whats your personal most pefect song ever recordd?

Pilgrims - Van Der Graaf Generator of "Still Life"

A number of reasons really:
- It's not self-indulgent but you can tell they are good musicians
- Some really nice organ playing by Mr Banton, if you are a keys player, you will appreciate it for sure!
- Amazingly schizophrenic yet tuneful vocals that portray one of the best melodic lines i've ever heard
- Really quite deep lyrics, I welled up the first time i heard them because i felt the lyrics describe me in a way "unknown in our purpose; alone but not worthless at home"
- Great arrangement over two themes: theme 1 x2, theme 2, theme 1, theme 2, instrumental along melody lines of theme 2, where David Jackson and Guy Evans deserve a mention
- It feels like an epic but is a mere 7 minutes, so you don't get bored but still experience the epicness of it

I think that is all that can be said, and the song is quite simply perfect, no question. There's nothing wrong with it for me.


Edited by kibble_alex - May 01 2008 at 11:59

Monster Magnet's Cyclops Revolution. The sound effects switching between left and right speaker, the use of dynamics, the "desert punk" atmosphere, all the strength and power with which Dave Wyndorf proclaims "I'm alive, not you!"... it's the single best rock song of the early 1990s. Period.

Kohntarkosz - Magma (part 2 to be a little bit more precise). There's something that just really gets me with this song. It's insane.

And, Heart Of The Sunrise - Yes.

There's surely more.

Well, in terms of trying to , describe a song by using its recording abilities is a bit harsh... But I guess if I would have to choose a song it would Porcupine Tree's "Arriving Somewhere But Not Here", because that song from my extensive musical collection as a lot of recording/producing techniques that would make you feel mellow and astonishingly goosebumpy at the same time ( at least it happens with me all the time hehe ). I would certainly choose any particular song to express my congratulations to they're wonderfull and quite detailed studio work.
  Other eventual Heavy Prog bands could be thrown into this category, for exemple the artistically complicated Mars Volta (band I love a lot when it comes too full-edged live performances), because of their awkward technique of making challanging art, and then recording it very simply. I could give more accurate Univers Zero's or Henry Cow's Avant-Garde/RIO revolutionary studio albums( although I prefer not to speak so loudly about avant-garde bands when it comes to describing awsome recording techniques, because they make awsome live performances but the studio albums have quite the same audible quality, except for Magma I presume hehe). Well I guess that's about it.

"I" by Meshuggah is pretty much the masterpiece among masterpieces, at least in metal

and... hate to be obvious... but "Close to the edge"

Perfect songs? Well, I'm not going to try to explain them, but these songs just really "do it" for me.

Pain of Salvation- People Passing By, In the Flesh, Idioglossia, Beyond the Pale, Iter Impius
Dream Theater- Metropolis Part 1, Learning to Live, Voices
Kayo Dot- The Manifold Curiosity, Aurora on an Asylumn Wall
maudlin of the Well- Heaven and Week, The Ferryman, Girl with a Watering Can, Gleam in Ranks, Birth Pains of Astral Projection
Dark Suns- Flies in Amber, 29
Genesis- The Musical Box, Get 'Em Out by Friday, Supper's Ready, Firht of Fifth
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here, Dogs, Intersteller Overdrive
The Mars Volta- Cassandra Gemini
Opeth- When, April Etheral, Moonlaps Vertigo, Face of Melinda, Bleak, The Drapery Falls, Blackwater Park
Transatlantic- All of the Above
Marillion- Script for a Jesters Tear, Fugazi, The Last Straw, Easter, The Invisable Man
Le Orme- Sopesi Nell 'Incredible
Van der Graaf Generator- White Hammer, The Emporer in his War Room, Man Erg, La Rossa, Arrow
Grayceon- Sounds Like Thunder
White Willow- Cryptomenysis, The Reach, Anemnasis, Chemical Sunset, Soulburn, Ghost

I've probably got a few others, but everyone of these songs is perfect to me.

Ok, I'll admit, I didn't see Big Country coming.  I'll have to seek that song out now.

With that being said, I thought of two songs that are close to perfection, for me. 

Dark Star by Fish.  Amazing song, lyrics are strong, the structure is sound, the instrumentals are awe inspiring and the complete product is about as good as it gets.

Promised Land by Queensryche is another fantastic sounding song.  The vocals and music, again wonderful and the most striking bit about the song is the space in it.  It's not cluttered, every noise, note, word and pause can be heard with almost perfect alacrity.

It must be Mother Sky by Can. Perfect trip. Almost makes me wish I was a dopesmoker. 

Evans wrote: It's not prog, and it's swedish. As far as prog goes, though, "Sea Song" from Rock Bottom is a pretty perfect song in terms of balance between melody, atmosphere, emotion, and experimentation.

Kent, I suppose

kibble_alex wrote: Pilgrims - Van Der Graaf Generator of "Still Life" A number of reasons really: - It's not self-indulgent but you can tell they are good musicians - Some really nice organ playing by Mr Banton, if you are a keys player, you will appreciate it for sure! - Amazingly schizophrenic yet tuneful vocals that portray one of the best melodic lines i've ever heard - Really quite deep lyrics, I welled up the first time i heard them because i felt the lyrics describe me in a way "unknown in our purpose; alone but not worthless at home" - Great arrangement over two themes: theme 1 x2, theme 2, theme 1, theme 2, instrumental along melody lines of theme 2, where David Jackson and Guy Evans deserve a mention - It feels like an epic but is a mere 7 minutes, so you don't get bored but still experience the epicness of it I think that is all that can be said, and the song is quite simply perfect, no question. There's nothing wrong with it for me.