Practically Perfect Albums (or CDs)
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From Black Sabbath:
Paranoid
Heaven and Hell
From Pink Floyd:
The Dark Side of the Moon
The Wall
Boston by Boston
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.
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.
Yeah, I agree with the Boston album. That one was perfect. And Bat Out of Hell too.
Absolutely masterful.
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
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
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
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
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.)
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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.)
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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
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.
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.