Near-/ perfect albums?

Insect Overlord

Xavi6 wrote: »

Muse - Origin of Symmetry

Kevster wrote: »

Metallica - The 'Black' album

2 fantastic albums here, I'd add them both to my earlier list.

holton

froosh69 wrote: »

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

Just listened to RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik today. What a fantastic album and the lyrics are interesting too!

New Order - Substance. I know it consists of all their singles up to 1987 (including b-sides), but I just think it's an amazing album.

Others include:
White Stripes - Elephant
Breeders - Last Splash
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

theboat

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the aeroplane over the sea
Bob Dylan - Bringing it all back home
Radiohead - Hail to the thief (really underrated/unknown...but fantastic, imo)
Kíla - Tóg é go bog é

longshanks

no mention of james brown or marvin gaye? racists the lot of ye

ShaneU

Arcade Fire - Funeral

cautioner

^How did I forget it?

thewheel2.0

David Gray - White Ladder
System of a down- Toxcity
+44 - When your heart stops beating
Audioslave - their 3 albums

And a load more already mentioned nirvana, REM, Niel Young, Rage against, led zepplin, the list goes on

jill_valentine

Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins, as mentioned earlier, is one for me, and it doesn't come up enough in these threads. I don't mean to do a whole "Hurr, I'm more indie than u!" thing, but dammit, that album is very underrated.

Funeral by Arcade Fire is about as perfect as it gets, IMHO.

Oh, and I confess, before God and all, I never skip a track on Hot Fuss. The Killers were good once, I don't care what anyone says.

Mental Mickey

Master Of Puppets by Metallica, or Appetite For Destruction by GnR.

cautioner

jill_valentine wrote: »

Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins, as mentioned earlier, is one for me, and it doesn't come up enough in these threads. I don't mean to do a whole "Hurr, I'm more indie than u!" thing, but dammit, that album is very underrated.

Funeral by Arcade Fire is about as perfect as it gets, IMHO.

Oh, and I confess, before God and all, I never skip a track on Hot Fuss. The Killers were good once, I don't care what anyone says.

It's embarrassing to like the Killers now? I honestly can't keep up with the snobbery.

L'prof

cautioner wrote: »

It's embarrassing to like the Killers now? I honestly can't keep up with the snobbery.

I liked the killers until this symbolic piece of writing:

And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancers?

Absolutely atrocious!

cautioner

wikipedia wrote:

On the band's official website, the biography section states that Flowers is singing "Are we human, or are we dancer?" and also says that the lyrics were inspired by a disparaging comment made by Hunter S. Thompson.[9] In an interview with Rolling Stone, Flowers said that he was irritated over the confusion about the lyric and also that fans were unhappy with the song's dance beat: "It's supposed to be a dance song, [the beat] goes with the chorus...If you can't put that together, you're an idiot. I just don't get why there's a confusion about it."

Brandon Flowers just called you an idiot.

Creamy Goodness

weezer - blue album (pinkerton is my favourite but blue album is more accessible).

jimmy eat world - clarity (bleed american is a good album but it's pale compared to clarity).

biffy clyro - vertigo of bliss.

nirvana - in utero.

frightened rabbit - midnight organ fight.

sufjan stevens - come on and feel the illinoise.

final fantasy - has a good home.

cautioner

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

weezer - blue album (pinkerton is my favourite but blue album is more accessible).

jimmy eat world - clarity (bleed american is a good album but it's pale compared to clarity).

biffy clyro - vertigo of bliss.

nirvana - in utero.

frightened rabbit - midnight organ fight.

sufjan stevens - come on and feel the illinoise.

final fantasy - has a good home.

Clarity X10 tour is about halfway through I think... we should be there Creamy

Lynskey

Pink Floyd-DSOTM and pretty much anything by Radiohead, Arcade Fire, or Muse. I also agree that The Killers where good once before they succumbed to the watered-down, radio friendly "Electro Pop" type of music that sells well to the teenage population

L'prof

cautioner wrote: »

Brandon Flowers just called you an idiot.

I don't really care for what he thinks to be honest!

Hunter S. Thompson wrote:

We're raising a generation of dancers

I can really see what he was going for now, thanks for that :rolleyes:

Mr. Presentable

La's - The La's
Darkness on the edge of town - Bruce
Siamese Dream - Pumpkins

Mr. Presentable

Feck!

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys

jill_valentine

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

final fantasy - has a good home.

I cannot believe I forgot this one.

I will furthermore suggest Beirut's Gulag Orkestar.

Somebody gave me Bell Orchestre's Recording a Tape The Colour Of Light ages ago, and it's good enough to overcome it's achingly pretentious title and stupid cover. Perfect from start to finish.

Mr. Presentable

Pocket full........... - Spin Doctors

Kold

cautioner wrote: »

Brandon Flowers just called you an idiot.

Brandon Flowers is an idiot who writes nonsensical lyrics and sings them in the most awful smug voice over boring music.

lordgoat

Yankee - Wilco
Figure 8 - Elliott Smith
Too Rye Ay - Dexys

KnifeWRENCH

Xavi6 wrote: »

Garbage - Version 2.0

I love Garbage but that's probably my least favourite album by them. It definitely has some class tracks though ("Push It" never fails to thrill me.)
My favourite album by them is probably their least loved, beautifulgarbage. I would love to include it but unfortunately it's not quite "near perfect" enough.

jill_valentine wrote: »

Adore by the Smashing Pumpkins, as mentioned earlier, is one for me, and it doesn't come up enough in these threads. I don't mean to do a whole "Hurr, I'm more indie than u!" thing, but dammit, that album is very underrated.

Funeral by Arcade Fire is about as perfect as it gets, IMHO.

Woohoo - another Adore lover! It always amazes me how that album never gets the acclaim it deserves.
I actually bought Funeral recently, I've been meaning to get it for ages. Will listen to it properly sometime during the week.

jill_valentine

Slightly off topic, but one thing I think that polishes Funeral's overall perfection for me is the packaging. The way forward for old-fashioned music releases is, I think, to make sure that the physical object is something worth owning. I can't think of a better example of that than Funeral, it's a perfect compliment to the music on the disc. In Rainbows, for all it's pay-what-you-want hype, did a fantastic job of it too.

I don't know how bands can still justify whacking a disc into a jewel case and expecting to charge upwards of twenty euro for it.

fifth

RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, Stadium Arcadium, By The Way
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Audioslave - Audioslave
RATM - RATM, Battle of LA
Metallica - Metallica aka Black album
The Roots - Game Theory
Therapy? - Troublegum
Prodigy - Fat of the land
Qotsa - Songs for the deaf
Soundgarden - Superunknown

There's loads more..

cautioner

Kold wrote: »

Brandon Flowers is an idiot who writes nonsensical lyrics and sings them in the most awful smug voice over boring music.

He's also smoking hot though.

Dave!

Dunno if it was mentioned, but if you like the Pixies then Doolittle is a gem

DazMarz

Whitesnake - ''1987/Whitesnake''
White Lion - ''Pride''
Europe - ''The Final Countdown''
John Sykes - ''Bad Boy - Live!''
Extreme - ''Extreme''
Iron Maiden - ''Somewhere In Time''
Def Leppard - ''Hysteria''
Judas Priest - ''Defenders Of The Faith''
Van Halen - ''1984''
Vandenberg - ''Vandenberg''
Vandenberg - ''Heading For A Storm''
Quiet Riot - ''Metal Health''
Cinderella - ''Long Cold Winter''
Megadeth - ''Rust In Peace''
Megadeth - ''Countdown To Extinction''

I could listen to all the above albums forever!!!:D

liah

Forgot to include anything by Bob Dylan...

But Blonde on Blonde is class.

Insect Overlord

liah wrote: »

Forgot to include anything by Bob Dylan...

But Blonde on Blonde is class.

As is Highway 61 Revisited.