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
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
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.
Me, I move between genres, so on the one hand I’ll do alternative (nevermind, garbage 2.0), then I’ll flip to crossover classical (bocelli, always), some metal/ rock, sometimes to OST or anime. Just looking for suggestions, or to spark discussion.
Pink Floyd: the dark side of the moon
Perfect is in the eyes (or ears, in this case) of the beholder. A song can sound like the best thing you’ve ever heard, and you could make an entire album out of it, but the pursuit of perfection is futile.
Ask any artist if they’ve ever released a perfect album, there will not be a “yes”. Every artist is keenly aware of their own faults/shortcomings and end up thinking about what tracks they would have done better. You could have someone make music for a thousand years and they’d still think of something else they could have done the next day. And even then, what sounds better to an artist may not sound better to their listeners, so perfection is simply not worth wasting brain space over.
Good point. Let me ask then: which is your perfect album?
F♯ A♯ ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Paul Simon - Graceland is utterly unique and every track is a masterpiece
The same can be said for Pink Floyd - The Wall
Surprised nobody mentioned Rumors by Fleetwood Mac.
It’s only gets mentioned every time someone asks this question.
Looks like I’ve become ‘that guy’
lol
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.
Giving it a listen! Thanks for the recommendation.
of course!
Tool – 10,000 Days
Oh yeah that one’s a good one
Let It Be by The Replacements
No. Next question.
As other have said, it’s subjective, but here are some albums I’d consider perfect:
- R.E.M. - Murmur, Reckoning, Lifes Rich Pageant, Automatic for the Prople
- Orbital - In Sides
- Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
- Leftfield - Leftism
- Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper
- Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
- Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Massive Attack - Blue Lines
- John Coltrane - Blue Train
- Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
- Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
- Nas - Illmatic
- Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
- Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dusr
- Tricky - Maxinquaye
- Jim White - The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jeaus
Blue Lines over Mezzanine? I usually mention Mezzanine in threads like this because the fact it was released in 1998 really doesn’t come across at all.
Blue Lines over Mezzanine?
Every day of the week - don’t get me wrong, Mezzanine is great, but for me Blue Lines is absolute perfection :-)
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”.
Didn’t find one yet.
For me, in a perfect album would be songs which only have the same kind of feeling. You know, you won’t switch from a sad song to the biggest banger. And the songs would be alphabetically sorted so that when you put them into directory, you don’t have to keep deciding whether to have them sorted alphabetically or by track no., because they would be in the same order. But that’s just my weird problem. Would be cool if it was same in chronological order.Stoner witch by the Melvins
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