The Perfect Album

[option click]

What are your 'perfect' albums. All killer, no filler. The kind of album you'd never even consider skipping a track when listening to.

The only ones I can think of in my collection are:

Air - Moon Safari
Carter USM - 30 Something
Depeche Mode - Violator
Leftfield - Leftism
The Cure - Head on the Door
Ilya - They Died for Beauty
Green Day - American Idiot
Mercury Rev - Yourself Is Steam
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
Supergrass - Life on Other Planets
Underworld - Everything Everything
The Wonderstuff - Hup!

[SlidingSideways]

For starters....
The Wildhearts - Earth Vs The Wildhearts
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
Guns n' Roses - Appitite For Destruction
Ash - 1977
Daft Punk - Homework
Nirvana - Nevermind

[968]

hmmm interesting one....

For a start,

1) Jeff Buckley - Grace
2) Radiohead - The Bends
3) U2 - Achtng Baby, or maybe The Joshua Tree
4) Royksopp - Melody AM

[Incorrigible]

Led Zep II

Just awesome

[lightningghost]

Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
Love Thing - Joe Satriani
Flying In A Blue Dream - JS ^
Flavour of the Weak - American Hi-Fi
Glamourous Indie Rock and Roll - The Kilers
Crawling - Linkin Park
White Shadows - Coldplay
Fix You - Coldplay

[Rob_F]

Eagles - Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Jack Johnson - Brushfire Fairytales
Cardigans - Long Gone before Daylight
Nickelback - The Long Road

And probably a few more i can't think of.

Cheers,
Rob.

[Rob_F]

lightningghost said:

Flavour of the Weak - American Hi-Fi

You seem to be naming tracks instead of albums but must agree this is a great song - I covered it for my A level Coursework. I havn't got the album for some reason though, i must aquire it sometime....

Cheers,
Rob.

[dick dastardly]

Incorrigible said:

Led Zep II Just awesome

Seconded. Less artsy fluff on that record and more decent rocking.

Also:

Achtung baby - U2
Colour and the Shape - Foo Fighters
Gold - Ryan Adams
Appetite for Destruction - GNR
Rocks - Aerosmith
Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones

[Pulsatingstar]

Paradise Lost - Draconian Times & One Second
Type O Negative - October Rust
Iron Maiden - Live after Death (if live albums count, but im sure I can find anoter one if not)
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction and Use your illusion 2
Metallica - Metallica (though id perfer half of Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets stuck together as an album)

Thats a few off the top of my head anyway

[thunderstruck]

Quite a few having been through iTunes just now!

Alice in Chains - Dirt
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Bob Marley - Legend
Coldplay - Parachutes
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The Darkness - Permission to Land
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Green Day - Dookie
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Metallica - Black Album
Nickelback - Silver Side Up
Nirvana - Nevermind
Pearl Jam - 10
Pearl Jam - Vs
Pearl Jam - Vitalogy
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
The Police - Synchronicity
REM - Automatic for the People
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Stereophonics - Performance and Cocktails
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog

[rooster]

mother love bone - apple
Cake - fashion nugget
maroon 5 - songs about jane
snow patrol - final straw
pink floyd - dark side of the moon
hendrix - electric ladyland
prodigy - fat of the land
counting crows - recovering the satellites
Lou Reed - transformer

actually there are too many to mention

[Wacky Racer]

No filler here:-

[redboy]

I'm sure I'll think of more but for now......

U2 - Achtung Baby
Richard Ashcroft - Alone with Everybody
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Mainstream
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
David Bowie - Lodger
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
Stereophonics - Language Sex Violence Other

[darreni]

The Who - Live at Leeds (remastered full edition) The best live album!

[staceyb]

Stereophonics - Performance & Cocktails (gonna see them tomorrow!)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Califonication
Metallica - The Black Album
Coldplay - X&Y
Oasis - Definately Maybe
Travis - The Man Who

I'll think of more

[father ted]

Regulars on Craggy Island's gramaphone

1) Radiohead - The Bends
2) Primal Scream - Screamadelica
3) Queen - Night at the Opera
4) Pearl Jam - 10
5) The Who - Who's Next
6) Led Zepp - Early Days/Latter Days
7) Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
8) Supertramp - Paris
9) Supergrass - Best of
10 Simple Minds - Sparkle in the Rain
11)Oasis - Definitely Maybe
12) Blur Parklife
13) Faithless - Greatest Hits
14) Snow Patrol - Final Straw
15) Ibiza '99 - Year of Trance.
16) ABBA - Gold
17) The Verve - Urban Hymns
18) The White Stripes - Elephant

[Iria]

968 said:

1) Jeff Buckley - Grace 2) Radiohead - The Bends

Cardigans- Gran turismo
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Birjun
Thievery Corporation - The mirror conspiracy
Yann Tiersen - Le phare
Pink Floyd - The Wall (almost forgot about this one!)


>> Edited by Iria on Friday 2nd September 13:56

[tollytuff]

a walk across the rooftops - by the blue nile. most beautiful songs ever made....

[Vitesse39]

Led Zep - II
Led Zep - The song remains the same
Dream Theater - Images and Words
Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory
Iron Maiden - Live after death
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Steely Dan - Live in America
Jimi Hendrix - The concerts album
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Pink Floyd - A delicate sound of thunder
Free - Fire and water
Muse - Origin of symmetry
Toto - Toto
Alice Cooper - Welcome to my nightmare

[father ted]

Dodgy - Free Peace Sweet



ideal summer album