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

My picks, all killah, no fillah...

The Beatles - Rubber Soul, The White Album
U2 - The Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby
Led Zeppelin - II, IV, Physical Graffiti
Van Halen - 1st album
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Pretenders - 1st album
Fleetwood Mac - Selt Titled, Rumors
Big Country - The Crossing
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Guns n' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
AC/DC - Back In Black
Prince - Purple Rain
The Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust, Station To Station
Iggy Pop - Raw Power
The Who - Who's Next
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Some Girls
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Killing Joke - 2003 Self Titled

Interestingly, the vast majority of these albums don't make my top 20 favorite albums list.

 

The Beach Boys--Pet Sounds

Huey Lewis And The News--Sports

Def Leppard--Pyromania--Hysteria

The Beatles--Revolver--SPLHCB
Kiss--Lick It Up

Ratt--Out Of The Cellar

Whitesnake--Whitesnake 1987 UK version

Journey--Escape--Infinity

Hermans Hermits--There's A Kind Of
Hush All Over The World

Sade--Diamond Life--Promise

Iron Maiden--Piece Of Mind

Wings--Venus And Mars
Chicago--CTA--1st Album--album--7

Pink Floyd--A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

Ray Davies--Americana

The Kinks--Muswell Hillbillies

U2--The Unforgettable Fire

The Power Station--The Power Station

The Rolling Stones--Let It Bleed--A Bigger Bang

Rupert Holmes--Partners In Crime

Marvin Gaye--What's Going On
Santana--Abraxas

The War On Drugs--A Deeper Understanding

The Byrds--The Notorious Byrd Brothers--Younger Than Yesterday

Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band--Trout Mask Replica

The Bee Gees--1st--Horizontal--Idea--Odessa--Cucumber Castle--Two Years On

The Mothers Of Invention--Uncle Meat

Steely Dan--Can't Buy A Thrill--The Royal Scam--Aja

Supertramp--Crime Of The Century--Breakfast In America

Black Sabbath--1st album--Master Of Reality--Vol. IV--Sabotage

Donald Fagen--The Nightfly--Kamikiriad

Jefferson Airplane--Surrealistic Pillow--Crown Of Creation

Johnny Cash--Ride This Train--Folsom Prison

Justin Timberlake--The 20/20 Experience

The Scorpions--Blackout--Love At First Sting

The Police--Zenyatta Mondetta

Lionel Richie--1st album--Can't Slow Down

The Cars--1st album

Too many to list but I had fun anyway making this list.

 

Eno's "Taking Tiger Mountain" is a perfect record imho

 

The one album I can not live without. Early on I could do without Meet in the Morning and Up to Me was a great discovery on the original Bootleg Series but
I have grown to love Meet. But it still sounds out of place

 

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai

 

Strange Days : " 9 Parts To The Wind " -

 

Blue Cheer-Outsideinside
Black Sabbath-Master of Reality
David Bowie-The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
Descendents-Milo Goes To College
The Doors-The Doors
Frigid Pink-Frigid Pink
Fuzz-Fuzz
Grateful Dead-S/T debut/Europe 72'
Led Zeppelin- I,III, Presence
Lucifers Friend-Lucifers Friend
Mac Demarco-2
Mild High Club-Skiptracing
Muddy Waters-Electric Mud
The Stooges-The Stooges
Ty Segall-Manipulator
Weezer-Blue Album

 

Nice to see some love for Brazilian albums. Arthur Verocai's self-titled debut is a masterpiece.

 

Milton Nascimento & Lo Borges - Clube da Esquina
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Organized Konfusion - Stress: The Extinction Agenda
Charles Mingus - The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
Can - Ege Bamyasi / Future Days / Tago Mago

 

These are the ones I never skip a song on - does that make them 'perfect'? I don't know but here's the list:

AC/DC - Back In Black
The Band - The Band
The Beatles - A Hard Day's Night / Rubber Soul
The Beau Brummels - Bradley's Barn
Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle
Dr John - In The Right Place
JJ Cale - Naturally / Really
Tim Hardin - 1
Richard Hawley - Lowedges / Coles Corner
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker / Prisoner
Dillard & Clark - The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark
Gene Clark - White Light / No Other
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited / John Wesley Harding (I even love the Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest!) / Blood On The Tracks
Sunhouse - Crazy On The Weekend
Mac Demarco - Another One (short but perfect)
Lee Hazlewood - The Very Special World of Lee Hazlewood / Requiem For an Almost Lady
Hiss Golden Messenger - Poor Moon
Love - Forever Changes
Nick Lowe - The Convincer /At My Age
The Millennium - Begin
Van Morrison - Moondance / Saint Dominic's Preview / Into The Music
Morrissey - Vauxhall & I
The National - Boxer / High Violet
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left / Pink Moon
Prince - Dirty Mind
R.E.M - Murmur
Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers / Exile on Main Street
Paul Simon - Graceland
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours / No One Cares
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Richard Thompson - Mock Tudor
The Strokes - Is This It
Neil Young - After The goldrush

 

What a great list - hard to top!

 

Arcade fire-funeral
Adam and the ants-dirk
Bahamas-earthtones
Depeche Mode-violator
Beck-sea Change
Bon iver-for Emma
Big country-crossing
Cars - s/t
Lloyd Cole-Love story
Hothouse flowers-songs from the rain, people
The the-soul mining , mind bomb, dusk
Tragically hip- fully completely , Day for night
Radiohead -kid a
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
Men without hats -rhythm of youth
New order -power, corruption, lies
Squeeze - argy bargy
Prefab sprout- two wheels good/Steve McQueen
Slowdive -s/t
Supertramp-breakfast
U2-Joshua tree
Waterboys -this is the sea

 

Seal's first album...
Ricki Lee Jones, Pirates

Those albums achieve a mood...

 

A Hard Days Night - The Beatles
Help! - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Abbey Road - The Beatles
Ram - Paul McCartney
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Time Out - Dave Brubeck
Giant Steps - John Coltrane
Hoodoo Man Blues - Junior Wells w/ Buddy Guy
Crawfish Fiesta - Professor Longhair
West Side Soul - Magic Sam
Pure Pop for Now People - Nick Lowe
Seconds of Pleasure - Rockpile
London Calling - The Clash
The Name of This Band is The Talking Heads
This Year’s Model - Elvis Costello
Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello
Trust - Elvis Costello
Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello
Meaty, Beaty, Big, and Bouncy - The Who
Green River - CCR
Willy and the Poor Boys - CCR
Cosmo’s Factory - CCR
Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Eat to the Beat - Blondie
Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders
Murmur- REM
Led Zeppelin I, II, III, & IV
The Blasters - The Blasters
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
Chirping Crickets - Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly

 

Just discovered Nellie McKay. From all I've heard this far, there isn't anything she's done that isn't at least compelling in some way, even if it's not to my taste.

But every track on her album Home Sweet Mobile Home is a winner. I can't say that for much of anything that's come out in (relatively speaking) recent times. And it covers a lot of ground. Should have been huge. Sounds like one of those albums that, on some alternate plane/dimension, was a million-selling classic.

Back to the point of the thread - every song on it, I like.

 

First one that comes to mind is Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

 

The only one I can truly say - Posies - Dear 23. Gosh I just love this album...

 

To me a perfect album is not only an album with all great songs but an album where every song is a ten out of ten. No album like this exists for me but Odessey & Oracle is very close.

 

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Alanis Morissette - So-Called Chaos
Allie X - Collxtion II
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
Beth Ditto - Beth Ditto EP
Björk - Debut
Björk - Post
Björk - Homogenic
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Dire Straits - Communiqué
Duran Duran - Rio
Frank Sinatra - Watertown
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Grace Jones - Living My Life
HAIM - Days Are Gone
Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull
Joni Mitchell - Blue
La Roux - La Roux
Lana Del Rey - Born to Die
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Lorde - Melodrama
Madonna - Madonna
Madonna - True Blue
Madonna - Bedtime Stories
Maggie Eckford - Show + Tell
Men at Work - Business as Usual
Michel Delpech - Les divorcés (Le chasseur)
Mylène Farmer - Anamorphosée
Neufundland - Neufundland EP
Queen - Queen
Queen - Queen II
Queen - Hot Space
Richard Hawley - Hollow Meadows
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 2
Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue (Sequins EPs 1, 2, 3)
Thees Uhlmann - Thees Uhlmann
Tom Tom Club - Close to the Bone
Yes - Close to the Edge
Yes - Drama

Soundtracks / Theater:
Metropolis (1984)
RENT
Little Shop of Horrors
Chicago
Cabaret

Obviously there's no good way to account for classical here.

 

Cool thread

 

too many to name, however I will throw one out that probably won't make anyone's list and I do love every song on it. David Bowie: Heathen

 

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Boston - Boston
The Cars - The Cars
The Cars - Candy-O
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Joe Walsh - The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Styx - Crystal Ball
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
Talking Heads - Talking Heads 77
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
The Who - Who's Next

I think those are all the perfect albums I have. I haven't really heard that many albums.

The following albums would be perfect if a song or two were removed from them:

The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Incognito - Positivity
Incognito - Tribes, Vibes and Scribes
Jamiroquai - Emergency on Planet Earth
Jamiroquai - The Return of the Space Cowboy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

 

Survivor - Vital Signs
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozzy, Diary of a Madman
Def Leppard - Pyromania, Hysteria
Ac/Dc - Highway to Hell, Back in Black
Bad Company - Self Titled
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings, Toys in the Attic, Rocks
Reo Speedwagon - T.W.O., Hi Infidelity

 

My favorite rock album: Fifth Dimension by The Byrds. Anthem of the Sun by the Grateful Dead. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis. There are others, but those are the firs three that come to mind.

 

Jethro Tull- Aqualung
Emerson Lake And Palmer- Trilogy
Yes- Relayer
Eagles- Desperado
Pink Floyd- Animals