Protest The Hero - Kezia
The entire album tells the story of a condemned woman(Kezia), through three seperate perspectives. The prison priest, the prison gaurd, and Kezia herself. There's also a finale track that wraps it all together. Incredible music, and an awesome story. (Picked this up after hearing Heretics & Killers, the second single from this album).

Vast - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Picked this album up after reading a glowing review on it. Incredibly powerful album, each song more contorted and expansive in scope. Picked this up on release day, after watching the video for Touched on the Box, repeatedly.

Tech N9ne - Anghellic
Picked this up after getting his latest(at the time) album Absolute Power, and then hearing the single for Einstein. This is another concept album, wherein Tech explores Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Incredibly cool album, and if you're a fan of rap/hip-hop, this album probably blows most of what you've heard away. Fastest rapper on the planet, period.

Bloodhound Gang - One Fierce Beercoaster
Oneof the funniest albums I've ever listened to. I can still, to this day, listen straight through and laugh. I heard the single for Fire,Water, Burn, and immediately sought the album out.

Lastly, but not least,

Weezer - Blue Album
I'm going to make it clear, I'm not a fan of Weezer, aside from this album(and most of Pinkerton), I hate their catalog. But, this album is incredibly good, very nerdish, and just plain out easy to listen to. Do I even have to mention the single I heard before picking this up?

Interesting. While I do understand the Dr. Octagonecologyst bit, I don't think Automator was desperate in making a clone. I can see similarities, but that's it. The beats were still nevertheless tight and Del delivered like he usually does. His verse alone on the track "3030" takes the cake for me. I rank "I wish my brother George was here" as second best and "No Need for Alarm" as third best.

On another note, I think both Gorillaz albums are 'perfect' listens from start to finish. Well, moreso the second one than the first one.

Within Temptation's "Silent Force" album was also very good all around. I loved the melodies and her vocals, despite a lot of the songs having similarities.

Never say that in front of me! I'm a huge Kraftwerk fan! :( :( :( The Man Machine is an excellent album.. of course, I personally love any album that was created while Wolfgang and Karl were in the group.

Anyway, back to the topic at hand here. Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right To Children is just about a perfect CD for me. I adore almost every song and I can't imagine any album flowing more .. elegantly than that. Radiohead's OK Computer comes in 2nd. :D

Have you ever noticed the Tubthumping section at the used cd store? They seem to have more copies of that album than any other.

The idea of the perfect cd is strange to me because I'd say that most of my albums are "perfect." Whenever I listen to an album, I rarely skip a track or only listen to particular songs. I only have a handful of albums that I don't appreciate every single track.

Some of my favorite albums of all time include:

Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream - It's been mentioned earlier by a couple people. This was the album that served as a gateway to pretty much everything I listen to now. It turned me into a huge Pumpkin head. Let's all cross our fingers that Corgan will actually be able to release something and re-create the Pumpkins feel.

The Magnetic Fields: Get Lost - Stephin Merritt is a goddamn pop genius. The albums is so well rounded, and the songs are unbelievably catchy. Yet despite its overly sweet melodies, the album doesn't become tiresome as a result of awesome instrumentation and clever sarcastic lyrics.

David Bowie: Hunky Dory - Not only does it include some classicly popular Bowie songs, but for me, Bowie just nails the concept of an album as an entire work.

Polaris: Music from the Adventures of Pete and Pete - yes, that's right, the Pete and Pete soundtrack by the band that did the theme song and a bunch of the other songs throughout the series. The nostalgia factor here is off the chart.

The Flaming Lips: The Soft Bulletin - I was gonna go with Yoshimi here, but on the whole, I think I prefer the Soft Bulletin. Either way, they're both amazing albums.

Oingo Boingo: Boingo Alive - yeah, sure, it's a compliation, but it kicks ass.

This has long been my favorite Bowie record, but almost everyone I know prefers Ziggy Stardust. Why I'll never know.

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

This one was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I didn't see any loving for this album aside from its original mention. The album is amazing, the songs on this album are incredibly short, but so very sweet, not one song on there is worth skipping.

Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

I was tempted to put A Ghost is Born, but YHF still wins out in my mind. The album just flows together beautifully. The only misgiving I really had about the album was 'Reservations' at the end of it for a while, but now I can see how it is a fitting end.

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

This may be because I never really gave The Soft Bulletin a real chance, but regardless, the album is pure wonder. Everything from "Fight Test" to both parts of the title track, as well as "Do You Realize?" is amazing.

Weezer - Weezer (Blue Album)

Weezer hit perfection with their first album, though I can also argue greatly for Pinkerton which was a different album in style altogether. "In The Garage" is definitely the geek anthem.

Is this a joke? I'm insanely picky and elitist, and I could name hundreds of such albums without batting an eyelid. o_O The damn near majority of what I buy is completely free of filler, and I have a few hundreds of CDs.

Heres an idea. Name some of those albums.

Here's an idea: there are too many of them. Naming them would be a waste of time, yes?

But, if you insist, there's a small sample:

Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish You Were Here
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Vol.4, Heaven and Hell
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden / Killers / Powerslave / Somewhere in Time / Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny / Sin After Sin / Stained Class / Painkiller
Stille Volk - Satyre cornu, Maudat
Blind Guardian - Battalions of Fear, Tales From the Twilight World, Imaginations From the Other Side
Garmarna - Vittrad
Elend - Leçons de ténèbres, Les ténèbres du dehors, The Umbersun
Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark, Blood Fire Death, Hammerheart, Blood On Ice
Amorphis - The Karelian Ishtmus, Tales From the Thousand Lakes, Elegy, Tuonela
Therion - ...Of Darkness, Beyond Sanctorum, Symphony Masses, Lepaca Kliffoth, Theli, Vovin, Lemuria, Sirius B
Anacrusis - Suffering Hour, Screams and Whispers
Ancient Rites - Fatherland, Dim Carcosa, Rubicon
Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Immortal - Battles in the North, At the Heart of Winter, Damned in Black, Sons of Northern Darkness
King Diamond - Fatal Portrait, Abigail, Them, Conspiracy, Voodoo, The Puppet Master
Mercyful Fate - Melissa, Don't Break the Oath, In the Shadows, Time
Hollenthon - Domus Mundi, With Vilest of Worms to Dwell
Metal Church - Metal Church, The Dark, Hanging in the Balance, Blessing in Disguise
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill, Violent Revolution, Coma of Souls
Skyclad - Vintage Whine, The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea, Prince of the Poverty Line, A Semblance of Normality, The Answer Machine?, Jonah's Ark
The Chasm - Conjuration of the Spectral Empire
Liholesie - Vast Homeland
Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets, The Visit, The Mask and Mirror
Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
The Soil Bleeds Black - Alchemie, Mirror of the Middle Ages
Psalteria - Scalerica d'Oro, Balábile
Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Basil Poledouris - Conan the Barbarian OST
AZEL Panzer Dragoon RPG ~Memorial Album~
Gaë Bolg and the Church of Fand - La Ballade de l'Ankou
Ice Ages - This Killing Emptiness
Puissance - Total Cleansing
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus, Tales of Creation, Nightfall
Dark Tranquillity - The Gallery, Skydancer
Dissection - The Somberlain, Storm of the Light's Bane
Slayer - Show No Mercy,
Summoning - all of them (no, really)

Well... that's enough. :P

How is that "insanely picky and elitist"? Lots of those records are just plain bad.
I'm looking at you, Metal Church.

It just seems to me that you don't have a line between good and perfect.

You could of just said you like bad classic rock and metal.

Animals is the only one of those that I have heard that I would consider truly "perfect". Granted, I haven't heard about half of those, but still.

It's tough to think of albums I can put on and listen to start to finish without skipping any tracks. Tool, for example, has some great songs, but they always have that unlistenable filler shit.

So, IMHO, the two most perfect albums are:

- Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
- Alice in Chains - Dirt

Damn tough to compare to either of those. A few others that come to mind:

- Bad Religion - Suffer
- Visual Audio Sensory Theater. (BTW, I saw them in concert a couple weeks ago and they were absolutely fantastic.)
- Assemblage 23 - Failure
- Frontline Assembly - Implode
- October Project - October Project
- Legendary Pink Dots - 9 Lives to Wonder
- Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
- NIN - The Downward Spiral
- Oingo Boingo - Farwell Concert
- David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
- Project Pitchfork - Daiminion
- Dead Can Dance - Into the Labyrinth
- Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
- Ian Anderson - Secret Language of Birds
- Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
- The Jesus Lizard - Down

Hurr hurr. Metal Church owns you, and none of these albums have bad songs on them, which is why they are pretty much perfect in the sense that the original poster meant, i.e. no filler.

Double Post:
As a Deftones fan, you're pretty much disqualified to comment on the quality of any music at all. But just so you know, I named many folk, neofolk and dark ambient albums too.

But I never said I was a picky and elitist douche bag.

What's your point?

The point is that there needs to be less argument between music elitists.

That you insulting my taste in music does little to damage my ego.

Edit: Styphon beat me to it. Away I go.

Perfect album? No such thing.

But if there were anything close, I'd have to cite Nevermind by Nirvana as my top pick. There's not a song on that album I don't like, and whether or not you're a fan of Grunge, all the people that fell in love with "Smells Like Teen Spirit" can't be wrong. I could listen to that album until the end of time.

Music elitism r0x0rz, incidentally. Especially since most people let their music channels tell them what is good.

But what about In Utero? I don't call it perfect, but it has some much better songs.

It does, but at the same time, there are a lot of less accessable songs on it as well. It all boils down to taste, I suppose... but if album sales are something to judge by (though they're not >>), Nevermind is the way to anyway.

Don't get me wrong, it doesn't have a lot of my favorite Nirvana songs... but it's still a marvelous album.

To me the The Perfect CD is one that is easy to open... what the hell are the factories doing with the wrapping??

Anyway back on topic... I would have to say Sonata Arctica, I really love all of their songs so the albums could be meshed up and I would still listen to every song without skipping.

I LOLed when I read that. This makes me consider a question my brother once asked me: "What is it with nerds and metal?"
I personally postulate that it has something to do with the similarities between metal and game music. Anyone care to enlighten me on this?

Two albums with 'no filler' that I can think of are 1) Pat Metheny - The Way Up and 2) NOFX - The Decline.

But some of the best albums have nothing but long, epic songs on them! Take Animals, for instance. Or ( ).