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Flawless Albums

Is there such a thing as a flawless album? One with no weak links or stocking fillers. Here are a list of some I can think of that are as close to perfection as possible in various genres. IMHO. Feel free to agree/disagree or add your own. I'm sure there are a few I may have overlooked.

Rumours -Fleetwood Mac (Tango In The Night is also close to being in this list)
Nebraska- Springsteen
Black album -Metallica
Viva la Vida- Coldplay
The Wall-Pink Floyd
Sgt Pepper- Beatles
Other Voices Other Rooms- Nanci Griffith
Songs In The Key Of Life- Stevie Wonder
Hotel California- Eagles
Never Mind The B******- Pistols
Inflammable Material- Stiff Little Fingers
Running On Empty- Jackson Browne
Force Majuere- Tangerine Dream

comment by Carter (U18826)

posted on 18/8/22

comment by Boris 'Inky’ Gibson (U5901)
posted 13 minutes ago
It's too late.
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comment by Silver (U6112)

posted on 18/8/22

comment by manusince52 (U9692)
posted 32 minutes ago
I'll say it again

Carole King. Tapestry. Recorded about 50 years ago.
Nearly every song a hit, it won three Grammy awards.
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Huh, I knew a bird that had loads of them.

Oh, not gammy...?

comment by Cloggy (U1250)

posted on 18/8/22

Siamese Dreams - Smashing Pumpkins
Animals - Pink Floyd
Exit Stage Left - Rush
Under a Blood Red Sky - U2
Alchemy - Dire Straits

posted on 18/8/22

50 cent - Get Rich or Die Tryin’
Tupac - All Eyez

posted on 18/8/22

Well there's not a bad song from the first song in AC/DC's High Voltage to the last song in Back in Black, so that's a streak of six albums. Pretty decent. Although they did later go on to make a streak of three albums without a single good song, so that balances it out a bit.
Powerage the obvious highlight.

Other bands manage less impressive discographies, but Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Iron Maiden's Iron Maiden and Seventh Son of a Seventh Son don't have a bad track on them either.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son even tells a nice story through the album.

posted on 19/8/22

comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 12 hours, 52 minutes ago
comment by peks - 1974 (U6618)
posted 1 minute ago
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion

good shout

Kayleigh ...one of the best tunes of the 80s imo
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The whole album is imperious
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There best ...fish era

comment by Cloggy (U1250)

posted on 19/8/22

Clutching at straws

comment by IAmMe (U18491)

posted on 21/8/22

I've only come across 8 "flawless" albums in 50 years of buying (and 60 years of listening to) mainstream pop/rock 'albums'.

In no particular order, other than alphabetic:


Ágætis byrjun

Automatic For the People

Closer

Debut

Life's A Riot with Spy vs Spy

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven

Screamdelica

Unknown Pleasures

That doesn't mean others aren't great. Many, many, are. But those above do not have a bad bit on them.

comment by Cloggy (U1250)

posted on 22/8/22

Automatic For the People
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They have one good song, played into oblivion so can't stand to hear it anymore. And all other songs, are just annoying as fack, to me that is. I don't know why, but I cannot stand his voice. It just sounds so whiney. Like I do now

comment by #4zA (U22472)

posted on 22/8/22

comment by Ladmin We Win (U1250)
posted 2 hours, 45 minutes ago
Automatic For the People
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They have one good song, played into oblivion so can't stand to hear it anymore. And all other songs, are just annoying as fack, to me that is. I don't know why, but I cannot stand his voice. It just sounds so whiney. Like I do now
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Typically rong opinion by Ladmin

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