What song(s) is perfect to you?

[m00n]

So, every once in a while, I'll hear a song that I listen and think to myself, that song is perfect, I would not change ANYTHING about that song, note one note, nothing... So, I'm just curious to know what song(s) that you guys think fit that category. I just heard one which is why this is on my mind. I can think of another one as well.

1) April Wine - Roller
2) Loverboy - You take me to the top

Just something about those two songs, they just seem perfect in every way.

[picky]

Believe it or not, Rick, the first song that comes to mind, because I just listened to it prior to reading your thread, is done by a somewhat obscure American artist who has carved-out a fairly good following abroad in the UK and Europe but not so much here. Her name is Anastacia and the song is: 'I'm Outta Love". It's a pop song of all things, but it has a terrific hook that reaches out and grabs you immediately and doesn't let go until the end. Her voice is very soulful and somewhat reminiscent of the style of Tina Turner There's quite a sidebar on the singer having battled b-r-e-a-s-t (< the system sensored the word) cancer and all, but I found her 2001 album, 'Not That Kind' very listenable, if you enjoy pop. There's even some interesting bass lines in some of the songs. It's worth a listen. -Glenn

[seti]

I am the walrus

Strawberry Fields

John and Paul were genius as a duo.

St.James Infirmary

Cab Calloway

Lovesick Blues

Hank Sr.

Powerhouse

Raymond Scott

Sit & Wonder 

Prince Buster

I could list tons of songs I think are perfect.

[bodcaw boy]

jesus freak - dctalk

have a blessed night,

roy

[jheis]

Aguas De Marco (Waters of March) - Antonio Carlos Jobim & Elis Regina from "Elis & Tom."

James

[theryugobuddy]

a little song by Pat Metheny - "Praise" off First Circle -- all instrumental. Starts with acoustic guitars and ends with that unmistakable synth guitar and Pedro singing-- short and sweet

[Klipsched with Yamahas]

Funny....I just mentioned this on DVD, Music review weekly thread from Thebes:

Billy Joel, Angry Young Man , Turnstiles

I was a very idealistic, self-motivated, ambitious, stubborn, and at times "defiant" youth. This particular track does hold some truisisms for me especially during that era.

Now that I'm mature, the adjectives just grow longer![*-)]

There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl,
He's always at home with his back to the wall.
And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost,
And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross-
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

Give a moment or two to the angry young man,
With his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand.
He's been stabbed in the back, he's been misunderstood,
It's a comfort to know his intentions are good.
And he sits in a room with a lock on the door,
With his maps and his medals laid out on the floor-
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

I believe I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage
I found that just surviving was a noble fight.
I once believed in causes too,
I had my pointless point of view,
And life went on no matter who was wrong or right.

And there's always a place for the angry young man,
With his fist in the air and his head in the sand.
And he's never been able to learn from mistakes,
So he can't understand why his heart always breaks.
But his honor is pure and his courage as well,
And he's fair and he's true and he's boring as hell-
And he'll go to the grave as an angry old man.

(synthesizer solo)

There's a place in the world for the angry young man
With his working class ties and his radical plans
He refuses to bend, he refuses to crawl,
He's always at home with his back to the wall.
And he's proud of his scars and the battles he's lost,
And he struggles and bleeds as he hangs on the cross-
And he likes to be known as the angry young man.

[skonopa]

Something that is truly perfection to my ears...

Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making:

This album basically consist of a 40-minute long song divided up into 43 parts (why I think it qualifies for this topic, since it is one song, although it is some 40 minutes long!). I've not hear anything in the typical mainstream channels that comes even remotely close to the perfect and beauty that I've heard on this. Some incredible orchestration along with some seriously kick-butt metal riffing, along with amazing vocal work as well. The complexity of it all is just beyond belief! Not only that, but this is recorded extremely well on top of it all. Yes - Perfection right here! There is not a single thing I'd want to change on here. And on top of that, since each of the parts is is own "track" on the CD, you can have some fun with it and "rearrange" the parts like pieces of a puzzle (in fact, the artwork in the album denotes a jigsaw puzzle motif, like each of the individual parts is part of a large puzzle). You can get some pretty interesting results by playing this on "random shuffle". But that is not me wanting to "change" anything, but simply using a feature provided that let me "play" with it to even more than just simply listening to it straight through.

[sunburnwilly]

Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island

I don't know why but I absolutely love that song . It was the first song I illegaly downloaded .

[Zen Traveler]

Imagine....John Lennon. [ip]

[oldbuckster]

Wild Horses...................Gram Parsons song done by the Rolling Stones...........

[synthfreek]

Oh Comely

I will be with you when you lose your breath

Chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left

With some pretty bright and bubbly terrible scene

That was doing her thing on your chest

But oh comely

It isn't as pretty as you'd like to guess

Oh comely

All of your friends are letting you blow

Bristling and ugly

Bursting with fruits falling out from the holes

Of some pretty bright and bubbly friend

You could need to say comforting things in your ear

But oh comely

There isn't such one friend that you could find here

Standing next to me

He's only my enemy

I'll crush him with everything I own

Your father made fetuses

With flesh licking ladies

While you and your mother

Were asleep in the trailer park

Thunderous sparks from the dark of the stadiums

The music and medicine you needed for comforting

So make all your fat fleshy fingers to moving

And pluck all your silly strings

And bend all your notes for me

Soft silly music is meaningful magical

The movements were beautiful

All in your ovaries

All of them milking with green fleshy flowers

While powerful pistons were sugary sweet machines

Smelling of semen all under the garden

Was all you were needing when you still believed in me

And I know they buried her body with others

Her sister and mother and 500 families

And will she remember me 50 years later

I wished I could save her in some sort of time machine

Know all your enemies

We know who are enemies are

Goldaline my dear

We will fold and freeze together

Far away from here

There is sun and spring and green forever

But now we move to feel

For ourselves inside some stranger's stomach

Place your body here

Let your skin begin to blend itself with mine

This is probably my favorite song of all time. 

Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel from the album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea. 

[oldtimer]

This is a very difficult idea for me, because perfection is well, rare. I would nominate "Don't Fade On Me" by Tom Petty from the Wildflowers lp as being right up there.

[dtel's wife]

I Hope You Dance...Lee Ann Womack....perfect lyrics....beautiful music

I hope you never lose your sense of wonder.
You get your fill to eat, but always keep that hunger.
May you never take one single breath for granted.
God forbid love ever leave you empty handed.
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens.
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance

I hope you dance.

I hope you never fear those mountains in the distance.
Never settle for the path of least resistance.
Livin' might mean takin' chances, but they're worth takin'.
Lovin'might be a mistake but it's worth makin'.
Don't let some hell bent heart leave you bitter.
When you come close to sellin'out, reconsider.
Give the heavens above more than just a passing glance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance
Time is a wheel in constant motion always rolling us along.
Tell me who wants to look back on their years and wonder, where those
years have gone.

I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.
Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens.
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance.
And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance.

I hope you dance.

[thebes]

Sade, "Hurts Like Brand New Shoes" comes to mind plus and Eva Cassidy's cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" comes very close except there are a couple of lines in the original lyrics to this song that aren't perfect.

Great topic for a thread by the way.

[merkin]

Bob Seager Turn the Page.

The line "a highway east of Omaha" My old stompping grounds.

Great Sax.

[Mike Lindsey]

Jay Ferguson - Thunder Island

I don't know why but I absolutely love that song . It was the first song I illegaly downloaded .

One of my faves in the late 70's as well. I wore side 1 of that album out. []

Mike

[flannj]

Talking Heads: This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

[jacksonbart]

Talking Heads: This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

That is a great one. Skateaway - Dire Straits

[Amy]

I guess I'm old school. I never get tired of these songs, and wouldn't change a note:

Crazy, Patsy Cline

Unforgettable, Nat King Cole

White Christmas, Bing Crosby

Suspicious Minds, Elvis Presley

Imagine, John Lennon

What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong

Crying, Roy Orbison

Rocky Mountain High, John Denver

Hurt, Johnny Cash

and of course....Rubber Duckie, You're the One, by Ernie