Name your 'perfect' song.

[TechBoyJK]

Here's mine.

Wind Won't Howl by OSI. Sounds simple at first, but it's crazy deep. I can listen to it over and over and it just gets better every time. So many layers and sounds that are threaded together so precisely everything feels perfectly connected. It's like no matter where you listen, there's always a deeper layer of sounds nicely hidden among the primary sounds. No space is left unfilled.

https://soundcloud.com/user7309458/osi-wind-wont-howl

If you have a decent set of headphones, kill the lights and give this track a few spins. Try and analyze it, hear all the different parts. See it all individually and as a whole.

Youtube has a higher quality version of the track, but it's part of the entire cd. There's a link to skip straight to the track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZF7OQlaSgs

 

[eldorado99]

 

[TechBoyJK]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Sk5QM1qN_A

OSI covering 'Set the Controls for the heart of the Sun', in case you wanted to check it out.

 

[highland145]

Space out, old man. I'm going for your gold.

j/k

 

[eldorado99]

Space out, old man. I'm going for your gold.

j/k

Ok, but I'ma keep my shootin' eye open!

 

[lxskllr]

I have a whole collection of perfect songs. I try to curate the best, and couldn't narrow it down to 10 much less one.

 

[DaveSimmons]

I own over 1,000 CDs, and have them all ripped to lossless FLAC for my jukebox and mp3 for my iPod.

With a bit of effort I could possibly pick 25 "perfect" songs from my collection. Choosing one would be impossible.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I didn't care for the new OSI much (really only a fan of the first album), but that was one of my more favored songs from it.

I'd go with one of Matheos' earlier works in Fates Warning, Epitaph. It's not particularly progressive/complex in any modern-day usage of the term, but it's a massive song with a lot of different sections and moods and manages to surpass their influences of that time period. There are three or so other metal songs that regularly rotate position with it, though.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Brother of Mine - Yes

 

[Printer Bandit]

Radiohead - how to disappear completely

 

[Pardus]

never get tired of this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mSkZh3FXCA

 

[soulcougher73]

Comfortably Numb is one of my all time favs. I guess ill choose that.

 

[IronWing]

Clearly the perfect song

 

[Fayd]

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd

 

[zanemoseley]

Blue Jean Blue by ZZ Top was always one of my favorites while many have never heard it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b76kjd5nvMg

 

[zanemoseley]

Clearly the perfect song

Dear lord I hate Meatloaf. Did I mention I also hate The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

 

[bradley]

The example of a perfect song: one that has become the blueprint of hundreds of chart-topping hits....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

 

[Triumph]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WygAhSxV8I

There's 40 songs on the album but they're all the same, so they're all the perfect song.

 

[shortylickens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1wK7iCQfQ

 

[zanemoseley]

Comfortably Numb is one of my all time favs. I guess ill choose that.

Awesome song as well. Probably one of the top 3 guitar solos as well. I was lucky enough to see The Wall with Roger Waters about two years ago. The Comfortable Numb solo made the entire show, it it had been Gilmour playing it atop the wall I may have shit myself.

 

[Oyeve]

I'm gonna have to go with comfortably numb or wish you were here. Everything else pales in comparison.

 

[brianmanahan]

obviously "deception" by blackalicious:

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

 

[brianmanahan]

also, a number of songs by bach i think are provably perfect:

- prelude in c
- two-part invention 8
- two-part invention 13
- jesu joy of man's desiring

among others

 

[Wyndru]

I've always liked MGMT - Siberian Breaks because it has so many different music styles in one song.

 

[BUTCH1]

Nights in white satin...