What's the most beautiful song or album you've ever listened to

This might seem like a cliché answer, at least because this is not what I typically listen to on a normal basis, but for an album I'd Pink Floyd's The Wall.

I think it has a certain degree of universal appeal. It has really aged extraordinarily well. If you are ever given the opportunity to listen to it on an any type of hifi system, do so. You'll find layers of eery texture and masterful use of stero dynamics. As a cherry on top, the album forms a perfect loop.

As for a song, Aphex Twin's Avril 14th. I love that you can hear the action of the piano in the track. It was recorded with a kind of player piano that makes it sound very mechanical, but it still has a somewhat organic feel to it. It's very quaint yet oddly contemporary.

All of Art Tatum's music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2_qob16ls

Check out this reharmonization/improv on Chopin. The guy was basically blind, hence the insane awareness of where the keys were.

Album: The Pat Metheny Group (called the "white album" because of its plain white cover with just the four names of the players). Side one of the LP was just "San Lorenzo" and "Phase Dance". The former still gives me chills, 40 years later.

Song: Wildflower, by Skylark (fun fact: David Foster was a member). Here[0] is a live version. Here[1] is the background story.

Honorable mention: Hoptsoi, by the Finnish group Värttinä. OMG, the strings. [2]

[0] https://youtu.be/2zPWlOXwnGo

[1] https://www.songfacts.com/facts/skylark/wildflower

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeXn_J8-q2g

Here's a few of my faves:

Bob Dylan (Love Minus Zero/No Limit) https://youtu.be/ufbHfGU7WxA?list=LLlpi7Iw6jy-mv42RGAAiFVA

Sekret Sekret (New King Jack) https://youtu.be/DyoHMZo7uGA

Steve Winwood (Can't Find My Way Home) https://youtu.be/eoSn2Y-b6wI

Traffic (Dear Mr Fantasy) https://youtu.be/pSQ1akE2CcM

Joe Strummer (Johnny Appleseed) https://youtu.be/4IbMiqIdeME

Mahler - Symphony No. 5 Adagietto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75YmlDR92UQ

Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3W_alUuFkA

Those were the two that immediately came to mind, then:

Barber - Adagio for Strings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKrxPTePXEQ

Miles - Concierto De Aranjuez https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cscpJisU6k

- In a Silent Way https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdBONxS-Es

Keith Jarrett - Visions (48 seconds long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDujecndByY

- Interlude No. 3 (1 minute 17) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us0EU-yXAlg

- Sympathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQLTuyIHAMc

KJ's American Quartet - Still Life, Still Life https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiVg5cSug3k

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sings R. Strauss' Four Last Songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs0vSC9DUhU

Most beautiful album is I guess Keith's solo piano Facing You. Doesn't seem to be on youtube at the moment. This is one track from it, Ritooria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVpDWxoFGP4

Listening to this now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRIfsFefatg

Medieval style is rather beautiful.

Okay, one more: "Calypso", Suzanne Vega:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhJIZZcNQPA

Steely Dan's "Home at Last" is another interesting turn on Odysseus.

Time without consequences - Alexi Murdoch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3QJ4brLYZQ&list=PL04432CD8C...

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy2zDJPIgwc

My favorite piece of all time. It encapsulates what I want to feel about life

An Armenian chellist playing Paganini's Variations on a theme from Moses in Egypt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g00bVs0zBg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huDWAc61Lx4

One of the only songs where I prefer the live version to original studio

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yscm61p5eyA

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West

Disintegration - The Cure

George Winston’s Autumn

I love Mary Bessi voice. I listen to them even today

Tubular Bells the original version

Robert Miles - Remember Robert Miles

The ballad of Cleopatra by Lumineers.