Flawless: Don't Cry Now - Linda Ronstadt Dreamboat Annie - Heart The Kick Inside - Kate Bush Thriller - Michael Jackson
From Black Sabbath: Paranoid Heaven and Hell From Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon The Wall Boston by Boston
Perfect albums, eh? Moving Pictures, Signals - Rush Deadwing - Porcupine Tree Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Document - REM The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby - U2 The Wall - Pink Floyd These were what came to mind immediately, but... Pound for pound, track for track, I honestly don't think there has ever been a more painfully perfect record than...... Disintegration - The Cure I think it is an absolute masterpiece.
Some of these albums you'll know, some you won't. You should really check 'em out. The almost perfect ones have one or two tracks that are a bit ordinary, but the rest is great. I think what makes a oerfect album is the way the tracks can be listened to individually, but as a unified work it just clicks. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd Animals - Pink Floyd Come Taste The Band - Deep Purple (try it, it's good!) Animal Logic - Animal Logic (rare) Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs Down To Earth - Rainbow American Pie - Don McLean Pictured Within - Jon Lord Ordinary Man - Christy Moore Living In The 70s - Skyhooks Dizrhythmia - Split Enz Dream of teh Blue Turtles - Sting Ra - Todd Rundgren's Utopia Quark, Strangeness and Charm - Hawkwind The Xenon Codex - Hawkwind Demons & Wizards - Uriah Heep almost perfect Bananas - Deep Purple Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Emerson Lake & Powell - Emerson Lake & Powell Miriam - Miriam Stockley Mask - Roger Glover Hold Your Fire - Rush Roll The Bones - Rush Saints and Sinners - Whitesnake Live At The Acropolis - Yanni
Hmmm, well off the top of my head, my perfect albums would be: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon The Who - Whos Next Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell Cocteau Twins - Treasure REM - Murmur Lets Active - Big Plans for Everybody Guadalcanal Diary - 2x4 Boston - Boston Eves Plum - Cherry Alive Gary Numan - Replicas
I've always been more interested in the lyrics: It could be almost any Cohen album for me. I never get tired of listening to his music and I usually take away something different every time I listen to one of his songs. Great writing. A very funny album; yet sad and thoughtful.
Damn straight. That is one of my all time favorite albums. QTF Again, awesome. As for me I am rather picky about my music and only have a few albums that I think are flawless. So to add to the ones I quoted above... especially Nevermind and The Wall... Annie Lennox - Diva Depeche Mode - Violator Jeff Buckley - Grace Dusty Springfield - Dusty in Memphis Stone Temple Pilots - Core Out of all of those, I could listen the Annie's Diva over and over again for an eternity. I feel the same about Buckley's Grace. Both albums go with me everywhere because I can't be without them for any length of time.
LED ZEPPELIN ~ LED ZEPPELIN 2 KING DIAMOND ~ ABIGAIL PEEPING TOM ~ PEEPING TOM MR. BUNGLE ~ CALIFORNIA FAITH NO MORE ~ ANGEL DUST JUDAS PRIEST ~ BRITISH STEEL BLACK SABBATH ~ PARANOID MERCYFUL FATE ~ THE OATH MELVINS ~ OZMA
Agreed. "Best of Coldplay" is an oxymoron, anyway. Practically Perfect albums, IMO, include (no particular order): Love Over Gold, Dire Straits Brothers in Arms, Dire Straits Rumours, Fleetwood Mac (one ordinary song aside) The Unforgettable Fire, U2 The Joshua Tree, U2 Rubber Soul, The Beatles The Kick Inside, Kate Bush Lionheart, Kate Bush Tracy Chapman, Tracy Chapman Broken English, Marianne Faithfull Tapestry, Carole King There are probably others I can't immediately recall.
Practically perfect: Pink Floyd - Animals Mothers - Roxy & Elsewhere Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Split Enz - Waiata (Corroboree in Aus) Yes - Relayer Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Queen - A Night at the Opera Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights King Crimson - Discipline Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties! Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica (Limited to albums I own and/or know very well, and I'm sure I'm still forgetting a few.) Edit: Focus - Focus 3
Just going with a few recent albums (more or less) don't need to repeat some of the classics already mentioned Purple - Stone Temple Pilots Crash - Dave Matthews Band October Rust - Type O Negative Van Halen - Van Halen
Definitely agree on Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon & Wish You Were Here. The Wall, which I still love, is just a little too long for me to consider it a perfect album. Boston - Boston, always, since that was some of the first "new" music I ever heard, and More Than A Feeling still blows me away. Do we consider a perfect album one that is 100% great tracks, or one that just works as a complete listening experience? Fleetwood Mac - Rumors is pretty close to a perfect album from either POV. The 2009 Epica album Design Your Universe, out of all their albums, is one I have been playing the entire album every time since I got it a couple months ago. Really their best work yet, though only 1 or 2 tracks that jump out.
Dark Side of the Moon was the first thing I thought of before I even saw the initial post. Great album.