ormondroyd - Member
A lot of these are longer than 1 minute 40. The rules (that I made up) are clear.
Rules are made to be broken; watch yours get smashed to pieces all over the floor...
Anyhoo, it is very subjective, but some songs are so well crafted they transcend that to become pretty much perfect examples of the song writers craft. The Beach Boys [i]God Only Knows[/i] is a classic example, Sandy Denny's [i]Who Knows Where The Time Goes[/i] another song that is just about perfect in every way, especially considering Sandy's age at the time; she recorded a demo of it when she was 20, but I believe she was 15 when she wrote it. [i]Boulder To Birmingham[/i], by Emmylou Harris is another pretty much perfect song as well.
ABBA were masters of well crafted, catchy pop songs, but their best ones were never hits, and are very melancholy, unsurprising as they're from near the end of ABBA's career; [i]The Day Before You Came,[/i] and [i]Cassandra[/i], both as good as it's possible for popular music to get, [i]in my opinion[/i].
Others will probably not agree!
Which is the fun of threads like this one. 😀
There's an awful lot of Motown that fulfils the criteria.
Do you play that in front of other people ??)
Can't he just like what he likes without you insulting his taste? Eh?
DEAD KENNEDYS - too drunk to ***k !! aaarrrgh happy days
OK yes sorry mustn't slag other people's taste, I get enough flak for mine, which includes a lot of both types of music (Country AND Western) but c'mon, Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
Full metal jackoff - DOA featuring Jello Biafra
Take me to the other side - Spacemen 3
Seawall - Envoy
On - The Aphex Twin
Movin' on - Dreadzone
Mouthful of shit - Chumbawumba
Etc
Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
There are dads here. And they were young once.
F.E.A.R.- Ian Brown
For an Angel- Paul van Dyk
Shine on you Crazy Diamond -Pink Floyd
The Boy in the Bubble- Paul Simon
Oxygene IV Jean Michel Jarre
Garbage - Special
Chemical Bros (feat Richard Ashcroft) - The Test
Flock of Seagulls - Wishing
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter
Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the Devil
The Mission - Like a Hurricane
Girls Aloud - The Promise*
PiL - Public Image
Magazine - the Light Pours out of Me
All cannot be improved upon therefor must be "perfect".
*Yes I'm serious. Perfect pop song.
Yossarian. Good link. Never heard the original before, only the Chemical Brothers remix.
Magazine - the Light Pours out of Me
Absolutely perfect. As are so many Magazine tracks.
Good shout with Paul van Dyk there Teetosugars, though I'd go with Gouryella for the 'perfect' trance tune of that era, and as far as a 'perfect' dance tune goes, it's gotta be N-Trance's Set U Free.
My current 'perfect' song at the moment though is INXS' Never Tear Us Apart, brought back to my attention by Paloma Faith's (pretty good actually) cover on the John Lewis advert.
Edit - some great songs listed on this thread!
Sorry. Add to the list.
The Clash - London Calling
In between days by The Cure
Crawl by the Wedding Present (seeing them next month - 25th anni of seamonsters!)
OK yes sorry mustn't slag other people's taste, I get enough flak for mine, which includes a lot of both types of music (Country AND Western) but c'mon, Dire Straits is just the worst Dad Music ever.
It might be now, but it wasn't back then.
I saw Dire Straits supporting Talking Heads!
And [i]Love Over Gold[/i] is a fine album, provided you leave out the dreadful [i]Industrial Disease[/i]!
Sparky's dream - Teenage fanclub
Geek love - bang bang machine
Dammit, there are just too many songs to try to think of ones that really stand out, although Aimee Mann has written some crackers, her album [i]Whatever[/i] is full of them, but [i]Fourth Of July[/i] is as good as they get, or [i]Coming Up Close[/i] from [i]Welcome Home[/i], when she was with 'Til Tuesday. Her songs are so good a Tom Cruise movie was constructed around an album she was recording at the time.
Hmmm, Talking Heads' [i]Once In A Lifetime[/i], Robbie Robertson [i]Somewhere Down The Crazy River[/i], Elvis Costello [i]Shipbuilding[/i], QOTSA [i]No One Knows[/i], Nils Lofgren [i]Night Fades Away[/i], Michael Nesmith [i]Different Drum[/i], The Kinks [i]Days[/i], Jeff Buckley [i]Grace[/i], Indigo Girls [i]Kid Fears[/i] and [i]Chickenman[/i], Gnarls Barkley [i]Crazy[/i], Gerry Rafferty [i]Baker Street, Whatever's Written In Your Heart, Don't Speak Of My Heart[/i].
All fantastic songs, all, in their own way, perfect and sublime. 😀
On - Aphex Twin.
Yep, i'd second that.....the uziq version.
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
Gang Of Four - Damaged Goods
Carl Craig - Home Entertainment
New Order - Procession
Hammock - The Backward Step
Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
Mogwai - The Precipice
Pearl Jam - Rear view mirror
Van Halen - Ain't Talkin Bout Love
Black Country Communion - One Last Soul
Rush - Vital Signs
Underworld - Dirty Epic
plus many many others i can't think of.
Under 1:40 and perfect pop
Velocity Girl, very early Primal Scream
Off the top of my head at this precise moment in time,
Right on (4 tha darkness) - Silicone Soul
La Ritournelle - Sebastien Tellier
Born Slippy - Underworld
Golden - Jill Scott
Ramble On - Led Zep
Sister Morphine - Rolling Stones
Tale from Black - Tunng
Loads of others but these few are pretty much high up on my playcount at all times.
To Love Somebody - The Bee Gees
Alison - Elvis Costello
Alison - The Pixies
New Rose - The Damned
Roller Coaster By The Sea - Jonathan Richman
Rock n Roll Suicide - David Bowie
FSOL-Papua New Guinea
Glen Campbell- Witchita Line Man
Eddie Vedder- Guaranteed
Jeff Buckley- Lover, you should have come over
Billy Joel- She's got a way / Piano man
Roy Orbison - Crying
Al Green - How do you mend a broken heart
Bee Gees- How deep is your love
Papua New Guinea is a great record but essentially instrumental so not a song in my books.
Long before my time, and I like a lot of other songs, but both of these are getting close to perfection.
Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell
Gimme Shelter - Rolling stones
I'm only just a Dad, and I'm not that old, but Dire Straits are awesome.
Cinematic Orchestra - To build a home. - absolutely phenomenal.
Nick Drake - Time has told me
New Order - Blue Monday
Faithless - Insomnia
Nirvanna - In bloom
Pearl Jam - Alive
+1 for Ramble On
Sun Is Shining - Bob Marley
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Sweet Child O' Mine - GNR
Eject - Senser
Chop Suey - System Of A Down
Where Is My Mind? - Pixies
Tourette's - Nirvana
Not perfect, but very amusing, imo.
[i]I got more women than the law allow[/i]
EDIT:
"Starts With One" and/or "Rainy Mondays", both by Shiny Toy Guns
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes.
Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Killing in the Name of - RATM (pure punchy aggression)
No One Knows - Queens of the Stone Age
Fools Gold - Stone Roses.
Into my arms - Nick Cave
Pass it on - The Coral
7 Nation Army- White Stripes
All tracks that i could hear 10 times a day and never tire of.
White Man in The Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
Strange Town - The Jam
I belive in Miracles - The Jackson Sisters
Magic Bus - The Who
Levi Stubbs Tears - Billy Bragg
Love wil Tear us Apart - Joy Division
Speak Like a Child - Style Council
I heard it Through the Grapevine - Marvin Gaye
Soul Train - Swans Way
Come on in My Kitchen - Robert Johnson
Radio Clash - The Clash
