"Perfect" Songs

[pax]

The example I always think of is "One"...a song that just hits you so squarely and clearly, both musically and lyrically, that you can't imagine changing a thing.

I was listening to Counting Crows' "A Long December" and I thought of this, as it is a similarly "perfect" song to my hearing.

Others I can think of off the top of my head:

"You Made Me the Thief of Your Heart" Sinead O'Connor
"Putting the Damage On" Tori Amos
"Come Pick Me Up" Ryan Adams
"Nightswimming" R.E.M.

any others?

 

[IWasBored]

against me! - cliche guevara
avoid one thing - chopstick bridge
the tossers - caoin
sinners & saints - the sky is falling (actually, that entire album is perfect)
ducky boys - do you wrong
bruce springsteen - the river

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Mazzy Star - 'Fade Into You'

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

and 'Goddess On A Hiway' by Mercury Rev

 

[u2valleygirl]

Imagine by John Lennon.
Break on Through to the Other Side/The Doors
I, Alone/ Live
Acrobat/U2


I can think of dozens. Most of the perfect songs to me have stood the test of time with me.

 

[Zoomerang96]

radiohead - airbag, paranoid android

u2 - mofo, until the end of the world, slug

smashing pumpkins - thirty three

beck - lost cause

sigur ros - olsen olsen

wilco - ashes of american flags

 

[BVS]

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

Black - Pearl Jam

Just to name a few.

 

[Anirban]

wowy

smashing pumpkins - soma

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

oh bloody hell I forgot these two:

REM - Country Feedback
REM - E-bow The Letter

 

[financeguy]

God Only Knows - the Beach Boys

Yesterday - the Beatles

When Love Breaks Down - Prefab Sprout

Love will tear us apart - Joy Division

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Mystery Girl - Roy Orbison

Black is a great choice as well, as selected by BonoVoxsupastar above.

 

[TheBrazilianFly]

A perfect song to me is the one where everything and everyone is playing their best ever! All of the musicians are shinning. Everything is amazing: guitars, bass, drums, vocals, melodies and lyrics!

U2 - With Or Without You
U2 - City Of Blinding Lights
U2 - God Part II
U2 - Mysterious Ways
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
The Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Metallica - Creeping Death
Metallica - The Outlaw Torn
Motorhead - Overkill
Motorhead - Stone Dead Forever
Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets

.... there are more, I just can't remember them all.....

 

[indra]

The Church -- Under The Milky Way
The Church -- Invisible
Gersey -- For Whom Do You Sail?

and the live version of Cantilever by (who else?) The Church can be absolutely riveting.

all I can think of right this moment. Have to listen through the collection to pick up more.

 

[IWasBored]

the pogues - the body of an american
bruce springsteen - thunder road

i agree with all/most the REM songs posted.

 

[indra]

bruce springsteen - thunder road

My very favorite Springsteen song!

 

[IWasBored]

My very favorite Springsteen song!

i think it's mine too. defintly in the top 3 or so.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

that's my favourite springsteen song as well.

 

[Muggsy]

** MetallicA - Hero of the Day
** MetallicA - Ride the lightning
** MetallicA - For whom the Bell Tolls (the S&M version is even "more" perfect )
** Bajo Fondo Tango Club - Perfume
** U2 - Until the End of the World
** The Cure - Killing an arab
** The Doors - Riders of the Storm

 

[EmilyBono]

The Who - Baba O'Reilly
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Eric Clapton - Layla and Bellbottom Blues
Beatles - Eleanor Rigby, Let It Be, She's Leaving Home, Day in the Life
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

I like the classics

 

[AcrobatMan]

isolation - JOY DIVISION

short, sweet, fast paced and PERFECT

 

[ADecentMelody]

I have a few:

• James - Don't Wait That Long
• The Cranberries - Dreaming My Dreams
• Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
• Radiohead - Bullet Proof...Wish I Was
• Cake - Let Me Go
• Coldplay - Yellow
• Lucinda Williams - Blue
• Moby - Porcelain
• Natalie Imbruglia - Left of the Middle
• Portishead - Roads
• Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in my Hand
• Sheryl Crow - Home

 

[Angela Harlem]

H&C - Throw your arms
CH - Mean to me
INXS - Beautiful girl/What you need (live)
Bush - Letting the cables sleep
Tori Amos - Crucify
Live - Freaks
Tool - Forty six and 2
The Whitlams - Blow up the pokies
Shivaree - Goodnight Moon

 

[Aardvark747]

U2 - Heartland
U2 - Miss Sarajevo
U2 - One
U2 - Stay (Far Away, So Close!)

Metallica - The Unforgiven
Metallica - Mama Said
Metallica - No Leaf Clover
Pearl Jam - Black
Pink Floyd - Wots, Uh the Deal?
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink Floyd - Time/Breathe Reprise
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

 

[IWasBored]

Live - Freaks

yes.

 

[pax]

God Only Knows - the Beach Boys

Oh, yeah, I forgot that one.

 

[joyfulgirl]

Radiohead - "How to Disappear Completely" and "Pyramid Song"

I will second Tori Amos' "Putting the Damage On"

 

[dunc]

I'll second Radiohead How to Dissappear Completely ...

and add ...

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - Bad.

 

[MissVelvetDress_75]

The Church -- Under The Milky Way

Mazzy Star - 'Fade Into You'

two of my all time favorite songs.

 

[beau2ifulday]

Tori Amos - Cornflake Girl
U2 - Bad
Idlewild - American English
The Beatles - Let It Be
Mazzy Star - Fade Into You
Johnny Cash - Hurt
Joan Osborne - One Of Us
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
Radiohead - Karma Police

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Usher - Burn

*runs and hides*

EDIT: post #777 baby!

 

[beegee]

find the river - REM