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you know ... an album that is scraping the borders of perfection ... the mood and track listing an quality of the songs just make it into a all round superb package.

what records would you say fit this idea ?

cursive - ugly organ
far - water & solutions
jeff buckley - grace
sepultura - chaos ad
the clash - london calling
metallica - master of puppets
converge - jane doe
iron & wine - our endless numbered days
the get up kids - something to write home about
kyuss - sky valley

(yes i love lists, in fact i wouldnt be out of place in high fidelity...id probably be dick)

soapy | 12 Jun '05, 18:14 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Re: complete albums

Neutral Milk Hotel / In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
JB / Grace
Arcade Fire / Funeral

mostly_panic | 12 Jun '05, 18:15 | Reply
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  maybes the manic street preachers - the holy bible
  
  Thomar | 12 Jun '05, 18:18 | Reply
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  Seconded Arcade Fire - Funeral
  Oasis - Definitely Maybe
  Depeche Mode - Violator
  65 Days Of Static - The Fall of Math
  Super Furry Animals - Radiator
  Maximo Park album without Grafitti
  
  Aidan78 | 12 Jun '05, 18:21 | Reply
Re: complete albums

The Stooges - Fun House (the only place that 'LA Blues' will ever fit is at the end of that record)
Deerhoof - Milk Man
The Breeders - Pod
Pixies - Doolittle

I would choose Domestica over Ugly Organ myself. It fits together better.

mug_mug_mug | 12 Jun '05, 18:21 | Reply
Re: complete albums

Pink Floyd - DSOTM
Mars Volta - De-loused..
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth..
My Vitriol - Fine Lines
Metallica - Master of Pups seconded

juliano | 12 Jun '05, 18:22 | Reply
Re: complete albums

i would go deeply into it but im only going to mention three

Refused - the shape of punk to come
At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
The Letters Organize - Dead Rhythm Machine

zombie_crew_1985 | 12 Jun '05, 18:24 | Reply
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Ink and Dagger - s/t
Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Placid_Casual | 12 Jun '05, 18:24 | Reply
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  I have another
  
  DJ SHADOW - Entroducing (this is anothers great debuts album)
  
  Thank you
  
  Thomar | 12 Jun '05, 18:31 | Reply
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  ATD-I - 'Relationship of Command'
  Can - 'Tago Mago' (Although i've only heard it a lot recently s i don't know whether it will last)
  FNM - 'Angel Dust'
  Calla - 'Televise'
  Shellac - 'Teraform' and '1000 Hurts'
  Neurosis - 'A Sun that Never Sets'
  CocoRosie - 'La Maison de mon Reve'
  
  less_than_zero | 12 Jun '05, 18:32 | Reply
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    You're insane! at Action Park's the only perfect Shellac album!
    
    iShotTheDeputy | 12 Jun '05, 22:58 | Reply
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Lycanthropy
Curve - Doppelganger
Portishead - Dummy
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

John_Brainlove | 12 Jun '05, 18:34 | Reply
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  Doppleganger seconded.
  
  The Catchers - mute
  Drugstore - s/t
  The Cure - Faith
  The Cure - desintegration
  Desert Hearts - let's get worse
  Magnolia Electric co - what comes after the blues
  
  lyle | 12 Jun '05, 19:29 | Reply
Re: complete albums

i can't face a big famous album debate so those albums where however quickly you want to get to one favourite track, you just end up listening to the whole thing because it's just so wonderous..

deerhoof - milk man
arcade fire- funeral
explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold dead place
adem - these are your friends
belle and sebastian - tigermilk
tortoise - tnt

champ | 12 Jun '05, 18:43 | Reply
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  Wow, Deerhoof, really? I found that album incredibly patchy. Love 'em though.
  
  John_Brainlove | 12 Jun '05, 18:45 | Reply
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    yep. i am currently completely captivated by every song! could be a honeymoon period cos i only bought it last week...
    
    champ | 12 Jun '05, 18:47 | Reply
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      I reckon it fits together really nicely.
      
      mug_mug_mug | 12 Jun '05, 19:51 | Reply
Re: complete albums

Pixies - Surfa Rosa
Led Zep - I
Thethe - Soul Mining
Thethe - Infected
Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Tom Waits - Nighthawks At The Diner
Notorious BIG - Ready to Die
50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Rage Against The Machine - s/t
Joy Division - Closer
Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs

marcofella | 12 Jun '05, 18:57 | Reply
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Can - Tago Mago
MBV - Loveless

i-deserve-to-be-in-your-band | 12 Jun '05, 19:00 | Reply
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  The Stone Roses - Self Titled
  The White Album (if you take out the two Revolutions)
  Tago Mago aswell (Faultless)
  
  naive_melody | 12 Jun '05, 19:35 | Reply
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    Wht isn;t there a Can page?
    
    less_than_zero | 12 Jun '05, 19:37 | Reply
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  Radiohead- Hail To The Thief
  Slayer - Reign In Blood
  Metallica- Master Of Puppets
  Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie
  Arch Enemy - Anthems Of Rebellion
  
  all absolutely perfect IMHO
  
  mooseman | 12 Jun '05, 19:37 | Reply
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    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    Pink Floyd - dark side of the moon
    M83 - Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts
    Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
    Paul Simon - Rhythm Of The Saints
    Sigur Rós - ( )
    Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
    Yann Tiersen - the amelie soundtrack (ace)
    
    theres a lot more...but i can't be botherd.
    
    josh_h | 12 Jun '05, 19:45 | Reply
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      Portishead - Dummy
      Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen...
      Nirvana - In Utero
      Nick Drake - Pink Moon
      Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
      Joy Division - Closer
      Television - Marquee Moon
      Primal Scream - Exterminator
      
      moribund | 12 Jun '05, 20:27 | Reply
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        Sgt. Peppers.
        The White Album.
        The Holy Bible.
        Pet Sounds.
        Funeral.
        Source Tags and Codes.
        
        a bit predictable really.
        
        On-Off | 12 Jun '05, 20:42 | Reply
        
        Re: complete albums
        
        Music has The Right To Childred - Boards of Canada
        Entertainment! - Go4
        One Word Extinguisher - P73
        Madvillainey - Madvillain
        
        and loads more that have to be listened to all the way through...
        
        whiteboydanceparty | 12 Jun '05, 20:55 | Reply
        
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        I also for got No cities Left and the Marshall Mathers LP.
        
        On-Off | 12 Jun '05, 22:56 | Reply
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    I forgot about Reign in Blood. Fuck yes.
    
    The Presidents of the USA - The Presidents of the USA
    
    Is also perfect.
    
    mug_mug_mug | 12 Jun '05, 21:01 | Reply
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      OK computer
      Daydream Nation
      Four Tet - Rounds
      Xiu Xiu - Fabulous Muscles
      
      frankiegoestostoke | 12 Jun '05, 21:04 | Reply
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      Mansun - Six
      Faith No More - Angel Dust
      Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
      
      waterwings | 12 Jun '05, 21:21 | Reply
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        You must be kidding...
        
        lyle | 12 Jun '05, 21:47 | Reply
        
        Re: complete albums
        
        Erm...not at all. Would you like to challenge my opinion?
        
        waterwings | 12 Jun '05, 21:57 | Reply
        
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        i thought about Six, i think its bloody brilliant and very underrated, if only they hadnt made that godawful 3rd album
        
        moribund | 12 Jun '05, 22:01 | Reply
        
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        True...it was a fucking huge letdown of an album! Although Kleptomania more than makes up for it, me thinks.
        
        waterwings | 12 Jun '05, 22:01 | Reply
        
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        'Six' is OK but had more than it's share of weak songs.
        As for the Placebo album, it's really bad.
        
        lyle | 12 Jun '05, 22:03 | Reply
        
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        A perfect album does not exist.
        It will never to be created.
        All albums have flaws.
        
        smallpox_champion | 12 Jun '05, 22:13 | Reply
        
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        You obviously haven't heard Lightning Bolt then...
        :P
        
        thommo | 12 Jun '05, 22:23 | Reply
        
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        I dunno...their s/t wasn't brilliant. Good but it was flawed.
        
        less_than_zero | 12 Jun '05, 22:32 | Reply
        
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        but 'Ride The Skies' though....phew!
        
        thommo | 12 Jun '05, 22:33 | Reply
        
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        Yeah but Wonderful Rainbow is better, but it still isn't perfect...
        
        themurdermystery | 12 Jun '05, 23:16 | Reply
        
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        I think that both are superb, but they are quite personal to me....so maybe that's why. Hmmm.
        
        waterwings | 16 Jun '05, 20:15 | Reply
Re: complete albums

dj shadow - endtroducing
radiohead - kid a
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Madvillain - Madvillainry
Pixies - Doolittle
Dntel - Life is full...

homesick_alien | 12 Jun '05, 22:37 | Reply
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  radiohead- the bends
  pixies - doolittle
  oasis - definitely maybe
  stone roses
  the libertines - up the bracket
  
  shereallyiselectric | 12 Jun '05, 23:01 | Reply
Re: complete albums

Radiohead - Amnesiac is the most perfect, complete album I own.

Thom_fa | 12 Jun '05, 23:03 | Reply
Re: complete albums

hmm. I'd go with Pacific Ocean Blue, by Dennis Wilson

grockle | 12 Jun '05, 23:17 | Reply
Re: complete albums

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust/Diamond Dogs
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Iggy & the Stooges - Raw Power
Portishead - Dummy
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Liz Phair - Exile From Guyville
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On

I tried to answer the question as 'albums that are greater than the sum of its parts' or albums with nary a weak track or so-called 'concept' albums, que no?

oceanRain | 12 Jun '05, 23:20 | Reply
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  Tool - Aenima
  Oceansize - Effloresce
  Led Zep IV
  The Doors - The Doors
  Soundgarden - Superunknown
  Kyuss - Sky Valley
  Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
  Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
  Incubus - Science
  Faith No More - King for a Day
  MC900 Ft Jesus - One Step ahead of the Spider
  DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
  Orbital - Brown
  Massive Attack - Protection
  
  I could go on probably
  
  drummerboi | 13 Jun '05, 09:42 | Reply
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    In my collection (going by what I can listen to without skipping a track*):
    
    Green Day - Dookie/Kerplunk
    Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
    Slayer - Reign in Blood
    Manics - Everything Must Go
    Slaves On Dope - Inches from the Mainline
    White Stripes - White Blood Cells
    Chas and Dave - Double Bubble
    Easyworld - Kill the Last Romantic
    Stereophonics - Word Gets Around
    Bad Religion - Recipe For Hate
    Various - 'Clerks' soundtrack
    
    * Technically all G D's album should be here, but I wont list them all.
    
    tre_cools_sticks | 13 Jun '05, 11:28 | Reply
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      Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot..........what a beauty!!
      
      ringo | 13 Jun '05, 12:52 | Reply
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      The Chameleons - Strange Times
      Sugar - Copper Blue
      Jeff Buckley - Grace
      
      Mr_P | 16 Jun '05, 20:19 | Reply
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  i think greater than the sum of its parts is the best way to describe what i meant
  
  soapy | 13 Jun '05, 12:58 | Reply
Re: complete albums

Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead - Madonna
The American Analog Set - Know By Heart
50 Foot Wave - Golden Ocean
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
The Cure - Pornography
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (1986)
Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On
The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic

caribou | 16 Jun '05, 20:24 | Reply
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MBV - Loveless
MSP - Holy Bible
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Electrelane - Rock it to the moon
65 days of static - the fall of math
explosions in the sky - the earth is not a cold place
radiohead - Kid A
Pretty Girls MAke Graves - the new romance
The Clash - London Calling
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Mars Volta - De-Loused
Bob Dylan - The Times they are a changing
Interpol - Antics
GYBE - Lift your skinny fists

super_t83 | 16 Jun '05, 20:33 | Reply

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