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Albums that you consider "perfect"...

#262
Pantera- Far Beyond Driven
Pink Floyd- The Wall
Tool- Aenima
Mudvayne- LD50
Led Zep- I (all of them really)
Beatles- everything they ever did
Black Sabbath- pick one
Pearl Jam- Ten
Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies
The Mars Volta- Deloused
Dark New Day- 12 year silence
 
#264
It may take years before an album starts standing out in your mind as "perfect" rather than simply "excellent":

Steely Dan - Two Against Nature
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks - Orange Crate Art
Lewis Taylor - The Lost Album
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On
John Fahey - The Yellow Princess
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Scott Walker - Tilt
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
 
#267
nicole atkins-neptune city(my favorite album of the last 2 years)
wilco-a ghost is born
jeff buckley-grace
paul simon-graceland
the bogmen-life begins at 40 million
common-be
curtis mayfield-superfly
miles-kind of blue
the arcade fire-funeral
 
#269
BSSM - RHCP
Sailing the Seas of Cheese - Primus
Kind of Blue- Miles Davis
Moving Pictures - Rush
Nevermind - Nirvana
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Renegades - RATM
Try and Continuum - John Mayer
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
Led Zep IV

And while I'm just starting to get into them...Lateralus - Tool

And just as a note...I'm starting to find that much of the Deftones work is quite awesome...

I hope I wasn't to cliche...but if I was, these albums are classics for a reason..
 
#271
I don't know of any "perfect" albums. So many albums come very close but still some flaw or another keeps them from being perfect.

Radiohead's OK Computer is a great example. The whole album is so fantastic, but Electioneering doesn't really belong there and Fitter Happier just breaks up the flow of the album.

I really love Grace by Jeff Buckley, and it's very nearly perfect. I so wish Eternal Life hadn't been on that album though. I made my own backup copy minus Eternal Life and I enjoy it so much more.

Sgt. Pepper has "Good Morning, Good Morning" on it. Even John Lennon hated that song.

It seems funny, but I've gotten to a point in my life now where if I read a negative review of a record, it seems to have so much more truth to it than a positive one. It's hard to see the flaws of a piece of music clearly and still love it passionately at the same time.
 
#274
Metallica-Master of Puppets

Every song is excellent on its own. The album is very cohesive as a whole, each song sets up the next. Collectively, I don't think an album of this magnitude will ever be reached again.

Last album of Cliff Burton's, coincidence? I think not!:bassist:
 
#275
U2 - Joshua Tree
Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack (admit it, you love it!)
DC Talk - Jesus Freak
King's X - Ear Candy
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Herbie Hancock - River
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Sly & The Family Stone - Anthology

These are just a few that cross my mind. There are lots but these albums were pretty great in their respective genres and IMO perfect all the way around (no throw away or junk tracks).
 
#279
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine
Great simple dancey rock with a huge sound. The production takes a little getting used to, but it fits the material perfectly. It's like an entire album about having sex. Not a single bad song on it.

Mogwai - Rock Action
Mogwai - Come On, Die Young
Mogwai - Zidane
Front to back, all three of these are pure masterpieces. A band of Mogwai's calibre is almost expected to release one perfect album in their lifetime. They've done THREE, and I can't say a bad thing about any one of them. Even the "filler tracks" on Rock Action are amazing.

Opeth - Blackwater Park
The crown jewel of progressive death metal. I'm a big fan of Damnation, Ghost Reveries and My Arms, Your Hearse as well, but it's hard to compare anything to Blackwater Park.

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Jesus! These guys haven't made a bad album ever, but then they come out with the BEST album in progressive rock history, IMO. Deadwing and In Absentia would be here instead, but Blank Planet blows them out of the water.

Thom Yorke - The Eraser
I love Radiohead and all, but this is Thom Yorke's best work, bar none. Amazing production on an album full of hit singles, and the flow is perfect.

Tool - 10,000 Days
It used to be Aenima for me, but 10K definately ups the ante. I thought it was going to suck, too. Who knew?
 

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