if it's just 'perfect' albums and ones you necessarily enjoy, you'd have to include the super pop mega smash 50 platinum ones like fugees the score, alanis morisettes 'jagged little pill' and def leppards 'hysteria' though..... double digit single releases on one album is some heavy shit.
By that standard, I'd definitely include Moby Grape's self-titled debut, even though none of the (five?) singles released were hits. And it is most assuredly something I've played and enjoyed numerous times.
if it's just 'perfect' albums and ones you necessarily enjoy, you'd have to include the super pop mega smash 50 platinum ones like fugees the score, alanis morisettes 'jagged little pill' and def leppards 'hysteria' though..... double digit single releases on one album is some heavy shit.
weezer blue album?
So you enjoy Alanis Morrissette's Jagged Little Pill?
So Canadien right now.
enjoy it? j'adore it!
but really though, 25 million copies moved with 90% of singles going to radio would imply that alot of people found it to be perfect.
Pixies - Surfer Rosa and Doolittle
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece
Modest Mouse - Lonsome Crowded West
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces Of A Man
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Curtis Mayfield - S/T
And then:
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions & Songs In The Key Of Life
The Clash - London Calling
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Common - Be
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (I like Revolver better, but it has Yellow Submarine, the most skipped song in history)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Portishead - Dummy
Charly Garc??a - Clicks Modernos
Everything by Sui Generis
Love, love, LOVE Jagged Little Pill. Came out at the right time and everytime I revisit it I think back to the summer of 96. Blue Album is another perfect album to me. From beginning to end it was just great music. For me, the perfect album is an album that you can play from beginning to end without having to think about skipping a track. Maybe REPEATING the track or tracks, but never skipping them. Plus, I think an album is perfect if it makes you feel just as good every time you revisit it as you did when you first heard it. There have been other albums that I think are perfect that some have already listed, but I'll list a few others that I thoroughly enjoy.
Radiohead- OK Computer and Kid A (Amnesiac is close, but not quite in my opinion)
Dorothy Ashby- Hip Harp
Bill Evans- Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Vince Guaraldi- In Person and A Charlie Brown Christmas
Carole King- Tapestry and Music
Devo- Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Pink Floyd- Saucerful Of Secrets (I would go with Dark Side or The Wall, but I'm sure someone else will come up with that)
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Bee Gees- Saturday Night Fever (yeah, I like the Bee Gees)
Free Design- Kites Are Fun and Heaven/Earth
Simon and Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and Sounds Of Silence
Captain Beefheart- Safe As Milk
I'm sure there are plenty more, but those are the ones I could think of at the moment.
Love, love, LOVE Jagged Little Pill. Came out at the right time and everytime I revisit it I think back to the summer of 96.
Wow.
It didn't do that for you?! I'm sure there are other albums that you revisit that make you think back to the first time you heard it.
Dude, I was an 18-yea-old heterosexual male in 1996. It didn't do a damn thing except annoy me. Not judging, though. Just surprised. Very, very surprised.
I prefer "Setting Sons," but it can't make this list because of a completely unnecessary cover of "Heatwave."
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Love - Forever Changes
Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires?
The Modern Lovers
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Kinks - Village Green
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds
Stooges - Funhouse
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
There's nothing here I've listened to less than 50 times.
i don't personally like the alanis either, i was merely presenting the objective side of the argument.
i also think it's great that you diffuse everything i say by pointing to my canadianship, and for this id like to extend an invite to "Corey-oke", the all Corey Hart karaoke i host on the first tuesday of every month at the prime minister's house.
i don't personally like the alanis either, i was merely presenting the objective side of the argument.
i also think it's great that you diffuse everything i say by pointing to my canadianship, and for this id like to extend an invite to "Corey-oke", the all Corey Hart karaoke i host on the first tuesday of every month at the prime minister's house.
Wait, Alanis Morrissette was Canadian, right? That's where I was going with that. Actually, if that was the case, she's probably still Canadian.
Compiled without looking too closely at the other lists:
Working Together - Ike & Tina Turner Marshall Crenshaw Side Three - Raspberries Dixie Fried - James Luther Dickinson In The City - Jam Right Move - Chambers Brothers Psychedelic Sounds Of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye Moby Grape
Nuggets (the 1972 compilation, not the later multi-volume series that Rhino released in the 80s) The Five Royales Sing For You
Fun House - Stooges Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim The Isaac Hayes Movement
The Letter/Neon Rainbow - Box Tops Little Bit O'Soul - Music Explosion Things I Used To Do - Pee Wee Crayton Yeah! - Brownsville Station The Blasters Total Destruction To Your Mind - Swamp Dogg Hawk Squat! - J.B. Hutto Natural Boogie - Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers Stay With Me - Lorraine Ellison Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
I don't know if these would be perfect to the general consensus, but these are a few that I play end to end without thinking about skipping a single track.
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By that standard, I'd definitely include Moby Grape's self-titled debut, even though none of the (five?) singles released were hits. And it is most assuredly something I've played and enjoyed numerous times.
enjoy it? j'adore it!
but really though, 25 million copies moved with 90% of singles going to radio would imply that alot of people found it to be perfect.
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks and Veedon Fleece
Modest Mouse - Lonsome Crowded West
Built to Spill - Perfect From Now On
Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Curtis Mayfield - S/T
And then:
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions & Songs In The Key Of Life
The Clash - London Calling
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Common - Be
The Beatles - Rubber Soul (I like Revolver better, but it has Yellow Submarine, the most skipped song in history)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Portishead - Dummy
Charly Garc??a - Clicks Modernos
Everything by Sui Generis
Love, love, LOVE Jagged Little Pill. Came out at the right time and everytime I revisit it I think back to the summer of 96. Blue Album is another perfect album to me. From beginning to end it was just great music. For me, the perfect album is an album that you can play from beginning to end without having to think about skipping a track. Maybe REPEATING the track or tracks, but never skipping them. Plus, I think an album is perfect if it makes you feel just as good every time you revisit it as you did when you first heard it. There have been other albums that I think are perfect that some have already listed, but I'll list a few others that I thoroughly enjoy.
Radiohead- OK Computer and Kid A (Amnesiac is close, but not quite in my opinion)
Dorothy Ashby- Hip Harp
Bill Evans- Sunday At The Village Vanguard
Vince Guaraldi- In Person and A Charlie Brown Christmas
Carole King- Tapestry and Music
Devo- Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Pink Floyd- Saucerful Of Secrets (I would go with Dark Side or The Wall, but I'm sure someone else will come up with that)
Black Sabbath- Paranoid
Bee Gees- Saturday Night Fever (yeah, I like the Bee Gees)
Free Design- Kites Are Fun and Heaven/Earth
Simon and Garfunkel- Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme and Sounds Of Silence
Captain Beefheart- Safe As Milk
I'm sure there are plenty more, but those are the ones I could think of at the moment.
Wow.
Oh, yeah. And Donovan's Hurdy Gurdy Man.
I respectfully disagree.
It didn't do that for you?! I'm sure there are other albums that you revisit that make you think back to the first time you heard it.
I hear you but comparing that to Beat It, Billie Jean, and U Wanna Be Starting Something I feel there is a drop off...IMO.
Dude, I was an 18-yea-old heterosexual male in 1996. It didn't do a damn thing except annoy me. Not judging, though. Just surprised. Very, very surprised.
That and soudwise it is a precedent that hasn't really been matched yet.
Could be the greatest album of all time IMO.
I prefer "Setting Sons," but it can't make this list because of a completely unnecessary cover of "Heatwave."
Neil Young - After the Goldrush
Love - Forever Changes
Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires?
The Modern Lovers
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Mellow Candle - Swaddling Songs
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Kinks - Village Green
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Sounds
Stooges - Funhouse
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
There's nothing here I've listened to less than 50 times.
ha. Beat me to it.
Also this
i also think it's great that you diffuse everything i say by pointing to my canadianship, and for this id like to extend an invite to "Corey-oke", the all Corey Hart karaoke i host on the first tuesday of every month at the prime minister's house.
Wait, Alanis Morrissette was Canadian, right? That's where I was going with that. Actually, if that was the case, she's probably still Canadian.
And Corey-oke?
Working Together - Ike & Tina Turner
Marshall Crenshaw
Side Three - Raspberries
Dixie Fried - James Luther Dickinson
In The City - Jam
Right Move - Chambers Brothers
Psychedelic Sounds Of The Thirteenth Floor Elevators
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Moby Grape
Nuggets (the 1972 compilation, not the later multi-volume series that Rhino released in the 80s)
The Five Royales Sing For You
Fun House - Stooges
Rooster Blues - Lightnin' Slim
The Isaac Hayes Movement
The Letter/Neon Rainbow - Box Tops
Little Bit O'Soul - Music Explosion
Things I Used To Do - Pee Wee Crayton
Yeah! - Brownsville Station
The Blasters
Total Destruction To Your Mind - Swamp Dogg
Hawk Squat! - J.B. Hutto
Natural Boogie - Hound Dog Taylor & the Houserockers
Stay With Me - Lorraine Ellison
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Ahmad Jamal - The Awakening
gigantic cosine on that pick.
The Cardigans - Life (Swedish version only)
Frank Cunimondo Trio
sly - riot
stevie - talking book
maybe dj quik - trauma
Currently on sale from Horseleech Enterprises, is it not?
Ramsey Lewis - Mother Nature's Son
Cymande - S/T
Minnie Riperton - Come To My Garden
Menahan Street Band - Make The Road By Walking
Sly And The Family Stone - Stand