Every album I’ve ever encountered seems to have a mixture of bangers and one or more meh or outright flops. It’s easier than ever to skip over the tracks now, but as the question asks: what’s is, in your opinion, the perfect album, or does one/can one even exist?
I was wondering the same thing and then I found Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon.
So the answer is yes, my perfect album exists.
And then I found Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, and I realized two perfect albums exist for me, so far
French album for those who speak French : Les Étoiles Vagabondes - Nekfeu
Makes me go through all emotions, excellent writer. It is just the best album to me.
F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Eve 6 's debut album.
Jesus Nightlight is the only speedbump, but that’s mostly due to placement. If it was the closing track, it would have been a totally different experience.
Disregarding that one song being in an inopportune position, it’s the only perfect album I know of.
I need to learn to listen to albums as a whole, not as a collection of tracks. But that’s just me.
No. Next question.
Next question: Why is LibertyLizard so good at being wrong?
Lots of practice. Next question.
Plenty. There are literally hundreds of albums in my collection that I’d consider “perfect,” the first one I ever realized as one was Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the most recent probably being Hellfire by Black Midi. What type of music do you listen to? I can try to give some more relevant suggestions for you based on that.
Bowie also had Man Who Sold the World and Station to Station.
Let It Be by The Replacements
I feel like the perfect album can exist for anyone. Sometimes an album hits just right at a specific time in your life. It becomes the background soundtrack for your day to day life. For me, it is The Postal Service’s Give Up. There are so many reasons I love that album and to me there are no throwaway songs. It feels altogether ephemeral for me.
So yeah, it’s highly subjective, but I think it’s possible for all of us to experience music on this level. I hope you one day experience it, OP.
Heh. For me, in college in the early 90s, nirvana, green day, Soundgarden, etc. But yeah, there’s always one that doesn’t quite seem to fit. Lol
Deloused in the comatorium
Perfect albums that come to mind : Pink Floyd - Animals Depeche Mode - Violator Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Dire Straits - Dire Straits Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Daft Punk - Discovery Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Sseventh Son Death - Symbolic Rush - Moving Pictures
Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
You fucked up the markdown. You need to put two newlines between or a bullet point before each line.
Or two spaces after a line.
Like this. It renders tighter.
Name the genre and I’ll give you one.
Edit: not like make the album, I’ll just tell you about one
Alternative/ grunge.
Or movie OST.
movie OST
I find Arrival’s soundtrack by Johann Johannsson pretty much what you would consider a perfect album. All tracks are great. Obviously it’s a matter of taste at the end of the day.
Nirvana unplugged in new York
Eh… the best stuff on their unplugged set was the covers. Bowie and Meat Puppets tracks. Hard to give an album a “best of its kind” designation when the best tracks are covers
That’s a weird qualifier. The album is perfect. The question wasn’t “is it perfect if you omit cover songs?”
Alt rock is broad, but if we’re going with grunge, I’d say Nevermind, although purists will say that’s not totally grunge. You run into similar issues with Ten. Both albums are insanely good start to finish though.
In terms of movies, Bernard Hermann or Ennio Moriconne. Both had some bombs and also some bomb ass stuff. When they were on point they were amazing.
Acid jazz
20 Jazz Funk Greats
Uhh… Are we thinking of same album?
I mean, I just googled it to double check and only one thing came up
Throbbing Gristle isn’t the first name that comes to my mind when someone says acid jazz. I like the idea of this person putting it on expecting Brand New Heavies and getting atonal noise.
P. Orridge is rolling in their grave… but like happy rolling
Stoner witch by the Melvins
Beastie boys - Paul’s Boutique Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow Against Me! - Reinventing Axle Rose Justice - Justice The Rapture - Pieces of the people we love
Surprised nobody mentioned Rumors by Fleetwood Mac.
This album is one of the greatest album OAT in my book, like top 5. A perfect album with no dulls, one of the best exemples of what a 10/10 is.
It’s only gets mentioned every time someone asks this question.
Looks like I’ve become ‘that guy’
lol
Giving it a listen! Thanks for the recommendation.
It’s a great album but there is one song on it that is pretty mid, Oh Daddy. I don’t think it can be called the perfect album
I disagree. I know that one’s not as typical/upbeat as much of their other stuff, but I think it carries just as much weight and is a powerful song that helps complete the album.
Queen - A kind of Magic
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Jagged Little Pill is the first album that comes to mind for this question, but if I’m honest I’d skip the track “Perfect”.
