Neil Young -'After the Gold Rush'

Wanted to add that one.

Crap, so hard to pick only 10.
If the boat was leaving for the deserted island right now, however:

The Kinks - Are The Village Green Preservation Society
The Church - Heyday
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Lilys - Better Can't Make Your Life Better
Sloan - Between the Bridges
Gang Of Four - Entertainment (but Solid Gold would do nicely)
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
XTC - English Settlement (Skylarking or Black Sea would be fine too)
Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express

I'd smuggle 50,000 Fall Fans Can't be wrong in my underpants.

This is REALLY hard. No funk, no art rock, no classical, no jazz.

-A

i don't really believe in perfect albums. guess i'm a negative guy.

i'd rather present my chronological list of music that i got really into, from about age 5 on:

about 5-10

"king of babylon" by david johansen
"tweeter and the monkey man" by the traveling wilburys
the moonlight sonata by beethoven
vanilla ice
rem

about 11-13

nine inch nails
primus
pink floyd
brian eno
david bowie
pere ubu
king crimson


about 14-17:

king missile
the residents
tool
alice in chains
"saturn, the bringer of old age" from the planets by holst
dj shadow
portishead
tom waits
squarepusher
trans am
dysrhythmia
david torn's splattercell album
depeche mode
univers zero

18-now:

mr. bungle
glenn branca
ruins
uz jsme doma
clustery composers (penderecki and ligeti)
magma
meshuggah
sleepytime gorilla museum
cheer accident
skepticism
steely dan
us maple
pj harvey and phil ochs

addendum (music that i didn't exactly have a phase with, but categories that i came to appreciate from the people around me):

hip-hop (rakim, kool keith, wu-tang, aceyalone, anti-pop consortium, deltron)
death metal (suffocation, morbid angel, cryptopsy, gorguts, cynic, 1349)
neur-isis, godflesh/jesu
fop-pop (magnetic fields, smiths/morrissey, the sparks, belle and sebastian)

Hmm...a real challenge is to pick one artist who has released ten perfect albums.

honeyisfunny wrote:

JDanger wrote:

Made by a perfect human, no less!

Peter Gabriel - Up
That Dog- Retreat From The Sun
Hem- Eveningland
Made Out Of Babies- Coward
Frou Frou- Details
State Route 522- Sampson is Apollo
Brazilian Girls- Talk to la bomb
Table
Petra Haden and Bill Frisell
Red Sparowes

Negativland Escape From Noise
Scott Walker Tilt/The Drift (can't decide! both incredible!)
The Deutsche Grammophon version of Gustav Holst's The Planets
Liquid Liquid, the reissue that came out a few years ago.
Nick Drake Pink Moon

That's all I can think of right now.

burun wrote:Negativland Escape From Noise
Scott Walker Tilt/The Drift (can't decide! both incredible!)
The Deutsche Grammophon version of Gustav Holst's The Planets
Liquid Liquid, the reissue that came out a few years ago.
Nick Drake Pink Moon

That's all I can think of right now.

I have to disagree with Escape From Noise as being a perfect album...just because there is a more perfect Negativland album...Helter Stupid is amazing and hilarious...and beautiful. Has Escape From Noise ever made you cry?...Helter Stupid will...

Here's the thing about Escape From Noise though...it's all pretty fucking awesome...but from "Backstage Pass" through the final track...it's absolutely brilliant...demands your attention at all times. It's tempting to add "Yellow, Black, and Rectangular" to that list, but just try it my way sometime...(it's only about 17 minutes of your time)...

Escape From Noise changed my life. So it's perfect.

I had no idea the Liquid Liquid reissue went for so much money.

Ten Almost Perfect Albums:

T. Rex - Electric Warrior (fuck you, "Rip Off")
David Bowie - Hunky Dory (eat dick, "kooks")
Sparklehorse - It's a Wonderful Life (tom waits sucks, "dog door")
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (I don't care what everyone else says, "hit the plane down", you need to get the fuck out. also, you like the way I give those directions, don't you? and you almost made up for it with the "Faiz Right Down to the Practice Room" line, but still, no dice.)
Propagandhi - Less Talk, More Rock (you are maybe best punk record ever, but John K. Samson, your songs are not for me, so sorry. I still love this album you did)
Led Zeppelin - IV ("rock and roll" is a very bad song, guys. very bad.)
the Beatles - [white album] ("glass onion"? are you fucking kidding me? I'll even take "obladi oblada" over "i told you 'bout strawberry fields". fuck. you.)
Moreno +2 - Moreno Veloso +2 (arrivederci, "Arrivederci")
Radiohead - OK Computer (trapdoor opens on "that stupid fucking 'cowboy song,' whatever the fuck it is and it drags that dumb robotic voice interlude with it)
Archers of Loaf - Vee Vee (oddly enough, I would not miss "nostalgia")

and for the middle finger bonus after two hands worth of 'also-rans':

Eagles - Hotel California (I hate the rest of the record and all of their horrible dreck, but imagine a world where this song does not exist.............hhhhhhhssssssiiiiiiiiggggghhhhhhh..........)