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100% Faultless Albums

Thumbs up for Safe as Milk and Clear Spot,jury's still out on Trout Mask Mask though.I"d add Zappa's Hot Rats,Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth,Brian Eno's Here come the Warm Jets,World Party Goodbye Jumbo,and The Temptations Psychedelic Shack,good thread
 
New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury
Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon and Garfunkel
Different Class - Pulp
Please - Pet Shop Boys
Short Sharp Shocked - Michelle Shocked
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Blue - Joni Mitchell
This Is The Story - The Proclaimers
The Voltarol Years - Half Man Half Biscuit
Blue Lines - Massive Attack
Queen of Denmark - John Grant
 
foxwelljsly said:
Larks Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson. There’s even better music on Red, but Providence doesn’t belong on it, so it’s not perfect.
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"Fallen Angel" is also an outlier. Would have been fine as an instrumental. I think it was originally slated for the previous album but no one in the band liked it but Wetton.
 
Mike Westbrook Marching Song. Celebration, Westbrook Blake
John Surman How many clouds can you see
Alan Skidmore TCB
 
Thievery corporation - sounds from the thievery hifi
Radiohead - OK computer
David Bowie- Hunky Dory
George Brassens - La mauvaise reputation

Are all very nice from start to end.
 
Brilliant thread and from what has yet to be suggested:

Gong - You
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
Neil Ardley - Harmony of the Spheres
Peter Gabriel - So
 
Hard not to pick a Favourite album as a Faultless album:

John Martyn - One World
KD Lang - Ingenue
The Who - Quadrophenia
Neil Ardley - Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
Mike Westbook - Room 315/Citadel
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
David Bowie - Station to Station
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
Eg & Alice - 24 Hours of Hunger
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Bob Marley - Exodus
Genesis - Selling England
Talk Talk - Colour of Spring

And hundreds more...
 
All killer - no filler?

1969 - Live. The Velvet Underground

Roxy Music - 1st

Kimono My House - Sparks

Television - Marquee Moon

Big Star #1 Record / Radio City ( hard to split those two)

The Who - Who's Next
 
Tony L said:
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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For me, Movement was a let-down after the Ceremony/Procession/EGG triple whammy.

Power Corruption and Lies is where the band found its feet, as far as I'm concerned. There's something really moving about it - the sound of a band emerging from a great tragedy and finding their own voice.

Actually, I think Temptation was the moment that New Order found themselves and, in this amazing live performance, you can see that process happening in real time:


Technically, it's rough, bordering on shambolic, and it looks like Barney's making up the words as he goes along - but there's so much determination and heart in this performance.
 
Heathens all! Movement is the best NO LP, followed closely by PCL, it's all downhill after that. I appreciate the tunes on Technique, but the lyrics are decidedly sixth-form. Anyway, on topic, 5 faultless albums...

The Orchids - Unholy Soul
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Human League - Travelogue
Bowie - Hunky Dory
The Fall - Perverted by Language
 
Monty Alexander - Live at the Montreux Festival
Raye - My 21st Century Blues
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Martin Stephenson and the Daintees - Gladsome, Humour & Blue
 
The Smiths ... The queen is dead
The Beastie Boys.... Pauls Boutique
Nick Drake ....Pink Moon
Gomez.......Bring it on
The libertines.....Up the bracket
 
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