This month's Q - onsale Wednesday 5 September - is a songwriters special, featuring a countdown of the 10 most perfect songs ever, as voted for by a panel of experts including Coldplay's Chris Martin, The Enemy's Tom Clarke, Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody, Brian Eno and John Cale.
But we want to hear your thoughts, too. Email Q@emap.com with your choice of the most perfect song ever, and we'll publish the results here later in the month.
11:12 AM | 03/09/2007
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Running to Stand Still
U2 - Joshua Tree
Just Perfect....
Posted by Gareth Kennedy at 10:27 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Elton John - Sacrifice
Nils Lofgren - Black Books
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah
truly perfect, especially the two lower ones, but sir elton aint far behind
Posted by Christian at 10:51 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Simple Twist of Fate - Bob Dylan
Posted by Emmett Cruddas at 11:02 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Coldplay - The Scientist
Flawless, the perfect song.
Robbie Williams - Angels
The (Unofficial) National Anthem, a classic chorus, great lyrics, and the best instrumental middle section ever, deceptively sounds like a key change, but in fact isn't.
Keane - She Has No Time
The best vocal ever, and he can do it even better live, perfect for this lovely, simple and honest song.
Posted by Tom at 11:12 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
jeff buckley - hallelujah
Posted by b-rock666 at 11:17 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
One Trick Band - Red Light
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Posted by bob at 11:22 AM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) (acoustic)
Neutral Milk Hotel - Oh Comely
Vangelis - La Petite Fille de la Mer
Posted by doqtor at 12:04 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
American Pie - Don McLean
It has everything a song can offer - timeless story, killer chorus, humour, solos and a grand finale - all condensed into 8:17!
Posted by Cameron Barnett at 1:56 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Small Faces - Tin Soldier
Elton John - Rocketman
Morrissey - Everyday is like sunday
The Beatles - Something
Posted by Andy Howie at 2:26 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
" God Only Knows" the Beach Boys
" Everybody Hurts" R.E.M.
" Tangled Up In Blue" Bob Dylan
" Train In Vain" The Clash
" One" U2
Posted by Kirsten at 4:53 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Time has passed - Astroboy (Uruguay band)
With Riot - The Clash
Pale Blue Eyes - Velvet Underground
While My Guitar Gently Weeps- The Beatles
Read My mind - The Killers
Simple Man Lynyrd Skynyrd (Almost famous - sound track)
A Hard Rains Blues- Bob Dylan
Out of Fuel - Orange (uruguay band)
Por la noche - Mala Rodriguez
Well there are many to look around and missing a lot of great artist but I can write a thousand songs as you can always find a perfect song for the best moment !!
Posted by Claudio at 6:26 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" - U2
"Rewind" - Stereophonics
Posted by Joel at 9:12 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Beatles - And Your Bird Can Sing
Beatles - Strawberry Fields Forever
Jam - Man In the Corner Shop
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Style Council -Speak Like A Child
Arctic Monkeys- A Certain Romance
Posted by robert at 9:15 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
led zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Posted by Ash at 9:53 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Layla-Derek & the Dominoes
Posted by Mel at 9:54 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
+Live Forever (Oasis)
+Like A Rolling Stone (Bob Dylan)
+There She Goes (The La's)
+She Loves You (The Beatles)
Posted by Leslie at 10:26 PM | 04/09/2007 | Report Abuse
The Smiths - Still Ill
Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue
Posted by Jame at 7:40 AM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Liver Forever (Oasis)
Clocks(Coldplay)
A Hard Day's Night(The Beatles)
Posted by Nooise at 3:10 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
oasis - wonderwall
oasis - live forever
Posted by tom harper at 3:29 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
With or Without you - U2
Outstanding!
Posted by Chris at 4:26 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Its got to be lover, you should of come over by Jeff Buckley...
Posted by amanda at 5:53 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Posted by Rachel at 6:24 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
The Mars Volta - Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus
Mad Season - Wake Up
Radiohead - Paranoid Android
Alice in Chains - Rotten Apple
Posted by Sandra at 6:54 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
God Part II - U2
How to Dismant;e an Atomic Bomb
Posted by Andrew Cuthbert Jr at 7:42 PM | 05/09/2007 | Report Abuse
i think that r.e.m.'s at my most beautiful could be one of the most "beautiful" songs of our time!
Posted by tim h. at 1:31 AM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Elton - Tiny Dancer
Posted by James at 8:08 AM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
snow patrol-chasing cars best love song
kate nash-foundations best break up song
kanye west-stronger best feeling depressed song
artic monkeys-brainstorm best party song
hey there delilah-plain white t's best make out song
Posted by laura at 7:29 PM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
She rides the Waves - Pale Saints
Stickleback - The Edsel Auctioneer (possibly the greatest band ever)
Posted by Mack at 8:04 PM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
"Bettet Living Through Chemistry" - Queens Of The Stone Age
"No One Knows" -------
Posted by Frederik at 8:51 PM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
With or Without You by U2
Posted by Christian at 9:28 PM | 06/09/2007 | Report Abuse
I Got You - John Walsh and The Sinkholes
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Posted by Pete at 1:36 PM | 07/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
End of discussion.
Posted by Jamie at 1:44 PM | 07/09/2007 | Report Abuse
'The Whole of The Moon'
Posted by Ben at 2:31 PM | 07/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Truckin' - The Dead
Posted by James at 8:13 AM | 08/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Being Boring - Pet Shop Boys
Posted by Martin at 4:03 PM | 08/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead. Good on b-rock666 for Jeff Buckley.
Posted by mattfifi at 9:57 PM | 08/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Pagan Poetry ----Björk
Posted by Neftalí Navarrete at 5:44 AM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Bjork : Undo
Pure sublimity!
Posted by Marc Anthony Coronado at 8:31 AM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
I get mixed up between 'Technically perfect' and 'Perfect to my ears'. Not being a trained musician or songwriter, I can't really judge what is technically perfect so my judgements are usually made on my idea of taste.
I don't know if a song is well crafted/constructed/balanced, although I can make a good guess. I can certainly tell if it's well sung, and tend to criticise on that although really that shouldn't have any impact on the judgement of the actual song. It does put me off a song if I don't like the way it's sung.
So, songs which are perfect to my ears...
Live Forever - Oasis
This is an uplifting song which can also move me in the other direction if I hear it in unhappy circumstances. The lyrics appeal to me as they are basic but, it would appear, heartfelt.
There She Goes - The La's
Another uplifting melody, which never fails to make me smile.
The Scientist - Coldplay
I can't define why but it moves me. To me it always sounds perfect and it's a song that I have to listen to until the end, I couldn't turn the radio off in the middle of it!
Queen ***** - Bowie
How can anyone not tap along to the beat of this song? How can anyone not love the lyric:
'She's so swishy in her satin and tat
In her frock coat and bippety boppety hat'.
I've always wanted that hat, but I just haven't found the bippety boppety shop yet.
Thunder Road - Springsteen
I agree that Born To Run is probably a more popular song for the masses, but to my (untrained) ear this is more pleasing.
Posted by Fiona Harris at 4:24 PM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Oh I do go on!
Posted by Fiona Harris at 4:25 PM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
weezer HOLD ME the finest and most fragile song i have ever listened to..... beutiful.
Posted by frank hodgkiss at 6:51 PM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
sheriff fatman by carter the unstoppable sex machine.
it rocks. you know it.
Posted by rob at 8:08 PM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Wish you were here- Pink Floyd
Most of the time- Bob Dylan
Bringin on the heartbreak- Def Leppard
Posted by Adrian at 11:43 PM | 09/09/2007 | Report Abuse
METALLICA-NOTHING ELSE MATTERS!!
METAL UP YOUR ASS!
Posted by KEVIN KEMPERS at 12:48 AM | 10/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Probably The River by Bruce Springsteen
Posted by Guy at 2:27 PM | 10/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Sullenbode - In Like Flynn
Posted by Metatron at 6:31 PM | 10/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Yesterday, best song ever, by the best compser EVER: James Paul McCartney
Posted by Claudio at 7:22 PM | 10/09/2007 | Report Abuse
"And then he kissed me" The Crystals
absoloute classic..........if you aint heard it you aint lived
Posted by Soulboy69 at 8:02 PM | 10/09/2007 | Report Abuse
U2 - One
METALLICA - Nothing else matters
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - The River
Posted by Olga at 4:06 PM | 11/09/2007 | Report Abuse
david bowie - heroes
Posted by connor at 5:18 PM | 11/09/2007 | Report Abuse
~FAiTH~ The Cure
Posted by notis at 11:18 AM | 12/09/2007 | Report Abuse
shack's cornish town or shack's undecided...nothing else is close
Posted by stephen patrick at 4:56 PM | 13/09/2007 | Report Abuse
under the bridge - red hot chili peppers
just like heaven - the cure
tonight, tonight - smashing pumpkins
i wanna be adored - stone roses
Posted by matt at 4:19 PM | 14/09/2007 | Report Abuse
scar tissue - rhcp
strawberry fields, im only sleeping - the beatles
close to you - carpenters
Posted by matt at 4:45 PM | 14/09/2007 | Report Abuse
The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony
Posted by Chloe at 9:08 PM | 15/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Of course some Björk's:
1. Unravel (from Homogenic) is the most beautiful sad love song I've ever heard
2. Pagan poetry (from Vespertine) is the most beautiful erotic song
3. A dull flame of desire (from Volta) is the most beautiful song inspired by a poem
4. Possibly maybe (from Homogenic) is the most beautiful song about moving on)
Posted by Alex Giron at 3:02 AM | 16/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Dance of Death - Iron Maiden
Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd
or
War Pigs - Black Sabbath
Posted by jonnyfrog at 9:44 PM | 25/09/2007 | Report Abuse
Your Song - Elton John
Posted by Aimee at 4:31 PM | 27/09/2007 | Report Abuse
The great gig in the sky - Pink Floyd
The blower's daughter - Damien Rice
Nothing else matters - Metallica
Bad - U2
I'll be seeing you - Billie Holiday
Posted by Sara at 10:20 PM | 03/10/2007 | Report Abuse
It would have to be subterranean home sick blues by Bob Dylan. Or I'm waiting for my man by velvet underground
Posted by waylon at 7:02 AM | 29/08/2008 | Report Abuse
Crack The Shutters - Snow Patrol.. LOVE
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Posted by Catherine =] at 6:50 PM | 08/12/2008 | Report Abuse
There are so many songs I love...
I agree with 'Hallelujah' and 'She Has No Time'
And some other songs I love:
James Blunt -Goodbye My Lover
/Carry You Home /No Bravery
Michael Bublé - Lost
Vega4 - Life Is Beautiful
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
/Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Sarah Mclachlan - Angel
Evanescence - My Immortal
Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers
The Fray - Never Say Never
/Vienna /How To Save A Life
A lot of songs, I know, but I even think there are more songs I love. Some people just make beautiful music...
Posted by Esmee at 2:10 PM | 27/02/2010 | Report Abuse
There are so many songs I love...
I agree with 'Hallelujah' and 'She Has No Time'
And some other songs I love:
James Blunt -Goodbye My Lover
/Carry You Home /No Bravery
Michael Bublé - Lost
Vega4 - Life Is Beautiful
Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
/Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Sarah Mclachlan - Angel
Evanescence - My Immortal
Keane - We Might As Well Be Strangers
The Fray - Never Say Never
/Vienna /How To Save A Life
A lot of songs, I know, but I even think there are more songs I love. Some people just make beautiful music...
Posted by Esmee at 2:12 PM | 27/02/2010 | Report Abuse
Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - Over The Rainbow/What a Wonderful World.
Amazingly Beautiful.
Posted by Joshua Ball at 5:06 PM | 10/12/2010 | Report Abuse
whatever - oasis
loaded - primal scream..
a masterpiece you can dance to
Posted by James Donovan at 9:37 AM | 08/07/2011 | Report Abuse
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