List your top near-perfect albums of all time.

[ConstipatedVigilante]

Tool - Lateralus, Aenema, 10,000 Days
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Dispatch - Bang Bang, Who Are We Living For
State Radio - All albums (I love this band)
Cat Stevens - Harold & Maude Soundtrack, Teaser and the Firecat
RHCP - By the Way, Californication
Pendulum - Hold Your Color, In Silico
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Sublime - Sublime
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Cake - Pressure Chief

 

[nerp]

Orb - Orbvs Terrarvum

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: irishScott
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Cusco - Apurimac III
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (The Definitive Collection)
Poison - Crack a Smile, and More
Iron Man OST
Eve 6 - Horrorscope
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
OAR - Stories of a Stranger
Mae - The Everglow
Shinedown - Sound of Madness

Not necessarily in that order.

You are kidding right?

Well I could have added some more classic rock (Boston, Santana, Billy Joel, and The Beach Boys), but the only albums I have by them are their "greatest hits" albums, which I figured were cop-outs. If I were to post them, the revised list would be:

Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Cusco - Apurimac III
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (The Definitive Collection)
Poison - Crack a Smile, and More
Iron Man OST
The Beach Boys - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Santana - Ultimate Santana
Boston - Greatest Hits
Mae - The Everglow
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits

Not necessarily in that order. That, and I'm going by what I like to listen to, not musicianship. Hell I'm a Nickelback fan. I save my critic's hat for the classical stuff. Other than that, I just pop it in and listen. If I like it, I like it.

 

[timosyy]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

is the one i always use when the question comes up.

 

[CallMeJoe]

the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
Jethro Tull, Aqualung
Crosby, Stills Nash & Young, Deja Vu
Sinead O'Connor, the Lion and the Cobra
Steely Dan, Countdown to Ecstasy
Marianne Faithfull, Broken English
Elvis Costello, My Aim Is True

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Poe - Haunted

It has some great songs (esp. the title track) but too many weaknesses for this list.

 

[imported_Imp]

U2 - Achtung Baby!
Aimee Mann - Fucking Smilers

 

[Perknose]

Blue -- Joni Mitchell

 

[RaiderJ]

Marked for later!

One of my favorites: White Zombie - Astro Creep 2000

EDIT: Never heard of Shinedown, but I approve!

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Poe - Haunted

It has some great songs (esp. the title track) but too many weaknesses for this list.

We have a difference of opinion, I think the whole thing flows together well.

 

[Muadib]

70's
London Calling - The Clash
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Let It Be - The Beatles
Saturday Night Fever
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
Off the Wall - Michael Jackson
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Blue Magic - Blue Magic
Bat out of Hell -Meatloaf
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

80's

Boys & Girls - Bryan Ferry
Rio - Duran Duran
The Colour of Spring - Talk Talk
Face Value - Phil Collins
No Jacket Required - Phil Collins
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
Dirty Mind - Prince
Raising Hell - Run DMC
3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul

90's

Fear of a Black Planet - Public Enemy
Post - Bjork
Ready to Die - The Notorious B.I.G.
Enter the Wu-Tang - Wu-Tang Clan
The Chronic - Dr. Dre
The Miseducation of Laurn Hill - Laurn Hill
Nothing compares to u - Sinead o' Connor
Fantasy - Mariah Carey
CrazySexyCool - TLC
Doggystyle - Snoop Doggy Dogg

 

[nineball9]

Vangelis: Albedo 0.39.

A nod to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells. (Part of the album became the theme to The Exorcist.)

 

[JMapleton]

Architecture and Morality - OMD

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Tool - Lateralus, Aenema, 10,000 Days
TV On the Radio - Dear Science
Dispatch - Bang Bang, Who Are We Living For
State Radio - All albums (I love this band)
Cat Stevens - Harold & Maude Soundtrack, Teaser and the Firecat
RHCP - By the Way, Californication
Pendulum - Hold Your Color, In Silico
Sufjan Stevens - The Avalanche
Sublime - Sublime
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Cake - Pressure Chief

Nice list, but you're missing Undertow (Tool) and Blood Sugar Sex Magic (RHCP). Stadium Arcadium is very solid, but I don't think it's quite "near-perfect".

Pressure Chief is a good album but it has a couple of duds that keep it from near-perfect. Comfort Eagle and Fashion Nugget are better Cake albums.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

Originally posted by: irishScott

Originally posted by: SphinxnihpS

Originally posted by: irishScott
Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Cusco - Apurimac III
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (The Definitive Collection)
Poison - Crack a Smile, and More
Iron Man OST
Eve 6 - Horrorscope
Jimmy Eat World - Futures
OAR - Stories of a Stranger
Mae - The Everglow
Shinedown - Sound of Madness

Not necessarily in that order.

You are kidding right?

Well I could have added some more classic rock (Boston, Santana, Billy Joel, and The Beach Boys), but the only albums I have by them are their "greatest hits" albums, which I figured were cop-outs. If I were to post them, the revised list would be:

Switchfoot - Nothing Is Sound
Cusco - Apurimac III
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (The Definitive Collection)
Poison - Crack a Smile, and More
Iron Man OST
The Beach Boys - Greatest Hits Volume 1
Santana - Ultimate Santana
Boston - Greatest Hits
Mae - The Everglow
Billy Joel - Greatest Hits

Not necessarily in that order. That, and I'm going by what I like to listen to, not musicianship. Hell I'm a Nickelback fan. I save my critic's hat for the classical stuff. Other than that, I just pop it in and listen. If I like it, I like it.

Ouch. I was with you up to this point. The State was a solid album, but that was 9 years ago, and its been downhill since then. Not one of our prouder exports .

I didn't think there were many Billy Joel fans our age! My mom won tickets to a concert he played in Vancouver a couple years ago and it was a fantastic show - very impressive piano solos. Check out The Stranger, Glass Houses and 52nd Street .