List your top near-perfect albums of all time.

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Rudee

Lifer
Apr 23, 2000
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Joe Satriani - Live in San Francisco
Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo
Def Leppard - Pyromania
 

rasczak

Lifer
Jan 29, 2005
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Nirvana - Nevermind; Unplugged in New York
Dr. Dre - Chronic
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Tenacious D (for pure hilarity)
The Cardigans - First Band on the Moon
 

Oyeve

Lifer
Oct 18, 1999
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Boston - Boston
Grateful Dead - Skeletons from the Closet (great GD starter album)
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Led Zepellin - II and III
Beatles - White Album
 

RadiclDreamer

Diamond Member
Aug 8, 2004
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Smashing pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Bush - 6teen stone
Green Day - Dookie
Nirvana - Everything
 

Paladin

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Oct 22, 2001
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Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: Anubis
Originally posted by: KeithTalent
Bad Religion - Suffer

Iron Maiden - Live After Death (California, let me see your lighters out there!)


KT

SCREAM FOR ME LONG BEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SCREAM FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Iron Maiden - pick an album other than The X Factor and Virtual XI.

QFT

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Rush - Moving Pictures
Van Halen - Van Halen I
Pink Floyd - DSotM
Tool - Aenima


 

libs0n

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May 16, 2005
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NOFX - War on Errorism
NOFX - I Heard They Suck Live
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Static X - Wisconsin Death Trip
Tenacious D - Tenacious D
Adema - Insomniac's Dream
Midnight Panic - Midnight Panic
Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
Rob Zombie - The Sinister Urge
Metric - Live It Out
Choking Victim - Squattas Paradise, Crack Rock Steady, No Gods No Managers
 

SigArms08

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Apr 16, 2008
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Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark
Pink Floyd - Division Bell
Manowar - Fighting the World
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Billy Idol - Charmed Life
Judas Priest - Ram it Down
Megadeath - Youthanasia

and for the holidays, Trans-Siberian Orchestra's 'Christmas Eve and Other Stories'
 

OpenThirdEye

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Oct 3, 2004
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Originally posted by: Ns1
Pink Floyd - DSoTM (perfect)
Tool - Lateralus (perfect)/Aenima (perfect)/10k Days (near perfect)

You, sir, are a good man...and I couldn't have put it better myself!
 

KeithTalent

Elite Member | Administrator | No Lifer
Administrator
Nov 30, 2005
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I would like to add these 4 albums to my original list:

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Dredg - El Cielo
Melvins - Lysol
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!

KT
 

SphinxnihpS

Diamond Member
Feb 17, 2005
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Originally posted by: KeithTalent
I would like to add these 4 albums to my original list:

Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Dredg - El Cielo
Melvins - Lysol
Rocket From The Crypt - Scream, Dracula, Scream!

KT

We should look into getting hitched.

I will listen to the other two. I honestly never heard of either.
 

miketheidiot

Lifer
Sep 3, 2004
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led zeppelin - I, IV, physical grapheti, how the west was won
pink floyd - dsotm, the wall
derek and the dominoes - laoals
jimi hendrix - are you expirinced
the clash - london calling
stones - let it bleed
 

evident

Lifer
Apr 5, 2005
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for a chillout electronica album: Chicane - Behind the Sun can't be beat. it's about 10 years old and i still listen to it
 

Fritzo

Lifer
Jan 3, 2001
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When I think of a perfect album, Pink Floyd's The Wall first pops in my head.

The songs were revolutionary, and the tracks all meshed together to tell a single story- which made the album an experience rather than "just something you listen to".

If you've never heard the whole album, do youself a favor one Sunday afternoon and slap on some headphones.
 

Linflas

Lifer
Jan 30, 2001
15,395
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Lot of mine already listed but some I didn't see that are on my list:
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
Alice Cooper - Killer
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
 

KeithTalent

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Nov 30, 2005
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I should add:

My Morning Jacket - Z

This album is near flawless and can't believe I had forgotten it earlier.

KT
 

Oyeve

Lifer
Oct 18, 1999
21,989
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Boston - Boston
Moody Blues - On the Threshold of a Dream
Pink Floyd - DSoTM and The Wall
The who - Tommy
Iron Maiden - Number of the beast
Meco - Star Wars and Other Galactic funk :)
Salsoul Orchestra - Magic Bird of Fire
 

KeithTalent

Elite Member | Administrator | No Lifer
Administrator
Nov 30, 2005
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Originally posted by: loki8481
Cake - Fashion Nugget

one of the very few albums where I love every single track on it.

I really like that album, but there are a couple of tracks I find so-so. I think I would place Comfort Eagle a notch or two above Fashion Nugget.

KT