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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
tvad
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"Emerson, Lake & Palmer" does not have a lighter cut.

We'll have to agree to disagree about BTB.

A perfect album usually generates no disagreement, which is why "Brain Salad Surgery" isn't a perfect album, IMO.
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
Interesting take on ELP.

I play Tarkus far more than ELP1 and Brain Salad.

Go figure.
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gawdbless
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The 2 best things about Brain Salad Surgery, the artwork,
and the track Benny the Bouncer!, it probably is a more meaningful song, for those living and being dragged up by their doc Martin boot laces in our ill gotten teen days in the UK around that time of the albums release, hooligans working ie as night club bouncers keeping in 'fighting' shape for kicking butts at 3pm every Saturday come rain or shine from Aug/May. That's my personal understanding of the song, whether or not Lake(?) wrote it with football and general hooliganism in mind very prevalent in those crazy times, who knows?,
if ya kno' wha' i mean gov'ner.

Tarkus? Jeremy Bender??lol
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mapman
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""Emerson, Lake & Palmer" does not have a lighter cut."

"Lucky Man"

Very good + a hit, but light/commercial by ELP standards.
tvad
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OK, Mapman. I'm not going to argue that one.
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