What albums do you think are perfect in every way?

[AshesOfTheWake]

Wow this is a tough one for me ......
Lamb Of God - As The Palaces Burn

Probably LOG's best album as far as songwriting goes.
I find the production on this album a little off. It seems so flat sounding. With Devin Townsend being the producer, I wouldn't expect it to sound like this.

 

[SocialNumb]

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

Prime!

 

[phatfil]

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Tool - Aenima
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

Metal:
Death / Black:
Gorguts - Obscura
Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked
Cobalt - Gin
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Burzum - Hvis Lyset Tar Oss
Darkspace - Dark Space III
Opeth - Deliverance
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti in Ignem Aeternum
Ulver - Bergtatt
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Leviathan - The Tenth Sublevel of Suicide
Edge of Sanity - Crimson

Thrash:
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Flotsam and Jetsam - Doomsday for the Deceiver

Prog and/or Djent:
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Queensryche - The Warning
Meshuggah - Catch 33

Everything else:
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
My Dying Bride - The Angel and the Dark River
Anathema - Alternative 4
Esoteric - The Maniacal Vale
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Chimaira - Resurrection
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Tool - Lateralus
Strapping Young Lad - Alien
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
Crowbar - Odd Fellows Rest
Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
Sleep - Holy Mountain
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets


Ambient / Psytrance / Triphop / shit like that:
Hallucinogen - In Dub
Shpongle - Are You Shpongled?
Astral Projection - Dancing Galaxy
Bluetech - Sines and Singularities
BT - This Binary Universe
Ott - Blumenkraft
Younger Brother - A Flock of Bleeps
The Knife - Silent Shout
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Prog / Avant-Garde:
Pink Floyd - Animals
Flasket Brinner - Flasket Brinner
Camel - Moonmadness
Scott Walker - The Drift
The Swans - White Light from the Mouth of Infinity

Everything Else:
Lady Gaga - The Fame
311 - From Chaos
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Phish - Rift
The Doors - The Doors
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

All of these are perfect to me. Whether it's the songwriting, the instrumentation, the production (for their specific time periods), the lyrics or vocal deliveries...

 

[Black neon bob]

So many, but my favorite is still alice in chains - dirt.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

So many, but my favorite is still alice in chains - dirt.

I forgot this one. So good.

 

[NicholasDWolfwood]

I forgot this one. So good.

Completely forgot about Dirt. That's on my list too.

 

[DanLights]

I must add Anathema - A Natural Disaster. This album gives me the fucking chills from the very beggining to the very end, flying and a a natural being the total peaks of "die lying in a fetal position" type of songs

 

[AntonioPetrole]

The Black Dahlia Murder "Nocturnal". There is not a single flaw in this album

 

[GarethSE]

Today Praxis - Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis) is hitting the spot.

 

[aramism]

hmm...

led zeppelin - houses of the holy
marvin gaye - what's going on (2011 remaster is amazing)
fleetwood mac - rumors
the eagles - hotel california
system of a down - system of a down
fiona apple - when the pawn...

 

[JeffTD]

The first that come to mind:

Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Brand New - Deja Entendu
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Paramore - Riot
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Thrice - The Artist In The Ambulance

 

[K Odell]

Jimmy Eat World-Futures
Killswitch Engage-Alive Or Just Breathing
Nickelback-Darkhorse
Arch Enemy-Anthems Of Rebellion
Seal-Seal

 

[Macke/Crystal Light]

Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
Queensryche-Empire

 

[CubanDude]

Fates Warning - A Pleasant Shade Of Grey
Jamie Cullum - The Pursuit
Nevermore - Dreaming Neon Black
Pain Of Salvation - The Perfect Element I
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
Testament - The Gathering
Warrel Dane - Praises To The Warmachine

 

[CubanDude]

Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
Queensryche-Empire

"The best I can" makes Empire imperfect :Spin: Always skip that song

 

[Perishh]

Blink 182 - Enema of the State
All Shall Perish - The Price of Existence
Angels & Airwaves - Everything
As I Lay Dying - Shadows Are Security & The Powerless Rise
Metallica - ...And Justice for All
August Burns Red - Thrill Seeker
Northlane - Discoveries
Owl City - Ocean Eyes
Phoenix - Wolfgang Armadeus Phoenix
The Reign of Kindo - Rhythm Chord & Melody
The Story So Far - Under Soil & Dirt
Devin Townsend - Accelerated Evolution, Ocean Machine, Ghost
Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies
First Blood - Silence is Betrayal
Funeral For a Friend - Casually Dressed and Deep in Conversation
The Ghost Inside - Get What you Give
It Prevails - Capture & Embrace

All I can be bothered writing now but there are so many bands out there who have absolutely nailed it all on one record.

 

[GuitarHack]

........what albums I've listened to and about ones that I consider perfect in every way - songwriting, production, performance, that little something extra that makes an album stick in your head for days if not years?
................you can take the time the album was released into consideration.

.....

These are from the impact I remember on hearing them at their release time: (in no order)

Metallica - ...and Justice for all. ("There's a song called One that goes for 7 minutes with sound effects", my mate said at the time, haha.)
Sepultura - Arise. Straight-up Thrash. Brutal.
Death - Spiritual Healing. I still remember counting the number of riff changes in the Title-track. Flanger or Phaser, what was that sound? I remember talking about James Murphy being the best metal guitarist in USA at the time.
Megadeth - Rust in Peace. Apart from Poison was the Cure. Mustaine at his breaking-point.
Obituary - Cause of Death. James Murphy again. No I didn't like all the album (maybe I was scared, haha), but the sheer brutality of it was amazing at the time. "Chopped in half, feel the blood spill from your mooouuuttthhh!"
Cannibal Corpse - The Bleeding. Hadn't heard anything like that before. "Staring through the eyes of the dead" is still awesome.
Deicide - Deicide. ALL brutal, ALL perfect. "White alert, white alert, the mercenaries are here......."
Slayer - Reign in Blood. Start to finish, unrelentless.


All time-relevant for me. I appreciate some more modern releases, it's just that these ones had such a huge impact at the time. Back then, you had to be quite good to get a record deal.

I can't imagine a more modern release having such an impact nowadays.....or, I am just old now.

Sorry for the ramble.

 

[Nuno Filipe]

There are many albuns that I find very good but perfect?

Evergrey - Recreation Day
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time
Scar Symmetry - The Unseen Empire
Rhapsody - Symphony of Enchanted Lands
Alter Bridge - One Day Remains
Long Distance - Calling Avoid The Light
God Is An Astronaut - The End Of The Beginning

Might be more but I only remember this for now.

 

[Mutant]

Amorphis - Tales from the Thousand Lakes