Your Perfect Albums? (i.e albums that are pefect in your opinion)

Albums that you like every song on them, and are utterly perfect to you. Note this is subjective. For me, it's:

• Black Lotus - Sister Sin
• With Oden on Our Side - Amon Amarth
• Opheliac - Emilie Autumn
• The Book of Souls - Iron Maiden
• Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
• Ace of Spades - Motörhead
• Hate Crew Deathroll - Children of Bodom

edited 17th Mar '16 3:22:59 PM by MarkVonLewis

Electric Light Orchestra's A New World Record. Every song on it is a perfect piece of pop, and it has some amazing pacing throughout. The opening song ("Tightrope") qualifies for me as one of the greatest album openers of all time.

• Alter Bridge - Black Bird
• Anthrax - Among the Living (almost tied with Spreading the Disease)
• Black Sabbath - Paranoid (almost went with Master of Reality)
• Disturbed - Immortalized (used to go with Indestructible for this choice, but currently I'm in love with this album)
• Faith No More - The Real Thing (could've gone with Angel Dust, but I listened to this one first...)
• Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
• Iron Maiden - Powerslave (Piece of Mind just about made the cut instead)
• Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (extremely close race with Painkiller)
• Queen - Jazz
• Slayer - Reign In Blood

edited 17th Mar '16 4:04:00 PM by Alucard

Dammit forgot to add Reign in Blood, lol. But good choices there, Alucard.

• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
• Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Besides that... nothing, really.

AC/DC - High Voltage

Not a bad song on that album.

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

I could choose many other Iron Maiden albums but I went with my favorite.

• Starflyer 59: Talking Voice vs. Singing Voice
• Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite
• runforyerlife: runforyerlife
• Daniel Amos: Songs of the Heart
• Stereolab: Dots & Loops
• Wire: 154
• Television: Marquee Moon
• Orbital: In Sides

The Cure - Disintegration

edited 19th Mar '16 10:37:28 PM by wehrmacht

Seconding Meta Four's nomination of Wire's 154. That album really is a gem.

Hmmm.

The thing about a personal sense of perfection is, it's not necessarily the same as affection. For instance, Bügsküll are one of my favourite bands, but all of their records have at least a few flaws or structural oddities that keep them from being elegant in the way that certain records by bands or projects I don't like as much are.

Keeping that in mind, here are some extraordinarily put together albums that I also love, with a few too remarkably ambitious or endearing works to ignore thrown in for good measure, limited to one per project (although certain individuals may be involved in several of these).

Thus:

• Akron/Family, Akron/Family
• The Angels of Light, Everything is Good Here/Please Come Home
• Arcade Fire, Arcade Fire
• Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol. 1
• Current 93, All the Pretty Little Horses
• dälek, Absence
• Dome, Dome 2
• Have a Nice Life, Deathconsciousness
• LaMonte Young, The Well-Tuned Piano
• Merzbow, Cycle
• Mirror, A Pilgrim's Solace
• Nurse With Wound, Thunder Perfect Mind
• Prurient, Black Vase
• Sonic Youth, Washing Machine
• St. Vincent, Actor
• Sufjan Stevens, Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lakes State
• Swans, To Be Kind
• Thighpaulsandra, The Golden Communion
• This Heat, Made Available: The Peel Sessions
• Weakling, Dead As Dreams
• Wire, 154

I don't like to use the word 'perfect', nor do I think an album is perfect (as in, without human flaw), but, since we can list albums that we like it in regards to all of their tracks, here it goes:

• Air - Premiers Symptômes
• Air - Moon Safari
• Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
• Björk - Homogenic
• Björk - Vespertine
• Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
• Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
• Bob Dylan - Love And Theft
• Daft Punk - Discovery
• Daft Punk - Homework
• David Bowie - Heroes
• David Bowie - Low
• David Bowie - Station To Station
• Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity
• Happy Mondays - Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches
• Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul
• Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
• Jorge Ben - Samba Esquema Novo
• Kate Bush - Aerial
• Kate Bush - The Dreaming
• Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
• Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
• Madredeus - O Espírito da Paz
• Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
• Manuel Göttsching - Inventions For Electric Guitar
• Marcos Valle - Vontade De Rever Você
• Neu! - Neu! 75
• New Order - Technique
• Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Architecture & Morality
• Popol Vuh - Aguirre
• Saint Etienne - Good Humor
• Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
• Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember
• Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson
• Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet
• The Beatles - Revolver
• The Doors - The Doors
• The Doors - Waiting For The Sun
• The Durutti Column - Amigos Em Portugal
• The Durutti Column - The Return of The Durutti Column
• The KLF - Chill Out
• The KLF - The White Room
• The Orb - The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
• Tom Zé - Estudando o Samba
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
• Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestra
• And probably some others I'm forgetting at the moment...

edited 20th Mar '16 9:08:20 PM by Quag15

Bob Dylan - Desire

The Clash - London Calling

Etta James - At Last!

Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man

Lou Reed - Berlin

The National - Trouble Will Find Me

Sade - Lovers' Rock

Tracy Chapman - Let It Rain

And Revolver as mentioned above, I guess.

edited 21st Mar '16 5:53:25 AM by FirstSnow

I think it needs to go beyond liking all of the tracks to either loving them or having a deep artistic respect for how they were constructed, arranged and sequenced. Which is to say, there are always flaws, but the artistry or personal resonance is strong enough to make them feel inconsequential. A "perfect" album is an album with very, very little "wrong" with it. That is all.

If that is the case, then I'm gonna have to rewrite that list (since I'm leaving outside certain albums like Three Feet High And Rising by De La Soul and I would have to leave outside Premiers Symptômes, for example), even if I already put some albums according to this criteria there (such as Bowie's Low).

This is a lot harder than I think it was...

edited 22nd Mar '16 6:43:13 PM by Quag15

At The Gates - The Red in the Sky is Ours

Manticora - Hyperion

Univers Zero - Heresie

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm

Cauldron Born - Born of the Cauldron

Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography [Compilation]

the Mountain Goats – All Hail West Texas

• Fugazi—In On the Killtaker
• The Kinks—Something Else by The Kinks
• The Doors—Morrison Hotel
• Ella Fitzgerald—The Very Best of the Irving Berlin Songbook
• The Jam—Sound Affects
• The Jam—All Mod Cons
• Nirvana—In Utero
• Weezer—Pinkerton
• The Kinks—Face to Face

Er, lotta rock here. I guess you can see where my biases lie.

edited 4th Apr '16 7:56:45 PM by LongTallShorty64

Oh, I forgot one:

• Chvrches, The Bones of What You Believe

This is, once more, an interesting example of an album that rides the line of being a favourite and actually being "flawless." Over time, I have come to the conclusion that there really isn't a weak song on here, and that even though many of the songs follow similar structures and I can easily see them becoming monotonous to some listeners, I feel like the sequencing, transitions, balance and thematic progression keep the album from feeling samey or repetitive, and each arrangement and lyric capitalises on a different aspect of the band's sound palette and emotional range. Some songs breezed by me on the first few listens, or even actively annoyed me, but every single one has grown on me, some to the point of becoming favourites—"Tether", in particular, which is basically a VNV Nation slow-burner with guitars and female vocals... and slightly less of that unironic (if delicious) ham and cheese.

Going by a personal definition of albums I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling a need to skip a track, here's mine.

• MAE, The Everglow
• Charlotte Martin, On Your Shore
• The Reign of Kindo, Rhythm, Chord, & Melody
• The Panic Division, Songs From the Glasshouse
• little xs for eyes, Everywhere Else
• Nerina Pallot, The Graduate
• Dead Sara, Pleasure to Meet You
• Copeland, In Motion

Obscure as all hell, but I don't care. As far as I'm concerned, that's just one of the perks of growing up in the internet age. And if just one other music lover gets curious and finds themselves a new favorite band or artist, then so much the better.

(By the way, I made all the Music pages above except for Dead Sara, and if they don't have a page yet, I'm planning to make one for the rest on that list.)

edited 5th Apr '16 11:16:54 PM by urielzet

REM - Murmur, Reckoning, and Fables of the Reconstruction

Three perfect albums in three years, it's impossible for me to pick a favorite from them. Other than that, pretty much every album I love has at least one flaw.

For me, my perfect albums would be: Modest Mouse- This is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about Queens of the Stone Age- Self Titled Album Nirvana-Nevermind Nirvana-In Utero Jedi Mind Tricks-Violent By Design MF DOOM-Operation Doomsday System of A Down-Self Titled Deftones-Around The Fur Jawbox-For Your Own Special Sweetheart Dillinger Escape Plan-Calculating Infinity Primus-Sailing the Seas of Cheese Stone Temple Pilots- Purple Alice in Chains- Dirt Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies Green Day-Dookie At the Drive-In-Relationship of Command Nothingface-Audio Guide to Everyday Atrocity Husker Du-Zen Arcade Rem-Murmur Company Flow-Funcrusher Plus Cannibal Ox-The Cold Vein Incubus-Make Yourself