Albums You Think Are Absolutely Perfect

Riddle101

Master Of Puppets - Metallica
Appetite For Destruction - GnR
Alice In Chains- Dirt

Dublin Spur

Exile on Main Street - The Rolling Stones

Diabhalta

Malice wrote: »

I agree with Max_Power1. A lot of people seem to have a very loose definition of perfection and have decided it means "albums I really like".

To me they are all perfect... I don't see anything strange about thinking about more than one album from one band as perfect.

PickledLime

darconio wrote: »

Death - Symbolic



Cynic - Focus

Huzzah! Two of my most favourite albums ever committed to tape! As a natural link between the two, i consider Death's 'Human' to be one of the most perfect albums ever recorded and probably my all time favourite record too.

My own other 'perfect' albums (the criteria by which i consider them so is that when i play them, i almost never skip a track, and that i've considered each track at some point to be my favourite from the album):

Atheist - 'Piece of Time' and 'Unquestionable Presence'
Suffocation - 'Effigy of the Forgotten' and 'Pierced From Within'
Gorguts - 'Obscura' and 'The Erosion of Sanity'
Voivod - 'Dimension Hatross' and 'Killing Technology'
Nevermore - 'This Godless Endeavour'
Disincarnate - 'Dreams of the Carrion Kind'
Candlemass - 'Epicus Doomicus Metallicus'
Trouble - 'Psalm 9'
Bauhaus - 'Mask'
Camel - 'Mirage' and 'Moonmadness'
Meshuggah - 'Destroy Erase Improve'
Memfis - 'The Wind Up' (what the hell happened to these lads? They were bloody fantastic!)
Solitude Aeturnus - 'Beyond The Crimson Horizon'
Dead Kennedys - 'Plastic Surgery Disasters'
UK - 'UK'
Rush - '2112', 'A Farewell to Kings', 'Hemispheres', 'Permanent Waves', 'Moving Pictures', 'Hold Your Fire' and 'Clockwork Angels' (i'm not a fanboy, i swear!)
ELP - 'Brain Salad Surgery'
Napalm Death - 'From Enslavement To Obliteration', 'Enemy of the Music Business'
Dark Angel - 'Time Does Not Heal'
Terrorizor - 'World Downfall'
Watchtower - 'Control and Resistance'
Fugazi - 'Repeater'
Obscura - 'Omnivium'

In truth, i could be typing albums just within the metal/rock genre for the next hour and could probably do the same when i tail off into jazz, fusion, electronic, soul, funk, disco, pop, etc.

Hell, i enjoy my music and i'm not apologising to anyone for it!

Barr125

Metallica-S&M
Breaking Benjamin-Phobia
Pantera-Cowboys From Hell
Disturbed-Ten Thousand Fists
Evanescence-Fallen

I'm sure there are loads more floating around in my mind/iPod so I will add laters.

Barr125

Malice wrote: »

I agree with Max_Power1. A lot of people seem to have a very loose definition of perfection and have decided it means "albums I really like".

From the OP: What I mean by perfect albums is albums that really amazing from start to finish with absolutely no bad or annoying songs that you would skip.

Everyone has different tastes in bands and even in the same bands discography, I really doubt everyone is going to unanimously pick the same ''perfect'' album.

jay92

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

Katatonia - [/B]Dance of December Souls

Fantastic to see this in your list, Katatonia are such an under-rated band and should be alot bigger than they are today. Saying that their recent tour of North America has given them a much bigger fan base.

I will put every katatonia album into my list every album brings something to the table, the aesthetic of each lyric, the melancholic feel to Jonas's voice. If you have heard the song 'day' off the brave murder day album and listen to there newest single 'dead letters' you will see how much the band has transformed in the past decade or so. I,ll give my top 5 for now not all katatonia

Album 1 Brave murder day (katatonia
Album 2 Night is the new day (katatonia)
Album 3 And justice for all... (metallica)
Album 4 Still life (opeth)
Album 5 The incident(porcupine tree)

General Relativity

Didn't read the thread so bound to be mentioned before

Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Led Zepplin IV -
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
DSOTM - Pink Floyd

Panzer Paddy

Burzum - filosofem
opeth - damnation
katatonia - night is the new day
bolt thrower - Honour, Valor, Pride

ArseLtd

Megadeth Rust in Peace
Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise
Decapitated Winds of Creation, Nihility
Death Individual Thought Patterns, Human
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Devin Townsend Accelerated Evolution
Napalm Death Enemy of The Music Business

By perfect I mean I would listen to these back to front and enjoy every minute.

Angron

Oh hey, didn't realise Cannabis Corpse released another album since "The Weeding", must check that out.

lisatiffany

To me anyways these would be some on the list

InFlames - (all of them!)
Slayer - god hates us all
Slipknot - subliminal verses
Rob Zombie - hellbilly deluxe
Metallica - master of puppets / and justice for all
DevilDriver - the fury of our makers hand
Marilyn Manson - antichrist superstar
Alestrom -black sails at midnight (don't ask me why I don't even like the sea)
Rammstein - best of
Satyricon - now diabolical
Dimmu Borgir -in sorte diaboli / death cult armageddon
Chimaira - self titled
Children of Bodom -are you dead yet
Lamb of God - sacrament
Mudvayne - lost and found
Soulfly - dark ages
Machine Head - the blackening (most of my friends hated it)
System of a Down - toxicity

I sometimes see a perfect album as something that's been with me some part of my life because it perfectly related to what was going on at the time, not all the albums there would count but a few would. Not as old school as others lists either I'm sure. = )

ArseLtd

Denny M wrote: »

Oh hey, didn't realise Cannabis Corpse released another album since "The Weeding", must check that out.

Definitely do

Joe_Dull

lisatiffany wrote: »

To me anyways these would be some on the list

InFlames - (all of them!)
Lamb of God - sacrament
System of a Down - toxicity

This! You! You're awesome!

Gmol

Appetite GNR --- not mad about a lot of it but a brilliant album
Led Zep 2---- Nothing to say
Rumours ---- Fleetwood mac
Doolittle Pixies
Bad Rep --- Thin Lizzy
Jailbreak ---- Thin Lizzy
Hot Fuzz ---- Killers
Harvest---- Neil Young

ozzy jr

Gmol wrote: »

Appetite GNR --- not mad about a lot of it but a brilliant album

So not absolutely perfect then

PearlLedbetter

I love so many albums but for me Lateralus by Tool is absolutely perfect. Truely amazing album!

Max Power1

PearlLedbetter wrote: »

I love so many albums but for me Lateralus by Tool is absolutely perfect. Truely amazing album!

Marmite is a perfect taste clearly....

sparrowcar

Pearl Jam -Ten
GnR - appetite
RATM- RATM

lisatiffany

One I have to add to my list

HELL - human remains


The artwork too is pretty much perfect.

Elrollo

lisatiffany wrote: »

One I have to add to my list

HELL - human remains


The artwork too is pretty much perfect.

Seconded! Not a bad song on the album and saw them earlier on, what a gig! Super fun!

Hawkerine

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 89-92
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Christy Moore- Ride On
Nurse With Wound - A Chance Meeting On A Dissecting Table of a Sewing Machine and an Umbrella
AFI - Sing the Sorrow
Celldweller - Wish Upon a Blackstar

el tel

Aerosmith - Toys in The Attic
Led Zeppelin IV

Mental Mickey

Barr125 wrote: »

Metallica-S&MBreaking Benjamin-Phobia
Pantera-Cowboys From Hell
Disturbed-Ten Thousand Fists
Evanescence-Fallen

I'm sure there are loads more floating around in my mind/iPod so I will add laters.

Not perfect, but pretty good.

PickledLime

lisatiffany wrote: »

One I have to add to my list

HELL - human remains

The artwork too is pretty much perfect.

I keep meaning to buy this, must do so next time i spot it.

Think i've a new entry to my list - Thulcandra's 'Under A Frozen Sun'. Been listening to it almost non-stop for over a week. The CD hasn't left the hifi, it's the first thing i put on at the computer when i sit down at it and it's also the go-to album on my mp3 player, so it's certainly doing something right

PickledLime

ArseLtd wrote: »

Megadeth Rust in Peace
Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise
Decapitated Winds of Creation, Nihility
Death Individual Thought Patterns, Human
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Devin Townsend Accelerated Evolution
Napalm Death Enemy of The Music Business

By perfect I mean I would listen to these back to front and enjoy every minute.

Surely you don't include 'Info Dump'?

Cruel Sun

Doolittle -Pixies
Nevermind -Nirvana
Automatic For The People -REM
Ten -Pearl Jam
Carnavas -Silversun Pickups

G.K.

Big Star - #1 Record
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish
Judas Priest - British Steel
The Byrds - Mr. Tambouine Man

xerces

PearlLedbetter wrote: »

I love so many albums but for me Lateralus by Tool is absolutely perfect. Truely amazing album!

Agreed, it's going on my list...

xerces

I don't know if there's such a thing as an absolutely perfect album, but for the sake of a post and a bit of fun, I decided to sit down and compile a list of albums that I think are pretty damn flawless. It's all subjective of course, this is what I came up with:

2pac - All Eyez On Me
Anathema - Judgement
Bjork - Greatest Hits
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission
Brand New - The Devil & God Are Raging Inside Me
Brian Eno - Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Burial - Burial
Cynic - Re-Traced
Deftones - White Pony
Dredg - El Cielo
Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
GZA - Liquid Swords
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
James LaBrie - Static Impulse
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Leftfield - Leftism
Loscil - Plume
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
Radiohead - Kid A
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
System Of A Down - Toxicity
The Fugees - The Score
This Will Destroy You - Tunnel Blanket
Tool - Lateralus <- Yes, some may consider this pretentious wanky nonsense, but it's done pretty damn perfectly imo :P

I hope I discover more that I can add to such a list.