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chreen from In Your Mind Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Sep 5th 2011 at 7:37:24 PM

Which albums do you think, have a perfect structure to the tracks and how the album generally progesses.

I think The Dark Side Of The Moon, Since I Left You (cheating, since it does use Fading Into the Next Song), The Bends by Radiohead, and Discovery by Daft Punk are structured brillantly.

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Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Sep 6th 2011 at 9:26:37 AM

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is almost impossible to hear without wanting to listen all the way through to "Who Will Survive in America".

edited 6th Sep '11 9:26:47 AM by Wicked223

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#4: Sep 7th 2011 at 8:45:01 AM

154, while not perfect per se, has some of the loveliest structuring I've seen in an album. Ditto HEALTH's Get Color; the track flow on that one is magnificent, to the point that I find it extremely difficult to listen to a single track without letting it move to the next one.

This seems to be a running theme in the albums I like, actually.

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sca_punk Not-Not-Not Your Academy from sca_punk's computer Since: Apr, 2010
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#5: Sep 7th 2011 at 2:14:05 PM

Pink by Boris. Starts out with an amazingly beautiful seven-minute feedback-drenched post-rock song which then suddenly cuts out, only for the next nine songs to be furious hardcore noise-rock/metal tracks, then ending with a twenty-minute epic that starts out as hard-rocking as all the rest then slows down until it's just one note of feedback for the last ten minutes.

Love it so much and it's pulled off so well.

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Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#6: Sep 7th 2011 at 6:16:02 PM

Quadrophenia.

edited 7th Sep '11 6:16:13 PM by Erock

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#7: Sep 7th 2011 at 10:24:12 PM

No Sir, Nihilism is Not Practical by Showbread.

The Novelist by Richard Swift.

The Rebel Soul Sound System by The Dingees is almost perfect. The pentultimate track hurts the winding-down momentum of the album's end; omitting it entirely would have made the album perfect.

Songs for Christmas, Vol V by Sufjan Stevens.

jaclon909 from a place. Since: Jan, 2010
#8: Sep 8th 2011 at 7:54:52 PM

Who's Next, Fragile, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy are the best examples I can think of.

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MasterInferno It's Like Arguing on the Internet from Tomb of Malevolence Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
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#9: Sep 13th 2011 at 1:51:45 PM

Hangman's Hymn by Sigh. Especially in the last track when all the recurring riffs and lyrics from throughout the album get thrown at you in succession.

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dxman Since: Oct, 2009
#10: Sep 16th 2011 at 4:31:34 PM

Sgt. Pepper would be this if the transition between She's Leaving Home and Benefit of Mr. Kite was better.

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iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
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#11: Sep 17th 2011 at 11:19:41 AM

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#12: Sep 21st 2011 at 10:28:52 AM

Catch Thirty Three by Meshuggah. Seeing as the entire album is one song and it's awesome, it becomes a well structured album by default.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#13: Sep 21st 2011 at 10:30:40 PM

Electric Light Orchestra's A New World Record is just divine in its structuring. It starts out with a perfect album opener ("Tightrope") that seriously pumps you up for the rest of the album, goes into a slightly gentle but still not held back song ("Telephone Line"), kicks things into rockin' gear ("Rockaria!"), gives another gentle-yet-desperate number ("Mission (A World Record)", then has two tracks that segue into one another ("So Fine" and "Livin' Thing"), one of which is very fun and the other of which is fun yet reflective, brings out another gentle interlude ("Above the Clouds") which serves to make the next rockin' number knock your socks to Bangkok ("Do Ya"), followed by the album's closer ("Shangri-La"), which definitely seems to give some closure to the album.

edited 21st Sep '11 10:36:35 PM by 0dd1

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alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher from Ëa Since: Nov, 2009
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#14: Sep 21st 2011 at 10:33:43 PM

A lot of Blind Guardian's stuff, but in particular Nightfall in Middle-Earth. Both for the lyrics and the sound of the songs.

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#15: Sep 21st 2011 at 10:36:58 PM

Edited my above post for great justice.

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