Your (perfect) record

However if we want to talk old school a little then a few candidates.


2112 ... Rush.

Paradise Theater ... Styx

Crime of the Century ... Supertramp

Tubular Bells ... Mike Oldfield

Deceptive Bends ... 10cc

Rainbow Rising


And on and on

Truth be told I would say it is IMPOSSIBLE to pick just one perfect album for myself.

A few more: Dylan's Blonde On Blonde, John Wesley Harding, and Blood On The Tracks, Rockpile's Seconds Of Pleasure, John Hiatt's Bring The Family and Slow Turning, Loudon Wainwright's Last Man On Earth, Weezer's s/t ("green" album), The Byrds Sweethearts Of The Rodeo, The Dwight Twilley Band's Sincerely, Emitt Rhodes' s/t debut, Ry Cooder's Bop 'Til You Drop (musically, not sonically, unfortunately---the very first digital Pop album). So much music, so little time.

For me it's *Kind of Blue* by Miles Davis.  I own several copies, reissues and originals, including a very nice 6-Eye stereo LP,

Roxy Music’s "Avalon" LP

Blood Sweat & Tears - eponymous album

Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" import SACD

Miles Davis - "Kind of Blue"

John Coltrane - "Blue Train"

Supertramp- "Crime of the Century"

Steely Dan - "Aja"

Donald Fagan - "The Nightfly"

Patricia Barber - "Cafe Blue" (un-mastered SACD)

Clark Terry - "Portraits"  (get the SACD if possible) - Possibly the most beautifully recorded jazz album ever.  No limits to soundstage with no "trickery".  Fabulous music from a combo of guys totally in sync. 

Dmitri Shostakovich’s symphonies as conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy (he gets the emotional roller coaster that is a Shosty symphony)

@slaw   Agree with you on "Boys and Girls"!  Do you have "Avalon"?