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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I feel like the perfect album can exist for anyone. Sometimes an album hits just right at a specific time in your life. It becomes the background soundtrack for your day to day life. For me, it is The Postal Service’s Give Up. There are so many reasons I love that album and to me there are no throwaway songs. It feels altogether ephemeral for me.

So yeah, it’s highly subjective, but I think it’s possible for all of us to experience music on this level. I hope you one day experience it, OP.

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Heh. For me, in college in the early 90s, nirvana, green day, Soundgarden, etc. But yeah, there’s always one that doesn’t quite seem to fit. Lol

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No, but there can be perfect albums for an individual.

For me, there’s a decent number. I tend to have broad taste in music, so I have the advantage of genre access in this kind of thing.

Master of Puppets, Metallica, was the first perfect album I ran across. Not a single track I wanted to skip, and it’s still pretty much impossible for me to make a playlist that includes Metallica that doesn’t have the entire album on it. For years, I would play it to go to sleep to, my tape deck could auto flip, so I would just dub a few from the vinyl (showing my age here lol) and use them for that.

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere in Time is another.

Adele, 21 is brilliant from front to back.

Tracy Chapman, New Beginning is a fucking masterpiece.

Springsteen’s Born in the USA is perfect.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the album by that name is a great one.

Depeche Mode, Violator. There’s not a stinker on it.

Guns & Roses, Appetite for Destruction was and is a perfect album for sure.

John Lennon did it with Imagine, though barely; there are a couple of tracks that aren’t as good as the rest, but they’re still amazing overall.

Linkin Park could have two; One More Light is definitely perfect in my ears, and hybrid theory is right there with it, though I don’t mind skipping a couple of tracks off of HT sometimes.

Nappy Roots managed a perfect hip-hop album (which isn’t actually easy with me) in Watermelon, Chicken and Grits. Sublimely perfect southern rap. Every track a winner.

Biggie did Ready to Die, and I’d argue it’s the second best hip-hop album of all time.

The greatest is Run-DMC with Raising Hell. How can you top that album as a whole? Every track a banger, every rhyme a killer.

The list could go on. Obviously, I tend to lean into rock, metal, and hip-hop as my most listened genres, but there’s at least one album for me in almost any genre. I’m sure if I delved deeper in some, I would find more.

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I’ve gone though a few of these lol. We must be the same age. Ish.

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Plenty. There are literally hundreds of albums in my collection that I’d consider “perfect,” the first one I ever realized as one was Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust and the most recent probably being Hellfire by Black Midi. What type of music do you listen to? I can try to give some more relevant suggestions for you based on that.

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Bowie also had Man Who Sold the World and Station to Station.

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Me, I move between genres, so on the one hand I’ll do alternative (nevermind, garbage 2.0), then I’ll flip to crossover classical (bocelli, always), some metal/ rock, sometimes to OST or anime. Just looking for suggestions, or to spark discussion.

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I was wondering the same thing and then I found Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon.

So the answer is yes, my perfect album exists.

And then I found Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, and I realized two perfect albums exist for me, so far

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Queen - A kind of Magic

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill

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Jagged Little Pill is the first album that comes to mind for this question, but if I’m honest I’d skip the track “Perfect”.

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