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Albums that you consider "perfect"...

All these Albums are fantastic from start to finish:
(in no particular order)

Strength in Numbers - The Telluride Sessions (Edgar Meyer on Upright)

John Hartford: Nobody Knows What You Do (Roy Huskey Jr. on Upright)

Roy Bookbinder: Bookeroo

Jorma Kaukonen: Quah

Neil Young: Comes A Time

Pink Floyd: Obscured By Clouds

Grateful Dead: Reckoning

Stevie Wonder: Innervisions

Parliament Funkadelic: Free Your Mind (and Your Ass Will Follow)

Bela Fleck: Tales from The Acoustic Planet I and II

Frank Zappa: Apostrophe

David Grisman: Mondo Mando (Rob Wasserman on Upright Bass)

Leftover Salmon: Euphoria (Ty North on Modulus Bass)

String Cheese Incident: Born on the Wrong Planet

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Jazz is Dead: Blue Light Rain (Alphonzo Johnson on Bass)

Beatles: White Album

Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Play the Blues

Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Blvd

King Crimson: Discipline

Yes: Close to the Edge

Doc Watson: Good Deal

Hot Tuna: Burgers

Stones: Some Girls

Zeppelin: Physical Graffitti
 
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones - Outbound
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Americana Deluxe (also known as their self-titled album in many places, whatever)
Corvus Corax - Cantus Buranus
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Diablo Swing Orchestra - The Buther's Ballroom
Haggard - Eppur Si Muove
King Crimson - Islands
King Crimson - The Power to Believe
Lemon Jelly - Lost Horizons
Nightwish - Once
Orphaned Land - Mabool
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Pink Floyd - Relics
Squarepusher - Hello Everything
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Yes - Classic Yes

Haha, I listen to a lot of different stuff . . .
 
every Led Zeppelin album
Tool - Lateralus
Pink Floyd - DSOTM and WYWH
Cream - Disraeli Gears
The Beatles - White Album
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mastodon - Leviathan
Haydn's 104th Symphony
The Who - Tommy

and many others, but it's late and I need sleep.
 
I'd have to say my perfect albums are, Mudvayne's LD50 and Coheed's In keeping secrets of silent earth 3 and Good apollo im burning star volume 1.

I have consistently listened to Ld50 as well as every coheed album since purchasing them, I cant get tired of mudvayne or coheed. Ryan Martini and Mike todd"s bass playing are both something to behold. Ryan's got mad skills and wide range of style's when it comes to his basslines, I cant wait for their next album to see what he does next. Coheed & Cambria is just amazing all around, their music traverses many genre's and styles while staying unique and familiar at the same time cuz it aint hard to tell what their influences are but they are still original nontheless. Plus Mudvayne's got music you can blow off some steam and bang your head to while coheed is nice to chill to as they have nice melodic songs as well as musically complex songs.

One honorable mention would be Alien Antfarms ANThology, cuz I think AAf is a very underrated band and i love their music, lyrics, bass, guitar, drumming, everythin, plus their songs are in my head all the time, which is probly one of their faults cuz a lot of their music is justg really catchy, nothing more, nothing less.

Another Honorable mention Would be Nonpoints To The Pain, cuz they are a very skilled band and I just love how they put their own latin spin on metal, it makes for some pretty interesting songs to say the least.(this went longer than expected)
 
For me:
The Old:

Led Zep: Presence
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Cream: Wheels Of Fire
The Allmand Bro Band: Live at the Fillmore

The Not So Old:

Rush: Signals
U2: Joshua Tree
Metallica: Master Of Puppets
Queen: The Game
Marillion: Script For a Jesters Tear

The New:

Alice In Chains- Unplugged
Moxy Fruvous - First Album
Gov't Mule: First Album
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Live at the Quick


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