# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Contrabass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Contrabass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrabass)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/61 "2003-08-20T16:42:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*Since this thread is bounced, and since I’ve found IT! > > For me at least… > > The perfect Carmina Burana, is the Chicago Symphoney version conducted by James Levine. > > At last I have a modern (no analog hiss and crackle) version with good pacing and fantastic singers throughout. > \*\* Hi, I see you’ve found a recording that you like, but I’ve long been partial to the 1975 London Symphony/Andre Previn version. See it here: [http://www.good-music-guide.com/tracks/053.htm](http://www.good-music-guide.com/tracks/053.htm) It seems to be generally regarded as an excellent version. I like the pace-- it bugs me when they rush through certain parts in other performances. ---
**Author:** ![Contrabass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Contrabass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrabass)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/62 "2003-08-20T17:08:15Z")
Now, then, to be on topic, here’s my list: Bjork – _Debut_ - I didn’t like “Anchor Song” until I heard it live in concert. Then, I “got” it. Awesome album, what an innovator! Bjork’s a freak, but what talent. Led Zepplin – _IV_ - What can you say, it’s just cool. NIN – _Broken_ - Almost forgot how cool this one was until I saw **Sm:)e** point it out. Paul Simon – _Graceland_ - I’m surprised to see only one other “vote” for this one. Rush – _Moving Pictures_ - Totally have to agree with **Mars Horizon** on that one. Honorable Mention: Bjork – _Homogenic_ - “Pluto” is a little grating. I like the “Plaid remix” of “All is Full of Love” better than the original on the album. Those two items keep it from being a “perfect album” in my book, but it’s one of my all-time favorites none the less. Live – _Throwing Copper_ - It _would_ be a “perfect album” except for that country-western sounding track at the end. I’ve never once listened to that song all the way through. And I’ve had the album since it came out… As a direct result of this thread, I’m going to check out Delerium – _Karma_ and Tricky – _Nearly God_… Cool, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/63 "2003-08-20T17:19:16Z")
**Black Sabbath** _Masters of Reality_ **TOOL** _Sober_ **Skinny Puppy** _Mind the Perpetual Intercourse_ **NIN** _Pretty Hate Machine_ **Motörhead** _Ace of Spades_ **Peter Gabriel** _Passion_ (again…) **Autechre** _Tri Repetae ++_ that’s what I think, anyway… ---
**Author:** ![toque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@toque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toque)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/64 "2003-08-20T17:35:34Z")
Patti Smith- _Horses_ Cowboy Junkies- _The Trinity Sessions_ ---
**Author:** ![krazy\_kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@krazy\_kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/krazy_kat)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/65 "2003-08-20T18:38:51Z")
a second to The Stone Roses, Ziggy Stardust, Exile, Louder than Bombs and Funhouse. Turn on the Brights - Interpol The Sophtware Slump - Grandaddy The Velvet Underground - Loaded Urban Hymns - The Verve Tim - The Replacments ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/66 "2003-08-20T19:46:56Z")
Mike Oldfield: Amarok (only 1 60 minute track!), Ommadawn Cream: Wheels of Fire (I like 15 minute drum solos!) Dylan: Second Highway 61, and add Bringing it All Back Home. For classical, I have a CD of Beethoven’s Ninth performed by the Berlin Symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and recorded in Berlin just after the fall of the Wall. The emotion in the playing makes this one perfect for me. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2003, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/67 "2003-08-20T20:38:06Z")
**Contrabass** I love the Andre Previn version, but the CD copy I tried out had too much analog white noise in the background. I like to play Carmina Burana very loud, and the white noise was too annoying. Do you have a remastered version on CD, a good CD remaster of the Aundre Previn version would be excellent. And as you like Bjork, you must deffinately try Tricky : Nearly God, as the vocals are provided by Bjork on two of the tracks. I have checked out and in some cases bought about 15 different albums from this thread. And I have moved from having hardly even heard of Jeff Buckley to being a real fan of his works. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/68 "2003-08-21T00:20:08Z")
Perfect? Oye. **Close To The Edge** by Yes. **Sounds of Silence** by Simon and Garfunkel. **Joshua Tree** by U2. **Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road** by Elton John. **Turnstiles** by Billy Joel. Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/69 "2003-08-21T00:23:46Z")
( Yeah, but **Bippy** … **Drama**??? 😛 ) ---
**Author:** ![J\_String](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ce73a5/32.png) [@J\_String](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/J_String)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/70 "2003-08-21T01:06:31Z")
**Scenes From a Memory** Dream Theater **Lightbulb Sun** Porcupine Tree **Office of Strategic Influence** OSI **V** Spock’s Beard ---
**Author:** ![hanza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb8c5e/32.png) [@hanza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hanza)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/71 "2003-08-21T01:10:44Z")
The first one that popped into my head was What’s Goin’ On by Marvin Gaye 35 minutes of pure perfection, and all the songs inform all the others to build up a whole- it wouldn’t be such an amazing album if you removed any of them. I am also inclined to agree, after further consideration, that Bjork’s Debut doesn’t have a single weak track, but it’s not quite a perfect collection in the way “What’s…” is. No others spring to mind at the moment… ---
**Author:** ![Jplacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85f322/32.png) [@Jplacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jplacer)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/72 "2003-08-21T04:20:29Z")
Dylan -Blonde on Blonde ---
**Author:** ![Spiral\_Out3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Spiral\_Out3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiral_Out3)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/73 "2003-08-21T05:20:00Z")
Radiohead - OK Computer Tool - Aenima ( To sköt: Sober is not a Tool album. I think you meant undertow.) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/74 "2003-08-21T06:17:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dead Pirate LeChuck \* > \*\*Counting Crows- August and Everyhing After \*\* Hear, hear! \*\* > [@](#): > > Live- Throwing Copper\*\* I’d have to disqualify this because of the “Otter Creek” track. Not one of my favorites. How about _Naked Baby Photos_ By Ben Folds Five? ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/75 "2003-08-21T10:24:58Z")
The Band- Last Waltz Dylan- tossup between Blood on the Tracks and Highway 61 ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/76 "2003-08-21T15:20:35Z")
Well **Cartooniverse** I find Jon Anderson’s voice a bit annoying after a while, and he seems to be allways “off with the faries” (not meaning anything homophobic, I mean off with Titania et al.). Also I think I am biassed because Drama was the first YES I noticed ( my Brother being 10 years older than me, meant I was into YES and Black Sabbath by the age of 6 ). Close to The Edge is my favourite YES (with Anderson) album. Does anyone have a recomendation for the best Beethoven’s 9th ---
**Author:** ![Contrabass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/cc9497/32.png) [@Contrabass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrabass)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/77 "2003-08-21T16:02:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bippy the Beardless \* > \*\*Contrabass, I love the Andre Previn version, but the CD copy I tried out had too much analog white noise in the background. I like to play Carmina Burana very loud, and the white noise was too annoying. Do you have a remastered version on CD, a good CD remaster of the Aundre Previn version would be excellent. > \*\* Hmm. I haven’t noticed that problem with my CD. I’ve had it for several years so it isn’t a recent remaster or anything. I have a decent component stereo system so if it were there, it probably would have bothered me. (ie, I’m not listening to a boom-box or anything where you might not notice.) I dunno… What a great performance that is though, eh? Raw when it needs to be, tender in other places. In 6th grade, I was in a Boys Choir at my middle school. We participated in a performance of _Carmina Burana_ at Boston University. Pretty cool, I’ve liked it ever since. I have yet to participate in a production of it while playing my **contrabass** though. 😉 > [@](#): > > And as you like Bjork, you must deffinately try Tricky : Nearly God, as the vocals are provided by Bjork on two of the tracks. > \*\* Yep, that’s one of the ones I’m going to look into… Discovering good new music is fun! God knows you can’t rely on the radio to find interesting new stuff these days. Unless you want to “discover” the latest from Britney… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![tomyoung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@tomyoung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomyoung)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/78 "2003-08-21T16:02:50Z")
\*Spiderland[/I, Slint _Dixie_, Avail _Repeater_, Fugazi _Surfer Rosa_, The Pixies _Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain_, Pavement I’ll second Godspeed You Black Emperor, Odelay, Stereolab, Portishead, Cowboy Junkies, Live at Fulsom Prison, Cowboy Junkies. Did anyone mention say Buena Vista Social Club, O Brother, or the Conan the Barbarian soundtrack (I’m serious!) Are soundtracks legit? ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287/79 "2003-08-21T16:36:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiral Out3 \* > > ( To sköt: > Sober is not a Tool album. I think you meant undertow.) \*\* :o …I’m an idiot, you are correct. I can’t believe I wrote that! I should have stuck with my first notion: _anything_ by **TOOL** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-albums/187287.md?page=3)