[photios]

Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime.  Perfect album

 

[ardgedee]

Echoing others:
Loveless by My Bloody Valentine
Marquee Moon by Television
6 & 12 String Guitar by Leo Kottke
Giant Steps by John Coltrane
The Trinity Sessions by The Cowboy Junkies
Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Dummy by Portishead
Mekons Rock & Roll by The Mekons
Endtroducing by DJ Shadow
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
 
My own additions:
Remain in Light by Talking Heads
Court & Spark by Joni Mitchell
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome by Kid Koala
Quality Control by Jurassic 5
Floating Into the Night by Julee Cruise
New History Warfare v. 2 by Colin Stetson
Symphony No. 2 (The Peak of the Sacred) by Glenn Branca
Drum by Hugo Largo
Aereo-Plain by John Hartford
Rounds by Four Tet
Decoder by Cypher 7
Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
In the Presence of Greatness by Velvet Crush
 
Albums work as albums when there's a flow from beginning to end and the whole thing sounds like it was meant to go together in exactly the way it did. So things like "Fitter, Happier..." doesn't hold up so well on its own, but OK Computer wouldn't be as strong without it so I can't think of it as filler. And then there are albums like Floating Into the Night where the songs all flow together to the extent that even though I've heard the record hundreds of times I still can't tell where one song ends and the next begins.
 
I wish I could throw something into the list by John Fahey, but almost all his best albums have a few tracks that, well, they aren't always filler, but they change things up too much. I have a suspicion that he did it on purpose, or he didn't care about sequencing enough.

 

[autarch1]

Hejira by Joni Mitchell
The Circle and the Square by Red Box
Fugazi by Marillion
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Horses by Patti Smith
And No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave
Secrets of the Beehive by David Sylvian
Soft Black Stars by Current 93
Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
 
 

 

[Inks]

For me:
Keith Jarrett: Koln Concert
John Coltrane: A Love Supreme
Charles Mingus: The Black Saint & The Sinner Lady
 
There are more but these are just some...
 

 

[WisdomListens]

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

 

[Nuwidol]

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Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim

Agreed. Fantastic album. So hard to believe she was only 18 when it came out! I much prefer it to I Speak Because I Can too

 

[WisdomListens]

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Agreed. Fantastic album. So hard to believe she was only 18 when it came out! I much prefer it to I Speak Because I Can too

Wow 18 only! Did not know that. Yeah, its an absolute pleasure listening to the whole album.
 

 

[Anathema123]

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
The Doors - The Doors
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Subs - Subculture
Avalanches - Since I Left You
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Band of Horses - Cease to Begin
Band of Horses - Everything All The Time
 
The Killers - Hot Fuss was also a strong contender, but the the last track on the album is dreadful.
 

 

[fatcat28037]

 

Youn Sun Nah 

 

[youngngray]

Ok, I know I'm probably going to get ripped by like a million people, but I'm willing to say
 
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
 
To me, this album embodies perfection. You may say that some of the songs are fillers, don't need to be there, etc... but thats because, IMHO, you didn't listen to the album properly. The best, and only, way this album should be listened to is by starting at the beginning and going all the way through without stopping and without getting distracted. Otherwise you won't get the full effect of how truly great it is. Honestly it is one of the best, if not the best album I've ever bought.

 

[WirelessRevo]

I still haven't discovered a 'flawless' album, maybe i'm being a little bit critical, but although I thoroughly enjoy some albums that are timeless - I still can't find an album that doesn't have at least one 'filler' track (track that i'll skip 90% of the time). 

 

[LugBug1]

In no particular order;
 
Ok Computer, Radiohead
Dark Side of the Moon, P Floyd
Abbey Road, Beatles
Physical Graffiti, Zeppelin
Master of Puppets, Metallica
The Black Saint and the Sinner lady, Mingus
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis
Exile on Main St, Stones (nearly forgot this one)
 
 
A lot of obvious choices here, but they are obvious for a reason.. Flawless!
 
 
 

 

[BluFalcon]

Prince - 1999, Purple Rain
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Nas - Illmatic
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Elton John - Honky Chateau, Madman Across the Water, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Steely Dan - Aja, Gaucho
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
The Roots - Illadelph Halflife
Rush - Moving Pictures
Holst - The Planets
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 2
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life, Innervisions, Talking Book
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall, Thriller
Billy Joel - Turnstiles, 52nd Street, Glass Houses
Daft Punk - Discovery
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
GZA - Liquid Swords
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
 
I'm sure there's a lot more.  My collection is vast, but those are just a few albums I can enjoy all the way through and don't consider them cluttered with filler. Will add to the list when I think of more. 
 
*by no means am I suggesting these albums are flawless, but I can enjoy them from start to finish without hitting the "skip next" button. 

 

[Dancingduck]

Van Halen's - 1984
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Steve Winwood - Higer Love
Keane - Hopes and Fears
Europe - The Final Countdown
Depeche Mode -  Violator
Interpol - Antics
 

 

[SkinnyPuppy]

KMFDM - Angst
 
Their only album without any filler material IMO. Symbols comes close but Spit Sperm was a bit disappointing.
 
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
 
One of the albums that defined industrial music, along with The Land of Rape and Honey (great album, but far from flawless).
 
Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
 
Another industrial classic, only 9 tracks but each one is a classic. Maybe my favorite album of all time.