Albums that you consider "perfect"...

[hills1234]

Top three ...

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Yes - Going for the One
Pink Floyd - DSOTM

 

[Muddslide]

Kudos to Matt Till. That is an awesome list!

Aside from bass-specific reasons for loving an album, I'll list these, though it's certainly not complete and there are lots of things I'll be forgetting:

Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music (seriously)
Skullflower: Last Shot at Heaven
Black Sabbath: all of the first four albums
Alice Cooper: Easy Action, Love It To Death, Killer, Billion Dollar Babies
Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking tiger Mountain
Devo: the first three albums
Mission of Burma: vs.
Jesus Lizard: Goat
The Stooges: Stooges, Fun House, Raw Power
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted By Language, Wonderful and Frightening World
Melvins: Bullhead, Eggnog, Lysol
Codeine: Frigid Stars
Flaming Lips: In a Priest-Driven Ambulance
Syd Barrett: Madcap Laughs and Barrett
Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection, Madman Across the Water
Jimi Hendrix Experience: Axis-Bold as Love
Power of the Spoken Word: The Language of a Dying Breed
Velvet Underground: ...and Nico, White Light/White Heat, 3rd Album
Funkadelilc: Maggot Brain
Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
The Hair and Skin Trading Co.: Psychedelische Musique (Lava Surf Kunst)
Butthole Surfers: Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's SAC
Giant Sand: Center of the Universe
Residents: Commercial Album
Suicide: 1st Album
Simply Saucer: Cyborgs Revisited
Chrome: anything, but I'll go with Half Machine Lip Moves
Debris: Static Disposal
Helios Creed: Boxing The Clown
The Ventures: Telstar
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street
Wall of Voodoo: Dark Continent, Call of the West
Can: Tago Mago
Dwarves: Blood, Guts & P*ssy

...man, I have to switch my brain off for a bit...

 

[superfunk47]

Floyd - DSOTM, WYWH, Animals, the Wall
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Rush - 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures, S&A, Permanent Waves
Paul Simon - Graceland
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Jaco Pastorius - S/T
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Pearl Jam - Ten
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Giant Steps

I could probably go on, but there's not a thing I'd change about any of those

 

[SpaceYourBass]

Tool- Aenima (Chancellor is a beast)
Sublime- 40 Oz to Freedom (Eric Wilson is my all-time favorite)
Beatles- Abbey Road (nuff said)
Allman Brothers- Stand Back Anthology (a compilation with some live stuff, f-ing killer bass on In Memory of Elizabeth Reed)
RATM- Renegades (gotta love how they cover old hip-hop jams)
Robert Randolph- Unclassified (can you say killer bass)
Grateful Dead- American Beauty (my first dead album and still my favorite)

so many I could name...

 

[Mcfunkinstein]

blood sugar sex magik and californication from red hot chili peppers(not to mention all albums before and after)
make yourself and morning view-incubus
cant stand the weather-Stevie ray vaghan and double trouble
identity crisis-trice
superunknown-soundgarden
siren song of the counter culture-rise against
hot fuse-the killers
believe what we tell you-the sleeping
drunken lullabies and swagger- flogging molly
say hello to sunshine-finch
every beastie boy albums
crisis-alexisonfire
answer that and stay fashionable-AFI
thats all i can think of right now

 

[Matt R.]

Marvin Gaye-What's Going On

 

[MetroBass]

Dark side of the moon
Wish you were here
Pornography
London calling
Audioslave
Wouldn't you miss me
Anthology - Ten years after
Anthology - Duane Allman
Legend
Carnegie Hall - Chicago
Boston

 

[the_fonz]

Bongripper's Hate Ashbury
perfect from start to finish
i've had it on repeat for the past few hours

 

[Thunderthumbs73]

Marvin Gaye-What's Going On

+1

That album is a gift that keeps on giving. Seriously.

 

[themadpiper]

I've got quite a few albums that I think are amazing start to finish. First one that comes to my mind is Iron Maiden's Piece of Mind. Also Metallica's Master of Puppets.

Others of the top of my head:
Days of the New - Green
Kamelot - Epica, The Black Halo
Rush - Moving Pictures

 

[phat daddy]

l+1000 on Blood Sugar Sex Majik
Sailing the Seas of Cheese- Primus
Skin Tight- Ohio Players
Appetite for Destruction- Gn'R
Master of Puppets- Metallica
The Real Thing- Faith No More
Dark Side of the Moon- Pink Floyd
The Wall- Pink Floyd
Jagged Little Pill- Alanis Morissette

 

[wld3]

It seems this may have turned into a "name a lot of albums you like" thread rather than an "albums that you consider perfect" one. But, in any case...

I didn't read through all the back posts for this thread, so this may have been named already; if not, it should have been:

A Pleasant Shade of Gray - Fates Warning

Perfection. Must be listened to from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing musically and lyrically.

 

[Matt Till]

It seems this may have turned into a "name a lot of albums you like" thread rather than an "albums that you consider perfect" one. But, in any case...

I didn't read through all the back posts for this thread, so this may have been named already; if not, it should have been:

A Pleasant Shade of Gray - Fates Warning

Perfection. Must be listened to from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing musically and lyrically.

My list was all albums I consider perfect, I know that much. But I'm more quoting this to +1 Fates Warning. NORMALLY, I don't get into this sort of Prog Metal, it normally comes off as super cheesy, but this album IS a masterpiece. It is one of those albums that really grabs ahold of you as your listening to it.

 

[Dr Stankface]

Anything by The Eagles.

 

[MarkusBass]

Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon

The End

+1 and U2 Joshua Tree.

 

[Kgoodrich]

 

[Thunderthumbs73]

It seems this may have turned into a "name a lot of albums you like" thread rather than an "albums that you consider perfect" one. But, in any case...

I didn't read through all the back posts for this thread, so this may have been named already; if not, it should have been:

A Pleasant Shade of Gray - Fates Warning

Perfection. Must be listened to from beginning to end. Absolutely amazing musically and lyrically.

My first response to this was on point, referencing two albums, and instead of a "list", I did answer the "why" part of the question too. My second response was regarding Marvin Gaye.

 

[rob4001va]

Most of these have been posted, but here we go anyway...

Yes - Close to the Edge
Rush - Moving Pictures
U2 - Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd - Dark Side and/or Wish You Were Here
Heart - Dreamboat Annie and/or Little Queen
Zeppelin - geez, who could pick just one
Police - Ghost in the Machine
Lynyrd Skynyrd - pronounced, or Second Helping
Beatles - Abbey Road
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Van Halen - 1st

(and for something completely different)
Anita Baker - Rapture

 

[Stumbo]

Chicago Transit Authority

 

[Cinimod]

De-loused in the comatorium by the mars volta is what i would consider to be a perfect album. The dynamics in it are spot on and the riffs are like nothing i have heard before.