A perfect song? What are your choices?

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

"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. 

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

@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.

@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.