Suggestions for Perfect/Near-Perfect Albums

[SteveO]

I can see that you are a big Beatle fan like myself ! Welcome aboard the great MD, MaxwellEdison ! An album that is great from start to finish is a rarity! I like all music and I am constantly searching for that lost chord ....a subconscious journey in discovering that "great album " !!! There is a thread here on MD buried somewhere in the past in the General Music Forum,,,your Beatle and Arcade Fire album choices are pretty close!

I have been listening to music for decades and the perfect album that I discovered recently is A[B]nathema's Weather Systems ![/B]!!! Oh there are others, most Beatle stuff, Bowie's Ziggy Stardust, Murder Ballads by Nick Cave, London Calling - Clash! I am sure the other members will recommend much more music perfection for you! Steven Wilson and Opeth have great music out there also !

I also came across an album by Ihsahn called Das Seelenbrechen...very good avant garde ambient music !!!!

This track is a sample...

[video=youtube;92g3KGbZXU0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92g3KGbZXU0[/video]

I am so bored of my current music selection. I have thousands of amazing songs but a surprisingly small amount of truly "GREAT" or "PERFECT" albums. Despite having wildly eclectic tastes, I get quite discriminatory about the songs I listen to, being that my main concern in musical selection is originality combined with strong, creative hooks in melody and/or rhythm. I love unusual chord progressions and rhythms. It's not enough for me to hear a "weird song" though because to me, weirdness without any kind of order is just chaos, and chaos does not require talent. Right now, my favorite albums are:
Arcade Fire - Funeral, Neon Bible, The Suburbs, The Beatles - ​A Hard Day's Night, Beatles For Sale, Help!, Rubber Soul, Magical Mystery Tour, White Album, Abbey Road, The Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (this is actually the only foo album that I like), Paul McCartney - Ram, Radiohead - OK Computer, Kid A, Hail to the Thief, In Rainbows, Ray Charles - The Genius Sings the Blues, Silverchair - Young Modern, The Strokes - Is This It, Room on Fire, Comedown Machine, Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico. ​
Besides all of that, my two other highly specific passions in music are: sad songs from the 40s, 50s, and early 60s (Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Etta James, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, Motown music) and laid back easy listening types of songs from the late 60s and early 70s (a little bit of Bread, a little bit of America, Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, Beatles and their early solo albums, acoustic Led Zeppelin songs, etc). Out of those two types listed, I've never been able to find one single album dedicated to those specific moods.
Anyway, so based upon my described tastes - is there any album missing from my collection that you might recommend? I'm sure there is and I'm just dying to find out. Hours upon hours of internet research just keeps leading me back to the same overrated albums that I've already heard before.