I’ve been playing music for many years and have thought of many songs as “perfect” by various musical criteria, melody, beat and so on. But deep down I think musical criteria aren’t the answer. It all comes down to which mood the song puts you in, so the perfect song = the one that hits the right mood at your current stage in life. So it’s gonna be unavoidably different between people, and for the same person across time. For me as a teenager it was “Losing My Religion”, somehow. Now at almost 40, this recording of Aguas de Março makes me smile.
I’ve been playing music for many years and have thought of many songs as “perfect” by various musical criteria, melody, beat and so on. But deep down I think musical criteria aren’t the answer. It all comes down to which mood the song puts you in, so the perfect song = the one that hits the right mood at your current stage in life. So it’s gonna be unavoidably different between people, and for the same person across time. For me as a teenager it was “Losing My Religion”, somehow. Now at almost 40, this recording of Aguas de Março makes me smile.