The Perfect CD

Originally Posted by Dogen

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Iwata

Kraut Rock at it's finest, Fuck Kraftwerk.

Originally Posted by Iwata

Fuck Kraftwerk.

Originally Posted by Iwata

Fuck Kraftwerk.

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Jack The Ripper

Tubthumping- Chumbawumba

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.

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Originally Posted by MetheGelfling

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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.

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"insanely picky and elitist"

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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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

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Originally Posted by knkwzrd

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.

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:

Originally Posted by *AkirA*

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

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.

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Originally Posted by Morrigan

As a Deftones fan, you're pretty much disqualified to comment on the quality of any music at all.

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

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What's your point?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

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

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

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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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Draz

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.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

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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.

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Originally Posted by *AkirA*

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

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.

Spoiler:

both albums have only one LOONG epic song on them:biggrin:

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by INDIGO-4

Spoiler:

both albums have only one LOONG epic song on them:biggrin:

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

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

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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...

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