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The perfect album?

szeppelin75

szeppelin75

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Is there such a thing for you?, many of us have "favourite" albums that we like for whatever reasons. Maybe they were part of our lives growing up, the songs and lyrics spoke yo us, we really, really liked the artist or simply the album rocks.

But is there a perfect album for you? My favourite album of all time is Appetite for Destruction, the first tape that i bought with my own money. I played that tape to the ground, until i had to replace the cassette.The i bought the CD, and when i got into vinyl i bought the LP (twice), but even though for me this album gets as close to perfection as it is, there are two or three songs on it that ar just 7 or 8 in my book, not 10.

Is there an album where you consider every cut to be a ten?, Greatest hits not considered.
 
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Boston's first album. I just keep going back to it, reliving my freshman year at college most likely. However, my 20 year old son says it is his favorite as well!
 
cgutz said:
Boston's first album. I just keep going back to it, reliving my freshman year at college most likely. However, my 20 year old son says it is his favorite as well!
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Got to tell you, that one's shure close to perfection, all of the songs are killers, could be you know, to me a lot of them are 10s.
 
My first buy was Styx, Paradise Theater. I knew nothing about it before I bought it and didn't care for it the first time I played it but hey, it was all I had so I played it alot. I can really jam to it now and have never been and never will be without it. Great record for me.

It's pretty hard for me to have records with only 1 or 2 good songs so I can listen to most of them front to back.

But for the greatest all time front to back record I'll nominate 2112.
 
The UK version of "This Year's Model" by Elvis Costello, far and away for me. Not a single song on there I don't enjoy. The US pressing eliminated two of the strongest songs, and added a non-essential (to the record) single ("Radio Radio").
 
Though I have been pretty burned out on Pink Floyd for 10 or 20 years, once I get my new system finalized, I would have to say DSOTM and WYWH both flow smoothly from beginning to end and were recorded well.
 
No-vocal albums for me would be Passion & Warfare (Steve Vai) or the Extremist (Joe Satriani).

With vocals would be just too tough to choose just one (though Van Halen would probably muscle it's way to the top).
 
Here's 2 for you.

Rodriguez - Cold Fact

Audience - House on the hill.

If you haven't gottem gettem:thmbsp:
 
DSOTM is one of the greatest albums ever made, as a concept album it works, but song by song i'd prefer WYWH, all of the 5 songs are amazing, but to me at leats, Have a Cigar is not a 10, maybe an 8.

It's hard to find one album where you say every song front to back is astonishing, i don't know, maybe i got pickier with age.
 
I'd say Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline and Nick Drake's Pink Moon are both very close to being perfect records.
My only complaint is that both are too darn short!
Both records come in at under 30 minutes each: They should be two hours!!!
 
Type O Negative - October Rust

I've loved this album from the first time I heard it. Peter Steele and company wrote some musical goth metal.

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Many many albums.

I could sit here and think and list, and re-think and add to the list.

But my knee-jerk reaction would have to be:

"The Beatles - Let It Be"
 
For me it would have to be Metallica's Master of Puppets. Remember cruising around with friends and having a good time with it cranked. It's hard to pick just one but if you were to hold a gun to my head and made me pick just one, that would be it.
 
There's a few in my collection that I would consider perfect.

1. Boston - Boston
2. Meghan Beadry - Make Me Happy, Make Me Blue
3. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
4. Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here
 
Loop2kil said:
For me it would have to be Metallica's Master of Puppets. Remember cruising around with friends and having a good time with it cranked. It's hard to pick just one but if you were to hold a gun to my head and made me pick just one, that would be it.
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You may be onto something there... I remember who, where and how amazed I was when I first heard it. Was so different than the 2 previous albums, it just sounded unreal, like nothing could sound like. Haven't heard it any many years but I still have neck problems. I miss Cliff.
 
Me Tarzan said:
You may be onto something there... I remember who, where and how amazed I was when I first heard it. Was so different than the 2 previous albums, it just sounded unreal, like nothing could sound like. Haven't heard it any many years but I still have neck problems. I miss Cliff.
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It was indeed a great one start to finish with no weaknesses that I could tell you about. A lot of my other great albums would always have that one track that I would have to skip.

Yes they were never as good after Cliff, imho
 
So many albums, so little time! For me, my favorite is Alan Parsons Project 'Tales of Mystery and Imagination'; Coldplay's 'X&Y'; Yes 'Fragile'; and The Clash 'London Calling'.
 
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