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[music] is there/ was there/ will there ever be a perfect album? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every album I've ever encountered seems to have a mixture of bangers and one or more meh or outright flops. It's easier than ever to skip over the tracks now, but as the question asks: what's is, in your opinion, the perfect album, or does one/can one even exist?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

As other have said, it's subjective, but here are some albums I'd consider perfect:

R.E.M. - Murmur, Reckoning, Lifes Rich Pageant, Automatic for the Prople
Orbital - In Sides
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Leftfield - Leftism
Beatles - Abbey Road, Sgt Pepper
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
John Coltrane - Blue Train
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Nas - Illmatic
Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dusr
Tricky - Maxinquaye
Jim White - The Mysterious Tale of How I Shouted Wrong-Eyed Jeaus

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blue Lines over Mezzanine? I usually mention Mezzanine in threads like this because the fact it was released in 1998 really doesn't come across at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Blue Lines over Mezzanine?

Every day of the week - don't get me wrong, Mezzanine is great, but for me Blue Lines is absolute perfection :-)