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?

[jmc813]

In this day and age of "singles", a great album is truly a lost art. I'd have to say that the last true "great album" was Appetite for Destruction by Guns and Roses. It's hard to believe that this album is 17 years old this year.