"Perfect" is a song by The Smashing Pumpkins. It was the second single from their fourth album, Adore (1998).
Perfection is, broadly, a state of completeness and flawlessness.
The term "perfection" is actually used to designate a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts. These concepts have historically been addressed in a number of discrete disciplines, notably mathematics, physics, chemistry, ethics, aesthetics, ontology and theology.
Saint Perfectus (Santo Perfecto) (d. 850) was one of the Martyrs of Córdoba whose martyrdom was recorded by Saint Eulogius in the Memoriale sanctorum.
He was born in Córdoba, Spain when the area was under the control of the Moors (the Umayyad Caliphate). Perfecto was a monk and ordained priest. He served at the basilica of St. Acisclus in Córdoba. Christians were tolerated in the area, but not uniformly. According to his legend, in 850, Perfecto was challenged by two Muslim men to say who was the greater prophet: Jesus or Mohammed.
At first he refrained from responding, so as not to provoke them; but they insisted that he give them an answer, promising to protect him from reprisals. He then told them in Arabic that Muhammed was a false prophet and that he was an immoral man for supposedly seducing his adopted son's wife (A belief of some medieval Europeans, a violation of Qur'an 33:37). The Muslims kept their promise and let him go, but several days later some of them changed their mind and had him arrested.
They had friends seize Perfecto (so as to not be forsworn) and tried. Perfecto was found guilty of blasphemy by the Islamic court and was executed. The legend says that Perfecto's final words were to bless Christ and condemn Muhammad and his Qur'an.
He was beheaded on April 18, 850.
His martyrdom was one of the first in a period of Muslim persecution of the Christians in Al-Andalus, which began in 850 under Abd ar-Rahman II, continued under his successor Muhammad I, and went on intermittently until 960blank">http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11703a.htm.
His _Catholic feast day is April 18.
Perfect was Fairground Attraction's first single, released in 1988.
The single reached number one on the 9 May 1988 U.K. chart (where it stayed for one week, and stayed in the chart for a total of thirteen weeks). In the UK it was released as a 7" single, 12" single, cassette single, and CD single). The song was included on the band's first album, The First of a Million Kisses, later the same year. It was used in television advertising for ASDA in the late 1980s. It was re-released as a single in 1993 after it had reappeared on the compilation album Celtic Heart.
"Perfect" won the award for Best Single at the 1989 BRIT Awards.
"Perfect" is the fourth and final single taken from Simple Plan's debut album No Pads, No Helmets... Just Balls. The song deals with the pressures of trying to be the perfect child simply for the sake of making your parents proud but then deciding that it is not worth it. It also talks about being made to feel inadequate because you do what makes you happy. Both the song and the video contrast the difficulties of meeting parental expectations and self-determination.
Perfect is a single by Princess Superstar. It is the only single from her album My Machine with a music video (thus far).
Perfect (Exceeder) is a collaboration between Mason and Princess Superstar. The track is a mashup of Mason's instrumental dance track Exceeder and Princess Superstar's 2005 single Perfect.
"Perfect World" may refer to:
"Perfect" is the third track and fourth single on Flyleaf's self-titled debut album. It was released as a single in 2007.
