A perfect song? What are your choices?


Can there be such a thing as a perfect song? I have a suggestion, what are yours? Here is a thought...

 

 

 

 

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cd318,

I'm pretty sure that I heard that song last week... as I was riding on an elevator.

@cd318 You just smeared it ))) ... a joke from nothing ... everything ingenious is simple!  (54)  ... 

Today we will follow your principle (feast during the plague) ... we will dance))

 

@roxy54 

I'm glad for that.

I'm sure you tried your best, and that's what counts the most, isn't it?

 

Anyway...how about this for a near perfect tune?

 

 

"In the meantime, life goes on in its wonderful way."

That's the only sensible thing that I got from your post @cd318

 

@serjio 

@cd318  

You don’t understand - now the sixth scientific revolution is underway ... the fate of mankind directly depends on whose hands the technologies will be - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ALLOW the oligarchs ... otherwise ordinary people will end - they simply do not need the owners of huge money and will be destroyed (some covid or war) ... The only way for the broad masses of people to survive is to unite - only then they are strong. (the oligarchs will do their best to interfere with this - fascism, nationalism, inciting religious conflicts) ... the more fools, the easier it is for the oligarchs to gain the upper hand. Capitalism is synonymous with selfishness - loneliness - this system is completely inappropriate!

 

Serjio I hope I can understand your concerns that the human race is in great danger. These are my concerns too.

Just as soon as the mass of humanity is no longer required to keep a small elite of globalist (bankers) in the lifestyle they are are accustomed to, that same mass of humanity will indeed become surplus to requirements.

You could even argue that we peasants have only ever been tolerated as long as we served a useful function.

However, in the meantime we can all try to put real information out there so that more people can use it to decide for themselves.

You might well also be right in that the situation is becoming increasingly grave. You only have to look at the escalation of the Ukraine situation to see that, but it's also pointless in getting ourselves overly distressed by events we cannot control.

In the meantime life goes on in its wonderful way.

 

 

 

@erik_squires 

Celine Dion (Titanic) will find everything by themselves))) ... keep a couple of songs on the marine theme that you have not heard. 

 

“We are the priests

of the temples of Syrinx

all the gifts of life

are held within our walls…”

Do you live in the United States @serjio ? If you do, it sounds like you shouldn't from the way you think.

@cd318  

You don’t understand - now the sixth scientific revolution is underway ... the fate of mankind directly depends on whose hands the technologies will be - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ALLOW the oligarchs ... otherwise ordinary people will end - they simply do not need the owners of huge money and will be destroyed (some covid or war) ... The only way for the broad masses of people to survive is to unite - only then they are strong. (the oligarchs will do their best to interfere with this - fascism, nationalism, inciting religious conflicts) ... the more fools, the easier it is for the oligarchs to gain the upper hand. Capitalism is synonymous with selfishness - loneliness - this system is completely inappropriate!

There is exactly one answer to this question.

 

Without a doubt is is Gordon Lightfoot's Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

All other answers are provably incorrect.

@serjio

Don’t let the human condition get you down too much.

Most of them having been fighting and killing for resources for hundreds of centuries.

There’s nothing any different now, except they’re better at hiding their real intentions if you’re prone to believing the electronic and print media.

Anyway, life today remains as valuable and precious as it ever did.

Perhaps even moreso if you’re wiring is good.

These are the days of miracles and wonder, aren’t they?

Yes, we know life is a losing game, but nothing should stop up from losing it beautifully, should it?

abyss? - it is inside most people ... this is the place where there was a difference between a Human and an animal ... vices broke free and are presented as the norm ... In addition to smartphones, everything has definitely become worse ... education and the general level of culture of the masses, food , clothes , architecture , cars ... No war ? - if you don’t see it, it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist ... rich people have turned into super-rich (funds, corporations, pools, banks ...) - the main part of humanity interferes with them and they destroy it ... digitalization has greatly accelerated this process . Only those who can compare can understand this ...

"there used to be a lot of real art - 21st century - humanity is flying into the abyss"

Oh please, get off the cross! Nobody seems to recall what real hard times are these days. We're not at war, everyone reading these words is probably well fed and has good shelter, so where's the abyss Serjio?

Ave Maria

Camptown Races

Oh Susanna

Old Kentucky Home

Oh Holy Night

Londonderry Air (Danny Boy)

In the lead by a long mile: Ella Fitzgerald singing Every time we say goodbye

 (1) Ella Fitzgerald Ev'ry time we say goodbye (with lyrics) - YouTube

Honourable seconds:

Emmylou Harris, Boulder to Birmingham

Tom Waits, (Looking for) the Heart of Saturday Night - the song Bruce Springsteen would have sold his soul to have written.

Dolly Parton, I Will Always Love You - ONLY in Dolly's original version; this, like Ella's Every Time demonstrates how when something's perfect you don't need to "make it better" with vocal fireworks.

 

 

Stevie Wonder has written a bunch of them... but my pick is "All In Love Is Fair"

 

 

@grislybutter

I’m not at all surprised. He’d seen it all in the 60s, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Baez and Dylan, the Beatles and the Beach Boys etc.

It’s true his career nosedived somewhat in the 70s once his association with Mickie Most came to an end. His unwillingness to jump on the coming glam bandwagon alongside the likes of Bowie and Bolan don’t help his career either, but he never stopped making good music.

In a way he remained true to himself. He wasn’t playing at being Donovan, he was Donovan.

 

When it comes to perfection, well here's another one by Donovan that gets as close as anything I've ever heard.

 

 

Wouldn't anyone's definition of "perfection" be subjective?

Hmm,,,,,The absolute critiquing using subjective criteria of an incorporeal phenomenon??????????????? illogical,,,,,illogical !

A perfect song from R&B might be Shout by the Isley Brothers.

And another vote for the Kinks, with their debut that ROCKED: You Really Got Me

And another for a rocker, the Jefferson Airplane's Somebody to Love.

 

Almost everything on Steely Dan's album Aja. Tool's The Pot and the list goes on...

Scorpions не совсем 80 е годы , но очень вписывается ... (у них было несколько хитов в то время)

Truly I tell you - before the grass was greener, the trees were big ... it was more fun to live ... people read books, dreamed, thought ... good company, a beloved girl, a little alcohol and a starry sky on a summer night to the music of the eighties (plus minus) - what could be better?

Today we turn to popular music and even a little to the rock of those years ... (do not remind me of disco - otherwise I will be upset) ...

But let's start even earlier - 1966 ..

 

Personally, I prefer songs with thoughtful lyrics. Such as "Supermarket Flowers" by Ed Sheeran or "To Ramona" by Bob Dylan. In rare cases light music that helps me studying as I`m a student :)

this is something opposite of "Bensonhurst blues" ... a dream - a city that does not exist - there they always love, believe and wait for it ... the hearth burns

and here (the song is called "wedding with death" - the last hours of a person's life)