Albums You Think Are Absolutely Perfect

Passenger

I get Malice's point and I think that a 'perfect' album is a matter of subjectivity. For me, the perfect album is a matter of consistency in the quality of the songwriting, performance and production.

The perfect album may be measured by some people by the amount of songs that they like on said album. Is that the best barometer to gauge how "perfect" the album is though?

We all have albums that have many of our favorite songs on them but first you have to come up with some criteria that helps to define what exactly a perfect album actually is.

People seem to be just listing their favourite albums here though.

Nephilim Wolf

Malice wrote: »

But I wouldn't struggle, that's my point. There is no such thing as a perfect album.

I don't agree with that. I know perfect albums are very hard to come by, but maybe you should listen to these incredible albums. A perfect album for me is one that has no duff/filler songs on it, is very consistent, very very impressive from start to finish and the music is extremely memorable. I consider these albums to perfect from start to finish:

Rush - 2112/Hemispheres/Moving Pictures
Dissection - The Somberlain/Storm of The Light's bane
Empyrium - Songs of Misty Moors
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Fields of The Nephilim - The Nephilim/Elizium
Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness/To The Nameless Dead
Scorpions - In Trance
Emperor - In The Nightside Eclipse/Anthems To The Welkin at Dusk
Paradise Lost - Icon/Draconian Times
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast/Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Children of Bodom - Something Wild/Hatebreeder
In The Woods... - Omnio
The Cult - Love
To/Die/For - All Eternity/Epilogue
Cradle of Filth - Dusk And Her Embrace/Cruelty And The Beast
Agalloch - The Mantle/Ashes Against The Grain
Type O Negative - October Rust
U2 - Boy
Amorphis - ElegyTuonela/Silent Waters
Mercyful Fate - Melissa/Don't Break The Oath
Anathema - Eternity/Judgement
In Flames - The Jester Race
Megadeth - Youthanasia

lord lucan

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - King For A Day,Fool For A Lifetime.
Slayer - Reign In Blood

These albums are the only ones i can think of were i'd listen to the record from start to finish without reaching for the skip track button. They're not flawless but pretty damn close imo.

Somnus

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Iron Maiden[/B] - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Was just coming on to post that, I forgot it in my first post.

Absolutely brilliant album, every bit of it is pure class. Any rock/metal fan should give that album a go. I had completely forgotten how good it was until recently.

Kess73

Cavehill Red wrote: »

Yeah, someone mentioned 'Strays'? Bizarre choice. I thought it was desperately disappointing.

Twas I Love the album, and never tire of it.:)

Malice

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I don't agree with that.

I wouldn't expect you to since you started the thread . Like Passenger said, this is really just a thread of people listing their favourite albums or albums they really like.

jpm4

I any think of a single rock/metal album that is 100% perfect, but all the below are 99.9% for me anyway:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernal
Iron Maiden - Killers
Therapy? - Troublegum
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast

Tempted to put a few more in but I'll leave it at that.

Nephilim Wolf

Malice wrote: »

I wouldn't expect you to since you started the thread . Like Passenger said, this is really just a thread of people listing their favourite albums or albums they really like.

That maybe true, but on my list are albums that I consider to be perfect, and they also happen to be my favourites as well.;)

jpm4 wrote: »

I any think of a single rock/metal album that is 100% perfect, but all the below are 99.9% for me anyway:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Arcturus - La Masquerade Infernal
Iron Maiden - Killers
Therapy? - Troublegum
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast

Tempted to put a few more in but I'll leave it at that.

Classic albums indeed. I can't believe I forgot about 'The Voice of Steel' by Nokturnal Mortom from 2009, it's an utterly incredible album with no bad or okay songs on it. Every single song it really really amazing. I think it's the best symphonic black metal album I've heard since Emperor's and Dimmu Borgir's classic albums.

Max Power1

lord lucan wrote: »

Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Faith No More - King For A Day,Fool For A Lifetime.
Slayer - Reign In Blood

These albums are the only ones i can think of were i'd listen to the record from start to finish without reaching for the skip track button. They're not flawless but pretty damn close imo.

Good list IMO
I'd remove the Faith no more ones, and replace them with

Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Metallica - AJFA
Deicide - Legion
(maybe also a Motley Crue album)

And thats me!

ush

Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Trash
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Entombed - To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
Type O Negative - October Rust

Lemmy Scott

breffni666

Dr.Poca wrote: »

Was just coming on to post that, I forgot it in my first post.

Absolutely brilliant album, every bit of it is pure class. Any rock/metal fan should give that album a go. I had completely forgotten how good it was until recently.

A truly incredible album from start to finish. Musically, lyrically peerless for the 80s. Killers is also immense but Seventh Son tops them all. Maiden at their peak. Pity it was followed by No Prayer.......!

Napper Hawkins

Meshuggah - Chaosphere, Catch 33 & Nothing

Tool - Lateralus & 10,000 Days

Mastodon - Crack The Skye & Leviathan

Black Sabbath - Paranoid & Sabotage


Can listen to all of these right through.

Conall Cernach

Led Zeppelin IV surely ranks as one of the greats, each and every song is perfect.

Turtyturd

White Pony- Deftones
Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morissette
Sink or Swim- The Gaslight Anthem
New Wave- Against Me!
Issues- Korn
The Downward Spiral- NIN

ozzy jr

I think a lot of people are mixing up perfection with their favourites. While ...And Justice for All is a superb album, it's a long way from perfection.

ush

ozzy jr wrote: »

I think a lot of people are mixing up perfection with their favourites. While ...And Justice for All is a superb album, it's a long way from perfection.

Whats perfection? All of people will have listened to their fair share of metal and found their favourites. Surely they're gonna rank their favs as perfect. Now they have become dinosaurs since then, stopped listening to any new metal since Metallica attempted grunge, but that isn't gonna make their opinion less valid. You're never gonna have an album that everyone agrees with. You can pick holes in any classic album.

Physical Graffiti was most odds and sods left over from other Led Zep albums. The first four Led Zep albums rip off old blues players.

Metallica's black album is like a big mac. You can kinda crave it. But once you give it a try, it leaves you feeling empty.

You can find fault with any pointless list of favourites.

LH Pathe

Flesh Eaters - A Minute to Pray A Second to Die.

I, personally, am under the illusion it is perfect.

lord lucan

ozzy jr wrote: »

I think a lot of people are mixing up perfection with their favourites. While ...And Justice for All is a superb album, it's a long way from perfection.

Everybody's idea of perfection is different i suppose. Whilst i may think that Appetite For Destruction is perfect for example,others may not. Whether it be a particular tune or the production,some may find flaws in it. I'd be shocked if there was anything approaching consensus about an album being perfect.

Hide the Rum

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory
Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute (The studio stuff doesn't compare to Randy Rhoads live)
Pink Floyd - The Wall

LH Pathe

Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain

I am so deluded a fanboy in thinking this is just so damn flawless I genuinely believe it really is. And that its not just subjective and so everyone should. Else theres something wrong with them...

Stormageddon

There are lots of great albums that I would call my favourites that I can still look at objectively and find fault with. This thread is a matter of personal opinion, no more no less.
Saying that, off the top of my head

Queens of the stone age - Rated R
Faith No More - Angeldust

Pretty perfect imo.

RayCon

TheStickyBandit

Threat Signal - Under Reprisal (It's a shame the two albums after this were mediocre at best)


Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing


36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames

Joe_Dull

TheStickyBandit wrote: »

36 Crazyfists - Rest Inside the Flames

+1. What a fantastic album that is. Haven't been able to get into the rest of their stuff in quite the same way.

Max Power1

Conall Cernach wrote: »

Led Zeppelin IV surely ranks as one of the greats, each and every song is perfect.

Also ACDC Back in black.
While im not a massive ACDC fan, this album is perfect - no filler tracks, each and every track a standalone classic.

Max Power1

ozzy jr wrote: »

I think a lot of people are mixing up perfection with their favourites. While ...And Justice for All is a superb album, it's a long way from perfection.

Yes I think so

Turtyturd wrote: »

White Pony- Deftones
Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morissette
Sink or Swim- The Gaslight Anthem
New Wave- Against Me!
Issues- Korn
The Downward Spiral- NIN

TheStickyBandit

Joe_Dull wrote: »

+1. What a fantastic album that is. Haven't been able to get into the rest of their stuff in quite the same way.

Likewise mate! The other albums are a bit patchy imo.

Vic Vinegar

No album is absolutely perfect in my opinion but there are a few i would consider as being close (rock and metal albums only as it's the rock and metal forum)

Core - Stone Temple Pilots
Life Is Killing Me - Type O Negative
Mechanical Animals - Marilyn Manson
Warp Riders - The Sword
Wavering Radiant - Isis
An Endless Sporadic - An Endless Sporadic
Earth Vs The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts
White Pony - Deftones
Dirt - Alice In chains
Crime Slunk Scene - Buckethead

cena

I'll get stick for this but I liked the nickelback long road album