"Perfect" Songs

[Salome]

Need to add:
10,000 Maniacs/Natalie Merchant - Because the night. Does anyone know if this was originally a Springsteen song? Or did he co-write it with her? He's associated somehow and I can't work out why.

Bruce wrote it
Patty Smith first recorded it

10,000 Maniacs covered it






if perfect songs would exist than Brian Wilson would have written them

 

[IWasBored]

edit: johan got there first....nevermind

 

[Angela Harlem]

Who wants to hear my opinion on Brian?

I know you're all dying to hear it.


/sidetrack, thread too good for postwhoring...

 

[Salome]

we're not talking about opinions
we're talking about the perfect song
if something like that would exist it would haev been done by Brian

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Brian Wilson didn't write 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart'.

 

[u2popmofo]

Nor did he write 'Thong Song'.

 

[Angela Harlem]

No, instead he was responsible for California Girls or whatever the hell it's called.

:inpainninja:

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

alright looking back at this thread I can't believe some of my omissions.

Like 'Throw Your Arms'. Crikey. 'Gorecki'. 'Teardrop' etc.

 

[AcrobatMan]

" Mother of the disappeared "

 

[If you shout...]

I think that a lot of the songs already posted are or are just about perfect...and I also think that even more are probably far from perfect; but that's just me.

That said, I'd like to toss in two songs which I don't think have yet been mentioned. I don't know that there are too many "perfect" songs, nor do I think that either of these songs is the greatest ever recorded....but I think they're pretty fucking good and I do think that, given what they are, they are as close to perfect as can be.

"Incident on 57th Street" by Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band

"Disorder" by Joy Division

GREAT music, right there.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

bohemian raphsody

a "perfect" song to me is one that you could not possiably ever improve, it is 100% perfect in it's current form.

one therefore wouldn't be a perfect song... live versions, i.e. modena, are as good if not better than the studio recording. same goes with streets.

black by pearl jam is close, but again... the live version takes it to a whole 'nother level.

in my opinion, bohemian raphsody can't be improved on... it's a great studio recording, i couldn't think of anything that i would cut, change or add. no one can ever cover it. it's perfect.

 

[ZeroDude]

The Fly

 

[Salome]

No, instead he was responsible for California Girls or whatever the hell it's called.

:inpainninja:

because the music to California Girls was to simple for our dear Brian he decided to write one of the greatest intro's known to mankind to make up for that

in that way California Girls has something in common with Talking Head's Road To Nowhere


if there's something like a perfect song it would be Good Vibrations, Wouldn't It Be Nice or God Only Knows though
:brian:

 

[Flying FuManchu]

Summer of '69 by Bryan Adams...

Perfect song IMO.

 

[anitram]

if something like that would exist it would haev been done by Brian

Lying in bed, just like Brian Wilson did...

I couldn't help myself. Forgive me.

 

[HeartlandGirl]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

 

[DaveC]

The Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Beck - Lost Cause
Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Eric Clapton - Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Dave Matthews Band - #41
Dave Matthews Band - Crush
Dave Matthews Band - Crash Into Me
Dave Matthews Band - Lover Lay Down
The Doors - The End
Foo Fighters - Walking After You
Foo Fighters - Next Year
Foo Fighters - Times Like These
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits - Private Investigations
Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You
Jeff Healey Band - Angel Eyes
Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Leonard Cohen - Take This Waltz
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd - Shine on You crazy Diamond (Parts I-IX)
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
Pink Floyd - Sorrow
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - Morning Bell
Radiohead - Street Spirit
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Radiohead - No Surprises
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Sigur Rós - Ný Batterí
Sigur Rós - Svefn-G-Englar
Sigur Rós - ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása
Sigur Rós - Olsen Olsen
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Radio Fly
The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Clueless Wonder
The Joel Plaskett Emergency - Waiting to be Discovered
The Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
The Tragically Hip - Scared
The Tragically Hip - Cordelia
U2 - With or Without You
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)
U2 - One

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

. I am dumb. How did I forget this one?

Throw "Homeward Bound" in there, too, while we're at it.

Angela

 

[GibsonGirl]

U2 - With or Without You
U2 - Until the End of the World
U2 - Acrobat
U2 - Red Hill Mining Town
U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
U2 - One
U2 - New Year's Day
U2 - A Sort of Homecoming
Radiohead - Subterranean Homesick Alien
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Radiohead - Idioteque
Radiohead - Climbing up the Walls
Radiohead - Let Down
The Clash - The Guns of Brixton
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Breaking the Girl
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Give it Away
Pink Floyd - The Gunner's Dream
Pink Floyd - Your Possible Pasts
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall
The Doors - Break on Through
The Doors - Light My Fire
The Doors - The End

Okay, must stop now.

 

[BVS]

Bruce wrote it
Patty Smith first recorded it

Actually they co-wrote it.