Most Complete Album in Your Opinion

Pink Floyd is kind of cheating...right?

Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Graceland, Paul Simon.

Appetite for Destruction
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Aenima

I like my least favorite track on Built to Spill’s Perfect From Now On more than my least favorite track on any other album. If that makes sense.

I am only a casual fan, but I don't know any of those songs. I guess it's time for a listen.

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Exile on Main Street

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Exile is absurdly good from start to finish. There's a really interesting podcast regarding the insane experience of recording the album in the French Riviera and all the debauchery that came with it.

The Rolling Stones: Fugitives in Exile

Difficult to choose one. Like someone said, Pink Floyd is just cheating.

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True (the US version with Watching the Detectives as the last track on side 1)

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

J. Geils Band - Bloodshot (an album full of bluesy rock bar songs)

Sticky Fingers

For a double album The White Album is impressive. A ton of great music on it.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours is my pick.

Graceland and The Nightfly are both great choices. Also pretty much anything by Pink Floyd in the 70's. Can't argue with Astral Weeks either.

I'm going with Aja by Steely Dan. The songwriting and musicianship are unequaled in my opinion. It creates a sound that is a fusion of soul, jazz and rock and it's different than anything before or since.

Another one that I feel deserves mention is Layla. I can't think of a bad song on it and it hangs together as a whole to tell the story of unrequited love. Again the playing is first rate and the production quality is absolutely stellar. You could try a thousand times to re-create an album like that but never succeed.