Music Appreciation
Related: About this forumSomeone started a thread about perfect movies.
Well, what songs would you describe as perfect? I've got 2 right off the top of my head, both from Soundgarden:
Birth Ritual
and
The Day I Tried to Live
What's your's?
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underpants
(185,005 posts)RIP Robert Hunter
volstork
(5,513 posts)Graceland-- Paul Simon
Baba O'Riley-- The Who
Solsbury Hill-- Peter Gabriel
The Man That Got Away-- Judy Garland
Half a World Away-- REM
Ticket to Ride-- The Beatles
DUgosh
(3,088 posts)Whicita Lineman
The Polack MSgt
(13,317 posts)Great choice.
50 Shades Of Blue
(10,625 posts)To Try for the Sun (Donovan), Book of Days (Enya), Under Pressure (Queen/Bowie), Then Heavy People (Kate Bush), Tears (Chameleons). I'll stop there.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)The whole song is prefect, but these two verses are just perfect:
And the laughter of children employed
By the fantasies not yet destroyed
By the dogmas of those they avoid
Knowing not what they are
Just to laugh through the columns of trees
To soar like a seagull in breeze
To stand in the rain if you please
Or to never be found
According to Rolling Stone:
It's been widely reported that Bob Dylan had this to say about "For a Spanish Guitar," arguably Gene Clark's greatest effort: "
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Against gracefully descending guitar chords, Clark distills Dylan's poetic mysticism down to its emotional essence. In the song, he examines the troubadour's plight: his or her effort to draw in the great wide world of beggars, laughing children and seagulls, and to render that world in song and strings. Clark muses, as best he can, that "the answers they cannot explain/ pulsate from my soul through my brain/ in a Spanish guitar."
shenmue
(38,521 posts)OilemFirchen
(7,143 posts)"Where is My Mind", Pixies
"Desperados Under The Eaves", Warren Zevon
Cartoonist
(7,418 posts)This song has it all.
Piano solo, guitar solo, unique lyrics about death and life, and musical styles both old and new.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,281 posts)Pat Metheny composition The Way Up
Because, Something, Revolution, Here Comes the Sun...Beatles
world wide wally
(21,779 posts)Perfect top 40 song : Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart
Perfect feel good song: Jessica by The Allman Brothers
Perfect cry in your beer song: Love in Vain by The Rolling Stones
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)"Into the Mystic" Van Morrison
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" Crosby, Stills & Nash
"Seven Little Indians" John Hiatt
"Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore"
John Prine
"Sweet Dreams" Patsy Cline
GReedDiamond
(5,351 posts)...and as already mentioned above "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell.
The Polack MSgt
(13,317 posts)I fall to pieces
Lou Rawls cut a perfect 60s blues soaked soul crooner
I have several other candidates, but these 2 songs are so exactly the archetypical versions of that music