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

World Party - Goodbye Jumbo

 

The Beatles: A Hard Day's Night
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Abba: ABBA
Queen: A Night At The Opera

 

Tom Petty - Into The Great Wide Open and Full Moon Fever

 

Most of my collection is like this. If an album has more than one naff track I don't consider it a great album even if the rest of it is grade A. Yes this is subjective but I'm into bands who deliver consistently good albums, I'm an album guy.

A handful of eclectic examples off the top of my head:

U2 The Joshua Tree
U2 Achtung Baby
Springsteen Born In The USA
Springsteen The River
AC/DC Highway To Hell
AC/DC Back In Black
Bryan Adams Reckless
Bryan Adams Into The Fire
Def Leppard Hysteria
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard Of Ozz
Meat Loaf Bat Out Of Hell
The Cult Love
The Cult Electric
The Cult Sonic Temple
The Cult Ceremony
The Cult The Cult
Guns 'n' Roses Appetite For Destruction
The Nephilim Fields Of The Nephilim
Magnum On A Storyteller's Night
Magnum Wings Of Heaven
Marillion Misplaced Childhood
Bowie Station To Station
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon
The Eagles Hotel California
Simple Minds Good News From The Next World
Queen Innuendo
Paul McCartney McCartney
Paul McCartney RAM
A-Ha Scoundrel Days
Gary Moore Still Got The Blues
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton
Oasis Definitely Maybe
Led Zeppelin 1, 2, 3, 4
The Stone Roses The Stone Roses

 

It’s funny - it’s folks like you who turn threads into Beatle threads. Not those who you would think that post about the Beatles incessantly. Isn’t it ironic?

Speaking of....Jagged Little Pill for me.

 

Isn’t that exactly what you are doing (telling us what is perfect) by saying it can’t be the Beatles because you want “actual perfect records”?

 

ABBA the album or self-titled? If the latter, I have to skip the awful Bjorn tracks of “Man in the Middle” and “Rock Me”.

 

I'm thinking all of side 3 isn't as strong...is this the same member who posts Metal Machine Music in every "best of" thread on the forum??

 

1969 The Allman Brothers Band- The Allman Brothers Band
1971 Lets get it On- Marvin Gaye
1991 Automatic for the People- REM
1990 Shake Your Money Maker- Black Crowes

 

Steering clear of jazz, because I'll have too many to list. Here are a few random selections:

Flaming Lips -- The Soft Bulletin
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Various - A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector (couldn't resist)

+1 for Destroyer - Kaputt
+1 for Pet Sounds

 

Beatles are first mentioned in the third post. So much for irony

 

The Beatles have some really great LPs

 

The Beach Boys - Smiley Smile
Joanna Newsom - Ys
The Velvet Underground - White Light / White Heat
John Coltrane - Ascension

 

The perfect albums for me are:-

Cocteau Twins "Blue Bell Knoll"
Cocteau Twins "Heaven or Las Vegas"
New Order "Low-Life"
Dead Can Dance "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun"
Embrace "This New Day"
Kissing the Pink "Certain Things Are Likely"
The The "Soul Mining"
This Mortal Coil "Filigree & Shadow"
Simple Minds "Once Upon A Time"

 

Yep - with a bunch of other albums with a bunch of other artists.
Yours was the FIRST to ONLY mention the Beatles.
Yet with your post, you expressed your concern about it turning into a Beatles thread.

Irony.

 

Lots of great, brilliant, or even superb albums, but "perfect" from beginning to end, all the tracks in the right places, beautiful flow, fantastic concept ?

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On.

 

YES, how could I forget that one?!? Easily their most perfect effort (aside from Substance), a combination of Joy Division and the trademark New Order sound that manages to pleases nearly every musical taste.

 

Too many to list but I'll mention a few here:

- The Doors - The Doors
- The Doors - L.A. Woman
- The Beach Boys - Surfin' U.S.A.
- Queen - s/t
- Queen - Queen II
- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
- Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
- Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
- Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
- Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
- Green Day - Dookie
- Paul McCartney - McCartney (bet you're surprised^^)
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
- The Chicago Transit Authority - s/t
- Chicago - Chicago (II)
- Chicago - Chicago III
- almost all Beatles LPs
- almost all Pink Floyd LPs

 

Rush - Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures

 

I really like them though. And the self titled is more varied than for instance "Arrival".

 

No. In fact I think Rubber Soul & Revolver are "perfect" Albums. I just didn't lead off with them so maybe people would think of other bands and albums besides just the Beatles.

 

AC/DC Back in Black
Def Leppard High and Dry & Pyromania
Meatloaf Bat Out of Hell
John Cougar American Fool
Queensryche Operation Mindcrime
Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Tom Petty Damn the Torpedoes & Full Moon Fever