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Give me an absolute PERFECT album.
No crap songs, no filler tracks.
If ANY track sucks, DON'T POST THE ALBUM.
Somewhere in the mid 90s, record companies started putting 17 tracks on albums rather than the traditional 8 or 9 - so extra points for anyone that can find a perfect disc with that many tracks.
No "best of" or compilations, obviously (you know somebody would try it).
Obviously, only one album per post. (otherwise, how would we know which was getting upvoted?)
For a perfect hard rock album. Black Sabbath's Heaven and Hell.
Sabbath finally got rid of that clown Ozzy, and got the greatest singer in the history of music; Ronnie James Dio.
This allowed Sabbath to create their greatest album.
8 perfect tracks.
Perfect Horror Punk
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With just a touch of my burning hand
I send my astro zombies to rape the land
Prime directive: exterminate the whole human race
And your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds
Till it pumps in death
Prime directive: exterminate whatever stands left
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for
Hey, me or you
And all I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for
Hey, me or you
Oh, all I want to know
All I want
With just a touch of my burning hand
Im gonna live my life to to destroy your world
Prime directive: exterminate the whole fnckin' race
Then your face drops in a pile of flesh
And then your heart, heart pounds
And it pumps in death
Prime directive: exterminate the whole fnckin' place well
All I wanted to say
And all I gotta do
Who'd I do this for
Hey, me or you
Quoted from Rdoyle1978:You can't tell me that Invaders isn't a stinker..
Really??
I love the way the vocals drop on the last note of "In-Vade ----Ers"
But like my grandfather always said "To each his own, said the lady as she kissed her cow" (rough translation).
The Dwarves have a few perfect albums, but "The Dwarves Are Young and Good Looking" is a perfection overload.
The whole album is so catchy, that you find yourself mindlessly punching holes in the walls; so don't listen to it if your parents are home.
Probably no song longer than 3 minutes:
The Pixies - Doolittle
I stole a whole wall of CDs out of a chick's apartment (I made like 5 stacks of CDs in the hallway outside of her door, then went back to get them once she fell asleep). I sold them all to the local used record store, but she did have one CD, Doolittle, that I had never heard of.
I played it and it was a great combo of haunting tunes and surf rock - I still have it today.
Quoted from cody_chunn:David Allen Coe - Underground or Bootleg...whatever it's called it's the best at what it does
Sadly you are dead nuts on. It's his greatest work by far!
Songs so hideous, you are embarrassed that you can't stop singing them.
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Quoted from Brazy:Not recommended for the faint of heart or those who can't laugh at over the top stuff.. but I've seen him about 10 yrs ago and he says he doesn't care who you are or what you are that he's all good with everyone now.
We were driving past a little bar about 25 years ago, in the middle of nowhere and the sign out front said "David Allen Coe tonight".
I thought there is no way in hell that DAC is playing here???.
No cover when we walked in, but I found DAC sitting at the bar.
I asked if he was playing anything off the "undergound" album.
He laughed, and said "No. I mean you can probably go to jail for playing those songs nowadays!"
Since DAC has spent more of his life behind bars than on the outside, I believed him.
He played a good set, and seemed like a totally nice guy in person.
Quoted from Rondogg:Snoopdog - Doggystyle
That's a masterpiece album, but probably 25% of it is just crap.
Sounds of taking a bath, fake radio DJs and talking.
I've got many of the tracks on that album blocked so they don't play on random in my jukebox - because they are not songs, lol.
Quoted from Gryszzz:Wow. Saw Soundgarden at (maybe 2?) Lollopalooza's but regretfully never up close like that. Sweet.
I saw Soundgarden open for Danzig back in the day.
Talk about a perfect show.....
Rammstein - SEHNSUCHT
You know this is a perfect album when many millions of people who don't understand a word of German, have bought it.
Of course the non-German don't understand the funny wordplay going on, they don't even bother to look for translation, they just want to rock out.
This whole album is HEAVY. The mix is crazy deep, the vocals are deep, the tunings are deep.
Guys headbang to it, strippers strip to it, it never gets old.
If you have not pulled this disc out in 20 years, mach es jetzt.
NSFW:
I know most of you guys only like music that's 50+ years old, but for your own good, you should check out the new LCD Soundsystem - American Dream.
Normally the #1 album in the USA is by a little girl, an oversized cowboy hat or a black guy in a jogging suit.
But this week, the top album is LCD Soundsystem!
(screen shot as proof):
A perfect disc that is only a few days old.......this is your chance to enjoy a CURRENT and RELEVANT artist........you have not done that in what, 40 years?
This album drips with flavors of Bowie, Eno and Echo, but can laugh at itself.
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Quoted from tamoore:When you look at perfect albums, you need them time to be judged and looked back upon to see if it's timeless or stuck forever in the period it was produced.
It's possible, in 30 years, this will be judged a perfect album.
Exactly.
You know when you fist get an album and you hate 4 of the tracks? And after a while, those bad tracks start to grow on you?
American Dream is not that album.
Every track is instantly enjoyable. And the more I listen to it these last few weeks, the more I "get it".
Think of when you first heard Hot Fuss by The Killers. You didn't keep pressing the NEXT button with fatigue, you let each song play out because it was great songcraft.
I'll stand by my assessment of perfect album - in 30 years you can all curse my ghost if I'm wrong.
A brilliant album you won't like on the first listen is Metric - Live It Out (2006).
With strange rhythms that only Neil Pert could love, Metric is everything that Garbage could never be.
Catchy, but always with something that is just not quite right. A tasty meat from a street vendor, that just might be starting to spoil.
Promiscuous makes an entrance
Her mouth is full of questions
Are we all brides to be?
Or are we all designed to be confined?
Buy ourselves chastity belts and lock them
Organize our lives and lose the key
Our faces all resemble dying roses
From trying to fix it
When instead we should break it
We've got to break it before it breaks us
Fear of pretty houses and their porches
Fear of biological wrist watches
Fear of comparison shopping
Dogs on leashes behind fences barking
Pretty little pillows on floral couches
Until our faces all resemble dying roses
Stop trying to fix it
Patriarch on a Vespa
Runs a red and ends up
Crushed under the wheels
Quoted from xsvtoys:I just don't recall hearing anything that is new that stands out.
Quoted from xsvtoys:Also, I resent being called old and only liking old stuff.
Ummmmm...if you don't like anything new, why would you resent someone saying that you only like old stuff?
Quoted from xsvtoys:I just don't recall hearing anything that is new that stands out.
A great 2012 album with no bad tracks would be Gary Clark Jr. "Blak and Blu"
Not another white guy trying to pretend he's black, GCJ plays those Texas Blues and Soul tracks with his own brand of swagger.
GCJ playing is so big, he needs two drummers to hold the beat.
Quoted from wtuttle:I was referring to the time you admit to sleeping with a girl, waiting until she was asleep, then stealing five stacks of CDs and selling all but the Pixies 'Doolittle'.
Weak sauce.
She was trying to lift my wallet earlier in the night.
I knew I was going to extract some sort of karma, but I did not know what exactly.
I was hoping she had a newer car that I could take to the chop, but her car was older and the windshield was cracked.
Quoted from HarryReimer:Dio is amazing. Not a single song on that album is better than War Pigs.
Dio sang War Pigs for years.
He did not try to emulate Ozzy, he simply growled it out in Dio style.
Not the best audio, but it gives you an idea of how it was in 1980 with Sabbath:
Here you can hear Ozzy and Dio war pigging it together:
Or here you can hear Rob Halford singing it with Sabbath:
The Buzzcocks had lots of good albums, but the only perfect one was Flat Pack Philosophy (2006).
They did it after they reformed, so some fans think it's less pure, but it's their strongest material by far.
Instead of again trying to emulate their early sound, they finally just sat down and wrote a dozen hits.
There is no way you can listen to that track and not have it stuck in your head for a week.
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
The perfect mix of hard rock, punk and glam.
Amazing 4 part harmonies all glued together with Mick Tucker's spectacular shuffle beat; that guy has better meter than 99% of rock's celebrated drummers.
Quoted from ghostbc:I just have to double down on the "Pat Travers Band Go for what you know Live" as one of the best unknown live albums of all time!
That was actually a Top 40 album back in the day, and received endless airplay.
The cover of "Boom Boom Out Go The Lights" had much controversy because it's about a guy who's girlfriend doesn't want to see him any more; so he's going out to find her and beat her unconscious.
Many radio stations refused to play it.
STAN LEWIS - BOOM BOOM OUT GO THE LIGHTS
No kiddin'
I'm ready to fight
I've been lookin' for my baby all night
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Right here! Out go the lights!
No kiddin'
I'm ready to go
When I find her boy don't you know
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Out go the lights!
I thought I treat my baby fair
Now she's getting in my hair
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Out go the lights!
I never felt this mad before
When I just found out she don't want me no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Come on! Out go the lights!
Quoted from ghostbc:I kind of took it as he was gonna fight the guy he found her with.
Not really.
He never mentions a guy .
Clearly his girl no longer wants to see him, and now he's going to beat her into unconsciousness:
I never felt this mad before
When I just found out she don't want me no more
If I get her in my sight
Boom boom! Out go the lights!
(too bad the lyrics were not "when I get her in my SIGHTS, boom boom out go the lights" that would have been an even darker ending)
Quoted from xsvtoys:Of course we were not too politically correct overall in those days
That's for sure.
Remember the Beatles saying that they would murder their ex-girlfriends rather than see them with a new man?
Those guys loved to celebrate violence against women.
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The Beatles - Run For Your Life
Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl
Than to see you with another man
You better keep your head, little girl
Or I won't know where I am
You better run for your life if you can, little girl
Hide your head in the sand little girl
Catch you with another man
That's the end little girl
Well I know that I'm a wicked guy
And I was born with a jealous mind
And I can't spend my whole life
Trying just to make you toe the line
Let this be a sermon
I mean everything I've said
Baby, I'm determined
And I'd rather see you dead
Going way back to this one.
The Afghan Whigs practically invented the Mobster Soul genre, and Black Love was the pinnacle of their craft.
Dark, driven, smoky and sometimes moments away from flying apart, theses are all great songs for a night of drinking.
Got you where I want you motherfncker
I got five up on your dime
And if you wanna peep on something
Peep what I got stuck between
Your eyes
And since I don't believe
A word you say
Save it for another, baby brother
Swallow time to pay
Up on the ladder they sing
How high?
Does a brother have to climb
to touch the light
But wait 'till I get done
With you
If you tell me
"Don't get mixed up with the Devil"
That's exactly
What I'm gonna do
Caught you while you waited
For your boy to come
And fix you up again
Come a little closer, baby
I only wanna try to
Be your friend
Since I ain't got nothing
Left to lose
Got you where I want you
Motherfucker
Don't you try to move
Up on the ladder they sing
How high?
Does a brother have to climb
to touch the light
Won't u take me up there
With you?
You said you would
No one ever could shake
That ladder like I could
So I wait
Saw the Lords Of Acid on tour with Combichrist and Christian Death tonite.
The Lords have a few really great discs, but the two perfect ones are Our Little Secret and Voodo-U.
You have probably heard all of these songs at the better quality strip-bars.
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LOA - Rubberdoll
You want sex with a rubber doll?
Baby, I don't agree with that at all!
Sex Bomb Annie, that's her name
With her you like to play your dirty little games
Her mouth wide open, always ready for more
Doesn't close her legs, that inflatable whore!
It's a love bazaar with a rubber bitch
Don't make me compete with that plastic witch!
Death to the Doll! (x2)
You can never use me for your fantasy
Manage' trois with my enemy!
You better take her with you one Thanksgiving Day
So she can meet your folk in her negligée
You take her out to dinner so your friends can see
Now everybody's pointing fingers at me!
You even take her shopping, and on a double-date
She's always quiet, and she never complains!
Death to the Doll! (x2)
I've made up my mind: it's gotta stop!
A stab of a needle's gonna make her go POP!
That'll be the end of your love affair
With Sex Bomb Annie and her plastic derrière
Death to the Doll! (x2)
Quoted from herbertbsharp:How was the show?
It was an amazing show. The bill made sense, with each band offering a different twist on the genre.
Christian Death - great guitar driven set. They played much more energetically than their studio tracks. For being among the first Goth bands (1979?), they sounded way fresh.
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Combichrist - from their roots as a club-goth band, here they performed like a metal freight train. Norwegian frontman Andy LaPlegua whipped the audience into an all out frenzy, complete with mosh pit. Their drummer stole the show 1/2 the time with his antics; the guy was a machine.
They were so high-energy that my niece asked "What if Combichrisht is better than LOA???".
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Lords Of Acid - They now have 2 lead singers, DJ Mia of course, and now another chick that is more of a falsetto. Together they recreate the harmonies that were probably just samples when performed live in the past. The harmonies on "Crablouse" were to die for.
They have a new album coming out in a few months, but they did not play any new material. It was a 'greatest hits' set, with a couple of deep cuts like "Mr Machoman".
They must have brought their own subwoofers on tour with them, because the bass was deeper than the venue could have possibly provided itself.
LOA - Scrood Bi U
I just don't know what to do
I got my boyfriend but I want you too
Don't wanna hear about fidelity
When I need a feeling deep in me
I wanna be screwed by you
But anyone else will do
I wanna be screwed by you and you...
I feel it now, all through the day
I have to try it in every way
Yes I'll have it long and tough
I don't mind if it's hard and rough
I wanna be screwed by you
But anyone else will do
I wanna be screwed by you and you...
I just don't know what to do
I can't help it, just need to screw
Doing it makes me blow my top
Once I start I can never stop
I wanna be screwed by you
But anyone else will do
I wanna be screwed by you and you...
Quoted from SilverUnicorn:Not sure anyone has mentioned this, but Avalon, the forst solo album by Godsmack front man Sully Erna is one of the best albums I have ever heard. He has an outstanding voice in my opinion.
Who would have the audacity to name their first album after Roxy Music's best album???
"It better be godamn good........" says The Lady of the Lake.
She Wants Revenge is doing their anniversary tour right now.
This album is so badassed in so many ways; it gets more clever every time you play it.
The drone of doom, where you know somebody is going to get their throat slit.
Red Flags and Long Nights
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Sick of trying to find a way inside
Sick and tired of all the after
Sick of trying to find a way to slide
Even though it always ends in laughter
Its never hard to tell when things are done
She looked into my eyes and a voice said.....RUN
She says that I'm a mess but its alright
Whether its 2 weeks, 2 years or just tonight
You can occupy my every sigh,
You can rent a space inside my mind
At least until the price becomes too...high
I can find a reason that we should quit
I can find a reason to do it
I can find excuses for all my shit
She tells me just to work right through it
She's pretty and I like her but she's too well
Cause I need red flags and long nights and she can tell
It's not that it's my fault it's just my style
Beginning with a look and then a smile
She don't need a thing, she don't need saving or a lay
Shes got all the friends around and you can hear them say:
He's not into you, he's into the idea of...
But little do they know that she's not through
You can occupy my every sigh,
You can rent a space inside my mind
At least until the price becomes too....high
Quoted from volkdrive:Yara's Song (based on a true event of a refugee girl mistreated by her uncle and eventually resulting in her death in Sweden), if the video doesn't move you, I would be surprised.
Video was too violent for American audiences and is banned by Youtube in the States.
You have to hide your American IP, or go to Vimeo:
Quoted from Spinape:Springsteen- born in the USA. Every track is good on that album
I never though I'd see that on a list of perfect albums.
Most real Springsteen fans rate BITUSA and Human Touch as his worst albums.
BITUSA's disc turned a gritty and streetwise Bruce, into a synth-pop inauthentic clown.
Bruce's manager at the time was so annoyed by the demo tracks for the album, that he famously threw a GUITAR at him and said "Go write me some actual hit songs!" (little did he know that BS's worst songs ever would have the most appeal to the masses).
The title track repeats those same 6 synth notes 90,000 times in both the verse and chorus
Same with Dancing in the Dark, flat sounding synth, repeating the chorus melody note for note
The supergay cover is just a picture of his ass.
Radio stations in the States would have "Bruce Buster !!!!"[monster truck voice] weekends, where they would advertise they were not playing any BS, so it was safe to listen for 48 hours.
rs-115382-501e471ed6859bc77dd31a0688c19dafc2f95e5e (resized).jpgQuoted from Spinape:It must hold a special place because it was my first cassette tape, and I wore that thing out!
I wonder if the deck ruined the tape as a form of protest?
" I swear, if I hear those 6 synth notes again, I'm eating that fncking tape! I don't care if he pulls me and replaces me with a Pioneer Supertuner III....." - the deck.
broken-tape-in-car-audio-unit-close-up-2 (resized).jpgQuoted from Spinape:Hell, he even did a small jersey tour 4-5 years ago doing born in the USA in it’s entirety
He just did that so Chris Cristy could brag that he cranked off to BS live, 3 nights in a row.
springsteen-eminem (resized).jpgQuoted from cooke:Recently discovered The Beths from New Zealand. Check out this shining example of modern indie power pop with awesome female lead vocals (with a charming NZ accent) and some really great melodies and backing vocals.
Try out the title track, "Not Running" and "Little Death" for a good sampling, but seriously, the whole album is totally amazing from start to finish.
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I D/L the whole disc.
Pretty great find, catchy as all hell.
Quoted from cooke:FINALLY someone gets it!
Pinsiders need music that has aged at least 4 decades before they can commit to listening to it.
"I mean, if this new music is so good, why has Corporate Radio not played it 5000000 times a day since I was in grade-school ?????"
Quoted from xsvtoys:I certainly don't get the Beths, sounds like every other garbage song of the day. Grating vocals. Better than rap I guess. I'm going back to LZ.
(Pinsider stereotype Level 10 accomplished )
It's not really a stereotype.
It makes total sense that old people, would like a band that was popular a half-century ago.
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