Near-/ perfect albums?

cautioner

Weepsie wrote: »

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

Thank you for correcting us. I have seen teh light.

Black NG-60-90

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (No need to explain)
Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (A short album under 25 mins with one excellent song after another that you can listen to from start to finish over and over again. The only minus points were that the record company re-released it with their Mrs Robinson cover which ruined the natural flow of the album).
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Just sounds jaw-dropping)
At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

loyatemu

fated2pretend wrote: »

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

I downloaded this off emusic the other day, as it was number 1 on their best albums list, but its just not grabbing me at all.

Black NG-60-90 wrote: »

Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray

yes, short but beautiful - you could just rip it without the Mrs Robinson cover you know...

One I was listening to the other morning and I realised I had been listening to consistently for the last 15 years is Orbital's 2nd album (the "Brown" album) - probably the high-water-mark of 90s techno, and pretty much faultless.

AnonoBoy

MrsJohnMurphy wrote: »

Pixies - Doolittle
mjm

Oh hush Kim - you would say that.

cautioner

loyatemu wrote: »

I downloaded this off emusic the other day, as it was number 1 on their best albums list, but its just not grabbing me at all.



yes, short but beautiful - you could just rip it without the Mrs Robinson cover you know...

One I was listening to the other morning and I realised I had been listening to consistently for the last 15 years is Orbital's 2nd album (the "Brown" album) - probably the high-water-mark of 90s techno, and pretty much faultless.

I was the same, it takes a bit of work but I now love it. Slow-burners ftw.

dead air

Few of my favourite albums that I can play all the way through and enjoy every moment of:

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Nirvana - Nevermind
Led Zeppelin 3
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead

There's loads more I'm sure...

liah

Sigur Rós - Takk..
Pink Floyd - The Wall

I usually don't listen to albums as a whole. I'm pretty ADD when it comes to music and need change a lot, but these two albums are so perfect I have no problems at all listening to them in their entirety. Just beautifully pulled together, well-constructed, and in the case of The Wall, a fantastic story.

SaintHubbins

There are very few albums I can listen to all the way through and enjoy without being tempted to skip. Hmmmm

The Beatles - Rubber Soul, Abbey Road (No sgt pepper's though - damn you George and your headache inducing sitars)
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (best sleazy hard rock album ever)
Boston - Boston (harmonies make my head fuzzy)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here (The Wall is prob. my fav. Floyd album but I'd always skip a couple of tunes)
Weezer - Weezer (blue album) (I'm not a huge fan of theirs but that first album is all killer. No weak tracks)
Chronicle - Creedence (Compilation album yes but every song is brilliant)
Automatic for the people - REM (beautiful music)
Tunnel Of Love - Bruce Springsteen (Again I'm not a huge Bruce fan but I really dig every tune on this album, much more so than even the best of Bruce album)
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill (just one of those albums I can slap on and drift away with, like Floyd)

Ah whatever happened to good music? The Killers? The Arctic Monkeys? Coldplay? Keane? U2? I **** 'em!!!

af_thefragile

Tool - Aenima
Tool - 10,000 days
NIN - The Downward Spiral
NIN - The Fragile
Thrice - Vheissu
Thrice - The Alchemy Index
David Bowie - Earthling

can't think of anymore for now...

DarkJager

Mer Der Noms - A Perfect Circle

Close on being one of the finest albums I've ever had the pleasure to own. Every track is perfect and unique.I haven't heard melody and instrumental arrangements done as well as this since.

af_thefragile

DarkJager wrote: »

Mer Der Noms - A Perfect Circle

Close on being one of the finest albums I've ever had the pleasure to own. Every track is perfect and unique.I haven't heard melody and instrumental arrangements done as well as this since.

I absolutely love 3 libras.
Thats such an amazing song. Maynard is an absolute legend!!

Tawfee

Radiohead - The Bends
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Portishead - Dummy

Insect Overlord

Rodrigo y Gabriella - self-titled album

Amazotheamazing

Not going to list out the many Beatles/Beach Boys/Dylan/Bowie/Springsteen/Young albums that merit the title, and focus on new-ish music.

For me, the most perfect album of the last few years is the Hold Steady's "Boys and Girls in America", just an astonishing album, imo. I know there's some that will say it's not edgy or innovative enough but for sheer strength of the songs it's great.

Peteee

Explosions in the Sky - The earth is not a cold dead place.
God is an Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright.

Even after having these two albums for more then 2 years I'll still come back to them every few weeks.

matrixroyal

coldplay - rush of blood to the head
morrissey - vauxhall and i
elbow - seldom seen kid
ratm - rage against the machine
george michael - listen without prejudice
beatles - abbey road
stone temple pilots - core
u2 - achtung baby

picked this eclectic bunch because you can play them and one song seems to flow into the next and they are genuinely a collection of songs blended into an album, versus most albums today which are a collection of singles and a few fillers added in later.

jossnjuice

hot fuss- the killers
born to run- springsteen
bat out of hell- meat loaf
david gray- white ladder
jools holland- small world big band
electric six- Fire
delorentos- in love with detail
the mighty stef- 100 midnights

Kold

Actually I'm gonna come out and say that Radiohead's Amesiac is probably one of the finest arrangements of tracks I've ever heard.

LiNgWiStIkZ

Songs in the Key of Life, for sure!


Stevie Wonder created this album in the 70's, and nearly all of them are timeless classics:)

ScholesyIsGod

The Libertines - The Libertines

The Libertines - Up The Bracket

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform

Dirty Pretty Things - Waterloo To Anywhere

Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Mothers Milk, Californication, By The Way

Xavi6

Dave! wrote: »

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

:eek: I can't believe that made the thread, let alone the OP. Most overrated album of 2008 by a mile

An File wrote: »

Muse- Absolution

If only it didn't have 'Sing For Absolution' on it. Other than that it's class.

Alistair Strong Pedestal wrote: »

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

+1

cautioner wrote: »

Jimmy Eat World - Clarity

I was gonna say 'Bleed American'. Their best album imo.

ScholesyIsGod wrote: »

Stereophonics - Just Enough Education To Perform

Another surprise there. Even they admit it wasn't close to their best worth. Certainly not a patch on the two cracking albums that preceeded it.

Id probably throw in -

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Lit - A Place In The Sun
The Offspring - Smash
Garbage - Version 2.0
King Adora - Vibrate You
Bon Jovi - Crossroads :cool:

Nightwish

I would have to say the album thats closest to perfect in my ears is "Beyond the Veil" by Tristania (not that many will have heard it). It is the epitome of gothic metal. A beautiful, dark, epic, doom laden album with sublime vocals and impeccibly crafted melodies. Each and every song is an outstanding track. So much so I cannot pick a favourite.

ScholesyIsGod

Another surprise there. Even they admit it wasn't close to their best worth. Certainly not a patch on the two cracking albums that preceeded it.



On the first post in the thread it says : What albums have you got that you can just listen to over and over and love every song? Or at least most songs?

And thats what i think of JEEP i love it, it may not be everybody elses cup of tea but its one of my favourites and i prefer it to both Word Gets Around and Performance and Cocktails.

fcleere

led zeppelin II, III, IV
have never been so engrossed in any other albums.

squeeze my lemon baby....

froosh69

I acually can't believe no-one has mentioned 4 albums that changed my life-

RHCP- Blood Sugar Sex Magik
The Clash - London Calling
Public Enemy- Takes a Nation of millions to hold us back

and, of courese, possibly the greatest album to ever reach no1:

Micheal Jackson - BAD

HiTecRedneck

Radiohead - The Bends. Definately one the greats.

Kevster

There have only been three (excluding greatest hits):

Metallica - The 'Black' album
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Avril Lavigne - Let Go

OPENROAD

Kevster wrote: »

Avril Lavigne - Let Go

+1

df1985

oh god OP, the script, please tell me thats a joke....

oh no wait, i heard their performance at the childline concert was simply groundbreaking.....

cautioner

df1985 wrote: »

oh god OP, the script, please tell me thats a joke....

oh no wait, i heard their performance at the childline concert was simply groundbreaking.....

boards need a "thumbs down" button badly.

For you, btw, not the OP. OP's supa-fly.