Perfect Albums Thread

SimoH · Jul 22, 2020

I think this deserves a mention. Still not bored of it and the production, lyrics and themes were innovative and really different to anything else at the time.
The beats are just amazing and so unique.

A Tribe Called Quest
The Low End Theory

Edit : These two, too.

Jonah Hill poster · Jul 22, 2020

One of the first albums that made it known for me that it was still cool to listen to vaporwave.
For something made almost a decade ago, it still is good.

Poppavalyim Andropoff · Feb 16, 2021

TFT-A9 · Feb 16, 2021

Beast in Black - From Hell with Love

The Glitch Mob - Love Death Immortality

SITHRAK! · Feb 19, 2021

I was asked to review a copy of this when I was writing for a college paper back in the 90's. Amongst Amy Grant, Kriss Kross and Salt n Pepa, this immediately stated its intentions.
Post-punk synth, diverse vocals, sawbacked electric guitar. Menacing, aggressive, laid back, complex, simple, driven.
I'm 50 and this is by far and away my favourite album of all time.
I'm frankly amazed that it hasn't popped up yet, although I note with approval that Mr Bungle's 'California' has had a mention.

Many people regard GWAR as a gimmick band, but this is a searingly intense blast of politically neutral anti-war sentiment at a time when both sides of American politics were united in their desire to bomb the fuck out of basically anyone Muslim for no apparent reason. The title track is pure brutality in musical form. If you like KF and metal and you lived through the Iran-Iraq war, Gulf Wars 1 and 2, Operation Iraqi Freedom and all the other horseshit wars on behalf of the frisbee-hat handrubbers, this is your album. Start it from 4m17s for the title track.

The definitive Goth/melodic sludge/metal album.
That sounds like a complicated crossover until you want to know what it's like to die of a heroin overdose, shipwreck and tuberculosis simultaneously.
If you can't listen to the whole album once without interruption, I'm sorry, you're not a Goth.

Proving once again that the satirists surpass the mocked, Brandon Smalls turns in a virtually perfect melodic death metal album.
Dethalbum I instantly became the #1 fastest selling death metal album of all time, which must have pissed off a lot of corpsepaint manufacturers.

Although not a whole album, these New Zealand motherfuckers were OK GO before OK GO were a thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT2bg0YTGzU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5FQOmyVoI

Goodshirt - Place To Be (Official Music Video) HD

Goodshirt's music video for 'Place To Be', off the album "Good."Watch more Goodshirt music videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5FQOmyVoI&list=PLa8...

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Goodshirt - Buck It Up (Official Music Video) HD

Goodshirt's music video for 'Buck It Up', off the album "Fiji Baby".Watch more Goodshirt music videos here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC5FQOmyVoI&list=...

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Australia represents!
A celebration of old-school hip-hop, and quite possibly one of the best rap tracks of all time (bear in mind I fucking hate nigger music) :

Evil Eddie - Golden Age

Evil Eddie - Golden Age. Directed by Timothy Lovett, Edit by Alex Gee @ Breeder Studios for Bewilderbeats.http://www.facebook.com/misterevileddieTour DatesTh...

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History's greatest 'yo mama' diss track:

Butterfingers - Yo Mama

Download the song at http://www.bewilderbeats.com“Yo Mama” Written by E. Jacobson & D. Crane - Recorded by Butterfingers 2004Video directed by Dave Barker @ ...

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History's greatest 'sort your shit out, son' track:

Butterfingers - Get Up Outta The Dirt

Download the song at http://www.bewilderbeats.com“Get Up Outta The Dirt” Written by E. Jacobson - Recorded by Butterfingers 2006Video directed by Dave Barker...

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Wall to wall Australian babes and awkward white dudes, oh, and the track is pretty good too.

Butterfingers - I Love Work

Download the song at http://www.bewilderbeats.com“I Love Work” Written by E. Jacobson - Recorded by Butterfingers 2003Directed, Filmed and Edited by Dave G...

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Australian boasting track:

FIG JAM

Aussie band butterfingers, they always make me smile.

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Asians can't rap, oh wait, never mind:

Regurgitator - Hullabaloo

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1bSbxOPD-w

EDIT: Anyone posting a Red Hot Chilli Peppers album can be safely disregarded, and if they post 'Blood Sugar Sex Magic' please be assured they are a faggot.

Shroom King · Feb 19, 2021

How about a Pink Floyd album that doesn't require synchronization with Wizard of Oz nor crying in your beer about Syd Barrett?

Ozma (ZeTrannyJanny) · Feb 24, 2021

C.U.N.T. · Mar 1, 2021

Most have already been mentioned, except these two, I think:

Chad Holdenford · Mar 10, 2021

This man is our Bob Dylan, our Pete Seeger and our John Prine all in one.

StevieLasVegas · Mar 11, 2021

Gonna try my best to not repeat albums posted thus far

Danzig - Danzig 2: Lucifuge (Danzig 4 is my personal favourite Danzig album, but since we're after perfect albums, Lucifuge has it beat)
Venom Inc. - Ave Satanas (the original guitarist & drummer of Venom got back together with the second singer and fuck me, did they ever bring their fucking A game for this beast)
CKY - Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild (98 Quite Bitter Beings may be their best song, but this album sure as shit doesn't need it to stand on its own)
Rainbow - Down to Earth (Dio is a God and has plenty of soul in his singing, but Bonnet is a different beast on his own. Thought really hard about putting the first Rainbow album here, but I've definitely clocked in more runtime on Down to Earth despite only buying it in the last year)
The Ramones - Too Tough To Die (was a toss-up between this and Road to Ruin, but there's more edge to this album that tickles my aural senses over the latter album)
The Misfits - Famous Monsters (yes, Graves era Misfits is lyrically chessier than the Danzig era, but this album still fucking rips. It's a cheesy, catchy blend of punk and, on a couple of tracks, metal)
Accept - Balls To The Wall (just go out and fucking buy it and you'll see why)
Gary Moore - The Wild Frontier (while not as bluesy as he would be remembered for, this album is still a wonderous mix of rock, folk, blues and killer riffs)

milkmanagement · Mar 14, 2021

This album from start to finish is perfect

my favourite track is Yes:

Mister Qwerty · Mar 14, 2021

One of my favourite electronic albums despite being probably one of the least liked Zappa records by his fans.

Madre Muerte · Mar 23, 2021

Apotheosis- Farthest from the sun

Lil Miku · Mar 23, 2021

I like this album more than their breakthrough one. I just love the unpolishedness of it.
Also, mclusky deserve more attention.
Also I'm good friends with one of the guys in the band.

Spunt · Mar 24, 2021

I'd define a "perfect album" as one I can listen to from beginning to end, in the intended order, without feeling the need to skip any tracks. A lot of fantastic albums fail this test because they have one or two songs that suck and drag the whole thing down. It's just not the same listening experience if you have to break your immersion to hit fast forward. So many near-perfect albums ruined by this:

RATM - RATM - "Settle for Nothing" is long and boring.
Code Orange - Forever - "Bleeding in the Blur" screams "the record company made us write a radio single in our prog-hardcore album" and it totally unbalances the whole thing and is in a completely different style to literally every other song. It's not even very good as the alt-rock song it's trying to be. The rest of the album is amazing, even if the band themselves are a bunch of pricks from what I've heard.
Audioslave - Audioslave - "Hypnotize" is fucking terrible and sounds like it's 2 years long even though it's about 3 1/2 minutes.
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues - "As the Years Go Passing By" is a really good summary of what it's like to listen to that dross of a track that shits all over one of the best blues/rock albums ever.

There are also albums that start off incredible and then fall off a cliff, front-loading all the good songs so that unless you listen to the entire thing you think it's better than it is:

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream - Everything from "Cherub Rock" to "Mayonaise" is some of the best music of the 1990s. Every track after that is some of the worst.
Devin Townsend Project - Transcendence - Boy does this run out of steam half way through. First 5 tracks are mind-blowing, the last 5 are an endurance exercise.

So what's good? These are good:

Bloodbath - The Fathomless Mastery. Unrelenting brutality and not a single second that isn't excellent.
Ihsahn - ANGL. All Ihsahn's solo albums are amazing, but this is the best.
Radiohead - OK Computer (even "Fitter, Happier" works in context).
Seconding @SITHRAK! on the Dethalbum. Arch Enemy spent an entire career trying to create melodic death metal half as good as the first attempt from a one-man project that was supposed to be a joke.
Opeth - Watershed. I know Opeth fans argue all day long about which albums and which "phase" of Opeth is the best, but this is mine. I like "mid period" Opeth the best, when they mixed prog and death in equal proportions rather than favouring one or the other, and this is the best of those albums. They're all damn good though.

Merry · Mar 24, 2021

I have a neofolk fetish

also based af band

The Jesus Lizard · Mar 24, 2021

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Shudder To Think - Pony Express Record
Oomori Seiko - Mahou ga Tsukaenainara Shinitai
Guided By Voices - Alien Lanes
Dr Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Afrirampo - Afriverse
Max Normal TV - Good Morning South Africa
Shiina Ringo - Karuki Zaamen Kuri no Hana