A perfect song? What are your choices?


Can there be such a thing as a perfect song? I have a suggestion, what are yours? Here is a thought...

 

 

 

 

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you need to listen to it with your heart (translation is not needed) ... an episode from an autobiographical film dedicated to Anna Herman (a recording of her voice was used) ... It's true - the musicians began to cry and could not play.

 

Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones

Stella Blue - Grateful Dead

Dear Prudence - The Beatles

Midnight Rider - Allman Brothers

Angel From Montgomery - John Prine & Bonnie Raitt

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

East West - Butterfield Blues Band

Mr. Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan

Sweet Jane - Velvet Underground

Hickory Wind - Gram Parsons

I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams

Car Wheels On A Gravel Road - Lucinda Williams

 

an unsurpassed performer - a nightingale eternally drunk with love )) .and when there are several of them - this is a fabulous chorus! ... in the forest you can hear very far

 

Van Morrison has certainly written some sublime songs but which one comes closest to perfection?

A very difficult question when you consider he wrote Brown Eyed Girl, Into the Mystic, And it Stoned Me etc.

If I had to choose one, it might as well be this one.

A perfect song from a perfect album.