What albums do you think are perfect in every way?

[ratsapprentice]

ask me today and you will get one answer
ask me tomorrow and you will get another

This.

But, are there none that are always there?

 

[Torniojaws]

Darkspace - Dark Space III
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
Helloween - Better Than Raw
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Sephiroth - Cathedron

 

[AllanD]

Cynic - Focus: Bad production? My ass! The music on this transcends every production imaginable.

Social Distortion - White Light, White Heat, White Thrash: A very real and unmasked melange of Punk, Hard Rock, Cash spirit and Springsteen attitude.

The Misfits - Walk Among Us: Not only a genre-defining record, but arguably it's best too.

Cryptopsy - None So Vile: The meanest Death Metal grooves ever put to record.

Danzig I - III: If you ever hear these records, you'll understand why most Danzig fans desperately want to see the second coming of Christ.

I like you a lot.


In Flames - The Jester Race
At The Gates - Slaughter Of The Soul/With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Bad Religion - No Control
Converge - No Heroes
Hopesfall - The Satellite Years
Gorilla Biscuits - Start Today
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Children Of Bodom - All the way till Are You Dead Yet?

All of Nevermore's albums almost made it, but there's always 1-2 filler songs.

 

[Cryo114]

Lenny Kravitz - Are you gonna go my way
The band - The band
The cardigans - Long gone before daylight
Helios - Eingya
Brian Eno - Music for airports
The Flaming Lips - The soft bulletin
Free - Free
Pink Floyd - dark side
Röyksopp - melody AM
T rex - The slider
Tomahawk - Tomahawk
Warren G - Regulate

 

[EerieVon]

Carcass--Swansong
Carcass--Heartwork
Anthrax-Persistence of time
Megadeth-Rust in peace
Metallica-Puppets
Fear Factory-Soul of a new machine
Napalm death-Smear Campaign
Ihsahn-The Adversary
Fear-More Beer
Slayer-Seasons in the abyss
Sepultura-Arise
Dark Angel-Time does not heal
Death Angel-Act III

 

[gabriel g.]

in no order

pantera - great southern trendkill
sepultura - roots
comeback kid - wake the dead
deftones - white pony
the hope conspiracy - endnote
parkway drive - killing with a smile
kse - the end of heartache
throwdown - haymaker
bury your dead - cover your tracks
dredg - catch without arms
thursday - war all the time (???)
city and colour ...
korn - life is peachy

and many many more

 

[Harry Hughes]

ask me today and you will get one answer
ask me tomorrow and you will get another

This is pretty much the same for me.
I find it hard to settle on permanent answers

 

[roy22341]

The albums I can listen to no matter what mood I'm in are fairly limited:

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
'tallica - Master & Justice
Tool - Lateralus & Aenima
Bela Fleck & The Flecktones - Greatest Hits of the 20th Century

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Evergrey - Recreation Day
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Rhapsody - Symphony Of Enchanted Lands
Ulver - Shadows Of The Sun
God Is An Astronaut - The End Of The Beginning
Quivver - Dirty Nails And Vapour Trails
Max Melvin - Seaside
Paul Van Dyk - Out There And Back
Long Distance - Calling Avoid The Light
Katatonia - Night is The New Day
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Nirvana - Nevermind

 

[Morgan C]

Kamelot - "The Black Halo"
Dream Theater - "Images & Words"

These, and..

Arctic Monkeys - "Whatever People Say I Am.."
Coldplay - "X&Y"
Emery - "...In Shallow Seas We Sail"
Evanescence - "Fallen"
Guilt Machine - "On This Perfect Day"
In Flames - "Reroute to Remain"
Jack's Mannequin - "Everything in Transit"
Lights - "The Listening"
March Hare - "Hurry the fuck up and release it already"
Nightwish - "Dark Passion Play"
Opeth - "BWP"
Panic at the Disco - "A Fever You Can't Sweat Out"
Reign of Kindo - "Rhythm Chord & Melody"
Sevendust - "Animosity"
Textures - "Silhouettes"
Ulver - "Shadows of the Sun"
Underoath - "Lost in the Sound of Separation"



...WAY too much pop in there, what's happening to me..?

 

[26]

AC/DC - Highway To Hell: The AC/DC formula is as simple as it is successful. Never executed better than on this record.

Reading through, this one comes closest for me, atm. Surprised how much stuff pops up, given the actual criteria (mainly referring to the every song element) in the original question.

 

[rlcramer]

My list isn't very long. There are honestly VERY few albums that I can listen to straight through without wanting to skip at least 1 track, but here a few that qualify for me...

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Life of Agony - River Runs Red
Metallica - And Justice For All...
Beatles - White Album
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction (possibly my all-time-favorite album. Not an ounce of filler on this one...)
Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
Green Day - American Idiot

 

[Jevil]

Iron Maiden - From 1st to 7th son...
Rainbow - Long Live Rock And Roll
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Manowar - Kings Of Metal
Manowar - Fighting The World
Helloween - Walls Of Jericho
Blind Guardian - Tales From The Tiwlight World
Blind Guardian - Somewhere Far Beyond
Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side
Gamma Ray - Heading For Tomorrow
Scanner - Terminal Earth
Accept - Balls To The Wall
Accept - Russian Roulette
Metallica - And Justice For All
Megadeth - Cryptic Writtings
Nevermore - This Godless Endeveaour
Rammstein - Mutter
Rammstein - Reise Reise
Symphony X - The Oddissey
Masterplan - Masterplan
Pirates Of Caribbean I, II & III OST

 

[Skinny Viking]

Scanner - Terminal Earth

Thats SOOOOO awesome!

I used to love that band

 

[grywolf627]

March Hare - "Hurry the fuck up and release it already"

Yes...we mustn't forget this!

 

[GarethSE]

This is pretty much the same for me.
I find it hard to settle on permanent answers

Yeah
Depends totally on the day.
I have to put on whatever's right at that exact moment in time, and any other choice ends up with me hating whatever it is I'm listening to.
I mean if it's a Cephalic Carnage day and I try to listen to, I dunno, Sunn, some jazz, whatever, I will sit there thinking "this is an absolute pile of shit" when deep down I don't actually believe that, it's just the wrong piece of music for that moment in time.

But there are a few albums that I will forever hold as some of the greatest works of art ever, unconditionally.

Gravetemple - The Holy Down
Painkiller - Execution Ground
Otomo Yoshihide, Bill Laswell, Yoshigaki Yasuhiro - Soup
Gorguts - Obscura
Portal - Outré

These albums make the cut for me because on a scale of 1-10 theres are lifechanging/10, quite literally.

 

[Jind]

OK since I started this thread I might as well put my thoughts on the subject into words. Remember these are records that I can find no fault with. they are ones that are dear to me in my collection and if I was to go to a desert island I would grab this box of discs because I would have to deal with listening to them for the rest of my days (unless I figured out a way to make an album remix device from coconuts and palm leaves that I could make new and exciting remixes out of my perfect discs - not likely).

I'm going to start of with something so far from metal it's not even funny:

Marvin Gaye "What's Going On"

His eleventh studio album and the first with him solely credited with the production off. It was also the first Motown record on which the famous studio musicians known as the "Funk brothers" received credit. they recorded the backing music for hundreds of Motown songs with little to no direct credit, but they were a group of some of the most talented musicians to be found anywhere. I'm a big fan of Joe Messina who played guitar on so many of those hits.

This was the music my father listened to when I was growing up, I heard it around our house all the time and it still holds fond memories for me - perfection was reached with this one.

Marillion - "Misplaced Childhood"

While I consider almost all of the "Fish" era Marillion records to be works of perfection, if I had to pick just one to bring with me on my desert island trip it would be the third one he performed with them. "Misplaced Childhood" is a perfect prog rock disc with meaningful lyrics and great music. How can you go wrong with a disc that Fish credits a 10 hour acid trip for coming up with the concept for. The musicianship and production are perfection on this concept album. Once again I'm a huge fan of the guitar work here by Steve Rothery.

Richie Kotzen "Peace Sign"

Since purchasing this album last year I have not gone a few days without listening to it. It's the perfect rock/funk/soul record with great unpolished production that gives it a very intimate and in your face feel. I've been a big fan of Richie's work (outside of his days with Poison that is) for a very long time and consider him to be one of the best singer songwriters out there today. He should get far more recognition that he gets for his talent. I would need to bring this one with me.

Here's three for now - I'll work on my more metal oriented ones next. I'm sure I will also have some non-metal discs still to come. But these are some of my favorites and to me perfect in every way.

 

[Nuno Filipe]

I forgot Devin Townsend. Ocean Machine: Biomech, Terria and Accelerated Evolution are

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Riot
Cowboys from Hell
Master of Puppets
Alive or Just Breathing
Toxicity
Somewhere in Time

 

[Melb_shredder]

Too many

At The Gates - Slaughter of the soul
Children of bodom - Hatebreeder
Metallica - Master of puppets
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction/ Character
Testament - Formation of damnation

And SO many more