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[Wimps]

Hell yeah.

You should listen to Wugazi. Basicly what he has done is mashup a hardcore/punk band(Fugazi) with Wu Tang, the result is amazing.

Wugazi

The album is close to perfect imo.

 

[Nicktendo86]

Radiohead: The King of Limbs. Seriously cannot stop listening to it.

 

[Conciliator]

You could cut at most 1 song from Lonesome Crowded West without affect the record fundamentally. However Moon and Antarctica approaches levels of perfection that haven't been attained in modern music since Unknown Pleasures. Your criticism is completely toothless, since not only are both albums very tightly choreographed (M&A makes Dark Side of the Moon look like a Kids Bop album), but "indulgent" is about the most insipid criticism you can make of anything. Got anything substantive?

Goodness! I didn't intend for you to catch feelings so heavy. Different strokes. Our key differerence may just be that I tend to generally avoid the kind of comically over-bearing hyperbole you seem to enjoy describing music with. Again, I like both those albums quite a bit(although I prefer Lonesome Crowded West, it's the most indulgent but also the most kinetic and emotive). You'll probably be chagrined to know I like their following album just as much. And, really, you've never heard an album you thought was indulgent?

Unknown Pleasures is a good bit tighter, though it's not perfect either(you really think that goofy synth stuff at the end of 'Insight' holds up well?). Not sure why you bring Dark Side of the Moon up, I don't like it a bit. Well, happy listening.

 

[Dreaver]

In the electronic department:

Awesome album. Love the sound, pretty unique as well imo.

Most likely my favorite electronic album. It's soooogoooddd.

 

[mr. puppy]

so do you all not like rap or something

 

[Brobzoid]

Miles Davis' Sketches in Spain, both of Emancipator's records and Hildur Gudnadottir's Without Sinking are some I haven't seen mentioned I think are flawless

 

[Souljiro]

so do you all not like rap or something

Bam!

Fanstic album

 

[yacobod]

Essential Metal

 

[KillerMike]

He seriously reminds me of Bubbles from The Wire.

For me it's:
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Daft Punk - Discovery
Curren$y - Pilot Talk II
James Blake - James Blake
Girl Talk - All Day
Kanye West - The College Dopout
Christian Scott - Rewind That
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

and I'm going to have to say the Turquoise Jeep Records: Keep The Jeep Ridin' album. I can just listen to it all the way through and love it. KTJR.

 

[Zhaanie]

I'd say this is the most recent 'perfect' album I can think of.

 

[Souljiro]

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

Building steam with a grain of salt...best album hes done need to listen to the new that came out last month hope it's good.

 

[TheLastCandle]

A perfect albums thread is a nice little change from the favorite albums threads because it has me omit a lot of my absolute favorite stuff because there may be one or two weaker tracks from the rest. Might as welll exclude albums with billions of intros and interlude tracks as well, just for the hell of it.

Blind Guardian - Imaginations From the Other Side

Lost Horizon - Awakening the World

Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica

Running Wild - Death or Glory

Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja

Manowar - Into Glory Ride

Rainbow - Rising

Not a bad track on any of these tasty slabs of steel.

 

[jambo]

Led Zeppelin's debut is one of my favourite albums.

Do cover albums count?

 

[jmdajr]

 

[kottila]

i chose only albums not mentioned so far (With spotify links.)

Hellacopters - By the grace of God

Gallows - Grey Britain

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

Stein Torleif Bjella - Vonde Visu

 

[J Tourettes]

There are a few more (Revolver almost gets there but Eleanor Rigby and Here, There and everywhere drop the ball, Rubber Soul is also close) but I can't think of them right this second.

 

[i_am_ben]

Lungs -Florence and the machine

 

[J Tourettes]

Lungs -Florence and the machine

Good album but that horrendous cover of 'You've got the love' pisses all over my childhood memories.

 

[acheron_xl]

There are a few more (Revolver almost gets there but Eleanor Rigby and Here, There and everywhere drop the ball, Rubber Soul is also close) but I can't think of them right this second.

Huh? Those two songs are stone cold classics. I think I've heard Art Garfunkel or someone even refer to the latter as the best song ever written. Love You To and Doctor Robert are much more insignificant songs.

 

[J Tourettes]

Huh? Those two songs are stone cold classics. I think I've heard Art Garfunkel or someone even refer to the latter as the best song ever written. Love You To and Doctor Robert are much more insignificant songs.

They stone cold suck. Doctor Robert kicks both of their arses.

 

[omgkitty]

I know Real Estate's new album just came out, but I really do feel that it's perfect.

 

[Nuttycam]

 

[krypt0nian]

Good album but that horrendous cover of 'You've got the love' pisses all over my childhood memories.

Yup, keeps it a stone's throw away from perfection.

 

[kenssi]

Pink Flag by Wire, one hell of a debut album.

 

[faridmon]

Vulgar by Dir En Grey
Rules by The Whitest Boy Alive
Part of Grace by Lillies and Remains

 

[Kukuk]

As Porcupine Tree's In Absentia already listed for me it comes to this

This, along with:

(Nashville Skyline)

 

[sonicfan]

Here are mine:

 

[Madrical]

 

[IndieJones]

You know if you know it.

 

[see5harp]

Building steam with a grain of salt...best album hes done need to listen to the new that came out last month hope it's good.

No it's terrible once again. For those who know the cover RIP K St. Records.

 

[RJT]

I'm disappointed GAF. I can't believe no one mentioned Illmatic

Spoiler

on this page

"I drink Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell
From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell"

 

[KidA Seven]

I'm disappointed GAF. I can't believe no one mentioned Illmatic

Spoiler

on this page

"I drink Moet with Medusa, give her shotguns in hell
From the spliff that I lift and inhale, it ain't hard to tell"

It Ain't Hard to Tell is my favorite Nas track. Great taste my friend.

 

[Aguirre]

A new album but perfect to me. Not one filler song on it.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

hahaha good one. i enjoyed that.

when i get back home later, i'll look at this post again and enjoy it some more

 

[Kjellson]

Do cover albums count?

It's only like four songs.

 

[H3xum]

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

Laughing Stock - Talk Talk

Heroes - David Bowie

Wow, you sir have great taste in music.

Came to post these exact 3 albums (was going to post the entire Introduction album for Drake though)

 

[Misterinenja]

Kid A

 

[~Devil Trigger~]

 

[Conciliator]

You know if you know it.

Really, you're doing that thing? The album is Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante for anyone who may care.

 

[user8503492]

Pefect to me!

 

[IndieJones]

Really, you're doing that thing? The album is Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante for anyone who may care.

Shhh, no one does.

 

[Aguirre]

 

[tycoonheart]

Absolutely perfect from top to bottom. Till this day I can listen to it without having to skip any tracks. So f'n good.

Also helps that there weren't sampling laws back then like they do now.

 

[acheron_xl]

Shhh, no one does.

I prefer their first album. Nothing Mike Patton does is bad, though. I'm especially fond of the EP he did with the Dillinger Escape Plan.

Also helps that there weren't sampling laws back then like they do now.

Girl Talk gets around this by not actually selling the album. Fair use rules.

 

[Madrical]

It's only like four songs.

Don't feed the idiot.

It's one of my favourite albums.

 

[Derrick01]

This and Master of Puppets are the 2 greatest albums I've ever heard. Perfection from top to bottom.

 

[otmane]

I suppose I need to be the first one to post it:

This should have been the first post! You have a good taste sir...

 

[Puddles]

I think U2's Achtung Baby is also pretty close to this description

I agree with this. Overall a better album than Joshua Tree, IMO.

 

[jtb]

I think nearly every Beatles album Rubber Soul and later is perfect or near perfect. Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Pepper are all amazing. Then White Album, which is a fantastic project in its own right, though too sprawling and ambitious and ultimately fragmented (and inconsistent as hell) to be a "perfect album."

Then, fucking Abbey Road. That shit is the very definition of the perfect album in my book.

Another one of my favorites is, well, basically any Kanye album. But in particular, College Dropout. Very White Album-eque - so much variety, the highs are unbelievable but there are just too many lows to be considered "perfect". Though, that's the great thing about albums, they're more than the sum of their parts, and albums like The White Album and the College Dropout are perfect examples of this.

Props to Kid A for being the only Radiohead album I like (and I love it a lot.) Another perfect album in my book.

 

[kr2t0s]

For me it's:

Jawbreaker - Dear You
Cure - Disintegration
Smart Went Crazy - Con Art

 

[Puddles]

Didn't see it mentioned yet, so:

One of the greatest jazz albums of all time.