Perfect albums

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[JOSweetHeart]

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[Hayden]

I'm not going to be a Scaruffi here and say that perfection doesnt exist

I've given perfect scores to these albums though:

Beatles - Abbey Road
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Joy Division - Closer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Pixies - Doolittle
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Television - Marquee Moon
Velvet Underground - & Nico
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Nas - Illmatic
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Antlers - Hospice

And close to perfect with a 9.5 from me:
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mark Replica
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Bob Marley - Exodus
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation


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[JJKelsall]

Nico - The Marble Index

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

The Smiths - The Smiths

Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse

The Doors - Strange Days

Brian Eno - Another Green Planet

Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure

The Cult - Love

Joni Mitchell - Hejira

The Creatures - Boomerang

Morrissey - Vauxhall and I

Patti Smith - Horses

Buffy Sainte-Marie - It's My Way

Aimee Mann - Whatever

Suede - Dog Man Star

The Slits - Cut

Billie Holiday - Lady in Satin

The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico

Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

The Pretenders - The Pretenders

Janis Joplin - Pearl

[JJKelsall]

Just a note on this idea of what 'perfect' should be. For me, a perfect album doesn't necessarily have to have a collection of 10/10 songs, that doesn't matter because we are looking at the album as a whole. I think a perfect album is one that you can sit through and enjoy the full thing; it holds your attention completely and while yes, like anything (a book, film ect) there will be some parts that aren't as moving or cathartic as others, but the structure of the album is done so that everything flows perfectly; if you were to take one song out of the mix or reorder them it wouldn't work. That for me at least, is what makes a perfect album as appose to, what makes a perfect set of songs.

A good example of this are Roxy Music's Stranded album, and For Your Pleasure. Stranded has the better individual songs like Mother of Pearl, Song For Europe and Street Life, but the album is scattered, it's not particularly cohesive so its hard to listen to in one go to appreciate it, instead you'd rather just pick the best tracks and listen separately.

On the other hand, For Your Pleasure flows excellently and again there are some excellent tracks and some that are quite average, yet nothing is below par and each song flows well with the next, giving the album that cohesive feel that brings it all together as a whole, rather than simply a collection of unrelated songs.