Perfect Albums

**Jer** · 05-19-2012, 04:04 PM

Hvis Lyset Tar Oss by Burzum
Stalker by Lustmord and Robert Rich
The Crossing by Big Country
Blood In Our Wells by Drudkh
The first Doors album
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
The Campfire Headphase by Boards of Canada

**idiot** · 05-19-2012, 05:18 PM

God Ween Satan........Just kidding, its good but not perfection

I always thought Animals by Pink Floyd was pretty much perfection.

**ICEHOCEY77** · 05-19-2012, 05:19 PM

Newer?

The Strokes - Is this it
Radiohead - Kid A
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Older?

Allmans - At Fillmore East
Beatles - Abbey Road/Revolver
Zeppelin IV
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Neil Young - Harvest
Pink Floyd - Dark Side
The Stones - Let it bleed
Flatt & Scruggs - At Carnegie Hall

**Steven S. Dallas** · 05-19-2012, 05:38 PM

A lot of new hotness being mentioned in this thread. Hey, Ice, check out this album Revolver, it's like OMG.

**Meadow Skipper** · 05-19-2012, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas

A lot of new hotness being mentioned in this thread. Hey, Ice, check out this album Revolver, it's like OMG.

C'mon then, whadda you got?

**Steven S. Dallas** · 05-19-2012, 07:30 PM

Impressive.

**Benny Profane** · 05-19-2012, 07:37 PM

Right now I am listening to All Things Must Pass. My vote for #1. Phil Spector's greatest work, and, ha, that's funny, because he was the King of Singles.

**huckbucket** · 05-19-2012, 07:46 PM

Radiohead - OK Computer. Just brilliant. Changed everything for me. Never had the urge to skip a track.

spook · 05-19-2012, 08:30 PM

Originally Posted by ICEHOCEY77

Allmans - At Fillmore East

yessah!

**Danno** · 05-19-2012, 09:50 PM

I'm not a big Stones fan, but Beggar's Banquet is close to perfection.

**Ripzalot** · 05-20-2012, 01:40 AM

**dumpy** · 05-20-2012, 02:27 AM

If you're going with some cure, gotta be wish or disintegration for "perfect" albums.

Through being cool by saves the day is my perfect driving album. I have some friends that while enroute from Syracuse ny to Florida didn't care/realize they had the same album on repeat until Georgia

Gza liquid swords, any of the hold steady albums or the weakerthans left and leaving also come to mind for me

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**auvgeek** · 05-20-2012, 04:21 AM

Yeah, I was wondering why Disintegration wasn't the pick from The Cure.

I had forgotten about Through Being Cool. Though I did like selected songs from Stay What You Are better (Freakish is definitely my favourite song by them).

I think my top "perfect" album would be Deja Entendu by Brand New. Not sure why, but I LOVE every single song off the album.

Others:
Transatlanticism - Death Cab
Building Something Out of Nothing - Modest Mouse

Since I grew up on digital music, I really make playlists of my favourite songs rather than listen to albums. I think those three are the only albums I can think of where I wouldn't skip a song. I rarely even listen to Death Cab or Brand New anymore, but I still think those albums were fantastic as a whole.

Best driving "album" ever is Bob Seger's Greatest Hits (1994). I know it's not technically an album, but whatever.

**iceman** · 05-20-2012, 07:40 AM

Yeah it's not like some deep insight or anything but it's crazy how much digital music and having a remote control of some type changed things. We'd be stoned, sitting on the couch, it was enough work to get up and flip the thing over or put a new one on every half-hour.

For a new-"er" album I guess I'd nominate "& the mysterious production of eggs" (Andrew Bird) although that's not so new anymore.

**mud** · 05-20-2012, 08:36 AM

Kind of hard to pinpoint perfection on some of the newer stuff although right now I'm leaning to Trombone Shorty "Backatown" and El Stew "No Hesitation". Also, while not really new, Amerigio Gazaway mash up of Fela Kuti and Del la Soul is pretty damn good.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7ghn...e_gdata_player

**CMSIV** · 05-20-2012, 08:40 AM

Naturally - JJ Cale
Paul's Boutique - Beasties
Keep it Hid - Dan Auerbach
Unplugged In New York - Nirvana
Stakes is High - De La Soul
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Warren Zevon (self-titled)

**Chainsaw_Willie** · 05-20-2012, 09:24 AM

Originally Posted by idiot

...

I always thought Animals by Pink Floyd was pretty much perfection.

Yes, it is. In a nose-to-nose race with Wish You Were Here.

Those two albums were the best work they ever did.

spook · 05-20-2012, 09:29 AM

bb king completely well -- one of my all time faves from start to finish

spook · 05-20-2012, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by CMSIV

Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

i almost put brothers in arms, but for me only the second side is perfect. the first three songs, particularly money for nothing diminishes the album for me a bit, but it's also one of my alltime faves.

**yogachik** · 05-20-2012, 10:29 AM

How about having your opinion count?

Search for the Perfect Album on NPR

I agree with a lot of what's been said here - My Aim is True, OK Computer, etc. I would add:

Joni Mitchell "Blue"
Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti"
De La Soul "Three Feet High...."
Radiohead "In Rainbows"
Roxy Music "Avalon"
Peter Gabriel "Us"
Peter Gabriel "So"
Prince "Purple Rain"

**Buster Highmen** · 05-20-2012, 11:01 AM

Play, Moby.
Still, Joy Division.
Power, Corruption & Lies, New Order
Drums & Wires, XTC
Seven Come Eleven, Herb Ellis & Joe Pass
Overnite Sensation, FZ
Workingman's Dead, GD
Powerglide, New Riders of the Purple Sage
Loaded, Velvet Underground

**Danno** · 05-20-2012, 11:08 AM

Originally Posted by yogachik

Joni Mitchell "Blue"

good call, that and Court and Spark are both perfect.

**Tippster** · 05-20-2012, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Buster Highmen

Still, Joy Division.

More of an Unknown Pleasures fan m'self.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Genesis - Trick of the Tail
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Bob Marley - Kaya

Second the Stone Roses

**Sullywhacker** · 05-20-2012, 01:05 PM

Grateful Dead - Live Dead
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Tommy Bolin - Teaser
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction