Perfect albums

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  • shawn474
    shawn474 Posts: 3,052
    edited August 2006
    I agree with a lot of the posts, but I think my favorite album of all time is the Counting Crows - August and Everything After. A great debut album for a virtually unknown band and even though people complain about Adam Duritz's incessant whining, he is a great musician and a phenomenal live performer.
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited August 2006
    The ones I can quickly think of;

    DSOTM
    Collective Soul - Collective Soul
    Nirvana - Nevermind
    Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
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  • scottnbnj
    scottnbnj Posts: 709
    edited August 2006
    lots already mentioned that would have been on my list. i'd add:

    the kinks- one for the road
    dire straits- love over gold

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  • TheReaper
    TheReaper Posts: 636
    edited August 2006
    After being burned by 8-tracks, my CD collection mainly consists of "Best Of"/"Greatest Hits"/"**** Years". But I do have 2 albums, because they are best played in their entirety (perfect albums):

    Pink Floyd - DSOTM (of course)
    Black Sabath - Black Sabath
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  • unc2701
    unc2701 Posts: 3,587
    edited August 2006
    ledhed wrote:
    O by Damien Rice. Even if you don't like the music, the SQ will just blow your socks off.

    If you were to close your eyes and imagine the sound, you would see a guy singing and playing guitar in the bakground and maybe some other instruments. the rest would be black. That is the only way I can put it, EVERYTHING is discernable.


    Good call! Kinda like Cowboy Junkies/ Trinity Sessions.
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited August 2006
    Sinatra and Count Basie Live at the Sands.

    School's Out--Alice Cooper

    RT1
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  • wingnut4772
    wingnut4772 Posts: 7,519
    edited August 2006
    Garbage 2.0
    Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
    Paul Simon- Graceland
    Sharp Elite 70
    Anthem D2V 3D
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  • AndyGwis
    AndyGwis Posts: 3,655
    edited August 2006
    Thought of some more that are perfect or damn near it:

    Killers - Hot Fuss (albeit way overplayed)
    RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik and Californication
    Metallica - Metallica, Load, and almost everything else before Reload



    Close ones:
    Aerosmith - Big Ones
    Disturbed - The Sickness (if you like a little metal)
    Jacko - Thriller
    Jimi Hendrix - Experienced
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited August 2006
    wingnut4772 wrote:
    Paul Simon- Graceland


    Get out of my head Darla:eek: :eek:

    I swear I just clicked on this thread to submit this very same album....
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited August 2006
    The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
    The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper & Abbey Road
    Pink Floyd - DSoTM
    Allman Bros. - Live At The Filmore
    Carole King - Tapestry
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  • Drumingman
    Drumingman Posts: 348
    edited August 2006
    Quadrophenia-The Who

    Robbie Robertson -Self Titled

    War- The World is A Ghetto

    Steely Dan-Aja

    Empty Glass-Townsend
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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited August 2006
    unc2701 wrote:
    Good call! Kinda like Cowboy Junkies/ Trinity Sessions.

    Excellent. Love that Album.

    Also-

    REM - Murmur
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited August 2006
    Zeppelin 1
    Boston's 1st
    Jethro Tull-Aqualung
    Pink Floyd-Animals
    Beatles-Rubber Soul
    SRV's Greatest
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • Andrew2112
    Andrew2112 Posts: 59
    edited August 2006
    AC/DC Back in Black-perfection
    Cycle **** From Hell - ok album, one of the best band names ever!
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited August 2006
    Flawless SQ:

    John Tropea - Short Trip to Space
    Al Di Meola - Kiss My Axe
    Robben Ford - Supernatural
    James Taylor - J.T.
    Cool John Furgeson - Guitar Heaven
    Sublime - S/T
    John Mayall - 70th Birthday Concert and Padlock on the Blues
    Bob Marley - Legend
    George Duke - Liberated Fantasies
    Everlast - Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
    Sade - Lover's Rock
    Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
    Keb Mo' - Just Like You
    B. B. King - Live at the Regal and Live at Cook County Jail
    Steve Miller - Fly Like An Eagle
    Willie Nelson - Stardust
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  • foghorn2
    foghorn2 Posts: 18
    edited August 2006
    Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain, Street Fighting Years
    U2 - Unforgettable Fire (just listen to the title track!)
    Cranberries - No Need to Argue
    Big Country - Steeltown
    The Mission UK - Masque
    The Curch - Priest=Aura
    The Police - Ghost in the Machine
    Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
    Kate Bush - Ariel
    The Smiths - The Smiths
    Roxy Music - Avalon
    Rush - Signals
    Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
    Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited August 2006
    I'll throw a few out that I almost always listen to start to finish -
    DSOTM - Pink Floyd
    Led Zep II
    The The - Mind Bomb
    Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
    Cake - Fashion Nugget
    Rush - Moving Pictures, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves
    Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Sessions
    Yes - Fragile
    Weezer - Weezer (the Blue Album)
    Sting - The Soul Cages
    Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
    Beatles - Abbey Road
    Richard Buckner - Devotion and Doubt
    The Cure - Pornography
    Fountains of Wayne - Welcome Interstate Managers
    Genesis - Trespass
    Lyle Lovett and his Large Band - Live in Texas
    The Smiths - Meat is Murder
    Seal - Seal (debut)
    Pixies - Doolittle
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,980
    edited August 2006
    Definitely Who's Next, Sgt. Pepper's, and probably Revolver and Abbey Road.

    How about American Beauty (well, maybe not 'attics of my life')

    AOXOMOXOA would be there, too, if not for 'what's become of the baby?" :-O

    Emmylou Harris' Red Dirt Girl is right up there, too, IMO.

    Steely Dan's first album Can't Buy a Thrill and AJA are pretty perfect, but then, so were most of their classic albums.

    Hmm... gonna have to give this some thought...
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  • ledhed
    ledhed Posts: 1,088
    edited August 2006
    U2 - Joshua Tree

    The rest of their stuff is just horrible in comparison.

    Collective Soul - Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid
    Collective Soul - Dosage
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited August 2006
    If we're going to mention The Smiths then it has to be:

    The Queen is Dead

    Woody... awesome call on The Pixies Doolittle:D
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,851
    edited September 2006
    Ah, Carol King's "Tapestry"...... what an album !!!

    Black Sabbath's second album .... "Into the Void".

    Turn the lights down, play it through......"Planet Caravan" defines the word "melancholy".
    When the album gets to the title track, "Into the Void", strap in and crank it up. When the neighbors complain, tell them to go **** themselves, that you're playing it the way God would have you play it.
    Sal Palooza
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  • del44
    del44 Posts: 686
    edited September 2006
    All the ones I thought of are already posted.
    Led Zeppelin-4.
    The Who- -Who's next.
    Jethro Tull-Aquaman.
    Beatles-Sgt. Pepper.
    Counting Crows-August and everything after.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited September 2006
    del44 wrote:
    .
    Jethro Tull-Aquaman.
    .

    Is that the one with the dude in green and yellow tights on the cover???:D :p
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    CAUSE I SPEAK OF THE POMPITIOUS OF LOVE"
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  • MattN03
    MattN03 Posts: 558
    edited September 2006
    Metallica's Black Album is probably my favorite. Everything before St. Anger is great by me however.

    Van Halen-1984
    Everything else has already been named-man I can't wait to go home and listen to my CD's tonight! :)
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  • okiepolkie
    okiepolkie Posts: 2,258
    edited September 2006
    I enjoy most of the songs on Collective Soul's Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid, but the sound quality on several of the songs is horrendous. If I remember correctly, part of the reason is that some of the songs were recorded in an actual garage with somewhat primative gear. The record company just used some of the same stuff Ed Roland brought in for demos.


    Other than that, I would have to add:

    Beck Odelay
    Tschüss
    Zach
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  • zombie boy 2000
    zombie boy 2000 Posts: 6,641
    edited September 2006
    Odelay is THE album for legions of people


    I can't believe I forgot The Soft Bulletin The Flaming Lips
    I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here because the fact is you go to one of the best schools in the country: Rushmore. Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs and take them down. Just remember, they can buy anything but they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget it. Thank you.Herman Blume - Rushmore
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited September 2006
    Gah, how has this whole thread gone by without one of my top 3 desert album CDs being mentioned :

    Van Morrison - Moondance
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited September 2006
    mrbigbluelight wrote:
    Black Sabbath's second album .... "Into the Void".

    Turn the lights down, play it through......"Planet Caravan" defines the word "melancholy".
    When the album gets to the title track, "Into the Void", strap in and crank it up. When the neighbors complain, tell them to go **** themselves, that you're playing it the way God would have you play it.
    Not sure which BS album you're spinning...

    Paranoid was their second release and Master of Reality, their 3rd, ends with "Into the Void", but does not include a track titled "Planet Caravan"...

    Perhaps one of their compilations???
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,851
    edited September 2006
    Tour2ma wrote:
    Not sure which BS album you're spinning...

    Paranoid was their second release and Master of Reality, their 3rd, ends with "Into the Void", but does not include a track titled "Planet Caravan"...

    Perhaps one of their compilations???

    I actually logged on and did a search for "Master of Reality" just so that I could correct that mistake. :o

    ...good call, Tour2ma, "Planet Caravan" was the 3d song on their 2nd album, "Paranoid".

    The song right before "Into the Void", "Solitude" is another melancholy masterpiece (On their 3d album, "Master of Reality").

    Whew, now I can go to be with a clear conscious.
    I guess that's a sign I'm getting old, getting Black Sabbath tracks and albums mixed up. :)

    BTW, a good Black Sabbath site is:

    http://www.black-sabbath.com/

    Discographies, concert photos, etc.

    Looked up the concert date for my first Sabbath concert, but there weren't any concert photos: July 21, 1972. San Diego Convention Center.
    Whew ! :) :cool: :)
    Sal Palooza
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  • MillerLiteScott
    MillerLiteScott Posts: 2,561
    edited September 2006
    I like to use Dada "Puzzle" to audition speakers.

    I will have to agree also with

    Dark Side of the Moon
    Unforgettable Fire
    Counting Crows August and Everything
    Aja
    Rush
    James Taylor

    I will add

    Peter Weller
    Donald Fagen Night Fly
    Paul Westerburg and/or The Replacements
    Train
    The Connells
    Dishwalla
    The Clarks

    And songs from a couple of the bands I played in, because I know what everything saounded like or was supposed to sound like.
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