Henry Gross - Plug Me Into Something
Led Zeppelin - l
Tom Petty All Albums
Derek and the Dominos
The Beatles All Albums
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed and Sticking Fingers, Some Girls
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
the list could go on
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The Beatles.... Abby Road
Eagles.... Hotel California
The Cars.... The Cars
AC/DC..... Back in Black
Pink Floyd.... The Wall
Chuck Mangione…. Feels so Good
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Enjoying all the lists folks are submitting.
Thanks for participating,
Keep'em coming,
This is fun stuff, |
Paul Simon - Graceland 25th anniversary reissue. |
dougsat
Great idea for a thread. Excellent suggestions as above. Another + vote for Danzig s/t. Add Van Halen s/t.
Happy Listening! |
Here's probably my number 1: Mary, the solo album by Mary Travers, 1970/71.
For me it has it all. Wonderful wonderful singer/voice, great selection of songs, fantastic sounds, engineered by Phil Ramone.
This has to be one of my top 5 LPs/CDs/Recordings of all time.
Of course "there is no accounting for taste".
I just love this record, only wish there were more like it, raises so many emotions in me when I play it, and of course it's a total joy for me to listen to. |
The OP makes a couple of really good points:
1) Albums that you truly want to listen to all the way thru are rare.
2)But, it's a good idea to listen to the entire album because our tastes change over time. I know that I've rediscovered countless songs that I either forgot about or just didn't appreciate initially. However, I know I'll never change my mind about "Alabama Song" from the debut album by The Doors.
JJ Cale - "Naturally"
Bruce Cockburn - "Inner City Front"
Lloyd Cole & Commotions: "Rattlesnakes"
Crack The Sky - "Crack The Sky"
Michael Franks - "The Art of Tea"
Love - "Forever Changes"
Pousette - Dart Band - "Pousette - Dart Band"
Wishbone Ash - "Argus"
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Blue Oyster Cult - "Tyranny and Mutation"
Maria McKee - "Peddling Dreams"
Iris Dement - "Sing the Delta"
Crowded House - "Temple of Low Men"
The Band - "Music from Big Pink" |
And one very important pair not to be missed and always played through (NOTE: Not necessarily vinyl, but albums none the less).
Tom Waits - "Mule Variations"
Tom Waits - "Alice" |
Fascinating... I guess I am a rare bird. But, of course, the bird is the word.
I listen to both sides of a record only the very first time and rarely afterwords. I get a sense of the vibe of the side and play one or the other depending on mood (and guests) forever afterword. When a side ends I assess the mood and, generally speaking, I am so inspired by that music I want to explore another record to push that envelope or completely change tack. Sometimes the mood does lead to flipping sides. Sometimes. I did that yesterday once.
Digital is a whole other story but does still includes listening to the full album the very first time. In fact, I now wish Roon had an option to display and play as album sides.
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Here is a copy and paste of some of the responses (not all)
so excuse me if I missed a few.
Interesting and diverse selection of albums thanks everyone.
If you’re late to the party on this feel free to jump on in.
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The Moody Blues - The Days of Future Passed
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Alan Parsons Project- I Robot
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Weather Report - Black Market Paul Simon - Graceland 25th anniversary reissue
The Beatles.... Abby Road
Eagles.... Hotel California
The Cars.... The Cars
AC/DC..... Back in Black
Pink Floyd.... The Wall
Chuck Mangione…. Feels so Good
Henry Gross - Plug Me Into Something
Led Zeppelin - l
Tom Petty All Albums
Derek and the Dominos
The Beatles All Albums
The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed and Sticking Fingers, Some Girls
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits
Brian Protheroe-first 3 Chrysalis albums
John McLaughlin-Electric Dreams, Adventures in Radioland, Tokyo Live
Richie Cole-Bossa Nova Eyes
Joni-Court And Spark
ELP-Tarkus
The Bearles-A Huge Melody (or my covers version)
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Who - Who’s Next
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Steely Dan - Can’t Buy a Thrill
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Boston - 1st Album
Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Aldous Harding - Designer
Van Morrison - Wavelength
Dire Straits - Communique
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Chris Whitley - Living with the Law
Willie DeVille - Sportin’ Life
John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme"
Ray Charles - "What’d I Say"
Diana Krall - "Love Scenes"
Paul Desmond - "Feeling Blue"
Tom Waits - "The Heart of Saturday Night"
Gerry Mulligan - "Night Lights"
Quincy Jones - "Body Heat"
De La Soul - "And The Anonymous Nobody"
Enya -Watermark
Patricia Barber- Cafe Blue
Hope Sandovar- Most Any
Simon and Garfunkel-Sounds of silence.
War - All Day Music
War - The World is a Ghetto
Sade - Diamond Life
Sade - Promise
Gregory Porter - any album
Pink Floyd : Wish you were here, Animals
Jethro Tull: Aqualung
Supertramp : Crime of the Century, Even in the Quietest Moments
Springsteen : Greetings from Asbury Park
Steely Dan-"Aja"
Joni Mitchell-"Court and Spark"
Bob Dylan-"Blood On The Tracks"
Beatles-"Rubber Soul"
Jethro Tull-"Thick as a Brick"
Paul Simon-"Hearts and Bones"
REM-"Greatest Hits"
David Bowie-"Ziggy Stardust"
Rolling Stones-"Through the Past, Darkly"
Cat Stevens-"Tea for the Tillerman"
JJ Cale - "Naturally"
Bruce Cockburn - "Inner City Front"
Lloyd Cole & Commotions: "Rattlesnakes"
Crack The Sky - "Crack The Sky"
Michael Franks - "The Art of Tea"
Love - "Forever Changes"
Pousette - Dart Band - "Pousette - Dart Band"
Wishbone Ash - "Argus"
Mary Travers - Mary
Paul Simon - Graceland
Tom Waits - "Mule Variations"
Tom Waits - "Alice"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Tyranny and Mutation"
Maria McKee - "Peddling Dreams"
Iris Dement - "Sing the Delta"
Crowded House - "Temple of Low Men"
The Band - "Music from Big Pink"
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I forgot one I only own in vinyl.
Edgar Winter Entrance
First lossless noise free copy I've ever heard on Qobuz.
Ahhh.
Even sounds good through a S.M.S.L. |
Ian Dury- New Boots and Panties, Television -Marquee Moon, David Bowie- Scary Monsters and Young Americans, Dave Edmunds -Trax on Wax 4, Lou Reed- Rock n Roll Animal, Iggy Pop and James Williamson-Kill City, Little Feat- Waiting for Columbus, Ron Wood- Now Look, Jerry Garcia -Garcia (Compliments), Phil Manzanera- Diamond Head, Robbie Robertson Storyville,-The Band -Music From Big Pink, Bob Dylan -Time out of Mind, Link Wray- Link Wray- , The Clash-London Calling.Most of these I can listen to both or in Little Feats and The Clash's Case all 4 sides If you like Crowded House Id suggest if you haven’t already listened to Split Enz that Frenzy and Dizrythmia could be candidates for my list ps Cool idea dougsat
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Many of mine are already gone . But a few are missed 1) Led Zep In through the outdoor 2) Genesis Trick of the Tail and Wind and Weathering 3) Alice Cooper Love it to Death 4) Bruce Hornsby and the Range Scenes from the Southside 5) Foreigner First Album 6) Joe Satriani Super Colossal 7) Spyro Gyra Alternating Currents 8) Aerosmith Get your Wings 9) Rush 2112 |
The newest album Ive had this happen with most recently was Lana Del Rey's Normal F#*king Rockwell. I just couldn't turn it off! |
Another vote for all of them. |
The Good Rats. TASTY
Cat Stevens. TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN |
Beatles - Abbey Road
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Beach Boys- Pet Sounds
Crosby Stills & Nash - 1st album
ELO- Eldoarado
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman
Andrew Gold - The Fraternal Order of the All (hard to find) |
Linda Ronstadt & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra, What's New. Really I play it multiple times through, its that great. To me. |
Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
‘Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil”
U2 “The Joshua Tree”
Aretha Franklin “I Never Loved a Man, the Way That I Loved You”
Black Uhuru ”Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?” |
Supertramp- Crime of the Century. Porcupine Tree - Signify. Doobie Brothers - Living On the Faultline. Roxy Music - Avalon. Yes- Going For the One. Weather Report - Heavy Weather |
Me always John Denver..I can listen to it while doing my washing and cleaning at the same time. |
Jeff Beck - Blow by BlowBill Frisell - Gone Just Like a TrainLittle Feat - Dixie Chicken, Sailing Shoes
Fleetwood Mac - Then Play OnEagles - On the Border
Wes Montgomery - Smokin' at the Half NoteFrank Zappa - Hot RatsMichael Brecker - Two Blocks From the EdgePat Martino - Live at Yoshi'sJohn Scofield - A Go-Go
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I think what the OP meant by "Album" was musical work, not necessarily the vinyl itself. I'm sure must of us play our records all the way through.
Quick story: My neighbors come over every now & then for foosball, beers, and jams. I used to just load up the cd player and put it on random. This was about 10-12 years ago before vinyl made its resurgence. My buddy came out of my "storage closet" of music with AC/DC's Back in Black LP and asked if I could play it. I almost laughed because I thought - "Everyone knows that!".
But that was the point, everyone knew it. Everyone knew exactly what was coming up next after each song and totally dug it!
That experience opened my eyes and I've never used random since, even on cd's. |
To the OP, I clicked on this as one of the “posts of the week” to add my picks only to find my first two picks on your list already! - “DSOTM” and “I Robot”.
In fact, I was actually listening to “I Robot”, having just “rediscovered” it today (no lie!) and had just about let the thing run all the way through when I came across the Audiogon Weekly email. For those who enjoy this album, I urge you to look for the “Legacy Edition”. I think it’s been remastered and loads of studio track extras and commentary. I love streaming! Would have never found this version ow.
In addition to the two above I’d add Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat”. (See a theme emerging here?), Genesis “Trick of the Tail” and several others. All from the era of Rock Opera and themed albums. Not many cohesive themed albums that tell a story these days. All sound bites or hits.
Oh, and Genesis “Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” MUST be listened to in its entirety.
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I generally listen to the entire album unless it has (in classical music) a particular piece worth listening to and not the other(s). Often one side will sound superior to the other side of the record (factual statement as to pressing differences-see Better Records for explanation). For vocal albums, I often pick and choose which selections to hear. I have 25,000 LPs. For 78s, I listen through to the 3 to 5 minutes per side obviously (7,000). I tend to listen to entire CDs as well (7,000) even though they can last in the low 80 minutes (classical collections from Decca). |
The Who. Who’s Next
Elaine Stritch At Liberty
Beatles Rubber Soul
Stones Sticky Fingers
compilation cds don’t count. That’s cheating......
Does anyone remember the “Perfect Album Side” on WNEW FM?
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great thread.
Even since I was a kid if I could I always played the whole record. And I still do. It’s not because of inconvenience; it’s out of love.
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Well since I started this - Here are a few more on my end -
Pat Metheny - Bright Sized Life
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Free - Highway
BB King - Live in Cook County Jail
BB King -
Indianola Mississippi Seeds
Pat Martino - Starbright
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
Stevie Wonder - Invervisions
Michael Franks - Sleeping Gypsy
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Sturgill Simpson. Any album. |
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Robin Trower - "In City Dreams" |
This thread is very apropos to me. For 40 years my listening sessions were restricted, and so I got in the habit of only listening to favorite tracks. I became passably good at positioning the tonearm such that the stylus lowers into the inter-track gap on the record.
I'm retired now, with more time to listen. I've had my old turntable (and other gear) serviced. I'm breaking the favorites habit and listening more to the whole album. Linda Ronstadt's "Don't Cry Now," "Prisoner In Disguise," and "Heart Like a Wheel" have gotten 2-side play of late, and I hadn't listened to Linda at all for maybe 25 years. I just picked up Van Morrison's "Three Chords and the Truth," and listened to a side the other day right before dinner. Good stuff, and I'm getting more enjoyment out of the music.
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Pretty much all of them... I'm lazy that way.
However, some standouts are anything from "Land Of Kush" or "Bardo Pond". Kind of funny because neither of those bands are easy listening. YMMV
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Many already mentioned, plus
Dirty Vegas - Dirty Vegas
Bjork - Debut |
Anything by Bach and Mozart, greatest musicians who ever lived beyond all doubt .
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Anything by Bach and Mozart, greatest musicians who ever lived beyond all doubt . It must be true because I cannot imagine to contest it with my own preference, for example in the case of Mozart...Because my preference will appear precisely like that: only my preference.... I think it is a fact, Bach and Mozart gives to their music some "constant" high level of perfect form/emotion ratio and this was never really surpassed, on these 2 counts, by any other composer to this day... The last factor would be the sheer astounding numbers of opus with these 2 factors in them.... |
Late to the party but every album every time.
I am even anal with the double albums where a prevailing trend is to put sides 1&4 on one record and sides 2&3 on the other.
Now that REALLY annoys me but I duly follow side order even though it means taking record one off, playing both sides of record two, then final side of record one. |
@hifier I just got Three Chords And The Truth. His best of the last few he has released. I have to play all 4 sides straight through. The vinyl is dead quiet. |
3 by Radiohead:
The Bends
OK Computer
KidA |
Any Pink Floyd from Dark Side of the Moon thru The Wall.
Miles Davis Kind of Blue (Rainy day).
Bob Marley Legend.
U2 The Joshua Tree.
Stevie Wonder Musicquarium
Paul Simon Graceland.
Peter Gabriel So.
Fleetwood Mac Rumors.
‘Best of...” by Elton John, Doobie Bros., Steve Miller Band, Eagles, Paul Simon, Earth Wind & Fire, Billy Joel, Steely Dan... if these count. |
@rocketroom
Now there is a very good list, I have to agree with!
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Tons of great music listed so far!
Here are some less popular but highly enjoyable options:
Amorphis - Tales from the 1000 Lakes (for you metal heads)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mars disc from Stadium Arcadium (double LP)
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
The Distillers - Sing Sing Death House (fantastic punk rock)
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John McLaughlin with Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame.
John McLaughlin with Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions Of The Emerald Beyond.
John McLaughlin/ Paco de Lucia/Al di Meola - Passion Grace&Fire (digital recording).
Al di Meola - Cielo e Terra.
Paco de Lucia - Siroco.
Pink Floyd - WYWH
Miles Davis - Pangaea.
Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal.
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun.
Tony Scott - Music for Zen Meditation. |
Lessee... - Anything by Pat Metheny, Gabor Szabo, Sadao Watanabe
- Steely Dan - Aja, Cant Buy a Thrill
- Bruce Hornsby and the Range - Thats The Way It Is
And too many others to list |
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All of them.
(Stupid thread) |
Robin Trower
Bridge of Sighs |
Peter Gabriel "Up"
Heart " Dog & Butterfly "
Brand New "Science Fiction "
Black Sabbath " Black Sabbath "
Pink Floyd "Animals"
Queen "A Night at the Opera "
Golden Earring "Moontan"
Chicago " Transit Authority " |
"A Tribute to Jack Johnston" Miles Davis |
