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

Talking Heads Remain In Light

 

Out of my collection of over a 2000 CD's & vinyl including most if not all those already listed here there is only one that meets the OP's criteria of true perfection:

YES-Close to the Edge

 

Jennifer Gentle - Midnight Room

 

I admit, I just don't understand this premise. I've always approached music as an album (I was into singles and the like back in the day, but that was long ago) for seemingly forever. As such, it's a journey from the beginning to end, and I tend to think of it in terms of the entire experience, rather than individual tracks.

I suppose if I could be bothered I could list tracks I particularly like, but I'm not sure it's too useful. I mean, take Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper). Mary Ann is clearly a silly little tune that doesn't entirely fit with the album - but I'd not say it's not a perfect album because of that - it IS a perfect album.

I only listen to entire albums, so I guess that explains things.

 

Pretenders- Pretenders
Liz Phair- Exile In Guyville
PJ Harvey - Dry
Pet Shop Boys- Actually
Tori Amos- Boys For Pele

 

The Who - Who's Next plays like a greatest hits

 

There's plenty of albums where I like every song, but only 1 I've ever heard where I think "That is perfect, they couldn't have improved that in any way".

Radiohead - The Bends.

 

Track 3 isn't quite as strong as the rest of the album in my opinion.

 

Jerry Lee Lewis-Live at the Star Club
The Go-Go's-Beauty and the Beat
The Monkees-Headquarters
The Monkees-Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, and Jones Ltd.
Alanis Morissette-Jagged Little Pill
The Beatles-Help! (UK version)
The Beatles-A Hard Days Night (UK version)

 

Here's my list, already modified from this thread from a couple years ago:
Albums where every song is excellent

Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll, Heaven or Las Vegas, Four Calendar Cafe
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Feelies - Only Life, Good Earth
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Kinks - Arthur
Cinerama - Va Va Voom, Torino
Van Morrison - Moondance, Astral Weeks, Into The Music
Cure - Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography
XTC - Skylarking
Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Sundays - Reading Writing and Arithmetic
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam, Feels
Zep - IV, III, II, I
Who - Who's Next, Quadrophenia
Heart - Little Queen, Dreamboat Annie
Cars s/t
Joy Division - Closer
New Order - Movement
Chameleons - all three studio albums (all the songs sound the same but they are all excellent!)
Jackson Browne - s/t, Late for the Sky
Steely Dan - all studio LPs from original run
Rush - Moving Pictures, 2112
The Church - Starfish (seriously, under the milky way is the worst song on the album), Seance, If Skins & Heart
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Destroyer - Kaputt
Pink Floyd - Animals
Kiss - Rock and Roll Over
Gary Numan - Pleasure Principal
Fleet Foxes - s/t and Helplessness Blues
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bauhaus - all studio lps from original run
Berlin - Pleasure Victim and Love Life
Big Star - first three studio lps
Duran Duran - Rio
Genesis - And Then There Were Three
Elvis Costello - all the albums up to Imperial Bedroom (except for Almost Blue)
... Too many more!!!

 

2nd Traffic album,
Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy
Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Dylan Highway 61
Dylan Blood on the tracks
Fairport Convention What We did on our Holidays
Derek and the Dominoes Layla
Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
The Band The Band

 

Joe Jackson "Look Sharp!"
Jethro Tull "Thick As A Brick"
Karnivool "Sound Awake"
Opeth "Damnation"
Van Halen I

 

a few off the top of my head, no album is 'perfect' but some I do like every song on, such as:
Fleetwood Mac
Beatles Revolver
Yes Close To The Edge
Stones Their Satanic Majesties Request
Jefferson Airplane Surrealistic Pillow
Kaleidoscope Side Trips
Bowie Stationtostation
Hendrix Are You Experienced
Carole King Tapestry
The Cars
Pretenders
Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Moody Blues Seventh Sojourn

 

Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Lou Reed - New York
Nirvana - Nevermind
Richard&Linda Thompson - Shoot out the Lights
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

...to name a few. There are many, many more of course

 

Van Halen S/T
AC/DC Back In Black
Black Sabbath Paranoid
Led Zeppelin (every album)
Supertramp Crime Of The Century & Breakfast In America
Pink Floyd DSOTM & Wish You Were Here
Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced
Rush 2112, Moving Pictures & Signals
Deep Purple In Rock & Machine Head
Dire Straits S/T & Love Over Gold
Eagles Hotel California
Foreigner 4
Def Leppard High N Dry & Pyromania
The Doors S/T & Strange Days
Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
Steely Dan Aja & Gaucho
The Who Who's Next
Queen A Night At The Opera, News Of The World & The Game
Robert Plant Pictures At Eleven
Robin Trower Bridge Of Sighs
The Rolling Stones Let It Bleed, Some Girls & Tattoo You

 

A couple I’ve been listening to a lot recently
Porcupine Tree-Deadwing
Steely Dan-Countdown To Ecstasy

 

Rare Bird's Epic Forest.

 

Selling England by the Pound
Young Americans
Brothers in Arms
The Dreaming
Aqualung

 

ELO - A New World Record

Gerry Rafferty - City to City

 

Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Joy Division - Closer
Lerner & Loewe - My Fair Lady (original Broadway cast)
Manic Street Preachers - Gold Against The Soul
Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Michael Jackson - Bad
New Order - Brotherhood
New Order - Substance
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
The Pogues - Hell's Ditch
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Sleater-Kinney - Call The Doctor
Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonia - Everybody Knows
Suede - Dog Man Star

 

PJ Harvey: Let England Shake

 

Mark Hollis solo

Talk Talk Laughing stock

Hendrix Cry Of Love

Coltrane A love Supreme

Davis Kind of Blue

there are more but those are off the top of my head

 

Shotgun Willie - Willie Nelson (1973)

 

I guess no one will share my sentiments on this

Anti Nowhere League - We're the League

 

Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns or Court and Spark
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bert Jansch - self-titled
The Who - Who's Next
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush