The Perfect CD

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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

FELIPE NO

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

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Originally Posted by sprouticus

Both of these albums in tandem make for one amazing metal album.

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by killmoms

Weezer - Blue Album

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

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.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Living Legend

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.

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.

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

Originally Posted by Iwata

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.

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).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by killmoms

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

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

Originally Posted by Krellian

Strapping Young Lad - The New Black

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

I was speaking idiomatically.

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Encephalon

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

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

FELIPE NO

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?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

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.

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.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by *AkirA*

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.

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

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

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.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

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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.

FELIPE NO

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Crash Landon

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

Great choice. Extremely catchy.

There's nowhere I can't reach.