Perfect Albums?

[Erja_Perttu]

Who Killed Amanda Palmer - Amanda Palmer

City of Evil - Avenged Sevenfold

Hybrid Theory - Linkin Park

Ecliptica - Sonata Arctica

Reckoning Night - Sonata Arctica

I could listen to all these albums on repeat and for every song I'd think think to myself, 'Oh, I love this one!'

 

[odBilal]

Kid Cudi: Man on the Moon: End of Day
Album of the year for me. I listened to the whole album about 8times in a row since I got it

 

[riskroWe]

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine
Stolen Babies - There Be Squabbles Ahead
Katzenjammer Kabarett - Katzenjammer Kabarett

Absolutely no complaints with these three. (that doesn't happen often)

 

[ottenni]

Despite this being possibly impossible, for me it would be
-The Downward Spiral, Nine Inch Nails
-Californication, Red Hot Chili Peppers
-Evil Empire, Rage Against the Machine
-In Utero, Nirvana
-Dirt, Alice in Chains

 

[Chechosaurus]

There are so many well known and entirely perfect albums that I'm not going to mention them but... Deadwing by Porcupine Tree is one of the most perfectly structured albums in the entire history of Prog Rock and most other forms of music for that matter.

 

[Lukeje]

I've just realised I've posted several times in this thread, and not actually given my opinion. Oh well... here goes.

In my eyes, there is no such thing as a perfect album. If there were, then I would have no need to ever listen to any album ever again. I would just listen to that one. Thus there is no perfect album, just many imperfect ones. Though the album that has come closest is Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout...

That makes no sense whatsoever, a "perfect" album doesn't need to mean that it is the absolute and ultimate culmination of any music ever, hence making every other album inferior. Your definition is infuriatingly irrational. Just many imperfect ones? How can you declare every album "imperfect" when the only logical way to judge any musical album is to go by track, and how these songs stand up both by themselves, and as a collective whole; going by this method of judgment, ANY person would be able to find several albums (except you, it seems) in which every song is expertly crafted, and without any noticable flaw (hence the definition of "perfect"). Also, say you did find this "perfect" album that you described - you would get tired of listening to it eventually if that was ALL you listened to. As well, to do so would be to arrogantly ignore the plethora of fantastic music out there.

If when you listen to it on repeat you get bored, then there is obviously something imperfect about it that annoys you. The fact that I have a different measure of perfection from you should tell you that your method is not the only 'logical' method of judging perfection.

 

[Lordmarkus]

Led Zeppelin IV is absolutely flawless, a masterpiece in every note. From Black Dog to Where the Levee Breaks, divine.

 

[Latinidiot]

Traced in Air by Cynic.
Album cover below:

Spoiler

And the whole album to accompany it:

Spoiler

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQzcvtuc9BA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw-6IIBXNSQ < awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fhVLykF3nU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNGCJzPzAp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=us25VHj2dPo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQivkZJaoq0 < awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSmAacEpt-Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ChwHu3iiyc

EDIT: hmm, links didn't show up.

haven't met much Cynic fans yet.
OT : The Incident by Porcupine Tree

 

[Spudgun Man]

Blackholes and Revelations by Muse is pretty rounded in my oppinion, it has the quiet songs at just the right intervals.

 

[Total LOLige]

pearl jam - backspacer

 

[Sizzo]

"Made in Japan" by Deep Purple

A live album that's so good that you think that it was done in a studio. Every song is a feast to your ears .

 

[J.E.T.]

Indestructible and 10,000 Fists - Disturbed, and I would have to put serious thought to some other's by Metallica, Megadeth, Creed, Journey, Def Leppard, ect.

 

[SonicKoala]

I've just realised I've posted several times in this thread, and not actually given my opinion. Oh well... here goes.

In my eyes, there is no such thing as a perfect album. If there were, then I would have no need to ever listen to any album ever again. I would just listen to that one. Thus there is no perfect album, just many imperfect ones. Though the album that has come closest is Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout...

That makes no sense whatsoever, a "perfect" album doesn't need to mean that it is the absolute and ultimate culmination of any music ever, hence making every other album inferior. Your definition is infuriatingly irrational. Just many imperfect ones? How can you declare every album "imperfect" when the only logical way to judge any musical album is to go by track, and how these songs stand up both by themselves, and as a collective whole; going by this method of judgment, ANY person would be able to find several albums (except you, it seems) in which every song is expertly crafted, and without any noticable flaw (hence the definition of "perfect"). Also, say you did find this "perfect" album that you described - you would get tired of listening to it eventually if that was ALL you listened to. As well, to do so would be to arrogantly ignore the plethora of fantastic music out there.

If when you listen to it on repeat you get bored, then there is obviously something imperfect about it that annoys you. The fact that I have a different measure of perfection from you should tell you that your method is not the only 'logical' method of judging perfection.

No, that's not true at all. This same logic can be applied to songs. Just because you get bored after listening to a song hundreds of times doesn't mean there is anything wrong with it - the repetitive feel that arises is simply due to the fact that you know what to expect, and you know what's coming; there is no longer that sense of awe that one first gets when listening to something that is truly amazing and perfect - the album (or song, whichever) is still just as perfect as it was the first time you heard it, what changes over time is our perception, and the way we hear it.

*Edit: yeah, on second thought, I'm not that much of an arrogant douche. Ignore what I wrote in my original post, feel free to have your own opinions.

 

[Lukeje]

...mine is still the right way

No mine's the right way!

...nah, I know it's impossible (at least for now), but my idea of a perfect album would be one that you could listen to in any mood and you would hear it differently. Hot Rats by Frank Zappa is pretty close; every time you listen to it you can pick out different melodies and interactions between the parts. But until we have computers that can read our minds and beam exactly what we want to hear into our brains, I shall never know perfection...

 

[Trivun]

There are plenty of albums such as Sgt. Pepper's... and Abbey Road, and ones like Master of Puppets, that I have heard some songs from and feel could be perfect. I don't know for certain though because I haven't heard the entire albums so I don't know what the other songs on them are like, though most of these are albums I really do want to listen to.

For me though, as an Andrew Lloyd Webber fanboy any album from his musicals I consider to be perfect (especially Phantom of the Opera and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, or JATATD). Another perfect album in my opinion is Muse's Black Holes and Revelations. Evanescence's Fallen comes pretty damn close too

 

[Master Kuja]

That new Muse album, whatever it's called, I've had it on repeat for the last three days as the only thing I've been listening to, there's not a single track on it that I even slightly dislike, could quite happily sit there and listen to it for the next three days straight too.

Also: Waking The Fallen - Avenged Sevenfold.

 

[Sightless Wisdom]

Any of Opeth's albums. especially their later ones like Watershed and Deliverance.

 

[danosaurus]

Opeth - Ghost Of Reveries
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
NIN - The Fragile
Devin Townsend - Terria
Queen - Anything
MCR - Black Parade
M83 - Before The Dawn Heals Us
Thrice - Artist In The Ambulance
Pearl Jam - Vs
Tool - Lateralus
Danny Elfman - Nightmare Before Christmas//Edward Scissorhands soundtracks

 

[The Buck Stops Here]

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