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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String Cheese Incident - Rhythm of the Road, Vol. 2

It's a live NYE concert in Vegas from some years ago.  Recording is excellent, the range of styles of music and the shear musicallity is, at time, nearly breathtaking.  Some of the hottest sax I've heard in a long time on a couple of tracks.  Awesome keyboards, violin, guitar and vocals to show off a system.  2 CD set so it's a lot of great music.

Kevin Gray's White Ladder, have it on CD, but recently bought the lp. No idea how the lp will sound, hopefully at least as good as the CD. Not a bad song on that album imo...always one of my favorites. 

@jssmith nostalgia is one heck of a substance.

still, I think there’s a lot to some of these seminal records being superior—I’m thinking it’s like something Eliot was getting at here.

If we want the hobby to grow, however…nvm, I’ve got nothing that hasn’t been said before😅

 

@dirgordoncole agreed that nostalgia is powerful; but, I would argue there is a stronger bias to how you relate to the music of your present when it takes on the role of the "soundtrack to your life" instead of just being music.

Trust me, in 10 - 20 - 30 years from now, you will look back on some of the artists and/or albums that you are listening to today and you will ask yourself: "What the hell was I thinking?"

@dirgordoncole 

One sentence from that article really struck me because it reminds me of something I was thinking the last time I listened to Trapeze- Medusa.

"The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did."

Even though I think it's an album that belongs on this list, I was thinking, "What a monster album this would be if it used today's technology." As it is, the guitars are extremely thin and lifeless. The vocals have no depth. The drums are dead. Today, with my free recording and drum software, $169 guitar modeling software, and a $100 direct interface, I can make a far better recording in my living room.

 

@mitchagain 

I would argue there is a stronger bias to how you relate to the music of your present when it takes on the role of the "soundtrack to your life" instead of just being music.

Which is exactly why The Beach Boys - Endless Summer makes my list. It's a great album, but possibly I like every song on it because it's what my group of friends and I played on our trips to the ocean every summer. Good times. But now nostalgia.

I can honestly say there isn't anything I can think of that I liked past the age of 12 that I don't like today. But then again, I was always into album (FM) rock (Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, etc.), not pop. I think a lot of pop from every generation is embarrassing.