@jongordon is having people tweet their votes for “perfect album.” I said Blood Sugar Sex Magik by Red Hot Chili Peppers. What’s your perfect album?

Probably “Blue Sky and the Devil” by Trampled by Turtles. I loved two of the songs the instant I heard them, and it plunged me into the dirty, pot-smoke-filled world of bluegrass. I still listen to it to this day, probably every single day at work. Like a black hole of greatness, it has sucked me and everyone who orbits me into it. That’s right, Cameron, Sam, Art and Julie. You’re simply tiny moons stuck in my massive gravitational field. Except Cameron, who is more like an effeminate asteroid than a moon.

An asteroid made of solid awesome, the rarest and most valuable substance in the universe.

And I’m breaking free, baby!

Silly Cameron, the laws of physics care not for your silly girlish asteroid desires. Simply having an astonishing beard doesn’t make you exempt from the forces of nature.

Joke’s on you. The beard is shorn.

The Faint’s “Wet From Birth”

and City Sleeps’ “Hotel”

Would be my two top contenders.

hmmm

bat out of hell was pretty good. I mean a thing of beauty.

mellan collie and the infinite sadness went on a little too long I guess

what else..

everyone says Sgt Pepper’s but as someone born after 1965 I have to reject that on the grounds of boomer-hatred

do you think that and ideal album you really need a concept album’s coherency and direction?

edit Pink Floyd put out a couple of sublime albums… I haven’t listened to Dark Side of the Moon enough to take a stand but The Wall (especially with the accompanying Gerald Scarfe animations) is a perfect depiction of alienation and loneliness. So if we can nominate dark albums, there it is

Post updated by sam on 2008/08/08 16:23

After thinking about this awhile I’ve decided I just can’t deny it.

Ani DiFranco : “Little Plastic Castle”

I loved it at 14, I love it now, and I’ll love it when I’m 80.

I’m going to go ahead and add “A Night at the Opera” by Queen. Honestly, it’s actually better if you take out Bohemian Rhapsody, which is weird but oh so awesome.