What are your Perfect or near perfect albums in your collection?


I generated this post to find some sleeper albums, no specific genre, that we as music lovers hold in high esteem and is meant to be never ending. As we all know as soon as we list, a few more surface as we play and listen, so feel free to add as you go. I will start with 6 of my own, so please enjoy. Shelby Lynne/Just a Little Lovin', Rolling Stones/Sticky Fingers, Allan Toussaint/Song Book, Little Feat/Waiting on Columbus, Jimmy Witherspoon featuring Ben Webster/Roots, & Van Morrison/His Band and the Street Choir.

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In my opinion, any album that I can happily listen to every single track with a smile on my face is a Perfect album.  I have so many I can’t pick just one.

From Michel Petrucciani to Michael Franks to Bill Evans to The Beatles to Jefferson Airplane to Lou Donaldson to Kenny Burrell….

@curiousjim that is why this will be a never ending list and a place to look for new or forgotten music. Enjoy the music

John Butler Trio, Three

Rush, Caress of Steel

Elton John, Tumbleweed Connection

Dire Straits, Brothers In Arms

Pink Floyd, Animals

The Beatles, Abbey Road

Santana, Abraxas

Jesse Colin Young, Song for Juli

Joe Walsh, But Seriously Folks

Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6

Prokofiev, Piano Concerto No. 4

David Grisman, Live at Jazz Alley (CD) - can't find Vinyl grrr.

 

"Perfect" is a hard thing to attain; however, here are a few albums that hold a special place in my listening history:

 

Pink Floyd --  "Animals"

 

Dire Straits -- "Love Over Gold"

 

Supertramp  -- "Crime of the Century"

 

King Crimson -- "Red"

 

Led Zep -- "Physical Graffiti", "IV", and "Houses of the Holy"

 

David Gilmour -- "David Gilmour" (debut solo release)

 

Dream Theater -- "Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory"

 

Opeth -- "Damnation"

 

Rush -- "2112" and "A Farewell to Kings"