What albums do you think are perfect in every way?

[Mago]

perfect in every way - songwriting, production, performance, that little something extra that makes an album stick in your head for days if not years

Not a single one, but I really doubt that I'd consider something as "perfect" due to my perfectionism^^
But stuff that comes quite close:

Metallica - Justice for all
Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
Dream Theater - Images & Words / Train of Thought
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
ZZTop - Rhythmeen

That's the ONLY albums I don't have to skip a single song I think.
Haven't come across any album were I loved every single aspect thought...maybe I'm going too much into details I don't know

 

[D.Vial]

Iron Maiden - Piece of mind
Carcass - Heartwork
Bruce Dickinson - Accident of birth
Judas Priest - Screaming for vengance
Death - Individual thought patterns
Peter Frampton - Frampton comes alive
Megadeth - Rust in peace
Megadeth - Peace sells
Death - Symbolic
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - The number of the beast
Psycho Motel - Welcome to the world
Annihilator - Never, Neverland
Steve Vai - Passion and warfare
Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising force
Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
Marty Friedman - Scenes
Testament - The gathering
Testament - The ritual

 

[Nebulous]

Evergrey- In search of truth
Blind guardian - "Imaginations" and ANATO
Dark Tranquillity - Damage Done
Metallica - Metallica
Testament - The Gathering
Pyramaze - The legend of the bone carver

...off the top of my head.

 

[guitarguru777]

Wow this is a tough one for me ......

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
Testament - The Gathering
Scar Symmetry - Pitch Black Progress
Symphony X - V
Dream Theater - Awake
Dream Theater - Images & Words
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica -And Justice For All
Carcass - Heartwork
In Flames - Come Clarity
Skidrow - Slave To The Grind
Mr Big - Lean Into It
Steve Vai - Passion & Warfare
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria
Black Label Society - 1919 Eternal
Alice In Chains - Facelift
Extreme - Extreme III - Three Sides To Every Story
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Fight - War Of Words
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Ark - Burn The Sun
Rush - 2112
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Led Zepplin - Houses Of The Holy
Judas Priest - British Steel

Albums that ALMOST made it (1 or 2 songs that were so so)
Nevermore - This Godless Endeavor
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Savatage - Edge Of Thorns
The Police - Bring On The Night
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Halford - Resurrection
Jorn Lande - Bringing Back The Past
Alice In Chains - Dirt

 

[Harry Hughes]

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..?

The Reign of Kindo <3
And wont lie, I love "Fallen".
And the Ulver and Underoath albums too.
Jack's Mannequin is not a half bad band either.

 

[Dylan S]

Behemoth - The Apostasy
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Nevermore - This Godless Endevour
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia
Nile - Those Whom the Gods Detest
Richie Kotzen - Mother Head's Family Reunion
Soreption - The Deterioration of Minds
Edge of Sanity - Crimson I and II (if they count)

That's all I could be bothered to type/think of at the moment.

 

[Line666]

Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
AC/DC - Back In Black
Machine Head - The Blackening
Evanescence - Fallen
Tool - 10,000 Days
Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Volume 2
All That Remains - The Fall Of Ideals
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Rise Against - The Sufferer & The Witness
Five For Fighting - Two Lights
In Flames - Come Clarity

 

[Toni S.]

Sikth - Death of a Dead Day

oh, and The Reign of Kindo's EP and first album are more or less perfect in every way. Haven't listened much to the new album yet.

Other ones:
Opeth - Still Life, Ghost Reveries (oh what the hell, every Opeth album since BWP is perfect!(don't really care for the 2 first myself)).

 

[motomoto]

PARADISE LOST - DRACONIAN TIMES

 

[Harry Hughes]

Now that I really think of it, The Reign of Kindo's "Rhythm Chord & Melody" really is perfect in every way.
I didn't think of it when I made my first post on the first page.

 

[tarbh666]

PARADISE LOST - DRACONIAN TIMES

Good call!! Also on a similar note

Paradise Lost - Shades of God & Icon
Anathema - Pentecost III and The Silent Enigma
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans and The Angel and The Dark River
Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium

Stone cold classic doom from the UK.

 

[Skinny Viking]

I also forgot to add Prince - "Purple Rain" to my list

 

[egan.]

PF- DSotM
Katatonia - LFDGD, TGCD
Jeff Buckley - Grace
FNM - Angel Dust
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden, Laughingstock
Meshuggah - DEI
Radiohead - Ok computer
I'm sure there are more.

 

[Skinny Viking]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

Just picked up that big DVD package ... my wife kinda got me into his stuff a few years ago but man, that dvd with all the live shit and all that is just awesome ... I'm starting to REALLY get into it, the genius in his talent.

 

[drew_drummer]

Tool - Lateralus

 

[SwambA]

Mr.bungle: Mr.bungle
Mr.bungle: Disco volante
Mr.bungle: California

They are so good, all other bands/music pale in comparison for me!

 

[GarethSE]

Disco Volante is the ONE for me.

 

[DanLights]

Good call!! Also on a similar note

Paradise Lost - Shades of God & Icon
Anathema - Pentecost III and The Silent Enigma
My Dying Bride - Turn Loose The Swans and The Angel and The Dark River
Cathedral - Forest Of Equilibrium

Stone cold classic doom from the UK.

Dude we're talking the same language here, I must add My Dying Bride's Gods of the Sun. While Angel is the creepiest, most hopeless album I've ever heard, Gods is the complete opposite, so upbeat it's unreal for a Doom band, and I love both extremes.

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Finally someone else here shares my love for this album. Just listened to it this morning once again, absolute brilliance from beginning to end. Hell even that "Interlude" Dawn Patrol is one of the best songs I've ever heard, that bass groove and those creepy spoken word vox are just perfect

 

[HandsOfDespair]

Blackwater Park - Opeth
Great cold distance, Viva emptiness - Katatonia
Hope - Swallow the sun
Tatterdemalion Express - Mar de grises
Toxicity - Soad

 

[Cryo114]

Jeff Buckley - Grace

The only thing i don't totally like about that album is Dream Brother. Would have been on my list otherwise.