Songs that are straight up brilliant, links provided.
 

This Heat - Makeshift Swahili

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHvqPT546to

Musically brilliant, but the lyrics basically express my difficulties with learning foreign languages. It's all Greek to me!


(and of course remember to make room for the idea that nobody else agrees)

the older I get, the less impressed I get.

my list would probably consist of movie score stuff... I won't bore you.

Thanks, geezer.

if it makes you feel cooler....

It does.

interesting and different don't equate to brilliant by default. That song sounds like dime a dozen high school band dribble being produced at any given moment in any given town (and I'm a mundane bore?)

questions if you would know brilliant if you even heard it?

The song I submitted is from 1981. Even then, it contains the purity that those "dime a dozen" bands that you forcibly imagine don't have.

Etc. Records seems just as, if not more, predictable. Do arpeggios amaze you that much more?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6ToDBmcQ0w

god I love this entire film score.

Tim Roth + that = must see

I guess I'd be lying if I said no...., but I'm not claiming to be brilliant, nor my playing. but, do you separate "different" from "brilliant"

omfg. it's my favorite movie, ever. you NEED to see it, right now.

more from that film:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgXW6XDnhXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk5xoCJ6JcU

Oh hell yes! Beautiful score. this is one of the few I had to buy (iTunes) cause I couldn't find a rip.

the film is equally as impressive too. Tim Roth, that guy with the eye that does weird things, that cute european looking gurl..... the end was pretty intense too. dark, like the whole movie (and score)

rep'd.
Not too many people have seen it, that's for sure. it's a fucking gem. the end makes me cry like a fucking baby. AND the duel is epic.

Do you? You're the one that raised the objection to the link I submitted. I don't think there is any grounds for objection when it comes to taste in music. If you like arpeggios, then arpeggios are serving their purpose. Why should I object?

I wasn't gonna say it, but you fessed up.... I don't cry, the light just gets in my eye or something....

And yes, the duel is EPIC. So fucking smooth the way he lays his cig down (that he otherwise doesn't smoke) first.... then lights it later, off the strings.

I recommend it to everyone I know, but no one sees it. My fav Tim Roth movie (right there with Gridlock'd, just kidding).

if they don't see it, what can I say, their fucking loss. I'm glad it's not well-known, even. a lot of people wouldn't (and don't) understand.

Yes, I think that was my point.

I've listened to this song far too many times this week. I go giddy like a little girl at it.

I did a similar thing with this

I suspect these both fit, because neither of them are spectacularly avant-garde, just incredibly good.

this song is pretty amazing, and not really like anything else

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW28iwIikq8

I've been listening to "Peaches En Regalia" by Zappa over and over again for weeks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH7D1sVINsk

2 parts whimsical / 1 part brilliant ..... that, or just entertaining.

Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen.

Grateful Dead "Playing in the Band --> the wheel --> Playing in the Band" sandwhich (circa 1978)

Sonic Youth "Dripping Dream"

Andrew Bird "Anonanimal"

Radiohead "Optimistic"

Bob Marley "War/No Trouble" (live)

Shannon Wright "Pale White"

Killing in the Name of - Rage Against the Machine
Diamond Sea - Sonic Youth
Sweet Black Angel - Rolling Stones
Sampa Ti - Santana

As much as I adore the new Flips, no song touches this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK5VN8AFots

It's like at the circus
When you get lost in the crowd
You're happy but nervous

One of my favorite lyrics.

grateful dead - drums/space

Lil Wayne Feat Mannie Fresh - Bring it Back
Dan Deacon - Moses vs. Predator
Crystal Castles - Knights
Hello Astronaut, Goodby Television - Old Computer Yellow
Unicorns - Les Os

Just ones I've heard in the last 24 hours.

And a few of the most brilliant songs ever, IMHO.

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two Headed Boy Part 2
2. Cat Power - Ice Water
3. Xiu Xiu - Apistat Commander
4. A Silver Mt. Zion - Movie (Never Made)
5. Animal Collective - Fireworks

Two headed boy part 2 is brilliant.

I'd also say Song Against Sex is up there as far as NMH goes...

Olivia Tremor Control had a few brilliant songs.

Lately (the past 2 years or so) Brian Wilson is always a go to when someone brings up the term Brilliant.

I know it's not most ppl's style on here, or if it was, it's been listened to, burnt out, and overplayed and possibly your opinion of it has changed overtime as well....but just about EVERY song on "Pet Sounds" is brilliant. I still think it's relevant, for now. That may change eventually. Like all taste does. If you don't like the way it sounds, that's fine, but as a musician, you should respect what is going on there. Otherwise yr just jaded.

I forgot Kingdom of Heaven by 13th floor elevators.

damn Satan, you already got the entire SYG sprung on yr tip, and now you gwon and wink at i-man?

radiohead - permanent daylight
wipers - when it's over

radiohead 4 minute Warning

tool lateralus

outkast Aquemini (the title track, not the album)

nightclubbing

bright white clubbing

oh isn't it wild?

this

and also an ending by eno

Moondog's "Surf Session"

Jimi - Voodoo Chile (slite return)
Doors - When the Music Over

I've been here once. I've been here twice.