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[StuBurns]

Who doesn't love that CD? Its fabulous

I agree, but I don't see a lot of TMV love on GAF, plenty of ATDI love though. I think FTM was by far the best to come out of either group personally.

 

[Red Blaster]

Please change the title to "Favorite Albums"

 

[ianp622]

Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye

Please change the title to "Favorite Albums"

I have a bunch of favorite albums that I wouldn't consider perfect. It's not the OP's fault that some people don't follow the rules.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Please change the title to "Favorite Albums"

If this thread were about Favourite ablums, I'd have nominated Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving, Juanes - Mi Sangre or Bee Gees - One Night Only. They're all disqualified from the thread because they do contain filler. No way around that.

Also, people posting pictures without a label, your posts are going to look really obnoxious in a month or two when your links are all dead.

EDIT: As for albums I genuinely dislike, but would qualify for this thread: ABBA (Self-titled).

 

[jambo]

Led Zeppelin - IV (ZOSO)

Fantastic suggestion, not a sniff of filler on it.

 

[goldlion054]

I agree, but I don't see a lot of TMV love on GAF, plenty of ATDI love though. I think FTM was by far the best to come out of either group personally.

Always been kind of "meh" for me. Mars Volta is far and away better

 

[JABEE]

Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road, Rubber Soul by the Beatles
Off the Wall by Michael Jackson
Aerosmith, Get Your Wings, Pump by Aerosmith

 

[Oozer3993]

The highs may be higher on some of his other albums, but there is not a song on here that isn't great.

Fearless may have won Best Album, but some tracks were barely above average and one was an outright stinker (Change). Speak Now, despite being longer and having more tracks, never dips below "great." Every song works and the album includes what might be her best two songs yet (Enchanted and Dear John).

 

[a posh hammer]

As far as more recent stuff I agree with the Tallest Man on Earth's the Wild Hunt, very consistent. Janelle Monae's album was just a little too long in my opinion, pretty subjective thing though.

Ravedeath, 1972 is however my favourite album this year, so well constructed in every way.

 

[meyers5j]

Weezer - Blue Album

The Strokes - Is This It?

The Strokes - Room on Fire

The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - While it's not perfect, it's damn close. There's only a couple of songs that I don't enjoy greatly.

 

[RDreamer]

Please change the title to "Favorite Albums"

If it were just a favorite albums thread or something like that, I could add a lot more. Most of my favorites I do consider perfect, though, since I listen to music almost non stop and have heard a ton of stuff and like a ton of stuff. And I never listen to just tracks. So, usually if an album even has a track I actively dislike I don't tend to listen to it a lot. 2 tracks I actively dislike and it's probably a big dud for me.

 

[Jeramii]

Please change the title to "Favorite Albums"

the albums i chose are not my favorites.... though i do love the albums i chose. i just find everything about the lyrics, and instruments, perfect to their style.

 

[Ilive1up]

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

 

[Yaboosh]

Fearless may have won Best Album, but some tracks were barely above average and one was an outright stinker (Change). Speak Now, despite being longer and having more tracks, never dips below "great." Every song works and the album includes what might be her best two songs yet (Enchanted and Dear John).

Eh, there is one or two low spots on this album. It is one of my favorite albums of the last five years though.

 

[ATF487]

Ooh, I forgot:

Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light : It's another of these albums that's more than just a collection of songs and forms a cohesive whole. The first time I listened to it, I was amazed to find that there was no filler.

Really? Really?

I'm a huge Jimmy Eat World guy, but this is easily the worst thing they've put out. Static Prevails is solid with lots of promise for the future, Clarity is far and away their masterpiece (as well as the best "emo" album of all time), Bleed American is a fantastic collection of singles and a good snapshot of the early 2000s, Futures blended the two previous styles well, and Invented actually impressed me as I didn't expect much from them in 2010. But Chase This Light (minus Big Casino and maybe one or two other tracks) is as tired and lazy as albums come. I thought the Maroon 5 example was dodgy but I now question what you take from music as a whole

 

[Charmicarmicat]

 

[JackEtc]

Just off the top of my head:

 

[dominuece]

Off top? Radiohead: Kid A, The Flaming Lips: Y.B.T.P.R., Radiohead: Ok Computer, Godspeed: Lift Your Skinny Fists..., Massive Attack: Mezzanine. All I have right now.

 

[Aselith]

 

[Devolution]

What the fuck GAF. How has this not been posted yet:

Spoiler

I didn't see it so if it has, excuse the attitude.

 

[Orayn]

Lateralus comes together so beautifully.

 

[danilark]

 

[Aselith]

What the fuck GAF. How has this not been posted yet:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/10/DMviolator.jpg[img]

[spoiler]I didn't see it so if it has, excuse the attitude.[/spoiler][/QUOTE]

Wouldn't it be easiest to just post the album and not act all superior about your supreme taste?

 

[Devolution]

Wouldn't it be easiest to just post the album and not act all superior about your supreme taste?

It's not really superior taste, it's a great album. Superior taste would be "look at this obscure as fuck album that you guys haven't even heard of."

 

[Hobbestetrician]

The Flaming Lips -The Soft Bulletin, In A Priest Driven Ambulance, Yoshimi

Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, In Rainbows

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

The Beatles - Revolver, Abbey Road

Metallica - Master of Puppets

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

[nns3d]

 

[Vire]

 

[Aselith]

It's not really superior taste, it's a great album. Superior taste would be "look at this obscure as fuck album that you guys haven't even heard of."

"Shame on you guys for not thinking of this album. Obviously, after I post this, you'll all kick yourselves for not having thought of it!"

The superiority is in assuming that people hadn't thought to post it rather than in assuming that you're the only one that could have though of it. It's in assuming that your choice is unquestionable.

My main point though was just post the damn album. Posting something with a "shame on you for not already posting it!" comment is probably the douchiest forum trend currently enjoying popularity.

 

[viciouskillersquirrel]

Really? Really?

I'm a huge Jimmy Eat World guy, but this is easily the worst thing they've put out. Static Prevails is solid with lots of promise for the future, Clarity is far and away their masterpiece (as well as the best "emo" album of all time), Bleed American is a fantastic collection of singles and a good snapshot of the early 2000s, Futures blended the two previous styles well, and Invented actually impressed me as I didn't expect much from them in 2010. But Chase This Light (minus Big Casino and maybe one or two other tracks) is as tired and lazy as albums come. I thought the Maroon 5 example was dodgy but I now question what you take from music as a whole

Chase This Light was the first Jimmy Eat World album I actually sat down and listened to in full, so if it being a retread of their previous stuff or was “samey” throughout, it didn’t affect me the same way it would for longtime fans. I was impressed. Come at me bro.

Also, will somebody please articulate to me what makes all you people say that Maroon 5 is so awful? All I’ve gotten thus far is incredulity and vague assertions regarding its lack of quality, which I can only assume is an irrational reaction to their fans or their popularity. Had nobody ever heard of them, every one of you would be praising their bold mix of funk and rock and eviscerating their second album for not being as good as the first.

 

[WrenAndroid]

 

[Devolution]

"Shame on you guys for not thinking of this album. Obviously, after I post this, you'll all kick yourselves for not having thought of it!"

The superiority is in assuming that people hadn't thought to post it rather than in assuming that you're the only one that could have though of it. It's in assuming that your choice is unquestionable.

My main point though was just post the damn album.

I usually see it up before I post. /shrug

 

[leng jai]

 

[JoseJX]

The Who - Quadrophenia

Great choice, this one should be in the running as well. They're both so good.

These will be a bit more controversial, but I love these albums from the first to the last track:

Green Day - Dookie

Presidents of the United States of America - I

 

[Sheppard]

This has been pretty awesome for me.

 

[tborsje]

There are way too many perfect albums for me...

What an awesome list. It's great that Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain gets a mention in this thread. Ditto with Devin Townsend and Pain of Salvation.

Oh, and The Jester Race - the perfect melodic death metal album.

I'd just add Between the Buried and Me - Colors.

 

[Hobbestetrician]

Presidents of the United States of America - I

I will back you on this. Not a bad track on there and it is a breeze of an album. Interestingly enough, I think they have better albums (These Are The Good Times People) but their first album doesnt have a bum note on it.

 

[AlteredBeast]

Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
The Beatles - Let It Be NAKED
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
Sneaker Pimps - Bloodsport
Sneaker Pimps - Splinter
Neva Dinova - Neva Dinova
Neva Dinova - The Hate Yourself Change
Neva Dinova - You May Already Be Dreaming
The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?
Paul McCartney - Ram
Pay McCartney - McCartney
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Radiohead - OK Computer
Dredg - El Cielo
The Cure - Disintegration
Aphex Twin - The Richard D. James Album
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Coldplay - Parachutes
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Elliott Smith - XO
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
The Strokes - Is This It?
Nirvana - Unplugged in New York
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
U2 - War
The Pixies - Doolittle

Might be missing a few, but this is pretty much it from me.

My rules for selection:

-I chose these albums because they are as close to perfect as I think albums can be. Sure OK Computer has Fitter Happier, but the rest of the album more than makes up for it. A perfect album need not have every piece be completely perfect.

-No hype allowed. I didn't put on Pet Sounds because I don't like it. I don't "get it." There are a few good songs on it, but nothing that could compare to anything else in my top 50, much less top 200 albums ever. No Bob Dylan, because, while he does a few stellar SONGS, most of his stuff is not my thing. I am not into a rambling, mumbling poet, I am into music. I don't care that The Velvet Underground and Nico is critically acclaimed to hell and back, Loaded is the only thing i like from TVU. I don't care that albums like Californication, War, OK Computer, Parachutes, and so on are played out like crazy, 20 years from now, people will be making new memories with these albums and they are still going to sound amazing, even if I might be soured on much of the albums, still.

-I am not a huge fan of hip-hop, but do recognize the skill of Del tha Funky Homosapien, Dr. Octagon, a Tribe Called Quest, and so on, but because I don't really like most of the hip-hop/rap that I hear, I cannot objectively rate it. Same goes with Country, R&B, Pop, and so on.

 

[Sp3eD]

 

[Snakeyes]

 

[Blackheim]

Humm, albums that contain no duds/songs I don't skip (and therefore meeting the criteria in the OP) for me:

Carnivore - Retaliation

Chara - Union

Iron Maiden - Killers

Loudness - The Law of Devil's Land

Michale Graves - Illusions

Almost anything released by Danzig era The Misfits >_>
Outrage - Blind to Reality

Outrage - Who We Are

Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman

Mao Abe - Su.

Huh, there were more than I actually would have thought...

 

[Panzon]

Off The Wall
Thriller
Get rich or Die Tryin'

 

[TheHakku]

In Utero was already posted, and I definitely endorse that. Nirvana's greatest album.

Just one of those albums I could listen to the entire way through.

 

[web01]

The last album I bought that felt like a cohesive thing from beginning to end, and was successful at maintaining a theme from track to track, and that just is fucking awesome:

Great Choice, New Album is just as good.

 

[Telosfortelos]

I only know of one personally.

Joanna Newsom - Ys

There is one thing I would change, I'd put Bill Callahan's harmonies a little lower in the mix. Otherwise it's essentially flawless as far as I can tell. Other than Purple Chick's mix of SMiLE, I've heard no other album more.

She mixed up meteorite and meteoroid. Inexcusable. Bill Callahan's part is my favorite section of the best track on the album, though.

 

[scoobs]

Brand New - Deja Entendu

Was coming to post this. Perfect

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Already posted:

Entroducing
Illmatic
Violator

Also:

 

[apexis]

and

 

[ViperVisor]

 

[Kad5]

King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King

The link between psychedelic and progressive rock. If your a true progressive rock fan this album is pretty much perfect. It has a nice bit of jazz influence as well.