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Originally posted by Jglass:
The Violent Femmes s/t album is perfect... the majority of us I think will agree on this one (and if you don't go listen to it once or twice )

It's great, but I always thought "Confessions" was a little dull. It also used to be much better when it ended with "Good Feeling", instead of having former B-sides "Ugly" and "Gimme The Car" tacked onto the end. "Good Feeling" is one of the best closing tracks of all time, IMHO.

I'm sort of with l_s here in that I don't know if I believe in the "perfect album". I can usually find at least one tune I'm not wild about on any album.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life
Depeche Mode - Violator
Live - The Distance to Here

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Originally posted by jonathanbrisby:
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Word. I agree with whoever said no album is really perfect, but Loveless comes as close as anything. I'd also toss in Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and U2's Achtung Baby.

I think some albums have the potential to be perfect, given the right setting, frame of mind, time of month, etc. At least for me, even my favorite albums vary in quality every time I listen to them in a new circumstance.

i think an album can be considered perfect only subjectively

My little list:

Station to Station, David Bowie
The Dreaming, Kate Bush
Pornography, The Cure
F#A#∞, Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?, Of Montreal
Dirty Mind, Prince
The Drift, Scott Walker

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Pornography, The Cure

I'll second that and add Disintegration as well. My two favorite Cure records. There's no way I could pick between them.

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Posted by Sebtron:

F#A#∞, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Hmm, that's an interesting one. I might call it "perfect" in the sense that it's the pinnacle of its genre, in my opinion anyway. If I had to pick the perfect example of post-rock, there's no way I'd chose something else.

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Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life

I don't think this is perfect. Dog Door, which has a Tom Waits guest vocal is the only real misstep, though. I DO however think that Good Morning Spider is a perfect sprawling masterpiece. I have listened to it thousands of times and want to again right now.

I'll say...

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Beatles - Abbey Road

Monster Movie by CAN is an album I always play beginning to end, and thus I shall declare it perfect, ha ha!!

Mr Bungle - California.

When I first got this album I listened to nothing else for about 6 months - I still listen now. There's just so much going on and every track is shiny and polished. So much work went into it, from virtuosic musical performances to incredible compositions. The band stubbornly refused to use digital recording equipment, and opted for reel-to-reel tape. It's amazing that they achieved such results without digital editing. Every track is perfect. Patton's never topped it.

Ozric Tentacles - Strangeitude

This album just flows. I love the way it changes from epic space rock to dance music, reggae, metal and folk. It's never boring. The running order is flawless. The title track sits at the centre of the album and is truly massive. The tremolo effect on Ed's synthesizer is like nothing I've heard before or since.

Pulp - Different Class

Writing one monumental piece of social commentary is hard enough, but Jarvis Cocker wrote 12.

Slayer - Reign in Blood

It's flawless. Half an hour of fast, aggressive music that never lets up - I can listen to it again and again. Dave's drums are incredible.

David Devant and his Spirit Wife - Work, Lovelife, Miscellaneous

A little known album, now sadly deleted. Around the time of Brit-pop, everyone was talking about Blur and Oasis. This band were far more entertaining. Not one bad song.

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Originally posted by jonathanbrisby:
Pornography, The Cure
I'll second that and add Disintegration as well. My two favorite Cure records. There's no way I could pick between them.

I would of had Boys Don't Cry up there too if it wasn't for the song "So What". Other than that song (which is ok at times), the album is perfect. I love Disintegration too, but I didn't want to go with the obvious .

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Originally posted by less_success:

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Posted by Sebtron:

F#A#∞, Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Hmm, that's an interesting one. I might call it "perfect" in the sense that it's the pinnacle of its genre, in my opinion anyway. If I had to pick the perfect example of post-rock, there's no way I'd chose something else.

HAHA! OOPS! I ment to say Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada. I don't know why I put that album. But yes, still a good one.

I would have thought that Aeroplane would have been one of the first albums mentioned... it's the only album i consider to be perfect.

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Monster Movie by CAN is an album I always play beginning to end, and thus I shall declare it perfect, ha ha!!

I love that record, but if we're talking CAN I think they made a string of perfect albums: Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days, and Soon Over Babaluma.

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Originally posted by L. R. William Spencer:
I would have thought that Aeroplane would have been one of the first albums mentioned... it's the only album i consider to be perfect.

For a while this was my favorite album (s'probably still pretty up there) but honestly King Of Carrot Flowers Pts. Two And Three never did it for me. Communist Daughter really didn't either. But the fact SO MUCH was packed into all the songs, I could let them go (same with the relative brevity, about forty minutes but I always feel exhausted by the end.) I always kind of associated Aeroplane with Sgt. Pepper's actually, in that it kinda touches on everything but still flows well enough and naturally (Oh Comely = Within You Without You, Two-Headed Boy Pt. Two = A Day In The Life) I guess in that way it might be perfect. But damned if a couple of the parts don't strike me as weaker.

In the correct state of mind, these albums are perfect….

- Mogwai, Happy songs for Happy People


- Explosions in the Sky, The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place

- Weezer = Pinkerton

- The Smiths = The Queen Is Dead


There may be more.

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Hmm.... I guess I'd say these were "perfect" albums.....

Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Endless Summer - Fennesz
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Laughing Stock - Talk Talk
Discovery - Daft Punk
Kid A - Radiohead
Tri Repetae - Autechre
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Rhythm of the Saints - Paul Simon
Hasten Down the Wind - Linda Ronstadt (maybe...?)


I'd have to say these are gems through and through -- nothing I'd change about these records.