The Perfect CD
 

It sucks buying a CD just for that one song you like. And then you find out the rest of the CD is fucking garbage. But once in a while you find that rare gem where just about every, sometimes every, song is great. You guys ever run into CDs like this?

The first Godsmack CD: When I first heard it in 1998 it was great from front to back. That CD is probably the biggest reason Godsmack`s my favorite band.
Tool AEnima: Beautiful. Even the silly German dictator track.
Linkin Park: Hybrid Theory: Even if every track talks about the same shit, it`s a good CD.
Dr. Dre/The Chronic: Ha, I loved rap when I was eleven. I couldn`t help it. This was a good listen.

The Man Who by Travis, Definitely Maybe and What's the story Morning Glory by Oasis are fine examples of perfect CDs in my opinion.

If we go back to the classics, well Sgt Pepper's is a hell of a ride.

I was in town one day and just needed bus fare home, so I decided to get myself a cd, then I decided a jazz cd. Wandered into a music shop and picked up a Wes Montgomery cd called Fingerpickin'. Cost me bouy 8 euro and I'd never, ever heard of the guy just picked it out of a bunch. It is amazing, seriously, every song falls right into place, everything ends when it should, pure class.

Another one would be "None So Vile" by Cryptopsy, not one song on that album I'd even slightly dislike, really good stuff, a rare occasion when all instruments play off each other absolutely perfectly. There's plenty of others but these 2 spring right to mind!

I think Pink Floyd's Dark side of the Moon falls under this catagory; there's not a track off it I would skip. As for a violent contrast, I had the same thing with Alice in Chain's Dirt and for NIN's The Downward Spiral. And one other that I can think of straight off would be Black Sabbath's first album. Oh, and also Jeff Buckley's Grace. Beautiful album.

I was also forgetting Muse's Showbiz and Pablo Honey by Radiohead. Perhaps I just like music too much =s

Opeth - Blackwater Park
Kalmah - The Swampsong
All That Remains - This Darkened Heart
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Arch Enemy - Burning Bridges

There are a ton more, however those stand out for me. They are CDs I love and would not skip tracks on regularly.

The perfect CD doesn't have every track compressed to a nearly uniform level of loudness.

Unfortunately, I can't really name many of these off of the top of my head.

Christopher - Wer Next Projekt
Ozric Tentacles - Waterfall Cities
Sirenia - An Elexier for Existence

For more examples, check the exposure thread.

Most Phil Collins albums are the 'perfect' CD for me. I'm a large fan of this guy, but his newer works aren't as great as the oldies. They started going bland at his 'Both Sides' album release in 1993.

A cd that was absolutely perfect to me when it first came back that I still listen to occasionally is

Offspring:Americana, that cd during the time I was in I think 7th grade was absolutely amazing to me. I don't think I can remember any bad songs on it, all of the were pretty fast songs and all of then were as catchy as hell.

The most recent 'perfect' cd I bought

Nightwish:Once, This has everything I like in one small disc. Heavy songs, melodic songs, epic songs, songs in a different languages. Even though I bought it two years ago, there is not one thing I can find wrong with it, one of the best cd's I have even though I bought it 2 years ago.

Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica is the greatest listening experience I have ever had. It's 79 joyous minutes of psychedelic blues/free jazz/rock/beat poetry. It is absolutely encapsulating. I find something new that I love on each listen.

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Weezer - Blue album
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Bill Evans Trio - You Must Believe In Spring

These are all albums that I can listen to in their entirety and do nothing else. I always have to be doing something with my hands, so that says a lot about how much I enjoy them - especially the Pumpkins record, which is a double album! The first two I started listening to when I was fifteen or sixteen and was the first music I could really relate to, as corny as that sounds, not just the lyrics, but in the music, too; the melodies, the guitar tone, the intricate arrangements, it all just felt right. Anyone else know what I'm talking about - even when there's nothing being sung, the music just fucking feels like you? Or am I nuts?

Opeth, through a mixture of extreme metal with growling vocals and dark folk music with clean vocals is what got me into metal. Blackwater Park was the first album of theirs I heard.

Ben Folds Five are the band that got me into jazz, as well as the ideas of conversational lyrics and stellar musicianship that never feels like showing off. Also another band that musically just feels very right to me.

The Bill Evans record is my favorite of the modest jazz collection I've got going. Though there's plenty of swing to be found, it's largely a very sad record, the tune selection well-suited to his distinctive sort of classically-influenced harmony. This album, and Bill's work in general, really jumped out at me for some reason and really drew me further into jazz. The album also includes the finest, swingingest arrangement of the M*A*S*H theme you'll ever hear in your life.

I'm a nerd.

I have several albums that I can listen to start-to-finish without being dissappointed in the next song. Dark Side of the Moon, as mentioned before, is one of them. "On The Run" and "Money" may not be as strong as the rest of the songs, for me, but I still love them more than most songs out there.

Second is a given for me. Anyone that knows me knows I love this album. Forever Changes, by Love, is as close to perfect as I suspect I'll ever see. It just seems to get better and better as the album goes on. The innovative and eccentric mix of baroque-pop, psych-rock, and many other genres combine to form something entirely new. It's quite a listen.

Another terrific album is ( ), by Sigur Rós. It's just one of those records where every single song seems perfect. Along the same lines is Bitches Brew, by Miles Davis. I absolutely love the mix of jazz and psychadelia. John McLaughlin, on guitar, is just fantastic, and Miles is Miles.

That's all I'm going to list for now. If I think of some others (Because I know there are more) I'll add them. If I feel like it. :p

Opeth - Blackwater Park

It's awesome that some others have mentioned this. It's such an amazing progressive metal CD. Not one song slouches, and it's a really great listen all the way through. Ghost Reveries (their 2005 CD) is just as good.

Cave In - Jupiter

An amazing CD from a local group. It's alternative rock at its finest. Check the GFF music exposure club if you want to grab this.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

Every song on this album is listenable. It's not a consistent listen like everything else listed here, but not one song disappoints.

System of a Down - Hypnotize/Mezmerize

Both of these albums in tandem make for one amazing metal album. Truly fantastic. It's their best sound yet.

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Undeniably the best death metal CD ever released. 10 songs and 28 minutes of fierce, bloodthirsty mayhem.

Greg Graffin - Cold as the Clay

A solo folk album released by the lead singer of Bad Religion. I can listen to this soothing CD any time.

Every "Les Cowboys Fringants"'s album is outstanding. It's probably the only complete albums I have on my iPod, which is always on shuffle mode. I even have the "Les Heures Supplémentaires" and "Attache ta Tuque!". Other than that, there's always ONE track I wonder what the fuck it's doing here. Like the intro and intermission tracks of Panic! At The Disco album.

I must say, Aerosmith's Permanent Vacation is one album I can just listen to without having to skip anything. Very, very few CDs of mine are like that. Kaizers Orchestra's Evig Pint and Muse's Origin of Symmetry are also straight listen-throughs for me, but I have to be in the right mood.

Nobody here is a fan, but George Strait never disappoints on his albums. He puts a huge amount of effort into every track. I have a good deal of his CDs and it is sad how many of them only appear on the CD and never on the radio. His CDs are worth every penny in my opinion.

A new one of his is due out soon. Gotta buy it~

"White Pony" by Deftones

Probably the first CD Ive ever liked through and through. Ive probably listened to the entire CD once a month since it came out. Its always great to hear it.

"Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness" by Coheed and Cambria.

Its a great listen front to back. Each song has its own style, and the CD in general has an epic feel to it. Ive actually listened through the whole CD once, just to start again from track one as soon as its done.

Ha, my kid`s mom would love you Akira. She`s a Deftones freak.

Cant blame her. Some people just have a thing for good music :) .

Songs For The Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age

Easily, easily their best album. Not a single bad track on it.

Origin of Symmetry - Muse

Also, easily the bands best album. I could listen to this over and over again. Oh wait, I do.

The Wall - Pink Floyd

My favourite album by Pink Floyd. Perfect in every way.

Oh, I forgot about QOTSA. Yeah, I totally agree...Songs for the Deaf is another album I can just put on and listen straight through (the little 'radio interludes' helps the effect).

Thirded for "Songs for the Deaf." Best Album they've put out. Solid riffs, and great lyrics to compliment. "Do it Again" is one of my favorite songs, period.

Minutemen - double nickels on the dime

44 tracks and not one of them is skipworthy at all and it contains some of the most solid and consistent drumming, easily filled with the most memorable basslines and guitar hooks as well. the essential 80's Hardcore Punk release.

Acid mothers Temple - mantra of Love

Japanese Psychrockers bring one of the simplest but beautiful trip-out albums known to man.

bad Brains - Rock for Light

4 african american reggae heads take a mainly whitebread genre of music and turn it upside down and nearly make eveyrone there bitch.

Can - Tago mago

Kraut Rock at it's finest, Fuck Kraftwerk. this is the the definitive band of the Kraut-rock Scene and nothing surpasses this album nor the Damo Suzuki era.

Wire - pink Flag

The only minimilistic punk albumt hat actually pulls off what it's trying to do and makes every track more enjoyable then the next

Love - forever Changes

All you kids put down your Zeppelin and Cream bullshit and pick up this classic; it will blow your mind.

A question for the people who are Championing QOTSA, have you ever heard the band Kyuss which QOTSA formed out of? they piss all over QOTSA.

Yes aaaaand...yes. I think Kyuss have always been bigger in the UK/Europe than the US.
But I still think Songs for the Deaf is a very, very solid album. And I love it.

Aesop Rock - Fast Cars, Danger, Fire & Knives.

One of the most eclectic, lyrically unorthodox, and well produced hip-hop albums ever produced. Not only that, you can listen to this album dozens of times and find some new angle on skewering religion, governmental regime and vanity.

Poe - Hello

One of the most beautiful listens I've ever subjected myself to. Just flows ever-so-smoothly even though it jumps from genre to genre throughout its course.

I'm sure I'll think of more as this thread progresses.

Two more to add to my list.

A Tribe Called Quest : Midnight Marauders

My favorite Hip-Hop group's best album. Its easy to listen through the whole thing while riding around at night. Very easy listening beats and smooth vocals. I only wish Hip-Hop was still like this.

Deadsy : Commencement

Great band, with a cool sound. The whole CD, minus a few songs, has a very dreamy sound to it. The low vocals, down tuned guitars, and spacey synths make this an easy CD to listen to front to back.

Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and Craig David - Born to do it are albums that I will never get tired of. I would have ranked Justin Timberlake - Futuresex/Lovesounds here as well were it not for that HORRIBLE track with will.i.am. He ruined it, he really did.

No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
I like every song, except for Hey You.

No Doubt-Return of Saturn
I like every song, except for Staring Problem.

Elliot Smith- Either/Or
I just like how the whole cd sounds. Some of the songs are just awesome. The whole cd is a good listen, to me, though.

Encephy, really? Hello? I'd say "Haunted." I think it's the more compelling of her two albums.

Anyway, I think the four albums that really come to mind for me as being totally lacking in skip-worthiness are:

Sigur Rós - Takk...

Brilliant from beginning to end, and artistically exciting as well! The album falters only slightly on "Milano," but still, it's not enough to make me skip it.

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

Still balancing well between music and lyrics (before they took a nose-dive lyrically on "Futures,"), I love every song on this album. I never skip a one. Excellent from start to finish.

Weezer - Blue Album

Come on. Similar to "Bleed American" in that every track is just great.

Eve 6 - Horrorscope

Not artistically wonderful or anything, but not a single cut on here fails to disappoint.

The only ones I can think of are:
- Iron Maiden - Powerslave: One of my first and favorite cd's. Favorite songs are Flash of the Blades, and Aces High. Everthing else is still very good (though the quiet part in Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner is kinda lame)
- Dragonforce - Inhuman Rampage: Even though alot of their songs sound similar, they all kick ass especially Through Fire and Flames, Revolution Deathsquad, and Operation Ground and Pound.

Jaga Jazzist - "What We Must"
Barky - "A Study in Rocking"
The Mars Volta - "Deloused in the Comatorium"
Gnarls Barkley - "St. Elsewhere"
Angra - "Holy Land"

Velvet Underground - "The Velvet Underground and Nico"
The Pop Group - "Y"
New York Dolls - "New York Dolls"

Dream Theater - Awake
Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness
In Flames - Come Clarity
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Cult of Luna - The Beyond
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
Vintersorg - Cosmic Genesis

All of them are fucking stunning and damn near perfect.

I'm lost. Since when have SOAD been a metal band?

The absolute best album by the band. Im not a huge fan of anything of theirs after the Blue Album, outside of a select few songs, but the first album was amazing.

I'll second this. It has everything I could want on a CD.

And also I have to mention:
Guns n' Roses - Greatest Hits. This CD is a very strong album, and all the songs are very good*.
*Well, they would have to be.... this is their Greatest Hits album after all.

I like Kyuss, amd while they have a fair few amazing tracks (50 Million Year Trip, Green Machine, Into the Void, Thong Song, Thumb), they're more spread out, rather than having one album which is completely amazing and listenable. I'd rate QOTSA higer, to be honest, simply because I find them more listenable (pre LTP tho. That was pretty rubbish).

Yeah... Hello. I like that album far more than Haunted, although it does have its moments of sheer brilliance. Both are essential listens.

Alien is a better album, but props on mentioning Strapping Young Lad in the first place.

I also got a few more:

Birdy Nam Nam - Birdy Nam Nam

French quartet of DJs who mix all their music simultaneously on the fly. At first listen one would think that it's a heavily produced studio album, but it's really just how tightly mixed every beat and scratch is for these guys. Their self-titled debut is the perfect chillout mix, hands down.

Nujabes - Modal Soul

Japanese born Jun Seba put together one of the most perfectly produced and heartfelt hip-hop albums ever made in 2005 after making all the music for Samurai Champloo.

Squirrel Nut Zippers - Hot

Neo-jazz never had it as good as the Zippers. This album is thoroughly an album that borrows from greats like Charlie Parker, Goodman and Shaw and Louis Armstrong and adds a new world twist to their music. This is one "Hot" listen.

Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material

One of the most awesome punk albums ever made didn't come from the buroughs of outrage in the U.K., but from the slums of Ireland and punk music flourished in the hands and ears of this quartet of outlanders.

Café Tacuba - Re

My favorite band of all time with my favorite album of all time. This is, in my eyes, the most perfectly conceived album of all time. From genre to genre, from heart to heart, from life to life... <3

Akira Yamaoka - Silent Hill 2 Sountrack

I seriously believe this is the best CD ever. There is so much depth, emotion and variation in the music it's really just beautiful to listen to.

HIM - Greatest Lovesongs Vol.666

System of a Down - Steal this Album!

Many have said this is System's worst album, but I can't help but think it's there best, I don't know why I think it's so great, but I just do.

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Pantera - Cowboys from Hell

Death from Above 1979 - You're a Women, I'm a Machine

30 minutes of fast paced madness. Superb album!

Reuben - Very Fast Very Dangerous

Gackt - Mars

Every song on that album is great. It truely is unbelievable.

Malice Mizer - Merveilles

In Flames - Reroute to Remain

Alkaline Trio - Crimson

X Japan - Art of Life

AFI - Sing the Sorrow

I must check this out. If its as good as some of the other stuff you posted, I know ill enjoy it.

I can upload it for you if you'd like, but it's Spanish rock. Still, the fact that it's in Spanish shouldn't keep you from enjoying it. Shit, I can't understand a goddamn thing Kaizers Orchestra is saying, but they're still one of my favorite bands. WHICH REMINDS ME! Another addition to the list:

Kaizers Orchestra - Ompa til du Dør

Norwegian rocksters' debut album fuses rock, folk and industrial sound into one sonic amalgamation. Sure you don't know what they're saying, but who needs to know when the steet drums are hitting that hard?

i can think of 2:
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Green Day - Dookey

I dont mind one bit. I tend to tune out the vocals in a lyrical sense most of the time when im driving or on the computer, and start to look at them as part of the melody. So the language barrier shouldnt hinder my enjoyment.

Their latest CD, Phantasmagore is pretty good to. Elijah Blue is only good thing to come out of Cher ever.

Well here is my list.

Alkaline Trio _ Good Mourning

A Perfect Circle _ Mer de Noms

MC Chirs _ Dungeon Master Of Ceremonies

Gorillaz _ Demon Dayz

DJ Danger Mouse _ Danger Doom

Bloodhound Gang _ Hefty Fine

KoRn _ Life Is Peachy

Murderdolls _ Vally Of The Murder Dolls

Coheed & Cambria _ In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth:3

Shabutie _ Plan To Take Over The World

i'll stop there

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness
Garbage - Garbage
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever
Tiesto - Nyana
Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers
Blink 182 - Enema of the State
Gangstarr - Full Clip
Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientelle
HIM - And Love Said No

I love these cds.

White Zombie's Astro Creep: 2000 -- Songs of Love, Destruction, and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head

Easily one of the best examples of 90s rock/metal, and stands above anything White Zombie or Rob Zombie did before or after, respectively. Each track offers something different, with excellent dynamics and variety--though all in keeping with the band's signature vibe. Your parents are sure to hate it both musically and thematically, and it's packed with some of the greatest riffs ever. Nu-metallers take note: this is how to groove.

Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot - Da Real World - This CD had hit after hit and should really be considered one of the definitive hip-hop/R&B albums of our generation.

Puff Daddy & The Family - No Way Out - This is one of those albums where nearly every cut was flames. Puff & Mase ruled 97-98 on the rhyme tip even if they were lackluster lyricists.

Bubba Sparxxx - Deliverance - Without a doubt, this is the best produced album of any genre of 2003. Bubba holds it down with the rhymes and Timbaland absolutely destroys the production, blending hip-hop, bluegrass, and a lil' bit of funk.

50 Cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin' - Despite how much of a bitch 50 has revealed himself to be in the last couple of years, this is a bonafide hip-hop classic anyway you wanna cut it.

REM - Automatic for the People - REM has an impressive body of work, but I sincerely believe AftP is where they reached their zenith in terms of lyrical depth and emotion.

They Might Be Giants - Flood - Kinda kooky, kinda campy, but also incredibly fun and catchy stuff.

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - An industry-defining classic in every sense.

Garbage - Ver.2.0 - Builds on previous successes while adding several new tricks. A great CD for when you're in a shitty mood.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime - It's hard to successfully pull off a high-concept rock album and not seem like pretentious asses. Queensryche proves that it can be done.

Electrasy - In Here We Fall - I bought this by mistake, thinking I was holding another CD. Best mistake I ever made. The whole thing is awesome.

Daft Punk - Discovery - Much warmer and friendlier than their Homework album. I bought it for one song and ended up loving the whole thing.

Lenny Kravitz - 5 - Lenny micromanages every aspect of his album's production: composition, performance, editing, engineering, artwork, post-production, you name it. But the man knows what he's doing and proves it.

Necro - Gory Days - I like every song on this CD. The beats are all consistently great and the lyrics are vicious.

Rage Against the Machine - The riffs are interesting throughout. Every song on here is catchy.

Deltron 3030 - I think this is Del's best album and it's with Dan the Automator and Kid Koala. It captures the Sci-Fi feel and content at a tremendous pace. The concept is cool, but the beats are awesome.

Ah yes, KoRn - Follow the Leader was a fantastic album. It's really an almost perfect nu metal disc. I'm going to listen to it again.

Great choice. Extremely catchy.

Sum 41 - All killer no filler. ~ I have no real reason for this cd. Maybe becuase It was the first CD I ever got, or maybe it was Pain for Pleasure. I Don't even like the genre at all, but this pops into my head.

Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 1 ~ This had the right mix og the classic Strat Power metal and Power ballads and such awesome things that Stratovarius is know for. This totally shows of Jens (Jans maybe?) Johansens skillz and versatility.

Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Expereiment 1 ~ Universal Mind. Best track ever created.

Also, a Santana album comes to mind, but I can't remember the name. Has Oye Como Va on it.

I'm adding another cd to my list. I don't have it, but I have always wanted it.

Jaguares- Cuando la Sangre Galopa

'Oye Como Va' first appeared on Abraxas, I believe. Great album, too. :)

Tool-Lateralus: One of the best cds to build on the success of Aenima.

Stabbing Westward-Whither Blister Burn + Peel: The best Stabbing Westward album.

That's all I can think of for now.

Weezer's Blue Album is the first one I got that was like this. I can still listen to it and enjoy every song on there.

Also, there is one album by Phil Collins, and one by Peter Gabriel, both of which my parents own, that I've listened to over and over and enjoy all of. I keep forgetting to copy them when I go back home.

I can think of a lot of CDs with one or two bad tracks and the rest amazing, but I'm having a very hard time thinking up CDs that were all good.

CDs that were all good, eh? With so much music, I still can’t even think of ten albums.

Eels –Beautiful Freak
Travis –The Man Who
Radiohead –OK Computer
Sarah McLachlan –Mirrorball

Cat Empire –The Cat Empire
Muse –Absolution
Mark Seymour –One Eyed Man
Sheryl Crow –Wildflower

Can't believe I forgot OK Computer! Amazing album.

Dropkick Murphy's--Blackout: Not all of the songs were my favorite...maybe there was ONE song i didn't like, it's been a while, but overall the album had some of the best songs from the band.


The Offspring--Americana: Same reasons as the guy that posted about this on page 1.


Great Big Sea--Up: Nobody knows this band, it's excellent Newfoundland Folk/Celtic stuff.

I'm starting to believe Somewhere Along The Highway by Cult of Luna falls into this category.

Honestly my least favourite Del album, not that it's his fault. 3030 has it's moments, but after hearing it I just got the impression Automator was desperate to make another Dr Octagonecologyst. So this just sounds second best, or wrong, to me.

Myself, I'd choose Aenima by Tool, White Pony by Deftones, and Disintegration by The Cure. It's perhaps not my favourite Cure album, but I'd consider it the most perfect on a whole.

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing... ( Fuck The Outsider :( )
Yukawa Shione - Yukawa Shione
Deftones - White Pony
Portishead - Dummy

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The Human Equation by Ayreon.

OK. So I'm not the only one who hated The Outsider. However, Endtroducing is a fucking awesome album.

I'd have to say some Perfect CDs for me would have to be:

Boston - Boston
Disconnection Notice - Goldfinger
Moving Pictures - Rush
Attack Of The Clones Soundtrack - John Williams (if film scores count)

Otherwise I might go even as far to say that American Idiot by Green Day would qualify, although I listen to much less Green Day than the rest...

Deftones - White Pony (the first version without "Back To School", since that song is probably their worst ever)

Weezer - Blue Album

Lostprophets - Start Something

pretty much any Jimmy Eat World album

any Queen album minus Hot Space and The Miracle

No Doubt - Return Of Saturn

The Smashing Pumpkins - both Siamese Dream and MCIS

Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium

Brand New - Deja Entendu

Lovedrug - Pretend You're Alive

Thrice - both The Illusion Of Safety and Vheissu

The Receiving End Of Sirens - Between The Heart And The Synapse

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West

YAY! Thought I was the only one...

That's weird, I always had AOTC down as the weakest Star Wars soundtrack.

Really? I thought Back to School was a pretty good song. Its got a nice anthem feel to it.

Passenger is, to me, the weakest song on the album.

Back to School is pretty terrible. I know Chino was just trying to prove something to the record label execs, but it really wasn’t worth it. I fucking cringe when I hear that song.

I like Passenger, but Maynards vocals sound so close to straining in the second chorus, which is its only weakness to me. But if you just dislike the song altogether, that’s fine.

Well personally, I think Pink Maggit is probably the best song they've ever done, ever. And when they re-released the album with Back To School on it, they just took a shit all over Pink Maggit with lyrics like "Stop that QUIT, all that QUIT, who ruined it? You did, NOW GRAB A NOTEBOOK AND A PEN!". I saw them at Family Values and everyone was really pissed that they didn't play that song, but I was thankful. Oh, and I reserved Saturday Night Wrist and got to meet the band. Chino is the coolest guy ever. But damn, Back To School, what was he thinking?

I love Passenger, but it sounds like shit live without Maynard. Instead of having Chi or someone fill in his vocals, they just replace Maynard's lines with instrumental parts, and it's really lacking.

I would have to say "Street Carp" is my favorite song by them, but I agree that Pink Maggit is an amazing song. The ending has differences lyrically then the chorus at the end of back to school which makes a huge differences in interpertation.

I still like passenger, but it just doesnt feel like a Deftones song to me. Alot of people hear it and love it, and then when they hear something else by Deftones they wonder what the fuck happened to them.

Im gonna grab "Saturday Night Wrist" when it hits. Im just hoping he didnt take too much influence along with him from his Team Sleep project.

Tubthumping- Chumbawumba

Good New for People Who Like Bad News- Modest Mouse

These CD styles i think are kind of similar but every song on both CDs are great.

King Of Everything - Mojo-Black

They are a local band that play rock, they write their own songs and they played a gig for my birthday. Since February I've only missed 1 of their gigs.

Fallen - Evanescence

I actually didn't like Evanescence at first but then I kept hearing their songs and they got stuck in my head and I started to like them. So, I listen to the CD loads now.

Highest Hopes - Nightwish

My favourite song is Over The Hills And Far Away. They are different from most of the other things I listen to.

Under My Skin - Avril Lavigne

Yes, I know it's Avril Lavigne but I like the songs.

Nine Lives - Aerosmith

I've been a huge Aerosmith fan for a while and I think this is their best album, beacuse it has different themes throughout the songs.

The Best Of Me - Bryan Adams

I like this album because it's easy to listen to and I think Bryan Adams is a great singer.

I guess I'm really picky...there are quite a few albums that come very close to perfection in my mind, but I can only think of a couple of albums that I think are absolutely perfect.

Every song on Air's Moon Safari is beautiful...like a slice of fluffy dreamy cake. I love it no matter how many times I listen to the whole CD.

I'm always amazed by how much emotional power is in Funeral by The Arcade Fire. My heart beats in time with Rebellion (Lies) when I listen to it...and then shatters when In The Backseat starts. The music is beautiful and matches with the lyrics and singing perfectly.

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 ( ).

Let me preface this by saying I'm generally not a fan of emo, punk, or anything of the sort... but a few of the albums in here may speak contrary to that, especially the first one.

Brand New - Deja Entendu
By far, every single track on this album is intricately thought-out and sonically fleshed-out. The blend of songs, subtle shifts of style and the emotion of it all is really quite stunning. Leaps and bounds ahead of their first album Your Favorite Weapon, and definitely beyond anything their fellow hugely-popular emo band Taking Back Sunday ever wrote. I recommend this album to anyone.

Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here
While there are two tracks that I find far less enjoyable than the rest (Les Lumieres and A Light at the End of the Tunnel) they still fit perfectly into the flow and mix of the album. With equal amounts abstract, acoustic, contemporary, industrial, electronica, post-hardcore, noise, and screamo, this album, from song one, takes you through so many auditory twists and turns it may leave you feeling ethereal and at the same time, animalistic. The lyrics, once you find out what they actually are, will blow your mind. Considering the album is about a man with memories of things that never happened who lived a life that never existed, I don't find that surprising. Two 18-year-old guys made this masterpiece. Chew on that for a while.

Tool - Ænima
Take all the core elements of what rock, metal, and just music in general is supposed to be, a hugely talented band, and quite a bit of Jungian theory, wrap it up in a neatly-arranged, perfectly-composed package and you'll get Ænima. Every track throws note after note of carefully controlled sonic assault at you, but the most notable tracks are "Forty-Six & 2," "Ænema," and perhaps "H" or "Eulogy," difficult to decide between them.

E.S. Posthumus - Unearthed
It's difficult to say what makes this completely original piece of musical art work, but imagine if you can what classical music would sound like if it were revived into today's society. Listen to it.

There are a few others I could listen to repeatedly and never tire of them, but these are my top three, easily.

SYSTEM OF A DOWN - TOXICITY

I loved EVERY SINGLE song on this album, Prison Song was a great intro to the album, and really got you into it. The short, thrashy tracks such as Jet Pilot and X were perfect transitions between the longer, more progressive songs. It was just brilliant. There was no filler here either, all the songs were tight, and if you listen past the end of Aerials, there's like 2 minutes of crazy african music and sound effects done by the band, it was wicked. Steal this Album(2003) was good too, but it was just a jumble of random tracks left over from the Toxicity album... After STA, SOAD just lost there sound in my opinion. TOO experimentational, not enough solid music...

NEIL YOUNG - AFTER THE GOLDRUSH

This album is timeless. My Dad listened to it on 8-track in a huge buick back in the day and I still listen to it on C.D. in my aveo, lol. Every song is beautiful, and there's everything from folk to rock to some country stuff on here. If Like a Hurricane had been on this album it would be the best album ever written ever. Like a Hurricane is the best Neil Young song ever written, but every song on this album is a close second. Other notable NY albums (and there are LOTS of them) include Harvest(1974), Harvest Moon(1992), Tonight's the Night(1975), Zuma(1975), and RE-AC-TOR(1982)...

MINDLESS SELF INDULGENCE - FRANKENSTEIN GIRLS WILL SEEM STRANGELY SEXY

This is what happens when you write 30 songs, can't decide which to throw on a C.D., so you throw them all on. It's just nuts, the whole C.D. is unrelentless crazy noise which is MSI's sound in a nutshell. The C.D. is all about kind of "Fuck it if it's a proper C.D., we think it's cool". I loved it!

TOOL - LATERALUS

I'll agree with you, Ayos, about TOOL, but I think LATERALUS was better, I just friggin loved Lateralus! Schism is like the best Tool song ever written as well, with Lateralus coming a close second, the feel of this C.D. is amazing, and if you need a perfect time to listen to this C.D. and are kind of a romantic, drive around at 3 a.m. when it's lightly snowing and listen to Lateralus alone in your car, you just get in this zone that's unlike anything else. Aenima is good too, as well as their new one, 10,000 Days...

Mmmmm 'Dark Side of the Moon' is also a CD I find perfect in every way. Not one bad track on it.

At the Gates: Slaughter of the Soul is personally a masterpiece to me. The tracks never dull as each track has a unique melody to it and it goes on until the end with almost no repetitive sound in each track. Love it and it's a classic.