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Inspired by the Bob Mould thread;
Matty Groves - Fairport.
Pink Moon - Nick Drake.
Fat Man In The Bathtub - Little Feat.
SOS - Abba.
New Rose - The Damned.
Train In Vain - T'Clash.
The Most Beguiling Eyes - Gregson & Collister.
Voodoo Ray - A Guy Called Gerald.
All perfect - any more?
Suckerpunch - The Wildhearts
Three Days - Jane's Addiction
EDIT: Not seen the thread to which the OP refers yet, so apologies if I've misunderstood the remit
I was a punk before you were a punk - The Tubes
So many:
The Journey - Duncan Browne
In My Life - The Beatles
for starters
Reptilla by the strokes
Just perfect
Dancing Queen
Still Ill
My Black Heart
Glam Racket
Disorder by joy division
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
Northern Sky - Nick Drake
Wings - Josh Ritter
'photograph' by weezer
The obvious choice, but for a five minutes or less (I think) pop single, there really isn't a single thing wrong with
Good Vibrations - The Beach Boys
Time has told me - Nick Drake
May You Never - John Martyn
Good Riddance - Green Day
Sister Morphine - Rolling Stones
Wind Up - Jethro Tull
Wish You were here - Pink Floyd
I think most of what were Abba's best songs, were what could be described as almost "perfect pop".
No perfect song should be more than 1 minute 40 seconds.
Can I just add;
Dry The Rain - The Beta Band.
Tangled Up In Blue - Dylan.
Into The Mystic - Van.
Ta.
Yes, especially the Beta Band one. Yes you can.
My favourite band of all time.
Would have been Needles In Their Eyes, but I don't have enough tissues.
See also Angel From Montgomery by Neil Prine.
Solid Air - John Martyn
Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Sandy Denny/Fairport
Get It Together - The Beastie Boys
Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye
#1 Hit Song - Minutemen
Drug Buddy - Lemomheads
Halleluhwah - Can
Shipbuilding - Robert Wyatt
Always Coming Back to You - Scott Walker
Time Tough - Toots & The Maytals
Poet -Sly & The Family Stone.
We Are Family -Sister Sledge
And current fave: Emmylou - First Aid Kit.
A lot of these are longer than 1 minute 40. The rules (that I made up) are clear.
Daydream Believer.
Van Morrison's Stoned Me.
No perfect song should be more than 1 minute 40 seconds.
Sometimes you need to allow a bit extra for the intro though...
In order ....
Waterloo Sunset
Paint it Black
Alison
Teenage Kicks
London's Calling
That's Entertainment
Walk the line - Johnny Cash
Wichita line man - Glenn Campbell
The Adventure by Angels and Airwaves
Stones from the Sky - Neurosis
After the Goldrush - Neil Young
Bury me in Smoke - Down
Fade to Black - Metallica
Hallowed by they Name - Iron Maiden
Dry the Rain had EVERYONE on the dancefloor at the wedding I was at last weekend.
Revolution Blues by Neil Young, first and only time I ever had a punter ask what I was listening to when I used to work in Thresher.
Whirlpools End by Sir Paul Weller
Heroes - David Bowie
500 miles - The Proclaimers
Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Debaser - The Pixies
Blackbird and the Fox - Twilight Singers
Disarm - Smashing Pumpkins
[i]London's Calling[/i]
Who's that by then? Never 'eard of it š
Don't really think there's such a thing meself as its all subjective, but these are the closest I can think of - songs that couldn't be improved.
Scott Walker - Jackie (prob written by Brel)
LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter & Sympathy for the Devil
Small Faces - Itchycoo Park
T Rex - Jeepster (JEEZ have you [i]heard[/i] that hideous new thing tony visconti's come out with??? ARGH!)
Best Kissers in the World - Broke My Knee
just realised I could list 100s, so stopping now š
Another Girl,Another Planet...The Only Ones.
Harvest for the world - Isley brothers
I'm a believer - The monkeys
Big Mouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Roads - Portishead
Sigur Ros - PopplagiĆ°
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot
Talk Talk - I Believe In You
Autechre - Krib
Bridge over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
Don't Look Back in Anger - Oasis
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
No Alarms - Radiohead
Mmm mmm mmm mmm. Crash Test Dummies. A song both my son and I loved. Difficult to listen too as he's no longer here.
Hard Time Killing Floor Blues - Skip James
The Only One I Know - The Charlatans
Les Fleur - 4 Hero
So Long - Seba
Vision Incision - Lo Fidelity Allstars
Don't Take Your Love Away - Vast
Waterfall - The Stone Roses
Gorecki - Lamb
If I Survive - Hybrid
So What - Miles Davis
Concrete Schoolyard - Jurassic 5
Blinding - Florence and the Machine
My perfect pop songs.
Twisterella. Ride.
Sally Cinnamon. The Stone Roses.
The Model. Belle and Sebastian.
Waterloo Sunset. The Kinks.
Kiss Chase. Lush.
Dead Flowers. The Rolling Stones
Little Baby Nothing. Manic Street Preachers.
You need to nominate some criteria, people are just listing their favorite songs. Which is interesting anyway ! (ps Dire Straits ? really ? Do you play that in front of other people ??)
mmm mmm mmm mmm - very good choice. Very sad story tho š [man hugs]
Not my favourite songs, but great when they come on the radio
Hammer and a Nail, Indigo Girls
Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow, Vonda Shepherd
Every Little Thing She Does, The Police
Aye totally subjective one mans perfecto is another's pure mince
anyways here min(c)e
Flaming Lips- Do you realize?
Galaxie 500- King of Spain
Beatles - Ticket to ride
Neil Diamond - Solitary man
Big Star - Thirteen
Prince - I would die 4 u
Cocteau twins- Ivo
Ketty Lester -Some things are better left unsaid
Trouble - Ray LaMontagne.
Pretty much anything off Darkness on the Edge of Town, Like a Rolling Stone & another vote for Waterloo Sunset.
Guess who'll be in the 3rd row at Ray Davies Southampton gig this Saturday!
Woo-hoo, indeed.
ormondroyd - Member
A lot of these are longer than 1 minute 40. The rules (that I made up) are clear.
Rules are made to be broken; watch yours get smashed to pieces all over the floor...
Anyhoo, it is very subjective, but some songs are so well crafted they transcend that to become pretty much perfect examples of the song writers craft. The Beach Boys [i]God Only Knows[/i] is a classic example, Sandy Denny's [i]Who Knows Where The Time Goes[/i] another song that is just about perfect in every way, especially considering Sandy's age at the time; she recorded a demo of it when she was 20, but I believe she was 15 when she wrote it. [i]Boulder To Birmingham[/i], by Emmylou Harris is another pretty much perfect song as well.
ABBA were masters of well crafted, catchy pop songs, but their best ones were never hits, and are very melancholy, unsurprising as they're from near the end of ABBA's career; [i]The Day Before You Came,[/i] and [i]Cassandra[/i], both as good as it's possible for popular music to get, [i]in my opinion[/i].
Others will probably not agree!
Which is the fun of threads like this one. š
There's an awful lot of Motown that fulfils the criteria.
Do you play that in front of other people ??)
Can't he just like what he likes without you insulting his taste? Eh?
DEAD KENNEDYS - too drunk to ***k !! aaarrrgh happy days
OK yes sorry mustn't slag other people's taste, I get enough flak for mine, which includes a lot of both types of music (Country AND Western) but c'mon, Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
Full metal jackoff - DOA featuring Jello Biafra
Take me to the other side - Spacemen 3
Seawall - Envoy
On - The Aphex Twin
Movin' on - Dreadzone
Mouthful of shit - Chumbawumba
Etc
Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
There are dads here. And they were young once.
F.E.A.R.- Ian Brown
For an Angel- Paul van Dyk
Shine on you Crazy Diamond -Pink Floyd
The Boy in the Bubble- Paul Simon
Oxygene IV Jean Michel Jarre
Garbage - Special
Chemical Bros (feat Richard Ashcroft) - The Test
Flock of Seagulls - Wishing
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Mission - Like a Hurricane
Girls Aloud - The Promise*
PiL - Public Image
Magazine - the Light Pours out of Me
All cannot be improved upon therefor must be "perfect".
*Yes I'm serious. Perfect pop song.
Yossarian. Good link. Never heard the original before, only the Chemical Brothers remix.
Magazine - the Light Pours out of Me
Absolutely perfect. As are so many Magazine tracks.
Good shout with Paul van Dyk there Teetosugars, though I'd go with Gouryella for the 'perfect' trance tune of that era, and as far as a 'perfect' dance tune goes, it's gotta be N-Trance's Set U Free.
My current 'perfect' song at the moment though is INXS' Never Tear Us Apart, brought back to my attention by Paloma Faith's (pretty good actually) cover on the John Lewis advert.
Edit - some great songs listed on this thread!
Sorry. Add to the list.
The Clash - London Calling
In between days by The Cure
Crawl by the Wedding Present (seeing them next month - 25th anni of seamonsters!)
OK yes sorry mustn't slag other people's taste, I get enough flak for mine, which includes a lot of both types of music (Country AND Western) but c'mon, Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
It might be now, but it wasn't back then.
I saw Dire Straits supporting Talking Heads!
And [i]Love Over Gold[/i] is a fine album, provided you leave out the dreadful [i]Industrial Disease[/i]!
Sparky's dream - Teenage fanclub
Geek love - bang bang machine
Dammit, there are just too many songs to try to think of ones that really stand out, although Aimee Mann has written some crackers, her album [i]Whatever[/i] is full of them, but [i]Fourth Of July[/i] is as good as they get, or [i]Coming Up Close[/i] from [i]Welcome Home[/i], when she was with 'Til Tuesday. Her songs are so good a Tom Cruise movie was constructed around an album she was recording at the time.
Hmmm, Talking Heads' [i]Once In A Lifetime[/i], Robbie Robertson [i]Somewhere Down The Crazy River[/i], Elvis Costello [i]Shipbuilding[/i], QOTSA [i]No One Knows[/i], Nils Lofgren [i]Night Fades Away[/i], Michael Nesmith [i]Different Drum[/i], The Kinks [i]Days[/i], Jeff Buckley [i]Grace[/i], Indigo Girls [i]Kid Fears[/i] and [i]Chickenman[/i], Gnarls Barkley [i]Crazy[/i], Gerry Rafferty [i]Baker Street, Whatever's Written In Your Heart, Don't Speak Of My Heart[/i].
All fantastic songs, all, in their own way, perfect and sublime. š
On - Aphex Twin.
Yep, i'd second that.....the uziq version.
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods
Carl Craig - Home Entertainment
New Order - Procession
Hammock - The Backward Step
Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
Mogwai - The Precipice
Pearl Jam - Rear view mirror
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin Bout Love
Black Country Communion - One Last Soul
Rush - Vital Signs
Underworld - Dirty Epic
plus many many others i can't think of.
Under 1:40 and perfect pop
Velocity Girl, very early Primal Scream
Off the top of my head at this precise moment in time,
Right on (4 tha darkness) - Silicone Soul
La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier
Born Slippy - Underworld
Golden - Jill Scott
Ramble On - Led Zep
Sister Morphine - Rolling Stones
Tale from Black - Tunng
Loads of others but these few are pretty much high up on my playcount at all times.
To Love Somebody - The Bee Gees
Alison - Elvis Costello
Alison - The Pixies
New Rose - The Damned
Roller Coaster By The Sea - Jonathan Richman
Rock n Roll Suicide - David Bowie
FSOL-Papua New Guinea
Glen Campbell- Witchita Line Man
Eddie Vedder- Guaranteed
Jeff Buckley- Lover, you should have come over
Billy Joel- She's got a way / Piano man
Roy Orbison - Crying
Al Green - How do you mend a broken heart
Bee Gees- How deep is your love
Papua New Guinea is a great record but essentially instrumental so not a song in my books.
Long before my time, and I like a lot of other songs, but both of these are getting close to perfection.
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Gimme Shelter - Rolling stones
I'm only just a Dad, and I'm not that old, but Dire Straits are awesome.
Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home. - absolutely phenomenal.
Nick Drake - Time has told me
New Order - Blue Monday
Faithless - Insomnia
Nirvanna - In bloom
Pearl Jam - Alive
+1 for Ramble On
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Sweet Child O' Mine - GNR
Eject - Senser
Chop Suey - System Of A Down
Where Is My Mind? - Pixies
Tourette's - Nirvana
Not perfect, but very amusing, imo.
[i]I got more women than the law allow[/i]
EDIT:
"Starts With One" and/or "Rainy Mondays", both by Shiny Toy Guns
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes.
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Killing in the Name of - RATM (pure punchy aggression)
No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
Fools Gold - Stone Roses.
Into my arms - Nick Cave
Pass it on - The Coral
7 Nation Army- White Stripes
All tracks that i could hear 10 times a day and never tire of.