What Rock or Pop Music LP do you think is perfect?

[Tom Montgomery]

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I would nominate Who's Next.

[ron ll]

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[Paul Pless]

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[Jimmy W]

I was listening to "Music From Big Pink" yesterday, it is right up there. "Last Waltz" is up there also.

[Gordon Bartlett]

Hard to beat Dark Side of the Moon.

Miles' "Kind of Blue" is the awesomest of awesome jazz albums, but I wouldn't call it rock or pop.

[CWSmith]

The first side of Marvin Gaye's What's Going On is outstanding. The second side is a bit weaker, but still very good.

[skuthorp]

The OP is a contradiction in terms

[David G]

The OP is a contradiction in terms

Precisely.

[Paul Pless]

The OP is a contradiction in terms

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[Paul Pless]

Precisely.

precisely betwixt and astride pop and rock

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[leikec]

Allman Brothers Fillmore East and Eat a Peach.

Carole King Tapestry

Sarah McLachlan Surfacing.

Don Henley The end of the Innocence.

There are others, but these quickly came to mind.

Jeff C

[Joe (SoCal)]

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Chet Baker does it for me

[leikec]

Songbird by Eva Cassidy was a compilation album (and put together and released after her death), but it is an elegant little taste of heaven.

Jeff C

[amish rob]

Relationship Of Command by At The Drive-In.
Roots by Sepultura.
We Live Electric by Rivals.
Cure For Pain by Morphine.
The Real Thing by Faith No More.
Live Through This by Hole.
Are We Not Men by DEVO. Also, New Traditionalists. Also, Something For Everybody. DEVO is the greatest band of all time.
Appetite For Destruction by Guns And Roses.
Countdown To Extinction by Megadeth.
Violent Femmes by Violent Femmes.
Weezer by Weezer.
Dookie by Green Day.
Nevermind by Nirvana.
Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden.
Moving Pictures by RUSH.
You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine by Death From Above.
Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump by De La Soul.
Rage Against The Machine by Rage Against The Machine.

Quad and I consider an album to be “perfect” if it contains no skip-able tracks. If all the tracks are the same “quality”, and they all vibe and groove and fit together in whatever way, and you want to listen straight through; when you NEED to hear them in order, straight though, that’s a good album.

Of course, you’ve likely seen what I consider art…

[skuthorp]

Joe, I don't think Miles was ever 'pop music'.

[RFNK]

Santana Abraxas
Pat Garret and BTK soundtrack Dylan
Astral Weeks Van Morrison
Disraeli Gears. Cream
Sgt Peppers. Beatles
Monkey Grip soundtrack Divinyls
Ophelia Natalie Merchant
Beggars Banquet Rolling Stones

[RFNK]

The OP is a contradiction in terms

Popistic licence

[StevenBauer]

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I would nominate Who's Next.

The first album I bought.

[Rigadog]

Aqualung

Allman Brothers Fillmore East

Beatles - Sargent Peppers

Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop

Youngbloods - Elephant Mountain

NRBQ - All Hopped Up

Ry Cooder - Mambo Sinuendo

[Keith Wilson]

This one comes pretty close.

[Breakaway]

Bostons first album. Soaring guitars; equally soaring vocals; a whole new sound vocabulary was wrought with this one.



Led Zeppelin IV
Yes. Stairway. But, also an unrelenting stream of sonic awesomeness, that ranges from the When The Levee Breaks to Four Sticks to Rock N Roll to Misty Mountain Hop.

Agree also with Music from Big Pink, Seargeant Peppers, Dark Side, and Fillmore East.

Miles Kind of Blue is certainly seminal, and many rock and pop artists acknowledge it as a huge influence ( Duane Allman famously said he wore that record out, gleaning slide guitar inspiration from Miles horn runs) Today, after decades of the music industry force feeding us categories, its easy to say its not rock. But, I am not sure its jazz either. Miles was Miles.

Kevin




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[Todd D]

Hotel California
Pretty much everything by Steely Dan

[ron ll]

Did I miss it or has no one mentioned “Rumors” yet?

[Paul Pless]

[P.I. Stazzer-Newt]

Did I miss it or has no one mentioned “Rumors” yet?

Neither that, nor Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac "Greatest hits", nor Meddle


Wish you were here?

Graceland.

Mara.

[ron ll]

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[AndyG]

Rob is correct with Devo, of course. Two I'd choose:

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Dreadzone, Second Light.

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Kraftwerk, Radioaktivität.

Hmm. My funeral is going to leave a fair few people cross.

Andy

[Osborne Russell]

not necessarily stoned, but . . . beautiful

[amish rob]

Rob is correct with Devo, of course. Two I'd choose:

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Dreadzone, Second Light.

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Kraftwerk, Radioaktivität.

Hmm. My funeral is going to leave a fair few people cross.

Andy

Something For Everyone is newer, and Quad introduced me to it recently. I still think Hardcore is my favorite DEVO music, because a lot is essentially AWNM before Brian Eno toned it down.

Which, Quad is one of the most musically indiscriminate people I know. He has such a wide range of tastes and enthusiasms, and he’s always sharing them with us. Music is on a lot here, and more often than not we get out lights and a karaoke machine.

It’s great fun singing along to an original pressing of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath on wax.

[Rigadog]

This one comes pretty close.

Agree

[amish rob]

Check Your Head by Beastie Boys. I had forgotten, but it’s pretty cool, and certainly qualifies as “perfect” according to my own arbitrary criteria.

[amish rob]

American Beauty isn’t close. Perfect. It’s a nice little package.

[Beowolf]

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[Paul Pless]

is no one gonna post the 'soundtrack' to stop making sense???

dammit

[John Meachen]

Pet Sounds

Selling England by the Pound