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Of course, nothing's perfect.

Not only is nothing perfect, but the very concept is evil.

It's one of those ideas - like justice - that cause people no end of greif pursuing.

Some shimmering chimera, always just out of reach.

Something with no basis in reality.

That being said, here is list of albums that I coinsider - at this particular point in time and no other - to be perfect. By perfect I don't mean soul blistering religious experience of enlightenment every time I hear it perfect, I just mean that there aren't any bad songs - nothing I'd be willing to skip. Additional points if the album comes together as some kind of unified whole (props, Peter + Pink). There are, admittedly, a couple of albums that technically do have one not so great track (The Beatles, The Cars, Fountians of Wayne, and Synergy all fall into this category), but have so much overwhelming momentum from the rest of the album that it seems petty to quibble over one slight bump in the road. Oh, and only original releases count, no compilations or greatest hits.

Air - Moon Safari

Art of Noise - In Visible Silence

(with original Paranoimia, thank you very much)

The Beatles - Abbey Road

(only barely though, that intermitable ending of She's So Heavy just about sinks it)

Michael Brook - Cobalt Blue

David Byrne + Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

Junior Brown - Guit With It

Buggles - The Age of Plastic

Cibo Matto - Sugar Water

Cocteau Twins - Treasure

Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night

David Darling - Cello

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of the Wireless

(original release w/Urges + Leipzig)

Brian Eno - Music for Airports

Roger Eno + Kate St. John - The Familiar

Fountains of Wayne - Fountains of Wayne

Peter Gabriel - Passion

Steve Jansen + Richard Barbieri - Other Words in a Small Room

(ex-Japan)

Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene + Equinoxe

(back to back out of the park!)

The Orb - Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Quasi - Field Studies

Radiohead - The Bends

Leon Redbone - Red to Blue

Roxy Music - Avalon

Synergy - Sequencer

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Tipsy - Trip Tease

Ultravox - Vienna

George Winston - December

XTC - Nonsuch

Yello - Stella