"Perfect" albums
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"Perfect" albums
I'm finally getting around to importing all my CDs into iTunes (now that we're firmly in the mp3 age ). I mentioned my project on Facebook, and while chatting with a couple of people about it last night, we came up with a short list of albums on which there isn't a single bad song. My nominees were Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" and Gerry Rafferty's "City to City". The guys came up with Paul Simon's "Graceland" and the Beatles' "Abbey Road."
Granted, these are pretty darned old. Any nominees of your own?
Granted, these are pretty darned old. Any nominees of your own?
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'Ten New Songs' by Leonard Cohen
'Taak' by Sigur Ros
'Fleet Foxes' by Fleet Foxes
'Time Out of Mind' by Bob Dylan
'OK Computer' by Radiohead
'Manana in Manhatten' by Pierce Turner
'Songbird' by Eva Cassidy
'Emigres' by Youssou N'Dour
'Hats' by The Blue Nile
'Bon Iver, Bon Iver' by Bon Iver
Or at least in my less than humble opinion, since I love all of these albums.
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'Taak' by Sigur Ros
'Fleet Foxes' by Fleet Foxes
'Time Out of Mind' by Bob Dylan
'OK Computer' by Radiohead
'Manana in Manhatten' by Pierce Turner
'Songbird' by Eva Cassidy
'Emigres' by Youssou N'Dour
'Hats' by The Blue Nile
'Bon Iver, Bon Iver' by Bon Iver
Or at least in my less than humble opinion, since I love all of these albums.
u.
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Olias of Sunhillow - Jon Anderson
The Yes Album - Yes
Going for the One - Yes
The Plan - The Osmonds
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite/Borodin: Polovtsian Dances - Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan (I can no longer find this album anywhere. It was in my first husband's collection and I absolutely loved it)
I would love to list albums by The Moody Blues and Genesis, but there are none where I love every track on them...
The Yes Album - Yes
Going for the One - Yes
The Plan - The Osmonds
In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite/Borodin: Polovtsian Dances - Berliner Philharmoniker/Herbert von Karajan (I can no longer find this album anywhere. It was in my first husband's collection and I absolutely loved it)
I would love to list albums by The Moody Blues and Genesis, but there are none where I love every track on them...
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From Genesis to Revelation comes close for me. I can't think of any tracks I would describe as filler.Menolly wrote:
I would love to list albums by The Moody Blues and Genesis, but there are none where I love every track on them...
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I'm in the same boat in many cases. I ran across Big Brother & the Holding Co.'s "Cheap Thrills" in the CD drawer, which I had forgotten I owned. I'm sure I bought it only to hear Janis Joplin on "Piece of My Heart." Although their cover of "Summertime" is pretty spectacular, too.Sorus wrote:I'll have to give that some thought. It's pretty rare - can't tell you how many albums I bought to get one or two tracks.
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High 'n Dry: Def Leppard
DSotM and WYWH: Pink Floyd
Pretty Hate Machine: NIN
All I can come up with at the moment. There are a lot of, "well except for one song...." albums though.
DSotM and WYWH: Pink Floyd
Pretty Hate Machine: NIN
All I can come up with at the moment. There are a lot of, "well except for one song...." albums though.
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Some of these may be questionable on the "every song" bar; it depends on mood and how exacting you want to be.
- Frank Sinatra & Count Basie It Might As Well Be Swing
Steely Dan Aja
Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
Carole King Tapestry
Who Who's Next
Wings Band on the Run
Michael Franks The Art of Tea
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Same. Though I will have to give that NIN album a try. I've tried to get into them before, but never found the right place to start. I trust your judgement.Cail wrote:There are a lot of, "well except for one song...." albums though.
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Strange to say it, but I think Vancouver (2009) by Matthew Good is a perfect Album. The Album sticks to the theme of the artists Hometown and memories, and it's really quite diverse. With Rockers, Spacey, acoustic, Sad, and pumped up songs, I have yet to find an album I find as engaging and diverse as this one. Plus, to me, the Album opener is a very crucial point. The song "Last Parade" blew me away on my first listen. It may not be a Classic, but it is one of Canada's hidden gems.
Other honorable mentions, The Wall, Dark side of the moon, and Abbey Road. Others I would put just for the sake of me liking them, but I don;t think they would really fit here.
Other honorable mentions, The Wall, Dark side of the moon, and Abbey Road. Others I would put just for the sake of me liking them, but I don;t think they would really fit here.
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Pretty Hate Machine is more of a "dance music with industrial undercurrents" than NIN's later stuff. It might be that it was just so different when it came out in 1989 that it left such an impression on me.Sorus wrote:Same. Though I will have to give that NIN album a try. I've tried to get into them before, but never found the right place to start. I trust your judgement.Cail wrote:There are a lot of, "well except for one song...." albums though.
Dunno, it's just a really listenable album that (for me, at least) has stood the test of time really well.
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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SD, I bought Tapestry for the first time not long ago, and have been listening to it off and on. I'm not sure that it's aged all that well, but maybe that's me -- I seem to prefer Carly Simon's voice. In any case, I don't think anyone could argue Carole King's contribution to pop as a song writer.
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You probably heard it before, but in case you haven't, Johnny Cash does a cover of Hurt that is waaaaay better than the nin version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4GoCail wrote:Pretty Hate Machine: NIN
He also covers depeche mode's personal jesus. Not as good as Hurt, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU
Monsters, they eat
Your kind of meat
And they're moving as far as they can
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Your kind of meat
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Heard both, like both.Ananda wrote:You probably heard it before, but in case you haven't, Johnny Cash does a cover of Hurt that is waaaaay better than the nin version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4GoCail wrote:Pretty Hate Machine: NIN
He also covers depeche mode's personal jesus. Not as good as Hurt, though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQcNiD0Z3MU
Hurt isn't on PHM; it's one of the better tracks on TDS though.
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." - PJ O'Rourke
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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"Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons; the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas." - Charles Stewart
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"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." - James Madison
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Moving Pictures - Rush
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Moving Pictures - Rush
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Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
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