whats your personal most pefect song ever recordd?

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.

_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?

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

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

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.

Queen - My Fairy King

I would have to agree that Awaken is the perfect song (above).  It has got to be just about the most climactic piece ever written.  You think it reaches a climax, but then it moves on to an even greater one, and an even greater one after that, finally culminating in Howe's seagull slide guitar effects up in the stratosphere somewhere.

If I were a smoker, I'd have to have a cigarette after that.

I've never heard a more perfect piece unless you count Beethoven's 9th, but even then I put them in the same league.

Here are others that approach perfection for me (and looking over the list I seem to favor climactic pieces):
Jethro Tull: A Passion Play (especially the last quarter or so, the "Hail! Son of kings" section)
Renaissance: Scheherezade (that last note - oh my God!)
Gentle Giant: Aspirations (pure beauty)
Genesis: Supper's Ready (another multiple climax)
It's a Beautiful Day: White Bird (not prog maybe, but a near perfect song)

I'd better quit there.  I could fill up pages -- as could all of you.

Prog tends to seek perfection and there are a large number of prog songs that i could not see a way of improving. I am finding this impossible to answer. 

ten years after wrote:   Big Country never tried to be a prog band and so there is a special virtue in the fact that they did achieve perfection in one song.  It is so good that they could be given honourary prog status for this one effort. That song is Porroh Man. It has one of the best introductions of any rock song, superb vocals, incredible drumming, a marvellously complex construction in the best prog tradition and it even manages to introduce a hint of Scottish folk.

A great and sorely missed band.  Their mastery of that weird ebow effect and their fantastic song writing led me to categorize them as "progternative."  I'll have to go back and listen to Porroh Man.

For most perfect prog song I would go with Jean-Michel Jarre's Equinox Pt 4, its not too long, its upbeat and never disapoints.