Very few of the posters are posting perfect albums, they are just posting albums they really like, nature of threads like these
Music is subjective so an album can be perfect to one person and not another. I consider an album perfect when every song is great and it's enjoyable start to finish.
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Music is subjective so an album can be perfect to one person and not another. I consider an album perfect when every song is great and it's enjoyable start to finish.
I would disagree a little bit, for an album to be perfect (to me) it has to be an original album, not a retrospective or greatest hits, that to me is cheating, it has to perfectly crafted from end to end, almost no albums meet that standard, almost every album, even the great ones, have that middle of side two filler track or two.
Johnny Cash Live at Fulsom for instance, I'm not even a Cash fan but the album is perfect, every track in the right place, if you put the same songs in a different order it would still be great but it wouldn't be perfect.
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I can’t believe people are picking Smash from Offspring. With that hideous ‘Gotta keep them separated’ song, you just can’t call the album perfect. Ignition is the closest thing they have to a perfect album.
haha. I love come out and play. I had to go listen to it.
this is a great thread, bringing back a lot of memories of great songs.
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Pearl Jam - 10
Live - Throwing Copper
Green Day - Dookie
Weezer - Blue Album
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
Radiohead - OK Computer
Nirvana - Nevermind
Can probably tell what decade I grew up in..
I'd also throw in Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall, that albums gold. First time he performed Old Man live.
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Some of these may have been mentioned already so apologies if that’s the case:
The Gaslight Anthem - Th ‘59 Sound
NOFX - Punk in Drublic
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
The Menzingers - After the Party
PUP - The Dream is Over
Flogging Molly - Float
Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.
Ghost - Meliora
blink-182 - Enema of the State
Alkaline Trio - Crimson
The Beatles - Pretty much every album from Rubber Soul on
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Tegan and Sara - The Con
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Jeff Rosenstock - Worry
The Flatliners - Cavalcade
Frank Turner - Love, Ire, and Song
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out (man this “band” really crashed and burned after this album)
Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Modern Baseball - You’re Gonna Miss It All
The Lawrence Arms - Oh! Calcutta!
The Clash - London Calling
Alexisonfire - Crisis
I’m sure I’m forgetting some but these ones all came to mind pretty quickly.
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Know who didn't stand the test of time? Blink 182. TBH, I didn't like them at the time, with the exception of a couple of guilty-pleasure songs, but holy crap that one dude has the whiniest voice and their lyrics are so juvenile and crappy.
Punk: Bad Religion, both Suffer and Recipe for Hate
Pop Punk: Offspring, Ignition
Grunge: Nirvana, both Nevermind and Unplugged
Garage Rock: The Smalls, To Each a Zone (To this day, I don't understand how these guys didn't get huge.)
Prog Rock: Tool, Aenima
Pet Sounds was mentioned I do think it was a perfect album.
I would say that Modest Mouse Good News for People who Love Bad News. Hard to choose one of theirs but this band is next level stuff.
Appetite for Destruction by GNR
Nevermind by Nirvana
DAMN Kendrick Lamar (won a pulitzer prize)
Twisted Dark Fantasy by Kanye
Dark Side of the Moon / The Wall by Pink Floyd
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Very few of the posters are posting perfect albums, they are just posting albums they really like, nature of threads like these
You know, I'd call you out on this post, but the Bill Evans album you posted is the reasons I went to Village Vanguard when I was in New York, so carry on.
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Nirvana-mtv unplugged
Pearl Jam-Ten
Weezer-pinkerton
Radiohead-ok computer
Smashing pumpkins-mellon collie and the infanire sadness
Tom Petty-Wildflowers
Stone Temple Pilots - purple
Oasis-what's the story morning glory
Audioslave - Audioslave
Fratellis - Costello Music
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say i am, thats what I'm not
Mumford and sons-Sigh no more
The Smalls, To Each a Zone (To this day, I don't understand how these guys didn't get huge.)
I agree, these guys should have been able to ride the grunge wave to worldwide stardom, or at the very least Canadian stardom. I guess their punk/metal/jazz/country fusion was just too weird for mainstream audiences at the time. Just one of those unfair twists of fate.
They were pretty big in western Canada though. Just about every kid I knew had a Smalls t-shirt and owned at least one or two of their albums, and I remember seeing those little stickers all over the place in the early-mid 90s:
There was a great documentary about them that came out a couple years ago. Excellent viewing if you haven't seen it. I went to the first screening here in Vancouver, and probably 90% of the audience were people from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
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I agree, these guys should have been able to ride the grunge wave to worldwide stardom, or at the very least Canadian stardom. I guess their punk/metal/jazz/country fusion was just too weird for mainstream audiences at the time. Just one of those unfair twists of fate.
They were pretty big in western Canada though. Just about every kid I knew had a Smalls t-shirt and owned at least one or two of their albums, and I remember seeing those little stickers all over the place in the early-mid 90s:
There was a great documentary about them that came out a couple years ago. Excellent viewing if you haven't seen it. I went to the first screening here in Vancouver, and probably 90% of the audience were people from Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Not to be that guy, but I was at the premier of that documentary at the Calgary Film Festival with The Smalls in attendance.
Did you catch them on their reunion tour a few years ago? At one point, Corb Lund said to the audience, 'just like old times, hey guys?' and it was so cool because it totally did feel like old times.
I videoed a bunch of their show. If you want to see it I'll send you my YouTube link.
Not to be that guy, but I was at the premier of that documentary at the Calgary Film Festival with The Smalls in attendance.
Did you catch them on their reunion tour a few years ago? At one point, Corb Lund said to the audience, 'just like old times, hey guys?' and it was so cool because it totally did feel like old times.
I videoed a bunch of their show. If you want to see it I'll send you my YouTube link.
I did see them on the reunion tour when they played X-Fest in Calgary (2014?) Great show. It was like they'd never left.