Near-/ perfect albums?

Dave!

Hey folks,

What albums have you got that you can just listen to over and over and love every song? Or at least most songs?

For me at the moment I'm thinking:

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
The Script - the Script :eek:

and I know it's kind of cheating since it's a Best Of but

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend

And not perfect (I just can't like 'Malted Milk' ), but close:

Eric Clapton - Unplugged

MagicMarker

Near perfect... Dark Side of the Moon - damn clocks!!!!

I don't think there's any such thing as a ''perfect'' album.

li@mo

The Killers - Hot Fuss

1huge1

Led Zeppelin IV

The Doors-The Doors

Rage Against the machine-Rage against the machine/battle of los angeles

All of the police albums

Nirvana-Nevermind

so many more

Timans

Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On.

beardo81

Ok Computer - Radiohead

Captures every emotion known to man

Kinetic^

1huge1 wrote: »

Rage Against the machine-Rage against the machine/battle of los angeles

Nirvana-Nevermind

Epic proportions of win right there!!

Green Day - Dookie

Prodigy - Experience

Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales

Defo way more........

OPENROAD

Gary Barlow Twelve Months Eleven Days

RichTea

I think The 59 Sound by Gaslight Anthem is a damn near perfect album. It flows really, really well from track to track.
Other than that Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey by Springsteen, Funeral by Arcade Fire and The World Won't Listen by the Smiths deserve a big mention.

xOxSinéadxOx

Kings of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak
Vampire Weekend
Strokes - Is This It?

tech77

Radiohead- The Bends.
I'm just remembering in my head how unbelievably good the guitars are in "Just" and "My Iron Lung" after listening to it again today.

J.S. Pill

I was just thinking this evening, back in the day when I actually had to buy tapes and CDs I'd listen to the albums I did have a lot more frequently and carefully. Now that I have thousands of albums at my fingertips I just don't get to know albums as well. I'm listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Right Now which is an awesome album but probably haven't played it in about 2 years.
(I'm sure this phenomenon has been discussed on these pages a million times before).

So most of the albums I consider near enough to 'perfect' would be albums I listened to when I was younger. Nowadays, I probably would consider Straight out of Compton perfect and change my mind a week later.

fryup

near perfect album?? ...it would have to be......

*******Rumours Fleetwood Mac********

dixiefly

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
Trouble In Paradise - Randy Newman
Born To Run - The Boss
Astral Weeks - Van
After The Goldrush Neil Young
Peter Gabriel 3

They dont make em like they used to.

musicmonky

timing is everything....
then ...
Unforgetable Fire / Achtung Baby by U2
Now...
OK Computer / In Rainbows by the Radiohead

xOxSinéadxOx

J.S. Pill wrote: »

I was just thinking this evening, back in the day when I actually had to buy tapes and CDs I'd listen to the albums I did have a lot more frequently and carefully. Now that I have thousands of albums at my fingertips I just don't get to know albums as well. I'm listening to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Right Now which is an awesome album but probably haven't played it in about 2 years.
(I'm sure this phenomenon has been discussed on these pages a million times before).

So most of the albums I consider near enough to 'perfect' would be albums I listened to when I was younger. Nowadays, I probably would consider Straight out of Compton perfect and change my mind a week later.

yeah that's true, when you actually had to go and buy it you'd listen to it more and if you didn't like it you still listen to it again and give it a chance. I just delete something if I don't like it. The way we listen to music is definitely changing but I don't think we can really complain :P

thebigcheese22

Ten by Pearl Jam. ENd of! Also the sound quality should be drastically improved with the reissue next month

Also Superunknown by Soundgarden and Jar of Flies by Alice in Chains are near perfection

fated2pretend

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

KnifeWRENCH

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (apart from "Dusty And Pistol Pete" this album truly seriously is amazing.)

Radiohead - In Rainbows (9 brilliant songs out of 10, but I don't really like "Faust Arp")

The Breeders - Mountain Battles (love all the songs on it apart from the title track)

Bjork - Homogenic ("Hunter" and "Unravel" are very good but not quite brilliant, and I'm not a big fan of "All Neon Like". The rest is truly magnificent though.)

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Insect Overlord

Nirvana- Unplugged
BellX1- Flock; Music in Mouth
Arcade Fire- Funeral
The Killers- Sam's Town
Muse- Absolution
David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggie Stardust and the Spiders From Mars

I'm sure I'll think of more, but these were the first 6 albums that popped into my head which I can listen to without having to skip a single song.

g5fd6ow0hseima

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Neil Young - Harvest

Jimdagym

Jeff buckley - grace.
Morrissey - viva hate.
NIN - pretty hate machine
Foo fighters - there is nothing left to lose.

Kold

Radiohead - In Rainbows, OK Computer, Amnesiac, OK Computer
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
NMH - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea
Nas - Illmatic
Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Mogwai - Mr Beast

cautioner

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The National - Boxer
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Pearl Jam - Yield
System of a Down - Toxicity
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

There are very few songs I dislike altogether in those. They're also nice and cohesive, especially Clarity, Boxer and Takk...

delbertgrady

dixiefly wrote: »

Good Old Boys - Randy Newman
They don't make 'em like they used to.

Absolutely! When I saw this thread, that was the first album that sprung to mind. (I'm thinking your login is a Land of Dreams reference as well)

Photi

The album that immediately sprung to mind was Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.

overexcitedaj

Tool - 10,000 days
Radiohead - Ok Computer
John frusciante - shadows collide with people
Ruarri Joseph - Tales of grime and grit ( superb album )
They are the ones i cant stop listening to at the moment but as an earlier poster said. Timing is everything. That list will be completly different in a year :P

nyarlothothep

radiohead bends ok computer
atdi relationships of command
TMV-Frances the Mute, Deloused
NIN-Downward Spiral
The Darkness-Permission to Land

Weepsie

some pretty average albums listed in this so far and some good not perfect. anyway-

These are close but not quite

Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible
Beatles - Abbey Road, White Album, Rubber Soul & Revolver (could make a case for nearly all the albums)
Elbow - Asleep in the Back, Leaders of the Free World & Seldom Seen Kid (I'd almost put all 4 in)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Wilco - Yanke Hotel Foxtrot
Radiohead - Kid A, Ok Comput & The Bends
Rory Gallagher - Studio L Blues
Kinks -The kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society
Bowie - The rise and fall of Ziggy
Pink Floyd - Dark side...

The one perfect is a best of

Sam Cooke - Portrait of a legend, 30 songs of 100% quality

MrsJohnMurphy

Pixies - Doolittle

1. "Debaser" – 2:52
2. "Tame" – 1:55
3. "Wave of Mutilation" – 2:04
4. "I Bleed" – 2:34
5. "Here Comes Your Man" – 3:21
6. "Dead" – 2:21
7. "Monkey Gone to Heaven" – 2:56
8. "Mr. Grieves" – 2:05
9. "Crackity Jones" – 1:24
10. "La La Love You" – 2:43
11. "No. 13 Baby" – 3:51
12. "There Goes My Gun" – 1:49
13. "Hey" – 3:31
14. "Silver" – 2:25
15. "Gouge Away" – 2:45


mjm

Chaosangel

near perfect albums ay...

Tool-Lateralus
Kyuss-Blues For The Red Sun
Sleep-Holy Mountain
Desert Sessions Volume 1 and 2