Albums that are perfect, note for note
DB_Cooper
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A friend posted this question on Facebook: some albums are 100% perfect, pulp's 'different class' is one of them. i'd like to hear yours...
My answer:
Too many to name. Off the top: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Stooges - Fun House, Stooges - Raw Power, Most of Led Zeppelin's output, most of Velvet Underground's output, Nas - Illmatic, Main Source - Breaking Atoms, Mclusky - Mclusky Does Dallas, Thirteenth Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of..., Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere, Chocolate Watchband - Inner Mystique, Love - Forever Changes, Can - Ege Bamyasi, Curtis Mayfield - Curtis, Damon - Song of a Gypsy, David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Edan - Beauty and the Beat, Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers, Ike Tuner and the Kings of Rhythm - A Black Man's Soul, Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul, The Modern Lovers - ST, Pixies - Doolittle, Rocket from the Tombs - The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs, Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets, Television - Marquee Moon...and if you gave me a day I think I could come up with plenty more.
What you got?
My answer:
Too many to name. Off the top: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Stooges - Fun House, Stooges - Raw Power, Most of Led Zeppelin's output, most of Velvet Underground's output, Nas - Illmatic, Main Source - Breaking Atoms, Mclusky - Mclusky Does Dallas, Thirteenth Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of..., Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere, Chocolate Watchband - Inner Mystique, Love - Forever Changes, Can - Ege Bamyasi, Curtis Mayfield - Curtis, Damon - Song of a Gypsy, David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Edan - Beauty and the Beat, Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers, Ike Tuner and the Kings of Rhythm - A Black Man's Soul, Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul, The Modern Lovers - ST, Pixies - Doolittle, Rocket from the Tombs - The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs, Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets, Television - Marquee Moon...and if you gave me a day I think I could come up with plenty more.
What you got?
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Blue Oyster Cult "tyranny and mutation"
1st 4 Van Halen LPs
AC/DC "let there be rock"
Art Blakey "Free for all"
Charles Mingus on Candid (the one with "Fables of Faubus")
Mal Waldron "The Quest"
Queen "sheer heart attack"
Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
Johnnie Taylor "wanted one soul singer"
William bell " soul of a bell"
Booker t and the MGs " soul dressing"
Boredoms "vision creation new sun"
Alton Ellis "sings rock and soul"
Zelia Barbosa-Songs of Protest:Sertao&Favelas;
Curtis-ST
AlGreen-Iam so in love with you
Nas-Illmatic
NotoriousBIG-Ready to Die
DavidCrosby-If i could only remember my name
Burning Spear-Marcus Garvey
Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back
Spice 1 - Spice 1
Big Mike - Somethin' Serious
Mac Mall - Illegal Business
JT tha Bigga Figga - Playaz n the Game
Twista - Adrenaline Rush
Juvenile - 400 Degreez
BG - Chopper City in the Ghetto
Hot Boys - Guerilla Warfare
Guerilla Maab - Rise
Fiend - Street Life
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Parliament - Motor Booty Affair
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown
Nirvana - all 3 albums
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
Spoon - Girls Can Tell
New Order - Low-life
Kano - New York Cake
Portishead - Dummy
IAM - L'ecole du micro d'argent
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle
Maxwell - Embrya
Intelligent Hoodlum - Intelligent Hoodlum
Cortex -troupeau Bleu
Room - Pre flight
Illmatic
Pharoah Sanders -- Thembi
Funkadelic -- Funkadelic
Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath
Agitation Free -- Malesch
Eric Dolphy -- Out to Lunch
Al Green -- Let's Stay Together
Jim Sullivan -- U.F.O.
Alice Coltrane -- Universal Consciousness
Nelson Angelo E Joyce -- Nelson Angelo E Joyce
Flower Travellin Band -- Satori
Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
Larry Young -- Lawrence of Newark
Joe Bataan -- Subway Joe
Karma -- Karma
Zombies -- Odessey and Oracle
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures
Doris Duke -- I'm a Loser
Gentle Giant -- Octopus
Curtis Mayfield -- Curtis
Sonic Youth -- Sister
Jose Mauro -- Obnoxious
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis -- Afro-Jaws
Can -- Ege Bamyasi
Otis Redding -- The Immortal Otis Redding
Detroit Emeralds -- You Want It, You Got It
Gabor Szabo -- Dreams
Irma Thomas -- In Between Tears
Bob Dylan -- Nashville Skyline (happy 70th!)
Gal Costa -- Gal Costa (the more sedate '69 s/t)
John Phillips -- John, the Wolfking of LA (ok, the 5 seconds of Louis Armstrong imitation are not note-perfect...)
The Mall?
Cold Sun - "Dark Shadows"
Al Green - "Still In Love With You"
Son Volt - "Trace"
Mountain - "Nantucket Sleighride"
Todd Rundgren - "Hermit Of Mink Hollow"
Love - "Forever Changes"
Well shit cant be debated, its one of my all time favourite albums.
None of my favorite albums are "perfect".
Albums that are perfect. It's still completely subjective, but if there's a false note or a skippable track, it doesn't belong here.
yours..mine are.
perfect means, no skippin.
its subjective senor..subjective.
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I think "perfect" is an interesting filter... I love the Beatles and the Kinks, for instance, but I couldn't think of an album by either that doesn't have at least one track I dislike (let alone one note).
haha almost exaclty what i said.
Sayin'. I was trying to think of a Kinks album, but they're really more about a wide breadth of quality material. Even Village Green has some clunkers.
So the Mall is a perfect song?
agreed... without the track lists in front of me, I'd venture that Muswell Hillbillies is probably their closest to a perfect album -- but still decidedly not perfect, and certainly not my favorite. Something Else may do it for some, but I'm in the minority (I think) in disliking both David Watts and Death of a Clown.
I took it to mean all tracks are good, no clunkers....all killer, no filler
DE LA SOUL - 3 Feet High And Rising
Yeah. And no tracks where you'd say "I really like that song, but they could have wrapped it up a minute or two earlier."
weezer blue album?
So you enjoy Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill?
So Canadien right now.
The Girl Is Mine is the weak link.