Perfect songs
 

What songs do you consider to be perfect and unable to be improved upon?

For me:

• Her Ghost by Gossamer
• Marian by Sisters of Mercy
• Plainchant - Missa Nigra Sum by G. P. Palestrina

(for now, at least)

Love You To Death
by
Type O Negative.

There are many songs I consider to be as you describe, but to keep it to a minimum:

Goth:
Cavity/First Communion - Christian Death
Innocent - Clan of Xymox
Angel - VNV Nation
Face to Face - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Lips like sugar - Echo and the Bunneymen

Other genres:

Your song - Elton John
Where to now St. Peter? - Elton john
Sixty years On - Elton John
Most of Dark side of the Moon and Animals - Pink Floyd
Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict - Pink Floyd
Echoes - Pink Floyd

too many Beatles to mention

ditto Led Zeppelin

Bridge of sighs - Robin Trower
Simple sister - Procol Harem
New Toy - Lene Lovich
Nowhere girl - B Movie
Epic - Faith No More

and many, many more, all perfect in my opinion.

The Weight - The Band
Love Can Tear Us Apart - Joy Division.
Cold Water - Tom Waits
Bring It On Home to Me - Sam Cooke
Brown Shoes Don't make It - frank Zappa
Come On Up to the House - Tom Waits
Desolation Row - Bob Dylan
The Mollusk - Ween
Super Bad - James Brown
Bankrobber - The Clash
Under My Thumb - the Stones
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan. Fuck it, while I'm at it, add Mr. Tambourine Man, Queen Jane Approximately and Tombstone Blues.
The Sickbed of Cuchulainn -The Pogues
It Ain't Me - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
Telephone Call From Istanbul - Tom Waits

These spring immediately to mind.

I hate that song.

You sick bitch.

Seriously, it's Joy Division's 'Cherry Pie'.

If you're going to cite a Joy Division song it should be She's Lost Control. One of my all time favorites.

Brother knows what's what.

I agree, but not in the way you meant that.

Oh shit...are you going to defend Cherry Pie now too? Turn in your goth card to me this instant. You're no longer a member of this scene.

Great song, but the one I named is the song that got me into JD...... and for what it is, it's fucking perfect. I still remember the first time I heard it, complete with that funny feeling in my groin. And JD are one of my favorite bands, so it's not just about going for the well-known stuff.

No. That is an indefensible song, and that's not what what I meant.

Oh, and I'm not a goth. 90% of your "music" can suck my dick. :p

Personally, I was so happy to see JD's She's Lost Control on the Suicide Girls CD. The insert folded out into this poster of the girls laying on all these album covers. The coolest part to me wasn't the girls but the fact that I had every single album in the photo.


EDIT: 90% of the goths here say they're not goth..it's a requirement of being goth. ;)

Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin.

Inis Mona - Eluveitie.

Valhalla - Blind Guardian.

No..... seriously, it's not an image thing. I loathe subcultures like poison.

I dress like a hobo because I see fashion as one of the most evil concepts to pervade modern culture, so the "look" is out. (That and I'm lazy as hell.) I hate nearly all goth rock - JD is as far as I'll go, because they are awesome, whereas most of the goth music I've heard (i.e. the staples) sounds like my nana's piss hitting the water to my unsullied ears. And I'm of the mind that Horace Walpole is a fucking pussy-assed twatrash who couldn't write himself out of a sea of paper with the ink of a thousand quills.

Still, the above post just took self-righteous ranting to a new level, so maybe there's hope for me yet. :D

A BELL CRUSHED A GUY IN THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO!

DON'T MAKE ME SCHOOL YOU AGAIN, YOU'RE NOT TOO OLD TO BE PUT OVER MY KNEE, SONNY!

Also;

Tom Waits - Tango Til They're Sore
SikTh - Pussyfoot
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Frownland
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 and 35 or Tombstone Blues
Converge - Jane Doe

Yeah, and a bell-end wrote it.

Dude, if you want to be disciplined, just ask. Reaction formation doesn't suit you. ;)

Good limey slang, you have done your homework!

I learned from the best. Dis has taught me all she knows. I also learned the meaning of such gems as pikey, chav, and "jog on".

Where IS that motherfucker?

He wasn't crushed by a bell. It was a giant helmet.

That's the one!

All I know is I'm having real fucking withdrawal symptoms. I wake up in cold sweats and go through our chat logs to calm my pulse.

She can't have outgrown us already! I NEVER EVEN GOT HER INTO WEEN!!!!!

"Hebenon Vial" by Cinema Strange
"Atrocity Exhibition" by Joy Division
"I Turned Into A Martian" by The Misfits
"Word Is" by T.S.O.L
"Tower of Strength" by Rudimentary Peni
"People With Dirty Faces" by the Sex Gang Children
"Persephone" by the Cocteau Twins

Like a Rollin' Stone - Bob Dylan
End the Reign - Fishbone
Government Magic - Antibalas
Helter Skelter - The Beatles
Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday
Born to Die - Chiking Victim
Revolution Rock and Guns of Brixton - The Clash
Bella Ciao - Modena City Ramblers
Jesus Was a Communist - Reagan Youth
Know Your Enemy - Rage Against the Machine
actually, most of Rage Against the Machine