Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good


It rarely happens to me, but in a pile of records I bought over the summer I

found one with no cover. Shocking Blue’s 2nd album. 'At Home' (I’m your Venus is on it).

Even most Beatles albums have at least one song I could pass on, but not this one. Horrible fidelity, scratched to hell, but damn...

So I’d love to hear of other records that you all could suggest.

 

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Crowded House - Temple of Low Men

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Level 42 - Running in the Family

Jellyfish - Bellybutton

Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades

Great thread. I'll come up with others. 

dvddesigner,

So right you are. Rio is to me the perfect album. Every song is part of the whole, and each is perfectly realized. When it came out in '83 (?), i Iistened to it every day for 3 years. I still listen to it frequently.

I will add Candy O by The Cars to the list. All great songs that hold together as a single work of art, perfectly produced by Roy Thomes Baker, and inspired guitar playing by the great Elliott Easton.

REM - Fables of the Reconstruction

Jethro Tull - Stand Up

First two Roxy Music albums

Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Speak of the Devil - Chris Isaak

Speaking of John Mayall, Jazz Blues Fusion is not only an amazing disc musically, but the live recording is one of the best I own.

Concerning REM, I would say that Life’s Rich Pageant was their high water mark, although not every song was good. I think that Murmur and Fables of the Reconstruction also had some very good material.

For me, Document was the beginning of their metamorphosis to political commentary, led I believe by Michael Stipe. That’s when they lost me.