Are there any albums you consider perfect?


My daughter gave me an ipod for my birthday and I have been loading music to it slowly. As a perxon who listens to albums start to finish I have been loading albums I consider high quality beginning to end.
Makes me wonder how many perfect albums there are out there. Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" is to me perfect. What I mean by perfect is not one sound needs to be added or subtracted to make it better. Funny thing is, "Pretzel Logic" is not my favorite Steely Dan album, but its sound is perfect. I can only come up with a few.
Pink Floyd, "Wish You Were Here"
Tears For Fears, "Songs From The Big Chair"

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Just seeing this thread for the first time, and it’s a great subject! Off the top of my head I’d say:

The Band: Music From Big Pink; s/t (the "brown" album)

Bob Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home; Highway 61 Revisited; Blonde On Blonde; John Wesley Harding; Nashville Skyline; New Morning; Planet Waves; Shot Of Love

Dave Edmunds: Rockpile (album title, not the Group he was in with Nick Lowe); Subtle As A Flying Mallet; Get It; Tracks On Wax 4; Repeat When Necessary; Twangin’; D.E. 7

The Flamin’ Groovies: Shake Some Action

Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust

Rockpile: Seconds Of Pleasure

Carlene Carter: Musical Shapes

Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid

The Notorious Cherry Bombs: s/t

John Hiatt: Bring The Family; Slow Turning

Iris Dement: Infamous Angel; My Life; The Way I Should

Buddy Miller: Your Love And Other Lies; Cruel Moon

Kevin Gordon: Down To The Well

Lucinda Williams: s/t (Rough Trade)

Jim Lauderdale: Through It All

Loudon Wainwright III: Last Man On Earth

AC/DC: Back In Black

Weezer: s/t (the "green" album)

The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely

Emitt Rhodes: s/t

Van Dyke Parks: Song Cycle

The Beach Boys: All Summer Long; Pet Sounds; Smiley Smile; Wild Honey; Sunflower; Love You. And of course what would have been the pinnacle of Pop perfection had it been completed and released, Smile.



Mary Gauthier's Trouble & Love! Good one astro. I have to get all her albums.