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"

timrhu
i always though that if you replaced "going mobile" (which i never much cared for on who's next with "pure and easy", it would be perfect record.
that said, i wouldn't change a note on blonde on blonde or astral weeks, although there's a lot less venerable stuff i listen to more.
For that I value Depeche Mode; Yello; Kraftwerk especially Trans Europe Express album; ... 
None I've known ever covered these bands. The music is so perfect, you can't add or subtract anything from there

 

Just seeing this thread for the first time, and it’s a great subject! Off the top of my head I’d say:

The Band: Music From Big Pink; s/t (the "brown" album)

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited; Blonde On Blonde; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline; New Morning; Planet Waves; Shot Of Love

Dave Edmunds: Rockpile (album title, not the Group he was in with Nick Lowe); Subtle As A Flying Mallet; Get It; Tracks On Wax 4; Repeat When Necessary; Twangin’; D.E. 7

The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action

Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust

Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure

Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes

Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid

The Notorious Cherry Bombs: s/t

John Hiatt: Bring The Family; Slow Turning

Iris Dement: Infamous Angel; My Life; The Way I Should

Buddy Miller: Your Love And Other Lies; Cruel Moon

Kevin Gordon: Down To The Well

Lucinda Williams: s/t (Rough Trade)

Jim Lauderdale: Through It All

Loudon Wainwright III: Last Man On Earth

AC/DC: Back In Black

Weezer: s/t (the "green" album)

The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely

Emitt Rhodes: s/t

Van Dyke Parks: Song Cycle

The Beach Boys: All Summer Long; Pet Sounds; Smiley Smile; Wild Honey; Sunflower; Love You. And of course what would have been the pinnacle of Pop perfection had it been completed and released, Smile.



Here's some I wouldn't want to live without..

Alan Parson "I Robot"
Black Sabbath "Paranoid"
Simon & Garfunkel "Bookends"
Elton John "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"
Neil Young "Massey Hall 1971"
Lucinda Williams "Live at Filmore West"
Graham Nash "Songs For Beginners"
Traveling Wilburys "Vol. 1"
Richard Thompson "Pour Down Like Silver"
ZZ Top "Tres Hombres"
Manfred Mann "The Roaring Silence"
Family Band "Grace & Lies"
Van Morrison "Moondance"
Jackson Browne "The Pretender"
America "S/T"
Dire Straits "Communique"
Shawn Colvin "Steady On"
Mary Gauthier "Trouble & Love"
Heart "Dog & Butterfly"
Mazzy Star "Seasons Of Your Day"
Bob Seger  "Beautiful Loser"
Matthew Sweet "Girlfriend"
Tracy Chapman "S/T"
The Jayhawks "Rainy Day Music"
Chris Isaak "San Francisco Days"
Blood Sweat & Tears "S/T"
Chicago "Transit Authority"








Mary Gauthier's Trouble & Love! Good one astro. I have to get all her albums.