perfect/near perfect albums

I'm late to the party but couldn't miss putting Daily Bread's album Invisible Cinema in the thread

The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters
The Foo Fighters - The Color & The Shape
65daysofstatic - Wild Light
Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

There isn't a note I'd change on any of those albums.

For more mainstream music, I have to put forward "By the Way" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and "Demon Days" by the Gorillaz. For a slightly deeper cut, "The Protomen" (a.k.a. "Act I") and "Act II: The Father of Death" by the Protomen. I usually jump through shuffled music or skip songs, but these albums are all ones that I can listen to straight through.

Ott - Mir The Oh Hellos - Through the Deep Dark Valley Electric Light Orchestra - Time Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz

This will probably get buried in the comments, but Lohio by Ass Ponys is a really solid album. Just banger after banger.

Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue, In A Silent Way

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Lady Land

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues

Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West

Deodato - Prelude

Antonio Carlos Jobim - Wave

Earth Wind & Fire - Head To The Sky

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Fishbone - Truth And Soul, The Reality Of My Surroundings

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D-Evolution

Nina Simone - Black Gold

The Roots - Things Fall Apart

Sons Of Kemet - Your Queen Is A Reptile

A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

Paul Simon - Graceland

Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On

Chick Corea - Light As A Feather

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters

Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang

That's probably enough for now...

Circa Survive - Blue Sky Noise

BTBAM - Colors

Radiohead's Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

Do people think Treefingers is filler? Wtf, that track is fucking awesome and a much needed breather for that album

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest

Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill

+1 for Twin Fantasy. I haven't listened to a lot of CSH's discography but man that album... every time I hear a song I'm pulled back in and end up listening to the whole thing. It's amazing how quickly those 15 minute songs seem to end.

Jeff Rosenstock's WORRY. is a 10/10 masterpiece that hits just as hard every time I put it on

A few I can think of right now:

AC/DC - If You Want Blood (maybe cheating a bit because it's a compilation of songs from different albums, but it's the best live album of all time to me and AC/DC at their rockingest.)

All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker or Nothing A The Ideal (both albums warrant a full playthrough almost always.)

Elephant Tree - Elephant Tree (my favorite album of the last decade)

Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (although Elder keep getting better and better, and are ever more amazing live, this album has a special place in my heart)

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (masterpiece from beginning to end.)

Makoto Matsushita - First Light

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong - Psychology, Presto

Dogs in a Pile - Bloom, Not Your Average Beagle

Nautilus - Refrain

Teako Onuki - Mignonne, Sunshower

Grateful Dead - Cornell 5/8/77, American Beauty

Anthrax - Spreading the Disease

Bad Religion - No Control, The Empire Strikes First

Led Zeppelin - II, IV

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien

War Bringer - Woe to the Vanquished

Havok - Conformicide

Loudness - Thunder in the East

Thank You Scientist - Maps of Non-Existent Places

Rainbow - Difficult to Cure, Straight Between the Eyes

Casiopea - CASIOPEA, Asian Dreamer, Material

Phish - Farmhouse, Hoist

Gloryhammer - Tales from the Kingdom of Fife

Might've went a bit overboard lol

Have you listened to Return to The Kingdom of Fife yet?

A few of my favorite classics:

Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Yes - Close To The Edge
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Genesis - Duke
Nektar - Remember The Future
Camel - Moonmadness

And for newer stuff, I'd go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

Not Breakfast in America?

i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.

throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.

Spectators by Wolfsheim

@such_lettuce7970 ah yes, my favorite album of theirs & their discography is pretty much flawless to begin with

Michael Jackson - Off the wall
She Wants Revenge - self titled
Metric - Synthetica
Prick - self titled
The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
ISIS - Oceanica
Lovage - Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Pixies - Doolittle
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Sigur Ros - Takk...
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Madonna - Confessions on a Dance Floor

I would call "Celestial" and "Wavering Radiant" perfect Isis' albums as well.

Here we go, brace yourselves

Against The Current - Past Lives
Can't Swim - This Too Won't Pass
Chief State - Tough Love [EP]
Before I Turn - Lovelorn
Bearings - Hello, It's You
Dorothy - Gifts From The Holy Ghost
Four Year Strong - Brain Pain
Greta Van Fleet - The Battle At Garden's Gate
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Intervals - The Shape Of Colours [instrumental, heavenly]
I Prevail - TRUE POWER
Knuckle Puck - While I Stay Secluded [EP]
Knuckle Puck - 20_20
Mayday Parade - Sunnyland
Micheal Jackson - Thriller
Movements - Feel Something
Neck Deep - All Distortions Are Intentional
Neck Deep - The Peace And The Panic
Neck Deep - Life's Not Out To Get You
Nothing But Thieves - Moral Panic
Palaye Royale - Fever Dream
Paramore - Brand New Eyes
Paramore - Paramore
Paramore - After Laughter
Seaway - Big Vibe
Seaway - Vacation
Sleeping With Sirens - How It Feels To Be Lost
Sleeping With Sirens - Madness
State Champs - Kings Of The New Age
The Story So Far - The Story So Far
The Story So Far - What You Don't See
The Structs - YOUNG&DANGEROUS
Tiny Moving Parts - Pleasant Living
Yonaka - Don't Wait Till Tomorrow
Yonaka - Sieze The Power
Yours Truly - Self Care
Yours Truly - Afterglow [EP]

Thats about it, those are some of my favourite/[near-]perfect albums/EPs.

Happy to see Tiny Moving Parts getting mentioned. I actually just listened to Celebrate for the first time a week ago, and while I think it's great, Pleasant Living still edges it out. I just love Always Focused, I wish there were a lot more super-positive emo songs like that.
Curious about your thoughts on the Greta Van Fleet "they're a Zeppelin ripoff" stuff. I like their music and I'm hoping they are able to shake that reputation a bit. Also, apparently I've only listened to From The Fires and Anthem of the Peaceful Army, so apparently I've got some catching up to do.

Also, first post on lemmy, lets gooooooooo!
- I've heard abit about this too. At the time I heard of it I'd actually never listened to a single Zeppelin track, it made me curious (who could come close to the genius of Greta!!??) . I've been listening to their albums and there is definitely a resemblance in their music styles.
  At this point I can't really say that Greta "ripped off" of Led Zeppelin since I'm new to their music. But I like it so far, definitely my kind of sound.
- Am I the only who thinks they sound more like Rush than Zeppelin?? To me their singer sounds like a dead ringer for Geddy Lee

Going by music genre:

Hip Hop: To Pimp A Butterfly (by Kendrick Lamar), The Forever Story (JID), Madvillainy (MF DOOM), Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep)

Electronic: Selected Ambient Works (Aphex Twin), Exai (Autechre), Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (μ-Ziq)

Black Metal: Filosofem (Burzum), Panzerfaust (Darkthrone), Pure Holocaust (Immortal), Exuvia (The Ruins of Beverast)

Death Metal: Scream Bloody Gore (Death), Realm of Chaos (Bolt Thrower), Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)

Country: Southbound (Doc Watson), Poor David's Almanack (David Rawlings)

I'm just breaking into country and jazz. If anyone has some classic must-listen albums, I'd be all ears.

It's been almost a year since The Forever Story came out, but it was a classic in my mind from the first second I heard it. I haven't listened to as much hip hop these past few years but that album pulled me right back in.

I'm not the biggest fan of J Cole, but he's discovered and boosted some amazing artists.

The Black Crowes - Southern Harmony Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Honorable mention

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness The White Stripes - Icky Thump CeeLo Green - The Lady Killer

I have very little concept of what songs are from which albums anymore thanks to modern streaming subscriptions.

Siamese Dreams is one album I have been able to go back to year after year and enjoy from start to finish. First album I ever owned.

The Hotelier - Home, Like Noplace Is There
Fugazi - The Argument
Slint - Spiderland
American Football - LP1
toe - The Book About My Idle Plot On A Vague Anxiety
The Cure - Disintegration
TTNG - Animals
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels to Be Something On
At The Drive-in - Relationship of Command
Brand New - The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me

Relationship of Command is a certified banger from the first note to the last. Absolutely incendiary record.

how do you not have Dark Side of the Moon in that list?

I love Pink Floyd, but to be honest I'd put animals on there before dark side. I didn't fully list everything that I'd add, just a few to get the conversation going:⁠-⁠)

Glass Animals ZABA. Willing to die on this hill.

Sitting on my record player as we speak! 😂

The vinyl sleeve is absolutely gorgeous.

It is incredibly coherent and each song very much fits into the theme they were building. I love the theme of the Island of Dr Moreau (sp?) and the Jabberwocky nonsense word stuff. It's very sensual. It's not mind-blowing or anything but it is a perfect album for what they were trying to accomplish (sensual, kind of dangerous but whimsical, alluring, smooth, playful, sexual). It makes a good album to buy on vinyl because with vinyl you don't really skip songs and it favours albums that are more thematically coherent like Zaba is.
- This album is too sexy for vinyl - that would require flipping

Imo, Animals - Pink Floyd. And I'm also very partial to The Wall xD

The Wall is the best Pink Floyd album in terms of amount of hours you can put into dissecting every single line of lyrics and using the themes to understand why people are being radicalized into right wing authoritarian movements even in 2023... It has deep narrative staying power about the cycles of trauma, abuse, self-hatred, grief, violence, losing yourself and then the power to decide for yourself to stop hurting people and try and find your own redemption, if you can... There's almost nothing like it in existence! It also has what has been argued to be the best guitar solo of all time (in Comfortably Numb).

David is the most emotional guitar player of all time because he grew up listening to jazz saxophone and you can only play one note at a time on the sax - he took that philosophy to his guitar so instead of shredding he knows how to use musical phrasing to build up to just single notes that rip your heart out...

Animals is of course excellent but I find myself wanting to only listen to Sheep and Dogs more than anything else. It's like a sandwich - best stuff in the middle.

Wish You Were Here is a more perfect album than Animals imo, and probably more accessible to new listeners. Welcome to the Machine is a bit intense but if people could handle the random sounds section of Dark Side of the Moon then I'm sure they can handle it 😂 Dark Side of the Moon is overrated to me tbh. Time is one of the best songs of all... Time... For sure though. Us and Them and Great Gig in the Sky are also amazing but the rest of the album is just me waiting to hear those songs tbh. The guitar solo from Time is also one of my most favourite guitar solos - David is just finding his signature sound on that album and Time is just the perfect encapsulation of Pink Floyd's overall genre which is nostalgic grief/longing for times you can't return to. Comfortably Numb is also very heavy on those themes but the raw emotion in that one is much stronger as it is about personal grief and loss and the anguish of finally accepting/succumbing/letting go of what you can't get back. That solo is basically the musical representation of the 5 stages of grief... That's my personal interpretation at least (have a listen and let me know what you think). Childhood's End is a precursor song to that theme before they find their signature sound, and nearly the entire album of Wish You Were Here is about that same theme but from the perspective of an outsider. Later on in The Division Bell and Sorrow carry on that theme, even though the post-breakup stuff is less thematically coherent.
- So far I've only listened to the Wall(like four to five times), Animals(about two) and DSOTM two. Thinking about it more I might prefer The Wall over Animals(I forgot about the Trial which has to be one of my favorite songs, ever xD). And yes, I agree the DSTOM is a bit overrated; Time, Us and Them, and Money are my favorites from there though.