Pehare,I have owned 4 copies of Caravanserai over the years,have 2 copies now!Love this LP since I was a teen!Also, Welcome is pretty good
Are there any albums you consider perfect?
My daughter gave me an ipod for my birthday and I have been loading music to it slowly. As a perxon who listens to albums start to finish I have been loading albums I consider high quality beginning to end.
Makes me wonder how many perfect albums there are out there. Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" is to me perfect. What I mean by perfect is not one sound needs to be added or subtracted to make it better. Funny thing is, "Pretzel Logic" is not my favorite Steely Dan album, but its sound is perfect. I can only come up with a few.
Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"
Tears For Fears, "Songs From The Big Chair"
Makes me wonder how many perfect albums there are out there. Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" is to me perfect. What I mean by perfect is not one sound needs to be added or subtracted to make it better. Funny thing is, "Pretzel Logic" is not my favorite Steely Dan album, but its sound is perfect. I can only come up with a few.
Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"
Tears For Fears, "Songs From The Big Chair"
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Nine Horses (a David Sylvian project), "Snow Borne Sorrow". Perfect for what it is. Very well recorded. Perfect in its music and flow. And I really dig the music. (Warning: trippy, not rocking.) http://www.amazon.com/Snow-Borne-Sorrow-Nine-Horses/dp/B000B8GUGO/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1317587298&sr=8-2 |
I think there are a lot of albums that come very close to perfection, but they usually have one song that disqualifies it for me. Foe example, Metallica's ...And Justice For All would be perfect if they dropped "Eye of the Beholder." I view an album as perfect if there's not a single song that I skip. That doesn't mean it's my favorite album (there's too many to call one my favorite), nor does it mean that the band doesn't have better songs on another album. So... Metallica - Ride The Lightning... Apparently the band hates "Escape" as they've never played it live. I like it enough to never skip it. Black Sabbath - Paranoid... The only 'filler' in this one ended up being perhaps their most famous song - Paranoid Slayer - Reign In Blood... It's about 26 minutes long. No redundancy or fillers. Rick Rubin asked them if they realized it was only 26 minutes long and maybe they should add a track or two. The band said they said everything they needed to say, and the cool thing was you could listen to it all the way through without a break, then flip it over and listen to it all over again (the entire album fit on one side of a cassette). Stone Remple Pilots - Core... Not a single weak track. I'd love to include Led Zepplin II, but I really, really hate "Thank You." |
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