The Perfect Album

[Pisweet]

To name a few, I'd say...

Ayumi Hamasaki - MY STORY
Utada - Exodus, Ultra Blue
Namie Amuro - Style
2ne1 - First mini album

[Ningyo Hime]

Namie amuro- STYLE
Koda Kumi - Black Cherry
Anna Tsuchiya- Strip me?
Amano Tsukiko- Tenryuu

[dreamland2.0]

AKB48 - Kamikyokutachi
Girls' Generation - The First Japan Album
Sheryl Nome starring May'n - Universal Bunny

[Andrenekoi]

My top 3 divas:

Hikaru Utada - Heart Station
Ayumi Hamasaki - Love songs
Namie Amuro - Past < Future

[Chibi-Chan]

Originally Posted by jbrat2219

withering to death by Dir en grey

Yeah, Withering to death. is really a perfect album!

[HEAVEN~Destiny~]

Duty - Ayumi Hamasaki
MY STORY - Ayumi Hamasaki
Distance - Utada Hikaru
First Love - Utada Hikaru
HEART STATION - Utada Hikaru
The... - JYJ

Mirotic - DBSK (Repackage with new songs)
Virgin - After School
In Heaven - JYJ

[rusuke]

MARS - GACKT I'm so impressed with this album. It transports me to another world. Actually I've been listening to this album so many times this week. This is just so perfect for me that I don't even care of how short this album is.
And WOW! I never thought that there's so many in here who love this album.

I am... - Ayumi Hamasaki "M" is the answer.

True - L'Arc~en~Ciel. Simply amazing album.

Melodies and Memories - TUBE. Ballads, anyone?

Huma-rhythm - hitomi.

Utada Hikaru - Deep River.

[Kazeyomi]

Ok, here's my list:

Ayu - Love songs / Duty / MY STORY
KOKIA - pieces
Do As Infinity - Gates of Heaven
Maaya Sakamoto - Shonen Alice
Ringo Shiina - Karuki Zamen Kuri no Hana / Muzai Moratorium
Cocco - Sangrose / Kira Kira
Hikki - ULTRA BLUE

[KarenPang]

BREAKERZ - GO
SPYAIR - Rockin the World

GO is definitely the best album I've came across for release this year & yeah I'm very biased on this , I know 8D but it's awesome & just like FIGHTERZ , I never skipped a single song on GO from start til the end

The perfect balance of both the old & new traits of BRZ

[jiarongisme]

ayumi hamasaki - MY STORY/Love songs
Koda Kumi - Black Cherry/Dejavu
Namie Amuro - PLAY/PAST<FUTURE
Ai Otsuka - LOVE PiECE
Tegomasu - Tegomasu no Uta
NEWS - pacific

[hearted]

these are the ones from the top of my head

alan - voice of EARTH
Tommy Heavenly6 - Heavy Starry Heavenly
Ai Otsuka - LOVE PiECE
Brown Eyed Girls - Sound G
DBSK - Mirotic
Lee Jung Hyun - Peace
T-ara - Absolute First Album
Sa DingDing - Harmony

[orbitalaspect]

Ayu's perfect albums would be: Love songs, NEXT LEVEL, Secret, (miss)understood, MY STORY, I am..., and RAINBOW.

Other Asian artists who I think have done near perfect records:

1. MISIA - JUST BALLADE
This album has Ginga on it. Its cover is amazing and I loved the very melodic ballads on the album.

2. Sakamoto Miu - PHANTOM girl
I first heard Sakamoto Miu's "PHANTOM girl's first love" song, and the video was just too awesome. I didn't realize until I got the album how amazingly intricate the production on her albums are with her voice. She has a very crisp, sharp, beautifully operatic voice.

3. Sakamoto Miu - HATSUKOI
The video for "Precious" made 2011 a great year, even through all the very difficult struggles I've had. It made me realize how beautiful life simply is.

4. Hebe Tian - To Hebe
This is my lay outside in comfortable clothes and read a book on a sunny day, or have coffee and watch the rain fall album. LOVE! is a very beautiful song, and it makes me notice the little things more.

5. Hebe Tian - My Love
Angel Among Devils is the best song on this album. I love the message behind most of these songs, and the metaphors in her videos are top notch this time around. A lot of work clearly went into this record.

6. Elva Hsiao - Ms. Elva
This is, to me, bigger than 1087. It's the record that Elva just did Elva on, and Rang Ai Fei Qi Lai pays it forward by painting any kind of loving relationship as something to celebrate. I was shocked to see a C-Pop singer promote acceptance of homosexual relationships in one of her videos, but she does this beautiful job of showing that it doesn't matter who you love as long as you love.

7. Mika Nakashima - MUSIC
This is Mika's defining record. She pulls out every epic ballad and awesome production work. LEGEND, Kumo no Ito, and many many songs are just shockingly beautiful, from the lyrics to the music's style, and visuals.

8. Mika Nakashima - VOICE
I was very disappointed after YES, so I think this record I had much lower expectations for overall. I think once Eien no Uta came, I knew she wasn't going to repeat YES. I DON'T KNOW was fun, but the other songs and "Koe" are so worth listening to, even just once.

9. Mika Nakashima - STAR
Considering she was having some serious problems with her hearing, I'm not surprised this album didn't make it to the top of the charts. I did not like that the cover uses the same image from the Ichiban... single but the album is one of the most Pop albums Mika's done. It's definitely worth a listen.

10. Stefanie Sun - It's Time
Kingdom of Fools and Telling The World The Words From My Heart blow me out of the water. Stefanie hit the ball out of the park with this album. The lyrics are beautifully poetic, to the point where you start feeling like you're living in her world until the song ends and you look up and realize you're still you.

11. All of Utada Hikaru's albums... the least perfect was First Love.
Enough said. Utada really gives her records her all, and it shows every time.

12. Peggy Hsu - Snowman
This album went largely under the radar, but Hsu's beautiful gray hair and the very eery setting of the music makes it feel otherwordly. She did a great job with this album.

13. Miliyah Kato - HEAVEN
This was just Kato's liberation album. For once, she did what was true to her, and didn't put the pomp and glamour in it. We just got Miliyah.

14. Kuraki Mai - ALL MY BEST
This is the best Best collection I've heard of Kuraki's work. I wasn't a fan until I sat down and actually listened to both CDs. When I hit BE WITH U, I knew I clearly underestimated how awesome she is. The interesting thing about Kuraki is that, unlike every other artist I've ever heard, she gets BETTER with each year... Her songwriting and voice get tighter instead of looser, and more focus gets put on making quality songs and simplifying her appearance. It's very refreshing to see someone get better with age.

15. EVERYTHING BY KOKIA
Just everything... seriously... everything. EVERYTHING. Absolutely freakin' everything. I fall in love with her over and over again every time she releases a new album or collection or single or DVD or anything. This woman could not possibly disappoint me, even if the rest of her albums were horrible. She's too awesome, too loving, and too wise to ignore, and I wish the rest of the world could just sit for 30 minutes and listen to her sing, hear her lyrics. If you're ever depressed, she'll tell you there's still something immensely beautiful about your life.

16. Nishino Kana - to Love
Thank you, Love was bad... very bad. But to Love was actually an amazing record. I still bounce up and down when I hear love&smile.

17. Hajime Chitose - Nomad
Her best record. This was about the time she was getting comfortable with being in the spotlight. So, Nomad was her establishing a new sound for herself in many ways... something she's stuck to since.

18. BoA - IDENTITY
JUST KIDDING!

18. Otsuka Ai - LOVE COOK
Where do I begin... Planetarium, Neko ni Fuusen... CHERISH... Cooking 3-Minute Ramen... The only way this record could have been better is if Kingyo Hanabi and Jellyfish, Starfish were on it. Then I might have said I had found Heaven on earth.

[LONJJONG]

ayumi hamasaki - MY STORY, I am..., RAINBOW, Memorial address, Love songs
YUI - CAN'T BUY MY LOVE, I LOVED YESTERDAY
Ai Otsuka - LOVE COOK *although I have never listened to it again, but I loved it so much before!*
Aqua Timez - Utai Sarishi Hana *I have never listened again too, but loved it*
SNSD - Girls' Generation, Gee, Genie, Oh!
G.NA - BLACK & WHITE
SHINee - Lucifer
Rainbow - Gossip Girl
T-ara - Absolute First Album

[koumori]

These are the albums where I don't skip one song~

Sirens - Sen (It's an EP, but meh~)

ETERNITY ~Love & Songs ~ - Koda Kumi (She worked so hard on this, and it shows )

No border between us - Genki Rockets (Such a feel-good album)

LOVEppears - Ayumi Hamasaki (Always an all-time favourite of mine)

The Black Halo - Kamelot (I could listen to this all day )

Monkey Kingdom - MAA ()

BUBBLEMAN ENGINE - MAA (Once again, not one bad song~ Genius.)

PHANTOM Girl - Miu Sakamoto (Hauntingly beautiful~)

HEART STATION - Utada Hikaru (Such nostalgia for me )

RMX WORKS from Cyber TRANCE presents ayu TRANCE 3 - Ayumi Hamasaki (Such amazing remixes )

Wow, didn't think there would be so many

[Aditmi Krisnasaki ~II~]

Hikki's DEEP RIVER -> I love how she experimented her songs with new genres like experimental / ethereal ballads.

Beautiful.

[Minttulatte]

To me a perfect album is a album where I love EVERY single song into bits and these albums are in that category:

Japanese

Ayumi Hamasaki

Duty
Memorial address
(miss)understood

Kana Nishino

to LOVE
Thank you, Love

Koda Kumi

Black Cherry
Kingdom
Dejavu
ETERNITY ~Love & Songs~

Utada Hikaru

Distance
DEEP RIVER
HEART STATION

BoA

VALENTI
LOVE&HONESTY
MADE IN TWENTY(20)

KAT-TUN

Break the records (RESCUE )

Korean

BIG BANG

Remember
4th mini album/Tonight/Special Edition
Always

Lee Hyori

Dark Angel
It's Hyorish
H-Logic (shut it, this album is perfect even if there was a plagiarism scandal)

4minute

Hit Your Heart
4minutes Left

2NE1

To Anyone/First album
Second mini album

SHINee

Lucifer

Other:

Seungri - VVIP
Hyun Ah - Bubble Pop!

I forgot others I wanted to put here lol. I'll edit this if I remember something. ->

[paper_doll]

Ayumi Hamasaki - I am..., LOVEppears
capsule - Sugarless Girl
Carrchy - Sunshine All Over The City
Dir en grey - Kisou, VULGAR
Domog - Domog
Ego Fall (Dian Fu M) - INNER M, Spirit of Mongolia
Hanggai - He Who Travels Far
Koda Kumi - Kingdom
Love Psychedelico - Early Times
MiChi - UP TO YOU
Miwa Sasagawa - Jijitsu
MUCC - Houyoku, Zekuu
Namgar - Nomad
Sa Ding Ding - Harmony
Shahzoda - Tilayman

[mirrorcleworld]

ayumi hamasaki - LOVEppears
Shiina Ringo - Kalk, Samen, Kuri no Hana
Shiina Ringo - Muzai Moratorium
Shiina Ringo - Shouso Strip
KOKIA - moment

[x-megumi-x]

Japanese
L'Arc~en~Ciel - TRUE
Ayumi Hamasaki - Memorial address
Miliyah Kato - HEAVEN
immi - Switch
ONE OK ROCK - Kanjou Effect
lecca - City Caravan
Kuroki Meisa - hellcat
OLIVIA - The Lost Lolli
Utada Hikaru - Deep River
JASMINE - GOLD
alan - Voice of EARTH

Korean
Ivy - I Be..
Baby V.O.X - Devotion
T-ara - Breaking Heart
Lee Jung Hyun - Lee Jung Hyun 007th
Lee Hyori - Dark Angel

[Benikari47]

Namie Amuro - Past<Future
BoA - Identity
Ayumi Hamasaki - Rock 'N' Roll Circus