Cupp
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The problem with lists like this is that it's impossible to define what makes an album perfect. It is the best collection of songs? The perfectly coherent album? A albums that captured the zeitgeist?
I love some of the albums picked, but is Born to Run the best collection of hits by Springsteen? I would say Born in the USA was. Is it his most coherant album? I would say that was The River. Is Transformer the best Loud Reed did? New York starts with Romeu had Juliette, Halloween Parade and Dirty Blvd. That's hard to beat. And Berlin is a much more coherent album. Is Violantor better than Music for the Masses or more career defining than Black Celebration.
Anyway, here are some more (flawed) picks:
Electric Warrior; Raw Power; Lust for Life; Psychocandy; Juju; Violent Femmes; Floodland; Tim; Disintegration; Blue Bell Knoll; The Trinity Session; The Downward Spiral; Different Class; Garbage; The Holy Bible; Murder Ballads; Without You I'm Nothing; Is this it; Up the Bracket; Silence Yourself.
All flawed choices.
Velvet Underground & Nico is the only album I could confidently call perfect.
I love some of the albums picked, but is Born to Run the best collection of hits by Springsteen? I would say Born in the USA was. Is it his most coherant album? I would say that was The River. Is Transformer the best Loud Reed did? New York starts with Romeu had Juliette, Halloween Parade and Dirty Blvd. That's hard to beat. And Berlin is a much more coherent album. Is Violantor better than Music for the Masses or more career defining than Black Celebration.
Anyway, here are some more (flawed) picks:
Electric Warrior; Raw Power; Lust for Life; Psychocandy; Juju; Violent Femmes; Floodland; Tim; Disintegration; Blue Bell Knoll; The Trinity Session; The Downward Spiral; Different Class; Garbage; The Holy Bible; Murder Ballads; Without You I'm Nothing; Is this it; Up the Bracket; Silence Yourself.
All flawed choices.
Velvet Underground & Nico is the only album I could confidently call perfect.
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