Handsome Furs - Face Control. Absolute perfect synth punk album from start to finish
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Well said. A great album puts you under a spell, and you can’t break it until the album’s over.
In this spirit, maybe I can add a couple albums to the big list after all:
- Jon Hassell/Farafina, FLASH OF THE SPIRIT
- Japan, TIN DRUM
- Weather Report, BLACK MARKET
- John Fahey, LEGEND OF BLIND JOE DEATH
- Eno, SHUTOV ASSEMBLY
- Willie Colón, COSA NUESTRA
- Charles Mingus, MINGUS AH UM
- Thelonious Monk, MONK’s MUSIC
- Nortec Collective, TIJUANA SESSIONS, VOLUME 1
- Steve Roach, STRUCTURES FROM SILENCE
- Bunny Wailer, BLACKHEART MAN
- Sufjan Stevens, MICHIGAN
The one-weaker-song-on-the-album rule eliminates most of my favorite artists and albums, including huge swathes of great electronic music. Sigh.
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Some others not mentioned yet:
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The first three NIN releases. Ok, “broken” is an ep, but still.
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Amon Tobin’s “Permutations” is solid from beginning to end, too.
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The Velvet Underground & Nico
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Lots of great albums mentioned here.
Haven’t seen Pink Floyd’s “Wish you were here” and Nirvana’s “Nevermind”. Can’t find a flaw in either of these albums.
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Have a cigar 
Also there’s just not enough material on the album, which feels like kind of a cheat
music has the right to children has been running for 25 years without skipping a track
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To add to many above:
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
Genesis - Duke
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
One Dove - Morning Dove White
The Orb - UFOrb / Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
Primal Scream - Screamedelica
Rush - Permanent Waves
Pink Floyd - Animals
Sasha & John Digweed - Northern Exposure series
Sasha - GU Ibiza
GZA / Genius - Liquid Swords
Stewart Walker - Stabiles
Deftones - Ohms / Koi No Yokan
Alice in Chains - Dirt
David Bowie - Young Americans
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Oh hell yeah
blblblblbblblblblblblblblblb heh heh heh heh heh heh heh heh
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^ HARDER THEY COME …. how could I forget it? Goddam, what a great album. Almost more like an EP, considering they recycle 2 songs. “Many Rivers to Cross” and “Pressure Drop” are music to send into space for the aliens to hear, so that they will spare humanity.
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Oh man, you don’t enjoy Have a Cigar? You are a tough nut, sir
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Animals is flawless
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Roger’s lyrics are always right on the edge, but the second-hand embarrassment is so bad for me on that one I can’t listen to it for that reason alone.
WYWH always felt like a project with only a couple of real ideas (the Diamond riff, the title track) trying to figure out how to cover up that fact. So it’s kind of a paradigmatic filler project, in my view. It’s helped a lot by its iconic cover art.
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You are a critic’s critic
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For what it’s worth, Roy Harper sang the main album vocal track for Have a cigar. It’s one of only 3 pink floyd songs with a guest singer on lead vocals. There’s a whole story around how neither Roger nor Dave could get a good vocal take and a bunch of arguing ensued. Roy Harper was in the studio for other reasons and the rest is history.
It’s on one of the documentaries I watched (I can’t remember which) and I think you can verify it on wikipedia if it matters. Roger was very pissy about it in reminiscence!
Great song (in my opinion), I love the rubbery feel to the tempo. Anyways just trying to add to the conversation! 
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Which is so crazy lol. But let’s be honest—another point against it, in a way. Like, a choice made not for artistic reasons but as a compromise to settle a stalemate between the band’s two vocalists. Like, I don’t put on a Floyd record to hear some rando trying to sound like David Gilmour!
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Actually if I had to guess, it was mostly that Harper was an opportunist, which I can’t be mad at! I think that he jumped at the offer to take a swing at it (which came from the engineer) and knocked it out in one take, I’m sure it had been a long day and I’d assume they continued recording takes afterwards or the following day and ended up on the only thing that wasn’t a point of disagreement, namely the guest take. I don’t know if that’s the whole story but given the tone of the band members in the interviews (separate interviews I might add, because they weren’t speaking at the time) that’s the impression that I got.
Still, to me, fits right into the album and having seen concert takes of the song, I never once questioned that it wasn’t Roger singing.
He does a great job of sounding like the band, no question. But shame on them for making him sing that middle school drivel.
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Muse - Absolution
Shpongle - Nothing Lasts… But Nothing Is Lost
2 solid Memphis classics + 2 westcoastbelters. Feel the darkness by PI is 10/10 too
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