List perfect albums, start to finish...

Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Beatles - Abby Road
Queen - Queen
Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Van Halen - Van Halen
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Prince - LoveSexy
N.E.R.D - In Search Of...
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars

It's hard to make choices though, but hey, that's life...
 
Vangelis - L'Apocalypse des animaux
Frank Black - Frank Black
Nick Drake - Way to Blue
The Clash - The Clash (UK Version)
REM - Murmur
 
The Church - Starfish
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Cure - Disintegration
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Orbital - In Sides
New Order - Lowlife
White Lies - To Lose My Life
St Etienne - So Tough
The Jam - Setting Sons
Pink Floyd - Animals
NIN - Pretty Hate Machine & The Downward Spiral
 
I think Mojo Nixon - Bo-day-shus!!!
Sade - Diamond Life
Little Feat - Dixie Chicken
Yes - Fragile
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Fluke - Risotto
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side
and the Violent Femmes' first album
are disks I can listen to all the way through without skipping a song. "Back in Black" and Dylan's "Blood on the Tracks" get honorable mention as I skip one or two so are almost perfect. :)
 
I'm the kind of music snob who won't skip tracks or listen to albums on random, but here's a couple of albums that I think are pretty perfect.

Broken Social Scene - Broken Social Scene
The Replacements - Tim
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Pavement - Brighten The Corners
 
The funniest thing to me about making my list is that I am a huge extreme/death metal fan, and that none of that stuff made it. It takes up about 80% of my collection (and it's a pretty big collection). ***insert it's terrible music comment here***:lol

Gonna have to add:

Fear Factory - Obsolete

Fantastic sci-fi story throughout that one.
 
I'd go with "Nebraska," but obviously a girl once broke my heart more than yours. :) Good choice for The Boss, though.

Seriously, I could have put down about 10 different Springsteen albums! Born To Run is my go-to but I love Nebraska as well. I've been having a ball plowing through all the material on the 6 disc Darkness On The Edge of Town reissue - it's incredible how good the discarded cuts from that era are.
 
These are some of mine, in no particular order...


Genesis-Duke

R.E.M. - Out of Time

Dave Matthews Band - Under The Table And Dreaming

Peter Gabriel - US

Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Pearl Jam - Ten

Sting - Dream of the Blue Turtles

Dream Theater - Images and Words
 
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Depeche Mode - Violator

That's the one I always think of when this sort of thing comes up. I keep a copy in my car at all times.
 
Static and Silence- The Sundays

Whip Smart- Liz Phair

Everybody else is doing it, so why can't we- the cranberries

1984- Van Halen

Eye to the Telescope- KT Tunstall

Back in Black-AC/DC

Little Earthquakes-Tori Amos

Solitude Standing- Suzanne Vega

IV- Led Zeppelin

Hotel Paper- Michelle Branch

MCMXC-Enigma

Tapestry-Carole King

Blizzard Of Ozz- Ozzy Osbourne

Come on Over- Shania Twain
 
the elite
Metallica - Kill 'Em All, Master of Puppets, Load (everything, really...)
Faith No More - The Real Thing, Angel Dust
Black Sabbath - the first 5 albums
The Cure - Disintegration
Pearl Jam - Ten
Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Anthrax - Sound of White Noise

the restBeach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Legend
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - Live 1975-1985
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Danzig - Danzig
Corrosion of Conformity - Deliverance
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP
Enigma - MXMCX AD
The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks
Govt. Mule - The Deepest End
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Johnny Cash - American Iv: The Man Comes Around (amongst others)
Kelly Clarkson - Breakaway
Lacuna Coil - Comalies (and Karmacode?)
Kid Rock - Devil without a Cause
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
REM - Out of Time
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
Megadeth - So Far, So Good, So What? (and Peace Sells, But Who's Buying? ?)
Minor Threat - Minor Threat
The Misfits - Static Age (amongst others)
Mother Love Bone - Apple
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
Nine Inch Nails - Broken (and Pretty Hate Machine?)
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz, Diary of a Madman
Red Hot Chili Pepper's - Mothers Milk
SOD - Speak English or Die
Santana - Supernatural
Slayer - Season in the Abyss
Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies, Lights... Camera.. Revolution
Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind

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I tried to exclude 'Best of's' and live albums - as they're not albums in the classical sense. But, I did include Springsteen's Live 1975-85 as it defines his work to me; also one of Gov't Mule's live collections as it represents them best - they are a live band that works best live.
 
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Just a few off the top of my head; I'll ignore soundtracks as there are quite a few I enjoy the entire way through.

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And for those lazy summer car rides with my wife... :)

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