tragabigzanda wrote:i prefer USA by a fair margin. I find the moodier songs to really lend an edge to the thing that is mostly missing from Born to Run's more bombastic approach.
Born to Run is cohesive from top to bottom and has a perfect arc.
Born in the USA has Dancing in the Dark, which was admittedly stuck in there at the last possible moment so they could have a hit song. I rather enjoy that song, especially love, but it is a major outlier on the album. I mean every song is great there but I don’t find the tracks moody- they are all stadium ready rave ups (with the exception of I’m On Fire) that have moody lyrics.
Born to Run is almost orchestral in its delivery and is about as damn near perfect as it gets.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 7:33 pm
by Matters
Jorge wrote:I wanna play but how exactly do we define mainstream?
If my mom has heard of it then it’s mainstream.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 7:37 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 8:52 pm
by washing machine
I hesitate to call this mainstream because the genre of "outlaw country" has outsider status right there in the name. Nevertheless, this thing stayed on the country charts for weeks and is the first country album to go platinum, so it's not exactly obscure. Anyway, it's perfect.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:08 pm
by spike
i've never understood the zombie zoo hate
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:09 pm
by epilogue
I have a friend who says that The Wallflowers' Bringing Down the Horse is a perfect album.
So, I guess, that one.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:19 pm
by wease
Thriller is pretty perfect
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:24 pm
by epilogue
wease wrote:Thriller is pretty perfect
great call
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:30 pm
by wease
epilogue wrote:
wease wrote:Thriller is pretty perfect
great call
But at what point do we go from “Perfect Mainstream Album” to just milestone albums by artists? The most popular albums ever made are pretty much mainstream otherwise they wouldn’t have sold as many as they did. And in probably each case, they’d have to be pretty damn near perfect to have such a broad appeal in the first place.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:31 pm
by Farmer John
Ten
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 9:44 pm
by LetMeSleep
wease wrote:
epilogue wrote:
wease wrote:Thriller is pretty perfect
great call
But at what point do we go from “Perfect Mainstream Album” to just milestone albums by artists? The most popular albums ever made are pretty much mainstream otherwise they wouldn’t have sold as many as they did. And in probably each case, they’d have to be pretty damn near perfect to have such a broad appeal in the first place.
Yep. You could throw Tapestry, She’s So Unusual or even Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in this conversation and you wouldn’t be wrong. Even Norah Jones first album could slip through here.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:11 pm
by bada
Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:13 pm
by bada
Permission To Land
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:14 pm
by epilogue
You know, I don't know which artists either of those albums belong to without Google.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:15 pm
by Rangi Guy
Frogstomp
Odessy Number Five
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:15 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:16 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:I could lose 4-5 songs from Thriller and not care in the slightest
5?!!!
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:16 pm
by epilogue
Isn't the album only like nine songs???
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:33 pm
by washing machine
Thriller is great. Particularly the title track. Everything else I could leave and it would still be a fantastic album.
Re: Perfect Mainstream Albums
Posted: Tue December 21, 2021 10:33 pm
by bada
The Lady In My Life and The Girl Is Mine keep it from being perfect. The others are pure fire.
