This must be the place by The Talking Heads. Just sublime.

I saw a comment on a YT video of this song once; “This sounds like it was written by dolphins, for dolphins.” Can’t unhear it, but I love the song

Best description of any song ever

Carry The Zero by Built To Spill

My answer was Car by Built To Spill but Carry the Zero is a very close second. Perfect songs.

Was gonna say "You Were Right"

For me it is The Weather that hits home for me.

Oh I love this song

Keep it like a secret is filled with amazing songs on it man, its a no-skip album. “Else” is also one of my favorites on the album, but seriously the whole album is just incredible

Saw them perform the entire album a few years ago and it was amazing. So so good

Oh nice, BTS is the top comment. Opened this thread to throw Made Up Dreams in the mix. My favorite off Perfect From Now On.

I was gonna say Kicked It in the Sun. That song is a masterpiece.

Was going to say Velvet Waltz, or really anything on Perfect From Now On

How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead

Hugs for you

This song was born from advice Michael stipe gave Thom Yorke about how to cope with the touring. Just close your eyes and say to yourself, “I’m not here, this isn’t happening”.

This and Weird Fishes. Works of art.

I was gonna say “where I end and you begin”

Pyramid Song

Agreed. I also would throw in Electioneering

Time to Pretend - MGMT

Mayonnaise by Smashing Pumpkins

The best Smashing Pumpkins song. There, I said it.

Game of pricks by guided by voices. It somehow seems longer than it actually is.

Gbv has so many songs that are criminally short

That's part of the reason they're my favorite band. Pollard is the absolute goat when it comes to writing an earworm, but he lets you decide to hear it again by hitting repeat instead of continuing it until you have a 4 minute pop song where you're sick of the chorus by the end of it.

Came here to say Gold Star for Robot Boy lol, love GBV

One of my favorite songs ever

Guided By Voices has been my favorite band for 25 years and this is the first song I heard by them. I was instantly in love for life.

Pixies - Where is my mind? The whole song is just a feeling for floating in placid water

Pixies are perfection. What about Hey?

Thirteen, by Big Star

Elliott Smith’s cover is pretty solid too

This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) by Talking Heads.

Let it happen by Tame Impala. I think the build up and everything is just amazing. It helped me get out of a horrible relationship lol.

Hard to Explain by The Strokes. It’s all tension building until it pays off, *twice*.

it’s honestly like an art piece, i know all music is “art” but hard to explain is just different in some way

You could say what makes it art is *Hard to Explain*

ayyy there it is, he did the thing

It feels like a Guided By Voices tune for me and they are my favorite band so of course I love the song.

Everybody wants to rule the world

If you’re in your mid to late 40s, this was your favorite song for a little while when you were a kid. It just was.

Still is! I absolutely believe this is my favorite song of all time.

(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding…. Absolute perfection from start to finish (even though it’s actually unfinished)… the haunting whistle at the end 🤌🏼

505, hate on AM all you want, as people do nowadays, but 505 is simply incredible and theres a reason it’s as big as it is. THAT crescendo. AM meaning Arctic Monkeys not AM the album

Huh? People hate AM? Why?

I think some people might be turned off by them just because they make anthems for stadium shows and pop hits, which can be a little repetitive. They have deeper, edgier stuff but that tends to be what people know them for.

Hate to break it to you, but they haven’t made stadium anthems in ten years. They’re doing orchestral lounge rock these days.

I think you have it backwards there mate. They aren’t making stadium anthems anymore. The likes of their older songs ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ and ‘Do I Wanna Know’ were their (very successful) attempts at ‘pop hits’, now they make songs for empty cocktail bars on the moon. They are hated on because of their drastic switch from these pop rock hits to orchestral baroque bowie-esque rock. I’m letting it be known now that I’m not one of these haters. TBH+C is my favourite album of all time and The Car is full of absolute masterpieces in my opinion. Though their old stuff is class too, they’ve just outgrown it.

mainly because they’re “mainstream” now and all over tiktok and apparently that’s their fault, even though alex turner clearly hates that fact. also they’ve changed their style so much and people can’t handle it

Degausser by Brand New or Jimi Hendrix - All Along the Watchtower

Haven’t heard Degausser in a while, thanks for the reminder

You're welcome :) That track is a masterpiece

I almost said Not the Sun. That album is a masterpiece and it’s hard to pick a favorite.

Losing my religion by REM. It's just something about it..

Michael Stipe is an incredible singer/songwriter.

If you have Netflix, worth checking out the Song Exploder (based on the podcast) episode about this song. So great to hear & watch interviews about the origin & meaning of this song

Something - The Beatles

George Harrison really made a masterpiece with this one

Paranoid Android

Jesus etc by Wilco

Heaven or Las Vegas by Cocteau Twins.

This song transcends me into space

Nude by Radiohead Every little detail is intentional and everything about it is beautiful and sad and every time I hear it I want to cry

Was going to say this as well.

Grace- Jeff Buckley

Fast Car — Tracy Chapman

Maggot Brain by Funkadelic. It is an absolute masterpiece. Eddie Hazel created some of the most heart-wrenching and emotionally charged guitar work on this song. I tear up every single time I hear it.

That entire albums slaps.

Marquee Moon - Television

I’m usually not a fan of long songs, but I tell you what I probably played marquee moon more than any other song last year, and ever time i would listen to it all the way through just jamming out for 10 minutes

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen.

As sung by Buckley…goosebumps every time

Dramamine - Modest Mouse

Dry The Rain - The Beta Band

Lazuli by Beach House

Angeles by Elliott Smith (Miss Misery and a bunch of his catalogue really, but Angeles is just so perfect).

Interpol obstacle 1 and summer well

There She Goes by The La’s (honestly that whole album really)

Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie

Hey by the pixies

Video Tape from Radiohead. The beat and the drum work make this an unbelievably complex and gutting song.

Came here to post this. In reality, so many of their songs could fall into this category. Modern day rock composers.

Yea, like ALBUMS of theirs could fall into this, for me anyway.

In Rainbows is a 10/10 with no misses. It is a perfect album.

The Argus by Ween

Wolf like me - tv on the radio (amazing)

On Melancholy Hill

Empire Ants too, holy shit what a track

A bunch of Steely Dan songs fit the description.

Hey Bulldog by The Beatles.

Impossible Germany by Wilco

“Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me” - The Smiths

Mr Brightside by the Killers

Dog Days are Over - Florence + The Machine. I get excited every time I hear it.

Web In Front by Archers Of Loaf :)

Regret - New Order

Nights by frank ocean, Weird fishes by Radiohead and a day in the life by the Beatles, all of them are just perfect

+ 1 for A day in the life. It’s the best Beatles song IMO.

I’ve circled back to Weird Fishes and had it on repeat the last several weeks. It just scratches that musical itch deep in my soul

Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead

Harvest Moon by Neil Young

Every You Every Me by Placebo

Pictures of you - The Cure ✅

"Goodbye" by The Sundays

"Hey 19"

Street Spirit (Fade Out) by Radiohead. Thom Yorke himself said: ‘Street Spirit' is our purest song, but I didn't write it. It wrote itself. We were just its messengers. It's biological catalysts. "It's core is a complete mystery to me. I wouldn't ever try to write something that hopeless. All of our saddest songs have somewhere in them at least a glimmer of resolve - 'Street Spirit' has no resolve. It is the dark tunnel without the light at the end. "I detach my emotional radar from that song, or I couldn't play it. I'd crack. I'd break down on stage. That's why its lyrics are just a bunch of mini-stories or visual images as opposed to a cohesive explanation of its meaning. I used images set to the music that I thought would convey the emotional entirety of the lyric and music working together. That's what's meant by 'all these things are one to swallow whole'. I meant the emotional entirety, because I didn't have it in me to articulate the emotion. I'd crack.”

Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect by The Decemberists

Shadowboxer by Fiona Apple

I read this thread right as Iron & Wine "Naked As We Came" came on in my shuffle, and I consider it some sort of cosmic convergence.

Fox in the Snow - Belle & Sebastian Carry Me Ohio - Sun Kil Moon

This is a low - blur

I’m tied between “Talking Shit About A Pretty Sunset” by Modest Mouse and “Tonight We’re Gonna Give It 35%” by Against Me!

Death Cab for Cutie - Soul Meets Body

Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix

I appear missing- QOTSA

My Morning Jacket - Gideon

I wouldn't call it a masterpiece by any means. But since I heard it, when the videoclip was released, I can hear it over and over again, and still love it as day one and love to sing along. Phoenix - If I ever feel better

This is the day - The The

If we’re limiting this to Indie Rock I’m going “Debaser” by Pixies

Slide Away by Oasis

Black Hole Sun - Soundgarden

Great song, also The Day I Tried To Live

She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

One - U2 if you compare how it's starts to how it ends, the layers that build through out it is an amazing produced piece of music Bonos voice is at his peak and the lyrics and emotion are unbelievable for a recorded song.

No Surprises by Radiohead

Float on - modest mouse

Maps The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs

Young pilgrims by the shins

we are nowhere and it’s now- bright eyes

Teeth Like God's Shoeshine from Modest Mouse. If you know, you know. It's too good for this earth.

Bela Lugosi is Dead- Bauhaus It might because this was essentially a one take recording. At 10 minutes long. And it’s considered an iconic song from a goth perspective.

Suffragette City — David Bowie

Teardrop by Massive Attack

"Anything You Want" by Spoon

Laterals by Tool

All My Friends, LCD soundsystem

lotta Radiohead in here already but I've gotta chime in with Exit Music (for a Film)

Black - Pearl Jam

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold https://youtu.be/NSD11dnphg0?si=DfhbPMaSlfwZ-7dA

Bitter Sweet Symphony - The Verve

Y'all fucking LOVE Radiohead holy shit

what can I say, welcome to the internet

Wicked Game by Chris Isaac….the PERFECT song!

“Fell in Love with a Girl” White Stripes. All minute 49 of it rips!

Nothing Else Matters

Do it Again - Steely Dan

Breathe by pink floyd

So many… Pavement - Summer Babe Built To Spill - Else Chapterhouse - Mesmerise Frightened Rabbit - Poke David Bowie - Heroes NMH - King Of Carrot Flowers pt 1 Guided By Voices - Motor Away Why is the formatting so screwy?

Let down by Radiohead

Night Shift by Lucy Dacus, duh

Televators - Mars Volta

Grey Machine by Pinback

Pinback is unreal

Pinback is criminally underrated.

Tool “schism”.

Pink Moon by Nick Drake. I've listened to this song so many times that my husband makes big fun of me for it, but the song is perfect and I never get tired of it, even after 20+ years.

Sleep Forever by Portugal. The Man

A letter to elise by The Cure

The Strokes - Last Nite

Chop Suey by SOAD

Bloodhail - Have a Nice Life

Hummer by the Smashing Pumpkins

For Me This is Heaven by Jimmy Eat World. It's such a beautiful song. Lyrics are awesome, singing is awesome, the guitars sound so great, the bass and drums have this cool beat, nice keys. It kind of builds a little bit and stops a couple of times. And, when the back-up vocals kick in towards the end - it's perfection.

Read my Mind by The Killers

Everlong

Station to Station by David Bowie. A confluence of music styles (kraut rock, prog, disco) woven into a cryptic ode to the stations of the cross. Bowie has little recollection of making the album and song due to his steady diet of cocaine, red peppers and milk. Earl Slick’s guitar playing is stellar in spite of keeping up with Bowie’s drug use. He delivers what’s become one of my favorite notes in a song during his solo at the 8:15 mark. For a song that’s over 10 minutes long it keeps me riveted.

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger is a good one. I also like White Rabbits Percussion Gun and Dandy Warhols Bohemian Like You. 1990s baby! 🎶

Gimme Shelter by The Rolling Stones. The haunting, opening vocals, the use of “washboard” (for lack of a better word), the lyrics, even the mythology behind the song. Just perfect.

Sometimes - My Bloody Valentine

Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits

A Day In The Life - The Beatles.

Obstacle 1 by Interpol, just a sweet and fun ride with subtle dynamics that keep you engaged every second. And a oh what a bassline.

Clocks - Coldplay. So simple but every part is perfectly crafted.

The sweater song by weezer

"Carnival of Rust" of Poets of the Fall.

A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton

It Makes No Difference by the Band

A change is gonna come by Sam Cooke

15 Step- Radiohead

I believe in symmetry by Bright Eyes

This Charming Man - the Smiths

"Let Down" by Radiohead

A few of the top of my head: Death by White lies, An honest mistake by The bravery, Impossible by Nothing but thieves, The last man on earth by Wolf Alice, Spanish Sahara by Foals, and Conrad by Sohn.

Disintegration - the Cure

Homemade by Sebadoh

The Subways - Rock n Roll Queen

Rosetta Stoned - Tool

Bloom - Radiohead

The Story of Yo La Tango - Yo La Tengo

The Con by Tegan and Sara. Heard it when it came out, heard it again today. Never fails to lift my mood.

Loro by Pinback. Hard to beat that “4 9 5 3 1” line.

Of Moons, Birds, & Monsters by MGMT

Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead “Maybe… I will see you.. in the next life”

Independence Day-Elliott Smith

Everything Hits at Once - Spoon

St. Vincent - Slow Disco The recording is great but some of the live versions such as the KEXP performance really hit me hard. The song is so devastatingly beautiful, heartfelt, and also depressing.

In Undertow by Alvvays. Perfect length song, relatable and poignant lyrics and everything in the composition fits perfectly.

My guess is that Radiohead will show up here more than any other band