Top Ten "Perfect" Albums!

[Charger]

Okay been a while since our last Top Ten list and I thought this might be an interesting concept to explore.


I think we all have those album where we like EVERY SINGLE TRACK that's on the album. So why not put them up?

And I think the only real restriction here is that you have to really really really LIKE every single track on the album....no yeah but there's 6 awesome tracks so eventhough there's a one complete stinker it should be here.



NO!

You must really like every song. No bad songs allowed.

Can we come up with 10 such albums?

[Zzzptm]

Thick as a Brick?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

^^^
If you say "Thick as a Brick" ONE MORE TIME you should be given a 7 day ban!! 


As for the thread concept, it is really gonna take some thinking about! 2 or 3 spring to mind straight away... but 10 might be going some!

[Vyn]

I'm up for it - will definitely be a challenge but then again we might all surprise ourselves

[Charger]

Yeah I have started piling my list and I think I have come up with 6-7 right now...need more research!

[Zzzptm]

^^^
If you say "Thick as a Brick" ONE MORE TIME you should be given a 7 day ban!! 

That's a fair rule, I can respect that.

[Zzzptm]

My standard is not just "like every song" but end-to-end perfection. I want it to be where, after playing the album whose songs I'm 100% liking, I've got a wonderful buzz from the music.

I'm also going to try and dig deep on this one. We all know albums like Heaven and Hell, Rainbow Rising, and Machine Head are monsters that are well-nigh unstoppable. I'm going to consider albums that might be overlooked.

So I gotta think this one over...

[Charger]

So how are our lists looking? Are we soon ready to kick things off?

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

While I need to finish off my list, I'm good to start.

My main concern is having too many albums by the same band, I will try and limit myself to just the two I think.

I am irritated that some of my favourites never had a perfect album. For instance, Hawkwind always seem to add little bits of spoken word or experimental pieces which I'm not a fan of.

[Charger]

I managed to compile a list of one album per band which turned out rather shocking! Only one Sabbath album, one from Purple and one from DIO and biggest shock of them all only one from Blaze!!

I think we'll kick this thing off tomorrow then!

[Zzzptm]

I'll be ready, but I'm taking this one slowly and carefully.

[Charger]

Okay let's kick things off here!

I'm not necessarily putting these all in order but I think the top 5 will be...


#10

YEAH YEAH YEAHs - SHOW YOUR BONES



First I heard of this band was on Late Night With Conan O'Brien where they preformed Cheated Hearts from this album and I was hooked.

Oh I found the clip!! Thank you tube!

They combine some punk elements to hard rock to pop and it all kind of works...Karen O's vocals are quite unique as well which adds to their charm.
When I bought this album right after that preformance I was blown away on how good it was. Solid solid stuff. They have rockier tunes and softer tunes and they're all very good!

Sadly their later albums were never this solid. But this one rocks...HARD!

[Zzzptm]

My first of ten proposed "perfects" is a big one.

Magma - Theusz Hamtaahk (Trilogie en vive de Trianon)

First Movement "Theusz Hamtaahk" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbXi7WN5n-c

Second Movement "Ẁurdah Ïtah" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYevo_wyd70

Third Movement "Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoZIXPvHPoY

The second and third movements have different versions on the studio albums - I consider the Trianon live recordings to be reworkings of those, and in excellent form.

I have many a "good" album, but playing all of the Magma Trianon 2001 concert I consider to be a spiritual event.

The trilogy is essentially a rock opera with interplanetary conflict as its subject.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'll go with one. Like Charger I won't necessarily do them in order.

The first choice is quite straight forward...

Yes - Close to the Edge



Only the 3 songs on this album, the side long Close to the Edge (18:43), And You and I (10:12) and Siberian Khatru (8:56) that last track is very close to my favourite Yes song, but the other two are awesome as well.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I was busy yesterday and forget to post. I'll catch up later!