Are there any albums you consider perfect?

Norah Jones Come Away With Me.  

Beach Boys Surfs Up  

King Crimson Court of the Crimson King

I am not sure I consider any record perfect. But there are certainly many that I consider vanishingly close to perfect.

How am I supposed to know if some incredibly great recording, could have been even better?

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

King Crimson - Larks’ Tongue in Aspic

Gentle Giant - Glass House, or Octopus

YES - Close to the Edge

PFM - Storia di un Minuto

Magma - Köhntarkösz Anteria

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

National Health - Of Queues and Cures

Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Lost Trident Sessions, or Birds of Fire

Banco Del Mutuao Soccorso - Io Sono Nato Libero

Deus ex Machina - Equilibrismo Da Insofferenza

Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior

Miles - In a Silent Way

There are many other recordings I would put at the same level as these, but then my list would get very long.

Let me add, that there are very many modern, contemporary, atonal, and avant-garde classical pieces that I consider near perfect, but on recording, they are often paired up with music that I do not.

I consider quite a few pieces by: Elliott Carter, Bruno Maderna, Joan Tower, Charles Wuorinen, Gyorgi Ligeti, Milton Babbitt, Magnus Lindberg, Penderecki, Ernst Krenek, and others, to be perfect.

But it is beyond the choice of the composer to choose any other pieces on the same recording.