Perfect albums

[Samwise]

Theres a heap of best ofs I can listen all the way through but i guess that would be cheating...

10 and Vs - Pearl Jam
Throwing copper - Live
Dookie and american idiot - greenday
escapology -robbie (shut up...he's great and I love him)

yeah throwing copper and dookie are classics.

 

[HevyDevy]

Steve wasn't on board with Zappa at that point - Vai's first album was 'Ship Arriving too Late To Save A Drowning Witch' (1982) while Joe's was made in 79'. Vinne was though

Ahhh yes, sorry, he began transcribing for Zappa in 1979 and touring in 1980 but you're right re: his first album.

 

[Eskimo Sharkie]

Joshua Tree (u2)
Actung Baby (u2)
Unforgettable Fire (u2)

Best U2 album is "War" in my opinion. Lots of angry energy there and one of the all time classics.

A few others:

"Couldn't Stand the Weather" - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
"Hotel California" - The Eagles
"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd (I prefer this and "Meddle" to DSOTM)
"Amused to Death" - Roger Waters
"Rumours" - Fleetwood Mac
"War of the Worlds" - Jeff Wayne (the original 1979 version)
"Live in New York City" - Bruce Springsteen (the best live album ever)
"Dire Straits" - Dire Straits (the original and best)
"Tattoo You" - Rolling Stones
"Tubular Bells" - Mike Oldfield
"Eye in the Sky" - Alan Parsons Project (although "Valid Path
"Let It Be" - The Beatles
"Rust Never Sleeps" - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
"Led Zeppelin IV" - Led Zeppelin
"Are You Experienced" - Jimi Hendrix (like the Devo re-make of the title track too)
"Diamond Dogs" - David Bowie (with "Station to Station" close behind)
"Blood on the Tracks" - Bob Dylan

 

[Generalzod]

Eskimo Sharkie best U2 album is "War" in my opinion. Lots of angry energy there and one of the all time classics.

Another great U2 album..

 

[carcharias]

"Tubular Bells" - Mike Oldfield

bloody hell ...dad is that you?

 

[Bomber]

Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

 

[Raider_69]

Trapt - Someone in control

not many know about Trapt in my experience but they kick some tremendous arse
isnt a song on that CD0 that i dont love to bits, awesome cd, slighty pissed though, only runs for about 50 minutes

 

[Floods]

Temple of the Dog - "Temple of the Dog"
Megadeth - "Rust in Peace"
Soundgarden - "Badmotorfinger"
Mastodon - "Leviathan"
Our Lady Peace - "Happiness Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch"
Pink Floyd - "Wish you were here"
Glen Phillips - "Winter pays for Summer"
Queensryche - "Operation Mindcrime"
Toad the wet Sprocket - "Pale", "Bread and Circus", "Fear"
Jeff Buckley - "Grace"

 

[c_eagle]

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Anyone who doesn't think it's a perfect album must write for The Wire.

 

[Dean Moriarty]

The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God

 

[Red Bear]

Frenzal Rhomb - Coughing Up A Storm
Living End - Self Titled
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Oasis - Morning Glory
Metallica - Master/Ride
NoFX - White Trash Two Heebs and a Been
Bad Religion - All Ages

 

[Paullyboy]

Ive seen Nevermind a few times, Id agree if you took out Something in the Way and Polly. Geez those songs do nothing for me at all.

Id have Bloody Sugar Sex Magik in there, and possibly Frogstomp as well.

 

[Paullyboy]

Living End - Self Titled

Surprisingly Id have to agree with that too, I dont care for the Living End much at all anymore, but that was a very very good album with no dud tracks.

 

[Dread]

Lots of crap in this thread.

To me, a perfect album has no filler. I'm seeing lots of albums here that are mighty fine, but with the inevitable inclusion of filler.

Anything more than 10 songs and you're bound to start getting a few that aren't quite well thought out. Unfortunately, this rules out a lot of music from the 90s and early 2000s where it seemed as thought the general consensus was 'more is better'.

Anyway, onto my obligatory suggestions:

Led Zeppelin - IV
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus

 

[MrCharisma]

Lots of crap in this thread.

To me, a perfect album has no filler. I'm seeing lots of albums here that are mighty fine, but with the inevitable inclusion of filler.

Anything more than 10 songs and you're bound to start getting a few that aren't quite well thought out. Unfortunately, this rules out a lot of music from the 90s and early 2000s where it seemed as thought the general consensus was 'more is better'.

Anyway, onto my obligatory suggestions:

Led Zeppelin - IV
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus

We've all got our own opinion mate and I've gotta agree.. there is alot of crap... but each to their own. Like, personally... I only really rate one cd you listed...

 

[Phillips]

any Midnight Oil album and both Mushroomhead albums

 

[Dread]

We've all got our own opinion mate and I've gotta agree.. there is alot of crap... but each to their own. Like, personally... I only really rate one cd you listed...

Fair point, but let's take an example. Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory. A top album, I'll agree, but the inclusion of two 'nothing' 40 second filler tracks surely means that it can't be thought of as perfect.

 

[brook]

David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads

gotta agree with these three

although I think it takes a certain sense of humour to really like all the tracks on murder ballads, its a real love-hate album.

A few of the albums I've put down are pretty long but I disagree that they contain filler tracks - in all of them I really believe that if you took any one track out the album would suffer.

Although on reflection I may take back my nomination of blood suger sex magic....I'd forgotten about nobody weird like me

 

[Alex28]

* The Bends, Kid A - Radiohead (OKC would qualify except for Fitter...)
* Hi Fi Way - You Am I
* Nevermind - Nirvana (I know...the irony...it is a good album with no dud tracks on it though...)
* Lost Souls - Doves

and now to add to the list:

* Funeral - Arcade Fire
* Fight For Your Mind - Ben Harper
* Asleep In The Back - Elbow
* XO - Elliott Smith
* Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters
* Bring It On - Gomez
* 10-1 - Midnight Oil
* Surfer Rosa - Pixies
* Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Grandaddy - The Sophtwar Slump
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin