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A classic music thread: Your PERFECT albums

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Urban Tribe - The Collapse of Modern Culture
Basic Channel - BCD
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Techno Animal - 'Re-Entry'
DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - Ki-Oku
Carl Craig - More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Merzbow - Aqua Necromancer
Drexciya - Neptune's Lair
154 - Strike
 
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While I don't necessarily think all of these are perfect, they are all pretty special to me.

Swans - Children of God
David Bowie - Low
Brian Eno - Another Green World, Here Come the Warm Jets
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Slowdive - Souvlaki
The Velvet Underground - s/t, The Velvet Underground & Nico
Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
Lou Reed - Transformer
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Clash - s/t
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Microphones - The Glow, Pt. 2
Nas - Illmatic
 
Vox-Pop said:
What the 2nd and 4th covers band name??
Pink Moon is great btw.
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starting from top:
radiohead - ok computer
nick drake - pink moon
the zombies - odyssey and oracle
the pixies - doolittle
neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea

Dr. Strangelove said:
While I don't necessarily think all of these are perfect, they are all pretty special to me.
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while i dont have a personal problem with you, it annoys me sometimes when the thread title obviously says 'your PERFECT ALBUMS' and people decide to put whatever they want. this happens a lot in 'greatest of all time' threads where people just put there current favs or some extremely obscure indie drivel that only a handful of people have listened and the majority of music listeners in the world would disagree. theres a difference between your personal favs and greatest albums of all time/of a genre/of the 70s, etc.

/rant
 
Talking Heads, Fear of Music & Remain in Light
Super Furry Animals, Guerrilla
The Auteurs, New Wave
The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Fiona Apple, When the Pawn
David Bowie, Ziggy Stardust
 
Björk - Vespertine, Homogenic
Don Caballero - What Burns Never Returns
Hood - Cold House
Röyksopp - Melody A.M.
The Microphones - It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water
City of Caterpillar - s/t
Kayo Dot - Choirs of the Eye
Discordance Axis - The Inalienable Dreamless
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Nation of Ulysses - 13-Point Program to Destroy America
 
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Weezer - Pinkerton
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command

I *would* mention Daft Punk, but the CD's pacing is so weird. Those first 4 tracks are too amazing and makes some of the following songs sorta let-downish with some exceptions.
 
New Order- Power, Corruption and Lies.
Everything, the cover art and every song is perfect.
The lack of New Order in this thread is sickening.
 
Rubber Soul
Abbey Road
Imagine
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Master of Puppets
The Queen is Dead
Weezer (Blue Album)
Definitely Maybe
The Bends
OK Computer
Parachutes
Origin of Symmetry
Caught by the Window
 
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WA has ALOT of albums chockfull of must-listen tracks, but always a few were fostered on them by ignorant record execs or they just didn't come together. This is not one of those.

All instrumentals, and a reunion for the original Mach 1 of Ted Turner, Andy Powell, Martin Turner, and Steve Upton; it brought them back to laying out intricate, fun music rich in the harmony, melody, cadence, and tone they (should be more) famous for.

Many of my others have been mentioned earlier, so this was all that was left to show and tell. :)
 
muttyeah416 said:
while i dont have a personal problem with you, it annoys me sometimes when the thread title obviously says 'your PERFECT ALBUMS' and people decide to put whatever they want. this happens a lot in 'greatest of all time' threads where people just put there current favs or some extremely obscure indie drivel that only a handful of people have listened and the majority of music listeners in the world would disagree. theres a difference between your personal favs and greatest albums of all time/of a genre/of the 70s, etc.
/rant
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Well then, let them be known as "my perfect albums." Those are the albums that I can listen to over and over, and that's why I listed them in this thread. MAF did basically ask for "desert island albums." Calm down.
 
muttyeah416 said:
while i dont have a personal problem with you, it annoys me sometimes when the thread title obviously says 'your PERFECT ALBUMS' and people decide to put whatever they want. this happens a lot in 'greatest of all time' threads where people just put there current favs or some extremely obscure indie drivel that only a handful of people have listened and the majority of music listeners in the world would disagree. theres a difference between your personal favs and greatest albums of all time/of a genre/of the 70s, etc.

/rant
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Come on.

This thread is about "your" perfect albums. To me, my perfect album is Weezer's "Pinkerton" only because it was one of the first albums I ever had a love affair with, and it was when I was first starting to listen to American music. Is it a PERFECT album? Who exactly defines what "perfect" is? It's all relative, so don't give your panties in a bunch. This is all personal opinion. Hell, Angryface put down a Jenny Lewis album as his "perfect" album, and I couldn't go two songs into that thing without crying.
 
muttyeah,

Diablos said:
Anyway, to me, much like life itself, there is no such thing as 100% perfect. Everything you will listen to will always have at least one small thing that you don't like.

This list would be more like my favorite albums, because obviously, they would be "perfect" to me.
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Please understand where we're coming from.
 
chokebore - black black
radiohead - ok computer
mum - finally we are no one
tom waits - swordfishtrombones
thrush hermit - clayton park
cat power - moon pix
 
Teknopathetic said:
I *would* mention Daft Punk, but the CD's pacing is so weird. Those first 4 tracks are too amazing and makes some of the following songs sorta let-downish with some exceptions.
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i saddly have to agree with that a bit, but something about us pulls the last bit together and too long is quite catchy.

EDIT: FRANK SINATRA WAS A SMOKING MOTHER FUCKER.
 
15 Desert Island Classics:

Talking Heads - Remain in Light, Fear of Music
REM - Murmur
Silver Jews - American Water
Modest Mouse - Moon & Antarctica
Beck - Odelay
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home
Radiohead - Amnesiac
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Velvet Underground - Loaded (my favorite VU album, in fact)
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
 
"perfect albums" :

Bjork - Homogenic
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Tool - Lateralus
Dj Shadow - Entroducing
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place

I don't know, I hate participating in this threads but I can't help it.
 
"i saddly have to agree with that a bit, but something about us pulls the last bit together and too long is quite catchy."

Something About Us was said exception. :-p
 
Diablos said:
muttyeah,



Please understand where we're coming from.
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anyway im not really that pissed off its just that i scratch my head when someone lists albums from only one subgenre or the entire discography of one artist. but we all have different tastes thats what makes gaf great
 
tsp_gatmog said:
wtf, it shows up for me!! >:
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Because you originally saw it when you were actually visiting the site it was intended to be posted on.

However you also hotlinked it here, but your cache already has the image. We don't. But the server it is on knows we aren't on the actual page either, so it will display the "I'm Gay" picture to insult those hotlinking (stealing bandwidth).
 
David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Clash - London Calling
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
New Order - Substance (if it counts...)
U2 - Achtung Baby
 
tsp_gatmog said:
Unfortunately, you have nothing for me to criticize on your list.
But, Amensiac over Kid A, OK CPU, Bends, etc??
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Yeah, it's my favorite Radiohead album. I like it because it's probably their strangest, and most overlooked...like the red-headed stepchild in the family of Radiohead albums. Plus, I think every track is great, even "Pulk" and "Hunting Bears". There's something about it that you won't find in anything else by them, nor by anyone else for that matter.

kablooey's special.
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This is true. :P
 
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