Your most perfect album ever

[VforViennetta]

One which just captures a time and a place. Even the filler tracks are sublime.

Mine are very predictable

Radiohead-The Bends
Rem-Automatic for the people

There are lots of others vying for place, but I'd have to have a bit of a think.

Love Pulp, the Common People album and Damien Rice's O too. Will keep checking back to get some more inspiration to dig into my old cd collection :)

Meat is Murder - The Smiths
His N Hers - Pulp
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Coles Corner - Richard Hawley
Back to Black -Amy WiNehouse

Bump - would love to hear more people's!

Stone Roses - Stone Roses (the album of my teenage years)
The Charlatans fifth album, self titled. (listened to this non stop my 1st year of uni)
Screamadelica - Primal Scream (nothing on this earth sounds like 'higher than the sun')
Forever Changes - Love ( thank my dad for that one)
Celebrity Skin - Hole (something bout Courtney Loves voice sends shivers down my spine)

only one for me

closer joy division

Viva Hate - Morrissey
The Las - The Las
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Both Stone Roses Albums
U2 - No Line On The Horizon

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Laura Marling - Alas I Can not Swim

Numerous Pink Floyd (masters of the concept album - no such thing as 'fillers') but of course of course Dark Side.
Early Muse (origin of symmetry, absolution)

Pixies- Doolittle

Automatic for the People; REM
From the Choirgirl Hotel; Tori Amos
August and Everything After; Counting Crows
Ten; Pearl Jam
The Queen is Dead; the Smiths

Agree with:
REM Automatic for the People (hasn't this been voted best album ever or something?)
Muse Origins/Absolution - Absolution got me through my final major project at college.

Also

Sting - Mercury Falling - used to go on long walks as a teenager and listen to this and have deep thoughts (and smoke)
Joshua Radin - We Were Here - last summer's album - rediscovering myself after leaving an abusive relationship :)
The Killers - Hot Fuss - college (sixth form years) album. First boyfriend. First time I got drunk. Lots of riding around in cars of friends who had just learned to drive and feeling really free.

Automatic for the people - REM
The Bends - Radiohead
Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
Together Alone -Crowded House
Gah, and the Portishead album with Glory Box on it, that I can't remember the name of.

BB,I was reading today that Sgt Pepper was supposed to be the best album ever. Lots of v good tracks but doesn't hold me spellbound the way Floyd does.
Did you hear the BBC doing a people's Desert Island Discs? Although The Beatles were the top artistes, they were scuppered by their breadth of repertoire and no individual song actually made it into the overall top eight. Comfortably Numb was at number five, just behind BoRhap - the only other non-classical to make the cut.

One Day Remains- Alter Bridge. When I listen to this, I'm 16 again!

Yes chickens- Together Alone is a fantastic album!

I am not a U2 fan, but I would say the Joshua Tree is one of those perfect albums, every track fits together seamlessly.

Automatic for the People works like that too.

I think the Killers try to do this with all their albums, though I think Sams Town has the edge on Hot Fuss.

Pontiac- Lyle Lovett
16 Lovers Lane- The Go- Betweens
Magic - Bruce Springsteen

Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Fleetfoxes first album (name escapes me)
Radiohead - The Bends
Josh T Pearson - Last of the Country Gentleman

Blimey, lots of good shouts. I will add:-
The Streets-A grand don't come for free. Not a bad song on it and it flows well.
Johnny Cash-American IV The Man Comes Around.
Dead Kennedys-Frankenchrist.

Plus these I listen to when I'm miserable:-
Manic Street Preachers-The Holy Bible.
Radiohead-OK Computer.
Black-Wonderful Life.
The pure misery on these 3 cheers me up no end.

High Land hard Rain Aztec camera
Any Blur love them all

Pulp - Different Class for me too - fantastic album, even though I wasn't a huge fan of theirs when I bought it.

Sleeper - The IT Girl gets an honourable mention, as does Queens Greatest Hits I

Abbey Road - Beatles
Moon Safari - Air
Levelling the land - Levellers
Never loved Elvis - wonderstuff
Nevermind - nirvana
Rumours - Fleetwood mac

The Smiths - all of them
Pulp - His n Hers
The Cure - Disintegration
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Kate Bush - Aerial
The Orb - UF Orb
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Night Song
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Royksopp - Melody AM
Banco de Gaia - Last Train to Lhasa
Air - Moon Safari
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

Oh dear...once I got past 10 I realised there are far too many to mention, couldn't possibly narrow it down. I love my music and have very bizarre eclectic taste and we have hundreds and hundreds of albums.

Good thread though

By The Way RHCP's

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Clash - The Clash
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Amy Winehouse - Frank
Gary Moore - Blues for Greeny
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not
Johnny Thunders - So alone
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Argh, so many perfect albums, I could fill several pages!