Albums You Consider a Perfect "10"

[ThememanXX]

Ill definitely be listening to that tomorrow. Damn.

[Bluewater34]

Originally Posted by mario Where's my Mitch at? You're the only one alive when this came out. One of the most pivotal (literally) albums of all time and hardly anyone knows it. But even if it was released today it would slay.

Oh, I wish I had thought of that one.

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by mario It's just kind of cheating to make a compilation live album, because it creates a live show that can never be duplicated. You take the best performance ever of fifteen songs, it's like counting a Greatest Hits record.

I don’t really want to go further off on this tangent, but there’s a big difference between a compilation live album and a greatest hits record: the greatest hits record is a collection of songs that already appeared on other albums! A live compilation album is the album, those songs were not culled from other previously released albums. Plus, I’d say the effort that goes into curating, sequencing, etc. such a record makes it more of an “album” than a straight single concert recording. For instance, I consider something like Live/Dead unquestionably an album, but I don’t really consider the full show Dick’s Picks type releases “albums.”

Originally Posted by mario Where's my Mitch at? You're the only one alive when this came out. One of the most pivotal (literally) albums of all time and hardly anyone knows it. But even if it was released today it would slay.

That’s something I never got into. Not my bag.

[Thrawn]

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle
Beatles - every album from Help to Abbey Road
Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Blind Pilot - We Are the Tide
Coldplay - Viva la Vida (I've never liked any of their other albums but could listen to this forever)
Counting Crows - This Desert Life
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Dave Matthews Band - Live Trax 3
The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum
The Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Fun - Some Nights
The Greencards - Sweethearts of the Sun
John Mayer - Continuum
KT Tunstall - Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon
Margot & the Nuclear So & Sos - Animal / Not Animal (I made one big album out of both, so that probably doesn't count, but whatever)
The National - Boxer
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die
REM - All of them? Definitely at least Reveal, Life's Rich Pageant, Automatic for the People, and Up.
Stars - Set Yourself on Fire
Stars - No One Is Lost
Vienna Teng - Inland Territory
Vienna Teng - Aims

[Josh.0]

Currently pondering Bowie’s Blackstar.

[ThememanXX]

Originally Posted by Thrawn Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle Beatles - every album from Help to Abbey Road Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner Counting Crows - Hard Candy The Decemberists - The Crane Wife John Mayer - Continuum Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die Stars - Set Yourself on Fire

Yes....to all these.

[Dschakobi]

Missing some Hip Hop / Rap ..

NAS - Illmatic

all stuff from Bob James 1974 to 1978
Bob James - One
..
Bob James - Touchdown

[NiCK (Crush)]

Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Led Zeppelin - II
Widespread Panic - Til The Medicine Takes
Edwarde Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below

[mario]

Two nominations of the incredibly difficult double album perfect 10:
















Brandon, this is your cue to post Little Worlds. I couldn't take that from you....

[Bluewater34]

Speaking of perfect double albums:

Stevie Wonder- Songs In the Key of Life

[K270]

Originally Posted by K270 Off the top of my head: A Rush Of Blood To The Head ~ Coldplay The Battle ~ Russel Allen/Jorn Lande I'm sure more will come to me.

And one more comes to mind:

Sturgill Simpson ~ A Sailors Guide To Earth

[mario]

Originally Posted by Bluewater34 Speaking of perfect double albums: Stevie Wonder- Songs In the Key of Life

Bravo.

[Mitch]

Originally Posted by mario Two nominations of the incredibly difficult double album perfect 10:

Originally Posted by Bluewater34 Speaking of perfect double albums: Stevie Wonder- Songs In the Key of Life

[morgadt]

Bob Dylan - John Wesley Harding
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Wilco - Summerteeth
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
DMB - Before These Crowded Streets
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Muse - Absolution
River City Extension - The Unmistakable Man
Sufjan Stevens - Come Feel the Illinoise
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Alabama Shakes - Sound and Color
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - IV
The Grateful Dead - The Workingman's Dead
Pearl Jam - Vs
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
The National - High Violet
Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Paul Simon - Graceland
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[Define Dancing]

Off the top of my head...

Barenaked Ladies- Stunt
Weezer- Blue Album
Alice In Chains- Jar of Flies
Alice In Chains- Alice In Chains (Tripod)
Pearl Jam- Ten
Mad Season- Above
Paul Simon- Graceland
Clint Mansell- The Fountain OST
Thomas Newman- American Beauty OST
Moby- Play
Susumu Yokota- Sakura

[fortyone]

Originally Posted by ThememanXX Nah, T Swizzle ain't getting more than a 7 from me. Personally, off the top of my head, they're all albums I'd listen to front to back without stopping or skipping anything and enjoy them no matter when, to this day:

A lot of good stuff here, though I never got into Lonely Avenue. Huge Ben Folds fan but it's the one album I can't stand.

[ThememanXX]

Originally Posted by morgadt Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker Counting Crows - Hard Candy DMB - Before These Crowded Streets Sufjan Stevens - Come Feel the Illinoise Led Zeppelin - IV Jeff Buckley - Grace Randy Newman - Good Old Boys Paul Simon - Graceland ​

YES.

Originally Posted by Define Dancing Off the top of my head... Barenaked Ladies- Stunt

Also yes.

Originally Posted by fortyone A lot of good stuff here, though I never got into Lonely Avenue. Huge Ben Folds fan but it's the one album I can't stand.

It's common, I get that a lot. I don't know why, I just love Lonely Avenue straight through more than any other Ben Folds album.

[celluloid hero]

A few that I haven't seen mentioned, they might have been:

Alvvays - Antisocialites (my favorite album of this decade so far)
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
The Kinks - Arthur
The Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
Tears For Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
U2 - War
The Who - Sell Out
The Who - Tommy
The Who - Who's Next

[Bluewater34]

I can’t believe I forgot Arthur and Village Green. Great call.

[batleon]

Originally Posted by Josh.0 Currently pondering Bowie’s Blackstar.

That's a tough one. It's god damn excellent and probably worthy of a 10 on it's own, but then you get to thinking that Bowie had better albums and that makes you take a step back.

I keep meaning to post in this thread but my mind about such things changes constantly. Here's a few I know I never change my tune about though:

The Who - Who's Next
Bela Fleck - Tales From the Acoustic Planet
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Paul Simon - Graceland
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Pearl Jam - No Code
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Radiohead - OK Computer


Also Crawling Back to You is a phenomenal Petty song to Gweeps and Josh on that. I can't bring myself to give Wildflowers a 10 though... there are a few tracks on there that bring it down IMO (Honey Bee in particular for me).