What in your mind is the most absolute perfect song ever constructed. Not necessarily the one you listen to the most, or even like the most - but the one you think is a masterpiece.
I'm eager to listen to some suggestions.
I'd personally say Tool's Lateralus, I'm not a devotee of the band but I do think this song is incredible, lyrically and phonically.
Turangalila Symphony by Olivier Messiaen
>>64603247
DJ Shadow - Midnight in a Perfect World
This song just hits all of the notes for me. It's beautiful but somber, and it's just so tightly and carefully constructed while still sounding like it was made in the moment. Class A song.
>>64603247
Starless by King Crimson
>>64603266
Listening but I'm not sure I would count a symphony as a song as such.
>>64603247
Slint - Breadcrumb trail
Swans - Helpless child
Red house painters- medicine bottle
Godspeed you! Black Emperor - Sleep
Aphex Twin - Alberto Balsalm
Autechre - pen expers.
Orbital - Halcyon on+on
The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
I'm a long time tool fan. i grew up with undertow and aenema.
it was interesting to see the follow up generation fall in love with lateralus so much.
it is certainly their most mature and complex and well thought out album. It is in a sense math rock - but they were able to deliver more than just complex rhythms
its my least favorite album tho of tool, the rawness of opiate and undertow i love and aenema is the peak of that end, there was definitely a change in sense with the addition of chancellor.
that said parabola and reflection are among my favorites
10,000 days had a lot of filler but in spots was amazing
Marquee Moon
After the Flood
Sister Ray
Echoes
To Here Knows When
50 Cycles by Squarepusher
Xtal
one of those
>>64603322
>>64603436
> Greatest Song Ever Made
> List about 40
>>64603482
I could list about 40 more.
In truth there is no best song ever.
Everything In Its Right Place
Pyramid Song
>>64603289
Good song, though there are DJ Shadow songs i prefer
>>64603299
Not keen on the vocalist at all but the second half is great, imagine it would be good live
Supper's Ready
>>64603601
> Not 'Down to Earth' from the Wall-E soundtrack
Pleb tier m8
> Imogen Heap - The Beast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QETSN8gBnMY
> Toto - Africa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY
> Slice the cake - fractal exam sequence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n3xD3ZK-NQ
> King Crimson - Three of a perfect pair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QilNVTZx5CI
Mars Volta - Cassandra Geminni
Between the Buried and Me - Swim to the Moon
Mastodon - The Czar
toe - Goodbye
Yes - Close to the Edge
Coil - Amber Rain
Some songs I consider to be the bests ever while not necessarily being a favorite
Cardiacs - Manhoo (top 150)
This Heath - Horizontal Hold (top 1000)
Velvet Underground - Heroin (top +1000)
Something by Slint (top +1000)
United States of America - self titled album (can't pinpoint it to a single song, top 150)
stoned jesus - I'm the mountain
silver mt zion - blindblindblind
My Bloody Valentine - To Here Knows When
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9zxXN1rx0
This always gets me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU6IndADEWI
This is the perfect combination of everything I've ever loved in pop music.
- gritty, strained, yearning vocals
- 12-string guitar
- "Heroes"-esque layering of guitars (no idea how many guitar tracks are present in total)
- pristine production
- idiosyncratic use of langue ("un" instead of "dis")
- still sounds like a band of punks in their garage, somehow
>>64603247
Red Sky Harbor by Corelia.
>>64603247
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lpM4mXJlxc
>>64603920
Presidents are great, been playing that album a lot.
>>64604746
It's one of the best albums ever, not just a favorite. Listening to the whole album after being aware of the final song makes the remaining songs even better thanks to this "double feeling" thing. No other artist I know does that, this double feeling thing.
>>64603247
Lol at your taste fampai
Mine are:
The Beatles—Hold Your Hand
The Stooges—Now I Wanna Be Your Dog
The Black Sabbath—Iron Man
The T.Rex—20th Century Boy
The Roxette—It Used To Be Love
The My Bloody Valentine—Off Your Face
>>64603247
Probably one of Bach's pieces desu
Starless desu
>>64603247
>lateralus
>guy purposefully sings out of pocket for a math pun
fucking kill yourself
I dream about music. all the time. im always listening to music in my dreams. Often I dont remember the dreams, but I always remember how they made me feel, and how that beautiful, milk, sweet sweet music made me feel: in my dreams. This song takes me to a place in my dream land, a literal place within my subconscious, a feeling so ineffable there is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nnb8XviYRoA
>>64603247
One of my favorites ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1KPqet74EI
Come on feel the illinoise gets my vote.
I also would put one too many mornings by Dylan and after hours by TVU out there as masterful distillations of songwriting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRE3kjL3Yjg
>>64603322
>Alberto Balsalm
Fantaaaastic track mang, underrated too
Ride - Leave Them All Behind
>>64604935
I was going to say Chicago from Sufjan but I figured my fanboyism was making me say it. (I'm the post above you)
https://youtu.be/Ktoc4xakX-E
>>64603322
>Slint - Breadcrumb trail
>Swans - Helpless child
>Red house painters- medicine bottle
yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da-ELYFRFpc
This is one of the few songs I actually consider "perfect", even down the somewhat sloppy playing. I don't think I can even explain why, and I guess maybe that's part of it.
>>64603322
>>64603791
>>64604923
nice
However, this won't ever be beaten.
Kayo Dot - The Manifold Curiosity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23F2KD2zn_Y
>>64603247
David Bowie, Heroes
>>64603247
I don't understand why so many people shit themselves for this soft rock dronefest.
>>64604935
John My Beloved and Redford (For Yia Yia & Pappou) are perfect songs.
>>64605323
This. It's pretty good, but greatest song ever? Not even close.
Brown Shoes Don't Make It
>>64605323
>soft rock dronefest
>not soft rock
>not drone
I don't understand why so many people shit themselves for these false labelling memes.
>>64603247
Personally I would rate Wings For Marie higher.
Aphex Twin - Stone In Focus
Radiohead - All I Need
Porter Robinson - Sea Of Voices
Modern Baseball - Two Good Things
Aphex Twin - Cliffs
Mark Hollis - A Life
https://youtu.be/kGRI2o191Cc
Lovedrug - Down Towards The Healing
Circa Survive - Stop The Fucking Car
King Crimson - Frame By Frame
My Bloody Valentine - I Only Said
The Dismemberment Plan - Memory Machine
The Pop Group - Thief Of Fire
Weekend Nachos - Black Earth
Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
Talk Talk - After The Flood
Deftones - This Place Is Death
>>64603247
Street Fighter Riddim by D Double E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8hi7CaqE8A
Pink Floyd - Time
It's just so perfect.
>>64605323
ha this fucking guy right here
>>64605347
>>64605361
>newfags on my /mu/
>>64603247
But The Grudge is infinitely better, anon.
Though for me, it's got to be The Mars Volta's Cassandra Gemini, especially parts 2 and 3. The whole thing is just insane.
>>64603247
Little wing-Jimi Hendrix
>>64603247
>phonically
Animal Collective - My Girls
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zol2MJf6XNE
>>64603247
Bach, Toccata and Fugue
is the correct anwser btw
probably some obscure classical song
>>64603566
Add idioteque
contenders
Can - Vitamin C
New Order - Blue Monday
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
carey by joni mitchell
fireworks (and probably several others) by animal collective
peach plum pear by joanna newsom
chimacum rain by linda perhacs
that right ain't shit by the books
>>64606205
nice post
>>64604826
I like a lot of these songs too so you can't lol too hard at my taste.
>>64605347
Well i think greatest is just like rating women, you can only really get 8/10s objectively and then the extra 2 are down to taste.
I think most people would objectively rate lateralus very high, short of contrarianism - but could list several others that are 9s and 10s for them.
>>64605365
Lyrics ruin that one a bit
>>64606141
>phallicly
Incredible String Band - "Maya"
The Chain by Fleetwood Mac.
But the entirety of Rumours is perfect.
Cotton Eye Joe - and im not even kidding.
>>64605323
Are you thinking of the right song?
>>64605174
this
TMV - The Haunt Of (Roulette Dares)
Earth - Seven Angels
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Electric Wizard - Funeralopolis
Beefheart - Veteran's Day Poppy
Don't know if this counts as a song:
Antonio Laurio - Waltz Natalia
>>64606877
Agree kek
>>64603322
>Slint - Breadcrumb trail
>Swans - Helpless child
>Red house painters- medicine bottle
yes
>Orbital - Halcyon on+on
i think there are better orbital songs, great 1 nonetheless
>>64603436
>After the Flood
>Sister Ray
yes
>>64603791
>Yes - Close to the Edge
>Coil - Amber Rain
yes
>>64605323
>people responding to 3 year old pasta
fuck this place
>>64605458
>The Pop Group - Thief Of Fire
>Iggy Pop - Nightclubbing
yes yes yes
great taste
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJUDk6a4GsI
TFW no one will listen to the whole thing
Probably either Sunday by Nick Drake or Maize Stalk Drinking Blood by the Mountain Goats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq5oeQypIjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7DbDEkvB1Y
Sunday Morning - Velvet Underground
All Apologies - Nirvana
Music for 18 musicians - Steve Reich
Afghamistam - Botch
Loomer/to here knows when - My Bloody Valentine
Fool on the hill - The Beatles
Hey Jude - The Beatles
Day in the LIfe - The Beatles
Fearless - Pink Floyd
Changes - 2pac
Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway
Dying to Live - Edgar Winter
Holes - Mercury Rev
Some Things Last A Long Time - Daniel Johnston
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Old Man - Neil Young
Seasons - Chris Cornell
Son of Sam - Elliot Smith
River of Deceit - Mad Season
Don't Follow - Alice in Chains
Like A Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
Outkast definitely has one but I couldn't say. Maybe art of storytelling pt 1
Now I Feel Ya - Scarface
The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
Lookin out my back door - CCR
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return) - Jimi Hendrix
The Passenger - Iggy Pop
Blue Sunday - The Doors
Planet Caravan - Black Sabbath
Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
My Smile is A Rifle - John Frusciante
The Real Thing - Faith No More
Mind mischief - tame impala
I don't know why but it takes me back to my school days, especially the summers
Lonerism was a really nostalgic album for me even though it only came out like 4 years ago.
>>64608744
Sister Ray or When the Music's Over
Heroin by VU
i'm gonna sound like a massive pleb but Holland 1945 by far. It's the only song that i enjoy every time i listen to it without getting bored
>>64608619
tl;dr
thinking fellers - noble experiment
and earth wind and fire - september
come to mind
>>64603247
lateralus is definitely up there op
>>64609577
wow ur cool
>>64609594
>earth wind and fire - september
Let's Groove is better
>>64606877
wat
Y'all already know it's mothafuckin' Baker Street.
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
or
Paul Willams - When the River Meets the Sea
>>64609875
def disagree with u on that but lets groove is a good song no doubt
>>64609994 shut up saxfag
>>64608619 shut up normie
>>64606877 shut up... guy
>>64610000
also Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
>>64610009
When the hook comes up I can't sit down. September is a great song, but Let's Groove challenges my inner autist to get on the dancefloor and make a fool of myself.
Nightcall - kavinsky
Lateralus is fucking haunting.
>>64610080
It's not even the best song within that stupid 80's fad
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic
Lateralus has a great intro, but isn't anywhere near the best song of all time.
>>64610052
lmao. well, i'm happy to hear it anon
>>64610052
you should check out bahama soul club - bossa nova just smells funky also
>>64610286
noted
The title track is the perfect song to come out the of the pop-rock album-music tradition.
>>64603247
Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Metallica
I find every moment of it enthralling.
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
This song is the pinnacle of psychedelic rock. Everyone else may as well stop trying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iTgv5y6HFQ
