Perfect Tens

[Absorb the anus burn]

Battiato: Fetus.
XTC: Black Sea.
Can: Future Days.
Sparks: Propaganda.
Zamla Mammaz Manna: Family Cracks.
Talking Heads: Remain In Light.
The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms.
Fred Frith: Gravity.
Elvis Costello: Armed Forces.
This Heat: Deceit.
Amon Duul II: Wolf City.
NEU: Neu 75.

Marry me!

No, marry me!

Mrs. Absorb of the Anus Burn Harem has kindly given permission for you to be wives number two and three.... Form an orderly queue now.

[Dr Syntax Head]

Like it or not, taken as a whole Dark Side of the Moon is very much a perfect ten.

[Neville Chamberlain]

Even just reading the words "Dark Side of the Moon" sends me into a coma ;-)

[Absorb the anus burn]

[Dr Syntax Head]

Even just reading the words "Dark Side of the Moon" sends me into a coma ;-)

My work here is done

[Absorb the anus burn]

[Neville Chamberlain]

Battiato: Fetus.

I've heard about this this album, talked about in hushed tones of reverence, but I've never heard it. That will change this evening :-)

[Absorb the anus burn]

I've heard about this this album, talked about in hushed tones of reverence, but I've never heard it. That will change this evening :-)

It's amazing... Mysterious, enigmatic, squelchy - yet funny, playful and catchy as fuck.

It's just had a lovely 180gm re-release too, btw.

I've been meaning to start a Battiato thread for a while.... His first three are perfect tens.... (there's a nice little review here - https://blogthehum.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/on-superior-viaducts-reissue-of-three-seminal-albums-by-franco-battiato-fetus-pollution-and-sulle-corde-di-aries/)

[Monsieur Verdoux]

The Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin is probably the only album I'd call a perfect ten and adore every single second of.

[selectivememory]

Lot of good choices here. I haven't seen it mentioned, so I'll just add Ys by Joanna Newsom, which always comes to my mind when people start talking about flawless albums.

[Brundle-Fly]

It's amazing... Mysterious, enigmatic, squelchy - yet funny, playful and catchy as fuck.

It's just had a lovely 180gm re-release too, btw.

I've been meaning to start a Battiato thread for a while.... His first three are perfect tens.... (there's a nice little review here - https://blogthehum.wordpress.com/2017/11/04/on-superior-viaducts-reissue-of-three-seminal-albums-by-franco-battiato-fetus-pollution-and-sulle-corde-di-aries/)

I am really enjoying Fetus. Good call. CaB strikes again.

[Repeater]

High Violet & City

[Howj Begg]

The Flying Burrito Brothers' The Gilded Palace of Sin is probably the only album I'd call a perfect ten and adore every single second of.

It's one of my favourite albums, but goddamn if I don't skip Hippie Boy.

[Crabwalk]

I've heard about this this album, talked about in hushed tones of reverence, but I've never heard it. That will change this evening :-)

Coincidentally, I finally got into it about a month back. It is brilliant. Not sure it's a 10, mind.

[Monsieur Verdoux]

It's one of my favourite albums, but goddamn if I don't skip Hippie Boy.

Shit I actually forgot about Hippie Boy, which is probably enough of a blot to disqualify it from being a perfect ten.

[Dirty Boy]

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[Neville Chamberlain]

Hmm, I forgot that one, too.

[phantom_power]

Like it or not, taken as a whole Dark Side of the Moon is very much a perfect ten.

I would say Money stops it being that for me. Partly because I don't really like the song, but also because it ruins the flow of the album.

I would put Animals above it in the Perfect Pink Floyd Album stakes, and even Wish You Were Here

[Twit 2]

Dream Theatre - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

I'd rate Images and Words and Something Else (essentially Kind of Blue but with Adderley's name on the cover) over those.

[Absorb the anus burn]

The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society.

[Emma Raducanu]

Sigur Ros - Svefn g englar

Kings of convenience - declaration of dependence

Mum - yesterday was dramatic, today is ok

Aphex twin - selected ambient works

Caribou - swim

I get a bit melodramatic taking about my favourite music because I always develop over emotional attachments to songs.

These albums were all ones I listened to over and over again, start to finish and soundtrack vivid memories of certain times of my life that no other music (whole album) can. They'll always be a perfect 10, even though I rarely listen to them anymore.

[easytarget]

Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden

Gangland though.
Which is why Seventh Son is better

[Brundle-Fly]

Sea Train - Sea Train (1969)

I was obsessed with this album in 1990. A hippy musician I worked with in the kitchens gave me a cassette of Sea Train and I completely wore it out.

We thought it was sooooo quaint and old sounding then. Ha! Only twenty years old.  The Chemical Brothers have been going longer than that now. Laughable.

Love everything about it. It's hillbilly, country rock, English folk, Link Wray licks, acid rock, psychedelic jazz prog that one minute sounds like a better version of The Doors, the next  a fried up Charlie Daniels Band and then evokes the theme to Catweazle.

Three highlights.

Sweet Creeks Sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKbBLYpErkE

Sea Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0vrrC_CaiU

Pudding Train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ww88l2KE4

[Psmith]

Lots of previously chosen on my list and I would like to add:A Nod is as Good as a Wink,After the Gold Rush and The Velvet Underground and Nico.

[Dr Syntax Head]

I would say Money stops it being that for me. Partly because I don't really like the song, but also because it ruins the flow of the album.

I would put Animals above it in the Perfect Pink Floyd Album stakes, and even Wish You Were Here

I love Money but I'm bias being a Gilmour obsessive

[bgmnts]

The Best of the Beatles.

[alan nagsworth]

Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
Weezer - Pinkerton

Hell yeah you're damn right about both of those.

That's reminded me (because I largely associate you as a mclusky fan or just think about myself years ago moaning at you about Future of the Left whenever I see your name), mclusky Do Dallas is nnnggghhhhh soooo close to being a perfect ten - an album that almost never lets up from making me want to bounce around the room crashing into the walls spitting the lyrics viciously and writhing about in a load of spilled lager - but Clique Application Form is such a crap song. Everything else about the record is fucking blinding and Falkous will never top the absurd brilliance of his lyrics and the way he sings them here, but I really wish they'd left that song off it. Gets skipped every time.

Still, though:

"DON'T GO FUCKIN' IN THE BARN, BECAUSE THE BARN'S ON FIIIIIIRE" <3

[Paaaaul]

Hell yeah you're damn right about both of those.

That's reminded me (because I largely associate you as a mclusky fan or just think about myself years ago moaning at you about Future of the Left whenever I see your name), mclusky Do Dallas is nnnggghhhhh soooo close to being a perfect ten - an album that almost never lets up from making me want to bounce around the room crashing into the walls spitting the lyrics viciously and writhing about in a load of spilled lager - but Clique Application Form is such a crap song. Everything else about the record is fucking blinding and Falkous will never top the absurd brilliance of his lyrics and the way he sings them here, but I really wish they'd left that song off it. Gets skipped every time.

Still, though:

"DON'T GO FUCKIN' IN THE BARN, BECAUSE THE BARN'S ON FIIIIIIRE" <3

It's Fuck This Band that prevented me putting it on my list.
The album is relentless and furious, but the one attempt to add some texture kills the flow.
(and Travels With Myself And Another is a better, more complete, album anyway)

[Kane Jones]

Gangland though.
Which is why Seventh Son is better

The Prophecy though. Stinker.

[Howj Begg]

Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On