# Perfect Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287 "2003-07-09T18:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/21 "2003-07-10T01:44:49Z")
The Kinks’ Village Green Preservation Society Dave Davies’ Bug ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/22 "2003-07-10T01:46:05Z")
Elvis Costello - _Imperial Bedroom_,\* Punch The Clock\*,_Armed Forces_,_This Year’s Model_,_Painted From Memory(with Burt Bacharach)_. The Smiths - _The Queen Is Dead_,_Louder Than Bombs_ The Stones - _Exile On Main Street_, _Aftermath_ Wilco - _Being There_ Led Zeppelin - _III_ Van Morrison - _Astral Weeks_ Bjork - _Homogenic_ The Minutemen - _Double Nickels On The Dime_ Johnny Cash - _The Sun Years_ Elvis - _The Sun Sessions_ The Kinks - _Face To Face_ The Dandy Warhols - _Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia_ Robert Johnson - _King Of The Delta Blues_ Professor Longhair - _Houseparty New Orleans Style_ ---
**Author:** ![Mercutio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/51bf81/32.png) [@Mercutio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mercutio)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/23 "2003-07-10T02:24:37Z")
Operation Ivy - Self-Titled. Their only album, all of their songs. Not ONE sucks. They ALL are great with no exceptions. ---
**Author:** ![K364](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k364/32/5_2.png) [@K364](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/K364)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/24 "2003-07-10T02:27:47Z")
Billy Joel - _The Stranger_ Fleetwood Mac - _Rumours_ Simon and Garfunkel - _Bridge Over Troubled Water_ Dire Straits - _Brothers in Arms_ Cat Stevens - _Tea For The Tillerman_ ---
**Author:** ![fessie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c37758/32.png) [@fessie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fessie)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/25 "2003-07-10T02:36:18Z")
Me’Shell Ndgeocello - _Peace Beyond Passion_ Steely Dan - _Aja_ Indigo Girls - _Rites of Passage_ Led Zep - _I, IV_ Koop - _Waltz for Koop_ Dave Brubeck - _Time Out_ Billy Joel - _The Stranger_ Willy Porter - _Trees Have Soul_ Philip Glass - _Koyaanisqatsi_ (soundtrack) Bernstein - _West Side Story_ (soundtrack) Isaac Hayes - _Live at the Sahara Tahoe_ Pointer Sisters - _That’s a Plenty_ & the best of them all, Pink Floyd - _Dark Side of the Moon_ ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/26 "2003-07-10T02:40:12Z")
The Jimi Hendrix Experience Cream - Disraeli Gears Marvin Gaye - What’s Goin’ On Joni Mitchell - Blue Carole King - Tapestry Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks Stone Roses - Stone Roses David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust Elvis Costello - My Aim is True REM - Automatic for the People ---
**Author:** ![Airbeck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/airbeck/32/6574_2.png) [@Airbeck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airbeck)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/27 "2003-07-10T02:42:00Z")
That should be “The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?” ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/28 "2003-07-10T02:44:51Z")
John Prine - _John Prine_ Warren Zevon - _Warren Zevon_ Warren Zevon - _Excitable Boy_ Jackson Browne - _Running on Empty_ Wilco - _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ The Who - _Who’s Next_ Billy Bragg and Wilco - _Mermaid Avenue I_ Lynyrd Skynyrd - _Street Survivors_ ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/29 "2003-07-10T03:11:55Z")
Well, heres my choice… The Stooges-Funhouse. Iggy took rock and roll to new heights with that album. “Dirt” “TV Eye”…It just doesn’t get any better than that. It took 25 years for the mainstream to catch up with that album. Jon ---
**Author:** ![nitroglycerine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c5a1d2/32.png) [@nitroglycerine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nitroglycerine)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/30 "2003-07-10T03:21:57Z")
Oh, and the Dead Boys’ debut, Young Loud and Snotty is damn near perfect (and the rough mix version, Younger Louder Snottier is even uh…perfecter). Jon ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/31 "2003-07-10T03:54:33Z")
_If I Should Fall from Grace with God_, The Pogues. _Passion_, Peter Gabriel _Automatic for the People_, R.E.M. _Knock Knock_, Smog _Trompe le Monde_, The Pixies _Bachelor No. 2_, Aimee Mann _Stunt_, Bare Naked Ladies _Last Splash_, The Breeders _Play_, Moby ---
**Author:** ![Major\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Major\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Kong)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/32 "2003-07-10T03:57:42Z")
Let’s not forget- Smell the Glove ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Macphisto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@Ms\_Macphisto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Macphisto)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/33 "2003-07-10T06:13:37Z")
U2 - Achtung Baby The Joshua Tree is great, but somehow it just doesn’t work for me the same way Achtung Baby does. The Cure - Disintegration Another vote for Jeff Buckley - Grace ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/34 "2003-07-10T06:37:56Z")
_Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking_ and _Amused to Death_, by Roger Waters. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/35 "2003-07-10T06:38:38Z")
Guns 'N Roses - Appetite for Destruction Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett and His Large Band ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/36 "2003-07-10T07:11:32Z")
The Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo The Who - The Who Sell Out The Beatles - Rubber Soul Grateful Dead - American Beauty Gary Burton - Tennessee Firebird ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/37 "2003-07-10T12:09:26Z")
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Radiohead - OK Computer Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup The Pixies - Doolittle The Clash - London Calling Gang of Four - Entertainment Wire - Chairs Missing The Beatles - Rubber Soul Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground & Nico Neu! - Neu! ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/38 "2003-07-10T12:32:54Z")
mesh - _Who Watches Over Me?_ VNV Nation - _Empires_ Depeche Mode - _Violator_ Iris - _Awakening_ Delerium - _Karma_ ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/39 "2003-07-10T13:02:36Z")
R.E.M. - Murmur Portishead - Dummy Broadcast - Work and Non-Work (not technically an album, but a compilation of singles put out before the band’s first real album. Still, all perfect, and fit together like they were an album.) Edith Frost - Calling Over Time (Great for hanging around the house, feeling kinda blue.) ---
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/40 "2003-07-10T14:12:26Z")
Just a few off the top. Fleetwood Mac- Tusk Mathbox 20 - Yourself or Someone like you Live- Throwing Copper Alannis Morrisete- Jagged Little Pill Phil Collins- Hello I Must be Going Melissa Ethrige- Self Titled [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287.md?page=3)