The Top 11 (I couldn't get it to 10) perfect albums

I watched a "What is your top perfect albums" on youtube. The criteria was pretty loose with only a few guidelines:

1. An album that you won't skip any songs

2. An album where the production is top notch

3. An album that you just won't get tired listening

I thought about this for a while and figured I would find two or three perfect albums and I had a few in mind. Then I listened to these albums and found out that they didn't make the list. I was so disappointed!

For example, I thought Journey Escape would have been a perfect album but there are a few songs there that I would skip. Then I went through my spotify playlists. I adore some artist on there but just couldn't find a perfect album that I would just listen all the way through without skipping, or that may have a dated production type. So I kept digging.

After an extensive list, I whittled it down to a top 11, There was only one album since 2014 and it's a fusion/jazz album. Everything else was 90's and earlier. Many barely missed. Fleetwood Mac Mirage nearly made it. Rush Moving Pictures from 1982 was close. Pete Townshend's White City was close - I love that album as well as All the Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes - but they just didn't make the cut.

Of course these albums are totally dependent upon the listeners taste in music. While the youtube guys picked albums like Black Sabbath Mob Rules, or Queen's Night at the Opera, it's very dependent on the listeners musical taste. That my list contained only ONE album from the past 11 years - where the next nearest album is from 1996 is incredible. Is modern music that bad? Yeah a lot of it kinda is - but that's a discussion for another day.

THE LIST:

1. Classic Rock Billy Joel - Songs in the Attic 1981 Live album

2. Hard Rock Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream 1993

3. Indie Pop The Sundays - Reading, Writing, Arithmetic 1990

4. Fusion/Jazz Snarky Puppy - We like it Here 2014

5. Folk Rock Toad the Wet Sprocket - Dulcinea 1994

6. Folk Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts 1996

7. Alt Rock Third Eye Blind - Third Eye Blind 1997

8. Classic Rock Boston - Boston 1976

9. Classic Rock Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 1975

10. Classic Rock Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 1977

11. Prog Rock Peter Gabriel - Car 1977

You might ask, what about something in the last decade old man? What about 2024 best albums? Well, I went through the Billboard top 50 albums list. Albums that I am interested in were:

#50 The Cure, Songs of a Lost World

#38 MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks

#36 Lainey Wilson, Whirlwind

#35 Remi Wolf, Big Ideas

#32 The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy

#29 St. Vincent, All Born Screaming

#28 Justice, Hyperdrama

#24 Zach Bryan, The Great American Bar Scene

#21 Waxahatchee, Tigers Blood

#19 Vampire Weekend, Only God Was Above Us

#5 Billie Eilish, Hit Me Hard and Soft

#3 Sabrina Carpenter, Short N’ Sweet

I'll do a review of each of these over the next few months, I'll listen and review each of these albums, old skool- like Rolling Stone but the 1970's version of Rolling Stone.