[Folsom]

Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch, Brilliant Disguise, Better Days, Secret Garden, Devils and Dust, All I'm Thinkin' About

The Boss understands human feelings in ways, better, than most people probably ever will throughout their entire life I think. 

[Amelia Prunt]

Aphex Twin - Xtal, Pulsewidth, Cow Cud Is A Twin,
Gak - Gak 4
AFX - AB-1, Cuckoo, Arched Maid
The Knife - Marble House
Orbital - Illuminate
Chemical Bros. - The Pills Won't Help You Now
FSOL - Calcium
Klaus Nomi - Three Wishes
October Project - Funeral In His Heart, Deep As You Go
Polygon Window - Audax Powder
Thomas Dolby - Valley Of The Mind's Eye

[jimdgoulding]

I'll second Lush Life.  It really communicates a state of mind or a place in time as does Something Cool for that type of place.  It's also from the pen of a sixteen year old genius who couldn't have known what he was talking about but that was Billy Strayhorn.  For a song about lost love, hows about What's New?  Bruce Springsteen has, indeed, captured some states and places in some of his songs.  Don't kill me for saying so but I think Back to Black by you know who is a perfect composition.  Never a classic, however, I would agree.  There are a lot of perfect songs.  What makes them perfect is what interests me.  I hope this topic runs for awhile. 

(later) Amelia-  You have rather exotic tastes.  Might you have been a resident of the lower east side at some time?

[PMAT]

I'm coming in late on the Stevie Ray 60hz hum, but that is part of what makes it one of my perfect songs. I am in the room with his amp, putting off heat and buzzing! Awesome!

Eva Cassidy, live:  Autumn leaves
Pink Floyd:           Comfortably Numb
Stevie Ray:          Tin pan alley
Leonard Cohen:    Alexandra leaving
Boz Scaggs:         Thanks to you (Dig CD!)
Narnia soundtrack: Cut 11 (whew!)

[PhishPhan]

1952 Vincent Black Lightning- Richard Thompson
Trains- Porcupine Tree
The Boxer- Simon and Garfunkel

[SET Man]

Hey!

   Any songs that made me open up my wallet to buy that album

Take care,
Buddy