Perfect AlbumsMusic

[TheChemist]

There sure are a lot of perfect albums.

Radiohead - The Bends

Every song is the nail being hit on the head. Just and Street Spirit (Fade Out) are incredible pieces of music. Radiohead has a mind for music that no one else has.

 

[CyberDragon]

I highly doubt anyone will agree with me on this one but I feel that Metallica's "...And Justice For All" is perfection at it's finest. Production values aside it's an album that will grap, shake, astonish, haunt, & simply amaze you to no end. Classic!

 

[tabelins]

Blink 182-Enema of the State
My Chemical Romance-Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory

 

[stumpydino]

buckethead-
population override
cuckoo clocks of hell
colma
electric tears

 

[TheChemist]

What's with compilations/greatest hits? Those aren't albums!

 

[Silverzone]

Shadows Fall - The War Within
System Of A Down - Steal This Album, and Toxicity
Thirce - Identity Crisis, Illusion Of Safety, The Artist In The Ambulance, And If We Could Only See Us Now

And I agree with CyberDragon, ...And Justice For All is a great album. Just as good as Kill 'Em All and Master Of Puppets.

 

[Velocity]

It's probably already been mentioned but AC/DC's Back In Black is a definite candidate for this thread. I don't think there's a song on there that isn't catchy, not to mention the rock staples it brought forth in Back In Black, Hells Bells, You Shook Me, and to a lesser extent Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution.

Powerage is another of theirs that qualifys for me in this catergory but it's not well enough known for most people to agree. It's a straight up balls to the wall rocker. Every song on it I love.

Kinda seems to me like the newer bands are better suited to be hit single groups.
IMO there tends to be alot of half baked filler tracks on most new albums.

 

[U2fanman]

Everyone's forgetting U2! How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb just rules! Irish at their scary best! Joshua Tree, Zooropa and Pop not bad either. Feeder Pushing The Senses also cracker!
If anyone's heard of a guy called Aynsley Lister, then check out his All Or Nothing album- why isn't he given more publicity?!?!?!? Same goes for Sinnerboy (again very isoteric band!) their album Down and Out In Hammersmith Live- belter.

 

[Max Powers]

I'm going to keep it to one album per band, even though several bands on this list could have multiple entries.

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulliten - A really beautiful album with no songs worth skipping. My favorites on it are probably "Waiting For A Superman" which has a great piano part, and "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton"

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - A very popular choice it seems, but there's a reason for it. This album flows together so well, every time I listen to it, I make my best effort to listen to the entire album in one sitting, it's the only way to do it justice.

The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

Led Zeppelin - IV

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium - A masterpiece, every time I listen to this album I hear something new that I never heard before.

Radiohead - The Bends - More acoustic than most of the band's other work, but I believe it is their best album. Every song is great, but "Fake Plastic Trees" always blows my mind, the end of the song just has so much emotion in it.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik - Tough choice between this album and "One Hot Minute", but I think this one takes the cake. A really fun album to listen to.

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II - One of the best hip-hop albums I've ever heard, a talented group who don't take themselves too seriously.

 

[Kylehnat]

Radiohead - The Bends - More acoustic than most of the band's other work, but I believe it is their best album. Every song is great, but "Fake Plastic Trees" always blows my mind, the end of the song just has so much emotion in it.

Agreed 👍. That's the only album that I can think of right now that doesn't invoke the "skip-button" reflex. There are many near-perfect albums out there, but it takes an excellent band to write an entire album of amazing songs.

 

[SRV2LOW4ME]

Deftones - White Pony finds its way into my CD player still, and I can't really remember hitting the skip button once other then to find a song that I want to hear first. 👍

 

[F1GTR]

Led Zeppelin - I, II, III, IV, Houses of the Holy, Physical Graffiti, Prescence and How The West Was Won (live album)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here

 

[livemusic]

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

 

[ceiling_fan]

Dream Theater - Metropolis pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

Indeed. That's my most played album.

 

[MagpieRacer]

Green Day - American Idiot
Muse - Absolution
Coldplay - X&Y
Kaiser chiefs - Employment
Panic! at the disco - A fever you cant sweat out
Dragonforce - Inhuman Rage
Beautiful South - Quench, Choke, Bronze, Blue is the colour.

 

[Ryan2]

Dream Theater - "Metropolis Part II: Scenes from a Memory" and "Octavarium"

Both albums I can sit and listen to the entire way through multiple times without any problems. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulance came in close, but some songs off the first disc kind of annoyed me.

 

[High-Test]

Cream - The very best of Cream

Cream - Disraeli Gears

Cream - Wheels of fire disc 2: Live

The B-52's - The B-52's

I can usually listen through all of ZZ Top's Recycler

The Blue Man Group - Audio -👍👍:tup

 

[HondaRacer]

Green Day - Dookie
Green Day - Insomniac
Green Day - American Idiot (it's a rock opera, you really can't skip)
Hot Hot Heat - Elevator
Oasis - What's The Story (Morning Glory)

 

[Speedy Samurai]

Great to see so much variety!

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime. (You have to listen to it all the way through, it's a concept album!)

Nightwish - Once (symphonic metal at its best! and it has a female lead singer, go figure. )

Andrew Peterson - Carried Along (simple folks songs that are all gems)

Circle of Dust - Chasm (there is only 5 or 6 songs, the rest are instrumentals, but each piece is sweet!)

Housemartins - That's What I Call Quite Good (from the people that brought you Beautiful South)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (Greatest Metal Album period)


I'm sure I will remember to add a few more now that this thread has got me thinking about it.

 

[Master_Yoda]

Dream Theater-Octavarium

Dream Theater- Train of Thoughts

Dream Theater- Six Degrees Under Inner Turbulence

Dream Theater- Amake...
wait all of there stuff

Pink Floyd- The Wall

King Crimson- The Power to Believe

Helmet- Meantime

AC/DC- Back in Black

And anything from Led Zepplin

Theres sooo many rock hardd great albums, i could be typing for ever, and not go through them all.

 

[Casio]

The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

 

[STLbarcelona5]

A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio
Easily the greatest album of all time?!


Stevens - Illinois

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue


* I was really tempted to put in Origin Of Symmetry by Muse, but then it would have to compete with Charlie Brown's Christmas, and nothing compares to that*

 

[Max Powers]

A few more to add.

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?/Electric Ladyland

 

[turboash78]

Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Johnny Cash - The Legend of Johnny Cash