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.

7 worlds collide - neil finn

My Top Ten:
Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Drive-By Truckers - The Dirty South
Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
The Band - The Band
Led Zeppelin - II
The Stones - Sticky Fingers
Steve Earle - I Feel Alright
Gillian Welch - Time (The Revelator)

Loving this thread! Has been an inspiration. I have dug out Screemadelica, Pixies - Doolittle and have ordered Stone Roses - Stone Roses as I can't believe I have never owned this album!

The only album that I like every track from
Four Non-Blondes - Bigger, Better, Faster, More

The soundtrack of my divorce
Green Day - American Idiot

Reading Writing and Arithmatic - The Sundays.
Gosh, the times i played that album... xxx

mice parade - mice parade
supercollider - raw digits
nina nastasia - on leaving

three albums that just keep on giving, the more you listen to them.

as for perfect albums that sum up a place and time:

pavement - slanted and enchanted
swervedriver - raise
kate bush - the dreaming
david bowie - ziggy stardust

Tragic Kingdom - no doubt

Blimey, I never thought i'd ever see Super_collider mentioned on Mumsnet!

Mine would be

Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
London Calling - The Clash
Dare - The Human League
Wowee Zowee - Pavement
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
Blank Generation - Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Saying that the most perfect stand alone one for me would probably be In Rainbows by Radiohead.

Songs for the deaf - Queens of the stone age
New boots and panties - Ian Dury

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits

Rumours - FM

Another vote for the Stone Roses.

U2 - Joshua Tree

James - Seven

Suede - dogmanstar
Adorable - against perfection
Ride - going blank again

Tough one, it varies from time to time, but at the moment:

Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Ziggy Startdust - David Bowie
Easter - Patti Smith
Lust For Life - Iggy Pop
Never Mind The Bollocks - Sex Pistols
Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave
Absolution - Muse
The Sky's Gone Out - Bauhaus
Kasabian - Kasabian
Actung Baby - U2

Nick cave - the boatmans call

Roddy Frame- Surf, so perfectly beautiful.

Just giving Super Collider a listen on spotify. It's crazeee!

Anything by COUNTING CROWS

Anything by HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH

also

U2.......... Under a blood red sky

Darius Rucker......... Learn to live

Stevie Nicks............. Bella Donna

My favourite albums change on an almost daily basis depending on my mood and how much I have to drink

I am just listening through the music from my teenage years and I have to say most of the albums are pretty good, but that could be because I would listen to a whole album, and now I just listen to individual tracks:

Blur - Parklife
Blur - The Great Escape
Oasis - Definately Maybe
Oasis - Whats the Story
REM - Automatic for the People
U2 - Joshua Tree
Greenday - any of the earlier albums - Kerplunk, Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
The Offspring - Americana
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
Garbage - Garbage
Garbage - Version 2.0
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Pulp - Different Class
James - The Best Of

Astarinstrangeways Mice Parade is such a find!

Marvin Gaye - what's going on

REM - Green

By a country mile!

Automatic for the People REM
Joshua Tree U2
August and Everything After Counting Crows
Stone Roses Stone Roses
Wedding Album Pulp
Is That It The Strokes
Seven and the Ragged Tiger Duran Duran
Magic Numbers The Magic Numbers
Substance New Order
Dummy Portishead

Each of these was played til they wore out and can still instantly transport me back to a certain time. Some I find hard to listen to because I was so sad at the time (Portishead).