Albums that are perfect, note for note

[DB_Cooper]

A friend posted this question on Facebook: some albums are 100% perfect, pulp's 'different class' is one of them. i'd like to hear yours...

My answer:

Too many to name. Off the top: Marvin Gaye - What's Going On, Stooges - Fun House, Stooges - Raw Power, Most of Led Zeppelin's output, most of Velvet Underground's output, Nas - Illmatic, Main Source - Breaking Atoms, Mclusky - Mclusky Does Dallas, Thirteenth Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of..., Thirteenth Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere, Chocolate Watchband - Inner Mystique, Love - Forever Changes, Can - Ege Bamyasi, Curtis Mayfield - Curtis, Damon - Song of a Gypsy, David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Edan - Beauty and the Beat, Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers, Ike Tuner and the Kings of Rhythm - A Black Man's Soul, Isaac Hayes - Hot Buttered Soul, The Modern Lovers - ST, Pixies - Doolittle, Rocket from the Tombs - The Day the Earth Met Rocket from the Tombs, Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets, Television - Marquee Moon...and if you gave me a day I think I could come up with plenty more.

What you got?

 

[The_Hook_Up]

Slayer "reign in blood"


Blue Oyster Cult "tyranny and mutation"


1st 4 Van Halen LPs


AC/DC "let there be rock"


Art Blakey "Free for all"


Charles Mingus on Candid (the one with "Fables of Faubus")


Mal Waldron "The Quest"


Queen "sheer heart attack"


Husker Du "Zen Arcade"


Johnnie Taylor "wanted one soul singer"


William bell " soul of a bell"


Booker t and the MGs " soul dressing"


Boredoms "vision creation new sun"


Alton Ellis "sings rock and soul"

 

[pcmr]

JorgeBen-A tabua de Esmeralda


Zelia Barbosa-Songs of Protest:Sertao&Favelas;


Curtis-ST


AlGreen-Iam so in love with you


Nas-Illmatic


NotoriousBIG-Ready to Die


DavidCrosby-If i could only remember my name


Burning Spear-Marcus Garvey

 

[HarveyCanal]

The D.O.C. - No One Can Do It Better


Scarface - Mr. Scarface Is Back


Spice 1 - Spice 1


Big Mike - Somethin' Serious


Mac Mall - Illegal Business


JT tha Bigga Figga - Playaz n the Game


Twista - Adrenaline Rush


Juvenile - 400 Degreez


BG - Chopper City in the Ghetto


Hot Boys - Guerilla Warfare


Guerilla Maab - Rise


Fiend - Street Life

 

[HarveyCanal]

Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh


Marvin Gaye - I Want You


Parliament - Motor Booty Affair


Black Sabbath - Master of Reality


Thin Lizzy - Chinatown


Nirvana - all 3 albums


Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger


Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted


Spoon - Girls Can Tell


New Order - Low-life


Kano - New York Cake


Portishead - Dummy

 

[Beatnicholas]

andy bey - experience and judgement

 

[Jamal]

Gangstarr- moment of truth


IAM - L'ecole du micro d'argent


Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle


Maxwell - Embrya


Intelligent Hoodlum - Intelligent Hoodlum


Cortex -troupeau Bleu


Room - Pre flight

 

[djwaxon]

Pet Sounds


Illmatic

 

[onetet]

off the top of my head I can't find fault with...





Pharoah Sanders -- Thembi


Funkadelic -- Funkadelic


Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath


Agitation Free -- Malesch


Eric Dolphy -- Out to Lunch


Al Green -- Let's Stay Together


Jim Sullivan -- U.F.O.


Alice Coltrane -- Universal Consciousness


Nelson Angelo E Joyce -- Nelson Angelo E Joyce


Flower Travellin Band -- Satori


Neil Young -- Everybody Knows This is Nowhere


Larry Young -- Lawrence of Newark


Joe Bataan -- Subway Joe


Karma -- Karma


Zombies -- Odessey and Oracle


Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures


Doris Duke -- I'm a Loser


Gentle Giant -- Octopus


Curtis Mayfield -- Curtis


Sonic Youth -- Sister


Jose Mauro -- Obnoxious


Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis -- Afro-Jaws


Can -- Ege Bamyasi


Otis Redding -- The Immortal Otis Redding


Detroit Emeralds -- You Want It, You Got It


Gabor Szabo -- Dreams


Irma Thomas -- In Between Tears


Bob Dylan -- Nashville Skyline (happy 70th!)


Gal Costa -- Gal Costa (the more sedate '69 s/t)


John Phillips -- John, the Wolfking of LA (ok, the 5 seconds of Louis Armstrong imitation are not note-perfect...)

 

[batmon]

Jamal said:Gangstarr- moment of trutht




The Mall?

 

[Rockadelic]

[Marvin Gaye - "What's Goin On"


Cold Sun - "Dark Shadows"


Al Green - "Still In Love With You"


Son Volt - "Trace"


Mountain - "Nantucket Sleighride"


Todd Rundgren - "Hermit Of Mink Hollow"


Love - "Forever Changes"

 

[MiddleDean]

Sylvers II

 

[SLurg]

batmon said:Jamal said:Gangstarr- moment of trutht




The Mall?

She knowz what she wantz ?

 

[Jamal]

ah you mean that you dnt diggit?


Well shit cant be debated, its one of my all time favourite albums.

 

[fishmongerfunk]

i'd cosine a bunch of these picks already such as "what's going on" and "fresh" but if i had to choose one it would have to be steely dan's "aja"

 

[batmon]

Is this my favorite album or my favorite albums that are "perfect".





None of my favorite albums are "perfect".

 

[DB_Cooper]

batmon said:Is this my favorite album or my favorite albums that are "perfect".





None of my favorite albums are "perfect".




Albums that are perfect. It's still completely subjective, but if there's a false note or a skippable track, it doesn't belong here.

 

[Jamal]

batmon said:Is this my favorite album or my favorite albums that are "perfect".





None of my favorite albums are "perfect".




yours..mine are.





perfect means, no skippin.





its subjective senor..subjective.


music

 

[onetet]

batmon said:Is this my favorite album or my favorite albums that are "perfect".





None of my favorite albums are "perfect".




I think "perfect" is an interesting filter... I love the Beatles and the Kinks, for instance, but I couldn't think of an album by either that doesn't have at least one track I dislike (let alone one note).

 

[Jamal]

DB_Cooper said:batmon said:Is this my favorite album or my favorite albums that are "perfect".





None of my favorite albums are "perfect".




Albums that are perfect. It's still completely subjective, but if there's a false note or a skippable track, it doesn't belong here.




haha almost exaclty what i said.