Songs that you genuinely think are perfect
and that you can't fault and wouldn't change anything whatsoever (including the recording/mixing etc I'm not talking about songs that are perfect on paper but haven't been done quite right).
Talk Talk I Don't Believe In You:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCBnLO_jqk
My favourite song of the past few days Spiritualized Broken Heart:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9xPNaq9uec
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Billie Holiday Strange Fruit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9FZMHNhJ80
Oh my.
That's beautiful. Don't know how I've never come across this before.
ya that talk talk track
broken heart could be improved, because it was on the jools holland show with the harmonica.
motoro faam - and infiltrations.
bark psychosis - forget the title, 2nd track from codename: dustsucker
The Black Meat?
thats the badger
Now You Are Pregnant by The Wave Pictures
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Wyd1Qi9CA
BUT
The original version, not the new one they recorded for 'Jonny Helm Sings' which is different and hence not perfect. They have a few tracks that would benefit from re-recording. That was definitely not one of them.
the re-recorded version of Long Island they did [i.e. not the one on Sophie] is proper awful
Teenage Fanclub - Sparky's Dream
Teenage Fanclub - The Concept
Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung
The Wrens - Hopeless
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Built to Spill - Carry the Zero
Radical Face - Wrapped in Piano Strings
Carry tthe Zero is correct.
really?
they have so many better songs. it's a great song but there are so many better ones
like anything off 'Perfect From Now On'
especially 'Kicked it in the Sun'.
Or "Randy Described Eternity"
That song, man. It's so... perfect.
Agreed on All My Friends.
The Wrens - Hopeless
is also correct.
cowboy junkies - sweet jane
David Bowie - Rock n Roll Suicide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jg4ekLG9Zo
well a lot of david bowie songs are perfect (i.e. i wouldnt change a bit of them)
which highlights the problem with the question, because when someone writes such individulistic unique kind of songs then you have no other direct comparrison, so most of bowies songs fit into this catagory, the OP applies better to when there is a genre that has songs that are easy to compare
Converge - Concubine
Pogues - Lullaby of London
Beach Boys - God Only Knows (even the middle 8 bit)
Lullaby of London is a beautiful piece of music
Good shout sir!
Have a "this" for God Only Knows
what 'Middle 8 bit'?
if you're thinking what i'm thinking
then that is the best bit of the song
A lot of people don't like the quirky
do-doop doop-de-doop doop-de-doo-dee-doo-dee do-doop bit in the middle. I do, seems many also do.
I was learning how to play this song recently, its quite clever, that bit is just the verse shifted 5 steps up so it ends up the chorus in a new key ends with the same two chords that start the verse in its original key which makes it seem to perfectly segue back to the original verse, I like those non word vocals, it helps build things up before that moment pays off. Its amazing how simple and right that song sounds given that it is actually quite strange musically
Concubine's barely a song :D
NOT TRUE
Concubine is a song.
It's a song that basically perfects "heavy music".
In fact, ignore that "basically".
This isn't the thread for it.
it you said Concubine/Fault and Fracture
I'd be all for it.
It's a song dude
just a short/concise one. Simple.
fine, but I consider it an amazing intro to Fault and Fracture
I mean, it was released as such: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go8KMq_WjLI
Album was released before the video :P
what does that prove?
I don't understand this,
they are two songs, not an intro or owt, just two songs.
Concubine is amazing.
thats fine
but I always associate them as linked, as a one-two they are one of my favourite songs. Put it this way, I'd never listen to one without the other.
same as First Light/Last Light
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
Most of Boards of Canada's back catalogue.
Dayvan Cowboy especially so: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zKARkpDW4&ob=av2e
So many...
Dawn Chorus
Slow this Bird Down
ROYGBIV
Music is Math
Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels)- Arcade Fire
All the Wine- the National
This Must be the Place (Naive Melody)- Talking Heads (The Stop Making Sense version)
The New- Interpol
Let Down- Radiohead
Rilo Kiley - The Good That Won't Come Out
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Er8PN385PEA
Hey Moon - John Maus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnlSA0a2X_w
* Molly Nilsson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ594IL_wyw
Hey Moon is incredible
A highlight from an already amazing album.
Elastica - Stutter
Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon
Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
Not Too Soon is a perfect pop song.
Stutter
Yes. perfect.
Mew - Comforting Sounds
My Bloody Valentine - Sometimes
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonnaise
Swirlies - Sunn
Swervedriver - Duel
Verve - Butterfly
Primal Scream - MBV Arkestra
Yo La Tengo - My Heart's Reflection
Jane's Addiction - Then She Did...
Everything about these, production, tune, noise, random chaotic bits or specific once only finger plucks (YLT, Janes) is perfect.
Hear ya re: Mayonnaise
I'd add MBV- Soon
I wouldn't change a note!
'Soon' is perfection
Never got tired of listening it. My fave MBV song.
Electric Wizard- Funeralopolis
walkmen rat
across 110th st
all along the watchtower
raspberry beret prince
love alone again or
No songs are perfect
title of the thread is 'songs that YOU genuinely think are perfect'
so its all subjective really. if thats your opinion, fair enough.
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Orbital - Belfast
Destroyer - Suicide Demo for Kara Walker
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Age of Love (jam & spoon remix)
It's just perfect dance music. Theres not a thing I would change in that song.
just drawn up a shortlist on an office post it waiting till the long weekend (In germany)
Plainsong. Cure
A promise. Echo and the bunnymen
Alone down there. Modest Mouse
Somethings Wrong. Jesus & mary chain.
Jealous Guy. Roxy Music version
Sometimes. MBV
and last but not least
so in love. OMD
Crazy Town (Peel Session) by Velocity Girl.
A brilliant pop song that I have from a Peel Sessions CD from 1994. Reminds me of doing my A' Levels. Anyway, I digress. A perfect pop song for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IR1tvVywMSQ
TV Movie by Pulp
Paint a Vulgar Picture. Smiths
A More Perfect Union. Titus Andronicus
You're So Great. Blur
Heart of Glass. Blondie
We're Just Friends. Wilco
Damaged. Primal Scream
Heart of Glass
probably the most perfect song ever - not an inch of flab and even has memorable drum fills
You're so great!! YES!!!
The slight crackle; the vocals that sound kind of world-weary but content; the lyrics; and probably my favourite solo ever. Wouldn't change a note.
I couldn't think which Titus Song to put down
I've listened to The Monitor so much it almost sounds like a parody of itself (my fault, obvz) but I think i'd say Four Score And Seven, but I could honestly pick 4 or 5 songs off that album.
Also, Impossible Soul by Sufjan. Never has all other popular music felt so quotidian as when put next to that.
Too many to choose from
but there have been some fine examples in this thread already.
Two that spring to my mind straight away are Day After Tomorrow by Tom Waits and My Girl by The Temptations.
Beautiful Ones - Suede
The Surburbs - Acrade Fire
Shuffle - Bombay Bicyle Club
*The Wild Ones
The Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
Tom Jones - it's not unusual
The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
alone again or - love
this time tomorrow - the kinks
Grails - Canyon Hymn
The Beatles - She Said She Said
I'll never get tired of listening to that song.
the first two that come to mind
God only Knows, and Grapevine Fires by DCFC ( I <3 that so fucking hard)
Nina Simone - Four Women
Pavement - Grounded
Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
A hundred thises for Grounded.
<3
I never get the love for Grounded?
I love Pavement, but for me it's so far from their best
I woulda gone with Gold Soundz
Because I lack originality
One this for VDGG
:'') <3
Farewell Transmission
How Soon Is Now
ugh no
This Charming Man
Shurely.
I think How Soon Is Now is too long to be perfect in its album form, and I imagine any cut down versions would still seem somehow... Abridged.
It's an amazing soundscape
of reverb noise and lamentation.
Or whatever. It rules.
most perfect song ever recorded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW83a4i5c5k
I know I said no songs were perfect upthread
but this may be the one that comes closest
No doubt about it, based on facts and science obv.
moscow nights by the feelies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQAWkAOsolY
Be My Baby - The Ronettes
I'd probably plump for And Then He Kissed Me
Both grouse though. Phil Spector, eh. Evil genius or simply misunderstood?
Hard To Explain - The Strokes
La Mer - Django Reinhardt
The National- Slow Show
Miles Davis- Blue In Green
Taylor Swift- Love Story
...and also
Bill Evans' version of "Blue in Green" from Portrait in Jazz featuring the brilliant Scott La Faro
I prefer the version of Slow Show on the Virginia EP #stockindierthanthouanswer
Joanna Newsom - Emily
And Sawdust & Diamonds, Only Skin, Cosmia, Baby Birch, In California, Go Long, Does Not Suffice etc etc. She is basically perfect.
Also Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
You mentioned everything on Ys
apart from Monkey and Bear, which is clearly also astounding.
my bad, it is definitely in there too.
That sort of rolling melody in the track 'Have One On Me'
I mean that whole song (and many others) but this bit...
I remember everything,
down to the sound of you shaving--
the scrape of your razor,
the dully-abrading black hair
that remained
when you clutched at me,
that night I came upstairs, half-dead,
and, in your kindness,
you put me straightaway
in the cupboard,
with a bottle of champagne,
and then, later, on a train.
One of the many sections where I just keep thinking, 'This woman is an actual genius. A living, breathing, musical genius.'
God damn I want a new Joanna Newsom album so badly now.
Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale..
Maybe my favourite tune ever.
Massive love for this tune.
Despite about a hundred listens, I only really cottoned onto the 'missing rhyming word' thing recently too. Even bigger love now.
Van Morrison - Sweet Thing
this
Unsolved Child Murder by The Auteurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A4EAjPUZQM
incredible song!! The Beatles reimagined as sarcastic murder balladeers
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay
Archers of Loaf - Web In Front
The Replacements - Androgynous
Beulah - Disco: The Secretaries Blues
The Memories Attack - Summertime
All my favourites, basically
*Here Comes A Regular
web in front is correct
in fact, look at how much I agree with that (or dont):
http://heff88.tumblr.com/post/21850199359/many-of-archers-of-loafs-best-songs-werent-on
um, this one:
http://heff88.tumblr.com/post/21711342990/dissecting-a-masterpiece-or-why-web-in-front-is-one
can't even jag properly fucks sake
TV on the Radio - Lover's Day
Magnetic Fields - Book of Love
Pulp - I Spy
SFA - Slow Life
Mogwai - Thank You Space Expert
Massive Attack - Group Four
Elbow - Great Expectations
Nat King Cole - Nature Boy
Portishead - The Rip
Beck and Jon Brion - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime
Animal Collective - In the Flowers
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Low - Words
This Will Destroy You - The World Is Our _____
the Walkmen - In The New Year
GY!BE - East Hastings
Interpol - Not Even Jail/The new
Low - Two-Step (it could be anyone of their tracks, but this is the most played on iTunes)
Mogwai - Cody
great line-up there
So much love for The World is Our _____
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
12" version, obvs.
Lover you should've come over by Jeff Buckley
Turn my Camera on by Spoon
Lovely Allen by Holy Fuck
How I long by Gorky's Zygotic mynci
Receptacle for the Respectable by Super Furry Animals
Friend's of Mine by the Zombies
Cross-eyed and Painless by Talking Heads
Caroline no by The Beach Boys
For No one by the Beatles
and also another vote for Grounded by Pavement
there are hundreds of these
so instead of some you won't click please click this one, it's only nine seconds long and it's perfect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REojIUxX4rw
I don't have time for that.
raaaarghhhh
The National - Squalor Victoria
LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great
The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize
The Clash - Janie Jones
Daft Punk - Face to Face
Caribou - Kaili
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Orbital - Lush 3.1
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
The Beta Band - Dr Baker
John Fruciante - Heaven
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
Sigur Rós - Popplagið
Jens Lekman - Black Cab
M. Ward - Carolina
That one about knocking on wood or something
Jens Lekman - Black Cab
M. Ward - Carolina
to elaborate: 'perfect', obviously subjective, I don't generally like the term, but with these two songs I've adored them since the moment I first heard them and their appeal has endured since, no wavering.
double post, ach
or one and a half, my bad.
of Montreal - Go Call You Mean
no doubt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjjI4bQ8BFs
Despite listening to electronica 80% of the time...
the first thing that comes into my head is..
I Say a Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin
funny eh.
This fuzzy fella...
Calico Wall, I'm a Living Sickness:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBHDp6jfm18
Dream A Little Dream Of Me
The Mama Cass version.
A day in the life
Jeff Buckley's version of 'Hallelujah'
Perhaps it's too obvious, too popular, too sincere, that it's not already been mentioned. Give a fuck. Go and listen to it.
doesn't fit in on Grace, for sure
doesn't fit in on Grace, for sure
that's lovely
I wouldn't say it's perfect...
...but that's only because the live Mystery White Boy version is superior in my eyes. The one where he seagues into 'I Know It's Over' by The Smiths and then back again. Heart-stopping...
Yo La Tengo - Tom Courtenay
It's great but I'd put a fair few Yo La Tengo songs ahead of that
Probably with 'We're An American Band' at the top of the list.
Love both of those
but I always keep coming back to their cover of 'My Little Corner of the World'
YLT definitely have some note perfect tunes
At the moment, my 3 picks from them would be:
I Heard You Looking
Saturday
Deeper Into Movies
unequivocally:
sam cooke - a change is gonna come
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbO2_077ixs
vocal performance of a lifetime. I WAS BOOOOOOOOOOOORN BY THE RIVER.
i need to start a sam cooke thread
pls do this
Round & Round - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiLqAu4s-_s
Pink Floyd - bike
supergrass - moving
big star - september gurls
Yo La Tengo - mr tough
stereolab - the incredible he-woman
Roger Nicolls & the small circle of friends - kinda wasted without you
^ This for September Gurls
surf's up
one for my baby
little richard "keep a-knockin'" - "i'm drinkin' gin & you can't come in": what else is he doing in there? CRAZY !!
^This for the Surfs Up piano solo version
eagle eye cherry - save tonight
genuinely one of the greatest songs in the world.
Only cos it's probably got nice memories attached to it for you
Don't worry, I'm in the same boat.
no it really doesn't
it's just musically perfect.
There are two:
Stevie Wonder - I Don't Know Why I Love You
Mountain Man - Bargaining III
Absolute perfection in every possible way
All Night Long by Lionel Richie is almost there...
Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
pinnacle of man's achievement.
+ Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley
+ You're Gonna Miss Your Candyman by Terry Callier
Lemonheads -
It's A Shame About Ray
If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
Teenage Fanclub - Ain't That Enough, Start Again
Massive this for Ain't That Enough
Massive THIS for If I Could Talk...
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Blondie - Atomic
Daft Punk - Around The World
Martha & The Muffins - Echo Beach
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning
? & The Mysterons - 96 Tears
Ronettes - Be My Baby, as was mentioned above.
Joni Mitchell - A Case of You
Gram Parsons - Return of the Grievous Angel
The Magnetic Fields - Busby Berkley Dreams
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Mew - She Came Home For Christmas
Van Morrison - Madame George (though frankly you could pick anything of Astral Weeks)
Bob Dylan - Mississippi
Frank Sinatra - One For My Baby (Only The Lonely version)
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Portishead - Roads
Otis Redding - I've Been Loving You Too Long
Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues
Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues
This for Roads.
One of those songs I feel I could happily listen to on repeat for forever.
On, and the live version of 'Hallelujah' of Jeff Buckley's Mystery White Boy
The one where he seagues it into I Know It's Over and then back again. Heartstopping
**off**
'Feel Flows' - Beach Boys
'Unreal Is Here' - Chavez
'Thank You Friends' - Big Star
Feel Flows is a magical tune.
Big love for that one.
Wilco - Jesus, Etc.
The Twilight Singers - Teenage Wristband
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Okkervil River - For Real
Japandroids - Sovereignty
And loads more obviously. But all of those are pretty much songwriting masterclasses in their own way.
jesus, etc is perfect
Prisencolinensinainciusol
by Adriano Celentano:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00
Sufjan Stevens - Chicago
The Pixies - Debaser
Pavement - Debris Slide
Oops, just Pixies obv, rookie mistake
I can't believe more people haven't said Debaser.
Probably the most perfect song ever.
Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUjd6DHAutU
couldn't agree with this more
Does so much in such a short space of time, excellent lyrics, catchy as fuck, bonkers sounds
People slated their set at ATP...
...in March but I was absolutely over the moon to see them and really enjoyed them despite the sound difficulties.
Most of the Elephant 6 guys were staying a few chalets away from us so I got to have a great chat with Will Cullen Hart for about half an hour.
He was the nicest guy and said to look for new OTC stuff this year.
NEW OTC!
Have been savagely poor all year, to the extent of not even affording the cargo gig around the ATP weekend, but I doubt I'll hear better news all day!
(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher - Jackie Wilson
Mark David Chapman - Trail of Dead
Unwound - Lady Elect
Undenied - portishead
this acoustic version of 24 by Emmy the great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTcXg_6qeuU
Peggy Sue - Lover Gone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmsiTcNfAAY
New Order - Ceremony
New Order - Temptation
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB8ymBZwgOE&feature=related (The live at the hurrah version is the definitive version though.)
NEW ORDER - CEREMONY
YES, YES, YES - defines the answer to this question
I've always thought Ceremony is the most perfect 'sounding' record ever
and it's a pretty good song too.
99 Luftballons
elliott smith - angeles
probably not my favourite song if I was pushed, but it is perfect.
Saint Etienne did some
Avenue
People Get Real
Heart Failed In The Back of Taxi
PDA
if you ignore the terrible lyrics?
yeah actually on reflection, you're right
the breakdown only then
but then its not perfect
PDA IS perfect
The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
Someone mentioned it upthread, but it really deserves its own post
Ween - Buckingham Green
The greatest song ever.
Slint - Washer
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Great lyrics delivered with passion by a great singer, solid drumming, beautifully interesting bass lines, crafted guitar, slick synths.
Just a perfectly crafted pop song. Instantly recognisable intro, memorable outro. Doesn't outstay it's welcome either and always leaves me wanting more.
Also:
B&S - Lazy Line Painter Jane
B&S - The State I Am In
Most of Loaded by the VU, particularly the unedited cut of Sweet Jane and Oh! Sweet Nothing.
Surely when one puts the word 'perfect' and 'Belle & Sebastian
Let's try again: Surely when one puts the word 'perfect' and 'Belle and Sebastian' in the same sentence
there's going to be mention of "the 3...6...9 seconds of light EP" which is just perfection from start to finish. An encapsulation of when that band was at their zenith.
Sebastien Tellier - La Ritournelle
across the sea by weezer
Dionne Warwick - Walk On By
It's so fucking emotional, I prefer not listening to it.
Bjork - Desired Constellation
and loads of other mid-period Bjorks, but this in particular is lyrically/musically perfect, in my shitty opinion.
'Cocoon' from Vespertine
So perfect that it brought a tear to my eye when it cropped on shuffle today as I walked through Manchester town centre.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q1BvSZNbUg
I wanted to post some songs
and felt inclined to agree with others, but I'm at odds with the notion of perfection.
anyone who's ever written a song will know how nebulous the process is. there are so many ways any given song can change, and regardless of how fully realised a song or piece of music is, the finished article is more of a snapshot in time of something more ephemeral.
hence why bands often change songs over years of playing them live.
however, I might post a list of songs that it is difficult to imagine being any better.
pedantry, I know.
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Deacon Blue - Real Gone Kid
lots of this
RANDOM
Elvis - All Shook Up
Outkast - ATLiens
TV on the Radio - Ambulance
The National - Fake Empire
M83 - Midnight City
Smashing Pumpkins - Today
Kanye West - Runaway
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands
QOTSA - Song For The Dead
ATD-I - Cosmonaut
The Wrens - Everyone Choose Sudes
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Grace Cathedral Park
by Red House Painters.
Every time I hear the first note I have to stop everything until the song has finished.
Fantastic choice
I might have to go with Katy Song instead (I could listen to the end on repeat forever)
Talking Heads - This must be the place.
Jackie Wilson - To Be Loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXitw5_7Wzs
I'll Believe in Anything by Wolf Parade
I'd accept either Grounds For Divorce or Modern World
neither of them have any where near the drama or beauty of Anything
nor are as fun as Shine a Light. Grounds for Divorce is a great pop song though
Y'know, actually, months later.
I'd actually say Dinner Bells.
This thread...
Isley Brothers - This old heart of mine
Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
The Walkmen - In The New Year/The Rat/We've Been Had/Red Moon/Canadian Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoBGqLt96Pg
Neil young - Thrasher/Ambulance Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdHdHy-RqcY
definitely we've been had
Sorry to be that guy
but I've gotta say, I think Talk Show Host is perfect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU7sUENatUU
Tool - The Grudge
Ravel's Bolero
Chris Cornell - Seasons
Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Ministry - N.W.O.
I'll put a song in for contention
Be Thankful for What you Got - William De Vaughan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDTXljIqxRE
I LOVE everything about this song.
boss tune
it's ass-funky.
Scott Walker - 'On your own again'
Though I'd also plump for his "The Seventh Seal" too
The Radiohead track that meets perfection is surely either 'Everything in it's right place' or 'The National Anthem'.
Some others:
Tindersticks - City Sickness
Glen Campbell - Wichita Lineman
Deerhunter - Desire Lines
Elbow - Station Approach
Flaming Lips - Race for the Prize
Josh Rouse - Quiet Town
Pulp - This is Hardcore (when they play it live with the orchestral lead-in)
Richard Hawley - Born under a bad sign
Desire Lines is a great shout
^This to Wichita Lineman
top track.
For Scott Walker I'd say "The Old Man's Back Again"
for Radiohead I think I'd say "How To Disappear Completely".
yeah, that one was in my mind too
i'd agree with 'how to disappear completely'
they played it live last night and it was incredible.
also PP Arnold - The First Cut is the Deepest
The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy
Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone
Low - Just Like Christmas
UNKLE - Rabbit in your headlights
Fugazi - Waiting Room
Eels- 'Things the Grandchildren Should Know'
always brings a tear to the eye. So beautifully bloody simple.
I was thinking about Eels, and this songs is millimetres away from perfection
and would probably be perfect - had he not already written "P.S. You Rock My World"
ctrl + f 'wire'
oh for fuck's sake DiS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtOYoQM8dHU
nice choice
I think my favourite might be either I Should Have Known Better, 99.9 or 23 Years Too Late, but there are just so many to choose from
Animal Collective-Banshee Beat
Lambchop-All Smiles and Mariachi
Mercury Rev-Empire State
this version of wild is the wind by nina simone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVvcgjAaNg&feature=related
Random choices
Velvet Underground - What Goes On
Tindersticks - Raindrops
Pulp - Babies
Abba - Dancing Queen
great call on dancing queen!
great call on all of these
adore Raindrops - Drunk Tank also! Perfect.
Wild Beasts- The Fun Powder Plot
Kate Bush- Running Up That Hill
Jeff Buckley- Eternal Life
One More Hour- Sleater-Kinney
Cosmology- Rolo Tomassi
Matador- Brontide
Isolation- Joy Division
Tender- Blur
fofteen is my Perfect Rolo Tomassi Song
blatantly Club Noir
film noir?
Yeah, great tune
sorry aye
it's been a while!
Fofteen is the quintessential
"throw some riffs together and call it a song" Rolo Tomassi song. Each separate bit is good, but as a whole it just doesn't hold together.
Now, if you'd said Abraxas then I would agree with you.
big This for One More Hour
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
Cannonball - The Breeders
American Football - Honestly?
Two Headed Boy (part 2), Neutral Milk Hotel
The Sweets, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dare, The Wedding Present
Blackberry Stone, Laura Marling
I'll echo the general sentiment that The Cure have several
Motorcycle Emptiness, Manics
Take Me Out, Franz
Ready For The Floor, Hot Chip
Main Offender, Hives
Divine Hammer, Breeders
No offence but 'Motorcycle Emptiness' by The Manics?
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It's the worst song ever written
I refuse to take your opinions seriously
You wanton forum-breaker
Bright Eyes - Landlocked Blues http://youtu.be/CqlsVypKIu8
Radiohead
No Suprises
Its the freakin' weekend baby Im about to have me some fun
bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce bounce
cmon
No More I Love You's
Our Way To Fall - Yo La Tengo
Ah but which version?
I prefer the original by The Lover Speaks.
Sun Kil Moon
Carry me Ohio.
Agree with this one
Kozelek's best song
Midlake
Roscoe.
Girl from Mars - Ash
Guitar pop perfection.
Burn Baby Burn surely
tbh Ash are pretty much masters of guitar pop perfection
so I could have put down several of theirs.
Walking Barefoot.
Angel Interceptor
OoooooooooooooooohhhhhhwAHHHHHHHHoooooh
And that solo!
The Midnight Cowboy theme tune
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU
okay
The Walkmen - Stranded
a lot of Walkmen songs, but those horns, good god...I have felt magic many times in music, but never so intensely as that golden, glorious brass section.
jfc I love that band so much.
also
A Silver Mt. Zion - Could've Moved Mountains
when the first violin comes in, lump in throat...when the second comes, forget about it. words cannot go there.
Wilco - Radio Cure
Jim O'Rourke, you beautiful bastard. his production pushes this into realms beyond your average acoustic troubador. but then the song itself is masterful in weary restraint. captures so perfectly the emotion it strives for.
also 'Jesus, etc'.
The Wrens - Happy
emo mic hug. so hard. no other song does what this one does even remotely as well. I WAS WROOOOOOOOOOONG!!!!
more
XTC - Jason & the Argonauts
hard to capture in words, this one...it finds a place between African pop and 12 string (right?) jangle via prog, a cut and heatstruck place of tall grass, wild animals, febrile native kids...
also 'Summer's Cauldron'. utterly inspirational.
Yo La Tengo - Our Way To Fall
only true love conbined with genuine indie pop/rock genius could make something so precious and deeply perfect.
other perfect YLT: 'Suddenly Organ', 'You Could Have It All', 'Pablo and Andrea', 'Damage', 'Green Arrow'...
Xiu Xiu - Hives Hives
thrilling hysteria. pure, distilled bloodrush psychodrama...ffffffuck.
Avey Tare and Panda Bear - Alvin Row
in a similar noisey avant pop freak out zone as the above. and one of the great screams in music.
other perfect AC moments: 'Water Curses', 'Street Flash', 'People', 'For Reverend Green', 'No More Runnin', 'Banshee Beat', 'Visiting Friends', 'Winter's Love', 'Kids on Holiday'...
some more w/o writing, else I'll be here all day...
Tindersticks - My Sister
Antena - Seaside Weekend
Sam Prekop - C + F
The Sea and Cake - Afternoon Speaker
Tortoise - Everglade
Stereolab - Les Hyper Sound
Toro Y Moi - Blessa (hits that Prekop-style sweet spot)
Unrest - Suki (Prekop hits that Mark Robinson-style sweet spot)
Valet - We Went There (try this in the blue part of the magic hour)
Vetiver - Been So Long (thanks for that mix, Tim McIver)
Volcano Choit - Island, IS
Bedhead - Bedside Table
Thurston Moore - In Silver Rain With a Paper Key (had a reaaally cosmic and transcendent magic hour moment with this, too)
This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren
Thom Yorke - All For The Best
The Twilight Sad - And She Would Darken the Memory
Low - In Metal
more later.
I'd maybe swap Blessa
for Thanks Vision. I will never get sick of that song
All For The Best
is absolutely, unfathomably amazing
Cole's Corner
that song is timeless
Leisure Society - Last of the Melting Snow
Sia - Breath Me
Zero 7 - Distractions
Zero 7 - Destiny
Sonic Youth - Kool Thing
Liam Frost - The Mourners of St. Pauls
Richard Hawley - The Streets are Ours
The Walkmen - The Rat
Camper Van Beethoven - Take the Skinheads Bowling
The Wrens - She Sends Kisses
Sugar Cubes - Hit
Tom McCrae - Sau Paulo Rain
Jill Scott - A Long Walk
Hope of the States - Black Dollar Bills
Brendan Benson - Metarte
Peter Broderick - Below It
The Polyphonic Spree - Hanging Around the Day
The National - Karen
Jay Jay Pistolet - Happy Birthday
Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song
The Libertines - Don't Look Back into the Sun
Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole
And, cliche I know, but:
Sigur Ros - Hippipola
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Air - All I Need
Made Up Lovesong by Guillemots would be, but it is one verse missing.
very big ^this for Unfinished Sympathy
can't believe it took this long for someone to mention it
An even bigger ^this^ for Black Dollar Bills!
Jay Jay Pistolet???
Seriously!?
Yep
I think it it the best birthday song ever. Simple, romantic, beautiful, lovely little song. Perfect.
Super Furry Animals - Guacamole
Regarded by some as as a novelty throwaway b-side. To my ears it is one of the sharpest pop songs I've ever heard.
SFA
For Now And Ever
Would get my vote.
Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's The Pilot
Listen to this with a set of good quality headphones or hifi and float away
Gillian Welch - Wrecking Ball
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1ujuoo9VbA
Wouldn't change a thing.
Grant Lee Buffalo - Mockingbirds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVnWAkOGxK0
Just Like Heaven
this so much
Pretty much the greatest song of all time
the most perfect song in the whole world i think is
gary glitter and you want to touch me because it really speaks to you and his voice is so harmoniase you feel as if he's in the room with you and he's touching you deep inside i love gary glitter and that song. x
:)
:D
I'm sure he appeals to the child in all of us.
:)
ASL?
ha.
Slowdive - Machine Gun
just listening to that song and I saw this thread. :)
I think it's just one of those perfect song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAPKM0RZ4as
There are so many songs from that album that could qualify
Souvlaki Spacestation comes to mind
When the sun hits
would be my choice, but there's not a bad track on that album
Alison
The rest of the album pales in comparison.
Idlewild
These Wooden Ideas
John Cale - Paris 1919
If we're talking Noisy Guitar Rock
Then here are a few nominations:
Raisans or In a Jar by Dinosaur Jr
Pink Turns to Blue or Chartered Trips by Husker Du
XTC - Earn Enough For Us
Stereolab - Super-Electric
Stereolab - Jenny Ondioline
All 17 minutes of it
Deerhunter - Never Stops
Can't believe no one has mentioned this yet. Utterly perfect. this is how you build up a song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljgAnV8iNXE
No, you know there's nothing surprising in no one mentioning it, though it's clearly a good piece of music.
Redd Kross - Jimmy's Fantasy
thats a fun record
Hank Williams - I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19vApPwWqh8
This week, it has to be Reagan Youth by Reagan Youth.
Incredible bit of hardcore
Atlantic City by The Boss also.
not my usual thing
But Elliot Smith - Miss Misery definitely falls into this category for me
hmm
Grandaddy - He's Simple, He's Dumb, He's the Pilot
Grandaddy - The Warming Sun
Andrew Bird - Hole in the Ocean Floor
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
BSS - 7/4 shoreline
is pretty damn near perfection for me.
And Radiohead - Let Go. Guess that might be an obvious one to some, mind
Perfect Pop Songs
Buzzcocks - Ever Fallen In Love
Chills - Heavenly Pop Song
Gonzales - You Can Dance
New Order - Regret
XTC - Stupidly Happy
Daughter - Youth
Honestly can't stop listening to it, so so good.
Sugar Gee Angel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62Q1NkQK-M&feature=fvst
Magazine Shot By Both Sides http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybUqM8jf3mU
BOC eagle in your mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf66Lmrqk00
Another Girl, Another Planet
perfect
the night they drove old dixie down- the band
get on, me- the brother kite
else- built to spill
pentagram ring- chavez
plainsong- the cure
the perfect me - deerhoof
gut feeling- devo
freak scene- dino jr
felt good to burn- flaming lips
styrofoam- fugazi
what is life- george harrison
offical ironmen rally song- gbv
girl who lives on heaven hill- husker du
trapeze swinger- iron and wine
thats how you sing amazing grace- low
lounge act- nirvana
consequence- the notwist
tamer animals- other lives
syracuse- pinback
hey- pixies
when you were mine- prince
purple rain- prince
fall on me- REM
unsatisfied- replacements
this charming man- smiths
zombies/the world is awaiting- sunset
sidewalk serfer girl- SFA
100,000 fireflies (magnetic fields cover) - superchunk
tom trauberts blues - tom waits
i'll believe in anything- wolf parade
Nice choices....especially Tom Traubert's Blues and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down...
But would you pick the S/T version or the Last Waltz version of the latter?
love them both...
but the arrangement in the last waltz version probably wins it for me...the horns!!
And the magnificent way Levon tears into the final chorus after the build-up.
What a singer and a drummer. A sad loss :-)
Nirvana
This for Nirvana - Lounge Act
Call Me Maybe
Hey I just met you
dinner?
here's my number
The Delgados - Last Rose of Summer
No song has made me stop dead like this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnAWGT02-c8
Emma Pollock's vocal, the careful string arrangement getting swept up in delay and feedback loops, the way the whole song just seems to melt at the end... It's a live Peel session, I remember distinctly listening to it when it went out and staring at the radio for about five minutes afterwards.
To me, it's perfect.
Blur Out Of Time
Burial Archangel (will always be my favourite Burial track by quite some stretch I think)
man, seeing Out of Time live was one of the most amazing things
totally this^
John Cale - 'Paris 1919'
Good man:
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4338057#r6735357
nina simone - sinnerman
Spotify playlist please!
Ha
might consider it if there was a way of publishing a playlist without your name attached to it.
Sowing Season by Brand New
Planet Telex - Radiohead
Leave Them All Behind - Ride
Goodbye - The Sundays
...wouldn't change a thing on any of those
Talking Heads - Animals
Peter Gabriel - I Don't Remember
Melvins - Honeybucket
King Creosote - Not One Bit Ashamed
Underworld - Mmm Skyscraper, I love you
Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Roastfish and Cornbread
That'll do for now
Animals is such an outstanding song.
Animals set a bad example
Planet Telex gets a vote from me too
Robert Wyatt - Shipbuilding
Neil Young - Powderfinger
someone needs to make a spotify playlist of all these here songs.
Velvet Underground - Foggy Notion
probably the best song ever
In it's own way
B1 by Part Chimp.
Who's going to do the gentlemanly thing
and make a Spotify playlist?
Spicer just posted the exact same thing upthread
how do you make playlists anonymously? I don't want to make a playlist if it's gonna have my real life name on it.
I'll do it, I do it for everything else
Nice.
I started doing it but then realised the name thing. Was going to take ages to do it as well so appreciate your offer.
You better appreciate it, it's taking forever!!!
OllieH It'll 1hours 45minutes so far, almost finished though... give it 20more mins?
I concur with a lot of these.
But I'd like to add Chinese Whispers by Melys, also.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99fv4CdTDh4
No Ramones on this thread?
Fucking hell. So:
Loudmouth
I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You
Rockaway Beach
Commando
Cretin Hop
I Don't Care
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Good thread btw. What about Outkast's Hey Ya!? 'Lend me some sugar...
'Idioteque' - Radiohead but perhaps the greatest sound to come from a human occurs from 5:23 on 'How to Disappear Completely' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAF8D0ugyVk&feature=related
Oh, Hurt's a very good call.
5:23 is indeed the moment perfection is signed and certified for that track
I added a few of my own
Dirty Three - Sad Sexy
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
The Hold Steady - Killer Parties
Man Man - 10lb Moustache
Soap&Skin - Wonder
Animal Collective - Fireworks
oh and the playlist is here http://open.spotify.com/user/yesiamaduck/playlist/2RvvdDPfkpfDEo4l2ZHeq7
Super duper work
here's Yesiamaduck's thread for the playlist so you can make a brilliant comment on it or say thanks or whatever:
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4341487
Ha
I wondered why Bargaining III had jumped to number 2 on their top hits! Nice work, duck.
How about a bit of Aphex Twin
Flim, Cliff, Fingerbib, Nannou...not a note wrong with any of them.
 Come on you cunt, lets 'ave some aphex acid!Â
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Xtal
If It Really Is Me
^ xtal
If I could be reborn it would be to that record.
Tempted to say The Classical by The Fall
but I'm not sure if it fits, it's a total mess really. A big brilliant mess. The most perfect mess there is.
Velvets - Sister Ray
The Clash - Straight to Hell
The Breeders - Oh!
Palace Music - New Partner
My Bloody Valentine - You Never Should
Tom Waits - Martha
The Dillinger Escape Plan - When Good Dogs do Bad Things
Metallica - The Shortest Straw
Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
The Beatles - She's Leaving Home
At The Drive In - Cosmonaut
Jawbreaker Kiss the Bottle
Cursive- Staying Alive
I'm not even the world's biggest Cursive fan but this song is just absolute perfection. I want it played at my funeral.
Slowdive - 40 Days
oh man, the guitar in that chorus is just the most fucking perfect guitar ever recorded.
it's so funny how when I was first getting in Slowdive back in 2004, everyone was like 'nahhh, second-rate MBV', but it's so obvious now that they're every bit as good. not really in the same bracket - My Bloody Valentine are a noise rock band, really - but equally good at their own different things.
also Country Rain
saddest, dreamiest.
listened to them loads in that year, when I was living near the River Tamar & on the edge of Dartmoor in Plymouth. used to go walking out through the misty fields listening to this, or else I'd just stare out of my window towards the nearby hills and drift off.
Ben E King: Stand By Me
My Vitriol: Always Your Way
this
http://youtu.be/nmzHRGoKca0
all my friends - lcd soundsystem
fistful of love - antony and the johnsons
hallowed be thy name - iron maiden
getting away with it (all messed up) - james
Hit Me Baby One More Time
don't even try and challenge this. It's perfect, perfect pop.
everyone goes on about Toxic but this is about 100x better
Toxic's fucking amazing though
It's a great single
but Baby One More Time is one of the bitterest songs I've ever heard. Toxic doesn't have the barely repressed pain which lies behind most good pop.
My favourite Britney song is Lucky.
Eels - Railroad man
How could I have neglected to mention that! Holy moly!
Starglow - Second Head
www.secondheadtheband.com/music
1 minute of sheer bliss.
The Sound - Fatal Flaw
Just pure despair.
http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4280400
dälek - Ever Somber
These guys do a great line in 'nice' songs - this, Forever Close My Eyes, Images of .44 Casings, Vague Recollection. They're known for dissonance and anger and all that, but they have pretty songs as well.
Ever Somber is probably the nicest, song-est of them - it has a lovely MBV-esque 'guitar' swirl and a really tasteful scratch solo that augments the song properly. The lyrics are about injustice and despair, but that's dälek for you.
'Never knew that happiness could just be injected
Belt to clenched jaw teeth hurt all infected'
It's really nice, though.
Opiate The Masses for me
is their most exquisitely focused work, followed by FCME
The Cardigans - My Favourite Game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsMUQK4jdsQ
Just try and fault ^this
Had to try and sneak one in didn't you
I'm not letting you ruin my playlists credibility
paid in full - eric B and rankin
i even typed this in sync with its beat
waterloo sunset - the kinks
perfection
Everlong - Foo Fighters (acoustic version today, although might be a different answer tomorrow)
Head Over Heels/Broken - Tears for Fears (That transition from the one to the other...)
Five Minutes - Stranglers
Blue Monday - New Order
The Light That Shines Twice As Bright - lostprophets
Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
Brand New Leopardskin Pillbox Hat
Siouxsie & The Banshees.
Spellbound. It should leave you that way.
Trashcan Sinatras- 'Weightlifting'
flawless
TBO
What have you done to me?? That is gorgeous.
*Queues entire discog*
Yeah it's my redemption song
for when I don't feel good and want something positive but still wallow-able in.
Perfume Genius - Hood. Only 2 mins long, too.
The Twilight Sad - Cold Days from the Birdhouse
Layer upon layer of pure perfection.
Totally agree
It still sounds as fresh and powerful now as when I first heard it, despite endless listens. The gulf in ambition in sound between that first lp and No One Can Ever Know has really tainted my view of the band. I hope they raise their game on the next one.
Oh, they didn't. Ho hum.
The Rat - The Walkmen,
Daniel - Bats for Lashes
Nothing Ever Happened - Deerhunter
Collapsing At Your Doorstep - Air France
Post-War - M. Ward
Nothing Ever Happened is a great song; I would just made it 1 more minute long.
Squarepusher - Iambic 9 Poetry
Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move
Joanna Newsom - Emily
Robert Wyatt - Sea Song
Actually, anything off Rock Bottom but Sea Song is the one.
lately, this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iETeuU3gpQI
great title, punching-in female vocals, drum fills, a main vocal that hurtles along at 90mph, all in 1:24
Trio - Da da da
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzuIn-qj_P8
it's can
mother sky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ICsoINapqs&feature=related
To Bring You My Love-- PJ Harvey
I really can't see how this song could be improved.
Only In Dreams
Probably the saddest, yet, most wonderful song ever made.
The Leanover by Life Without Buildings
is the correct answer
this is great
Stars of the Lid - The Atomium
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pAYUPHVXXU
Also the Ballasted Orchestra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZQs7B2-lok
just fucking blissful.
is it rudderless
by the lemonheads?
it is isn't it?! knew it...
My Idea is THE perfect Dando moment
Sun Kil Moon
Salvador Sanchez
Candy Shoppe by Emeralds
the first time i heard it i was blown away by who complete it sounded, everything that needed to be there.. was there
There are at least two perfect Spoon tracks
Everything Hits At Once - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FM6oOcrzsmA
Don't Make Me A Target - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ron1PSGI6GI
Thanks, Bye.
nilsson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL3QS4EdvI0
Are there certain traits that give songs a sense of perfection?
I'm thinking:
- Exquisite (delicate, straightforwardly beautiful)
- Fairly slow
- Often have high pitched strings or pinging guitars
- Melancholic
and what does this tell us about life?
Rigobert Song
Perfection doesn't exist
But if it did, these songs would sum it up for me:
Wild Beasts- We Still Got the taste dancin' on our tongues
Talk Talk- The Rainbow
Kate Bush- Love and Anger
Tindersticks- Tiny Tears
Radiohead- Everything in its right place
... And...
Joanna Newsom- Go Long
Elbow- Lippy Kids
TOY
I don't know if they were mentioned - I postponed the reading till my lunch break - though I suppose they are too fresh too be, but the Dead & Gone song is simply flawless.
Also I would like u not to forget Who The Fuck's Arctic Monkeys song.
And just about every Fleet Foxes song is a perfection.
i know they're not a DiS approved band...
...but the Strokes have this concept down:
Hard To Explain
Someday
Reptilia
Under Control
You Only Live Once
Pantha du Prince - Lay In A Shimmer
Incredible, layer upon layer. And when the xylophones (or whatever) kick in at the end.. well..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QL9CbikWNw
that is a beaut
black cobra
sugar water
I really enjoyed it!
Girl From The North Country - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash
Runnin' - The Pharcyde
Time - Pink Floyd
Station To Station - David Bowie
Girlfriend Is Better - Talking Heads
Yeah, I remember one of them saying they had an ever better album written and ready to go
hopefully that'll be out soon
song for song
thought Angles was strong. it just hung together better as a mix-tape than a traditional LP.
Ghosts & Vodka- It's All About Right Then
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKRmJJFhrg
Reckoner- Radiohead
Part Motown/Part Sergio Leone/all soul.
John Coltrane's version of My Favourite Things
The Fall "Cruisers Creek"
Little Richard "Keep A Knockin'"
Todd Rundgren "Baby Let's Swing"
Richard Hawley "Coles Corner"
Attic Lights "Never Get Sick Of The Sea"
Funky Four Plus One "That's The Joint"
Velvet Underground "Sister Ray"
Elliott Smith- 'Between The Bars'
Most subtle lovesong ever written.
The Church - Under the Milky Way
U2 - Who's gonna ride your wild horses (both the original and the temple bar mix are perfect IMHO)
Tears for Fears - Woman in Chains
Stevie Wonder - Creepin' (really so so many of his, but this is the one on my 'perfect songs' playlist)
Yo La Tengo - Blue Line Swinger
Ira's signature, krautrock-ish guitar wankery; contrastingly mellow vocal lines; and a perfect (and lengthy) flow from relatively silent intros to a buzzing, multi-layered, looped-guitar/vocal-lines finish.
Pink Fairies - The Snake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hsa2Ni9rVDI
I need to update the playlist!
you sneaky fucks
I need to learn this magic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVOoPWBncIg
Iron & Wine - Fever Dream
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Perfect song about a perfect day
*a perfect addiction
Nick Cave
The Mercy Seat - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0liW5Gi3Q
Also the Johnny Cash version
Into My Arms
elbow, scattered black & whites
obviously...
Dream by Love..
The best song on Four Sail for me.
dylan - visions of johanna
beatles - i'm only sleeping
pixies - gigantic
tom waits - cold cold ground
elliot smith - miss misery demo version (lyrics are far better)
paul mccartney - vanilla sky (i'm not cool, okay?)
radiohead - climbing up the walls
also, motown produced some of the most emotionally/technically perfect songs ever
'Want' by The Cure
http://vimeo.com/27035477
I KNOW IT'S NOT LITERALLY ABOUT A PERFECT DAY
loads that have already been mentioned and...
All Fires by Swan Lake
and a couple of Mogwai songs because they are a bit under-represented here
I know you are but what am I (Special Moves version)
Hunted By a Freak
The Cure - Lovesong
Mansun - Face In The Crowd
Mansun - Legacy
Idlewild - Little Discourage
all along the watchtower
hendrix version.
usually hate guitar solos but there isn't a note out of place during that entire song.
perfect song?
Ella Fitzgerald - Paper Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVJt0IyR44s
this. jfc this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-JBW1opk00
It just occured to me this morning,
that Blue Blood by Foals is 100% certifiably perfect.
23 - Jimmy Eat World
I want this played at my funeral
Grade - Stolen Bikes Ride Faster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkcVX6R08Yk
JJ72 - Algeria
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-VgYaCBuRo
the chills - pink frost
Ween - Transdermal Celebration
The Durutti Column - For Belgian Friends
No more I love you's
Love both versions...
john martyn- over the hill
isn't it
Van Morrison - Bright Side Of The Road...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCDZzf4ragg
Uplifting, always puts a smile on my face, brass section's great, just absolutely fantastic.
The Kinks 'Moments'
hidden gem tucked away on the 'Percy' soundtrack from 1971
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3M29MZe7oI
This is probably the best topic of the year
So many good songs in this topic...
negative approach - can't tell no one
Summertime Blues.
That is all.
Mew - Special
Pixies - Here comes your man
because it it is everything. It's a rock song, and a folk song, and an acoustic lullaby and a surf pop apocalypse. It's joyous enough to play at weddings and dark enough to play at funerals. It's repetitive but constantly changes. It's a screaming fat man, and a dulcet sex siren. The lyrics are superficially lovely and radio friendly, but dig a little deeper and it's about nuclear bombs being dropped on Japan. It's a fart of pop fluff, but also deeply affecting and moving. It's the perfect pop song, from the best band ever. In my humble opinion anyway.
Good case, well made.
Okkervil River- So Come Back, I am Waiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_44sl1nHFY
Just astonishing.
This is my favourite Okkervil River song.
And by extension, top ten songs OF ALL TIME material.
Madness - My Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5mkeVpoH1I
Faith No More - The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ArofGsUNk
Joy Division - Disorder
A Tribe Called Quest - Scenario
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6TLWqn82J4
REM - Nightswimming
Someone already said it, it deserves to be said again.
Kraftwerk - Europe Endless
One of the most evocative pieces of music ever recorded. If anyone ever asks me what's so great about Kraftwerk, I point them in the direction of this track. Encapsulates how they manage to pull off the trick of always sounding both futuristic and rooted in European traditions simultaneously.
If its REM,
it's Country Feedback, Road Movie:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jm1lPof_g
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade
Big Star - Ballad of El Goodo
Underworld - 8 Ball
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
The Band - Tears of Rage
Ben Harper - Another Lonely Day
Solomon Burke nailing 'Don't Give Up On Me'
definition of perfection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joXHmEOGy38
fix
Happy Birthday To You
makes me smile, & everyone gets the lyrics right.
Divebomb - One Tin Cup
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ko0ZDgO_3w
Have to second Sparky's Dream from up thread too.
Circle Takes The Square- Non-Objective Portrait of Karma