re: What do you feel is the most perfectly crafted song of the rock era?

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I thought about asking "what is the most perfectly crafted pop song?" but I didn't want the thread to get bogged down over arguments about whether particular songs are or are not "pop" music. So I decided to broaden the question, and for the sake of discussion we will define the rock era as beginning in 1955 and continuing to the present.

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I'd ask what you think the criteria are? Is it the songwriting itself, the production, the performance or a combination of all three?

For me some of the most prefect songs would be "A Day in The Life","Something", "God Only Knows", "Good Vibrations", "Sympathy For the Devil", "Bridge Over Troubled Water", "Live On Mars". "Ballad of El Goodo"... actually I could go on for days.

As fr a perfect album, I'd nominate Ten Summoner's Tales. For my money that album is such a perfect mesh of amazing songwriting, fantastic performances and brilliant production, from start to finish.