Which Albums (Hip Hop or Not) Are Perfect IYO

I was listening to Follow The Leader on the subway and this just came in my head. In my head, there aren't many but there are definitely some albums out there that are perfect. For me, perfect means not one weak track and it's something that made an impact. Nothing on the album falls off and it's constructed in the best way possible. It can't be improved in any way.

Y'all can define it however you want. 

I'll just start with Hip Hop albums.

Few of those albums are perfect

Case and point, Aquemini. It has Mamacita on it :(

J Dilla-Donuts

Gang Starr-Daily Operation

D'Angelo-Voodoo, Brown Sugar

Cap'n Jazz-Analphabetapolothology

Jeru the Damaja-The Sun Rises In The East

 Mobb Deep=The Infamous

 Modest Mouse- This Is A Long Drive, The Lonesome Crowded West

Nas-Illmatic

Neutral Milk Hotel-In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

 Biggie-Ready to Die

 Oh No-Dr. No's Oxperiment

 Onyx-Bacdafucup

Organized Konfusion-Stress: The Extinction Agenda

Scarface-Mr. Scarface Is Back

Showbiz & A.G.-Goodfellas

Slum Village-Fantastic Vol 1

Smif-N-Wessun-Dah Shinin'

Stevie Wonder-Innervisions

Sublime-Sublime

ATCQ-The Low End Theory

UGK-Ridin' Dirty

Ultramagnetic MC's-Critical Beatdown

Willie Hutch-Soul Portrait

 My personal favorites 

Illmatic, The Low End Theory, A Piece of Strange, Enter the Wu-Tang...Reasonable Doubt & Liquid Swords are really close

For non hip-hop, Loveless by My Bloody Valentine

Duh :roll:

36 Chambers is just about flawless. Albums like Illmatic and Reasonable Doubt and others are arguably better and have better songs but they're not the consistent effort that Chambers is.

Also, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Midnight Maurader, the Low End Theory, and The Blueprint and maybe Criminal Minded.

.AfterBurnerZ

The last Blink 182 album, seriously listen to it before you judge, it is way different than all their other stuff.  Much more experimental.

Duh :roll: Proobie44

Pet Sounds>Sgt. Peppers

[QUOTE="Proobie44"]Duh :roll: andyboiii

Pet Sounds>Sgt. Peppers

Very few albums. Midnight Marauders is one of them.Orlando_Magic

I still think it's better than Low End Theory

[QUOTE="Orlando_Magic"]Very few albums. Midnight Marauders is one of them.Toriko42

I still think it's better than Low End Theory

I think if you were to take a survey and asks ATCQ fans which album is better it'd be 50/50. I prefer the low end theory though, the bass lines on that album are siick

[QUOTE="Toriko42"]

[QUOTE="Orlando_Magic"]Very few albums. Midnight Marauders is one of them.andyboiii

I still think it's better than Low End Theory

I think if you were to take a survey and asks ATCQ fans which album is better it'd be 50/50. I prefer the low end theory though, the bass lines on that album are siick

According to Q-Tip though they got three cIassics. I guess he was reffering to People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm. What y'all think of that? It kind of made me curious so I've gone back to listening to it. 

Illmatic and The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Everyone's sayin' Illmatic, so for my 666th post, I'll say Thriller.

Everyone's sayin' Illmatic, so for my 666th post, I'll say Thriller.

SmittyPeppers

I always skip over The Girl is Mine to be honest :)

[QUOTE="SmittyPeppers"]

Everyone's sayin' Illmatic, so for my 666th post, I'll say Thriller.

Orlando_Magic

I always skip over The Girl is Mine to be honest :)

As far as perfect albums...well, some have been mentioned in this thread. imo there are very few, but i'd have to give it to these....

American Football - American Football LP
American Football - American Football EP
David Bowie - The Rise & Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Amerie - All I Have 
D'Angelo - Voodoo
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Binary Star - Masters Of The Universe
King Crimson - Red
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Radiohead - Kid A
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Maxwell - Urban Hang Out Suite
Prince - 1999
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall 
Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory

This list can probably be chopped in half, but as i recall these are all worthy of perfection imo.

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full

This list can probably be chopped in half, but as i recall these are all worthy of perfection imo.

Colt45fool

I know you have this jam on repeat all day!8)

Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 

Colt45fool

Just a few off-top ...

E-40, "In a Major Way"
Jay-Z, "Reasonable Doubt"
Public Enemy, "Fear of a Black Planet"
Tum Tum, "Tumthousand9: The Grassy Knoll"
Ultramagnetic MC's, "Critical Beatdown"

And that is not a qualitative statement. I enjoy Boss Hogg Outlawz' "Serve & Collect" a lot more than some of the albums on that list, but it's not perfect - it has that awful song from PJ, and I think there's one track that's only above average. The albums on that list are albums that, to me, have no bad songs, and I would not go back and change them if I could.

Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt.

I'm lazy so other than that, I'll just say The Residents - Eskimo.

[QUOTE="Colt45fool"]

Raekwon - Only Built For Cuban Linx 

Toriko42

Thirded. :P

The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was not listed.:?

[QUOTE="SmittyPeppers"]

Everyone's sayin' Illmatic, so for my 666th post, I'll say Thriller.

Orlando_Magic

I always skip over The Girl is Mine to be honest :)

The Great Adventures of Slick Rick was not listed.:?

 

camarowu

That album isn't even close to perfect... classic album, but certainly not flawless. 

I could never get into Slick Rick, I mean just seeing him live signed the deal for me

He doesn't hold my interest really. 

Just a few off-top ...

E-40, "In a Major Way"
Jay-Z, "Reasonable Doubt"
Public Enemy, "Fear of a Black Planet"
Tum Tum, "Tumthousand9: The Grassy Knoll"
Ultramagnetic MC's, "Critical Beatdown"

And that is not a qualitative statement. I enjoy Boss Hogg Outlawz' "Serve & Collect" a lot more than some of the albums on that list, but it's not perfect - it has that awful song from PJ, and I think there's one track that's only above average. The albums on that list are albums that, to me, have no bad songs, and I would not go back and change them if I could.

IsThisIt_basic

lol damn... I was just about to make a big post about In A Major Way.  That album really is perfect on so many levels... perfect production, perfect guest performances, and (of course) perfect rhyming from E-40.  If you aint heard it, you're missing the other half of what made Vallejo the largest bay rap scene after Oakland & Frisco, the other half being Mac Dre & YBB.  This is more than a ****c... this is bay rap history.

 

lol damn... I was just about to make a big post about In A Major Way.  That album really is perfect on so many levels... perfect production, perfect guest performances, and (of course) perfect rhyming from E-40.  If you aint heard it, you're missing the other half of what made Vallejo the largest bay rap scene after Oakland & Frisco, the other half being Mac Dre & YBB.  This is more than a ****c... this is bay rap history.

a_ratchet_fan

I was going to nominate that in the classic albums thread but wasn't sure it'd receive enough votes to get in. Anyways from front to back to back there isn't one bad track.  I don't see how anyone could knock it either, beats are bangin' and it's just a complete album

Black Moon - Enta Da Stage
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Jeru the Damaja - The Sun Rises in the East
Joy Division - Closer
King Geedorah - Take Me to Your Leader
Neil Young - On the Beach
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife

The Roots-Illadelph Halflife
Xzibit-At The Speed of Life
Raekwon-Only Built for Cuban Linx
Mobb Deep-Hell On Earth
Redman-Muddy Waters
AZ-Doe Or Die

Thats it for me pretty much.

Nas - Illmatic

Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique 

Madvillain - Madvillainy 

Little Brother - The Minstrel Show

Blackstar 

Slick Rick - The adventures of...

Eric B and Rakim - Paid in Full

Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

Hieroglyphics - Full Circle

Del Tha Funkee Homosapien - I wish My brother George was here

The Coup - Steal This album

A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight marauder's 

J Dilla - Donuts/The Shining 

 Jurrasic 5- Quality Control

Outkast - Stankonia

Public Enemy - Takes a Nation of Millions

Pete Rock and CL Smooth - Mecca and The Soul Brother

Souls of Mischeif - 93 Til Infinity 

Ugly Duckling - Bang for The Buck

[QUOTE="Proobie44"]Duh :roll: andyboiii

Pet Sounds>Sgt. Peppers

Word.

[QUOTE="IsThisIt_basic"]

Just a few off-top ...

E-40, "In a Major Way"
Jay-Z, "Reasonable Doubt"
Public Enemy, "Fear of a Black Planet"
Tum Tum, "Tumthousand9: The Grassy Knoll"
Ultramagnetic MC's, "Critical Beatdown"

And that is not a qualitative statement. I enjoy Boss Hogg Outlawz' "Serve & Collect" a lot more than some of the albums on that list, but it's not perfect - it has that awful song from PJ, and I think there's one track that's only above average. The albums on that list are albums that, to me, have no bad songs, and I would not go back and change them if I could.

a_ratchet_fan

lol damn... I was just about to make a big post about In A Major Way. That album really is perfect on so many levels... perfect production, perfect guest performances, and (of course) perfect rhyming from E-40. If you aint heard it, you're missing the other half of what made Vallejo the largest bay rap scene after Oakland & Frisco, the other half being Mac Dre & YBB. This is more than a ****c... this is bay rap history.

To me it's basically everything "Illmatic" is supposed to be ... I don't even post much about it here because, to me, the album transcends just being great rhymes and just having great production; it's way more than that. I'd put "Federal" and "The Mailman" right up there with it. "Game Related" isn't far off for me, either, but I like that album more than most people do.