Perfect Albums

[onthewall2983]

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Let's go!

[Erneuert]

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f0/ec/24/f0ec2485a63cb3fbddd5f6b26eb916b3.gif

Let's go!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmBFZqZ4d4Y&t=15s (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XmBFZqZ4d4Y&t=15s)

The Cure - Disintegration

[caca]

Faith No More - Angel Dust

[muad'nin]

Björk - Vespertine. The closest any album has ever come to being perfect for me. And even that isn’t quite the whole way to perfect.

[r_z]

Madvillain - Madvillainy

[Erneuert]

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

[sinspots]

Tool - Lateralus

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[hologram parade]

Fever Ray • S/T

[Failure]

Wish You Were Here. Not a wasted moment...

[GulDukat]

Van Halen's debut. Tied only with maybe Appetite For Destruction, Are You Experienced? and Back In Black as the best, straight-up rock album ever. Not a filler song on there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REtGa3L0XXg&t=129s

[buckaroo]

Slayer - Reign in Blood

[GulDukat]

Slayer - Reign in Blood
I'd add Anthrax's Persistence of Time. Anthrax is my favorite of the "big four."

[imail724]

Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain

Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age

[ziltoid]

Fugazi - The Argument

[Substance242]

https://i.ibb.co/mz7Gxb6/violator.png (https://imgbb.com/)

[dlb]

For me it's definitely With Teeth. Not a single track I skip or would ever skip.

Apart from that, Rammstein - Mutter is also one of those records where I don't skip a track. And so is Queens of the Stone Age - songs for the deaf.

A more recent obsession of mine of a near perfect album: Jaye Jayle - no trail and other unholy paths

[buckaroo]

For me it's definitely With Teeth. Not a single track I skip or would ever skip.

Take the vinyl track list (home) and replace The Hand That Feeds with Non Entity and I can get on board with that.

Although, if we are talking Nine Inch Nails, even though not my favorite, I would go with The Downward Spiral over With Teeth personally.

[Krazy]

- The Downward Spiral
- Wish You Were Here
- Aenima (yes, it’s got filler tracks but I don’t care. All the songs are good and no need to skip those. Best Tool album from start to finish IMHO)
- Powerslave by Iron Maiden
- I can listen to WASP’s first album (self titled) from start to finish. Not the greatest album ever, but can’t say that about a whole lot of others.
- Weezer’s blue album

Im sure there’s at least a few more, that’s just of the top of my head.

[Jord]

Looking through my music collection, it's surprising just how few albums I consider 'perfect' - pretty much all of my all time favourite albums have at least one track that I'd skip. If I had to choose though, it would be:

Four Tet - Pink (Runner Up - There Is Love In You) - for me both near flawless records that I can listen to from start to finish and get deeply lost in.
Nathan Fake - Drowning In A Sea Of Love - another pretty much flawless electronica trip that I lose myself in.
Rammstein - Reise, Reise - Mutter a close second, but this is the one I absolutely adore front to back and never skip.
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses - another one that just has to be listened to in full, every time.
My Bloody Valentine - M B V - Probably committing MBV fan sacrilege by loving this more than Loveless, but this record to me really is a wonderful body of work in itself, it's structure is genius and just works from beginning to end.

[versusreality]

Oophoi- The Spirals of Time
Final- Solaris

to me, these albums are the definition of timeless...literally. the sound of the birth of humankind 70 million years ago, to the future, somewhere, distantly in an isolated space station.

[buckaroo]

Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do

[neorev]

Off the top of my head...

The Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
The Chemical Brothers - Surrender
Fluke - Risotto
Underworld - Second Toughest In The Infants
Leftfield - Rhythm And Stealth
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
Radiohead - Kid A
Orbital - Snivilisation
Björk - Homogenic
Deftones - White Pony
Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds + Voices
Nirvana - In Utero
Sonoio - Fine
Pop Will Eat Itself - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos
Woven - 8 Bit Monk
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Spank Rock - YoYoYoYoYo
Slow Magic - ▲
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty
Lorn - Remnant
Clark - Totems Flare
Justice - Cross
Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels 2
Atari Teenage Riot - 60 Second Wipe Out
iamamiwhoami - Blue
Hansel - Respond_Violence
Junkie XL - Saturday Teenage Kick
Pitchshifter - www.pitchshifter.com (http://www.pitchshifter.com)
Nosaj Thing - Drift
A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
LFO - Sheath
Deadsy - Deadsy
iTAL tEK - Outland
Jackson And His Computer Band - Glow
HEALTH - Death Magic
The Mad Capsule Markets - OSC-DIS (Oscillator In Distortion)
Juno Reactor - Labyrinth
The Shizit - Soundtrack For The Revolution
Snake River Conspiracy - Sonic Jihad
Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Into
Prick - Prick

Albums I can put on anytime and listen to from front to back

[firewlker]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb7cTUwPG-A&t=1159s

[Archive_Reports]

Tesseract - Concealing Fate
Poison the Well - You Come Before You
Garbage - Garbage
Orgy - Candyass
Norma Jean - Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child
letlive - Fake History

[sonic_discord]

Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
...And Justice for All
Metallica (Black Album)
Siamese Dream
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Ænima
Lateralus
Wildflowers
The Downward Spiral
The Fragile
Meliora
...Like Clockwork
Mer de Noms
Dookie

Probably more I can't think of right now...

[Santos L Halper]

Appetite For Destruction--Guns N' Roses
Silent Shout--The Knife
Blue Album--Weezer
Purple Rain--Prince & The Revolution

[burnmotherfucker!]

The Cure - Pornography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYFDRFv5g2Q

[piggy]

The Cure - Pornography
The Church - Hologram Of Baal
The The - Dusk
Depeche Mode - Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Mad Season - Above
U2 - Achtung Baby
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Talking Heads - Remain In Light

[bobbie solo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ae3WZAH_2uM&list=PLrbFUdbfepXVlVL8nJLOBxI5 BVebYc7BQ&ab_channel=NervousRecordsNYC


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqVD2yQqH7M&ab_channel=BrandonGantt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvKvOViM3g&ab_channel=BlackSabbath


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnDZuGzEM2E&ab_channel=ZAMUNDACertifiedSki tNetworkArmageddonVideoTV


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kekROxOTHSM&ab_channel=UlisesRomero


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkITlCa-r6k&ab_channel=JoniPaz


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZ8D0xJ9PUs&list=OLAK5uy_lM9zJmwzR56nUM3yg bFlKxG1BJsSCT2vs&ab_channel=AgnosticFront-Topic

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/The_Crow_soundtrack_album_cover.jpg

If someone wants to tell me the Rollins Band song ruins this soundtrack from consideration, I get that argument. I would fire back that Pantera's cover of The Badge supercedes any & all criticism of the perfection of this soundtrack however, as I will one day mosh through the foundation of my house b/c of how hard that song is.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j27vZFLR86o&ab_channel=RodrigoEvileye


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXMaYD2bwXo&ab_channel=Vlad
(I will defend this record with the force of a 1000 suns)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESFl4xfd0I&ab_channel=xThomas68

[bobbie solo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV_N-Tow6Rw&ab_channel=RespectfulRemastersbyMetalmucil

original production withstanding


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjYfqbrju0&list=PL7CZ4TImzrFmMaoKU94ZpIyl AjHkAeNgs&ab_channel=M83

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b5/Converge-JaneDoe.jpg

https://www.popsike.com/pix/20151129/172014118283.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9ixPJKYqUo&ab_channel=UmaThermos

I debated putting Brand New- The Devil & God... on here, but there are a few things I would change about some of the songs so it's not quite perfect.

[bobbie solo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMaJC4ZiahQ&ab_channel=WU-TANGFAMILIA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJfsnbhejn8&ab_channel=Poetryinmotion351


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blA3TBKlj8Q&list=PLOFZMp5SZNnYczu4aRlNnyQH 5Wmc3GN67&ab_channel=DreniEntertainment


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxsQtmxhhsE&list=PLt8_y8t-Ti9OlFMlmLghM0JWGXMZtATwI&ab_channel=andy

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg/800px-Are_You_Experienced_-_US_cover-edit.jpg

I wish I could put Kendrick Lamar- good kid m.A.A.d. city on here. Because while it is certainly incredible, it's just toooooo loooooong.

[brotha52]

https://youtu.be/hRBekk2RX-I

https://youtu.be/TB4qTuWYAjs

https://youtu.be/ogZAA3GpTzA

https://youtu.be/7UfVr5Xib50

https://youtu.be/ya3RhJUUZbk

[Jazzkokehead]

Very few albums I would consider "perfect" - even my favorite records have a song or two that I don't think I'd miss. That being said, the first few that come to mind would be Master of Puppets by Metallica, Heroes by David Bowie, and Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree.

[eversonpoe]

not going to repeat anyone's answers

true widow • avvolgere
king crimson • larks' tongues in aspic
king crimson • beat
nin • the fragile (fuck you; fight me)
naked city • s/t
placebo • sleeping with ghosts
mogwai • hardcore will never die, but you will
coil • the ape of naples
converge • you fail me (sorry, bobbie solo , i disagree with jane doe being a perfect album; it's good, but you fail me is far more cohesive)
depeche mode • construction time again
radiohead • kid a
the cinematic orchestra • every day
telefon tel avai • fahrenheit fair enough

[burnmotherfucker!]

nin • the fragile (fuck you; fight me)


I've been making a list trying to come up with albums I consider perfect. It's harder than I thought. The Fragile is one of the first I thought of. It's long but I can't think of anything I'd take off. It's staying on my list.

[burnmotherfucker!]

Incomplete, but here's what I have so far. Others have already mentioned some of these. Some of these are obvious. It's interesting that there are albums out there I probably like more than some of these but couldn't put on the list because of my tendency to skip tracks on them. There's a few others I might include one day but are too new right now to know. Intention, atmosphere, production, cohesion, and artwork seem to be what I look for most.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works vol. II
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Brand New - Science Fiction
Brian Eno - Apollo
Coil - Music to Play in the Dark
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - Pornography
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Violator
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Fiona Apple - Tidal
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Mogwai - Young Team
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pixies - Doolittle
Portishead - Dummy
Radiohead - Kid A
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Swans - The Seer
Unkle - Psyence Fiction
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-tang(36 Chambers)

[Reznor2112]

In no particular order: ("perfect" = I never skip a song)

Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Live - Throwing Copper
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
David Bowie - Low
The Black Queen - Fever Daydream
Lucero - Among the Ghosts
NEW ADDITION: Manchester Orchestra - A Black Mile To The Surface

[Soma]

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
The Cars - The Cars
Cursive - The Ugly Organ
David Bowie - Station To Station
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Orville Peck - Pony
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues

[GulDukat]

not going to repeat anyone's answers


nin • the fragile (fuck you; fight me)

I love every NIN album, but that's probably my favorite. It may not be considered their best by music critics, or have the homerun singles of With Teeth, but from top-to-bottom, it's my favorite NIN album, and it only gets better over time.

[SchwarzerAbt]

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
The Black Queen - Fever Daydream
The Knife - Silent Shout
Ghost - Prequelle

Both the Soft Cell and the Ghost album have such perfect sequencing. It makes the albums better than the sum of their songs for me.

[Archive_Reports]

Both the Soft Cell and the Ghost album have such perfect sequencing. It makes the albums better than the sum of their songs for me.

Track sequencing is so underrated.

[eversonpoe]

Track sequencing is so underrated.

i've had multiple friends who make music ask me to sequence their albums because i've got a knack for it. one of my favorite things to be able to do!

[Archive_Reports]

i've had multiple friends who make music ask me to sequence their albums because i've got a knack for it. one of my favorite things to be able to do!

The amount of time I have spent throughout my life sequencing mix tapes/CDs and playlists is...well, a lot.

[Jazzkokehead]

Two others that just recently came to mind would be Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock.

[eversonpoe]

The amount of time I have spent throughout my life sequencing mix tapes/CDs and playlists is...well, a lot.

i used to spend HOURS making every single mix. i still do, though it's not as time-consuming when i'm just making a playlist and not, you know, importing an uncompressed version of each song before burning it to a CD or using individual CDs to put individual tracks on to tapes.

[r_z]

I consider the original version of the first Big Black Delta album to be pretty much perfect.

The vinyl version of Vaudeville Villain by MF DOOM/Viktor Vaughn is perfect as well.

[thenorthwood]

PJ Harvey - Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea
Santigold - Santigold
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
Nirvana - In Utero
Pearl Jam - Ten
Cat Power - You Are Free
Lissie - Why You Runnin’
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
Chelsea Wolfe - Hiss Spun

Another vote for:
Brutus - Nest
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

[eachpassingphase]

These are the albums that have no skips, good sequencing and cohesive musical/lyrical themes throughout the album - which is what makes an album "perfect" for me.

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Foster the People - Torches
Lady Gaga - The Fame Monster
Tyler, the Creator - IGOR
Phoebe Bridgers - Punisher

[eversonpoe]

Santigold - Santigold

Cat Power - You Are Free

oh man that santigold album is absolutely fucking incredible.

"you are free" is my favorite cat power album. it's how i got into her. it saved my life (literally).

[Shadaloo]

Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
NIN - Broken, TDS
TSP - Siamese Dream
Type O Negative - October Rust
KMFDM - Nihil
David Bowie - Heathen (fight me)

[burnmotherfucker!]

David Bowie - Heathen (fight me)

I'm not sure I could call it perfect but it is a damn good album. I was listening to "5:15 The Angels Have Gone" yesterday, such a good track.

[muad'nin]

Very few albums I would consider "perfect" - even my favorite records have a song or two that I don't think I'd miss. That being said, the first few that come to mind would be Master of Puppets by Metallica, Heroes by David Bowie, and Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree.

Likewise. I’ve still never heard a perfect album. My favourite of all time (Vespertine) has elements with which I’m not 100% in love.

[elevenism]

Glad to be thirding this one, or whatever it is. :)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UfVr5Xib50&t=1666s

also, Shadaloo , it'll have to be a tag team fight if anyone has a problem with Heathen.

I agree 100%.

I've got a few more, but, i'll wait.

[eversonpoe]

https://64.media.tumblr.com/01570d357efdc50dab8a4b1873513de1/f5c8bab5b158bc4a-61/s500x750/b5957290ffbbb021147b20d579d2d05a2d3a6527.jpg

ben frost • by the throat
(which i am currently listening to on vinyl)

[elevenism]

I've got another one here. I've heard it so many damn times in my life that I can barely stand to listen to it anymore. There are other Rush albums with songs I prefer, but those are sometimes offset by songs that aren't my favorites.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpmab-Kd8n8

Side A. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ, Limelight
Side B. Witch Hunt, The Camera Eye, Vital Signs

That's seven INCREDIBLE tracks, with the entire A side being known by most rock fans, and the B side containing two of my personal absolute favorite Rush songs of all time,.and another that's also amazing.

I think brevity is part of its strength. This is pretty much The Rush Album, for casual fans.

[GulDukat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cj8St8BscwE&list=PLo-CVFFA0DtW44FlGp18rwYeAm6goDxA0

[Jazzkokehead]

One thing I didn't take into consideration previously was was EPs as opposed to LPs. There are probably a few EPs I'd consider "perfect," but that almost feels like cheating. Writing 4-5 good songs/15-20 minutes of good music feels like a much different prospect than writing 10 good songs/45-60 minutes of good music. There are albums I find middling that would probably be "perfect" if the best material on them was condensed into an EP.

[eversonpoe]

listening to Tender Prey by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and i'm so tempted to put it in this thread, but "deanna" just fucking completely derails it. i hate that song.

however, i think i will say that The Firstborn Is Dead is a perfect album. and "tupelo" is one of my favorite album openers of all time.

[GulDukat]

The Beatles Abbey Road comes to mind. The medley on the second side--perfection.

[thefragile_jake]

As far as my tastes ...

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Madvillian - Madvilliany
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Kanye West - Yeezus (MBDTF is super close)
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Weezer - Pinkerton
American Football - American Football (1999)
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Daughters - Hell Songs
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Converge - Jane Doe
death's dynamic shroud.wmv - I'll Try Living Like This
J Dilla - Donuts
Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare

[virushopper]

I'm not going reiterate what others have said but just adding the following:

Failure - Fantastic Planet
The Replacements - Let It Be
ISIS - Panopticon
Behemoth - The Satanist

[allegro]

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (I always listen to the entire album, and have all the lyrics memorized)

What a perfect album.

[brokenfragility]

Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (I always listen to the entire album, and have all the lyrics memorized)

What a perfect album.

^^ this times 100. And Raw Power is amazing all the way through as well.
I will add:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Daughters - You Wont Get What You Want
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Katchup
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

just the first few that popped into my head

[GulDukat]

Frank Sinatra, Songs For Swingin' Lovers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XuL5xSVL7s&feature=emb_logo

[GulDukat]

Love The Doors, and these two albums are almost flawless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl-htFNTDKk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnSjQR2QC3s

[eachpassingphase]

^^ this times 100. And Raw Power is amazing all the way through as well.
I will add:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Daughters - You Wont Get What You Want
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Katchup
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

just the first few that popped into my head

That Daughters album is so damn good for real. Every listen gives me an intense feeling of existential dread. Love it.

[To_Deviate]

I recently stumbled apon Tim Heckers' "Virgins", one that feels more like a single, blurred, 43 minute track at times, but still perfect within that. At least, with good headphones. Like an instrumental, more dramatic 'You Wont Get What You Want'.

[mfte]

A few I haven't seen mentioned.

D'Angelo - Voodoo

Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity

Tomahawk - S/T

The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation

If it wasn't so long and filled with pointless skits... Ghostface - Supreme Clientele

[use you up]

Autechre-Amber
The Cure-Faith
Ministry-Filth Pig
Cocteau Twins-Head Over Heels
Loop-Fade Out

[zecho]

I recently stumbled apon Tim Heckers' "Virgins", one that feels more like a single, blurred, 43 minute track at times, but still perfect within that. At least, with good headphones. Like an instrumental, more dramatic 'You Wont Get What You Want'.

That's how every Tim Hecker album is. His music feels very long form in nature. No songs, just one long experience. Love that guy's music. My favorite is probably Ravedeath, 1972.

[imail724]

Ride - Nowhere

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9b/Nowhereridecover.jpg

Listening to it now and ugh. Every single note. Perfection.

[elevenism]

Seal-Seal (1991)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs1MqASbpJ8

I first bought this tape when I was ten, and bought it five or six more times because I wore out the cassette or scratched the CD.
This is the one with The Beginning, Deep Water, Crazy, Killer, Whirlpool, Future Love Paradise, Wild, Show Me, Violet.
100% Killer, 0% Filler.
Timeless Singer-Songwriter/Rock/Electro at its finest.
Give it a shot, especially if you only know Kiss From a Rose. This is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I still had the album art from the last CD version I bought, hanging on my wall, until recently.

[elevenism]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYb0cjnpT4M
Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children

Weird friends turned me on to this and Broadcast and Nurse With Wound and Autechre and a WHOLE bunch of interesting stuff, around 2000ish. I STILL catch new things almost every time I listen to this one.

Edit:
I'm double posting, since you guys are posting like 15 at a time.
This thread would be a lot more cooler if you posted a pic/video, and didn't shoot your entire shot at once.

[bobbie solo]

I'm double posting, since you guys are posting like 15 at a time.
This thread would be a lot more cooler if you posted a pic/video, and didn't shoot your entire shot at once.

I heard your mom posts 15 at a time.

[ninlive]

Fischerspooner - Odyssey.

This is top 5 favorite albums. It did not leave my CD changer in high school for 2-3 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIvUyKFwZG0&list=PL8E06AD0693B61891

[TinDefacto]

Fischerspooner - Odyssey.
Hell yes Fischerspooner! This album is so damn good, and all three of their first few albums were super solid in my opinion. (Well, except for "Danse en France" from Entertainment -- I prefer to pretend that song doesn't exist.)

[ninlive]

Hell yes Fischerspooner! This album is so damn good, and all three of their first few albums were super solid in my opinion. (Well, except for "Danse en France" from Entertainment -- I prefer to pretend that song doesn't exist.)

Danse En France was trying to capture too much of a Trans Europe Express vibe. Entertainment was a huge disappointment as they got away from that electroclash sound. Then things just fell apart between Casey and Warren. It's been a trainwreck ever since if you follow Casey on his socials. Yikes.

[elevenism]

I heard your mom posts 15 at a time. YOUR mom saw this post this morning, when she woke up next to me. And, we talked a little and thought we should add
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M&list=PLKLjDq58gFD_cY1K3dqNhzRe8mibgziQZ

I remember in the early 2000s, when this was number 3 on a top 100 albums of all time show I was watching with my dad. And, I'd not heard it, so.he promptly drove me to the used record store at Vikon Village in Garland to get a copy.

It's fucking amazing. All the tracks flow into each other, and the production is stunning, and it just doesn't get much better.

[Jinsai]

Perfect is so hard... if something's perfect, there can't be "a best part" or something to really draw attention to. If it's perfect, every second has to be equivalently great, there can't be a low point (unless it's positioned in such a way that it accentuates the greater moments). It's just a sorta impossible thing.

I can't even say there's a "perfect" Beatles album, because they always let Ringo kinda just do his Ringo thing on every album. I wouldn't call any NIN album "perfect," but the closest that is just great from start to finish for me is Broken. But... maybe...

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
David Bowie - Scary Monsters

Those spring to mind as albums I wouldn't even consider changing a single thing about, or saying that there's a moment there that I'd feel it could have done without.

[allegro]

David Bowie

I wouldn’t change one song on Ziggy Stardust, I still listen to the entire album in full. The track list is just stellar to me, even to this day.

Edit:

God is this ever true:

I can't even say there's a "perfect" Beatles album, because they always let Ringo kinda just do his Ringo thing on every album.
“Rubber Soul” is perfect but then that RINGO thing happens in “What Goes On.” Ugh.

Another few perfect albums for me:

The Twilight Singers - “Powder Burns”

Pulp - “Different Class”

Hole - “Live Through This”

[elevenism]

Regarding Scary Monsters, did you know, Jinsai , that that record was sort of made under duress?

Bowie thought he had fulfilled his contractual obligation by making a double live album, but, to his dismay, RCA (I think) didn't count the double album as two.records.

So, he made Scary Monsters.

[Erneuert]

The Cure-Faith

Sometimes I’m dreaming where Charlotte Sometimes replaced Doubt. Sometimes I’m dreaming that it’s to track six which we can dance.

[eversonpoe]

Sometimes I’m dreaming where Charlotte Sometimes replaced Doubt. Sometimes I’m dreaming that it’s to track six which we can dance.

how DARE you!? while i agree that charlotte sometimes should be on the album, doubt is a much-needed injection of adrenaline!

[burnmotherfucker!]

Sometimes I’m dreaming where Charlotte Sometimes replaced Doubt. Sometimes I’m dreaming that it’s to track six which we can dance.


how DARE you!? while i agree that charlotte sometimes should be on the album, doubt is a much-needed injection of adrenaline!

I love Faith. It's one of my favorite all time albums. On some days it's my favorite Cure record. Pornography is perfect. Disintegration is perfect. I want Faith to be perfect but I think I actually agree with Erneuert on this one. Every time I listen to it everything is going great and then bam, doubt ruins the flow for me. It just doesn't quite fit. It wants to, I want it to, but I don't think it does.

I've always had Charlotte Sometimes as the final bonus track on the version I've had saved to my phone for years and every time I think man if it was just there instead of doubt, perfection. Faith needs to be the closer after all so having Charlotte come after it feels like an afterthought. Primary is the only upbeat track the album needs.

Talk me out of this opinion, why should I love 'doubt'? What makes it a great track? What am I missing?

[Erneuert]

I love Faith. It's one of my favorite all time albums. On some days it's my favorite Cure record. Pornography is perfect. Disintegration is perfect. I want Faith to be perfect but I think I actually agree with Erneuert on this one. Every time I listen to it everything is going great and then bam, doubt ruins the flow for me. It just doesn't quite fit. It wants to, I want it to, but I don't think it does.

I've always had Charlotte Sometimes as the final bonus track on the version I've had saved to my phone for years and every time I think man if it was just there instead of doubt, perfection. Faith needs to be the closer after all so having Charlotte come after it feels like an afterthought. Primary is the only upbeat track the album needs.

Talk me out of this opinion, why should I love 'doubt'? What makes it a great track? What am I missing?

When I saw it’s live debut in Sydney at Reflections in 2011 I thought I would’ve been excited/impressed. I wasn’t. Lol

[burnmotherfucker!]

When I saw it’s live debut in Sydney at Reflections in 2011 I thought I would’ve been excited/impressed. I wasn’t. Lol

Well I'm impressed you got to see a Reflections show! I remember thinking back in 2011 that I'd just be happy to get a dvd or album release of those shows. Three of my favorite albums of all time. I don't get to go to many shows but I did get to see the Cure a few years back and I have to say after all these years they are one of the best bands I've ever seen when it comes to bringing album quality to live performance. They played the Hanging Garden and it sounded like thunder from the gods. Felt it in my chest and it totally made me appreciate the album version even more. Too bad they never got around to putting out Reflections in any format.

[eversonpoe]

Low • The Curtain Hits The Cast

[Endlessly]

Another few perfect albums for me:

The Twilight Singers - “Powder Burns”

Not that I disagree much - but if I were to pick a perfect Twilight Singers album, it would be Blackberry Belle over Powder Burns.

[Jazzkokehead]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYb0cjnpT4M
Boards of Canada- Music Has the Right to Children

Weird friends turned me on to this and Broadcast and Nurse With Wound and Autechre and a WHOLE bunch of interesting stuff, around 2000ish. I STILL catch new things almost every time I listen to this one.

Edit:
I'm double posting, since you guys are posting like 15 at a time.
This thread would be a lot more cooler if you posted a pic/video, and didn't shoot your entire shot at once.

I was listening to this earlier today, and, no joke, heard a background melody in "An Eagle in Your Mind" I swear I've never heard before. It's a strange and great experience when a album you're pretty sure you know back to front presents something new. Still, I think Geogaddi is probably better overall - I'm curious, what is the reason you chose Music Has the Right to Children over their other albums?


I'm not going reiterate what others have said but just adding the following:

ISIS - Panopticon

I hadn't listened to this album in a while, but out of nowhere had an itch for it again. It's pretty great, and I think my appreciation for it has only grown over time. I'm not quite as obsessed with heavy guitars as I used to be, so some of the quieter passages were a real treat to hear.

[allegro]

I'm curious, what is the reason you chose Music Has the Right to Children over their other albums?
Pitchfork agrees with him (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/838-music-has-the-right-to-children/).

Like, REALLY strongly (https://pitchfork.com/features/article/why-boards-of-canadas-music-has-the-right-to-children-is-the-greatest-psychedelic-album-of-the-90s/).

[Jazzkokehead]

Pitchfork agrees with him (https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/838-music-has-the-right-to-children/).

Like, REALLY strongly (https://pitchfork.com/features/article/why-boards-of-canadas-music-has-the-right-to-children-is-the-greatest-psychedelic-album-of-the-90s/).

Well, okay, I didn't ask if Pitchfork or any other critics agreed with him, I asked him for what his reasons were...?

I feel like I shouldn't have to point this out, but I will, just to be safe: I wasn't trying to be condescending or anything - I genuinely want to know why people may prefer Music Has the Right to Children over Geogaddi (or any other of their albums). I don't need links to reviews, thanks; I've read those. I asked for one person's experience. Maybe they caught something I missed, I dunno.

So in the context of my question, I'm not really sure what Pitchfork's review has to do with anything.

[allegro]

Well, okay, I didn't ask if Pitchfork or any other critics agreed with him, I asked him for what his reasons were...?

I feel like I shouldn't have to point this out, but I will, just to be safe: I wasn't trying to be condescending or anything - I genuinely want to know why people may prefer Music Has the Right to Children over Geogaddi (or any other of their albums). I don't need links to reviews, thanks; I've read those. I asked for one person's experience. Maybe they caught something I missed, I dunno.

So in the context of my question, I'm not really sure what Pitchfork's review has to do with anything.
Sorry, I wasn’t being a dick. elevenism and I have had many slobbering conversations (some on this board) about that album, and it’s been discussed here in this same kind of assumed way, I guess, that the album is not only their best album, it’s one of the best albums OF ALL TIME, in the history of music. Likely because it created an entire genre of music. And having to defend it as “perfect” isn’t fair, really. (Since “perfect” is so subjective and kinda stupid and meaningless.) I linked Pitchfork because it’s their JOB to defend albums. Us board members? Not so much. Taste is taste. Just like us Radiohead fans can’t “explain” why we love them to people on ETS who can’t stand them. It is what it is. Subjective.

But FWIW Jinsai loves Geogaddi the most, too.

This “Perfect Album” thread carried over from the drift of this thread (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/940-Controversial-Music-Opinions?p=521676#post521676), wherein we determined that “perfect albums” were subjective, hence why this list thread was created.

Anyway, sorry, elevenism’s dog just died, but he has answered this question, before, here (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/1521-Boards-of-Canada?p=81090#post81090).

[Jinsai]

Geogaddi is just one of those perfect albums... on first listen it sounded almost like a continuation of the same thing they were exploring with Music Has the Right to Children. I honestly didn't really feel like I "got it" in this completely perfect way until I heard Campfire Headphase, which I think is an underrated album too, and maybe the most psychedelic thing they've made. Geogaddi is just riffing through moments that sound immediately / endlessly classic. Everything feels like a hook, every vocal sample feels mysterious and haunting, and there's these tower walls of saturated, fuzzed syntehsizers that sound like nature documentaries on warped VHS tapes you'd check out from the library.

THere's something magical going on with Geogaddi, and it's a key to something that makes me feel really content and at peace. There's nothing else like it really for me, and it's strange at this point that at first I didn't even see it as much of a departure from the debut.

[elevenism]

@Jazzkokehead (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=7581) , good to meet you.

First off, what @allegro (https://www.echoingthesound.org/community/member.php?u=76) said.

Secondly,

I LOVE Geogaddi. It's just, how you say...fucking terrifying?

To me, MHTRTC is like smoking grass when you're young. Geo is losing your mind on strong psychedelics. And TCH is sort of growing up, and having euphoric glowing memories of it all.
They're ALL fucking amazing, and you'll catch me listening to TCH more than the other two I mentioned, now that I'm older. But, I've listened to MHTRTC the most.
I have to be in the right headspace for Geogaddi, as incredible as it is. It's not something I can turn on just any time, sort of like Fixed, you know? I mean, it's not THAT extreme, but you know what I mean.

The new one is too depressing.

The rest are EPs.

So, yeah, that's why MHTRTC is the perfect one, to me. There's also the part where it just happens to be perfect. ;)

Edit: also, Jinsai , at PEACE? Geogaddi makes you feel at PEACE? EVERY BoC record EXCEPT that one, pretty much, makes me feel at peace. :p

I still love it, though.

[Jinsai]

The only BoC album that doesn’t instill me with some feeling that’s nostalgic, fond, and fleeting in a trippy way is Tomorrow’s Harvest, which I think is a really interesting record, but it just feels bleak and kinda draining

[elevenism]

The only BoC album that doesn’t instill me with some feeling that’s nostalgic, fond, and fleeting in a trippy way is Tomorrow’s Harvest, which I think is a really interesting record, but it just feels bleak and kinda draining Geogaddi instills me with all those feelings, too. It's just that I find parts of it to be a little frightening. There's a LOT of that record that is as strangely nostalgic and comforting as the others. PARTS of it are disconcerting, but in a good way...but it still kind of scares me. :p

And I'm 100% with you on TH.

THAT one is just fucking SAD. But, I think that was the point.

Edit: I know I'm contradicting myself here, because I said Geogaddi was the only one that didn't necessarily give me a peaceful feeling. TH is the INSANELY bleak one. I've not even listened to it very many times

[Jinsai]

Kinda like COIL, when you’re listening to BoC you’re messing with some spooky dark magic, and I love it. The whole “Nice Place in the Country” detour plays into it heavily, and they are such a mysterious group... all the music sounds comforting at first and then unsettling, and the listener is a frog set to boil. You’re relaxed then there is all this spooky cult shit, a strange detour loaded with cult references, back masked stuff about David Koresh..

I like it when music seems dangerous, even if it’s clearly safe for family fun for everyone over the height of 48”. BoC isn’t safe, even if it sounds like it is; even if everything about it is seemingly chill and relaxed, and nobody at the Starbucks is gonna complain if BoC comes on the stereo

[Jazzkokehead]

Thank you both for the replies, elevenism and Jinsai. I didn't mean to start a mini Boards of Canada discussion, but, well, here we are.

Geogaddi is a weird album - it's alternatively peaceful and unsettling at points. Which I think could probably describe most BoC albums. But every album of theirs has a track that bothers or disturbs me in some way. For example, I find the beat in Telephasic Workshop in Music Has the Right to Children to be off-kilter and off-putting to an extreme degree, to the point where I often skip the track. Why, exactly? I dunno; it just messes with my brain in some way that I don't want my brain to be messed with.

Like Jinsai said, I think as well that The Campfire Headphase is underrated. It feels quite different to me, in mood and atmosphere, to their other records, but really, looking at BoC's discography, I don't think there's a bad one in the bunch.

But, I think we're heading into some massive thread drift territory (probably because of me).

[burninglard]

Tim Hecker Virgins is perfect in my book. Although his whole discography is pretty top notch.

[Disposable horse]

The Downward Spiral ofc
The top Pink Floyd albums- The Dark Side of The Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here (love the Wall, but there is certainly filler there).
Appetite for Destruction, as mentioned earlier in the thread.
Are You Experienced? is a classic
Who's Next (The Who are so underrated and every song on there is a banger).
Kid A (except maybe Optimistic).

[allegro]

Kid A (except maybe Optimistic).

WHAT?????!!?!?!?!



The top Pink Floyd albums- The Dark Side of The Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here (love the Wall, but there is certainly filler there).
Who's Next (The Who are so underrated and every song on there is a banger).
I totally concur.

[Disposable horse]

Do you hate Kid A or love Optimistic?

[allegro]

Do you hate Kid A or love Optimistic?

I love them both! It's a perfect album. I underlined the part that made me GASP. A travesty, I say! A travesty! :p

[Disposable horse]

I see. I'm going to give Optimistic another chance then.

[allegro]

AW, yeah, please do!