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Perfect Albums

I saw the thread title and thought of Sound of Silver, so good call there.

I'd add:

Built to Spill- Perfect From Now On
Death Cab for Cutie- Transatlanticism
Radiohead- OK Computer
The Smiths- Strangeways Here We Come
MGMT- Congratulations
Wavves- King of the Beach
Pixies- Doolittle

and, yeah:
Kanye West- MBDTF
 
also hey

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The Stone Roses
A New World Record
The Book Of Secrets
Avalon
What's Going On
OK Computer
Sound Affects
Pet Sounds
 
The Jam - Sound Affects

The Offspring - Ignition

Pixies - Bossanova

Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing

Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
 
Radiohead - OK Computer
Joni Mitchell - Blue
U2 - Achtung Baby
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
 
Notorious BIG-Ready to Die
James Carr-You Got My Mind Messed Up
Townes Van Zandt-Rear View Mirror(It's a live recording so I'm not sure if it meets the criteria or not, but it perfectly encapsulates what Townes' music was, much more so than his overproduced studio albums)
Prince-Purple Rain
Curtis Mayfield-Superfly
Otis Redding-Otis Blue


Also ditto on LCD Soundsytem and Astral Weeks
 
TownieDeac said:
Track by track, 3 is better than 4. Unpopular opinions thread probably, but Gallows Pole > Tangerine is unbeatable.
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i was going to add that houses of the holy is better than III and IV, and note that physical graffiti is the best of all, but I'd just be picking nits at that point.

there is a reason zeppelin is the GOAT
 
Here are 5 from each decade since the 50s. I don't believe most have been mentioned (haven't re-read that closely):

50s
Duke Ellington - At Newport
Count Basie - Atomic Mr. Basie
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
Ella Fitzgerald - Songs of the Gershwin Songbook

60s
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
Love - Forever Changes
Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

70s
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
David Bowie - Hunky Dorie
Neil Young - Harvest
Clash - London Calling

80s
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Fugazi - Repeater
The Cure - Disintegration

90s
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die

00s
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Doves - Last Broadcast
Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion
Radiohead - Kid A/In Rainbows/HTTT
 
Sound of Silver is one of my favorites, but I usually skip over North American Scum. As Mitch Hedberg said about pancakces, it's all exciting at first, but by the end your sick of it.

Arcade Fire's Funeral is my best example of a perfect album. Each song perfectly feeds into the next, no weak points, and you couldn't pull one song out without damaging the whole.
 
TownieDeac said:
Here are 5 from each decade since the 50s. I don't believe most have been mentioned (haven't re-read that closely):

50s
Duke Ellington - At Newport
Count Basie - Atomic Mr. Basie
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Thelonius Monk - Brilliant Corners
Ella Fitzgerald - Songs of the Gershwin Songbook

60s
Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind
Love - Forever Changes
Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left

70s
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
David Bowie - Hunky Dorie
Neil Young - Harvest
Clash - London Calling

80s
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Fugazi - Repeater
The Cure - Disintegration

90s
My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Stereolab – Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Tortoise – Millions Now Living Will Never Die

00s
The Wrens - Meadowlands
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Doves - Last Broadcast
Animal Collective - Merriwether Post Pavilion
Radiohead - Kid A/In Rainbows/HTTT
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One of my favs
 
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