I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

  • joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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

  • PanaX@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Tool - Aenima

    Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

    Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

    Depeche Mode - Violator

    Faith No More - The Real Thing.

  • Warped@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I have loads of albums, and it depends on my mood as to what I think is perfect at a certain time. Some of mine are, and in no particular order;

    Sparks - Kimono In My House
    Bowie - Blackstar
    Bowie - Earthling
    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
    Pet Shop Boys - Actually
    Blur - Modern Life is Rubbish
    Pixies - Doolittle
    De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
    Divine Comedy - Casanova
    The Rezillos - I Can’t Stand The Rezillos
    Madness - Keep Moving
    The Beloved - X
    Adam and The Ants - Prince Charming
    The Who - Who Are You
    Lush - Lovelife
    Sleeper - Smart
    Echobelly - Everyone’s Got One
    Pulp - His n’ Hers

    Oh, I will stop, I could go on for ages.

  • Pantoffel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    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.)

  • maddison@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

    Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest

    Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill

    • rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      +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.

  • mint@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

  • DJDarren@beehaw.orgM
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    1 year ago
    • 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.

  • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    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.

  • kommadieb@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

    • Arcade Fire – Funeral
    • Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
    • At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
    • Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
    • Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
    • My Morning Jacket – Z
    • Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
    • Radiohead – OK Computer
    • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    • The Decemberists – Picaresque
    • The Diggs – Commute
    • The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
    • The Libertines – s/t
    • The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
    • The Notwist – Shrink
    • Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

    German:

    • Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

    Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).