Perfect Albums

[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

[GulDukat]

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

[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



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

[elevenism]

Seal-Seal (1991)



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]

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.

[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

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]

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.

Like, REALLY strongly.