I don't think I listen to music only to be moved by it. Not always. Sometimes it is to box with the music: to understand the aim of the composer and to judge if he achieved it.
"Giant Steps" is the one that moved me deeply, though.
The Barber and Albinoni adagios
Rachmaninoff PC #2
Canon in D -- Pachelbel
Katchaturian Masquerade Suite
Romeo and Juliet -- Prokofiev
Computerwelt -- Kraftwerk
Everybody's Talkin' at Me -- Nilsson
What You Gon' do? -- Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz
Get Low -- Lil' Jon and the East Side Boyz
Salt Shaker -- Ying Yang Twins
Still Dre -- Dr. Dre
Some Cut -- Trillville
Still Tippin' -- Mike Jones
Branford Marsalis: "Eternal". Slow paced "beautiful" jazz. Great recording quality. Also, the soundtrack to "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon". If you like cello and flute you'll love this one.
Radiohead's Amnesiac, Nirvana's Nevermind, The Smiths Louder Than Bombs (especially Oscilate Wildly), The Cure's A Forest, Miles Davis Kind of Blue, John Coltrane A Love Supreme, The Clash's Sandinista, Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness, White Town's Your Woman, The Chemical Brother's Come Inside (remix also), Bad Brains Sacred Love, Canned Heat's On the Road Again, Shivaree's Goodnight Moon, Peter Murphy's Cuts You Up, Joy Division (all of their music espcially Dead Souls and Love Will Tear Us Apart), New Order's Bizarre Love Triangle and Blue Monday (of course), Kansas Dust in the Wind, The Damned In Dulce Decorum, The The's Dogs of Lust, Teddy Pendergrass Love TKO, Of Montreal's The Party's Crashing Us Now...I could go on and on!