Not just a big single and a bunch of fluff, a few good numbers, with some that are just so so or filler. Every song a gem. Don't bother listing every Beatles record, let's just assume that.
Eat A Peach
Idlewild South
Pronounced 'L?h-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd
American Beauty
Are You Experienced
Who's Next
Led Zeppelin 2
Bringin It All Back Home
No Dylan?
Blood On The Tracks
Blonde On Blonde
Pink Floyd also, Dark Side Of The Moon, The Wall
Good topic Brer.
You got a great Dylan on your list: Bringing It All Back Home
A few off the top of my head
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Bob Seeger - Night Moves
Tom Waits - Waiting on the Heart of Saturday Night
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers. Great first and last album
Neil Young - Everyone Knows This is Nowhere
Derek and the Dominoes - Layla
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
I'll go more recent in my selections. (the oldest being from 1992)
Grace - Jeff Buckley (1995)
Powder Burns - The Twilight Singers (2006) (all their records are perfect)
Ballads For Little Hyenas - Afterhours (2006)
Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams (2007)
Badmotorfinger - Soundgarden (1992)
Storybook - The Beautiful (1992)
All perfect in their own way.
The Doobie Brothers - "The Captain and Me"
The Black Keys - "El Camino"
Bruce Springsteen - "Born In the U. S. A."
Robin Trower - "Bridge of Sighs"
CSN - CSN -1977 album, not the first one
Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms"
Gregg Allman - "Laid Back"
Fleetwood Mac - "Rumors"
Paul McCartney - "Venus & Mars"
Steely Dan - "Aja"
Sting - "Ten Summoners Tales"
Traveling Wilburys - both albums
"The Concert for George Harrison"
GD - Workingman's Dead
Springsteen - Born to Run
CSNY - Deja Vu
Chicago - CTA, Chicago 2
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken, Feats Don't Fail Me Now, Sailin Shoes
The Band
Revolver
Kind of Blue
My Favorite Things
North Mississippi Allstars - Keys to the Kingdom
The Pink Floyd...
Darkside Of the Moon
The Wall
Wish You Were Here
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)...
Smile
Pet Sounds
The Beatles...
The White Album
Sgt. Pepper
Revolver
Rubber Soul
The Allman Brothers Band...
Live At Fillmore East
10-28-2014!!!
Bob Seger...
Live Bullet
The Doors...
The Doors
The Eagles...
Hotel California
The Who...
Live At Leeds
Tommy
Nirvana...
Nevermind
Sister Nancy...
One Two
Sublime...
Sublime
Led Zeppelin...
Every Album
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Aerosmith - Rocks
Jeff Beck - Truth
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Buddy Guy - Damn Right I've Got The Blues
ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud
Made In Japan
Strangers In The Night
Born To Run
AFE
Boston
In Step
Plus many others I can't think of right now. Cheers!
Idlewild South
Eat A Peach
At Fillmore East
Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
Kind of Blue
Led Zeppelin 2
No reason to cry,second helping,exile on main st,closer to home,imagine,are you experienced,first joe cocker album Jeff beck live at Ronnie scotts,any thing Miles.Traffic low spark hhb there's a few.
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty (1977)
alone together-dave mason
eric clapton-1st solo album
roy buchanan 1st
mock tudor-richard thompson
aztec two step 1st
black sabbath 1st
john barleycorn-traffic
rock on-humble pie
aqua lung-jethro tull
etc
Many already mentioned. Here are a few others:
Drive-by Truckers - Pizza Deliverance
Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
Black Crowes - The Southern Harmony And Musical Companion
Rory Gallagher's live albums: Irish Tour / Live In Europe / Stagestruck
Rainbow - Risin'
Rainbow - On Stage
a few that haven't been mentioned
John Prine -1st album
Mountain - The Road Goes Ever On
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Tom Petty - Mojo
Marc Ford - Fuzz Machine
War - The World Is A Ghetto
The Who - Who's Next
Junior Wells - Hoodoo Man Blues
Ronnie Earl - Language of the Soul
Ronnie Earl - Grateful Heart: Blues and Ballads
Santana - all of the first three albums
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Someday, everything's gonna be different
When I paint my masterpiece.
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. I'm not a huge fan of I Am Yours, so I guess it's not perfect but it's damn close. Closer than any other record, that's for sure.
Coming from a different angle, Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt is a perfect rap record.
Right off the top of my head - "Are You Experienced" by Mr. Jimi.
It's only 33 minutes long, so other albums might beat it for quantity, but in my mind the most perfect album of all time is A Love Supreme. The most cohesive, perfectly realized long-form musical statement of the 20th century.
Abraxas and Santana III deserve some props in this category. That version of Santana could do no wrong.
At Fillmore East is the only ABB album I would describe as perfect, but a perfect double album is nothing to sneeze at.
The first Aquarium Rescue Unit record is absolutely perfect in all its glorious imperfection.
Agree with many already mentioned . Here are a few others:
Johnny Winter - Second Winter
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
Delaney and Bonnie - On Tour with Eric Clapton
Ry Cooder - Bop Til You Drop
John Hiatt - Master of Disaster
King Curtis - Live at the Fillmore West
It's only 33 minutes long, so other albums might beat it for quantity, but in my mind the most perfect album of all time is A Love Supreme. The most cohesive, perfectly realized long-form musical statement of the 20th century.
definitely
I would put Kind of Blue (already mentioined) in the same category
A few that immediately came to mind...
From left to right...
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Dando Shaft - An Evening With Dando Shaft
The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
XTC - Black Sea
Dantalian's Chariot - Chariot Rising
Love - Forever Changes
Fotheringay - Fotheringay
Fred Neil - Fred Neil
Cream - Fresh Cream
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Clash - London Calling
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Doors - Strange Days
Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
X - Under the Big Black Sun
Frank Zappa- Apostrophe, The Best Band You Never Heard in Your Life, Hot Rats
Deep Purple- Made in Japan
Southside Johnny- Better Days
Bruce Springsteen- The River, Nebraska
Little Feat- Waiting for Columbus
Dave Mason- Certified Live
Joe Satriani- Surfing With the Alien
Heart- Dreamboat Annie
Doobie Brothers- What Were Once Vices...
J. Geils Band- Full House
ZZ Top- Fandango
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Jeff Beck Blow by Blow
Mountain Climbing
Many great mentions on this thread. I'll add...
The Pretenders (debut)
CSN - CSN (1977)
Merle Haggard - Big City
BTO - Not Fragile
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Jethro Tull- This Was
Yes ....Fragile
Jethro Tull ...Thick As a Brick
Hot Tuna.....Phosphorescent Rat, Burgers
Nektar.....Remember the Future
Quicksilver Messenger Service....Happy Trails
Cream.....Disraeli Gears
Mountain....Nantucket.Sleighride
