Albums that you consider "perfect"...

[morgansterne]

big thanks to somebody for mentioning Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream! Another whole piece of work meant to be listened to from beginning to end.

I haven't seen anyone mention

Hum -- Downward is Heavenward
Sunny Day Real Estate -- The Rising Tide

 

[Fizzbitch]

A few spring to mind.
System of a down - self titled
Mudvayne L.D 50
Mr. Bungle - california
Between the buried and me - Alaska
Between the buried and me - Colours
American Head Charge - Trepanation
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Baths - Cerulean
American Football - Self Titled

It's a lot of heavy stuff apart from Mr. Bungle, but those are some of my all time favourite and very consistent albums.

 

[Troph]

Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon

The End

This ^^^. Nothing else is really even that close, honestly.

 

[bass_study]

big thanks to somebody for mentioning Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream! Another whole piece of work meant to be listened to from beginning to end.

I really think that one is GReAT album. The Gtr riffs every song is simple and melodic, and the music just...,. Awesome!

 

[Arjank]

My list (no particular order):

Michael Jackson: Thriller (superb songs with stunning production)
Primus: Sailing the seas of Cheese (this album sounds like somekind of story to me)
Stanley Clarke: Schooldays (raw 70's jazzrock, the way I like it)
John Mc Laughlin (Group): Live at the Royal Festival Hall (great atmosphere and playing)

 

[lidesnowi]

Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Weather Report Mr Gone
Jan Hammer group OH,Yeah?
Allan Holdsworth IOU
Weather Report Heavy Weather
Van Halen Fair Warning
John Coltrane Giant Steps
Miles Davis kind of blue
Jimi Hendrix are you Experienced
Allan Holdsworth sand

 

[thumpslap]

Smashing pumpkins Mellon collie, billy corgan actually played the bass on this album. But as a whole, its a huge album to have all good songs on it

 

[Bigfoot92]

Slayer - Reign in blood (1986) (one of the few albums i can listen in its entirety)
Rammstein - Sehnsucht (1997), Mutter (2001)
GNR - Apetite for destruction (1987)
Immortal - Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism (1992), At the heart of winter (1999)
Muse - Origin of symmetry (2001)
Deftones - Around the fur (1997)
Iron Maiden - Powerslave (1984)

 

[Richbass101]

RUSH- Moving Pictures / Permanent Waves / Clockwork Angels ( incredible )

Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon / The Wall

Primus - Sailing the Chesse of Seas

Les Claypool - Of Whales and Woe

Stanley Clarke - School Days / Stanley Clarke live 1976 - 1977

Bill Bruford - The Bruford Tapes

The Who - Live at Leeds ( Deluxe Edition )

Yes - Close to the Edge

S.M.V. - Thunder

TOOL - Lateralus

just to name a few

 

[grinx]

The Cars: The Cars
The Cars: Candy-O

 

[superdick2112]

Rush - Moving Pictures

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

The Who - Quadrophenia

 

[UncleFluffy]

Masters of Reality - Masters of Reality (aka The Blue Garden)

 

[stambroker]

Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Violent Femmes: S/T
Electric President: S/T
Death From Above 1979: She's a Woman, I'm a Machine
Radiohead: The Bends, OK Computer
Flaming Lips: Soft Bulletin
The Avalanches: Since I Left You
Cream: Disraeli Gears
Led Zeppelin: I, II, II, IV, Houses of the Holy (yes, I'm greedy)
Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence
The Unicorns: Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
Beck: Sea Change, Odelay


...and I think that about covers what's perfect in my book.

 

[Clark Dark]

Santana - Welcome

 

[Modern Growl]

Tool: Lateralus
Dave Matthew Band: Crash
Radiohead: Rainbows
Static-X: Wisconsin Death Trip
Sevendust: Home
Counting Crows: August and Everything After

 

[icke2433]

Relationship of Command is one of my all time favorite albums

 

[Tx Basser]

Not going to go thru 44 pages so if these have been mentioned, apologies....

A few of many I consider "perfect" are:

Steely Dan "Can't buy a thrill"
Beatles "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
Beatles "Revolver"
Bealtes "Abbey Road"
Cream "Disraeli Gears"
Flying Burrito Brothers "Last of the Red Hot Burrito's" (anybody remember them?)



Jimi Hendrix Experience "Electic Ladyland"

 

[Marial]

Bill Frisell ~ Unspeakable, Good Dog-Happy Man, Disfarmer, All Hat OST, The Intercontinentals, With Dave Holland & Elvin Jones, Live In Bochum Germany 5/22/2004
Buddy Miller ~ Buddy Miller's Majestic Silver Strings
Robert Plant/Allison Krauss ~ Raising Sand
Willie Nelson ~ You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker
John Zorn ~ Naked City, w/Masada: Bar Kokhba, Filmworks X: The Mirror of Maya Deren, Filmworks 13: Invitation to a Suicide
Peter Gabriel ~ So, Us, Up
King Crimson ~ Red, Vroom Vroom
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue, On the Corner, Jack Johnson
Morphine ~ Cure For Pain
Los Lobos ~ Kiko, The Town & The City, La Pistola y El Corazon
Ry Cooder ~ Chavez Ravine, Mambo Sinuendo, Talking Timbuktu, A Meeting By the River
The Rolling Stones ~ Some Girls, It's Only Rock & Roll, Beggars Banquet
Charles Mingus ~ Mingusx5, The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady, Quintet @ Massey Hall

Man, I could go on and on. Sonically, the most perfect, for my taste, would be Bill Frisell's and John Zorn's recordings. They are so amazingly clear and pristine yet are incredibly warm and organic at the same time.

 

[EagleMoon]

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Journey - Captured, Escape
Sting - Ten Summoners Tales
Rush - Hemispheres
ELP - Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis - ABACAB, Foxtrot, Genesis

 

[dje31]

A few favorites that haven't been mentioned, and a few that have been:

In alphabetical order by artist, chronologically by album

Devo: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo
.........Freedom of Choice

Marillion: Misplaced Childhood
............Clutching at Straws

Porcupine Tree: The Incident

Rush: Moving Pictures

Squirrel Nut Zippers: Hot

Sting: Ten Summoner's Tales

Tool: Ænima (though I usually skip through some of the filler)
........Lateralus (ditto)

Yes: The Yes Album
.......Close to the Edge
.......Going for the One
.......Drama
.......90125

A few near misses:

Death Cab for Cutie: Plans (only one stinker on there)

Devo: New Traditionalists

Police: Synchronicity (never liked Sync II, or Wrapped)

Rush: Permanent Waves (though really close)
........Signals, if you can leave off Countdown
........Grace Under Pressure has grown on me lately

Tool: 10,000 Days

Yes: Fragile (also really close)