"Perfect" Albums. Albums you like every song on.

Free- s/t
Heart- Dreamboat Annie
Yes-Fragile
Slade- Play It Loud
King Crimson-Starless and Bible Black
Every Zeppelin album (including Coda)

 

Some more…

Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind

Supertramp - Crime Of The Century

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars, Hunky Dory

Black Sabbath - S/T, Master Of Reality

AC/DC - Back In Black

Goatsnake - I + Dog Days, Flower Of Disease

The Smiths - S/T

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Yes - Close To The Edge, Relayer

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers

Clutch - Psychic Warfare

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Gumboot Soup

 

Picking 3 of the top of my head that get regular listens to year after year

Dark side of the moon (it really is popular for a reason)
The stone roses 1st album
The smiths queen is dead

 

The longer someone's list is, the less likely I am to read it.

Hence, I'll just nominate three:

Donovan - Sunshine Superman
Yes - Going For the One
Cat Stevens - Catch Bull At Four

 

I could list so many great flowing lps so i will strictly just choose those in which i like every song;

Sticky Fingers 71 (Rolling Stones)
Blue 71 (Joni Mitchell)
Electric Ladyland 68 (Jimi Hendrix)
Live 75 (Bob Marley)

 

Marquee Moon Television
Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed, Exile on Main St. The Rolling Stones
Rio Duran Duran
So Red The Rose Arcadia
The Specials The Specials
One Step Beyond Madness
Once Upon a Time Donna Summer
Combat Rock The Clash
Ziggy Stardust, Low, Let's Dance David Bowie
The Queen is Dead, Strangeways, Here We Come The Smiths
The Colour of Spring Talk Talk
Rattus Norvegicus, No More Heroes The Stranglers
Nightclubbing Grace Jones
Breakfast in America Supertramp
Forever Young Alphaville
Parklife Blur
Transformer Low Reed
The Psychomodo Steve Harley/Cockney Rebel
Sgt. Pepper's... The Beatles
Purple Rain, Sign o' the Times Prince
Watermark Enya
Sparkle in the Rain Simple Minds
Definitely Maybe Oasis
Room On Fire The Strokes
Vampire Weekend, Contra Vampire Weekend
Congratulations MGMT
Willy and the Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory Creedence Clearwater Revival
In Your Mind, Boys and Girls Bryan Ferry
Violator Depeche Mode
Elephant The White Stripes

I'm sure I've left off many others.

 

Billy Cobham - "Spectrum"
Deep Purple - "Machine Head"
Camel - "Moonmadness"
Pink Floyd - TDSOTM/WYWH
Boston - s/t
Dire Straits - s/t
Eagles - "Hotel California"
Santana - "Caravanserai"
Frank Zappa - "Apostrophe"
ZZ Top - "Tres Hombres"
Weather Report - "Heavy Weather"
David Gilmour - s/t
Judas Priest - "Sad Wings of Destiny"
Uriah Heep - "Demons and Wizards"
Rory Gallagher - "Top Priority"
Rainbow - "Rising"
Genesis - "A Trick of the Tail"
Jean-Luc Ponty - "Enigmatic Ocean"
Brand X - "Unorthodox Behaviour"
Robin Trower - "Bridge of Sighs"

 

Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick (‘77)
Guns N‘ Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Green Day - American Idiot
Nirvana - Nevermind
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music....
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
The Monkees - Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, LTD.
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night

 

Sorry, can't think of one, in virtually every album listed above I could name one track or more which is much weaker, sometimes a whole side, but I love the rest, e.g. side I of Monndance is sublime but I rarely if ever listen to the other side. Pink Floyd Wish you were here is brilliant but I hate Welcome to the Machine. Who's next is let down by Bargain etc.....

 

Bargain......is a let down?

 

Pop - U2

 

I think Who's Next has a couple of tracks that are letdowns, but Bargain is not one of them.

 

I Relay that thought!

 

The The - Infected
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

 

Nah, I have Infected, and I quite like it, but I can't say it's perfect. I could do without "Out of the Blue", and I'm not so fond of "Sweet Bird of Truth"; I find the distorted vocals somewhat annoying.

 

Well, as you just named two of the best songs on it, I hope you don't mind that for me it's a perfect album.

 

Genesis Trespass - Duke

Mind you there are some songs that hit a stag of okay-ness but for my money this is the reason I've listened to Genesis to most in my life.

Actually, I take that back. The Lamb has a few bad songs, but barring that... I'd even say Abacab if Who Dunnit doesn't get annoying.

 

There are a lot of albums where I like (or at least I can tolerate) every song, but here are my personal favorites:

Genesis: A Trick of the Tail
Vertical Horizon: Everything You Want, Go
Fuel: Something Like Human
Kiss: Creatures of the Night
John Mayer: Heavier Things
Ratt: Out of the Cellar
John Sykes: Blue Murder
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You
Suede: S/T, Dog Man Star, Head Music
Brett Anderson: Slow Attack, Black Rainbows
Judas Priest: Firepower
Third Eye Blind: S/T
The Who: Who's Next
Charlotte Sometimes: Sideways
Thirty Seconds to Mars: This Is War
Mötley Crüe: Shout at the Devil
Depeche Mode: Ultra, Playing the Angel, Sounds of the Universe
David Gilmour: S/T
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here
The Cure: Bloodflowers
The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell, Mob Rules

There are a lot of albums that come close to this definition, but miss the mark either by a song, such as Third Eye Blind's Out of the Vein or Alice in Chains' Black Gives Way to Blue, or I just don't feel have aged very well, such as Rihanna's Good Girl Gone Bad or Vertical Horizon's Burning the Days. While I still really like these albums, I just don't feel that they're 'perfect' so much now as I perhaps did in previous years.

 

My avatar and every non soundtrack Beatles album other than BFS (lose Moonlight), Revolver (lose LYT - ok for novelty value maybe keep it on CD where it is easy enough to skip a track), MMT (lose BJW) and White (lose Piggies).

Sorry George.

 

Not a lot of songs, but they're perfect!

 

the rare post that includes ANY music from this millennium

 

Well that sounds like a challenge:

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet (2007)
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase. (2015)
Anathema - We're Here because We're Here (2010)
Anathema - Weather Systems (2012)
Linda Perhacs - The Soul of All Natural Things (2014)
Crowded House - Intriguer (2010)

 

Oh yeah, forgot FLA's 2013 album Echogenetic

 

I disagree heavily with you regarding Moondance. That album is a masterpiece through and through, btoth sides are just as good. Why would side 2 be worse than side 1?