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 think Kbarkamian thought his thread was being sent to Audiobong?"

What's that supposed to mean? No offense taken. ...or should I?

Timrhu,

Everyone's idea of perfect is different. I'm a big fan of the bands mentioned. Not many Slayer fans here, I assume, but there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not the biggest Slayer fan overall, but Reign In Blood is considered by many to be the best thrash metal album of all time. It's an album I've owned since I was about 13, and still haven't lost a bit of interest in it at 35.

Ride The Lightning was from the era when Metallica had an edge and played like they were waving a big middle finger to everyone who didn't like what they were doing. Times have changed, people get older and grow up.

A lot of people consider Metallica's Master Of Puppets to be a perfect album, or at least their best. I think it has several songs on it that are better than anything on Ride The Lightning, but it's got a song I can't stand ("The Thing That Should Not Be"), and 2 others that I skip frequently. But Master Of Puppets' best songs may be Metallica's best songs. Kind of odd.

If you're looking to see what I'm talking about with these albums, I'm sure YouTube has songs from them. No cost to hear something new. That's becoming my new way of hearing new stuff. Saved me some cash and aggravation by not buying stuff I thought was going to be good, but ended up being awful.
Timrhu,

Forgot to mention...

Slayer's Regina In Blood really has to be listened to entirely to really understand why it's perfect (IMO). The first and last tracks definitely hold up on their own ("Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood") quite well though, if you're into thrash metal anyway. Metallica's Ride the Lightning should be heard throughout too. It's also more easily accessible than Reign In Blood.

Another album I forgot to mention...

Rage Against The Machine - Self titled; Full of politically charged rage and angst. A great album from start to finish with no fillers. It took me a while to appreciate the entire album, rather than just around half the tracks. It's a shame they only made 3 studio albums (not including a covers album).
Good grief!! If this is a representative sample of what you listen to, why not just get yourselves a Sony Boombox and be done. Some guys were talking about Tom Waits, I never heard of him, so I went to Amazon to hear some samples of his stuff. WOW!!! Thats not even music, let alone bad music. Do you really need high-end gear to listen to stuff like this??? Just asking. No offense.
Some guys were talking about Tom Waits, I never heard of him, so I went to Amazon to hear some samples of his stuff. WOW!!! Thats not even music, let alone bad music. Do you really need high-end gear to listen to stuff like this??? Just asking. No offense.
Rok2id

Never heard of Tom Waits? Really?
He gets plenty of mention on this site. If you listen to a few of his more popular albums I believe you'll be surprised at the number of songs you're familiar with through covers.