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100% Faultless Albums

Suzanne vega - solitude standing
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
London wainwright - more love songs
Clean bandit - what is love
Sarah Bareilles - kaleidoscope heart
 
Keith Jarrett - The Kohln Concert
Buena Vista Social Club
Springsteen - Darkness in the Edge of Town
Van Morrison - It’s Too Late to Stop Now/Veedon Fleece/Astral Weeks
 
Muttley2 said:
A few more
Def Leppard Hysteria
GnR Appetite for destruction
The Cult Love
NIN Downward Spiral, The Fragile
The Cure Disintegration, Head on the door
Gary Numan pleasure principle
Nick Cave Abattoir Blues
Janes Addiction Ritual de Lo Habitual
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Off the back of you saying Gary Numan Pleasure Principle, I’ve just played it from start to finish, really enjoyed it, thank you.
 
Many of those already listed - great to see Helen Watson mentioned upthread. I would add:

In Tua Nua - The Long Acre
Big Country - The Crossing
Nerina Pallot - Fires
Hollie Rogers - Criminal Heart
Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues
Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise

There are many more, but these are the one's that immediately come to mind.
 
Tony L said:
…Throwing DSOTM in to question the OP. To my mind it is a complete coherent work, the only one they ever did. There is nothing that can be taken away, nothing that needs to be added. It is a whole, and like all others in my list the graphic design is an essential part of that whole...
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Great to see so many suggestions across a broad set of genres in the thread. I’d add Supertramp - Crime of the Century using the same logic as Tony.
 
PhilofCas said:
I like Telekom too @Tony L 👍


I’ll give Kid A some listening to too.
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In Rainbows has to be up there, too many good one from Radiohead
Adam & The Ants Dirk Wears White Sox
The Jam All Mod Cons
The Who Quadrophenia
Pearl Jam Ten, Vs
The Verve A Storm in Heaven, urban hymns
Anna Calvi Hunter ( Has to be one of the most under appreciated artists today )
 
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Muttley2 said:
In Rainbows has to be up there, too many good one from Radiohead
Adam & The Ants Dirk Wears White Sox
The Jam All Mod Cons
The Who Quadrophenia
Pearl Jam Ten, Vs
Anna Calvi Hunter ( Has to be one of the most under appreciated artists today )
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Been playing In Rainbows loads in the last month or so, brilliant album 👍
 
I am withdrawing my vote for New Order's "Technique" ...

...as I just remembered it starts with "Fine Time".

"Fine Time" was a great 12" single (hell knows in 1989 I sported an FT drug capsule t-shirt)...

...but it was strangely an album track to skip over.

So for New Order - "PCL" is their only flawless album.

BTW I never liked "Subculture" or the album version of TPK on "Low-Life" (in case you are wondering).
 
I think Michael Kiwanuka has recorded a perfect album, his last self titled one. I think it’s a lot better than more venerated albums such as ‘What’s going on’ which has 3 great songs & a lot of repetition & waffle.
 
theadmans said:
I like it too - but it is easy to imagine Ian Curtis providing better vocals and lyrics.
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That’s true of any New Order album! Movement was at the start of the trajectory from introverted low in mix recycling of Curtis lyrics to the insipid nothingness that typifies the later work. PCL and Technique are both great albums though.

New Order albums always suffered somewhat by not often including versions of the singles, e.g. Movement could easily have stretched to a double with Ceremony, In A Lonely Place, Procession, Everything’s Gone Green, Cries & Whispers, Mesh etc. 1981 was a really fertile period looking back, one that for me they never really equalled later.
 
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