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Albums that you consider "perfect"...
- Thread starter SlavaF
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If I had to pick 3 albums that sound perfect, they'd be the ones that are an entire experience in themselves.
1. The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, the River North
2. the pAper chAse - Now You Are One Of Us
3. RX Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun
1. The Dear Hunter - Act I: The Lake South, the River North
2. the pAper chAse - Now You Are One Of Us
3. RX Bandits - ...And the Battle Begun
By category:
1. Perfect? You mean, to the last bit of it? I've got only one: Pink Floyd - DSOTM.
2. Basslines-I-can't-stop-listening-to perfect? Steely Dan - Aja.
3. Perfect "Old" Blues? R. Johnson - King of Delta Blues Singers
4. Perfect "Modern" Blues covers? Clapton - From the Cradle
5. Perfect "mama, I wanna get high" abum? Doors - The Doors (1st album)
And some others. I consider "perfect" an album that I can actually listen from start to end and like every single track.
1. Perfect? You mean, to the last bit of it? I've got only one: Pink Floyd - DSOTM.
2. Basslines-I-can't-stop-listening-to perfect? Steely Dan - Aja.
3. Perfect "Old" Blues? R. Johnson - King of Delta Blues Singers
4. Perfect "Modern" Blues covers? Clapton - From the Cradle
5. Perfect "mama, I wanna get high" abum? Doors - The Doors (1st album)
And some others. I consider "perfect" an album that I can actually listen from start to end and like every single track.
Use Your Illusions I and II - Guns N' Roses
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Joshua Tree - U2
Metallica - Metallica
Urban Hymns - The Verve
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Joshua Tree - U2
Metallica - Metallica
Urban Hymns - The Verve
I'll play!
All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals: I LOVE this album. Everything drives hard, catchy riffs, solid performance. ATR is one of my favorite bands.
Weather Report - Heavy Weather: Teen Town, Palladium, Havona, Birdland...need I say more?
Two off the top of my head.
All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals: I LOVE this album. Everything drives hard, catchy riffs, solid performance. ATR is one of my favorite bands.
Weather Report - Heavy Weather: Teen Town, Palladium, Havona, Birdland...need I say more?
Two off the top of my head.
Rush: 2112 (only side A of the vinyl)
Queen: Queen II side Black (Freddie's opus maximus...do yourself a big favor if you're not familiar)
Queen: Night At The Opera (a close second in the Queen canon)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (listened to all four sides of vinyl the day it came out, cried like a baby)
Beatles: Abbey Road...did they make a better, more consistent or airtight album?
Man, I could go on and on and on and...
Queen: Queen II side Black (Freddie's opus maximus...do yourself a big favor if you're not familiar)
Queen: Night At The Opera (a close second in the Queen canon)
Pink Floyd: The Wall (listened to all four sides of vinyl the day it came out, cried like a baby)
Beatles: Abbey Road...did they make a better, more consistent or airtight album?
Man, I could go on and on and on and...
Motorhead: Ace of Spades
Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St., Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers
The Who:Sellout, Quadrophenia
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Ramones: Rockets to Russia
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, Heroes, Low, The Man Who Sold the World
to name a few...
Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny
Rolling Stones: Exile on Main St., Get Yer Ya Ya's Out, Sticky Fingers
The Who:Sellout, Quadrophenia
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Ramones: Rockets to Russia
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust, Heroes, Low, The Man Who Sold the World
to name a few...
+1
Too many to mention for me but I'll agree with some I've seen so far and add a few I listen too and never get tired of.
Pink Floyd: Animals, The Wall
RHCP: BSSM
Jane's Addiction: Nothings Shocking
Tool: Opiate, Undertow, Ænima, Lateralus, 10,000 days
Helmet: Strap it on, Meantime, Betty
Fudge Tunnel: Fudge Cake
Fugazi: 13 songs (Self titled plus Margin walker compilation), Repeater, Red Medicine
Quicksand: Slip
Fuel: Monuments to Excess
Chokebore: Motionless
Scratch Acid: The Greatest Gift (compilation)
Praxis: Metatron
Primus: Frizzy Fry, Sailing the seas of Cheese
I Feel Like I'm dating myself again so I'm gonna stop for now...o.0
Great thread.
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Cure - Pornography
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
R.E.M - Murmur
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
The Beatles - The 'White Album'
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
N.I.N - The Fragile
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
The Cure - Pornography
Darkthrone - Transilvanian Hunger
Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
R.E.M - Murmur
Enslaved - Vikingligr Veldi
The Beatles - The 'White Album'
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
N.I.N - The Fragile
At two ends of the rock sonic spectrum I nominate Def Leppard's Hysteria, and GnR's Appetite For Destruction.
One is delicately and intensively crafted to be to rock music, Thriller was to pop. Every phrase, every note, every tone, every eq setting poured over to the nth degree to sound utterly perfect to the ears.
The other, hashed out in a few days, but with an energy and rawness that smacks you round the head like a wet fish. Cutting guitars, punchy melodic bass, visceral vocal. But underneath it, well crafted songwriting. It still sounds as fresh today as it did over 20 years ago.
Odd thing is, Appetite knocked Hysteria off the number one spot. Both perfect rock albums that one could argue mark the moment it all changed. One marking the pinnacle of the perfectly produced 80s studio sound, the other the incoming back to basics rawness of the 90s. And I love them both.
PS - I might also add Queen II. An absolute aural delight in every way, laying down the foundation of what would become the signature Queen sound. Complex, dynamic song structures, strong melodies, multi layered vocals, huge walls of guitars and massive sounding drums and bass.
One is delicately and intensively crafted to be to rock music, Thriller was to pop. Every phrase, every note, every tone, every eq setting poured over to the nth degree to sound utterly perfect to the ears.
The other, hashed out in a few days, but with an energy and rawness that smacks you round the head like a wet fish. Cutting guitars, punchy melodic bass, visceral vocal. But underneath it, well crafted songwriting. It still sounds as fresh today as it did over 20 years ago.
Odd thing is, Appetite knocked Hysteria off the number one spot. Both perfect rock albums that one could argue mark the moment it all changed. One marking the pinnacle of the perfectly produced 80s studio sound, the other the incoming back to basics rawness of the 90s. And I love them both.
PS - I might also add Queen II. An absolute aural delight in every way, laying down the foundation of what would become the signature Queen sound. Complex, dynamic song structures, strong melodies, multi layered vocals, huge walls of guitars and massive sounding drums and bass.
Alexisonfire - Self Titled
At The Drive In - Rascuache (okay so it's an EP)
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
For any fans of melodic hardcore punk/alternative/I don't even know what genre to slap on this album... listen to...
Snapcase - End Transmission!
Edit: why? Because it has GREAT melodic basslines, really cutting riffs, great songwriting, rises and falls, a really unique vocalist in Daryl Taberski, and it's a concept album at it's finest.
"The year is 2071..."
It's a fiction from the future, but it's a profound commentary on humanity in general. Isn't all punk music?
At The Drive In - Rascuache (okay so it's an EP)
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
Snapcase - End Transmission
For any fans of melodic hardcore punk/alternative/I don't even know what genre to slap on this album... listen to...
Snapcase - End Transmission!
Edit: why? Because it has GREAT melodic basslines, really cutting riffs, great songwriting, rises and falls, a really unique vocalist in Daryl Taberski, and it's a concept album at it's finest.
"The year is 2071..."
It's a fiction from the future, but it's a profound commentary on humanity in general. Isn't all punk music?
^ATDI is AMAZING!
as far as a "perfect album", the only one in my GB's upon GB's of music I have, that I consider to be "perfect" is Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. there is not a single note on that entire record that I do not like or think is out of place at all. it's absolutely amazing. whenever I'm on a long road trip, it's usually the first album to go on, and before I know it, 80 minutes has come and gone. the album flows like water from the opening sound to the last. an incredible piece of music. this being said, *** is Dream Theater doing these days!??!?!?! why did they ever think it was ok to release BC&SL?!?!?!?! it's like DT's Death Magnetic! anyway, my vote is for Metropolis pt. 2...amazing.
as far as a "perfect album", the only one in my GB's upon GB's of music I have, that I consider to be "perfect" is Dream Theater's Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory. there is not a single note on that entire record that I do not like or think is out of place at all. it's absolutely amazing. whenever I'm on a long road trip, it's usually the first album to go on, and before I know it, 80 minutes has come and gone. the album flows like water from the opening sound to the last. an incredible piece of music. this being said, *** is Dream Theater doing these days!??!?!?! why did they ever think it was ok to release BC&SL?!?!?!?! it's like DT's Death Magnetic! anyway, my vote is for Metropolis pt. 2...amazing.
Between the Buried and Me - Colors.
Dan Briggs' bass tone on that album is SO incredible. So warm, punchy, and organic sounding. It's my personal favorite bass tone I've heard so far. The album is also just so well-written. The transitions are flawless, they go through several genres in just about every track, and they make even the most ridiculous and technical playing sound tasteful.
Dan Briggs' bass tone on that album is SO incredible. So warm, punchy, and organic sounding. It's my personal favorite bass tone I've heard so far. The album is also just so well-written. The transitions are flawless, they go through several genres in just about every track, and they make even the most ridiculous and technical playing sound tasteful.
David Bazan - Curse Your Branches
This album means a lot to me. David Bazan was the singer/writer behind Pedro the Lion, a quasi popular Christian indie band (with legitimately great music). Well, I learned about him and got several of his Pedro albums in a time where I was, even though I didn't realize it, losing my faith in Christianity.
When I loved a couple songs off each album, I had to look up more. I found out he had put out and album that year (last year) and when I researched I was shocked, a little scared, yet totally relieved.
Long story short, David Bazan had been on a 3 year hiatus from music while he was dealing with his own losing of the faith. Curse Your Branches is a chronicle and synopsis of that journey. Last I heard, he's an agnostic.
The album is perfect in every way. Not to mention, the ultra kicker, on the touring he's doing for it now he has switched to playing bass while singing. He's my 100% hero.
Here's a good video of a non-religious song off the album. It has to do with the drinking problem he developed and dealt with. I love this sssooo much:
The bass line is probably my favorite off the album. Playing it and singing at the same time = impossible.
This album means a lot to me. David Bazan was the singer/writer behind Pedro the Lion, a quasi popular Christian indie band (with legitimately great music). Well, I learned about him and got several of his Pedro albums in a time where I was, even though I didn't realize it, losing my faith in Christianity.
When I loved a couple songs off each album, I had to look up more. I found out he had put out and album that year (last year) and when I researched I was shocked, a little scared, yet totally relieved.
Long story short, David Bazan had been on a 3 year hiatus from music while he was dealing with his own losing of the faith. Curse Your Branches is a chronicle and synopsis of that journey. Last I heard, he's an agnostic.
The album is perfect in every way. Not to mention, the ultra kicker, on the touring he's doing for it now he has switched to playing bass while singing. He's my 100% hero.
Here's a good video of a non-religious song off the album. It has to do with the drinking problem he developed and dealt with. I love this sssooo much:
The bass line is probably my favorite off the album. Playing it and singing at the same time = impossible.
Minutemen- What Makes A Man Start Fires?
Black Flag- Damaged
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
the Pretty Things- SF Sorrow
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Swell Maps- Jane from Occupied Europe
Black Flag- Damaged
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
the Pretty Things- SF Sorrow
Sonic Youth-Daydream Nation
Swell Maps- Jane from Occupied Europe
I like this thread!!
I was going to name 5; I see the other 4 have been mentioned over and over though.
The one I can add new is
** Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo **
My other nominations, already TB approved, are
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
Yes -- Fragile
Who -- Who's Next
Beatles -- Sgt Pepper
I was going to name 5; I see the other 4 have been mentioned over and over though.
The one I can add new is
** Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo **
My other nominations, already TB approved, are
Pink Floyd -- Dark Side of the Moon
Yes -- Fragile
Who -- Who's Next
Beatles -- Sgt Pepper
