Perfect Albums Thread

[Yik]

Wallpaper music as sanctuary. For me there is nothing more perfect for a 10am hangover than this. Best with cats lazing on the bed and sunbeams creeping through the curtains.

Eno - Thursday afternoon

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

My 2 perfect albums are:

1. Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I'm burning star IV vol. 1 (link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6414ADF60023DC97)

2. The Story So Far - Under Soil and Dirt (Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL08971D6ED3A4EFD3)

These are the two albums that I can listen to endlessly.

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

 

[TheColdYeti]

Songs of Leonard Cohen. My personal favorite album of all time.

 

[Hate]

Genuinely I think every album Death released is perfect. A rare thing for a band or artist to NOT release a mediocre or bad album. But if I had to pick which one I like the best, i have to choose Leprosy

 

[George Orson Welles]

Crystal Castles' debut album, and murdered all to hell, The Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.

 

[Chad Nasty]

Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill

 

[heavycream]

Mr. Bungle, California

 

[TheProdigalStunna]

While I'm hesitant to call anything perfect (besides Mozart's Requiem in D Minor maybe), these come pretty damn close:

Can - Tago Mago (greatest album in the history of popular music? I think so, and I've thought so since I was 16)
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Swans - Swans Are Dead (a live album, mainly the best tracks from Great Annihilator, Soundtracks from the Blind, a few from Gira and Jarboe's solo albums, and a few originals. And it it is brilliant. All 2.5 hours)
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Gang of Four - Entertainment
Miles Davis - A Silent Way
The End of Evangelion OST (it being paired with my personal favorite film of all time might have something do with this one)

 

[WarJams]

 

[Shibaru]

If there was a One Hit Wonder in album form; it would be Modjo's Self-Titled Album.

 

[nukes]

MBDTF by Kanye. Really beautiful album. Even if you aren’t a fan of the genre or of Kanye, I would suggest giving this album a listen if you haven’t already. Pretty generic suggestion since everyone and their mum knows of this album, but it really is great.

Baby by Born Without Bones

You’re Dead! by Flying Lotus

Capacity by Big Thief

 

[Cowboy Kim]

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[Stilgar of Troon]

I don't think I've ever started listening to this album and not immediately been drawn in to staying until the end. I love pretty much all of Waits' music but this era is far and away my favourite.

 

[All Cops Are Based]

Obvious/critical darling pick, but every song really is perfect:

 

[Midlife Sperglord]

Yes - Close to the Edge

King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King

Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Tech N9ne - Anghelic

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind, The Number of the Beast, Powerslave

Nirvana - In Utero

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid MAAD City

 

[Pee Cola]

Can - Tago Mago (greatest album in the history of popular music? I think so, and I've thought so since I was 16)

Hells to the yes. "Halleluhwah" is the most perfect track ever recorded IMHO.

Most of the all-time greats (at least in my opinion) have already been named ITT, but there are a still a couple of albums that I'd give 9.9/10, being "Moon Safari" by Air and "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac.

 

[Sundae]

Some personal favorites:

Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

Emphatic - Damage

Sabaton - The Last Stand

The Hu - The Gereg

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I don't think I've ever started listening to this album and not immediately been drawn in to staying until the end. I love pretty much all of Waits' music but this era is far and away my favorite.

Same. Most people prefer his later material, but personally I prefer his earlier works.

Speaking of which:

 

[BIG_BRAD]

 

[Beautiful Loser]

Gonna be the inevitable guy that says Rumours from Freetwood Mac