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OK, Everyone has their favorite albums, but mostly it's because it has like 10 great songs and 2 OK ones. So put together the 5 most perfect albums you ever heard (in any order).

Here's mine...

1. ELO: A New World Record
2. Of Montreal: The Gay Parade
3. T. Rex: Electric Warrior
4. Pixies: Surfer Rosa
5. The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds

― Voodoo Child, Monday, 10 October 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

the gay parade!

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

10 great songs and 2 ok ones is pretty close to perfect, relatively speaking.

― Hurting (Hurting), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

i take it this thread isn't about tommy stinson, huh?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

i'm thinking 'perfect from now on' is my fave perfect album but i haven't heard 'perfect angel' in a long time though so don't hold me to anything. 'perfect kiss' probably my favorite perfect song, but i got a huge soft spot for that song esp that cascade after the frogs o man nails me everytime.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

either "rumours" or "tusk" is my fave album featuring someone whose maiden name is perfect.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 10 October 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

The Jurassic 5 EP is perfect, but it's under 10 songs, so I dunno what to tell you.

Elliott Smith - From a Basement On the Hill

New Franz

― Erock LAzron, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

junior boys - last exit
luomo - the present lover

― nutrasweet glider, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Tonight's The Night
On The Beach
After The Goldrush
Time Fades Away
Every Royal Trux album up until Accelerator
Tusk (good call)
Flower Travelin Band - Satori
Interstellar Space
Wee Tam
The first four Black Sabbath albums
Odessy and Oracle
The Grimmrobe Demos

shit dude, there are, like, millions...

― God Body, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)

elo? lol! what a tune deaf faggot you are good sir!

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:41 (twenty years ago)

millions of perfect albums
what a world

― kurt broder (dr g), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

If anything, aren't ELO more tuneful than most bands

― Smetric, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

no elo are more awful than most bands

and thats just the 70s y'all

― ESTEBAN BUTTEZ~!, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [UK version, i.e. no blue monday/the beach]
Arcade Fire - Funeral(!)

the bug you wish to fright me with i seek.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 10 October 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

tycho - sunrise projector
helios - unomia
boards of canada - geogaddi
high contrast - high society

― nutrasweet glider, Monday, 10 October 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

daft punk - discovery
basement jaxx - rooty

― nutrasweet glider, Monday, 10 October 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

Illmatic
I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
Screamadelica
Led Zeppelin IV
Wish You Were Here

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 10 October 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

Magazine - Correct Use of Soap
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Roxy Music - Siren
YMO - Naughty Boys
Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
Peter Gabriel - III
Devo - Q/A
Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 10 October 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

These are, at least, perfect tock albums.

AC/DC - Back in Black
Aerosmith - Rocks

― bsj30 (bsj30), Monday, 10 October 2005 13:20 (twenty years ago)

Do you tick your tock albums?

― Frogm@n Henry, Monday, 10 October 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Animal Collective - Feels
Deerhoof - The Runners Four

― gerardmonchichi, Monday, 10 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

Pulp - His'N'Hers

ah.....

― Barbara Jwanouskos (Babs), Monday, 10 October 2005 21:42 (twenty years ago)

albums i can put on anytime, anywhere, without skipping a track:

nick drake - pink moon
elliott smith - roman candle
brian eno - ambient 1: music for airports
belle and sebastian - tigermilk
mogwai - EP + 2

― rockaction (rockaction), Monday, 10 October 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Fuck it, I'll say it:

Weezer - Pinkerton

For what they do, that album was about as perfect as you can get.

― jonviachicago, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Eno, Another Green World
Big Star, Radio City
Dinosaur Jr, Bug
Cure, Seventeen Seconds
Bettie Serveert, Palomine

― Aaron A, Monday, 10 October 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Jonviachicago,

Pinkerton is a great album (my favorite of all time) and you have every right to defend it. I will defend it with you.

As to the ELO remarks by Esteban Buttez, those remarks suck because ELO could be one of the most brilliant bands ever recorded, and "Mission (A New World Record)" could fit in very well with any Radiohead song today.

Here are some other albums I didn't mention.

Someone said "Pink Moon" so...Right On!

also...

Randy Newman: Sail Away
Talking Heads: Little Creatures
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
The Streets: A Grand Don't Come for Free
The Shins: Chutes Too Narrow

― Voodoo Child, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

inxs - kick
prince - purple rain
madonna - true blue
wham - make it big
culture club - waking up with the house on fire

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

from the lion's mouth, the sound
sail away, randy newman
how i learned to write backwards, the aislers set
and don't the kids just love it, television personalities
forever again, eric's trip

― corey c (shock of daylight), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:06 (twenty years ago)

slayer - reign in blood
metallica - master of puppets
my bloody valentine - loveless
wire - pink flag
aphex twin - selected ambient works, 85-92

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

junior boys - last exit
fleetwood mac - rumours
fleetwood mac - tusk
big star - #1
luomo - the present lover

― nathalie, a bum like you (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

xtc - drums and wires
soft boys - underwater moonlight
zombies - odyssey/oracle

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen
The Streets: A Grand Don't Come For Free
The Cure: Head on the Door
Pixies: Surfer Rosa (would also be Doolittle if not for the jokey novelty song of "La La Love You")
Wire: Pink Flag

hmmph. just realized three of mine were already listed, so I'll toss another couple in:

Public Enemy: Fear of a Black Planet
Stooges: Fun House
Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come

― mc (mattsoncarlhew), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Strangeways...!! Yes, I just realized how much I love that album!

― zeus (zeus), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Stooges - Fun House
New York Dolls
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - LAMF
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

― tonza, Tuesday, 11 October 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

nine years pass...

Gomocles - Disdain for Smoke
Ruth Sanford - Strangeness
Blustery - Syncopain Vol. 3
Earth Bland Godhead - Venal Fury
Darkmoyes - Insalubrious Achievements

― twunty fifteen (imago), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:55 (ten years ago)

Brendan Perry, Eye of the Hunter
Mark Hollis, Mark Hollis
The House of Love, The House of Love
My Bloody Valentine, Isn’t Anything
Afronaught, Shapin’ Fluid
The Congos, Heart of the Congos

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

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― The Once-ler, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:03 (ten years ago)

two years pass...

1. fleetwood mac, mirage
2. broadcast - haha sound
3. tori amos - boys for pele
4. kate bush - the dreaming
5. pj harvey - is this desire

― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:38 (eight years ago)

There are hundreds of albums where I wouldn't feel the need to skip a track. But there are only three where I really like/love every track:

1.) The War on Drugs - Lost in a Dream
2.) Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
3.) Fennesz - Endless Summer

― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Saturday, 3 March 2018 23:57 (eight years ago)

i think venice is a bit more consistent but both are kind of perfect

― lowercase (eric), Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:24 (eight years ago)

on top of my mind right now

Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See A Darkness
The Books - Thought for Food
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie and Lowell
Fugazi - The Argument

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 4 March 2018 01:49 (eight years ago)

I think “perfect” generally sucks, I like flawed things, but perfect albums that I adore are:

1. The Strokes “Is This It”
2. Foxy Brown “Ill Na Na”
3. Scott Walker “The Drift”
4. Stars Of The Lid “The Tired Sounds Of...”
5. Katie Dey “Flood Network”
6. Missy Elliott “Under Construction”
7. Demdike Stare “Liberation Through Hearing”
8. Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
9. Cluster “Sowiesoso”
10. The first Cars album I guess

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 4 March 2018 04:20 (eight years ago)

Randy Newman 12 Songs
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band
Eno and Jon Hassell Fourth World Possible Musics
George Jones Alone Again
The Miracles City of Angels

― eddhurt, Sunday, 4 March 2018 14:33 (eight years ago)

Dr John Gris Gris
Gun Club Miami
New Kingdom Paradise Don't Come Cheap
Pentangle Basket of Light
Associates Sulk

― Stevolende, Sunday, 4 March 2018 15:29 (eight years ago)

I’ve always found the sequencing in Pink Moon a bit flawed. The energy in the first half is not present in the second half.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 4 March 2018 23:09 (eight years ago)

Really? I love the simplicity of the presentation-- no adornment except the piano on "Pink Moon", and that all the songs are there and good but almost function interstitially, and I love the length of it (very short)

If compilations are included there'd be a number of other "albums" I'd describe as perfect (Huggy Bear "Taking The Rough With The Smooch" i.e.)

― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 5 March 2018 13:15 (eight years ago)

The Drift is incredible but like a lot of his latter-day albums I find the third quarter to be slightly less interesting/exciting than the rest of the album (apart from Tilt which has some great stuff around that point).

― loud horn beeping jazzsplaining arse (dog latin), Monday, 5 March 2018 14:45 (eight years ago)

Grouper - Dragging a Dead Dear Up A Hill
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Sun Kil Moon - Admiral Fell Promises (it's sad for me to feel like I have to put a disclaimer and say that those unfamiliar need to be aware that this was before he went all Benji and way way beyond. If there's a flaw with this record at all it's that his voice got all mumbly but I don't think it's anything he can help. His voice just became indefinitely as if he was always talking with his mouth full.)
Lilys - Eccsame the Photon Band (the few "interludes" are minor enough that I'm ignoring them)

― Evan, Monday, 5 March 2018 17:27 (eight years ago)

off the top of my head

The Wrens - The Meadowlands
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
The Band - The Band

― piper at the gates of d'awwww (voodoo chili), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:23 (eight years ago)

sade - lovers rock
chubby wolf - ornitheology
ini kamoze - ini kamoze
gillian welch - time (the revelator)
grooverider - grooverider's hardstep selection vol 2

― lowercase (eric), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:27 (eight years ago)

or replace one w gucci mane - the movie

― lowercase (eric), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:33 (eight years ago)

Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Terry Callier - What Colour Is Love
Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly
Blue Nile - Hats
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive

― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:49 (eight years ago)

swapping Blue Nile immediately for Paul Buchanan's 'Mid Air', d'oh

― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 5 March 2018 18:49 (eight years ago)

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