Top Ten "Perfect" Albums!

[Charger]

Yes! I even love Fluff!! although I agree that it is maybe a minute too long! But from start to finish this is Sabbath at their finest, even Ozzy hits the vocals right out of the park... so much so that he would never be able to re-produce them live ever again!

I don't like Fluff at all but agree about Ozzy's vocals here. He sure nailed them on this one...indeed in a way he could never redo them again in a live setting.

Looking For Today is another track that I don't much care for but the rest...pure gold Jerry pure GOLD!

[Zzzptm]

Had a thought about three more from Steely Dan/Walter Fagen:



Aja, Gaucho, and The Nightfly. The last two Steely Dan albums and Donald Fagen's first solo album. I love these three, end to end to end, and they are a great experience to play all the way through. Different moods, textures, and the like in each release, but the songwriting and arrangements are 100% on point with each album. True desert island discs.

[Charger]

Time for some honorable mentions of albums that just didn't make it on the list or were cut due to just having one album per band.


BLACK SABBATH - Paranoid
See Vyn's comments on the album BUT one per band!

Savatage - Hall Of The Mountain King
Leaving this out really hurt but only room for 10...Suberb album from start to finish.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
One of THE best concept albums of all time...But there are few tracks that aren't 100% perfect.

Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet and Along Came A Spider
Either one of these could have made the list but barely didn't.

Slayer - South Of Heaven
Again...just edged out...can't say a bad thing about this album either.

Judas Priest - Painkiller
Lether Rebel is the weakling that kind of dropped this out of the race...

Deep Purple - Purpendicular
See ZZz's comments on the album but again one album per band so this had to go...

And last but not least

RAINBOW - RISING
Damn Do You Close Your Eyes...if that song would have a bit more punch this would have been in top 3...but that song just isn't quite up to par with the other works of pure brilliance so it didn't make it to the list...but goddamn...goddamn...

[Vyn]

RAINBOW - RISING
Damn Do You Close Your Eyes...if that song would have a bit more punch this would have been in top 3...but that song just isn't quite up to par with the other works of pure brilliance so it didn't make it to the list...but goddamn...goddamn...

I would have loved to have dropped this in the list, but also put off with that same song. It doesn't even fit tone and timbre wise. Add in the fact that it's weak-sauce and I just could not rationalize it.

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I'd love to have included Sabotage... but for that god awful Am I Going Insane (Radio)!! I don't mind Supertzar, it's not a classic but it doesn't drag the album down... like AIGI(R)

Perhaps we should do a top 10 with the most perfect Half of an Album!! I'd have so many more to choose from.

[Charger]

Sabotage surely would be up there on that list! But yeah...as a whole...never ever because of that damn song...it is THE worst song Sabbath has ever done that's for damn sure!

[Zzzptm]

Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties

Damn, I keep finding these for random reasons. Someone mentioned he was from Maine and then I remembered the line from this song "It's so lonely in the state of Maine!" and then how I love every other track on it... yeah, it's a great one.

[Vyn]

That album has never received the accolades it deserves on a broader scale. Those who know, know. Those who don't...think BOC began and ended with Don't Fear the Reaper.,

[Typhon]

Just saw this thread from the recent past, and am thinking of giving it a go.   

[Charger]

Yes please! Always happy to see more takes on these top ten lists of ours!

[Zzzptm]

Yes please! Always happy to see more takes on these top ten lists of ours!

Hear! Hear! Most certainly!

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

Just scanned through the thread... I really should have chosen differently (ie only 1 per band), never mind.

Typhon, go for it, I'm sure your choices will be very interesting.

[Vyn]

Absolutely - get down on it!

[Typhon]

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Holy smoke!  I don't usually participate in these music threads all that much, so I didn't expect this level of enthusiasm.  I'll have to try and work on this this weekend.

[Zzzptm]

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Holy smoke!  I don't usually participate in these music threads all that much, so I didn't expect this level of enthusiasm.  I'll have to try and work on this this weekend.

We just like being able to see the music we enjoy from different perspectives, there are some potential gems out there that we've overlooked, but someone can bring to our attention.