26 Most Perfect Albums

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[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

What are your most perfect albums? By perfect albums, I mean albums where you don't have to skip over a weak track. Collections and Best of packages do not count.

Some of mine: (in no particular order)

1. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

2. The Beatles - Revolver

3. Miles Davis - On the Corner

4. The Clash - London Calling

5. Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues

6. Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison

7. Black Flag - Damaged

8. John Coltrane - Love Supreme

9. The Who - The Who Sell Out

10. Duke Ellington & Mahalia Jackson - Black, Brown, & Beige

11. Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

12. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions

13. The Kinks - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

14. Frank Zappa - Absolutely Free

15. The Zombies - Oddessey & Oracle

16. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Here Music

17. David Bowie - The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust

18. Lou Reed - Transformer

19. Rollins Band - End of the Silence

20. Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music

21. Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers

22. Black Sabbath - Masters of Reality

23. Modern Lovers - Modern Lovers

24. Ella Fitzgerald - The Cole Porter Songbook

25. George Gerswhin - Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls

26. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

now it's your turn . . .

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

bump!

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

A bump to the usual suspects . . .

[rightwingreligiousfanatic]

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

The Who - Who's Next?

U2 - Joshua Tree

Crosby, Stills, & Nash - First Album

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Damn. I forgot to add:

27. Bob dylan - Blonde on Blonde

[petuniasevan]

Boston - Boston

Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

Doobie Brothers - Cycles

REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity

Steely Dan - Aja

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Hall and Oates - Big Bam Boom

ELO - Discovery

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless

Hall and Oates - Voices

Pink Floyd - The Wall

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

The Wall is another one I'd forgotten to add.

[Texaggie79]

If I was so inclined, I would search for the infamous "best ever album" Thread. But, alas, I'm busy......


BTW, my choices are

1. DSOTM

2. DSOTM (remastered)

3. DSOTM (rereleased)

[RepoGirl]

Okay, call me a fruitcake but, here goes:

1) Completion Backward Principal -- The Tubes
2) Another Planet -- Alien Sex Fiend
3) Twitch -- Ministry.
4) Flaunt It -- Sigue Sigue Sputnik
5) Language -- Gary Myrick
6) Phantom of the Paradise (Official Soundtrack)
7) Should the World Fail to Fall Apart -- Peter Murphy
8) Love Hysteria -- Peter Murphy
9) Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan
10) Brilliant Trees by David Sylvian.

[P.O.E.]

Top Ten, but not in order:

TroutMaskReplica - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band
Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Electric Warrior - T. Rex
Chain Reaction - Crusaders
Remain in Light - Talking Heads
Close to the Edge - Yes
Slowhand - Clapton
White Album - Beatles
Live at the Fillmore - Allmans
Seventh Son - Mose Allison

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

fruitcake.

[Rocko]

3. Miles Davis - On the Corner

I'm praying you actually mean Kind of Blue.

[VeritatisSplendor]

Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" has no weak spots. Jethro Tull's "Aqualung" is also terrific all the way through. Meat Loaf's "Bat Out Of Hell" ditto. "Led Zeppelin IV" and a couple of Who albums also qualify, and several Beatles albums, and maybe the Eagles' "Hotel California" and Blondie's "Parallel Lines", but Dylan wins the "maximin" game because the baseline on "BOTT" is higher than on all those others.

The other favorite albums I can think of all have "skippable" tracks.

[socal_parrot]

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon

Eric Clapton- 461 Ocean Blvd.

Jimmy Buffett- A1A

Bob Marley and the Wailers- Exodus

Eagles- On the Border

Lynyrd Skynyrd- Pronounced Leh'-nerd Skin'-nerd

And when ever possibe, put on side 2 of Led Zeppelin IV.

[Servant of the Nine]

Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

Heroic Music for Organ Brass and Percussion - E. Power Biggs

So9

[Wyatt's Torch]

Son Volt - Trace

The Police - Syncronicity

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne

[Moonmad27]

Totally agree with you on the Phantom of the Paradise soundtrack!

[RepoGirl]

Isn't if a great piece of work? It amazed me that it was written by the same guy who wrote, Just an Old Fashioned Love Song!

[goodieD]

The Corrs Live in Dublin

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

Yes, I'm just spelling it a different way