this story ended badly.

Jazz Here....

Lenny Breau "Mercy Mercy Mercy" Anything by him but the deconstruction is great on The Velvet Touch of Lenny Breau

"Tenderly" on Standard Brands again by Lenny Breau

"Duo Blues" Art Pepper and " Patricia" and party much all things by him

"Cleveland Blues" Sonny Still OMG! 

good remix of one of his best songs

@bdp24 

i was going through this thread today and saw your mention of ‘Lies’ by the Knickerbockers.  I had forgotten about this song but streamed today and remembered how much I really like this song.  Will add to my playlist.  Thanks!

@cd318 

I'm with you on that. He's a brilliant poet.

@bdp24 

I'm with you on the Kinks except I would add Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One and Muswell Hillbillies to make a great 6 record run.  

@bdp24 

For another "perfect song" I would nominate November Spawned a Monster by Morrissey.

It's quite amazing just how many great songs Morrissey has recorded in his post Smiths career.

For me, he's up there alone with Dylan when it comes to the sheer number of great songs recorded over all the decades and their unique point of view.

Here's just 2 that immediately come to mind.

@bdp24,

I am a big fan of the Kinks and Ray Davies brilliant writing, and completely agree with you. I love Waterloo Sunset and would also nominate Big Sky as one of his great compositions.

For another "perfect song" I would nominate November Spawned a Monster by Morrissey.

Stephen Sondheim's "Send in the Clowns." Simple, elegant melody and poetic, insightful lyrics are matched beautifully.

"Waterloo Sunset" just may be my favorite song written and recorded by any UK band. In it I hear the same sense of wistful melancholy as I do from Brian Wilson's "God Only Knows". Very distinguished company to keep.

I consider The Kinks' 4-album run of Face To Face, Something Else, The Village Green Preservation Society, and Arthur as the high water mark of British Pop music, far better to my musical taste and sensibilities than that of The Beatles during the same period. 

something funny is better ... youth is the sun (oh - I caught myself thinking that this film also featured a fertilizer plant))) ... )

I mixed up the song))) ... I don’t listen to such music at all - the consonant name misled ... there was some other one - about the war ...
but this one - I don’t like this one either (especially after I introduced it - the Thames, the bridge, a couple in love, the station, obviously nearby are fields fertilized with human bones))) ..... )

Can’t tell if you are being facetious but Waterloo Sunset is about an area in London near a train station called Waterloo Underground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Sunset

@serjio 

Waterloo Sunset has little to do with the battle of Waterloo, what some have called the most important few hours of the 19th century.

It's more to do with life in the district of Waterloo, not far from Charing Cross and Waterloo Station.

As much as I like the original, I have come to prefer the rendition at the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics.

I am very upset by lovers of the song about Waterloo (((

okay ... how do you like this nuance? :

about 30,000 people died in that battle (on both sides) ... But there are no burials! ... But there are numerous documents and testimonies - whole caravans of ships went to Foggy Albion - they carried fertilizers for the soil (bones boiled and ground into flour) ...

I wonder where they got them? )))

Michelle by the Beatles

Cracked Actor by David Bowie

My selections:  

Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks (Ray Davies)

The Wind by Cat Stevens

Days by Television

Very few songs ever recorded are as likely to blow your socks off like this one.

A real treat for those with systems possessing good dynamics - if not for their neighbours!

Peg - Steely Dan 

Naive Melody - Talking Heads 

All Blues -. Miles Davis 

Communication Breakdown - Led Zeppelin 

From the Morning - Nick Drake 

Dirty Back Road - B-52s 

Melissa - Allman Brothers 

Suppers Ready - Genesis 

Beautiful World - Devo

Ripple - Grateful Dead 

LA Woman - The Doors 

Only Living Boy in NY - Simon & Garfunkel 

Respect - Aretha 

Pusherman - Curtis Mayfield 

Pretty Vacant - Sex Pistols 

I could go for days 

Whether this 80s hit can be considered pop perfection is a matter of opinion, but according to some of the comments posted below it, this seems to have helped some people climb out of the black hole of depression.

Surely that alone is enough to merit its inclusion here.

Stevie Ray Vaughn's "Tin Pan Alley". Using my Scott 299C (which will probably get a snarky comment), my Linn LP12 with an Accuphase AC-2 cart (for sure to get a snarky comment) and Klipsch Cornwall IVs (oh boy....) This is my first posting, I read many postings and am amused at how everything turns into a snarkfest. I can only imagine the entitled male audience that reads these postings. Reminds me of a debate on politics....

Pretty good teeth for Englishmen ;)

Robin Gibb must have gone through a tube of toothpaste every other day...

Mozart's Queen of the Night aria, chills every time.

Bee Gees "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart". I put the Bee Gees up there with Lennon/McCartney for their songwriting skills. This is the only song that can make me cry.

Puccini's Vissi d'arte. Superhuman voices.

Ortofon named its top cartridge the Anna after this lady.

Can you translate for us "robots?"

Once upon a time, on the planet Earth of the solar system, springs beat from the ground - natural living water of incredible purity, beauty and strength... those who lived at that time were very lucky. My friends "robots" listen - this is one of them..

several FAK songs

one out of any five M Ward songs

one out of any four Joanie Sommers tunes

one out of three Ronettes songs

one out any two Jeff Lynne songs

and then there was ONE...

.                       ..four guys from Liverpoll

Apparently not...

Do you live in the United States Sergio? 

Van Morrison has certainly written some sublime songs but which one comes closest to perfection?

A very difficult question when you consider he wrote Brown Eyed Girl, Into the Mystic, And it Stoned Me etc.

If I had to choose one, it might as well be this one.

A perfect song from a perfect album.

This isn't even a song! This thread should be called Sergio's picks.

an unsurpassed performer - a nightingale eternally drunk with love )) .and when there are several of them - this is a fabulous chorus! ... in the forest you can hear very far

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Stella Blue - Grateful Dead

Dear Prudence - The Beatles

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

Angel From Montgomery - John Prine & Bonnie Raitt

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

East West - Butterfield Blues Band

Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

Hickory Wind - Gram Parsons

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

you need to listen to it with your heart (translation is not needed) ... an episode from an autobiographical film dedicated to Anna Herman (a recording of her voice was used) ... It's true - the musicians began to cry and could not play.

@edcyn

I enjoy thread drift as much as the next guy or gal, but this thread has gone off the rails to the point where it’s now no more than a grab bag of miscellaneous vids. Either that or the universe is indeed awash with perfect songs.

Well, I don’t think there is anything such as a truly perfect song, only those that are more suitable than others for certain moods or subject matter.

Case in point is the often complex father and son relationship which hasn’t been tackled too often as far as I know. For example, John Lennon (and Paul McCartney) often wrote songs about his mother, but his father hardly ever got a look in.

@flasd has already mentioned Cat Stevens’ Father and Son off his Tea for the Tillerman album, but what about this one for mixed feelings?

Martin Simpson - Never Any Good.

Segio won't take the hint.

I enjoy thread drift as much as the next guy or gal, but this thread has gone off the rails to the point where it's now no more than a grab bag of miscellaneous vids. Either that or the universe is indeed awash with perfect songs.

everyone knows Garou... but how many of you know Kurt Klose?