whats your personal most pefect song ever recordd?

i like how this poll was made by me
I dont know about 'perfect song but close to the edge comes pretty close . . . lol

nothing beats Henry Cow's "Beautiful as the Moon / Terrible as an Army with Banners" in terms of progression, well-judged improv-to-structure ratio, ability to haunt and overall life-enhancing correctness in music. Nothing, not even bloody Magma. o:)

Reckoner by Radiohead is the most perfect song of all time. It has the greatest combination of other-worldly atmosphere and intense melody.

Sorry for a boring and cliched answer, but there's a reason that Close to the Edge is a prog treasure - the title track comes as close to perfection as anything I've heard.

Just expanding on my previous answer, by adding a few others that I love too much and would consider for this, depending on mood. Within them, any order really depends on mood, though I prefer Les Porches to the rest. I'll expand when I've got the brain power.

The Necromancer - Rush
The Fountain of Salmacis - Genesis
Tua Casa Commoda - Il Balletto Di Bronzo
South Side Of The Sky - Yes
Ladies Of The Road + Exiles - King Crimson
Take A Pebble - ELP

Drew wrote: NaturalScience wrote: Sorry for a boring and cliched answer, but there's a reason that Close to the Edge is a prog treasure - the title track comes as close to perfection as anything I've heard.   Even the 1st three minutes?

Especially the first three minutes.

'Depuis l'Automne' by Harmonium, 'In The Western World' by Spirogyra, and 'Svefn-G-Englar' by Sigur Rós. I'm sure I'm forgetting some.

First one that comes to mind: Xanadu - Rush
Next one that pops up: Gates of Delirium - Yes
And another: Starless - KC

Many more out there, but they were the first three. And that must mean something

TGM: Orb wrote: Just expanding on my previous answer, by adding a few others that I love too much and would consider for this, depending on mood. Within them, any order really depends on mood, though I prefer Les Porches to the rest. I'll expand when I've got the brain power. The Necromancer - Rush The Fountain of Salmacis - Genesis Tua Casa Commoda - Il Balletto Di Bronzo South Side Of The Sky - Yes Ladies Of The Road + Exiles - King Crimson Take A Pebble - ELP

OK. Trying this, although it's a bad idea.

The common factor of most of these is a sense of melancholy, and substantial quieter sections and lots of atmospheric instrumentation. Take A Pebble has an explosive piano part that cannot be matched. The Necromancer is a full exploration of three emotions, as well as having some very interesting guitar and percussion, cheesy LOTR lyrics and all. South Side has a huge emotional resonance with me, since I've really *felt* like that once. Exiles has a lot of space, and the musicians fill it perfectly without crowding. Very delicate, very atmospheric, and very emotional. Fountain has such incredibly amazing keyboards, and really does evoke its lyrics for me.

Tua Casa Commoda and Ladies Of The Road are the two exceptions, really, in that one is a plainer rock song, which manages to be clever, have plenty of musicianship and yet be catchy as hell, and the other is Ladies of the Road.

I don't know what I love so much about Ladies of the Road, except that it seems a flawless composition, coupled with some improvisational playing, perfect harmonies which don't quite seem generic after so many listens, as well as those rollicking, sarcastic lyrics, chauvinistic though they are.