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

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But as for my pick, it would have to be something from Floyd. So many great ones. I could say "Time" or "Money" or any number of others. But I'd probably pick "Shine on You Crazy Diamond."

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I love Floyd. I have that quirky thing that a lot of guys who go into engineering do, I look for patterns without actually realizing I do that. Because of that (I think) I feel like Wish You Were Here is close to a perfect album. It took me a little while to realize why I thought that. The album is like a bell curve for me in the way it stirs my emotions.

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I–V

Welcome to the Machine

Have a Cigar

Wish You Were Here

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts VI–IX

Pulls me in a little on Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I–V, peaking at Have a Cigar with Roy Harpers on vocals, then guiding me back down to where I started on Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts VI–IX.

Not only no bad songs, no mediocre songs, to me they are all great songs. Have a Cigar is the one I think of as close to perfect as any.

The beauty of subjective art forms like music, though is no song will ever be perfect for everyone or even a majority of people.

Juke box hero-foreigner

Free Bird - Skynyrd
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Pirates - ELP
Slow Ride - Foghat
Bad Company- Bad Company
Ain't Talkin' Bout Love - Van Halen
Roll With the Changes - REO

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Kashmir

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One of the most "crankable" songs ever. Sometimes, the volume wont get loud enough

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Every eagles song is perfectly crafted.

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Don’t even particularly like them, but Best of My Love is a brilliantly written song also, On the Border is another great one.

Tool-Fear Inoculum

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The layers are amazing. It's the way Tool adds and subtracts instruments at just the right times during the build-up. And Danny Carey is one of the greatest drummers of all time.