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Albums that you consider "perfect"...
- Thread starter SlavaF
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Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
The End
YESSSS!!!!!
Best. Album. EVER. PERIOD!!!!
*edit* Okay, not period more like semicolon. I also absolutely love Wish You were here by the Floyd. The interplay between the bass and synth at the beginning of WYWH parts 6-9. Another album I couldn't live without is Lateralus by Tool. I could just play tracks 9-11 (lateralus,disposition,reflection) for the rest of my life without getting tired of them. The way they blend really is nice.
The Who - Who's Next
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Ac/Dc - Highway to Hell
Van Halen - Van Halen 1
Boston - Boston
Yes - 90125 - you either like Trevor or you don't - I DO!
Green Day -American Idiot
Rush - Moving Pics
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
The Scorpions - Rock you like a Hurricane
Friday Night Live in San Francisco - Al Dimeloa, Paco and McLaughlin - Mediterranean Sundance OMG!
I should probably explain myself a bit... I simply don't care if the music is challenging to play, simple 3 chord progressions or so complicated that I can't get my head around it... I've been trained to think about what will sell and it really is the "music BUSINESS" that we are talking about.
Some of my favorite tunes are ones that most "musicians" frown on, but man at the end of the day, if it doesn't sell, or you don't think it will sell, then don't release it to the general public... keep it for yourself and your few admirers and have a blast!
fishheadjoe
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Ac/Dc - Highway to Hell
Van Halen - Van Halen 1
Boston - Boston
Yes - 90125 - you either like Trevor or you don't - I DO!
Green Day -American Idiot
Rush - Moving Pics
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
The Scorpions - Rock you like a Hurricane
Friday Night Live in San Francisco - Al Dimeloa, Paco and McLaughlin - Mediterranean Sundance OMG!
I should probably explain myself a bit... I simply don't care if the music is challenging to play, simple 3 chord progressions or so complicated that I can't get my head around it... I've been trained to think about what will sell and it really is the "music BUSINESS" that we are talking about.
Some of my favorite tunes are ones that most "musicians" frown on, but man at the end of the day, if it doesn't sell, or you don't think it will sell, then don't release it to the general public... keep it for yourself and your few admirers and have a blast!
fishheadjoe
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"Bringing Down The Horse" -The Wallflowers. It's like every note from every player is in exactly the right place.
I'm more inclined to go with "In A Glass House".
Steely Dan's "Aja" is perfect. Or as close to perfect as possible. And of course, "Katy Lied" and "Two Against Nature" are also perfect.
i absolutely disagree with that statement about keeping music to yourself and your buddies if it doesn't fit into a sales model. it's wrong. that kind of mentality is destroying humanity. that kind of mentality teaches people that creativity is not important. 'dont study art, you'll never be an artist.' 'the attention just encourages her.' 'dont share it if it won't make money.'
i think you should drastically rethink the way you look at life on the whole and what exactly you hold to high values. i could PM you some links to very interesting articles and talks about the role of education, marketing and creativity if you'd like to see a tiny fraction of the reasoning behind this reply.
anyway, 'perfect' albums?
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
Tasty - The Good Rats
Zappa In NY - Frank Zappa
City - Strapping Young Lad
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo - DEVO
Zeichnungen Des Patienten OT - Einstuerzende Neubauten
Extraordinary Machine - Fiona Apple
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
Catch 33 - Meshuggah
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Superunknown - Sound Garden
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
White Pepper / Quebec - Ween
my criteria for choosing these may not be to OP specs, i didn't read the whole thread. so i chose based on albums that had a cohesive feeling, well-written material and uh... i like them. that's probably the main part. because if i didn't like them they wouldn't be on this list.
ive already posted a list or two on here...but im going to just post as many as i can think of right now.
Stevie wonder-songs in the key of life
marvin gaye-whats going on
radiohead-the bends (i still prefer it over ok computer)
radiohead -ok computer(still makes the list as it is damn close, aside from that robot speaking segment)
rage against the machine-evil empire(i like the production a lot more than the self titled)
paul simon-graceland
beach boys-pet sounds
rolling stones-sticky fingers
rolling stones-exile on main street
talking heads-stop making sense
portishead-live in nyc
jeff buckley-grace
miles davis-kind of blue
leon redbone-blue and red
the bogmen-life begins at 40 million(most under rated band of the 90's...end of story!)
pearl jam-ten
rhcp-blood sugar sex magic
wilco-a ghost is born
wilco-yankee hotel foxtrot
bob marley-legend
jimi hendrix and the band of gypsies-live at the fillmore east
tool-aenima
rancid-and out come the wolves
mos def and talib kweli-blackstar
talib kweli-reflection eternal
notorious BIG-ready to die
the arcade fire-funeral
nicole atkins-neptune city
wu tang clan-enter the wu
the gza-liquid swords
ghostface killah-fishscale
jay-z-the black album
curtis mayfield-superfly soundtrack
and although it isnt one artist...i think the soundtrack to "trainspotting" is arranged perfectly. every song on it i associate more as being a part of that soundtrack than as a piece by the specific artist...it just works.
anyway...a pretty diverse list to say the least.
Stevie wonder-songs in the key of life
marvin gaye-whats going on
radiohead-the bends (i still prefer it over ok computer)
radiohead -ok computer(still makes the list as it is damn close, aside from that robot speaking segment)
rage against the machine-evil empire(i like the production a lot more than the self titled)
paul simon-graceland
beach boys-pet sounds
rolling stones-sticky fingers
rolling stones-exile on main street
talking heads-stop making sense
portishead-live in nyc
jeff buckley-grace
miles davis-kind of blue
leon redbone-blue and red
the bogmen-life begins at 40 million(most under rated band of the 90's...end of story!)
pearl jam-ten
rhcp-blood sugar sex magic
wilco-a ghost is born
wilco-yankee hotel foxtrot
bob marley-legend
jimi hendrix and the band of gypsies-live at the fillmore east
tool-aenima
rancid-and out come the wolves
mos def and talib kweli-blackstar
talib kweli-reflection eternal
notorious BIG-ready to die
the arcade fire-funeral
nicole atkins-neptune city
wu tang clan-enter the wu
the gza-liquid swords
ghostface killah-fishscale
jay-z-the black album
curtis mayfield-superfly soundtrack
and although it isnt one artist...i think the soundtrack to "trainspotting" is arranged perfectly. every song on it i associate more as being a part of that soundtrack than as a piece by the specific artist...it just works.
anyway...a pretty diverse list to say the least.
Opeth-Blackwater Park
Opeth-Morningrise
Opeth-Ghost Reveries
Katatonia- Dance of December Souls
Tool-Aenima
Tool-Undertow
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Darkthrone -A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Burzum- Philosophem
Pink Floyd-Meddle
Pink Floyd-Animals
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Entombed-Left Hand Path
Paradise Lost-Gothic
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
The Beatles-Revolver
Rolling Stones-Tattoo You
There are a million more i love, but i consider these perfect, couldnt be improved upon, High points in career etc.....
Opeth-Morningrise
Opeth-Ghost Reveries
Katatonia- Dance of December Souls
Tool-Aenima
Tool-Undertow
Rotting Christ - Thy Mighty Contract
Darkthrone -A Blaze In The Northern Sky
Burzum- Philosophem
Pink Floyd-Meddle
Pink Floyd-Animals
Black Sabbath- Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Entombed-Left Hand Path
Paradise Lost-Gothic
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
The Beatles-Revolver
Rolling Stones-Tattoo You
There are a million more i love, but i consider these perfect, couldnt be improved upon, High points in career etc.....
Buried at Sea - 'Migration'
Indian - 'The Unquiet Sky'
Rwake - 'Hell is a Door to the Sun'
Eyehategod - 'Southern Discomfort'
Deadbird - 'The Head and the Heart'
Isis - 'Red Sea'
Sleep - 'Jerusalem'
Electric Wizard - 'Dopethrone'
Zoroaster - 'self titled demo'
...lots more
Indian - 'The Unquiet Sky'
Rwake - 'Hell is a Door to the Sun'
Eyehategod - 'Southern Discomfort'
Deadbird - 'The Head and the Heart'
Isis - 'Red Sea'
Sleep - 'Jerusalem'
Electric Wizard - 'Dopethrone'
Zoroaster - 'self titled demo'
...lots more
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Jefferson Airplane - Crown Of Creation
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Bruce Cockburn: In the Falling Dark
Mark Schultz: His entire discography which is very similar across the board, but it's all excellent
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Loreena McKennitt: The Visit, and An Ancient Muse
Nightwish: Everything post Angels Fall First, which had a few good tracks as well (I heart this band so much, haha)
Jars of Clay: Jars of Clay
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Damien Rice: O
Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Scenes from a Memory
There's more, but I'm too busy listening to Oceanborn to care.
Edit: I'll add one more band: GORGOROTH! Why Gorgoroth? WHY NOT?!!!
Mark Schultz: His entire discography which is very similar across the board, but it's all excellent
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Loreena McKennitt: The Visit, and An Ancient Muse
Nightwish: Everything post Angels Fall First, which had a few good tracks as well (I heart this band so much, haha)
Jars of Clay: Jars of Clay
Massive Attack: Mezzanine
Damien Rice: O
Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Scenes from a Memory
There's more, but I'm too busy listening to Oceanborn to care.
Edit: I'll add one more band: GORGOROTH! Why Gorgoroth? WHY NOT?!!!
Oh, okay... I'll play along.
First off, there are no albums in this list that I feel are 9.9s or even 9.99999s out of 10; These Are Perfect Albums In My View From Stem To Stern.
Rush - Moving Pictures. ---Albums get heat for being too "popular" and being "overplayed on the radio". Fine. Every once in a while Joe Sixpack and Johnny DJ agree, and this is one of those instances. Moving Pictures was the right album at the right time from the right band. Three hits out of seven songs, a fourth that ALSO got its own video, a fifth that was the "watermark" for bands in high school (if your band could pull off YYZ, you were officially Royalty where I grew up), and two other songs that never got the credit they deserved. This album never bores me.
Boston - Boston. ---Everyone who is old enough to know who Walter Mondale is knows every song on this album. Straight up rock and roll with a never-before heard sound. Pure musical entertainment and fun for the whole family (especially if your family grew herb in the back room).
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs. ---This is the first - and only - time I ever agreed with the Academy on Oscar Night. The production is nothing short of exquisite. You can put this album on headphones, sit back, close your eyes, and stay awake for the whole thing, mesmerized. It's a little dark, but what would you expect from an album written about and inspired by the end of a relationship? A consummate musician and songwriter, Colvin manages to mix rock, pop, bluegrass, folk, and whatever the heck else she feels like at the time and not only sounds like herself (not a bad thing at any stretch), she creates an ALBUM rather than just a collection of songs. For a while I was beginning to believe that it was a lost art...
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales. ---It's almost like he KNEW it. His ten tunes get a perfect ten out of ten! (Okay, if you count the Epilogue it's eleven, but who's really counting here?) Where else will you hear a country tune that goes between 4/4 and 7/8 and grooves like a mutha? Or a fetching song in 5? My personal favorite from the album is "Heavy Cloud No Rain", which may be the musical equivalent to perpetual motion. And Fields Of Gold became a classic the day the album was released. Just one of those songs - but Sting has several like that, and I'm sure many more to come.
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom. ---I remember thinking, "Oh, so THIS is what virtuoso electric guitar sounds like!" Another album where there isn't a dog in the bunch. We used to cover Trademark back in the day, when nobody really knew who he was around here. EJ really raised the bar for artistic "electric guitarism" with this album; there's so much emotion on every note, and some cool production goodies, like having two flangers set identically but running in INVERSE to each other for a guitar solo - it makes you feel like you're a rocketship soaring through the atmosphere. It was the kind of album that made you want to play BETTER.
Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick. ---It's a real shame that hardly anyone ever heard of this album when it came out; I remember Dolby taking out his own ads in GP and Musician Magazine (remember that?), trying to get the word out. According to WhackyPedia, the sales and reviews were generally disappointing... and my only response to that is, "WHA...?" You haven't heard a synthesizer groove in 12/8 until you hear "The Ability To Swing"... and speaking of swing, "The Key To Her Ferrari" alone is worth the price of admission. Absolutely scary freakin' album that never, EVER got the respect it deserves.
Deep Purple - Machine Head.
Pink Floyd - The Wall.
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
These last 3 really don't need description amongst this crowd; if you ain't heard 'em, go getcher sef an edjumacashun, sonny.
First off, there are no albums in this list that I feel are 9.9s or even 9.99999s out of 10; These Are Perfect Albums In My View From Stem To Stern.
Rush - Moving Pictures. ---Albums get heat for being too "popular" and being "overplayed on the radio". Fine. Every once in a while Joe Sixpack and Johnny DJ agree, and this is one of those instances. Moving Pictures was the right album at the right time from the right band. Three hits out of seven songs, a fourth that ALSO got its own video, a fifth that was the "watermark" for bands in high school (if your band could pull off YYZ, you were officially Royalty where I grew up), and two other songs that never got the credit they deserved. This album never bores me.
Boston - Boston. ---Everyone who is old enough to know who Walter Mondale is knows every song on this album. Straight up rock and roll with a never-before heard sound. Pure musical entertainment and fun for the whole family (especially if your family grew herb in the back room).
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs. ---This is the first - and only - time I ever agreed with the Academy on Oscar Night. The production is nothing short of exquisite. You can put this album on headphones, sit back, close your eyes, and stay awake for the whole thing, mesmerized. It's a little dark, but what would you expect from an album written about and inspired by the end of a relationship? A consummate musician and songwriter, Colvin manages to mix rock, pop, bluegrass, folk, and whatever the heck else she feels like at the time and not only sounds like herself (not a bad thing at any stretch), she creates an ALBUM rather than just a collection of songs. For a while I was beginning to believe that it was a lost art...
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales. ---It's almost like he KNEW it. His ten tunes get a perfect ten out of ten! (Okay, if you count the Epilogue it's eleven, but who's really counting here?) Where else will you hear a country tune that goes between 4/4 and 7/8 and grooves like a mutha? Or a fetching song in 5? My personal favorite from the album is "Heavy Cloud No Rain", which may be the musical equivalent to perpetual motion. And Fields Of Gold became a classic the day the album was released. Just one of those songs - but Sting has several like that, and I'm sure many more to come.
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom. ---I remember thinking, "Oh, so THIS is what virtuoso electric guitar sounds like!" Another album where there isn't a dog in the bunch. We used to cover Trademark back in the day, when nobody really knew who he was around here. EJ really raised the bar for artistic "electric guitarism" with this album; there's so much emotion on every note, and some cool production goodies, like having two flangers set identically but running in INVERSE to each other for a guitar solo - it makes you feel like you're a rocketship soaring through the atmosphere. It was the kind of album that made you want to play BETTER.
Thomas Dolby - Aliens Ate My Buick. ---It's a real shame that hardly anyone ever heard of this album when it came out; I remember Dolby taking out his own ads in GP and Musician Magazine (remember that?), trying to get the word out. According to WhackyPedia, the sales and reviews were generally disappointing... and my only response to that is, "WHA...?" You haven't heard a synthesizer groove in 12/8 until you hear "The Ability To Swing"... and speaking of swing, "The Key To Her Ferrari" alone is worth the price of admission. Absolutely scary freakin' album that never, EVER got the respect it deserves.
Deep Purple - Machine Head.
Pink Floyd - The Wall.
Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
These last 3 really don't need description amongst this crowd; if you ain't heard 'em, go getcher sef an edjumacashun, sonny.
