Inspired by the Bob Mould thread;

Matty Groves – Fairport.
Pink Moon – Nick Drake.
Fat Man In The Bathtub – Little Feat.
SOS – Abba.
New Rose – The Damned.
Train In Vain – T’Clash.
The Most Beguiling Eyes – Gregson & Collister.
Voodoo Ray – A Guy Called Gerald.

All perfect – any more?

Suckerpunch – The Wildhearts
Three Days – Jane’s Addiction

EDIT: Not seen the thread to which the OP refers yet, so apologies if I’ve misunderstood the remit

I was a punk before you were a punk – The Tubes

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So many:
The Journey – Duncan Browne
In My Life – The Beatles
for starters

Reptilla by the strokes

Just perfect

Dancing Queen
Still Ill
My Black Heart
Glam Racket

Disorder by joy division

God Only Knows – The Beach Boys
Waterloo Sunset – The Kinks
Northern Sky – Nick Drake
Wings – Josh Ritter

‘photograph’ by weezer

The obvious choice, but for a five minutes or less (I think) pop single, there really isn’t a single thing wrong with

Good Vibrations – The Beach Boys

Time has told me – Nick Drake

May You Never – John Martyn

Good Riddance – Green Day

Sister Morphine – Rolling Stones

Wind Up – Jethro Tull

Wish You were here – Pink Floyd

I think most of what were Abba’s best songs, were what could be described as almost “perfect pop”.

No perfect song should be more than 1 minute 40 seconds.

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Can I just add;

Dry The Rain – The Beta Band.
Tangled Up In Blue – Dylan.
Into The Mystic – Van.

Ta.

Yes, especially the Beta Band one. Yes you can.

My favourite band of all time.
Would have been Needles In Their Eyes, but I don’t have enough tissues.

See also Angel From Montgomery by Neil Prine.

Solid Air – John Martyn
Who Knows Where The Time Goes – Sandy Denny/Fairport
Get It Together – The Beastie Boys
Inner City Blues – Marvin Gaye
#1 Hit Song – Minutemen
Drug Buddy – Lemomheads
Halleluhwah – Can
Shipbuilding – Robert Wyatt
Always Coming Back to You – Scott Walker
Time Tough – Toots & The Maytals
Poet -Sly & The Family Stone.
We Are Family -Sister Sledge

And current fave: Emmylou – First Aid Kit.

A lot of these are longer than 1 minute 40. The rules (that I made up) are clear.

Daydream Believer.

Van Morrison’s Stoned Me.

No perfect song should be more than 1 minute 40 seconds.

Sometimes you need to allow a bit extra for the intro though…

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In order ….

Waterloo Sunset
Paint it Black
Alison
Teenage Kicks
London’s Calling
That’s Entertainment

Walk the line – Johnny Cash
Wichita line man – Glenn Campbell

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The Adventure by Angels and Airwaves

Stones from the Sky – Neurosis
After the Goldrush – Neil Young
Bury me in Smoke – Down
Fade to Black – Metallica
Hallowed by they Name – Iron Maiden

Dry the Rain had EVERYONE on the dancefloor at the wedding I was at last weekend.

Revolution Blues by Neil Young, first and only time I ever had a punter ask what I was listening to when I used to work in Thresher.

Whirlpools End by Sir Paul Weller

Heroes – David Bowie
500 miles – The Proclaimers
Fake Plastic Trees – Radiohead

Debaser – The Pixies
Blackbird and the Fox – Twilight Singers
Disarm – Smashing Pumpkins

London’s Calling

Who’s that by then? Never ‘eard of it 😉

Don’t really think there’s such a thing meself as its all subjective, but these are the closest I can think of – songs that couldn’t be improved.

Scott Walker – Jackie (prob written by Brel)
LCD Soundsystem – Losing My Edge
Rolling Stones – Gimme Shelter & Sympathy for the Devil
Small Faces – Itchycoo Park
T Rex – Jeepster (JEEZ have you heard that hideous new thing tony visconti’s come out with??? ARGH!)
Best Kissers in the World – Broke My Knee
just realised I could list 100s, so stopping now 🙂

Another Girl,Another Planet…The Only Ones.

Harvest for the world – Isley brothers
I’m a believer – The monkeys
Big Mouth Strikes Again – The Smiths
Roads – Portishead

Sigur Ros – Popplagið
Brian Eno – An Ending (Ascent)
Sonic Youth – Teenage Riot
Talk Talk – I Believe In You
Autechre – Krib

Bridge over Troubled Water – Simon & Garfunkel
Don’t Look Back in Anger – Oasis
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits

No Alarms – Radiohead

Mmm mmm mmm mmm. Crash Test Dummies. A song both my son and I loved. Difficult to listen too as he’s no longer here.

Hard Time Killing Floor Blues – Skip James
The Only One I Know – The Charlatans
Les Fleur – 4 Hero
So Long – Seba
Vision Incision – Lo Fidelity Allstars
Don’t Take Your Love Away – Vast
Waterfall – The Stone Roses
Gorecki – Lamb
If I Survive – Hybrid
So What – Miles Davis
Concrete Schoolyard – Jurassic 5
Blinding – Florence and the Machine

My perfect pop songs.

Twisterella. Ride.
Sally Cinnamon. The Stone Roses.
The Model. Belle and Sebastian.
Waterloo Sunset. The Kinks.
Kiss Chase. Lush.
Dead Flowers. The Rolling Stones
Little Baby Nothing. Manic Street Preachers.

You need to nominate some criteria, people are just listing their favorite songs. Which is interesting anyway ! (ps Dire Straits ? really ? Do you play that in front of other people ??)

mmm mmm mmm mmm – very good choice. Very sad story tho 🙁 [man hugs]