Nearly every song from the first three albums of The Wipers is perfect, but especially "Youth of America."

David Sylvian-Orpheus

how i wrote elastic man - the fall

Modest Mouse - Edit the sad parts

Genius!

I honestly believe one of the most perfect POP-rock songs ever is....

Incinerate.

What an oxymoron for SY ehh ? I love it..as much as it's dissed by many hardcord SY fans....I think it's perfect ! Yep.

In My Room-Beach Boys

Brother James-Sonic Youth
Radio Friendly Unit Shifter-Nirvana

Great songs.

hi - psapp

sy - schizophrenia

queen - bohemian rapsody, show must go on

rolling stones - paint it black

supertramp - the logical song (title? ..when i was young..)

barry manilow - copa cabana

doors - people are strange

my bloody valentine - when you sleep (bliss)


there's a certain mood these songs, and song like these, make me visit. Last day i heard sy's schizophrenia after a long time. i came to realize that it's flawless, i mean, if one were to make that song, there's no other way. the drumming under kim's whispers; the low tones; the lyric.

let me add useless landscape by movietone and the beach at redpoint by boards of canada.

THE REPLACEMENTS- Answering Machine AND Bastards Of Young

sandpaper kisses - martina topley bird

Bumping this old thread

Echo & The Bunnymen - The killing moon
My Brightest Diamond - Gone away / Dragonfly / We were sparkling / The robin's jar
Sufjan Stevens - John Wayne Gacy, Jr
Nearly any Espers song
Suzanne Vega - Ludlow street / Pornographer's dream / Bound
Van Morrison - Listen to the lion

Just Like Heaven-The Cure, although I prefer Dino's version
Boys Don't Cry-Cure
Marquee Moon- Television
The Diamond Sea-SY
Heroin - vu, actually the whole of the first record)
Only Shallow-MBV
Son Of Mustang Ford-Swervedriver
Duel-Swervedriver
In A Different Place-Ride
Hum-Stars
Just Like Honey-JAMC (whole of psychocandy actually, and Happy When It Rains on Darklands
Vibracobra-Polvo
Early slowdive

Ut, "This Bliss"
New Order, "Doubts Even Here"
Brian Eno, "Mother Whale Eyeless"
Prolapse, "A Day at Death Seaside"
Mo-Dettes, "White Mouse Disco"
The Fall, "I'm Into CB"
Throwing Muses, "Finished"

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Switch / Night shift / Melt!

For me, off the top..

Ashes to Ashes- Bowie
Ravedown-Swervedriver
Waiting on a Friend-Stones
Happiness is a Warm Gun-Beatles
Love-Lennon
Love on Mars-Bowie
Poptones-PIL

and the undisputable best song ever written-Strawberry Fields..

I Spy- Beat Happening
Pinebox Derby- Beat Happening

Joy Division - New dawn fades
Lou Reed - Perfect day / Satellite of love / Sad song
The Stooges - I wanna be your dog, Dirt, 1970
The Smiths - Hand in glove / Still ill / Heaven knows I'm miserable now / Ask / Girl afraid / Back to the old house (Hatful of hollow version) / Please, Please, Please Let me get what I want / Well I wonder / I know it's over / Never had no one ever / Bigmouth strikes again / There is a light that never goes out / Some girls are bigger than others / Stop me if you think you've heard this one before (and the list could go on...)

haha..good point. The Smiths may have the most amount of great tunes of anyone..

Smashing Pumpkins - Crush / Suffer / Hummer / Soma / Mayonaise / Luna / Obscured / Porcelina of the vast oceans / 1979/ Thru the eyes of Ruby / By starlight / Pug / Shame / For Martha

television - marquee moon
my bloody valentine - you made me realise, cigarette in your bed

Stranglers - Golden brown
-> probably my all-time favorite song, I don't know why, I don't even like the Stranglers
Gang Gang Dance - Egowar
Linda Perhacs - Hey, who really cares?
Sonic Youth - Shadow of a doubt
Red House Painters - Medicine bottle
Tim Buckley - Starsailor / The healing festival
Robert Wyatt - Little red riding hood hit the road
Charalambides - Here, not here
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Thème de yo-yo
Sparks - This town ain't big enough for the both of us
Emiliana Torrini - Sunny road
Velvet Underground - Venus in furs
Slint - Good morning, captain
Jessica Bailiff - Disappear
David Bowie - The man who sold the world
United States of America - The American Metaphysical Circus
Joanna Newsom - Emily
Portishead - Mysterons
Codeine - Gravel bed
Lisa Germano - Cry wolf

These are the few ones I can think of.

Almost anything off Loveless.

I hope swa(y) sees this.

F*ck yes, repped.

This is odd, because I am overall way more into "experimental" music than "pop" music, yet when I create a list such as this, the songs are all unabashedly pop gems...

Chrix Knox "Rust"
Elliott Smith "Say Yes"
Melvins "Queen"
Big Star "Holocaust", "September Gurls", "Blue Moon"
Velvet Underground "Sunday Morning"
Brian Eno "Everything Merges with the Night"
Tim Buckley "Song to the Siren"
Yo La Tengo "Tiny Birds", "You Can Have It All", "Tom Courtenay"
Nick Drake "Things Behind the Sun"
Dusty Springfield "Windmills of Your Mind"
Carpenters "Rainy Days and Mondays"

Youth of America-the Wipers

Everything off Cold War Kids' Robbers and Cowards. There isn't a single aspect of any of those songs that I don't like.

Also, KT Tunstall's "Suddenly I See." This is one of the few songs where I love the lyrics, the beat, the melody, the voice, everything.

the man whose head expanded by the fall

several girls galore by my bloody valentine

white light/white head by the velvet underground

I haven't posted in this thread?

Big Black - Passing Complexion

Yes!

Yes again!
Best Big Black song.

Mmmm.. :)

the chain
rhiannon
oh well
...fleetwood mac
particularly the versions of oh well and rhiannon from their live album of the tusk tour

Might as well join in on this one

Sonic Youth-Sunday, She's in a bad mood
DJ Shadow- tracks 14-16 of Endtroducing
Queen-Mother Love, Lap of the Gods
Velvet Underground-All Tomorrows Parties
Nirvana-Scentless Apprentice

Pay To Cum - Bad Brains
Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
Shadow of a Doubt - Sonic Youth
The One I Love - R.E.M.
Charted Trips - Husker Du
Let's Save Tony Orlando's House - Yo La Tengo
Of This Century - Unwound

I find it infuriating that I entirely agree with this. She should, by rights, be utterly shite, but is, in fact, brilliant.

The Carter Family's Chewing Gum; Hank Williams' everything he wrote, but particularly I just told Mama goodbye. Dolly Parton's Coat of many colours and Tennessee [sp?] mountain home.

Etc.

Oh, and Where is my Mind?
That's a perfect song right there.

Yes, I love The healing festival (maybe my favorite song off Starsailor). I find in it a similar spirit to The Stooges' 1970 (with Lee Underwood's repetitive's funky riffs and the chaotic brass section).

my way my love - wreck low