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From sometime: NPR's All Songs Considered asks musicians to name the Perfect Song. Ben Gibbard picks "There She Goes," Travis Morrison "Once in a Lifetime," Dan Messé "Wichita Lineman," and Stephin Merritt says it's that song by the Archies, "obviously." And more!

The "listen to the entire show" link doesn't seem to play a show--it just plays the songs--but it's still good reading, and anyway, they're good songs.

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[dougo.livejournal.com]

Harrumph. The only one of those I might even consider agreeing with is "Night and Day" (one of the staff picks) but of course I'm only extrapolating from the U2 cover version. (And I guess ditto for "Every Little Thing" and Yes.) It's weird that I was just listening to that Kinks album two days ago and I totally don't even remember the song mentioned (while there are at least 3 or 4 I could hum parts of from memory).

Anyway, the actual perfect song is in fact "Louie Louie". Duh.