Are there any albums you consider perfect?

I think there are a lot of albums that come very close to perfection, but they usually have one song that disqualifies it for me. Foe example, Metallica's ...And Justice For All would be perfect if they dropped "Eye of the Beholder."

I view an album as perfect if there's not a single song that I skip. That doesn't mean it's my favorite album (there's too many to call one my favorite), nor does it mean that the band doesn't have better songs on another album. So...

Metallica - Ride The Lightning... Apparently the band hates "Escape" as they've never played it live. I like it enough to never skip it.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid... The only 'filler' in this one ended up being perhaps their most famous song - Paranoid

Slayer - Reign In Blood... It's about 26 minutes long. No redundancy or fillers. Rick Rubin asked them if they realized it was only 26 minutes long and maybe they should add a track or two. The band said they said everything they needed to say, and the cool thing was you could listen to it all the way through without a break, then flip it over and listen to it all over again (the entire album fit on one side of a cassette).

Stone Remple Pilots - Core... Not a single weak track.

I'd love to include Led Zepplin II, but I really, really hate "Thank You."

"I think Kbarkamian thought his thread was being sent to Audiobong?"

What's that supposed to mean? No offense taken. ...or should I?

Timrhu,

Everyone's idea of perfect is different. I'm a big fan of the bands mentioned. Not many Slayer fans here, I assume, but there's nothing wrong with that. I'm not the biggest Slayer fan overall, but Reign In Blood is considered by many to be the best thrash metal album of all time. It's an album I've owned since I was about 13, and still haven't lost a bit of interest in it at 35.

Ride The Lightning was from the era when Metallica had an edge and played like they were waving a big middle finger to everyone who didn't like what they were doing. Times have changed, people get older and grow up.

A lot of people consider Metallica's Master Of Puppets to be a perfect album, or at least their best. I think it has several songs on it that are better than anything on Ride The Lightning, but it's got a song I can't stand ("The Thing That Should Not Be"), and 2 others that I skip frequently. But Master Of Puppets' best songs may be Metallica's best songs. Kind of odd.

If you're looking to see what I'm talking about with these albums, I'm sure YouTube has songs from them. No cost to hear something new. That's becoming my new way of hearing new stuff. Saved me some cash and aggravation by not buying stuff I thought was going to be good, but ended up being awful.

Timrhu,

Forgot to mention...

Slayer's Regina In Blood really has to be listened to entirely to really understand why it's perfect (IMO). The first and last tracks definitely hold up on their own ("Angel of Death" and "Raining Blood") quite well though, if you're into thrash metal anyway. Metallica's Ride the Lightning should be heard throughout too. It's also more easily accessible than Reign In Blood.

Another album I forgot to mention...

Rage Against The Machine - Self titled; Full of politically charged rage and angst. A great album from start to finish with no fillers. It took me a while to appreciate the entire album, rather than just around half the tracks. It's a shame they only made 3 studio albums (not including a covers album).