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In no particular order...
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles (George Harrison, feat. Eric Clapton's guitar soloing)
A Day in the Life - The Beatles
Cherub Rock - Smashing Pumpkins
Karma Police - Radiohead
Long Distance Call - Muddy Waters
Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
Let It Ride - Big Sugar (a blazing BTO cover)
Blow at High Dough - The Tragically Hip
Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
Uniform Grey - Sarah Harmer
And my definition of a perfect song includes that it is essentially changeable. Whether through improvised soloing, varying recording techniques, or altered instrumentation, the perfect song is not static; it can be picked up and reinterpreted. It is a living entity. (As an example, listen to what Big Sugar did to "Let It Ride.")
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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