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Perfect Albums
2005-08-31, 10:04 AM #1
Let's make a quick definition so that there's no confusion here. In this thread a perfect album will mean an album where every track is awesome (irrespective of the play order and overall composition as these can make an album with average tracks become a lot better). Feel free to include EPs if they contain enough tracks to justify it. Greatest Hits albums don't count. Oh yeah, don't bother insulting anybody else's choices, even if they pick OK Computer.

Here's mine:
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica - Successor
Sonata Arctica - Takatalvi
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Elements Pt.1
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2005-08-31, 10:13 AM #2
The Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion
The Black Crowes - Amorica
Led Zeppelin - IV
Led Zeppelin - II
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Spin Doctors - Homebelly Groove (Live album)
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2005-08-31, 10:17 AM #3
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pissed Off?
2005-08-31, 11:18 AM #4
Originally posted by Detty:
Here's mine:
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
DragonForce - Valley of the Damned
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
Sonata Arctica - Successor
Sonata Arctica - Takatalvi
Stratovarius - Visions
Stratovarius - Elements Pt.1


What almost all metal? Music snob.

I agree with most of those choices.
2005-08-31, 11:36 AM #5
Originally posted by Avenger:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon


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2005-08-31, 11:39 AM #6
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira

Every track's awesome, some are more awesome than others.
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2005-08-31, 11:51 AM #7
Originally posted by Shintock:
What almost all metal? Music snob.


Pretty much all of my non-metal albums are greatest hits.
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2005-08-31, 12:08 PM #8
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At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
At The Drive-In - in/CASINO/out
Fugazi - 13 Songs
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Doolittle
Libertines - Up The Bracket
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Every Mr. Bungle album.
Mastodon - Leviathan
Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
DEP & Mike Patton - Irony is a Dead Scene
Fantomas - Directors Cut

There are probablys more, I have loads of albums like that.
2005-08-31, 12:35 PM #9
There's no such thing as a perfect album in my opinion. At least I've never heard one.
2005-08-31, 12:37 PM #10
you've never heard an album where you thought every song was awesome?
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2005-08-31, 1:46 PM #11
Originally posted by Detty:
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell


indeed

Mobys "Play" was perfect.

Pretty much all APocaltyptica albums are perfect

And Nightwish sometimes get lucky.

Sonata Arctica have about 2 or 3 good songs out of 10 i;d say :em321:
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2005-08-31, 1:52 PM #12
OMG i cant believe i forgot

METALLICA S&M ORCHESTRA PLAYED LIVE
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2005-08-31, 1:56 PM #13
Originally posted by Avenger:
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

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2005-08-31, 1:59 PM #14
Here goes mine:

Beck - Sea Change
Ben Folds - Rockin' The Suburbs
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
Butch Walker - Letters
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Coldplay - Parachutes
Damien Rice - O
The Features - Exhibit A
Jump, Little Children - Betwen the Dim and the Dark
Rufus Wainwright - Poses
The Shins - Oh, Inverted World
Travis - Good Feeling
Travis - The Man Who
U2 - Boy
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2005-08-31, 3:38 PM #15
Perfect? Like... Shaded Perfect?

[/shameless self-promotion]

Well, it is technically a perfect album. Or at least shaded in such a manner.
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2005-08-31, 6:08 PM #16
Originally posted by Ruthven:
METALLICA S&M ORCHESTRA PLAYED LIVE


YOU LOSE, *****.
2005-08-31, 6:24 PM #17
hmm

CKY - An answer can be found
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Blind Guardian - Tales from the Twilight World
Nirvana - Nevermind
Alice in Chains - Dirt
System of a Down - Mesmerise
Manowar - Fighting the World
Iced Earth - Days of Purgatory
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
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2005-08-31, 7:06 PM #18
Carbon Based Lifeforms - Hydroponic Garden
2005-08-31, 7:57 PM #19
Sounds like we might as well just have a 'favourite albums' thread :p

Muse - Absolution
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Coldplay - Parachutes
Damien Rice - O
Powderfinger - Odyssey Number Five
Travis - The Invisible Band
Radiohead - The Bends (but not OK Computer because Fitter, Happier is just plain annoying :p)
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2005-08-31, 8:14 PM #20
Originally posted by Shintock:
YOU LOSE, *****.


pft u know nothing goatee boy

if Metallica doesnt float your boat, then why the **** are you on the water? :D
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2005-08-31, 8:21 PM #21
Fugazi - The Argument
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
R.E.M. - Reckoning
R.E.M. - Murmur
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
U2 - War
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Joy Division - Closer
Television - Marquee Moon


--edit--

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Strokes - Is This It?
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2005-08-31, 9:08 PM #22
Dub Pistols - Six Million Ways To Live
Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds and Voices
Twilight Circus Dub Sound System - Dub From the Secret Vaults
Ranking Joe - World In Trouble
Amon Tobin - Out From Out Where
Rage Against the Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles (well almost except for one song >.>)
Kruder & Dorfmeister - The K & D Sessions

zomg how did I forget

E.S. Posthumus - Unearthed
2005-08-31, 9:14 PM #23
Muse - Absolution
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
John Williams - The Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack
Korn - Life is Peachy
Pink Floyd - Dark Sied of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
Devin Townsend - Terria
The Living End - The Living End
Deftones - White Pony
Radiohead - the Bends
Weezer - Maladroit
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
2005-08-31, 9:19 PM #24
Tool - Lateralus
Failure - Fantastic Planet

Fantastic Planet is probably my all time favorite album. There's 17 songs on it, and ALL of them are great. I'd be hard pressed to pick my least favorite.

[Future posted.]
2005-08-31, 9:26 PM #25
Pink Floyd - Darkside Of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd - The Wall

In that order.

As well as,
The Cure - Disintegration
Hands down the most beautifuly constructed album on this planet. Like most Cure albums, incredibly diverse but manages to flow as one. There isn't a bad song on the album.
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography

Each of those three albums are freaking awesome, in their own right and blend almost seamlessly together while being rather diverse at the same time.

Kill Hannah - Here Are The Young Moderns
Poetic, beautiful, tragic *** kickage from start to finish.

Kill Hannah - American Jetset
Pure pop pleasure untill orgasm, plus the same lyrical dark undertones that make Kill Hannah who they are. I can't think of another ablum that sounds so sweet, and tastes so sour. The best description I've ever heard for AJS was "Sonic terrorism."
2005-08-31, 10:43 PM #26
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Blue Album (self-titled)
Pixies - Doolittle
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
2005-08-31, 11:38 PM #27
Originally posted by Detty:
you've never heard an album where you thought every song was awesome?

Nope.
2005-08-31, 11:54 PM #28
Lateralus.

Muse nearly got in there with Absolution but they ****ed it up with Time Is Running Out.
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2005-09-01, 12:01 AM #29
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Filter - Title of Record
Five Iron Frenzy - The End Is Near
The Normals - Coming to Life
Project 86 - Songs To Burn Your Bridges By
Rage Against The Machine - The Battle of Los Angeles

Honorable mention to the three Foo Fighters albums I've heard (There is Nothing Left to Lose, One by One, In Your Honor). Every one's a mere song or two away from making the list.
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2005-09-01, 1:17 AM #30
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Pink Floyd-The Wall

As you can see, I'm a big Floyd fan :P
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2005-09-01, 3:08 AM #31
Owen - No Good for No one now
2005-09-01, 5:40 AM #32
All the ones I think are perfect have already been said, except this one:
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf

Originally posted by scelestus:
Honorable mention to the three Foo Fighters albums I've heard (There is Nothing Left to Lose, One by One, In Your Honor). Every one's a mere song or two away from making the list.


The self-titled and The Colour and the Shape are better than those three. Go listen. Now.
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2005-09-01, 5:58 AM #33
Live - Throwing Copper
System of a Down - Steal This Album!
Live - Secret Samadhi
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2005-09-01, 7:24 AM #34
Originally posted by KegZ:

The self-titled and The Colour and the Shape are better than those three. Go listen. Now.


This man speaks the truth.
2005-09-01, 7:51 AM #35
The Colour and the Shape is the best Foo album, period. It rocks THAT hard.
2005-09-01, 8:08 AM #36
Slint - Spiderland

Karate - Karate

Aerial M - As Performed by Aerial M

June of 44 - Four Great Points

Blonde Redhead - Fake can be just as good

Shellac - At Action Park

The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Sonic Youth - Evol

Faith No More - Angel Dust

Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

AC/DC - Powerage

Nirvana - Nevermind

Face to Face - Face to Face

Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
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2005-09-01, 8:44 AM #37
Is Project 86 still trying to be Christian hardcore? Or have they finally dropped the Christian band bit?
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2005-09-01, 8:57 AM #38
Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb
Jets To Brazil - Four Cornered Night
Dillinger Four - Vesus God

Although those probably aren't my favorite albums of all time, those are the ones where every single song is incredible.
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2005-09-01, 9:42 AM #39
Originally posted by Shintock:
The Colour and the Shape is the best Foo album, period. It rocks THAT hard.


once in a blue moon, a frenchman makes sense.
2005-09-01, 10:04 AM #40
oo, another addition:

Minor Threat - Discography
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