I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

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    It’s cliche, but Dark Side of the Moon. There’s a reason it’s on every list of all time best albums. The whole thing just flows so well together.

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    Tool - Aenima

    Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

    Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

    Depeche Mode - Violator

    Faith No More - The Real Thing.

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        Personally. DCD is my all time favorite artist for over 30 years of my life. Every album of theirs is perfection. Aion and Spleen & Ideal are my favorites.

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          I’d go with “Within the Realm of a Dying Sun”. Track 7 (“Summoning of the Muse”) is my favorite song by any artist.

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    Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

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      I’ve always been more of a Black Parade fan, but Three Cheers is possibly a more cohesive experience that doesn’t jump around different genres as much.

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        I like the fact that The Black Parade jumps genres it really adds to the ‘world-building’ and storytelling of the patient and the parader.

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          I agree that’s what makes the album so great. Arguably you could say it could make a sonically jarring experience when you have stuff like Mama, Cancer, Disenchanted and Famous Last words so close to each other.

          Personally The Black Parade has been one of my all time favourite albums, and I like it the best out of their entire catalog.

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    Radiohead’s Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

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      It’s odd but Kid A didn’t click with me until after I’d heard Amnesiac. I think the follow-up album might’ve worked as a kind of gateway into a more electronic sound.

      I listened through Amnesiac maybe half a dozen times before I was curious and tried Kid A again, and it was like I was hearing a completely different album. It’s funny to have my opinion of an album change so much by listening to something else entirely.

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    • Dream Theater: Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
    • Pink Floyd: The Final Cut
    • Tool: Lateralus
    • The Prodigy: The Fat of the Land
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    “Gorillaz - Demon Days” It is like a story unfolding, where they really have fun with the music, and effortlessly meld through different genres.

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    Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

    • Arcade Fire – Funeral
    • Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
    • At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
    • Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
    • Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
    • My Morning Jacket – Z
    • Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
    • Radiohead – OK Computer
    • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    • The Decemberists – Picaresque
    • The Diggs – Commute
    • The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
    • The Libertines – s/t
    • The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
    • The Notwist – Shrink
    • Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

    German:

    • Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

    Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

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      A Lesson in Crime was definitely a fantastic debut, I’m also a big fan of their Champ album. Breakneck Speed is one of my favorite songs!

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      Lovely to see a mention of PSB here. Inform - Educate - Entertain is such a great record, and I loved Bright Magic so much that I bought it on CD so I could rip the highest quality possible for my iPod.

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    This is going to be a random list but:

    Tool - Lateralus

    Green Day - American Idiot

    Power Trip - Nightmare Logic

    Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory and Meteora

    Basically anything by Animals As Leaders

    Iron Maiden - Number of the beast

    Sepultura - Arise and Chaos AD

    Nirvana - Bleach and Nevermind

    Elder - Lore and Reflections of a floating world

    Blood Incantation - Starspawn

    Killswitch Engage - Alive or just breathing

    Bongripper - Satan Worshipping Doom

    Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

    Architects - LF/LT

    Dr Dre - 2001

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    Going by music genre:

    Hip Hop: To Pimp A Butterfly (by Kendrick Lamar), The Forever Story (JID), Madvillainy (MF DOOM), Hell on Earth (Mobb Deep)

    Electronic: Selected Ambient Works (Aphex Twin), Exai (Autechre), Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique (μ-Ziq)

    Black Metal: Filosofem (Burzum), Panzerfaust (Darkthrone), Pure Holocaust (Immortal), Exuvia (The Ruins of Beverast)

    Death Metal: Scream Bloody Gore (Death), Realm of Chaos (Bolt Thrower), Under the Sign of the Black Mark (Bathory)

    Country: Southbound (Doc Watson), Poor David’s Almanack (David Rawlings)

    I’m just breaking into country and jazz. If anyone has some classic must-listen albums, I’d be all ears.

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      It’s been almost a year since The Forever Story came out, but it was a classic in my mind from the first second I heard it. I haven’t listened to as much hip hop these past few years but that album pulled me right back in.

      I’m not the biggest fan of J Cole, but he’s discovered and boosted some amazing artists.

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    • Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
    • Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
    • The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
    • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
    • Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy
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    The first album that I ever bought back in the day from my pocket money was Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park.

    Only later I found out that this feeling of listening to every song of an album multiple times without getting bored or just not liking some or most of them is not the norm.

    I enjoyed the album right away. But only after being disappointed in all other albums that I bought over the next months I started to realize what an incredible gem Hybrid Theory is.

    I had the same magical feeling with Meteora. Sadly, the following albums could not keep it up for me.

    I still love HT and M to this day and listen to it monthly. Amazing albums by an amazing band.

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      Totally agree with you on Hybrid Theory…start to finish fabulous. Interestingly enough, another album I feel this way about is Aqualung by Jethro Tull. If I put on either of these albums I lose 40 minutes before I know it…