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Perfect Albums
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Some of my personal perfect albums, from off the beaten path:
Also agree with the previously mentioned:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, probably even In Rainbows and TKOL
The Beatles - almost anything
Also agree with the previously mentioned:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, probably even In Rainbows and TKOL
The Beatles - almost anything
mocolostrocolos
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Wasting Light, by Foo Fighters.
FlashFlooder
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Tetraeon said:
Boxer for sure. Not a miss song on that album.
Came here to post this (I'd also throw in their album 'Alligator').
Since you took it, here's my contribution:
teruterubozu
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So perfect that I only listen to it when I'm able to give it 100% focus.
PartlyCloudlike
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Three albums I can listen all the way through without skipping a track.
Red Blaster
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RDreamer said:
You think I don't know that? I'm just going by what's being posted here, mostly album covers with zero explanation about why they could be considered perfect. Your post featured something like 15 albums, I can't even think of 3 albums that I'd consider perfect so perhaps for the uninitiated you could explain why those are so good.
And fuck all you of you who just post art and then don't say what the fuck it is.
Nappuccino
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
Murder by Death: Who Will Survive and What Will be Left of Them
Owen: At Home With Owen
Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha
I'll do a brief write up if I have the time after my exam I'm supposed to be studying for.
JJDinomite
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krypt0nian said:
To the average listener, it's just pulsating noise. Now, if you've listened to it for hundreds, if not thousands of times, the layers and textures become apparent and beautiful. There's other shoegaze, obviously, but nothing comes close. There are countless albums that could be considered perfect; they might be new and groundbreaking, well-refined or just consistently good. But Loveless is so unique and so perfect, it's on a higher tier than most albums could ever dream of.
J-Roderton
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Here is one.
My Morning Jacket- Z
My Morning Jacket- Z
Hot Coldman
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So, um, there's nothing bad on this album. It's also way more easily listened to than either The Holy Bible or Journal for Plague Lovers (those two and this are basically the all-time contenders for the best Manics album, for the unaware) and it has so many of their classic songs on it. A Design for Life, Kevin Carter, Enola/Alone, the title track,
motherfucking Australia? SHIT YES.
There was no British band in the 90s better than the god damn Manic Street Preachers. The Gallaghers can suck it.
Conciliator
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Nappuccino said:
This actually crossed my mind when I was first reading through the thread, because it's one of my favorite albums. You don't think it, uh...outstays its welcome in a couple spots though? Some of those ambient interludes go on for quiiiite a while.
Green Scar said:
So, um, there's nothing bad on this album. It's also way more easily listened to than either The Holy Bible or Journal for Plague Lovers (those two and this are basically the all-time contenders for the best Manics album, for the unaware) and it has so many of their classic songs on it. A Design for Life, Kevin Carter, Enola/Alone, the title track,
motherfucking Australia? SHIT YES.
There was no British band in the 90s better than the god damn Manic Street Preachers. The Gallaghers can suck it.
I feel like people don't talk about this album enough. I love THB but Everything Must Go is just about its equal, and you can be in any mood to enjoy it
whatsinaname
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Postal Service - Give Up
Hot Coldman
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ATF487 said:
I know, right? Nothing on EMG is as good as Faster, but it's a hell of a lot harder to pick a 'best song' for EMG, so yeah. Golden record. Shame about what happened around its recording, of course...
TheFightingFish
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Hmm, so the OP kinda is saying "perfect" is an album where you love every song on it without any filler tracks and it all fits together as a cohesive theme. I guess my closest fit for that would have to go back quite a ways, 1982 to be specific.
It's just plain old guitar pop music but it's just so solid throughout. Each song is distinctive yet still an easily recognizable part of the overall whole. It works with plenty of basic song progressions, but likes to tweak them in subtle yet interesting ways. In the age of individual tracks it's one of the few that I will still spin up and listen to the whole thing. I'll never understand why Crenshaw got lost in the shuffle of 80s music, he deserved better.
Robert Christgau agrees with me as well:
"Marshall Crenshaw [Warner Bros., 1982]
This album seems simple because it is simple, yet it continues to unfold long after you believe its byways played out--not by exploiting the snazzy bridges and key changes of the traditional pop arsenal, but with lines repeated at odd junctures, choruses reentering when you anticipate another verse. Brushing by the everyday phrases that are the stuff of pop songwriting--cynical girl, she can't dance, the usual thing--to add a twist or make an oblique point, Crenshaw captures a magic ur-adolescent innocence without acting the simp. It's as sly and well-meaning as his love of girls. A"
It's just plain old guitar pop music but it's just so solid throughout. Each song is distinctive yet still an easily recognizable part of the overall whole. It works with plenty of basic song progressions, but likes to tweak them in subtle yet interesting ways. In the age of individual tracks it's one of the few that I will still spin up and listen to the whole thing. I'll never understand why Crenshaw got lost in the shuffle of 80s music, he deserved better.
Robert Christgau agrees with me as well:
"Marshall Crenshaw [Warner Bros., 1982]
This album seems simple because it is simple, yet it continues to unfold long after you believe its byways played out--not by exploiting the snazzy bridges and key changes of the traditional pop arsenal, but with lines repeated at odd junctures, choruses reentering when you anticipate another verse. Brushing by the everyday phrases that are the stuff of pop songwriting--cynical girl, she can't dance, the usual thing--to add a twist or make an oblique point, Crenshaw captures a magic ur-adolescent innocence without acting the simp. It's as sly and well-meaning as his love of girls. A"
Mazer Rackham
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lots of great albums mentioned.
I'd like to add,
Faith no more---The real thing
I'd like to add,
Faith no more---The real thing
close to the edge
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It's hard to do something like this with classical music albums, because how do you judge perfection? The compositions themselves are usually great (unless you get some weird lesser-known stuff, then it can be a little more hit-or-miss), but judging the interpretations alone doesn't really feel right either. But if I had to choose one, it would be this:
Disregarding the music completely, this in my opinion is exactly what an orchestra should sound like. It's hard to describe, but at some point when listening to this, you don't hear the orchestra anymore, you just hear the music, which is what it should be like. Music-wise, those are two of the greatest symphonies ever written, so in that sense it's pretty much ideal.
Disregarding the music completely, this in my opinion is exactly what an orchestra should sound like. It's hard to describe, but at some point when listening to this, you don't hear the orchestra anymore, you just hear the music, which is what it should be like. Music-wise, those are two of the greatest symphonies ever written, so in that sense it's pretty much ideal.
cj_iwakura
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Flawless. Even the outtakes.
And can't get into this genre without:
krypt0nian
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JJDinomite said:
Exactly how I feel. They tapped into something more than most can ever hope to.
blame space
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i mean besides P.O.D.
John Rabbit
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i just...you...what? what a bizarre choice for somebody's favorite album of all time. more power to you.Buddha Beam said:
aside from some others that have already been mentioned:
J Tourettes
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Green Scar said:
So, um, there's nothing bad on this album. It's also way more easily listened to than either The Holy Bible or Journal for Plague Lovers (those two and this are basically the all-time contenders for the best Manics album, for the unaware) and it has so many of their classic songs on it. A Design for Life, Kevin Carter, Enola/Alone, the title track,
motherfucking Australia? SHIT YES.
There was no British band in the 90s better than the god damn Manic Street Preachers. The Gallaghers can suck it.
Will have to respectfully disagree. Holy Bible blows it out of the water and would be the closest Manics ever got to perfection (probably should have added it to my perfect albums list now that I think about it). Everything Must Go has some good singles but is the starting point of their dad rock years and slow slide into irrelevance. Australia being the main offender.
Fallout-NL
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RobotNinjaHornets
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One of my favourite albums to put on full volume and yell along to.
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