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Offline lonestar

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Perfect Songs
« on: November 13, 2011, 01:15:38 PM »
We all have a ton of them, the type of song that does no wrong.  Across the board, a song that hits "perfect".  List songs that qualify, and your reasons why...




I thought of this idea on my way to work, listening to "Come Talk to Me" by Peter Gabriel.  I have always loved the song, but it hit new levels today, even after a bajillion listens.  I think it was the line "Whatever fear invents, I swear it makes no sense", it just spoke to me on new levels today.  This song is perfect to me for its loving and wide open message.  Also, after all those listens, I have yet to find a wrong note, or a mistake.  Even the backing vocals, done by Sinead O'Connor, are perfect, in that no other singer's voice would fit so perfectly in that spot.  Like I said, I have a ton of songs that would fit here, but since this was the one that made me think of this idea, I shared this one first,


Let's hear it DTF, what are your "perfect" songs.....
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #1 on: November 13, 2011, 01:49:50 PM »
Words in the Water by Thrice. It's got everything I could ever want in a song; emotional, beautiful vocals, an amazing climax, fantastic lyrics, the list goes on. It speaks to me on so many levels.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #2 on: November 13, 2011, 01:54:01 PM »
Pretty much every song by Boards of Canada.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #3 on: November 13, 2011, 02:15:35 PM »
Blind Faith
Learning to Live
Milliontown

Edit: I forgot Blackberry by Devin Townsend
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2011, 02:19:45 PM »
Heartattack in a Layby
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2011, 02:26:51 PM »
The Mighty Masturbator by Devin Townsend is one of the few songs over 15 min. long that i can say doesn't have a single thing i can complain about
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2011, 02:27:25 PM »
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2011, 02:28:09 PM »
Venom Leech and The Hands Of Rain - Disarmonia Mundi
Red Clouds - Disarmonia Mundi
Quantumleaper - Scar Symmetry
Through Night-Kingdomed Gates - Solution. 45
Lethean Tears - Solution. 45
Unlorja - Jorunal
Firesoul - Mercenary
Learning To Live


So many more I could list but these come to mind first
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2011, 02:35:11 PM »
This is harder than I thought. Trying to find the difference between a song that I love so much that it makes my dick rock hard and a song I'd call "perfect". At the time of writing this I'd say "Ocean Cloud" by Marillion is probably the closest thing to a 'perfect song' I've ever heard. This song really grabs me everytime I listen to it. The vocals, lyrics, guitar... everything. It's absolutely sublime from start to finish. There is nothing I'd change about this song at all. A masterpiece.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2011, 04:34:09 PM »
Camel - Spirit of the Water
Porcupine Tree - Gravity Eyelids
Genesis - Carpet Crawlers
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2011, 04:44:07 PM »
Idk, probably the Adrenaline Mob EP.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2011, 05:05:30 PM »
Since I've been listening to practically nothing else for the past 2 months:

Modest Mouse - Beach Side Property
Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
Modest Mouse - The Cold Part
Modest Mouse - Ocean Breathes Salty
Modest Mouse - Spitting Venom
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2011, 05:11:03 PM »
Perfect's a strong word.

The first song that comes to mind, and one of the only songs that I know I'd describe as perfect, is Three Little Birds by Bob Marley and the Wailers.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2011, 06:38:26 PM »
Dog Fashion Disco - 100 Suicides

Seriously, the song is goddamn perfect. Rocking riffs, awesome vocals and lyrics, it goes from metal to big band to Billy Idol-ish rock and it all feels like they would be out of place anywhere else. It's fucking brilliant.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2011, 06:40:07 PM »
True Love Waits (Radiohead)
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2011, 06:43:09 PM »
Layla ( the original electric version )

The outro is my favorite outro of all time.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #16 on: November 13, 2011, 06:56:15 PM »
Devin Townsend has made about 15 songs that I would consider perfect, or at least damn-near perfect. Oh My Fucking God, Life, Funeral, Bastard, The Death of Music, Truth, Dynamics, Earth Day, Storm, Deadhead, Away, Vampira, Ki, Numbered!, The Mighty Masturbator.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #17 on: November 13, 2011, 07:41:00 PM »
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Perfect's a strong word.

This, but Waltz #1 by Elliott Smith comes to mind. 
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #18 on: November 13, 2011, 07:48:12 PM »
Disruptr by Devin Townsend
The Night and the Silent Water by Opeth
10,000 Days by Tool
Dawn of the Age of the Thundersword II by Thundersword
This Godless Endeavor by Nevermore
Death of Me by Gojira


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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #19 on: November 13, 2011, 08:02:26 PM »
Radiohead - Karma Police
Radiohead- How to disappear completely
Porcupine Tree- Anesthetize
Porcupine Tree- Trains
Fates Warning- The Road Goes on Forever 
King Crimson- The Night Watch
Pink Floyd- Wish you were here
Queensryche- The Killing Words
Thrice- Circles

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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #20 on: November 13, 2011, 08:04:08 PM »
Kaki King - "Joi" - Probably as perfect as it gets in my opinion, it's one artist playing an acoustic guitar with no vocals. It's brilliantly put together and moving. This song achieves what I would want to achieve as an artist, to be able to grab someones attention like the way the song grabbed me when I first heard it.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #21 on: November 13, 2011, 08:04:51 PM »
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman. I've always loved it
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #22 on: November 13, 2011, 08:06:55 PM »
Quote from: Phoenix87x on November 13, 2011, 08:02:26 PM

Pink Floyd- Wish you were here


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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #23 on: November 13, 2011, 08:13:04 PM »
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
Pink Floyd - Time
Pink Floyd - Dogs
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2011, 09:13:10 PM »
Supper's Ready - Genesis

I don't know if I've ever heard a single sound (much less music) that comes even close.

Honorable mention goes to the entire Cygnus saga by Rush, which I consider to be one whole song.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2011, 10:02:16 PM »
Porcupine Tree - "Buying New Soul," ".3," "Trains"
Devin Townsend - "Bastard," "Hyperdrive," "Supercrush," "Earth Day," "Numbered," "Planet of the Apes"
Agalloch - "In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion," "Sowilo Rune," "The Hawthorne Passage"
Opeth - "Bleak," "To Bid You Farewell," "Dirge For November," "Demon of the Fall"
Iced Earth - "Dark Saga," "Slave to the Dark," "Blessed Are You," "Dante's Inferno"
Dream Theater - "Blind Faith," "Hell's Kitchen," "Lines in the Sand," "A Change of Seasons"

and many others!
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #26 on: November 14, 2011, 04:56:28 AM »
For me:

Dream Theater - Metropolis, A Change of Seasons
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition, Harlequin Forest, The Moor
Porcupine Tree - Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Iron Maiden - Powerslave, Revelations, Hallowed Be Thy Name, Children of the Damned
Judas Priest - Painkiller, Blood Red Skies
Rainbow - Stargazer

That is my top echelon of songs at the moment.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #27 on: November 14, 2011, 08:01:49 AM »
Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2011, 08:35:14 AM »
It probably seems like an odd choice, but It's All Been Done by the Barenaked Ladies. Songs for me tend to go in and out of style, but this one has simply never gotten old.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2011, 08:45:23 AM »
OK, I just have to add Dear Prudence by the Beatles.  I have loved that song since the first listen so many years ago, and it hits every note perfectly.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #30 on: November 14, 2011, 12:34:10 PM »
OK, don't shoot me, but:

Skid Row - "I Remember You"


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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2011, 02:28:23 PM »
"Something" By The Beatles.

Every time I listen to it, I just think to myself "this is how music is supposed to be."  Not to mention that the solo is one of the most perfect things i have ever heard.  I don't believe I've heard a solo that fits so well with a song's meaning, let alone the musical undertone.  It sounds just like a girl teasing a guy.  I mean, for realz.
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2011, 02:56:59 PM »
Lonestar, you set the bar really fucking high with that first post.  One of my favorite Peter Gabriel songs. 

Here are some of my favorite "perfect" songs off the top of my head, one per artist:

-Bruce Springsteen-Thunder Road
-Rush-Limelight
-Anamanaguchi-Helix Nebula
-Marillion-Neverland
-Meat Loaf-Bat out of Hell
-Thrice-Digging my Own Grave
-Porcupine Tree-Buying New Soul
-Pink Floyd-Shine On You Crazy Diamond
-Mastodon-Blood and Thunder
-Peter Gabriel-Secret World
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2011, 03:19:34 PM »
'Perfect', some of my favourite songs. These are the ones that never fail to grab me:

dredg - The Canyon Behind Her
Opeth - The Drapery Falls
Bruce Springsteen - New York City Serenade

and maybe these two too:

David Bowie - Life on Mars?
King Crimson - Epitaph
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Re: Perfect Songs
« Reply #34 on: November 15, 2011, 03:21:22 PM »
Rush -  Marathon

Kansas - The Wall

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain

Triumph - Fight The Good Fight

I could go on.....
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