Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged
The Wildhearts - Earth vs The Wildhearts
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Firewind - Forged By Fire
Strapping Young Lad - City
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place.

"Perfect" is deceptive term, but this comes pretty close:



All Music Guide Review

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By all means a phenomenal pop album that hit number nine on the black albums chart and crossed over to penetrate the pop charts at number 32, Nightclubbing saw Grace Jones working once again with reggae kings Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare twisting the knobs. Nightclubbing also continues Jones' tradition of picking excellent songs to reinterpret. This time out, the Police's "Demolition Man," Bill Withers' "Use Me," and Iggy Pop's "Nightclubbing" receive radical reinterpretations; "Nightclubbing" is glacial in both tempo and lack of warmth, while both "Use Me" and "Demolition Man" fit perfectly into Jones' lyrical scheme. Speaking of a lyrical scheme, "Pull Up to the Bumper" (number five black singles, number two club play) is so riddled with naughty double entendres — or is it just about parallel parking? — that it renders Musique's "In the Bush" as daring as Paul Anka's "Puppy Love." Drive it in between what, Grace? It's not just lyrics that make the song stick out; jingling spirals of rhythm guitar and a simplistic, squelching, mid-tempo rhythm make the song effective, even without considering Jones' presence. Sly & Robbie provide ideal backdrops for Jones yet again, casting a brisk but not bristly sheen over buoyant structures. Never before and never since has a precisely chipped block of ore been so seductive.

My list of ***** albums, right off the top of my head, is as follows:

Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory, Images & Words
Opeth - Blackwater Park, Deliverence, Still Life
The Mars Volta - Amputechture
Pixies - Doolittle
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Kamelot - The Black Halo
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Spock's Beard - V, Snow
the Cruxshadows - Dreamcypher
The Doors - L.A Woman
Capsule - Flashback
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Nightwish - Century Child
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
the Smiths - Meat is Murder
Shiny Toy Guns - We Are Pilots
Blue October - Foiled
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Primus - Frizzle Fry
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon



etc, etc, etc. i could name 100

Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
K's Choice - Paradise in Me
K's Choice - Cocoon Crash
Everything But the Girl - Walking Wounded
Everything But the Girl - Temperamental
Garbage - Beautiful Garbage
Natalie Imbruglia - Left of the Middle
Junkster - [Self Titled]
Mandalay - Solace
Depeche Mode - Exciter
Traci Lords - 1000 Fires
Roxette - Crash! Boom! Bang!

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
Faster Pussycat - Faster Pussycat
Pizzicato Five - Pizzicatomania

The Ataris--So Long, Astoria
The Ataris--Blue Skies, Broken Hearts...Next 12 Exits
My Chemical Romance--I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love
My Chemical Romance--The Black Parade
Green Day--Nimrod
Green Day--Insomniac
Our Lady Peace--Clumsy
Our Lady Peace--Happiness...is not a fish that you can catch
Fall Out Boy--Infinity on High
Fall Out Boy--Take This To Your Grave
Counting Crows--Recovering the Satellites
Counting Crows--Hard Candy
Eve 6--Horrorscope
Less Than Jake--Hello Rockview
Yellowcard--Ocean Avenue
Beatles--Abbey Road
Josie and the Pussycats OST

Talib Kweli- Ear Drum
Kanye West- Late Registration

A few albums that are there or thereabouts on my favourites list:

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground; The Velvet Underground and Nico
John Cale - Paris 1919; Fragments of a Rainy Season
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin; Yoshimi Battle the Pink Robots
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures; Closer
British Sea Power - Decline of British Sea Power; Open Season
Brakes - Give Blood
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Television - Marquee Moon
The Stooges - The Stooges
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Lou Reed - New York
Robert Johnson - Complete Recordings
XTC - Skylarking
The National - Alligator

This is one big-ass list, I guess I could go on for a while. Anyway that's a selection of albums I like and can remember at this moment in time, there's loads really.

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction

It is the world's most perfect rock album.

Rainbow - Rising
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
DIO - Holy Diver
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Defenders Of The Faith
W.A.S.P. - The Headless Children
DIO - The Last in Line
Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n Roll
Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules
DIO - Dream Evil
DIO - Lock Up The Wolves
Judas Priest - British Steel
Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow

At The Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenement
Orbital - The Altogether
Batmobile - Bail was set at $ 6,000,000
Macha & Bedhead - Bedhead Loved Macha
Billy Childish - 25 Years of Being Childish
This Mortal Coil - Blood
Adolescents - Brats In Battalions
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
16 Bitch Pile-Up - Bury Me Deep
Franklin Bruno - A Cat May Look Like A Queen
Bikini Kill - The CD Version Of The First Two Records
The Tiger Lillies - Circus Songs
Clann Z� - Clann Z�
Tunng - Comments of The Inner Chorus
Motion City Soundtrack - Commit This To Memory
The Lillingtons - Death By Television
Sparklehorse - Dreamt For Light Years In The Belly Of A Mountain
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
Os Mutantes - Everything Is Possible
Malevolent Creation - The Fine Art of Murder
Jackie-o Motherfucker - Flags of The Sacred Harp
The Stooges - Fun House
Nullsleep - The Gameboy Singles 2002
�Forward, Russia! - Give Me A Wall
The Blue Nile - Hats
Azure Ray - Hold On Love
Menomena - I Am The Fun Blame Monster!
Tujiko Noriko - I Forgot The Title
The Emersons - I was a Teenage Brain Surgeon !
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Terje Isungset - Igloo
The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place
Marnie Stern - In Advance of The Broken Arm
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Yip-Yip - In The Reptile House
Jeffrey Lewis - It's the Ones Who've Cracked That the Light Shines Through
Various Artists - Just Say No�l
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Franklin Bruno - Kiss Without Make-Up
Afrirampo - Kore Ga Mayaku Da
Lau Nau - Kuutarha
PixlCrushr - Lario and Muigi from the Kushroom Mingdom EP
I Like Japanese Hardcore - Live On WFHB
Quarks - Zuhause
Leonard Cohen - Live Songs: Leonard Cohen
Helen Love - Long Hot Summer
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra - Melody Mountain
The Bastard Fairies - Memento Mori
Battles - Mirrored
Air - Moon Safari
The Band - Music From Big Pink
Killing Joke - Night Time
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
Snailhouse - The Opposite Is Also True
Richie Kotzen - Break It All Down
Ignite - Our Darkest Days
Islaja - Palaa Aurinkoon
John Cale - Paris 1919
M�m - The Peel Session
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Ignite - A Place Called Home
Polysics - Polysics Or Die
M. Ward - Post-War
Professor Murder - Professor Murder Rides The Subway
Joan As Police Woman - Real Life
Vaeda - The Red Queen
Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
The Flying Luttenbachers - Revenge of the Flying Luttenbachers
The Beatles - Revolver
Panther - Secret Lawns
El Tattoo Del Tigre - Sensacional
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Okkervil River - Sleep and Wake-up Songs
Scarling - So Long, Scarecrow
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Zita Swoon - A Song About A Girls
Pink Freud - Sorry Music Polska
Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Okkervil River - Stars too Small to Use
Parts & Labor - Stay Afraid
The Stooges - The Stooges
Scout Niblett - Sweet Heart Fever
Lemuria - Tales, Ale and Fire
Belle & Sebastian - Tiger Milk
Living Colour - Time's Up
The Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite
Skullflower - Transformer
Therapy? - Troublegum
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Angry Samoans - The Unboxed Set
The Underwolves - Under Your Sky
Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke
Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Sleater-Kinney - The Fox
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Cat Power - You Are Free

And many more~

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois


Definitely agree with these ones.

Also, probably all four albums by The Weakerthans.

And and probably every album since...at least All Hail West Texas, from the Mountain Goats, if I'm not feeling nitpicky.

Ooh, and Potemkin City Limits by Propagandhi

Perfect? Well here are my favorite albums:

Alice in Chains-Facelift
Alice in Chains-Dirt
Alice in Chains-Nothing Safe
Mad Season-Above
Guns n' Roses-Greatest Hits (2004)
Nirvana-Nevermind
Rammstein-Mutter
Metallica-Ride the Lightning
Metallica-...And Justice For All
Soundgarden-BadMotorFinger
Linkin Park-Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park-Meteora
Ozzy Osbourne-Blizzard of Oz
Nine Inch Nails-Pretty Hate Machine
H.I.M.-DarkLight
Tool-Lateralus
Tool-Aenima
Bjork-Homogenic
No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom

Do you guys consider all of the albums you've posted to be perfect? I've heard a lot of great music in my life, but I have a hard time calling a lot of them "perfect". A perfect album is a rare thing if you ask me.

is that all Trent D:

i mean, good albums is fine and all, but would you seriously call all those albums *****?

i listen to a truckload of music, but i wouldnt have anywhere near that many albums as *****

A perfect album for me is an album where I consider every track as absolutely fantastic.

So YES, I do consider all of those 'perfect'. :-D Quite a load, eh. :o And I still forgot many.

you're nuts.

I could cut it down a little bit, it does look like a monstrous list. :o

its the drugs, mang.

Do you guys consider all of the albums you've posted to be perfect? I've heard a lot of great music in my life, but I have a hard time calling a lot of them "perfect". A perfect album is a rare thing if you ask me.

I just went for some of my favourite albums, I couldn't tell you if they're perfect or not.

My favourite albums:

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Radiohead - The Bends, OK Computer
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi, the Soft Bulletin
The National - The Alligator, Boxer
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
The Lillingtons - Death by Television
Brakes - Beatific Visions
Screeching Weasel - Anthem for a New Tomorrow, My Brain Hurts
Arcade Fire - Funeral
RATM - Self-titled
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights

Bryan, I cutted it down a bit, it's still big, but awesome !

Trent, nice to see The Lillingtons there~~

Mine:

The Postal Service- Give Up
The Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin
Bob Dylan- Blood On The Tracks, Blonde On Blonde
Ramones- Leave Home
The Lawrence Arms- The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Lillingtons- Death By Television
Explosions In The Sky- The Earth Is Not A Dead Cold Place
Muse- Blackholes & Revelations
Green Day- Dookie
Marvin Gaye- Let's get It On
Cheap Trick- Live At Budokan

Had to check them out sooner or later once I discovered decent pop punk music. ^^ I should also give the first couple of albums by The Lawrence Arms a listen, haven't checked out everything by them yet!

And it's also great to see a couple of albums return in each list :D The Lillingtons, Flaming Lips, Explosions In The Sky, we're so awesome.

Ah, Give Up, now there is a brilliant album too.

I agree with two of Trent's choices and also two of Tifa's.

At The Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenement
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Kill em All
Bad Religion - No Control
Bad Religion - Generator
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
The Misfits - Collection 1
Danzig - Danzig III: How The Gods Kill
Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room
Carcass - Heartwork
Between The Buried & Me - Alaska
Between The Buried & Me - Colors
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths - The Smiths
Thrice - The Illusion Of Safety
Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance
Unearth - The Strings Of Conscience
Unearth - The Oncoming Storm
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power
Elliot Smith - Elliot Smith
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1

Eh . . . more than I wanted to list.

Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek
Iggy & The Stooges - Fun House
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Dejavu
The Postal Service - Give Up
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Sigur Ros - ()
NMH - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Ben Folds - Songs for Silvermen
Bad Astronaut - Housten, We have a Drinking Problem
Jeffries Fan Club - Nothing To Prove
Jackson Browne- Late for the Sky

Most of these albums I didn't initially love like I do now, but they all just hit their own perfection.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (copied and pasted from tc lol)
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
The Flaming Lips- Soft Bulletin (from t66)

i will say feels by animal collective too, but there is one song on that that i think is only alright. that song is bees, if anybody cares. tigermilk by b&s is also *really* close. i am more likely to add it than feels actually, but i think it is just short. maybe. i wouldnt describe anything else as perfect.

there are a good few bands which i love as much as those bands/people too, but a perfect album is pretty rare imo