"Perfect" Songs

[Knerys]

What songs are by you ears perefect? Whether it be because of lyrics , music or beat, what songs is simply "perfect" to you?

[PsychoMike]

Although I can't think of any "perfect" songs, because what is perfect really?, the two that come the closest to me are:

cupid de locke (Smashing Pumpkins) -- very poetic and I really like the music/ beat (mellow)

All of My Love (Led Zeppelin) -- There is just something about this song that speaks to me and I can rarely get it out of my head for long.

Also close behind is:

Bring Me to Life (Evanesance) -- I think the feelings behind this song really come across well. I can connect well with these emotions having been lost for many years myself.

Yes I know I can be a bit of a romantic sometimes.

[Knerys]

I'm not saying perect as in perfection, but to you, it's the songs that are just heh "perfect". They can speak to you like you said, or you can just feel the rhythm, what ever you like.

mine:

Imaginary by Evanescence: The music and the word just blend so well

Voo doo People: I can't turn this song off once it starts. The beats are perfectly melded. Great song.

Smack my ***** Up- Same Reason

1stpklr: The build of the song is great, starting from mellow to the final crash.

Boys of Summer, Don Henley: Grew up with this song, just love singing along with it.

Eye to Eye , Mike and the MEchanics: This one is more personal so it a bit hard to expplain here, but it fits my family. Good song too.

[JBond]

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin of course, it's just perfect ;)

Shine on you Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd, everything just works together perfectly.

Hotel California - Eagles

John Lennon - Imagine, wonderful lyrics.

[sphericthor]

"Anywhere" - Evanescence; I guess it's just a song that I can relate to.

"Away from Me" - Evanescence; Yet again this is a song I can releate to.

"Solitude" - Evanescnce; Describes me perfectly

"Livin' on a Prayer" - Bon Jovi; This is IMO one of the best songs ever

[Tardumb]

Dream On by Aerosmith...can't help but sing along to it at the top of my lungs every time I hear it.

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd is perfect in every way.

Creep by STP, the lyrics just get to me.

alot of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin is perfect.

[Hitman]

A Big Day In The North - Black Grape

KRWLNG, Breaking The Habit - Linkin Park

Trouble, Clocks - Coldplay

Has It Come To This, It's Too Late - The Streets

Ready Steady Go - Paul Oakenfold

Natural Blues, God Moving Over The Face Of Waters - Moby

The Seed 2.0, Break You Off - The Roots

Clubbed To Death (kureyamono mix) - Rob Dougan

[que_SuertE777]

"Clocks" & "Yellow"- Coldplay

"Beautiful" - Flickerstick

"Boys of Summer" - Don Henley

"Save Tonight" - Eagle Eye Cherry

"Summer 79" - The Ataris

[QUINNtheESKIMO]

anything by Hank Williams Sr.

[smokiechimp]

Mississippi - Train

Your Song - Elton John

We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel

Waiting For A Girl - Foreigner

Loosing My Religion - R.E.M.

God Only Knows - Beach Boys

Secret Smile - Semisonic

Innocent - Our Lady Peace


All these songs are perfect to me and have great meaning

[Rogue]

Always- Saliva..it just makes me wanna sing along with it.

The Unforgiven and Nothing Else Matters- Metallica..great lyrics and sound.

Speed and Tried and True -Montgomery Gentry- Great lyrics and sound.

Everywhere- Tim McGraw..love the song, the music.

Blurry- PoM.. meaningful song to me as it is.

Always, Bed of Roses- Bon Jovi..both have great lyrics, emotional qualities.

Comfortably Numb, Learning to Fly, High Hopes, Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd. It's Floyd, 'nuff said.

The Rain Song, Kashmir- Led Zeppelin..if you've heard them, you know what I'm talking about.

Simple Man, Free Bird and All I Can Do Is Write About It (acoustic)- probably the top three of my top 10 songs of all time. They have so much sentimental value to me plus you can't beat southern rock! :)

[Rogue]

When I'm Gone- Three Doors Down
Life's A Dance- John Michael Montgomery
Ten Years Gone- Led Zeppelin
Hole in my Soul- Aerosmith
Outside, So Far Away- Staind
My Immortal- Evanescence
Missing- Evanescence
Turn the Page- Bob Seger
Hollywood Nights- Seger
Mainstreet- Seger
I Won't Back Down- Tom Petty
The Joker- Steve Miller Band
Patience- GNR
Knockin' on Heaven's Door- GNR
Lithium- Nirvana
Hotel California- The Eagles
Desperado- The Eagles
I Stand Alone- Godsmack
Dreamer- Ozzy
Maybe I'm Amazed- McCartney
Somewhere I Belong- LP
Faint- LP
Too Bad- Nickelback
Good Times Gone- Nickelback
We Are The Champions- Queen
Open Arms- Journey
Worlds Apart- Journey


Just about everything by Boston :funny:

[FrankTheBunny]

Aerosmith - Dream On
Barenaked Ladies - Call and Answer
Billy Joel - New York State of Mind
Bruce Springsteen - the River; Thunder Road; Rosalita; Jungleland
Eagles - Hotel California
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Evanesence - Going Under
John Lennon - Imagine
Led Zeppelin - Since I've been loving you, Stairway to Heaven, Ramble On
Lifehouse - Quasimodo
Nickelback - Too Bad
Nirvana - Heart Shaped Box
Oasis - Don't look back in anger
Pearl Jam - Black, Elderly Woman Behind Counter
Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
Beatles - In My Life, Help!, Maxwell's Hammer, Something, Yesterday
U2 - Bad, I still haven't found what I'm loking for
Van Morrison - Moondance
Weezer - O Girlfriend, Only in Dreams, Pink Triangle

[SamuraiiSam]

Originally posted by QUINNtheESKIMO
anything by Hank Williams Sr.

Lost Highway. One of my all time favorites.

[evilsquishy]

I use this WAY too much, but I fell in love with this song a few years ago.

The Prayer- Originally performed by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion. It's such a beautiful song, lyrics and melody wise.

[Laterose]

I also love the Prayer

Josh Groban-Let me fall, Vincent
Kid Rock;Sheryl Crow-Picture
Elton John-Don't let the sun go down on me, The way you look tonight

Or anything written by Diane Warren/Billy Joel

[Shaister]

In The Air Tonight by Phil Collins oh boy this song is too great
notables: Clocks by Coldplay and Stairway to Heaven that is all I can think of right now for other great ones

[Colorado Cajun]

Sing For The Moment, Lose Yourself, I Am, and Hailie's Song Eminem
Glycerine, Everything Zen, Cold Contagius, Pretty In White, and Machinehead by Bush
November Rain and Knockin on Heaven's Door by GNR
Alive and Youth of the Nation by POD
Blaze of Glory, Always, and Bad Medicine by Bon Jovi
Angel, Janie's Got A Gun, Livin On The Edge, and I don't wanna miss a thing by Aerosmith
Under the bridge by the Chili Peppers

[QUINNtheESKIMO]

I dunno what perfect means to you guys, and I'm not sure if there are too many songs that are perfect, but if we are gonna list great songs, then I can do that.

How about this one, from Springsteen's album, Ghost of Tom Joad, this is called "Sinaloa Cowboys", 1995

Miguel came from a small town in northern Mexico.
He came north with his brother Louis to California three years ago
They crossed at the river levee, when Louis was just sixteen
And found work together in the fields of the San Joaquin

They left their homes and family
Their father said, "My sons one thing you will learn,
for everything the north gives, it exacts a price in return."
They worked side by side in the orchards
From morning till the day was through
Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do.

Word was out some men in from Sinaloa were looking for some hands
Well, deep in Fresno county there was a deserted chicken ranch
And there in a small tin shack on the edge of a ravine
Miguel and Louis stood cooking methamphetamine

You could spend a year in the orchards
Or make half as much in one ten hour shift
Working for the men from Sinaloa
But if you slipped the hydriodic acid
Could burn right through your skin
They'd leave you spittin' up blood in the desert
If you breathed those fumes in

It was early one winter evening as Miguel stood watch outside
When the shack exploded, lighting up the valley night
Miguel carried Louis' body over his shoulder down a swale
To the creekside and there in the tall grass, Louis Rosales died
Miguel lifted Louis' body into his truck and then he drove
To where the morning sunlight fell on a eucalyptus grove
There in the dirt he dug up ten-thousand dollars. all that they'd saved
Kissed his brothers lips and placed him in his grave

[React24]

Lose Yourself sickest song for a movie, Call the ambulance, sick beati dunno deres alot of songs dat i think are like perfect and sweet and im way too tired to name dem

[QUINNtheESKIMO]

Lose Yourself is an awesome song. In fact, its one of the very few great songs that these people have listed...

[freakyplatypus]

Originally posted by Rogue
The Rain Song

Definently The Rain Song.
That unique guitar tuning gives it such an awesome sound. It builds up really nicely to. "Upon us all, Upon us all a little rain must fall.."

[downflow311]

the universal "perfect" song is Starway to Heaven. That seems to be the one song everyone can agree on, unless you know nothing about REAL music.

[QUINNtheESKIMO]

I happen to like Stairway to Heaven

[smokiechimp]

Last Dance With Mary Jane & Something In The Air by Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

beautiful.

[freakyplatypus]

Definently smokiechimp! I remember dancing to LDWMJ in the living room when I was like 6

[Radiohead]

kill hannah - agent orange skies
the jesus and mary chain - cut dead
smashing pumpkins - porcelina of the vast oceans
the smiths - i know it's over
portishead - only you
coldplay - the scientist
modest mouse - talkin' **** about a pretty sunset
leonard cohen - suzanne
beach boys - good vibrations
unwound - demons sing love songs
air - playground love
starlight mints - cracker jack
radiohead - paranoid android
pearl jam - yellow ledbetter
nine inch nails - the fragile
patty griffin - moses
lenny kravitz - fields of joy

[Laterose]

Let me fall-Josh Groban

[evenstar]

Just a few...
Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
Good Riddance - Greenday
Scientist - Cold play

[OzzMosiz]

Ozzy: Dreamer
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
Status Quo: Forty-Five Hundred Times
Def Leppard: Kiss The Day
The Verve: Lucky Man
Oasis: Go Let It Out

[EnderDeschain]

The closest to perfect I've ever heard is Guns-N-Roses' "Rocket Queen". I love the way this song is put together. It starts off full of testosterone and swagger, with a super rocking rhythm, then sort of glides into the middle with the female moans and the whine of Slash's guitar. And then, at the end, a great anthemic beat with surprisingly earnest lyrics that remind everyone of somebody special. "Don't ever leave me / Say you'll always be there / All I ever wanted was for you to know that I care". Maybe I'm just a big softy, but I'm a sucker for lyrics like that.

[IdahoMR2man]

Wow. Hard question.

Nirvana - Where did you sleep last night? Actually just about anything off the unplugged album. Makes me all emotionally anytime I hear it.
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Marvin Gaye - Let's get it on
Filter - I'm not the only one
Incubus - Nice to Know You
Soma - Smashing Pumpkins (absolutely perfect)

Just to name a few....

[colin lewis]

"get lost" - Stop And Think
"fall on your sword" - The A Team
"waste of space" - Outbreak.any song that starts off an album with "your life ****ing sucks,your friends ****ing blow,you fall for the trends,and go with the flow"it pure gold.

[Stark]

Forty Six and 2 by Tool. Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction. Let Me Drown by Soundgarden. Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath (in fact, most Ozzy Sabbs stuff). Deuce by Kiss off Alive! Victim of Changes (live) by Judas Priest. The Bazaar by the Tea Party. Sunshine by Alice In Chains. Waffle by Sevendust. Charlie Big Potato by Skunkanansie. Something I Can Never Have by Nine Inch Nails. I Want You (She's So Heavy) by the Beatles. Gimme Shelter by the Stones. Beautiful Day by U2...I could go on for weeks...

[IdahoMR2man]

Got another one.

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf Thirty years old and no matter where you are if you hear that song you immediately feel cooler than you did before.

[Optimus Magnus]

November Rain - Guns N Roses

Who Wants To Live Forever - Queen

Spiral Architect - Black Sabbath

Aces High - Iron Maiden

Livin' On A Prayer - Bon Jovi

Under A Glass Moon - Dream Theatre

Wind Of Change - The Scorpions

Fly Me To The Moon - Frank Sinatra

My Way - Frank Sinatra

Khe Sanh - Cold Chisel

[IdahoMR2man]

Originally posted by Optimus Magnus
November Rain - Guns N Roses



Ooooo good one..

[Iben]

Purple Rain - Prince
Waiting for that Day - George Michael
Isn't she lovely - Stevie Wonder
Don't cry - Guns'N Roses
Always - Bon Jovi
Crazy - Aerosmith
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Imagine - John Lennon
U2 - Still haven't found what I'm looking for

[Miasma]

"Miami 2017" and "Summer, Highland Falls" both by Billy Joel (I'm referring to the versions on "Songs in The Attic," not the original studio versions, which weren't quite as good.)

[Knerys]

Originally posted by IdahoMR2man
Got another one.

Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf Thirty years old and no matter where you are if you hear that song you immediately feel cooler than you did before. Good song. Gotta add that one to my list too.

[IdahoMR2man]

I'm an idiot. I totally forgot about Billy Joel. Piano Man and New York State of Mind are absolutely perfect.

[southern]

Boxcar Racer-There Is

[Kris Hodgson]

Has anyone else heard the new Staind song? It's called "So Far Away". One of the best songs I've ever heard. I'm not really a Staind fan, but this song is just incredible. I think EVERYONE should check it out immedietly.

[Deexan]

Finding some great songs thanks to this thread:D

these are a few of my faves:

the verve - bitter sweet symphony
the dave mathews band - space betweeen
2pac - pain
alanis morissette - thank you
goo goo dolls - iris
the cranberries - zombie
the beatles - we're gonna work it out
dan bern - god said no
blue oyster cult - dont fear the reaper
oasis - slide away
the music - getaway

[OzzMosiz]

Def Leppard: Long Long Way To Go
Status Quo: Little White Lies, 4500 Times
Aerosmith: Hole In My Soul
Beatles: Ticket To Ride, Hey Jude, Let It Be
ZZ Top: Gimme All Your Lovin'
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sweet Home Alabama
Robbie Williams: Angels
Verve: Lucky Man
AC/DC: If You Want Blood...You Got It.

[Knerys]

I gotta add:

2Tuc - California - one of the best base lines imo
Alana Davis - 32 Flavors - over all just a great song
A perfect Circle - Judith - love the opening riff.

[Colorado Cajun]

Angel's Son and Trust by Sevendust

[DolAmroth]

stairway to Heaven, La women, london calling, echoes

[Ap2000]

Nearly every song from System of a Down is perfect or near-perfect.
They fit my personality perfect.

Chop Suey, Innervision, Toxicity, Johnny, Highway Song and many others...

[Skinny]

Eagles- Hotel California
Journey- Faithfully
Weezer- Island In the Sun
Shake Ya Tailfeather- Nelly, P.Diddy, Murphy Lee
Radiohead- Freak
Marvin Gaye- Heard It Through the Grapevine
Sexual Healing
Foo Fighters- Times Like These (acoustic version)
John Lennon- Imagine
Bruce Hornsby- The Way It Is
Aerosmith- Don't Wanna Miss A Thing
And almost every Boyz II Men and Brian Mcknight song...

There's more, but ill save 'em for future posts...