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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I have Melody Gardot on my playlist  One of the main reasons why l stream is the discovering new artists that I've not heard before

I am a supporter of jazz where there is a melody ... Yamamoto likes this album more than others ...

 

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Two songs come to mind:
The Happy Birthday song. Simple, timeless, even leaves room to improvise,
and
The Hoagy Carnmichael and Mitchell Parish American Songbook clasiic:
Stardust - A brilliant, haunting melody, and beautiful lyrics

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NatCole:


Jorgen Ingmann, brilliant guitar version:

 

 

 

 

Father & Son - Cat Stevens on Tea For The Tillerman

Bloody Well Right - Supertramp on Crime of the Century

Lines on My Face - Frampton Comes Alive

Do You Feel Like We Do - Frampton Comes Alive

In The Mood - Glen Miller

In My Room - Yaz on Upstairs at Eric’s

The Entire Album of GRP Live in Session

The Entire Album - Russians & Americans by Al Stewart

 

Kb54's choices. Basically, yes to that. Could add 'Shape of a Heart', Jackson Browne. 'Visions of Johanna" Dylan.  for longform catagory

Aren't we supposed to be talking about the perfect song? Now it's movies and soundtracks. What next, the perfect Martini?

perhaps somewhere there is a dubbed English translation (subtitles here) ... Golden film.

 

who truly loved - reacts especially sharply to this film ... the clip is also excellent .

 

I didn’t find Vladimir Sofronitsky on YouTube - let it be Denis Matsuev .

 

@falconquest 

Great song! Thanks for the post, I had never heard it before.

As for me, there are so many, but lately I'd go with Diamond and Rust.

 

this is a masterpiece - the best Cinderella of all time...
you need to switch subtitles - at the bottom of the gear window (settings) - select English

 

@rpeluso 

Sad Lisa was my favourite Cat Stevens song for a long time.

Around 1990 I discovered his '60s output (beyond 'I love My Dog' and 'I'm Gonna Get Me a Gun') and I soon fell in love his Mike Hurst produced work.

 

@serjio 

... Unfortunately, this process is largely manageable - the owners of big money are interested in making the broad masses stupid - they are easier to manage. (but they themselves listen to classical music and opera - masterpieces of the past and present).

 

 

The music industry is a business, let's not forget, and that any art it happens to churn out is often merely co-incidental.

Having said that, it's noticeable that in this age of information the consumer has unsurpassed access to knowledge online.

If some people want to limit themselves mainly to the incessant chatter on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tik Tok etc there's not a lot anyone can do.

Unfortunately there's still far too many people like my dad who don't have easy access to the internet, and many others like my mother can only use it in a limited way via their phones.

Even worse, far too many people seem unaware of just how pernicious companies like Google are when it comes to issues such as data theft and online tracking.

Worse still some of them like Google are actively seeking to influence consumer behaviour.

Or 'dumbing down' and shaping political opinion as it's now known as.

In Europe they brought in the GDPR act in 2019 to safeguard privacy but all it really managed to do was to make life harder for working people to access information on matters such as health etc.

The big money tech giants themselves carried on regardless.

 

Anyway, there's still treasure to be found for those who look.

Here's my favourite version of 'America' from West Side Story.

 

 

 

@roxy54

actually you accidentally answered your own question...
1 - this century is very stingy with masterpiece songs (which will go down in history) - most often fast food.
The level of performance skills of modern performers as a whole is much weaker than the 19th-20th century ... of course, there are individual songs - but they are few ...

2 - in fact, now this country is the world center of anticulture.
The consumer society is characterized by low education and general development. Example: natives who lived in the jungle far from civilization were given color photographs in their hands - they were not able to understand what they depicted! ... for them it was something like a leaf of a tree ... they didn’t see the picture ... they tried to bite ...
A similar process in society - there is no request for something complicated, there is no ability to evaluate the work, there is no dream (except for material wealth).
It’s like Hollywood - they can shoot anything, but they only shoot what makes money. They do not care about the education of the best qualities of man and his evolution. (that’s why we see a primitive movie with a lot of sound effects - only teenagers watch it).
... Unfortunately, this process is largely manageable - the owners of big money are interested in making the broad masses stupid - they are easier to manage. (but they themselves listen to classical music and opera - masterpieces of the past and present).

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More mood specific than definitive but here are a few that are timeless for me:

Charles Mingus - Good By Pork Pie Hat

Bonnie Rait - Angel from Montgomery

Miles Davis - Flamenco Sketches

Joni Mitchel - Conversation

Grateful Dead - Darkstar (Date Specific)

Billie Holiday - Stars fell on Alabama

Nina Simone - Wanna Little Sugar in My Bowl

Allman Brother -In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song

The Who - Babba O’Riley

This man definitely has a sense of humor - he invented a language similar to English ... So not only fans of Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" and Cameron's "Avatar" distinguished themselves by this))). 

 

a unique way of sound reproduction ... the masters of this genre die early - an occupational disease ...

 

sometimes people are born to whom songs are dedicated ... By the way, whoever has not seen it, I recommend the autobiographical film "The Diary of a Motorcyclist" (2004). 

 

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If we are limiting it to Cat Stevens, I vote for Sad Lisa.  Maybe even if we don't limit it to Yusuf.  

I wouldn't say it's perfect but I've literally played Cat Stevens' Portobello Road hundreds of times.

 

 

I always thought of "Stairways to Heaven" as a perfect song.

It has everything I found necessary in a (rock) song - slow part, great melody, powerful lyrics, strong verses, solos...

And most importantly, geniuses behind every instrument and Robert Plant's voice.

JJ Cale- "Magnolia"

Johnny Cash- "Sunday Morning Coming Down"

written by Kris Kristofferson

Boz Scaggs= "Desire" from the album "DIG"

Many have never heard of the album. The reason is :

RELEASE DATE was Sept 11th 2001... unreal !!

 

It is VERY good . One of my fav Boz albums. 

check it out. great sounding vinyl release ... the latest re-issue

 

Goran is a drunkard and a bully - but his shows are perhaps the most incendiary - who is still young and wants to break away - do not miss it))

 

I don’t know about the song, but the film is definitely one of the best in the history of cinema