whats your personal most pefect song ever recordd?

Squonkman wrote: 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   Fountain of Salmacis??? I mean I love Genesis, but a "perfect" song? Hardly. I mean, I think its a great tune, but lets be honest, it has awkward lyrics with uncomfortable out of time phrasing for one thing. "he saw a shimmering.....(waiting for the beat to catch up)....lake"(hanging out there) always kills me, especially on that Belgian video. Gabriel's wordiness is still a problem at that point, so for me that is an example of a maturing Genesis that is not quite there yet.

On one level, I agree with you, but I think that's part of the reason I love it so much (my Genesis preference changes monthly, though, so...). I like the lyrics' atmosphere (not to mention that they satisfy my childhood obsession with Greek mythology), even if they aren't as smooth as later Genesis songs, and the vocal/musical realisation of them only intensifies that atmosphere. The way they're phrased really works for me. One of those things that I can understand being a problem for some people, but that doesn't affect me at all.

A perfect song? Hard to choose. But "Sve ce to mila moja prekriti ruzmarin, snjegovi i sas" by Bijelo Dugme is an example of perfect song like "Roundabout" by Yes or "Traveller" or "L'Isola Di Niente" or "Celebration" by PFM... And If I had to choose there would be many more songs to be included in this list... Songs from Banco Del Mutuo Soccorso, Focus, Ekseption, Le Orme, King Crimson, Wishbone Ash, Rainbow, Deep Purple, Symphony X, Pavlov's Dog, Cynic...!

Edited by Mandrakeroot - April 22 2008 at 09:01

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

_JC_ wrote: For me, there has only been one truly perfect song:     Godspeed You! Black Emperor---Blaise Bailey Finnegan III .....come to think of it, I might even call Invincible, by Pallas a perfect song.

This has always been an underrated, or maybe just unnoticed GY!BE album. this song is one of my favorites and ironically the happiest song this depressive band has made. go figure.
 I was going to bring this song up along with Providence by the same which has the most glorious crescendo Ive heard.
Also maybe Great Gig in the Sky - Pink Floyd?

For me, there has only been one truly perfect song:     Godspeed You! Black Emperor---Blaise Bailey Finnegan III

.....come to think of it, I might even call Invincible, by Pallas a perfect song.

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.

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

'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.

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.

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