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Songs you consider perfect, list some

hrd2imgnhrd2imgn Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,898
edited January 2012 in Other Music
just curious, in a non-PJ list as almost all they do is perfect ;-)
yes I am looking at my ipod as I type, and yes I misspelled a thousand things, and yes I missed a bunch so add to it

what are songs you consider flawless, never change them

At Last- Etta James
Reach Out (I'll Be there)- 4 tops
Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
You Shook me All NighT Long -ACDC
Master Of Puppets- Metallica
Take On Me- Ah Ha
New York State Of Mind- Alicia Keys
Send In The Clowns, Babs
Sloop John B -Beach Boys
Hey jude- Beatles
Yesterday - BEatles
Rock Around The Clock- Bill Haley and The Comets
White wedding - Billy Idol
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
No Rain - Blind Melon
Don't Fear The reaper- Blue Oyster Cult
Jammin' Bob Marley
Turn The Page- Bob Seeger
Poison Years- Bob Mould
Everything I Own- Bread
Heaven - Bryan Adams
minnie The Moocher Cab Calloway
Magic- Cars
Proof- Coldplay
December- Collective Soul
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Lovesong -the Cure
Love Bites - Def Leppard
Personal Jesus - Depeche mode
Money for nothing - Dire Straights
The End - the Doors
Ordinary World - Duran Duran
Empty Garden - Elton john
End Of the Innocence- Enigma
Carribean Blue- Enya
Angel - Aerosmith
Dirt - AIC
Layla Acoustic - Eric Clapton
Your Hand In Mine - Explosions In the Sky
I Ran - Flock Of Seagulls
New York New York- Sinatra
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Son Of Mine- Genesis
Market Day - Geoffrey Oryema
Bad To The Bone- Ge thouroughgood and the Destroyers
Moonlight Serendae- Glenn Miller
Twilight Zone- Golden Earing
Welcome To the jungle- GNR
Never Tear us Apart- INXS
3 days- janes Addiction
Red House Blues- Jimi Hendrix
ROCK in THe USA- Jonny Cougar
Open Arms- Journey
Back Where I come From - kenney Chesney
babe I'm gonna leave you- Zep
no Quarter- Zep
Lightning Crashes- Live
Land Down Under- men at work
Billy Jean- MJ
needle and the damage done- Neil young
Magheeta- MMJ
knot comes loose- MMJ
confortably numb Pink Floyd
Time- Pink Floyd
we will rock you- Queen
Piano man- Billy Joel
I could have lied - RHCP
sympathy fo rthe devil- Stones
Tom Sawyer- Rush
posession- Sarah McLachlan
Kiss for a Rose - seal
Gotten- Slash and Adma Levine
Disarm- Pumpkins
Fell On Black Days- Soundgarden
Crushing Me- Stabbing Westward
fly like an eagle- Steve Miller band
Texas Flood- SRV
Call Me A Dog- TOTD
Perfect Drug- Thievery Corp.
Hold Me Now- Thompson Twins
Free Fallin - Tom Petty
Baba Oreilly- the who
MAGGOT BRAIN- FUNKADELIC
ah shit I am too tired to add the U2 & NIN songs..shit some Springsteen, Prince those are some good songs down below too.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Wish You Were Here is the first that comes to mind.

    Wake Up - Arcade Fire
    Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
    Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams
    La Cienega Just Smiled - Ryan Adams
    Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix, and SRVs, both perfect.
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • markin ballmarkin ball Posts: 1,075
    What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

    Stand By Me - Ben E. King
    "First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win ."

    "With our thoughts we make the world"
  • 12345AGNST112345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    What an impossible list to think off the top of my head. I'll have to agree with you on lightning crashes there. Flawlessly good song, just chills listening to it.
    5/28/06, 6/27/08, 10/28/09, 5/18/10, 5/21/10
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  • Gary CarterGary Carter Posts: 14,067
    jungleland
    baba o'riley
    Ron: I just don't feel like going out tonight
    Sammi: Wanna just break up?

  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    American Pie - Don Mclean
    Trouble - Cat Stevens
    Land Down Under - Men at work
    Mr. Jones - Counting Crows
    Hurricane - Bob Dylan
    Scarlet Begonias - The Greatful Dead
    All of My Love - Led Zepplin
    Black - Pearl Jam
    American Music - Violent Femmes
    American Girl - Tom Petty
    (guess I did songs with American in the title)
    Good Vibrations - Beach Boys
    While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles

    Ok, enough for now.... perhaps I'll list another 100 or so later.
  • direwolf74direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    Sarah Harmer- Lodestar
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2exBXrAn3jA

    The Weakerthans- Pamphleteer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqFZlBIBt0M

    Pearl Jam- In Hiding
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEyE7hjQYYE

    The Tragically Hip- The Dire Wolf
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FQR2mildn8

    Death Cab for Cutie- Expo '86
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hydvM78gqI

    ...just to name a few.
    "I try my best to chug, stomp, weep, whisper, moan, wheeze, scat, blurt, rage, whine, and seduce. With my voice I can sound like a girl, the boogieman, a Theremin, a cherry bomb, a clown, a doctor, a murderer. I can be tribal. Ironic. Or disturbed. My voice is really my instrument."

    -Tom Waits
  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    radiohead - lucky

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tejkhFyjoGE

    fleet foxes - mykonos

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT-dxG4WWf4

    panacea - sync-in city

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FfORH69jLI

    pj harvey - big exit

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny3Ovx7Zzuk

    hank - ramblin man

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IqlI91Vj7Y

    neil young - ohio

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6aaaJBAv0
  • acutejamacutejam Posts: 1,433
    Facinatin' !!!

    One aspect perhaps is songs that get covered a ton, indicating awesomeness but also perhaps, playability.

    I'd throw All Along The Watchtower and Dear Prudence into my Top 10.

    But personally, just my vibe, the absolute perfect song ... Rush's Red Barchetta!
    [sic] happens
  • BinauralJamBinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    That's a tough question, first song that popped into my mind is Depeche Mode's Enjoy the Silence, but i do Love the the Mr.Han Remix.
  • FenwayFaithfulFenwayFaithful Posts: 8,626
    George Harrison - The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let it Roll)
    "FF, I've heard the droning about the Sawx being the baby dolls. Yeah, I get it, you guys invented baseball and suffered forever. I get it." -JearlPam0925
  • FrankieJFrankieJ Posts: 602
    These Days - Foo Fighters
    A Matter of Time - Foo Fighters
    Under The Bridge - RHCP
    Can't Stop - RHCP
    All Apologies - Nirvanna
    Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
    Good Riddance (Time of your life) - Green Day
    Motorcycle Drive By - Third Eye Blind
    Jumper - Third Eye Blind
    Anything - Third Eye Blind
    Dreams - Van Halen
    My Name Is... - Eminem

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  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Los Pollos Hermanos Posts: 4,957
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFLZ-MzIhM
  • Electric FeelElectric Feel Posts: 198
    These aren't classics or anything, but they seem perfect to me :

    The Sidwinder Sleeps Tonight- REM
    Let's Not Shit Ourselves- Bright Eyes
    Electric Feel- MGMT'
    Get Away- Yuck
    All I Need- Radiohead
    Corduroy- Pearl Jam
    Game of Pricks- Guided By Voices
    Last Nite- Strokes
  • The FixerThe Fixer Posts: 12,837
    Don't even like some of these artists, but these songs are great...off top of my head

    Thunder Road - Springsteen
    Dashboard - Modest Mouse
    Live Forever - Oasis (can't stand oasis)
    Slow Night, So Long - Kings of Leon (from when they didn't suck)
    3's & 7's - Queens of the Stone Age
    Kings Highway - Tom Petty
    Whorehoppin - Eagles of Death Metal
    Haha, You're dead - GreenDay
    Story of My Life - Social Distortion
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    Any Way you want it- Journey
    Any Other Day- Bon Jovi
    The More things Change- Bon Jovi
    Resolve- Foo Fighters
    The Waiting-Tom Petty/Heatbreakers
    A Dustland Fairytale- The Killers
    Beautiful Day- U2
    I'll go Crazy- U2
    Crossfire- Brandon Flowers
    The Clock was Tickin- Brandon Flowers
    Hands- The Raconteurs
    Old Enough- The Raconteurs
    A Whole Lot Better- Brendan Benson
    Tiny Spark- Brendan Benson
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • mookeywrenchmookeywrench Posts: 5,911
    Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
    Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground
    Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
    Distortion - Clinic
    Natures Got Away - Karl Blau
    Freeway - Kurt Vile
    I might Be Wrong - Radiohead
    100th of March - Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson
    Cold Cold Ground - Tom Waits
    Banshee Beat - Animal Collective
    Rifles - BRMC
    Velvet Waltz - Built To Spill
    Tea for One - Led Zeppelin
    Liar's Tale - Guided By Voices
    Summer Babe - Pavement
    Reptile Style - Reigning Sound
    Get Off My Cloud - Rolling Stones
    True Love Will find You In The End - Beck
    You Were Holding An Umbrella - Boris
    Skeleton Man - Evangelicals
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  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    thefixer9 wrote:
    Any Way you want it- Journey

    WHOA (weirdo coincident alert) i'm listening to a baseball game and they just played don't stop believing as they came back from the commercial break and at the EXACT SAME TIME i was going from page 1 to page 2 of this thread and wondering if anyone would ever say a journey song is perfect. WHOA
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Journey? Really?
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Jig of Life/Hello Earth-Kate Bush
    Hunger Strike-TOTD
    Starless-King Crimson
    Don't Follow-AIC
    Hey Tonight-CCR
    The Cinema Show-Genesis
    Ten Years Gone-Led Zeppelin
    Cortez the Killer-Neil Young
    Bad-U2
    Siberian Khatru-Yes
    Stargazer-Rainbow
    Wynona's Big Brown Beaver-Primus
    Family Snapshot-Peter Gabriel
    The Living Bubba-Drive-by Truckers
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • jackrabbit slimjackrabbit slim Posts: 563
    edited May 2011
    off the top of my head i'm just gonna list songs i never skip on my ipod no matter how many times i listen:

    ruby tuesday - stones
    a day in the life - beatles
    alive - pearl jam
    teen spirit - nirvana
    would? - AIC
    galaxy - blind melon
    holiday in the sun - sex pistols
    unforgettable - nat king cole
    janes addiction - mountain song
    mother love bone - chloe dancer/crown of thorns
    like a rolling stone - dylan
    allison - elvis costello
    pride - u2
    dont look back in anger - oasis
    darkness on the edge of town - springsteen
    baba o riley - the who
    rococo - arcade fire
    hello operator & death letter - white stripes
    and right now the entire wasting light record by foo fighters
    Post edited by jackrabbit slim on
  • jackrabbit slimjackrabbit slim Posts: 563
    tybird wrote:
    Jig of Life/Hello Earth-Kate Bush
    Hunger Strike-TOTD
    Starless-King Crimson
    Don't Follow-AIC
    Hey Tonight-CCR
    The Cinema Show-Genesis
    Ten Years Gone-Led Zeppelin
    Cortez the Killer-Neil Young
    Bad-U2
    Siberian Khatru-Yes
    Stargazer-Rainbow
    Wynona's Big Brown Beaver-Primus
    Family Snapshot-Peter Gabriel
    The Living Bubba-Drive-by Truckers

    Wynonas big brown beaver! excellent choice. i should of put that and hunger strike on my list.
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    dpmay wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    Any Way you want it- Journey

    WHOA (weirdo coincident alert) i'm listening to a baseball game and they just played don't stop believing as they came back from the commercial break and at the EXACT SAME TIME i was going from page 1 to page 2 of this thread and wondering if anyone would ever say a journey song is perfect. WHOA

    :lol: Awesome!!! :D
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • thefixer9thefixer9 Posts: 9,376
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Journey? Really?

    Yes Journey, their a classic band to me, you have a problem with that?
    Tres Mts- 3/16/2011
    Eddie Vedder- 7/16/11
    Brad- 4/21/12 (RSD Performance), 4/27/12, 8/10/12
    Flight To Mars- 5/23/12
    RNDM- 11/27/12

    PEARL JAM- 12/6/13 I have finally seen Pearl Jam live!
  • jackrabbit slimjackrabbit slim Posts: 563
    thefixer9 wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Journey? Really?

    Yes Journey, their a classic band to me, you have a problem with that?

    As i get older i like journey more and more. It wasn't that cool to like them in the 80's but there is no shame in liking journey. Add don't stop believin to my list. journey is dominating!
  • LoulouLoulou Adelaide Posts: 6,247
    Eleanor Rigby- The Beatles
    A Small Victory- Faith No MOre
    St. Joe On the School Bus- Marcy Playground
    Irene- Marcy Playground
    Memphis- Marcy Playground
    Fade to Black- Rolling Stones
    Interstate Love Song- Stone Tempe Pilots
    Creep- Stone Temple Pilots
    Early to Bed- Morphine
    Honey White- Morphine
    Babushka- Kate Bush
    The Man with the Child in his Eyes- Kate Bush
    State of Emergency- Bjork
    A Forrest- The Cure
    Close to Me- The Cure
    Love Will Tear Us Apart- Joy Division
    Hurt- Johnny Cash/Nine Inch Nails
    I'm Afraid of Americans- David Bowie/Trent Reznor
    Red Right Hand- Nick Cave
    Do You Love Me- Nick Cave
    The Ship Song- Nick Cave
    Friend is a Four-Letter Word- Cake
    Pepper- Butthole Surfers
    Buddy Holly- Weezer
    Jesus Christ Pose- Soundgarden
    Man in the Box- Alice in Chains
    Heaven Beside You - Alice in Chains
    Criminal- Fiona Apple
    The Wall- Pink Floyd
    Into the Void- NIne Inch Nails
    Where Did you Sleep Last Night- Leadbelly
    Oceans- PJ
    Alive- PJ
    Just Breathe- PJ
    Nights In White Satin- Moody Blues
    Creep- Radiohead
    My Iron Lung- Radiohead
    Everlong- Foo Fighters
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  • SawyerSawyer Posts: 2,411
    Let Down- Radiohead

    Black- PJ

    Rebellion-Arcade Fire

    Glosoli-Sigur Ros
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    edited May 2011
    thefixer9 wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Journey? Really?

    Yes Journey, their a classic band to me, you have a problem with that?
    To each is own, but I think they're terrible. Absolute cheese with absolutely no substance. The Nickelback of the 70s/80s. Not trying to pick a fight, just surprised to see them on the list.
    Post edited by keeponrockin on
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Do You Realize - Flaming Lips
    Hurt - NIN
    She Talks To Angels - The Black Crowes
    Thorn In My Pride (live) - The Black Crowes
    You Won't See Me - The Beatles
    Something - The Beatles
    Long May You Run - Neil Young
    Believe me, when I was growin up, I thought the worst thing you could turn out to be was normal, So I say freaks in the most complementary way. Here's a song by a fellow freak - E.V
  • SawyerSawyer Posts: 2,411
    Torn & Frayed-Stones
  • The FixerThe Fixer Posts: 12,837
    keeponrockin wrote:
    thefixer9 wrote:
    keeponrockin wrote:
    Journey? Really?

    Yes Journey, their a classic band to me, you have a problem with that?
    To each is own, but I think they're terrible. Absolute cheese with absolutely no substance. The Nickelback of the 70s/80s. Not trying to pick a fight, just surprised to see them on the list.

    gotta agree with this. journey makes me cringe. terrible
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