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My vote goes for : Paint It Black. Watts at his best!! Scott
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Funny – I am not a Stones fanatic by a long shot but Can’t You Hear Me > Knockin’ is for me their BEST tune of all time. Quintessential Stones. > gl >> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and >> performed >> right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo > and >> it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >> songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like >> it. >> Those are the criteria I use. > "Little Darling" by the Diamonds is *the* perfect song. Nothing else even > comes close. Cowbell intro, soliloquy in the middle, and a "cha cha cha" > ending. That’s the way music was meant to be. Seriously! I get off on > that song more than any other in history. >> And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but >> the >> song itself is not perfect. > The most disappointing song of all time for me is "Can’t You Hear Me > Knockin’" by the Stones. Great intro, one of the all-time catchy guitar > hooks, knockout chorus… and then it devolves into that awful mess, I > don’t know what the hell you call it, they just screw around pointlessly > for > several minutes to end it. It’s the ultimate pairing of a fantastic first > half with the all-time worst second half. I’m gonna sit me down and write > that song an ending!
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>>I thank it was David Allen Coe what wrote the perfect song. >Actually it was Steve Goodman who wrote "You Never Even Call Me By My >Name."
As well as "City of New Orleans" and "Chicken Cordon Blues" — Lynrd http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> >Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed > >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and > >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop > >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. > >Those are the criteria I use. > >Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That > >Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis > >Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a > >thing. And I still like them after all these years. > >And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the > >song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end > >of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and > >gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song > >that much.. > I got really close on George Thurogoods "I Drink alone" once…. > — > Lynrd > http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck. >Say it ain’t so, Lynrd…
I misread the question. I thought that he was asking about songs I had played right. I also once came very close on "Bad To The Bone" once, but I was really trying hard there… ;o> For the actual questuon, my perfect song would be the Sam and Dave version of "Bring it On Home to Me" and the Joan Osborne led version of "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" from SITSOM. — Lynrd http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
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>"John Shaughnessy" > Perfect song: "Mandocello" by Cheap Trick. can’t think of a single thing I’d > change in this perfect slice of pop. >Good pick. I remember blasting that record on the old hi-fi during feigned sick days >back in ‘81. >Say, that ‘minds me… >I guess one of my ‘perfect songs’ would have to be ‘Losing It’, off of Rush’s ‘Signals.’ >Weird time signatures, ripping crescendo, and a violin solo. What more could you ask for? >m
A male vocalist that sings like a girl, maybe?? Oh, wait… — Lynrd http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
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Among others by the Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" is a piece of work. Speaking of just really good songs, anyone heard "19 forever" by Joe Jackson? I never heard it get any play anywhere but always loved it.
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What more could you ask for? > A male vocalist that sings like a girl, maybe?? > Oh, wait…> Lynrd> http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
Speaking of Yes, 5 more days! They’ve got a few perfect tunes too, IMO. m
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> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed > right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and > it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop > songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. > Those are the criteria I use. > Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That > Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis > Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a > thing. And I still like them after all these years.
"Wooly Bully"- Sam The Sham And The Pharaohs > And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the > song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end > of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and > gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song > that much..
The guitar solos on "Reelin’ In the Years" by SD…flawless. Bud
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>Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. >Those are the criteria I use. >Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That >Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis >Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a >thing. And I still like them after all these years.
Rush – Red Barchetta P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up) – Parliament Gallow’s Pole – Led Zeppelin What’s Goin’ On – Marvin Gaye Superstition – Stevie Wonder Me and Bobby McGee – Janis Joplin White Room – Cream Great Part – No So Great Song Solo in "Purple Haze’ – Jimi Hendrix Bass line to "Slow Ride"
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> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and > performed right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a > different lead solo and it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me > they are always rather short pop songs, they said what they had > to say without embellishing. And I like it. Those are the > criteria I use.
Jim Pembroke’s "Lost without a trace" (the original version) -well, it’s pretty much the most beautiful ballad I’ve ever heard. makes me shiver, kind of. Wigwam’s "Pedagogue" -the woodwind section! this is pretty much what I thought jazz is like when I first got into it. one of the greatest prog rock tunes I know. The Grateful Dead’s "St. Stephen" -might be just that I like Jerry Garcia’s voice. (very similar to Jim Pembroke, who is my favorite vocalist) some interesting bass stuff. it’s a nice pop-ish song. Ornette Coleman’s "Peace" -again something that definitely seems a lot like what I thought jazz is like when I was just a little boy making ambitious computer music. 
charlie haden’s bass stuff is great. King Crimson’s "Larks’ Tongues in Aspic, part one" -what progressive rock really should considered to be about The Who’s "Substitute", "Heaven & Hell" & "Can’t Explain" -something simpler for a change — ( -
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> gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of > the song that much..
"Under Pressure" by Queen with David Bowie is a friggin chiller during the build up at the end. — /" ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Todd H / | http://www.toddh.net/ X Promoting good netiquette | http://triplethreatband.com/ / http://www.toddh.net/netiquette/ | "4 lines suffice."
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> The guitar solos on "Reelin’ In the Years" by SD…flawless. > Bud
Ahhh yeah!
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> And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the > song itself is not perfect.
The lead in Zeppelin’s "Tangerine" always shivers me’ timbers. Hell… the whole song is perfect. — O< "Go Red Wings!" /() ^^ Slidell, LA
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Funny – I am not a Stones fanatic by a long shot but Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ is for me their BEST tune of all time. Quintessential Stones. gl
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and > performed > right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo > and > it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop > songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like > it. > Those are the criteria I use. > "Little Darling" by the Diamonds is *the* perfect song. Nothing else even > comes close. Cowbell intro, soliloquy in the middle, and a "cha cha cha" > ending. That’s the way music was meant to be. Seriously! I get off on > that song more than any other in history. > And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but > the > song itself is not perfect. > The most disappointing song of all time for me is "Can’t You Hear Me > Knockin’" by the Stones. Great intro, one of the all-time catchy guitar > hooks, knockout chorus… and then it devolves into that awful mess, I > don’t know what the hell you call it, they just screw around pointlessly > for > several minutes to end it. It’s the ultimate pairing of a fantastic first > half with the all-time worst second half. I’m gonna sit me down and write > that song an ending!
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Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. Those are the criteria I use. Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a thing. And I still like them after all these years. And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song that much..
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- Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. >Those are the criteria I use. >Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That >Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis >Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a >thing. And I still like them after all these years. >And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the >song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end >of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and >gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song >that much..
I got a couple off the top o’ my head: "In the Beginning" by Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, and "All I Need" by Toad the Wet Sprocket. I’m sure
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keyboard and summoned the courage to write: >Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. >Those are the criteria I use.
The Who, "Summertime Blues" and "Substitute" on Live at Leeds. Brian Eno, "The True Wheel." More songs by The Beatles than I care to mention. >And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the >song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end >of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and >gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song >that much..
Kaukonen’s guitar break in "DCBA 25" by Jefferson Airplane. The guitar break in "Baby Blue" by Badfinger. Hendrix’s little introductory figure in "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)" — is guava a donut?
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George Harrison once said that the song River Deep, Mountain High, by Ike and Tina Turner (produced by Phil Spector) was the perfect record.
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I thank it was David Allen Coe what wrote the perfect song. Hawk
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. >Those are the criteria I use. >Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That >Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis >Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a >thing. And I still like them after all these years. >And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the >song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end >of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and >gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song >that much..
I got really close on George Thurogoods "I Drink alone" once…. — Lynrd http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
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>I thank it was David Allen Coe what wrote the perfect song.
Actually it was Steve Goodman who wrote "You Never Even Call Me By My Name."
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Perfect song: "Mandocello" by Cheap Trick. can’t think of a single thing I’d change in this perfect slice of pop. John Coltrane’s "Love Supreme" suite. They nailed it that day. Beethoven’s 7th Symphony, 1st movement. I get chills when I hear it. The guitar solo in the live recording of Bob Segar’s "Travelin Man". Not a A Segar fan by any stretch, but that’s as close to a perfect rock guitar solo as I’ve heard. Part of a song I like the best: The guitar solo in Tommy Bolin’s "Someday Will Bring Our Love Home". It’s so simple and beautiful, It brings tears to my eyes every time. All over the map I know, but I just calls ‘em like I hears ‘em. — Learning funk bass? visit www.js3jazz.com/store.htm "Speaking the Truth in times of Universal deceit is a revolutionary act." — George Orwell
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed > right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and > it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop > songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. > Those are the criteria I use. > Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That > Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis > Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a > thing. And I still like them after all these years. > And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the > song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end > of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and > gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song > that much..
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>>I thank it was David Allen Coe what wrote the perfect song. > Actually it was Steve Goodman who wrote "You Never Even Call Me By My > Name."
Not until he wrote the 5th verse. — O< "Go Red Wings!" /() ^^ Slidell, LA
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"John Shaughnessy" > Perfect song: "Mandocello" by Cheap Trick. can’t think of a single thing I’d > change in this perfect slice of pop.
Good pick. I remember blasting that record on the old hi-fi during feigned sick days back in ‘81. Say, that ‘minds me… I guess one of my ‘perfect songs’ would have to be ‘Losing It’, off of Rush’s ‘Signals.’ Weird time signatures, ripping crescendo, and a violin solo. What more could you ask for? m
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed >right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and >it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop >songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. >Those are the criteria I use. >Anyway you get the idea. Here are a few of mine. Ricky Don’t Lose That >Number by Steely Dan. Wicked Game by Chris Isaac. Pump It Up by Elvis >Costello. Yesterday Girl by The Smithereens. Perfect, wouldn’t change a >thing. And I still like them after all these years. >And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the >song itself is not perfect. For me the lead solo at that takes us to the end >of Goodbye Stranger by Supertramp is absolutely perfect for that song and >gives me goose bumps. However I don’t really care for the rest of the song >that much.. > I got really close on George Thurogoods "I Drink alone" once…. > — > Lynrd > http://www.xcdx.com – Music that doesn’t suck.
Say it ain’t so, Lynrd…
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> Totally subjective, but songs you’ve heard that were written and performed > right. They nailed it. Another verse or chorus or a different lead solo and > it wouldn’t be, well, perfect. For me they are always rather short pop > songs, they said what they had to say without embellishing. And I like it. > Those are the criteria I use.
"Little Darling" by the Diamonds is *the* perfect song. Nothing else even comes close. Cowbell intro, soliloquy in the middle, and a "cha cha cha" ending. That’s the way music was meant to be. Seriously! I get off on that song more than any other in history. > And here’s a twist, parts of songs that were perfect for the song, but the > song itself is not perfect.
The most disappointing song of all time for me is "Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’" by the Stones. Great intro, one of the all-time catchy guitar hooks, knockout chorus… and then it devolves into that awful mess, I don’t know what the hell you call it, they just screw around pointlessly for several minutes to end it. It’s the ultimate pairing of a fantastic first half with the all-time worst second half. I’m gonna sit me down and write that song an ending!