This will vary from person to person, but what albums would you consider 'perfect' albums? Great music from start to finish & not a dud in the bunch.
This will vary from person to person, but what albums would you consider 'perfect' albums? Great music from start to finish & not a dud in the bunch.
Well, several from Yes qualify for me- CttE, Relayer, Gft1, maybe even Drama. More off the beaten track, Eddie Jobson's Green album. I think Utopia's Ra album is one. I dunno, I'm sure there are plenty but it's hard to pull stuff out of the air under pressure...
VdGG ~ Pawn Hearts
Robert Wyatt ~ Rock Bottom
Nico ~ The Marble Index
Last edited by mogrooves; 12-30-2012 at 10:00 PM.
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
90125
Steely Dan: Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam & Aja
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
Bob Dylan: New Morning
Not my favorite PF, but I always felt "Wish You Were Here" was flawless.
I might also throw "Leftoverture" in there.
Oh, "Crime of the Century" perhaps.
I wouldn't have thought of this off the top of my head but I pulled Sly and the Family Stone's "Stand!" CD out for a drive around town yesterday. While playing it my lady friend asked, "Is this a greatest hits?" Every song on the album is a classic and it really packs a punch, especially the opening, title song going straight into Don't Call Me Whitey, Nigger. The rest are greatest hits except for Sex Machine which is groundbreaking. I can't think of any rock records that are as flawless.
Trick of the Tail
Leftoverture
Wish You Were Here (agree with Ronmac on all those)
Inferno--Metamorfosi
Aja, Katy Lied and Gaucho by Steely Dan (heck, pretty much all SD albums are perfect)
Rubber Soul, Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper
Going for the One
Renaissance Live at Carnegie Hall
UK debut album
The Cars debut album
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Coma Divine by Porcupine Tree (and/or with Sky Moves Sideways)
Short Man's Room---Joe Henry
For starters -
Pink Floyd - Meddle, TDSOTM, WYWH, Animals.
Yes- CTTE, G4T1.
Steely Dan - Aja, The Royal Scam.
King Crimson - ITCOTCK, Red.
Roxy Music - Avalon.
Jethro Tull - TAAB, SFTW.
FM - Black Noise.
Elton John - Captain Fantastic.
Boston - s/t.
Queen - ANATO, ADATR.
Genesis - TLLDOB.
ELP - Love Beach
Jeff Beck - Wired, BBB.
Billy Cobham - Spectrum.
Kim Mitchell - s/t.
Allan Holdsworth - Road Games.
Tired, more later.
"I got an idea, an idea so smart my head would explode if I even began to know what I was talking about."
- Peter Griffin ("Family Guy")
Industry Standard by The Dregs
High Tension Wires by Steve Morse
Southern Steel by the Steve Morse Band
Purpendicular by Deep Purple
Flying Colors
See a pattern here?
My Gnosis 15's, perfect to me,
15 Allman Brothers Band, The At Fillmore East USA 1971
15 Blue Oyster Cult Tyranny and Mutation USA 1973
15 Bowie, David The Rise & Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars Eng 1972
15 Brand X Masques Eng 1978
15 Bruford, Bill One of a Kind Eng 1979
15 Coltrane, John Giant Steps USA 1959
15 Cooper, Alice Billion Dollar Babies USA 1973
15 Davis, Miles Kind of Blue USA 1959
15 Gentle Giant Free Hand Eng 1975
15 King Crimson Discipline Eng 1981
15 Moving Gelatine Plates The World of Genius Hans Fra 1972
15 Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy USA 1973
15 Univers Zero UZED Bel 1984
15 Zappa, Frank Sleep Dirt (original instrumental LP) USA 1979
15 Zappa, Frank / The Mothers of Invention One Size Fits All
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I am a big Steve Morse fan as well. Glad to see someone else who loves Purpendicular.
There are many, many albums that are great from beginning to end.
Here are just a few more: Miles- In A Silent Way; Jack Johnson
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On
The first four Allman Bros. albums
1st two Mahavishnu albums
Jethro Tull- This Was
Jeff Beck- Blow By Blow
Tony Williams- Believe It
That's enough for now, so many...
Of the top of my head:
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Yes - Fragile, Close to the Edge
King Crimson - Discipline
I'm sure there's more.
Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world.
Spot on - not many of us around.
I'll add Scott Walker, Tilt
Dylan, Blonde on Blonde
Zappa / The Mothers, Uncle Meat
Paul Simon, The Rhythym of the Saints
Marvin Gaye, What's Going On
King Crimson, Lark's Tongues in Aspic
Godley and Creme, Consequences
National Health, National Health
Genesis, A Trick of the Tail
Does it matter that this waste of time is what makes a life for you?
Jethro Tull-Benefit
Family-Music In A Dolls House
Yes-The Yes Album
John Mayall-The Turning Point
Spirit-Twelve Dreams Of Dr.Sardonicus
Pink Floyd-Ummagumma(live side only)
Beatles-Magical Mystery Tour
Neil Young-After The Gold Rush
Last edited by walt; 12-31-2012 at 08:37 AM.
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
Jellyfish: Spilt Milk
Allan Holdsworth: Allan Holdsworth, I.O.U.
King's X: Out of the Silent Planet, Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, Faith Hope Love, King's X.
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Rush: Hemispheres
Queen: Sheer Heart Attack, A Night at the Opera
Yes: Fragile, Close to the Edge
Genesis: Foxtrot
Beatles: Rubber Soul, Sgt. Pepper's
FWIW, Rush would have a few more if not for the one "clunker" track in otherwise great albums, IMHO (2112 - "Tears"), (A Farewell to Kings - "Madrigal"), (Permanent Waves - "Different Strings"), etc.
Bartholomew Boge
of Divine • In • Sight
Reverend Horton Heat: Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em & Revival
Los Straitjackets: first 3 albums
The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band: The Wages
George Thorogood & The Destroyers: eponymous debut, Move It On Over, Haircut
Deep Purple: Machine Head
Danzig: III-How the Gods Kill
Tom Waits: Small Change, Blue Valentines, Heartattack and Vine, Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years
Legendary Shack Shakers: Believe
Lounge Lizards: Big Heart-Live in Tokyo
I think of perfect as not a single week track, the notes fit perfectly together, etc...
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
ELO - Eldorado
There are dozens of perfect progressive releases but the first one that comes to mind is Per Un Amico by PFM.
Last edited by mozo-pg; 12-31-2012 at 09:50 AM.
Likewise! I'd put a picture of the album cover next to the word 'flawless' in the dictionary.
Others off the top of my head would be A Trick Of The Tail, Hybris, Pawn Hearts, Godbluff, The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage, Permanent Waves, Animals, Tales, A Passion Play...
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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Brendan Perry - Eye of the Hunter
Beck - Sea Change
Last edited by nsmith1002; 12-31-2012 at 10:51 AM.
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