Albums with nothing but good songs

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Chemical Smile




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  • Posted: 03/05/2011 11:29
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40footwolf wrote:
There are so, so few albums that don't have at least one clunker in them.


I agree, that makes it all so much better when you finally do discover an album thats great from start to finish. My list would be:

The Strokes - Is This It
Bouncing Souls - How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Digable Planets - Blowout Comb
Green Day - Dookie
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - World's Apart
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Nada Surf - Lucky

There are lots of albums that are so so close to being perfect, if only that one dodgy filler track was left off!

De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State: remove tracks 8 & 14 and you'd have a perfect album!
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds: Sloop John B - obviously!
Blink 182 - Blink 182: the monologue at the end of 'Violence'. I think i've listened to it once!
Pearl Jam - Vitology: Hey Foxymophandlemama.....etc etc - brilliant album - but what the hell is this thing on at the end? Has anyone EVER listened to all of it?!
RATM - RATM: Settle For Nothing - sounds like a b-side - no as good as the rest of the album!
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GARY




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  • Posted: 03/06/2011 16:28
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(1)Revolver - Beatles
(2)Rubber Soul - Beatles
(3)Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
(4)Who's Next - The Who
(5)Powerslave - Iron Maiden
(6)Animals - Pink Floyd
(7)Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
(8)IV - Led Zeppelin
(9)Magical Mystery Tour - Beatles
(10)I Robot - Alan Parsons Project
(11)Accident At Birth - Bruce Dickinson
(12)Born In The U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
(13)D.S.O.T.M. - Pink Floyd
(14)Tumbleweed Connection
(15)Paradise Theater - STYX
(16)Humbug - Arctic Monkeys
(17)Dream Evil - DIO
(18)Black Rose - Thin Lizzy
(19)No. 4 - Stone Temple Pilots
(20)The Stranger - Billy Joel
(21)Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
(22)Killers - Iron Maiden
(23)And Justice For All - Metallica
(24)Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
(25)Holy Diver - DIO
(26)Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
(27)The Cars - The Cars
(28)Stranger In Town - Bob Seger
(29)Here's Little Richard - Little Richard
(30)Equinox - STYX
(31)Pyromania - Def Leppard
(32)The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickenson
(33)Permanent Waves - RUSH
(34)Superunknown - Soundgarden
(35)The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
(36)Moving Pictures - RUSH
(37)Ten - Pearl Jam
(38)Back In Black - AC/DC
(39)Close To The Edge - YES
(40)Achtung Baby - U2
(41)Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
(42)Operation Mindcrime - Queensryche
(43)Defenders Of The Faith - Judas Priest
(44)Pieces Of Eight - STYX
(45)90125 - YES
(46)Paranoid - Black Sabbath
(47)Cornerstone - STYX
(48)Grace Under Pressure - RUSH
(49)British Steel - Judas Priest
(50)Dreamboat Annie - Heart
(51)Sad Wings Of Destiny - Judas Priest
(52)Diary Of A Madman - Ozzy
(53)Zenyatta Mondatta - Police
(54)Hotel California - Eagles
(55)Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
(56)52nd. Street - Billy Joel
(57)II - Led Zeppelin
(58)Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin
(59)Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
(60)Sgt. Peppers - Beatles
(61)Let It Be - Beatles
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  • Posted: 03/06/2011 17:51
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I've only got two albums rated 100--Since I Left You and In the Aeroplane Over the Sea-- and of those I would have to say I think only NMH has only good songs (I find myself skipping Etoh off SILY alot). picky? maybe

and there are alot of albums that you couldn't take a song away cause it would ruin the atmosphere, but that doesn't make them good (e.g. Myrrhman from Laughing Stock)
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  • Posted: 03/08/2011 12:59
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My general rule of thumb, or that which has come to seem to me a truism, is that the more original, experimental, and ambitious an album, and the artist who made it is, the more likely I am to skip tracks... but that's not a bad thing in a sense, because as they offer a richer and more diverse experience with a greater variation of music on the album, those tracks individually or as groups of tracks appeal to my different tastes and moods at different times, depending on what I'm looking for from a musical experience at any giveen moment.
But those albums which have that 'non-skip-ability' tend for me to be the more consistently themed and toned pop-ish and melodic albums which have greater accessibility and are not too challenging, but where I'm more likely to visit individual tracks from the former category on a more regular basis, I am more likely to listen to those later calssification of tuneful whole albums only occasionally, as the particular mood that strikes for that more general tone occurs only as frequently as the mood for a particular track from another album... Am I making any sense here?

For instance, I might be in the mood for three or four tracks from Kid A say on Monday and Tuesday, but a diffferent group of tracks from that same album on Wednesday-Friday, but the mood for a whole album of more melodic stuff like Feeder or Fleetwood Mac's Rumours only on Saturday, so I've spent the whhole week listening to Kid A in Various groupings and with greater frequency and combinations over more time than a more 'one shot' album like Rumours, whoch may not then come out again for a couple of months.
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Mourinho_is_God



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  • Posted: 03/08/2011 17:34
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I've got to agree with Bad Faith, I do the same thing. Especially in the age of itunes/foobar, it's so easy to switch songs. I rarely listen to a full album electronically.

That's why I own the lp's of my favorite albums that I consider classics. Playing records is a nice method of "forcing" myself to listen to them in entirety.
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  • Posted: 03/09/2011 01:56
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Mourinho_is_God wrote:
I've got to agree with Bad Faith, I do the same thing. Especially in the age of itunes/foobar, it's so easy to switch songs. I rarely listen to a full album electronically.

That's why I own the lp's of my favorite albums that I consider classics. Playing records is a nice method of "forcing" myself to listen to them in entirety.
you got a point there, but you can skip songs on lp's. but it is better to listen to the whole side.
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  • Posted: 03/10/2011 00:50
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Weezer- Blue Album
Weezer- Pinkerton
Radiohead- OK Computer
Pink Floyd- Animals
Eminem- The Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem- The Slim Shady LP
Kanye West- My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication
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kingofwine



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  • Posted: 03/11/2011 18:16
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Wow! Got some crazy picks out there but this is a tough list. There are very few continuous listen albums, especially now a days (yes I'm dating myself) but consideration should be given to the "concept" albums. Here are a few:

Pink Floyd - D.S.O.T.M.
Radiohead - O.K. Computer
Black Sabbath - Debut album
King Crimson - Red (yes I know every album was a concept but I like this one best)
Prince - Purple Rain

Also, any of Led Zeppelin's first 3 albums don't have a track I would skip over. I would have included VI but most of those songs have been played to death.
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SquishypuffDave



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  • Posted: 03/12/2011 00:38
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To make it harder for me (I think there are heaps) I'll limit myself to albums with 10 tracks or more, and one album per artist:

Porcupine Tree - Signify
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Arcade Fire - Funeral
The Beatles - Revolver
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Cure - Disintegration
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
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