Perfect albums

[Sasaferrato]

Yep.

Admittedly I have favourite tracks off each album but I rate them as perfect on the grounds that I can listen to the whole thing without ever being tempted to skip the odd track here and there.

Out of your bunch, If I had to choose one track it would be ' Colour of my car '

 

[cathal marcs]

The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Smiths - The Smiths
Buzzcocks - Another music in a different kitchen
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Neil Young - Harvest
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Morrissey - Viva Hate
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Magazine - Real Life
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk

 

[poului]

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etc.

 

[Winston Legthigh]

The Beatles - White Album

Even Revolution 9???

Just off the top of my head, every track from the beginning of Beggar's Banquet, through Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers and finally Exile on Main Street is perfect.

 

[crass_kitten]

Pulp - Different Class
Pixies - Doolittle
Incubus - Morning View
Joy Division - Substance
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Stratford Mercenaries - Sense Of Solitude
Inner Terrestrials - IT

 

[William of Walworth]

Pulp - Different Class

Why the ??

It's a GREAT album and I second the choice ...

Massive Attack -- Blue Lines
Linton Kwesi Johnson -- Tings and Times

More soon ...

 

[8ball]

Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Radiohead - The Bends
Fugazi - Repeater
Yo La Tengo - I can hear the heart

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Morrissey - 'Viva Hate'
Radiohead - 'OK Computer'
Radiohead - 'Kid A'
Public Enemy - 'Fear Of A Black Planet'
Curtis Mayfield - 'Roots'
The Stranglers - 'Black And White'
The Beautiful South - 'Choke'
The Smiths - 'Meat Is Murder'
The Wedding Present - 'George Best'
REM - 'Life's Rich Pageant'
Stevie Wonder - 'Talking Book'
Sore Throat - 'Disgrace To the Corpse Of Sid'

 

[8ball]

Ah yes, Life's Rich Pageant - the best REM album by a mile.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Word!

And four more:

The Jesus & Mary Chain - 'Psychocandy'
The Human League - 'Dare'
The Fall - 'Dragnet'
The Fall - 'Hex Enduction Hour'

 

[soulrebel]

surprised so many ppl mention "London Calling"... definitely a classic album, and there are at least 12 unbeatable tracks on it, but i don't think i ever listen to all 19 tracks of it without skipping at least a couple of the "third quarter" ones...

also surprised no one's yet mentioned "Heart of the Congos"... surely the most "perfect" album (production wise) ever?

other fairly obvious ones:

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
BM&W - Survival
Israel Vibration - The Same Song
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey/Garvey's Ghost
The Slits - Cut
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
RATM - RATM
Roots Manuva - Brand New Second Hand
ADF - Rafi's Revenge
The Abyssinians - Satta Massa Gana (aka Forward On To Zion)
most Fela Kuti albums, given that there are usually only 2 or 3 tracks on them...

 

[Dr. Furface]

Stranded - Roxy Music
77 - Talking Heads
Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
Movies - Holger Czukay
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
The Clock Comes Down The Stairs - Microdisney
Bummed - Happy Mondays
Emperor Tomato Ketchup - Stereolab
Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane
Low - David Bowie
There's a Riot Goin On - Sly & The Family Stone
Yo! Bum Rush the Show - Public Enemy
Trans Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
Blue Valentines - Tom Waits

 

[Reno]

Joni Mitchell - Blue
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
The Breeders - The Last Splash
Steve Earle - Transcendental Blues
Donald Fagan - The Nightfly
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Sleater Kinney - The Hot Rock
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Radiohead - The Bends
Kate & Anna McGarriggle - The McGarrigle Hour
Quasi - Featuring Birds
Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha
Elliot Smith - XO
Blondie - Parallel Lines
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi...

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

Pixies - 'Surfer Rosa'
Joy Division - 'Unknown Pleasures'
Abba - 'Arrival'

 

[zoooo]

Ben Folds Five ~ Whatever and Ever Amen
Rufus Wainwright ~ Rufus Wainwright

 

[Doctor Carrot]

The Blue Album - Weezer
This is Really Neat - Crackout
We May Be Skinny and Wirey - The Crockets
Rossz sillag alatt szuletett - Venetian Snares
So long and thanks for all the shoes - NOFX
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
Nevermind - Nirvana
Bleed American - Jimmy Eat World

I'm sure there's more but that's all I can think of for now.

 

[adsr]

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Sasha - Involver
M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas and Lost Ghosts
Radiohead - Kid A
Ulrich Schnauss - In a Strangely Isolated Place

 

[Pugwall7]

blue lines

 

[Reg in slippers]

some fantastic selections!

here's a few more:

Get Carter - OST
Ivor Cutler - Gruts
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Patti Smith - Horses

 

[Andy the Don]

Top of my head just a couple..

Velvet Underground - Andy Warhol
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Lou Reed - New York
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
The Jam - All Mod Cons

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Alabama 3 - Exile On Coldharbour Lane

Utter genius from start to finish.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

The Wonder Stuff - 'The Eight-legged Groove Machine'
Doctor & The Medics - 'I Keep Thinking It's Tuesday'

Seriously.

 

[fela fan]

Africa Shrine by Femi Kuti.

 

[boing!]

Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Elliot Smith - XO
Sparklehorse - Vivadixie...
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Weezer - Weezer
Chris Clark - Empty The Bones Of You
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Squarepusher - Go Plastic
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Venetian Snares - Rossz scilag...
Global Communications - 76.14

 

[CharlieAddict]

chungking - we travel fast.
keziah jones - blufunk is a fact.
massive attack - blue lines.
massive attack - protection.
nin - the downward spiral.
pink floyd - wish you were here.
pj harvey - to bring you my love.
pj harvey - is this desire?
portishead - dummy.
public enemy - fear of a black planet.
the notorious b.i.g - ready to die.

 

[Artie Fufkin]

ABC - Lexion Of Love
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - Ok Computer
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

 

[Flashman]

Victorialand - Cocteau Twins
Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
Tigermilk - Belle & Seb
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Low and Station to Station - Bowie
Funeral - Arcade Fire, is getting there.

 

[apie2004]

Dr Feelgood - Motley Crue
Led Zepplien II
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Judas Priest - Screaming for vengance
Black Sabbath - Masters of reality
AC/DC- High Voltage
AC/DC- Back In Black

 

[billy_bob]

Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray
Killing Joke - Fire Dances
Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction
Underworld - Dubnobass...
Led Zeppelin - I
Portishead - Dummy
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On
Kelly Joe Phelps - Shine Eyed Mister Zen

these are all best albums by artists whose best individual tracks are mostly elsewhere, in my opinion.

 

[Iam]

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