What are your "perfect" albums?

[r_bnks]

 

[JeezyMcNuggles]

As the title suggest, to you what albums are "perfect"? (Use of quotes implies the subjectiveness of the question!)

This is my shortlist:
Superunknown by Soundgarden
In Rainbows by Radiohead
Parachutes by Coldplay
Turn On The Bright Lights by Interpol

To me, all of these have varied composition styles, fantastic songwriting/musicianship, and songs that I could listen to over and over with not a single cut putting me off. And of course, some tasty bass playing on all of them!

Eager to see what albums TB thinks are flawless!

Astrocreep 2000

Hooray For Boobies

40oz to Freedom

System of a Down (self titled)

Significant Other

Follow the Leader

Disturbed (self titled)

 

[Benj-jammin]

Montrose - 1st album
Who's Next
Zeppelin I
Seconds Out - Genesis
A Taste for Passion - Jean Luc Ponty

 

[fdeck]

Bright Size Life (Metheny)

 

[TNCreature]

That's a tough one; you can mention great epic albums, the alltime classics, the most impressive debuts, your absolute favorites, or ones that take you back to a certain time and place(and person), but they can all have clunkers, weak moments, that one throwaway tune. Catch me another time, and I might have different answers…

Frank Sinatra—-No One Cares
Miles Davis—-Kind Of Blue
Buffalo Springfield—-Again
Jimi Hendrix Experience—-Axis Bold As Love
Jethro Tull—-Stand Up
Lou Reed—-Berlin
Roxy Music—-Country Life
King Crimson—-Red
Jeff Beck—-Blow By Blow
Television—-Marquee Moon
XTC—-Black Sea
Joy Division—-Closer
The Church—-Starfish

That's enough for now.

Your list is remarkably close to what I would have posted! All great

 

[Dabndug]

A Hard Day's Night - Tbe Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
Sweetheart of the Rodeo - The Byrds
Ram - Paul McCartney
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Graceland- Paul Simon
My Aim is True - Elvis Costello
Sound Affects - The Jam
The Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Green - REM
The Joshua Tree - U2
Zooropa - U2
Disintegration - The Cure
Larks Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
Discipline - King Crimson
Remain in Light - Talking Head
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Outlandis d'Amour - The Police
My Life in tbe Bush of Ghosts - Byrne and Eno
Rei Momo - David Byrne
Head Injuries - Midnight Oil
Demon Days - Gorillaz
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Heligoland - Massive Attack
Architecture and Morality - OMD

 

[SquareWaveSymph]

There are a few albums that I'd consider 'perfect', but the first time I ever really actively attributed it to an album was Silverstein's This is How the Wind Shifts.

 

[The Owl]

Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
Brecker Brothers - s/t
XTC - Drums and Wires
Seal II
Steely Dan - Aja
Montrose - Paper Money

 

[39-Bassist]

Scorpions - Black out
Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous
Boston (first album)
Stryper - Soldiers Under Command

Every song on these where like wow, I need more.

 

[Koshchei]

Opeth - Watershed
Scott Walker - Scott 4
David Bowie - Black Star
Arcturus - Sideshow Symphonies
Wilderun - Veil of Imagination
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Jaga Jazzist - Pyramid
Devin Townsend - Synchestra
Tool - Lateralus
The Beatles - The Magical Mystery Tour
Enya - Watermark
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Deep Purple - In Rock
Bent Knee - Land Animal
Scorpions - In Trance
Iotunn - Access All Worlds
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Yes - Fragile
... there are so many, and this is before we even get into classical.

 

[Bruiser Stone]

Completely Well, BB King
Naturally, JJ Cale
Wicked Grin, John Hammond
Hoodoo Man Blues, Junior Wells
Let It Bleed, Stones
Black and White, The Stranglers
Moondance, Van Morrison

 

[buldog5151bass]

Boston

 

[HJFree]

Appetite for Destruction-GnR

 

[ACRock]

Tom Petty Wildflowers
Ziggy Marley Spirit of Music
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Sarah McLachlan Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

 

[BigJohnAZ]

2112 - Rush
The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Killer - Alice Cooper
Equinox - Styx
Requiem - W. A. Mozart
American Garage - Pat Metheny Group
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
Aja - Steely Dan

Just off the top of my head...

 

[skygzr]

 

[LetItGrowTone]

Edgar Winter's White Trash -- Roadwork

 

[rtav]

Renaissance - Scheherazade and Other Stories
Gino Vanelli - Yonder Tree
The Beatles - Revolver
Rush - Moving Pictures
kd lang - Ingenue
Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
Steely Dan - Aja
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (and) Deadwing
Yes - Close to the Edge
UK - UK
Supertramp - Breakfast in America

 

[bassdude51]

Dark Side of the Moon (especially side 1)

Elvis Presley's Sun Sessions

Chuck Berry......The Great Twenty-Eight.

Abbey Road, The Beatles.

The Ventures first album.

(obscure) Big Guitars from Texas (Keith Ferguson on bass)

Los Straitjackets first 2 albums.

Derailers......... Reverb Deluxe and Jackpot

The Who.........Who's Next

These are desert island albums for me!

 

[dalkowski]

Top of my head / subject to change:
Quadrophenia - Thee 'Oo
The Bends / OK Computer (photo phinish) - Radiohead
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Loose - Victoria Williams
Blue Train - John Coltrane
Pet Sounds - The Beach Men
Shoot Out The Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Anything - John Prine