Perfect albums? You listen to them start to finish without skipping any tracks.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[Diamond_Dog]

1. I can think of several

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Who’s Next - The Who
On the Threshold of a Dream - Moody Blues
The Yes Album - Yes

[Floyd R. Turbo]

2. Yes!

[MissMillie]

8. Gotta love Yes!

Though I think I'm torn between 2 other albums by them

Going for the One

Close to the Edge

[Glamrock]

3. Exile, baby!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

4. Yep!

[Walleye]

16. That's the one!

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

5. I've got two that I played to death

War Child-Jethro Tull
Houses of the Holy-Led Zeppelin

[Haggard Celine]

6. Violator--Depeche Mode

[FalloutShelter]

11. This.

[Haggard Celine]

13. Hello there!

[Coventina]

34. For me it's "Music for the Masses"

[Haggard Celine]

38. That one is excellent too!

Do you like Massive Attack? Like Depeche Mode, I can listen to them for hours.

[Coventina]

39. I'm not super familiar with them.

I like the work they did with Madonna, and I have a few tracks by them on some "Chill" compilations I have.
I like what I've heard, but I don't have an album.

Is there one you'd recommend?

[Haggard Celine]

40. I like the album Mezzanine a lot.

It all blends together nicely, and it's very sexy, too.

[Coventina]

41. Cool! I will check it out!

[IcyPeas]

45. my favorite song from Mezzanine: Angel

[spooky3]

7. The Cars' debut album Nt

[Claire Oh Nette]

31. Cars, yes!

Way, way ahead of their time.

Pretenders first album.
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp.
Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers

[ProfessorGAC]

56. I Mentioned That Too

I was trying not to duplicate, but missed your post in first pass through the thread.
Sorry about that!

[Tikki]

9. RAMONES.....Ramones

Tikki

[Glamrock]

10. Spilt Milk

A "desert island" album for sure!

[Glamrock]

12. Amorica

The Black Crowes

Hugely influential on yours truly

[FalloutShelter]

14. Sgt. Peppers ....

Muse-The Resistance
Many others mentioned above.

[Beatlelvr]

24. You beat me to it

Sgt Pepper is The One for me.

[FalloutShelter]

27. For sure.

I could listen to that any time.

[MissMillie]

15. Mine are not very well known

Two of the Moody Blues, John Lodge and Justin Hayward did an album called "Blue Jays." It's stunning

Aimee Mann's "Whatever."

Shawn Colvin did an album of cover songs called "Cover Girl." (She does a GREAT version of Steve Earle's "Someday" and and an understated version of Talking Heads "Naive Melody (This Must be the Place).

[highplainsdem]

59. My favorite track from "Blue Jays":

[JT45242]

17. Styx paradise theatre

For my money, the best concept album if all time.

I would add in Hamilton, but that is really just the whole play.

[Lochloosa]

21. As concept albums go, Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth is a favorite.

[colsohlibgal]

18. Agreed

Got two recently that aced that test, one of them Springsteen’s latest, the other a BoDean’s CD.

[Lochloosa]

19. How much time to you have...

&t=4118s

I could go on.....and on...

[Lochloosa]

20. One more....

?list=PLiN-7mukU_REOclREjfMGotXFDlADw5DZ

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

22. Aja - Steely Dan

[Quemado]

54. My favorite of all time.

Thank you Steely Dan.

[hay rick]

58. Good call.

Also Gaucho and Pretzel Logic.

[Chipper Chat]

23. Fifth Dimension: The Magic Garden.

Has a prologue and epilog.
I was stunned when I first heard it. 1972?

[Rustynaerduwell]

25. Quadrophenia

It defines all that is Rock and Roll better than anything before or after its release. Four sides that get better as you play them and a whole that gets better with each listen. And a coda- Love reign o'er me- that is as epic as the music the precedes it.

[Doc_Technical]

53. +1 for Quadrophenia

It runs the gamut of adolescent angst from
"Sea and Sand to "Doctor Jimmy".

[maxrandb]

62. This Album should be issued to everyone in the world when they turn 16

Would be a much better world

[lark]

26. AC/DC Back in Black

Any Allman Brothers Band album
Layla

[hlthe2b]

28. Dark Side of the Moon--Pink Floyd, Carly Simon--No Secrets, Neil Young: Harvest, After the Gold Rush

Decades...
definitely Carole King: Tapestry

Sooo, many. Just about any John Denver album, but especially Rocky Mountain High, Poems Prayers and Promises, Farewell Andromeda, Aerie

Just about any Beatles album

Now that you mention it, it is not many artists today that are producing albums I want to repeatedly listen to without skipping tracks. That says a lot.

[gratuitous]

29. Not a clinker in the bunch on this album

[Leith]

30. A couple of my faves

Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono (yes, even I'm your angel)

The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith (I took my username from this album)

[Coventina]

32. Go-Go's: Beauty and the Beat & REM: Life's Rich Pageant

U2: The Unforgettable Fire

Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain

Bryan Ferry: Boys & Girls

Depeche Mode: Music for the Masses

The Cure: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

Madonna: Music

Madness: One Step Beyond

They Might Be Giants: Flood

OMD: Junk Culture

[GumboYaYa]

33. I miss the days of artists creating a whole album of great songs.

The ones named so far are fantastic. I have been on album kick lately on a quest to re-listen to all the great albums I love.

Two I would add are Songs in the key of Life and Kind of Blue.

[Coventina]

35. Kind of Blue is a masterpiece on a whole 'nuther level from pop music.

IMHO.

I didn't list any jazz or classical, because reading the thread it seemed pop oriented.

If we're talking the best possible CD (can't fit on an album in it's entirety) would be Beethoven's 9th.

[Elessar Zappa]

37. There's still good, modern albums.

[Hestia]

36. Keb Mo's first album - self-titled Keb Mo

Perfect blues album between Robert Johnson covers & modern blues.

He sounds like he is from the Delta but he is really a session player straight out of Compton.

[ironflange]

42. Abbey Road

[hurl]

43. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

Dances 1-5 - Philip Glass
Singles Breaking Up - Don Caballero

[IcyPeas]

44. a few that I haven't seen mentioned already:

a lot of good ones have already been mentioned above.

Avalon - Roxy Music
Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (and many of her other albums)
Cocteau Twins (all their albums)
The Cure - Faith (and many of their other albums)

[Pharlo]

46. Tom Petty "Full Moon Fever" n/t

[Tikki]

47. Elvis Costello...My Aim Is True

Tikki

[ihaveaquestion]

48. 1st ... Santana - Abraxas

Then...
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
The Beatles - Rubber Soul and Revolver
Heart - Little Queen
Carole King - Tapestry
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Deja Vu

[NightWatcher]

49. Pearl Jam Ten

There's a hidden track at the very end that leads back into the intro for track one, so you could play it on a loop like we did at the cd store. Jump to 49:49 and then let it play to the end then go right back to the beginning.

[nuxvomica]

50. Neil Young's "Harvest" and anything by The Beatles

Excellent choice in the OP. I played "Tapestry" over and over back in the day.

[First Speaker]

51. A few--Bill Evans' Conversations With Myself...

...Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady; Don Ellis, Electric Bath; Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth; and Something Old, Something New, by Dizzy Gillespie.

[lame54]

52. The Antlers - Hospice

[ProfessorGAC]

55. I'll Toss In 4

The first Cars album.
Desolation Boulevard by The Sweet
Aqualung by Jethro Tull
Peter Gabriel's second eponymous album. (The one with Games Without Frontiers)
There are other good choices here.
BTW: my wife's been playing Tapestry a lot lately!

[Mr.Bill]

57. Meddle, Pink Floyd

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Most Beatle albums, starting with Rubber Soul
Elecric Ladyland, Jimi Hendrix
L.A. Woman, The Doors
Let it Bleed, Rolling Stones
Take Five, Dave Brubeck
Quadrophenia, The Who
Chicago's first three albums
Cold Blood (Lydia Pense) first album
Montrose, first album
Wheels of Fire, Cream
Any Led Zeppelin album
Blind Faith, only album
Apostrophe, Frank Zappa

If I flipped through my 300+ vinyl albums I'm sure there would be fifty of them I could list.

[beaglelover]

60. Dark side of the moon hands down!!!

[maxrandb]

61. A few

Quadrophenia -The Who
You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic - Ian Hunter
The Road to Utopia - Utopia
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

[Tommy Carcetti]

63. Siamese Dream--Smashing Pumpkins

Pretty Hate Machine--Nine Inch Nails

To Venus and Back (Studio)--Tori Amos

[slutticus]

67. We seem to have very similar tastes in music...

[jmowreader]

64. My choices...

Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Brain Salad Surgery
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Rush: 2112
Ghost: Infestissumam
Judas Priest: British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance

[Tikki]

65. Recent: A Spine/Evidence...Powerplant (2020)

Tikki

[TexasBushwhacker]

66. The Tubes - The Completion Backward Principle n/t