The Perfect Album

Sticky Fingers - Stones
Friends - Beach Boys
20/20 - Beach Boys
Marquee Moon - Television
Larks Tongues in Aspic -King Crimson
Road To Ruin - John and Beverly Martyn
St. Dominic's Preview - Van Morrison
Nova Bossa - Carol Saboya
Bryter Layter - Nick Drake
Sinatra and Jobim
Ahmad Jamal - Naked City Theme
Notorious Byrds Brothers - Byrds

Lots more just missed by a cut or two.....

 

Yes, I think it's a great song.

 

(records that I can put on, and never have the notion of taking them off before they're finished...)

Pink Floyd - DSOTM (of course)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Leo Kottke - 6 & 12 String Guitar
Ozark Mtn Daredevils - first LP (Quilt album)
Kraftwerk - TEE
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night

 

My sentiments exactly.

I will add Odessey and Oracle.

 

In my (wet) dreams a version re-mastered and re-mixed by Steve Hoffman or Steven Wilson with some low end in it for a change... preferably with "Teacher" on it instead of "Alive and..."
.

 

Joe Boyd once said that the only perfect album he ever worked on was Nick Drake's Bryter Layter.

 

U2 - Achtung Baby

 

YES! and it doesn't even need remastering, its a masterpiece already!

 

Frank Sinatra & Tom Jobim "Francis Albert Sinatra And Antonio Carlos Jobim"

E.L.O.'s "Out Of The Blue"

Francis Dunnery "Tall Blonde Helicopter"

The 4 Seasons "The Genuine Imitation Life Gazette"

The Who "Who's Next"

Johnny Mathis "Johnny's Greatest Hits"

Art Garfunkel "Breakaway"

Andrew Gold "All This & Heaven Too"

 

Awesome contribution.

I like the mentions of Television's Marquee Moon and the Beach Boys, although I would list Friends instead of 20/20.

For me, some perfect albums are:

Meat Puppets – Meat Puppets II
Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
Wild Nothing – Gemini
Cats on Fire – The Province Complains
The Bats – Daddy's Highway

 

5 perfect albums.

http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=195166

 

Off the top...

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Alice Cooper - Killer
Rush - 2112

 

American Beauty for me is perfection from start to finish. I would also add
Love: Forever Changes.

 

Allman Brothers "Live at the Fillmore East' For me, every cut smokes, I could pick a tune at random and it'll be great or I could listen to the whole thing and it's great.
Santana 'Abraxas'
Weather Report 'Sweetnighter'
Last Exit 'Headfirst Into the Flames'

 

Radiohead - Kid A

 

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Sugar - Copper Blue
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Joe Jackson - Night & Day
Genesis - Abacab
Judas Priest - British Steel
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

Just a few that come to mind.

 

Pet Sounds
Sedaka's Back
Capt Fantastic
A Hard Day's Night
The Point!
Emitt Rhodes
Never Mind The Bollocks
Sticky Fingers
Songs In The Key Of Life

 

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pink Floyd - Animals
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!! & Imperial Bedroom
Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
The Wedding Present - Sea Monsters
Stone Roses – Stone Roses (the version with Elephant Stone, but without Fool's Gold)
Destroyer - Kaputt
Animal Collective - Feels
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Led Zep - I, II, III, & IV

Almost:
Boston (Smokin' and Rock N Roll band are fun, but bring the proceedings down to earth, which is unfortunate)
Disintegration (Lullaby is great, but doesn't fit, and Lovesong is a bore)
Abbey Road (again... Come Together is cool but doesn't work here)
Quadrophenia (not really anything wrong... just needs some of the various instrumental overtures and reprises trimmed)
The Smiths (I have always hated Hand in Glove for some reason)
Exile on Main St (see the poll on this forum for some of the songs that could have been trimmed. I mean, Shake Your Hips is USDA grade-A filler, but compared to All Down the Line or Torn & Frayed it's definitely filler)

 

Two came to mind when I saw the title of the thread: WISH YOU WERE HERE by Pink Floyd, and CHINESE BOXES by Kim Richey.

Yeah, I haven't seen those two albums mentioned together, and only those two, in the same thread before, either.

JcS

 

"Exile On Main Street" What's wrong with Turd On The Run anyway?

 

Their may not be a perfect album but there's a perfect album side-Side 1 of "Meet The Beatles".

 

+1 on Achtung Baby

and a vote for Arcade Fire - Funeral

 

In the "all killer no filler" category I would place:

Love - Forever Changes
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance
Genesis - Foxtrot
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Hambi and the Dance - Heartache
Stone Roses - Stone Roses (I'm not actually that fussy about I Am The Resurrection, but everyone else seems to think it's killer)
Belinda Carlisle - Runaway Horses
Pulp - Different Class
Mark Burgess and the Sons of God - Zima Junction

... among others.

 

Whew here goes! Led Zeppelin II, Beatles Hard Days Night, Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here, Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me, Van Halen s/t, Christopher Cross s/t, Beach Boys Pet Sounds, The Cars s/t, Boston s/t

 

Pink Floyd's The Wall

I could list quite a few other albums, but The Wall is the only double album to date that I've been able to listen to all the way through in one sitting, or perhaps several times in one sitting