Perfect 10s

[TheImpossibleMan]

What albums would you give 10/10 to? Whar are the albums that you think are damn near perfect?

Mine:
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Cream - Wheels of Fire
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Death - Human
Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
The Who - Who's Next

Yours?

[GhettoSuave]

Avett Brothers-Emotionalism
Radiohead-Ok Computer
Elliott Smith-XO
Anathallo-Floating World
Alkaline Trio-Alkaline Trio
Brand New-Deja Entendu
Kings of Leon-Aha Shake Heartbreak

[ADD]

U2- The Joshua Tree
Metallica- Master Of Puppets
The Rolling Stones- Beggars Banquet
Led Zeppelin- II
The Police- Outlando d'Amour
Guns N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Dave Matthews Band- Under The Table And Dreaming
Pearl Jam - Ten

[sockmop]

Radiohead - OK Computer
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive for Someone with Nothing to Think About

[Jericho]

Man, fuck Radiohead already!

[TheImpossibleMan]

Man, fuck Radiohead already!
List or gtfo!

[hatecrew]

Alice in Chains - Dirt
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Beatles - The White Album
Foo Fighters - The Color And The Shape
Incubus - Morning View
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Led Zeppelin - zoso (IV)
Machine Head - The Blackening
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - OK Computer
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

[bones12]

Jeff Buckley - Grace
My Morning Jacket - Z
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bob Marley - Legend
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Radiohead - The Bends
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Crosby Stills and Nash - ST
Dr. Dre - The Chronic

I agree with a couple of the other ones listed as well (PJ, BSS, etc.) and I'm sure there are many I'm forgetting.

[NOTKyle]

I can't give The Chronic a 10, or most other rap albums for that matter, because of the skits. In my mind a perfect 10 has to have no tracks I'll skip, and I skip those every single time.

[Dr. Doctor]

I can only think of 2 off the top of my head.

Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

and

The White Stripes - The White Stripes

[Poop Sailboat]

I can't give The Chronic a 10, or most other rap albums for that matter, because of the skits. In my mind a perfect 10 has to have no tracks I'll skip, and I skip those every single time.
someone hates the $20 sack pyramid

[vasili denisov]

The Sounds - Dying to say this to you
Weezer - Guess which one. No, not the red album. Or the green one.
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Neil Young - On the Beach
Brian Eno - Apollo and somethingsomethingsomething
Kraftwerk - Man/Machine
Vitalic - OK Cowboy
Aretha Franklin - 30 Greatest Hits
Flying Burrito Brothers - Farther Along
Velvet Underground - VU + Nico
Dylan + teh Band - Before teh Flood

[Pyromaniac]

Weezer - Guess which one.
Pinkerton, clearly.

Barenaked Ladies - Gordon (maybe for nostalgia more than anything)
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Company Flow - Funcrusher Plus
Devin Townsend Band - Synchestra
Dethklok - The Dethalbum
Dillinger Escape Plan - Miss Machine, Ire Works
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake
maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Meshuggah - Catch 33
Nevermore - Dead Heart in a Dead World, This Godless Endeavour
Opeth - Still Life, Blackwater Park
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun, In Absentia
I refuse to put Radiohead here.
Weezer - Pinkerton.

And probably a few others that I forgot.

[Rusty]

Metallica- Ride The Lightening, Master Of Puppets, ...And Justice For All
Tool- Lateralus
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Johnny Cash- American IV: The Man Comes Around
The Haunted- rEVOLVEr
Darkest Hour- Undoing Ruin
Mastodon- Blood Mountain
Slayer- God Hates Us All
Pantera- The Great Southern Trendkill
Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon

[feith]

Man, fuck Radiohead already!


fuck radiohead?


something is seriuosly wrong with you.

[cdcooper]

Oasis - Definitely Maybe
The Clash - London Calling
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Neil Young - Decade [The best 'Best Of' ever released]

[goldsoundz]

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
silver jews - american water
elloitt smith - either/or

[wlack]

Rush - Permanet Waves
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - Pulse ( Live Album)
Genesis - Duke
AC/DC - Black in Black
Radiohead - Pablo Money
Marillion - Script for a Jesters Tear
Roxy Music - Avalon
Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls
The Clash - London Calling
Dire Straits - Alchemy
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Supertramp - ...Famous Last Words
Van Halen - Van Halen
Wishbone Ash - Argus

[Jericho]

Bon Jovi-Slippery When Wet

[Revolver]

The Beatles - Revolver
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
Neil Young - On the Beach
Brian Wilson - Smile
David Bowie - Low
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
the Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
Faust - Faust IV
The Strokes - Is this It
Gary Numan - Replicas
The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives
The White Stripes - Elephant
Prince - Sign O' the Times
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

[Gecko]

Bob Dylan - Blonde on blonde
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 revisited
Elliott Smith - Either/or
Tom Waits - Rain dogs
Nick Drake - Pink moon
Lou Reed - Transformer
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground
Beatles - Revolver
Beatles - Abbey Road

[scrum]

Miles Davis - kind of blue
Van Halen - Van Halen
Rancid - And out come the wolves
the Clash - Londin Calling
Less Than Jake - Losin Streak

[mongo]

i love tons of old shit too, but i feel like every classic rock station has done the best albums of all time list, thus i'll only do stuf from like the last 20 years.

The Knife - The Knife
Apples In Stereo - Velocity of Sound
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Flaming Lips - Clouds Taste Metallic
Weezer - Pinkerton
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over The Sea
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Eels - Live At Town Hall
Elliot Smith - Either/Or
Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville
Mates of State - Team Boo
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Portishead - Dummy
Sigur Ros - Every Fucking Album!
The Rentals - Return of the Rentals

[banethejuggalo]

Tool - Aenima
Weezer - Blue Album
Green Day - Dookie
Tech N9ne - Killer
311 - Evolver
Beatles - White Album
Rage Against The Machine - Self Titled
Korn - Follow The Leader
Snoop - Doggy Style
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sex, Sugar Magik
Sublime - Self Titled
Beastie Boys - License to Ill

[muthastone]

Weezer- Blue/Pinkerton (it depends on if i put the toilet seat up to piss that day)
Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
The Wrens - Meadowlands
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Velvet Underground - VU and Nico
The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die

[cowboy dan]

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Neil Young - On the Beach
Elvis Costello - This Years Model
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisted
Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Wu-Tang - Enter the Wu-Tang
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

[merlin13]

Metallica- Ride The Lightning
Judas Priest- Screamin' For Vengeance
Led Zeppelin - IV
Scorpions - Virgin Killers

[Genius]

In my opinion, there aren't different kinds of perfection. So you can't have a list of perfect albums, it's like Highlander, there can be only one. Once you've found your perfect album, there can't be another equally as perfect. You might discover one more perfect, but one is it, no list. And this is the perfect album.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c300/genius34/untitled-5.jpg

[TheImpossibleMan]

I disagree. Music quality is not a zero-sum assessment: across different genres and different styles, there can be perfect albums that are utterly unalike. If two albums aren't trying to accomplish the same thing, then they can both be perfect.

[Dracula]

Glassjaw- Worship and Tribute
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sugar
Pantera- Vulgar Display Of Power
Slayer- Reign In Blood
At the Drive-In- Relationship of Command

[Neohesh]

Pennywise - Full Circle
Pennywise - About Time
G&R - Appetite for Destruction
Metallica - And Justice For All
Metallica The Black Album
Led Zepplin - IV
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape

[BooBooBear]

Beatles - Abbey Road
Van Halen - Fair Warning

[Francis Drake]

In my opinion, there aren't different kinds of perfection. So you can't have a list of perfect albums, it's like Highlander, there can be only one. Once you've found your perfect album, there can't be another equally as perfect. You might discover one more perfect, but one is it, no list. And this is the perfect album.

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c300/genius34/untitled-5.jpg

Nailed it. But if I have to list more:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Television - Marquee Moon
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

[Hodge]

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Metallica - Black Album/S&M
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Led Zeppelin - IV/In Through the Out Door
Green Day - Dookie
The Offspring - Smash

The only ones that come to mind right now. But I know/own a lot more.

[coolguy]

neutral milk hotel - in the aeroplane over the sea
wilco - yankee hotel foxtrot
silver jews - american water
elloitt smith - either/ornice post

[yard]

so much good music so little brainpower to remember them all......

1. beatles white album
2 led zeppelin II
3. pink floys dark side of the moon
4. pink floyd physical grafitti
5.dead Shakedown street
6.pearl jam ten
7.phish lawn boy
8.soundgarden self titled
9.widespread panic space wrangler
10 widespread panic 2nd album
11. adam sandler's cd..... freaking awesome....

[evilash]

My list is definitely not based on most popular or on the best selling, but albums that have inspired me or that I can listen to front and back and still be like.. "Damn, this is bad ass!"

1. The Misfits - Earth AD (Close tie with Walk Among Us)
2. Megadeth - Rust In Peace
3. Metallica - ...And Justice For All...
4. Pantera - Far Beyond Driven (Really any album, but this is my fav)
5. Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
6. Down - NOLA
7. Alice In Chains - Dirt
8. Clutch - (Self Titled)
9. Faith No More - Angel Dust
10. Prong - Cleansing

[Willam]

Most are already listed but here goes:

Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
The Police - Reggatta De Blanc / Zenyatta Mondotta
Bob Marley - Legend
The Charlie Hunter Quartet - Natty Dreads
Gibb Droll - Dharma

[Sir Droopy]

Mercyful Fate-Don't Break the Oath
King Diamond-Abigail & Them
Michael Jackson-Thriller
Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast

[YELLOW_TOAD]

AC/DC - Back In Black
Animal Logic - Animal Logic
Chick Corea - Eye Of The Beholder
Foreigner - Double Vision
Living Colour - Vivid
Rush - Moving Pictures
Steve Perry - Greatest Hits + Five Unreleased.

[moe_blunts]

Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Le Orme - Felona e Sorona
Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
Lykathea Aflame - ElevenefrisJudas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

[runlive]

Beatles - Sgt Peppers
TQ - Westside
Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage

[smahoo]

Beatles - Abbey Road, Let It Be and Revolver
McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run
Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Zuma
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Led Zeppelin - I, II and IV
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
U2 - Joshua Tree, Boy
Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
XTC - Generals and Majors, Skylarking
The Who - Quadrophenia, Who's Next
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Billy Joel - The Stranger

[BillyZoom]

311 - 311 (The Blue Album)
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen, Black Love
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Big Black - Atomizer
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Depeche Mode - Violator
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation of Millions
Slint - Spiderland
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina
U2 - Achtung Baby

[Phil Theehor]

A "perfect" album is tough to name. My criteria would be that as every song ends, I start really looking forward to the next song. Even the great albums have a couple of stinkers.

Most that I would put forward have already been named (Pet Sounds, Born to Run, Abbey Road, Blood on the Tracks, etc.).

I'll put forward three that haven't been named, but do pass that test with me. It's tough to tell, however, if it is the greatness of the album that does it, or the nostalgia-- the time in my life when I was really into music and these were albums that I could listen to on a loop.

Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Traveling Wilburys - Volume I
The Clash - Black Market Clash

[JohnQRotten]

Pixies- Doolittle
Screaming Trees- Sweet Oblivion
Sex Pistols- Nevermind the Bollucks
Metallica- Black LP
The Beatles- Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Doors- s/t
The Breeders- Last Splash
Prince- Purple Rain
Nirvana- Nevermind
Pearl Jam- Vs.
Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream

[TheImpossibleMan]

The Black Album?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

[BSM]

A few that have been mentioned but I'll add my 2 cents

Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Depeche Mode - Violator
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Hole - Live Through This
Jay Z - The Blueprint
The Killers - Hot Fuzz
LCD Soundsystem - Sounds of Silver
Led Zeppelin - IV
Live - Throwing Copper
M.I.A. - Kala
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Nas - Illmatic
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Nirvana - Nevermind and In Utero... and would you count Unplugged? If so, add that on the list too
Pearl Jam - Ten
Peter Gabriel - So
Portishead - Dummy
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
Soundgarden - Superunknown
The Strokes - Is This It?
Sublime - Self Titled
Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
The Walkmen - Bows + Arrows
The Who - Who's Next
White Stripes - Elephant
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell

[arod2105]

I would have to say mine are
Meatillca: Ride the Lightening, The Black Album
Avenged Sevenfold: Self-Titled
Queens of the Stone Age: Songs for the Deaf
Nine Inch Nails: The Downward Spiral
Johnny Cash: American IV: The Man Comes Around
Korn: Follow The Leader
AC/DC: Back In Black
Tool: Lateralus
The Mars Volta: De-loused In The Comatorium

[Bill Paxton]

Going to have to second the nomination for Alkaline Trio - Alkaline Trio, unbelievable record. I've listened to it all the way through hundreds of times and it never gets old.

Also...

Glassjaw - Everything you wanted to know about silence
Say Anything - Is A Real Boy
Millencolin - Pennybridge Pioneers
Against Me! - Reinventing Axl Rose
Avenged Sevenfold - Waking thr Fallen (fuck all ya'll haters out there)
Bad Religion - Recipe for Hate
Chuck Ragan - Los Feliz (lead singer of Hot Water Music live solo acoustc set)
Hot Water Music - Caution
Mudvayne - LD 50 (each album after this has gotten progressively worse, but this album was a masterpiece)
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
Sublime - Sublime (I liked this a little better than 40 oz to freedom)
The Get Up Kids - On a Wire
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Weezer - The Blue Album (i really don't know why people think Pinkerton is a better album. I might be wrong, but I think Rivers even specifically said he didn't even like Pinkerton)

[chad213]

The Black Album?

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Agreed. Are you kidding me...the Black Album.

[ElvisWong]

1- Foo Fighters - The colour and the shape
2- Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
3- Nirvana - Nevermind
4- Pearl Jam - Ten
5- Jimi Hendrix - Are you experienced
6- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
7- Pink Floyld - Wish You Were Here
8- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
9 - Jet - Get Born
10- Guns N'Roses - Use your illusion I and II

[Roll]

edIT - Crying Over Pros For No Reason has been mine for the last year.

Really, really great melodic downtempo glitch hop.

[Zilchoid]

Boston - Boston
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Journey - Escape
Linkin Park - Meteora
The Offspring - Smash
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Sublime - Sublime
Tenacious D - Tenacious D

[Datači]

radiohead - ok computer
haustor - bolero
burial - untrue
the smiths - the queen is dead
talking heads - remain in light
kraftwerk - die mensch maschine
the national - boxer
aphex twin - i care because you do
arcade fire - funeral
svadbas - la la

[heelsguy]

Beatles-Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts CLub Band
Billy Joel--The Stranger
Boston-Boston
Foreigner-Foreigner
fleetwood mac rumours
aerosmith-toys in the attic
saturday night fever- soundtrack from the motion picture
Huey Lewis and The news- Sports
Journey- Escape
Toto-Toto IV

[Hulud]

brian eno - another green world
talking heads - remain in light
m83 - dead cities, red seas, lost ghosts
pj harvey - stories from the city, stories from the sea
carl craig - more songs about food and revolutionary art
joy division - unknown pleasures
radiohead - ok computer

[Pox]

The only alums that I can think of that are entirely flawless are The Clash's first album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and Sonic Youth's Sister.

[Anfield Red]

Motorhead's Ace of Spades
Social Distortion's White Trash
Pixie's Doolittle
and anything by the Jesus and Mary Chain...