PERFECT ALBUMS

[mandrake6]

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned my all time fave:

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

Also:
Radiohead - Kid A
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Dream Theater - Images & Words
PoS - The Perfect Element I
Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter & Isolate
As I Lay Dying - An Ocean Between Us
Tool - Lateralus

...and just for good balance:
Tyketto - Don't Come Easy

Big Jay

 

[MysticX9]

Sword-Metalized
TT Quick- Metal of Honor
Vicious Rumors- Digital Dictator
Nocturnal Rites- Afterlife
Tad Morose- Modus Vivendi
Gotthard- Dominoe Effect
Brainstorm- Metus Mortis
....and for something completely different....
Ben Folds- Rocking the Suburbs

Cool list, glad to see another fan of DIGITAL DICTATOR, great album...

 

[grogg]

Some repeats in here but my perfect albums:

Boston - S/T
Circus Maximus - The 1st Chapter
Pink Cream 69 - In10sity
Andre Andersen - Black On Black
Led Zeppelin -IV
Royal Hunt - The Mission
Sonata Arctica - Silence
Feinstein - Third Wish
Rush - Moving Pictures
Communic - Waves Of Visual Decay
Redemption - The Fullness Of Time
Stride - Music Machine
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
Dream Theater - Train Of Thought
Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Avantasia - The Scarecrow
Deep Purple - Machine Head

 

[Tess]

Dream Theater - Images And Words!

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

Circus Maximus - Both their discs

Mercenary - 11 Dreams

....and for something completely different....
Ben Folds- Rocking the Suburbs

To those I would add:

Eternity X: The Edge
Dream Theater: Six Degress of Inner Turbulence
Mercenary: The Hours That Remain
Allen/Lande: Both discs

 

[Jasonic]

I'm really surprised no one has mentioned my all time fave:

Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time

Probably because that isn't even close to being the best Maiden album of all time. WAY too much filler on SIT. Sorry dude......

 

[7thSaviour]

Albums that are all killer, no filler. Albums that don't have even ONE song on it you don't love. Albums that don't have a single flaw for you to criticize.

And... GO!



Kamelot - The Fourth Legacy Agreed
Shaman - Ritual
Conception - Flow
Dream Theater - Images And Words Agreed
Manticora - Hyperion
Pagan's Mind - Enigmatic: Calling
Symphony X - The Odyssey Agreed


And I actually consider this list long!

Iron Maiden-Seventh Son
Iron maiden-Somewhere In Time
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
rock:

 

[Ascension]

My list from a year ago...nothing has changed...

Led Zeppelin - IV
KISS - Destroyer
Mother's Finest - Another Mother Further
Blackfoot - Strikes
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Rush - Farewell to Kings
Journey - Departure
Van Halen - s/t
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Queensryche - O:M I
Fates Warning - Parallels
Scorpions - Blackout
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Blue Murder - s/t
Crimson Glory - Transcendence
Savatage - Streets, a Rock Opera
Vicious Rumors - Digital Dictator
Meshuggah - Destroy,Erase,Improve
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Ark - Burn the Sun
Symphony X - The Divine Wings of Tragedy
Seventhsign - Perpetualdestiny
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Vanden Plas - Beyond Daylight
Zero Hour - The Towers of Avarice
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance
Outworld - s/t

 

[Comic Book Dude]

A few more to add to my list:
Balance of Power- Perfect Balance
Black Sabbath- Cross Purposes
Harem Scarem- Weight of the World
YJM's Rising Force- Marching Out
Obsession- Methods of Madness
Millenium- Hourglass

 

[Rev. Clayton]

Symphony X - V: Mythology Suite
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Boston - Boston
Metallica - Metallica
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Dream Theater - Metropolis 2
Tool - Ænima
Vanden Plas - Beyond Daylight
Beyond Twilight - For the Love of Art and the Making
Angra - Temple of Shadows
Zero Hour - Towers of Avarice
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
In Flames - Whoracle
Opeth - Deliverance

and for a few non metal:
Rascal Flatts - Melt
Green Day - Insomniac
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Garbage - Version 2.0
Weezer - (Blue Album)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

 

[Bullet For My Valentine]

HELLOWEEN - Keeper of the Seven Keys part I & II
MOURNING BELOVETH - Dust
MOURNING BELOVETH - The Sullen Sulcus
LACRIMOSA - Stille
IN FLAMES - Whoracle
THEATRE OF TRAGEDY - Aegis
FOREST OF SHADOWS - Where Dreams Turn to Dust
HIM - Razorblade Romance

 

[SharkBlack]

I was just thinking of another album that is perfect to me...

Marillion - This Strange Engine

 

[mëtålspëd]

Ok, now that I have had to some to reevaluate my collection, and my take on 'perfection' (in no particular order):

Allman Brothers - Eat a Peach
Carcass - Heartwork
Conception - Flow
Lost Horizon - A Flame To The Ground Beneath
Ark -Burn the Sun
PoS - Remedy Lane (and a couple of their other releases are VERY close to perfect for me)
Evergrey - ISoT, Recreation Day, and The Inner Circle
Firewind - Burning Earth
Green Carnation - LoD, DoD (does that count?)
Green Carnation - A Blessing in Disguise
Sieges Even - The Art of Navigating By the Stars
Most of the Black Sabbath catalog
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings and The Dark Saga
Pantera - CFH and Vulgar
Symphony X - V, The Odyssey
Yngwie - Rising Force
Boston - S/T
Led Zeppelin - I, II, and IV

...and probably some others, but Im not going to devote too much time to this.

 

[mëtålspëd]

...like Rush - Moving Pictures

/smacks forehead for forgetting

 

[mëtålspëd]

Thought I would bump this....


I just put Mabool in again to celebrate the news... and it is like hearing it for the first time again. Such a powerful and awesome disc.

 

[Angrafan]

The Gathering- Souvenirs
Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets

 

[RiffDaemon]

Nocturnal Rites - The Sacred Talisman .... I've been spinning this for two days straight ... it's perfect.

And if no one has said this already: Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond

 

[_eva_]

dream theater - scenes from a memory
dark tranquillity - the gallery
dark tranquillity - projector
therion - theli
anathema - judgement
kamelot - epica
current 93 - soft black stars
tiamat - amanethes
tiamat - wildhoney
lacrimosa - elodia
opeth - morningrise

 

[mëtålspëd]

Dave Matthews Band- Before These Crowded Streets

I have given DMB a LOT of crap over the years. I find this disc being mentioned by you very intriguing. While it seems we vary on some items, I find myself agreeing with your posts more often than not. I think I might have to check this disc out.... Thanks.

 

[Stevie WOnder]

ZERO HOUR - TOWERS OF AVARICE!!!

VISION DIVINE - PERFECT MACHINE & STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Of course, I agree with the QR - Mindcrime, Maiden - Beast and Metallica - MoP and RtL.

Steve

 

[biggs0072000]

GZA/Genius - Liquid Swords

QFT.

And I don't mean to repeat any I've seen on here before, but I must add:
Opeth-Blackwater Park
Mercenary-11 Dreams
Dream Theater-Awake.