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Albums that you consider "perfect"...

#384
If it hasn't been listed already, I'm sure plenty saw it coming: Pink Floyd- Dark Side of The Moon. IMO, that album shows Pink Floyd at a time when no one was vying for lead position in the band, and the music reflects it. It can sure rock, but then it has its quieter moments (the verses in "Us and Them") that are just as powerful. Not to mention one of the first (if not THE first) promient use of sequencers. My two cents.
 
#388
1. Sgt. Pepper's: Revolver might have been more groundbreaking, but this album basically broken Brian Wilson's brain. There has and will be a lot of great pop (as opposed to classical) music produced in the last century, but this is the ultimate effort, one that'll never be surpassed: brought so much to the table it's influence surpassed to boundaries of music and are engraved in culture.

2. Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music : need I say more ? Born to Lose is so gut wrenching it still would have made the list if it was the sole song on both A and B sides. And it one of the weaker songs...

3. Another vote for Orgasmatron. Well, basically the entirety of Motörhead's careeer is perfect in the same way an old rusty shovel is perfect. No frills and it gets the job done over and over again.

4. Live at Leeds (the version containing Tommy) : The Who at their best. They never were a studio band and this LP shows why. Raw energy. It's loose, it's fast, it's often not pretty, but it's rock n' roll at its finest.
 
#390
RHCP-Californication, i would've said BSSM but Californication is incredibley melodic while retaining that gritty funk. This Velvet Glove is my all time favorite song.

Incubus-Morning view, once again, every song gets me in some way or another.

Emery-The Question, much smaller band, but incredible none-theless. check them out.

Blindside-Silence, Swedish perfection.
 
#391
Emmy-Lou Harris : Wrecking Ball

Jane's Addiction : Ritual De Lo Habitual

NIN : The Downward Spiral

TOOL : 10,000 Days

U2 : Joshua Tree // Achtung Baby

Ben Harper : Fight For Your Mind

Steely Dan : Roayl Scam // Aja // Two Against Nature // Everything Must Go...etc., etc.
 
#394
My top 10, in no particualr order...

Pat Metheny - The Way Up
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Strange Place For Snow (any though really)
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Black Sabbath - Self Titled
Led Zeppelin - IV
Nik Bartsch's RONIN - Holon
Weather Report - Black Market
Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
Vincent Gemignani - Modern Pop Percussion
 
#397
I haven't read all through these, so I am sure some of these are here.



Bill Evans - Sunday at Village Vanguard
Chris Duarte - Texas Sugar Strat Magic
The Clinton Administration - One Nation Under a Re-Groove
Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo, and No World For Tomorrow
Death - Pretty much every album from Human on.
George Duke - Face The Music
Harvey Mason - With All My Heart
Jaco - Jaco
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
John Patitucci - Heart of the Bass
Joni Mitchell - Shadows & Light
Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies
King's X - King's X
Lee Ritenour - Overtime
Lettuce - Rage
Liquid Soul - Here's The Deal
Live - Mental Jewelry
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Michael Hedges - Oracle
Owsley - Owsley
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Rush - Moving Pictures
Soulive - Soulive
Spacehog - The Chinese Album
SRV - The Sky is Crying
Tears for Fears - Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Charlie Brown Christmas
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
 
#398
Slayer - Reign in Blood; Seasons in the Abyss
Metallica - And Justice for All; Master of Puppets
Opeth - Still Life is the best, but most of their other albums were very nice, too.

Countless Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, Liszt... (yeah, classical music. Almost always perfect with my favorite composers)
 
#400
fretlessman71 said:
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.
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Amen, it really is a cracking album! Full of such catchy tunes!
 

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