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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Since you guys have covered great start-to-finish records of the 60's and 70's pretty well, here's a few great ones from the last 25-30 years that I've fallen in love with:

The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely

Nirvana - Unplugged

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Low Cut Connie - Private Lives

Gary Clark, Jr. - Blak and Blu

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Mojo

Metallica - Hardwired to Self-Destruct (the first disc, anyway)

The Dream Syndicate - How Did I Find Myself Here?

The Silver Jews - American Water

Jamey Johnson - Guitar Song

Rubber Soul (US Atco version)

The 1st Paul Butterfield Blues Band album

Junior Wells’ Hoodoo Man Blues

Mississippi John Hurt Today!

Axis: Bold As Love

Gasoline Alley

Moondance

Workingman’s & American Beauty

Blue

Alone Together

Low Spark

Inner Mounting Flame

Remain In Light

The Cars

Paradise And Lunch

The Who By Numbers

Will The Circle Be Unbroken

SimpleMinds - New Gold Dream

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow

Led Zeppelin - II

Dylan LeBlanc - Renegade

Doves - The Universal Want

Abecedarians - Eureka

The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Luna - Pup Tent

XTC - English Settlement

Stereolab -Dots and Loops

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond

Stanley Clarke 1st Album

Steve Wilson - Grace for Drowning, Insurgentes

Jeff Buckley - Grace

 

 

 

In pop music, there are remarkably few.

Blood on the Tracks for sure.

Love, Forever Changes.

Fleetwood Mac, NOT Rumours but the infinitely better 1975 eponymous album.

Ramsey Lewis Trio, Pot Luck.

After the Gold Rush.

 

 

I particularly agree with:

Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run

Graham Parker- Squeezing Out Sparks

Steely Dan- Aja

Yes - Close To The Edge

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Led Zeppelin II

Rickie Lee Jones - S/T

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Steely Dan - Aja

Beatles - Abbey Road

Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin'

Dexter Gordon - Go!

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Coltrane - Blue Train

Oscar Peterson - Night Train

Bill Evan - Waltz For Debbie, Sunday at the Village Vanguard

Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus

Springsteen - The Wild, The Innocent, & The E Street Shuffle

Supertramp - Crime of the Century

This could take all day. Cheers,

Spencer

Only 46 million to go. Meanwhile I'll add a few more

  • Uriah Heep.     .... Demons and Wizards
  • Eagles.     .... Desperado , Hotel California,. One of these Nights,  On the Border
  • Crack the Sky.     ... Live Sky,. ST (first, White Music
  • Keb Mo.    .... Just Like You,.  Slow Down
  • Rush.     ... 1st

 

 

Steely Dan "Can't Buy A Thrill" (almost every one of their albums)

Bob Marley "Live" (Rainbow Theatre), "Catch A Fire", "Uprising", "Legend"

Grateful Dead May '77 (any of the 4 shows in the box set)

Lynyrd Skynyrd "Pronounced", "Second Helping"

Beatles (almost every single album)

Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed", "Beggars Banquet", "Exile on Main St", "Sticky Fingers", "Get Yer Ya Ya's Out"


The Band "The Band", "Stage Fright", "Music From Big Pink"

Yes "The Yes Album", "Close to the Edge", "Fragile", "Yesterdays"

Sly & the Family Stone "Greatest Hits"

Grateful Dead "Workingmans Dead", "American Beauty", "Europe 72", "Skull & Roses"

Doors "Morrison Hotel", "LA Woman", "Waiting for the Sun"

The Who "Tommy", "Who's Next"

Peter Tosh "Equal Rights"

Jimmy Cliff "The Harder They Come" (albeit with many different artists)

Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon", "Wish You Were Here"

Neil Young "After the Gold Rush", "Harvest", "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere"

Genesis "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "Selling England by the Pound", "A Trick of the Tail"

Talking Heads "Fear of Music", Remain in Light", "Speaking in Tongues"

Black Crowes "The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion"

Led Zeppelin "I", "II", "III", "IV", "Houses of the Holy"

Jethro Tull "Stand Up", "Benefit", "Living in the Past", "Aqualung"

Mountain "The Best of Mountain"

Allman Brothers "Eat a Peach", "Live at the Fillmore East", "Brothers and Sisters"

New Riders of the Purple Sage "NRPS"

Marshall Tucker Band First self-titled album and "A New Life"

The Clash "London Calling"

CSNY self-titled first album, "Deja Vu"

Kinks "Lola vs the Powerman and the Moneygoround"

Bob Weir "Ace"

Traffic "John Barleycorn Must Die"

Blind Faith

Moody Blues "To Our Children's Children's Children"

Cat Stevens "Tea for the Tillerman", "Teaser and the Firecat"

OK I'm done for now...
 

Great thread with all the usual suspects.

Sticking with AOR.

Steely Dan "Gaucho" and "Katy Lied"

Supertramp "Breakfast in America"

Thr Band "Rock of Ages"

Peter Frampton "Frampton Comes Alive...only kidding.

From the 1980's.

Love & Rockets "Seventh Dream of a Teenage Heaven"

This Mortal Coil "Filigree & Shadow"

 Cocteau Twins "Treasure"

Throwing Muses Their debut album.

 

1990's

Not an expert but love this one.

Oasis "Definitely Maybe"

 

2000's

Mark Mulcahy "In Pursuit of Your Happiness"

 

2020's The Avalanches "We Will Always Love You"

 

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* A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi Trio

* several of the rock/folk/blues from mid-60s to mid-70s already mentioned

Lots are already mentioned. I'd give a bump to Little Feat, Waiting For Columbus. 

I didn't see:

Radiohead, Kid A

Lucinda Williams, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

XTC, Nonesuch

Jethro Tull, Thick As A Brick

Marvin Gaye - What's going on

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Steely Dan - Aja

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsy

John Coltrane - Giant Steps

Aretha Franklin - I never loved a man

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

Traffic - The low spark of high heel boys

I'm an old 64yr old rocker and you guys really need to expand your libraries to some more modern music and enjoy some fantastic production and range not often found in older music:

  • Rufus du Sol (Mind blowing range and bottom end/vocals)
  • Thievery Corporation
  • Massive Attack
  • Lana Del Ray
  • Zero 7
  • Beats Antique 
  • Diana Krall

Allman Bros. - S/T and Idlewild South

Graham Nash - Songs For Beginners

Deep Purple - Machine Head

Led Zeppelin - I and II

Supertramp - Quietest Moments

 

Ryan Adams - Prisoner

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees

Kacey Musgraves - Golden Hour

The Zombies - Oracle and Odyssey 

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 

 

Janis Joplin - Cosmic Blues

Simon & Garfunkel - PSR&T

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

 

  • Who's Next,  Quadrophenia - The Who
  • Rust Never Sleeps, Comes a Time, Harvest, After the Gold Rush - Neil Young
  • Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
  • 2112, Hemispheres, A Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures - Rush
  • The River - Bruce Springsteen
  • In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs
  • Tapestry - Carol King
  • Year of the Cat - Al Stewart
  • Boston - Boston
  • From Genesis to Revelation - Genesis
  • Hotel California - Eagles
  • Dark Side of the Moon,  Wish You Were Here, The Wall - Pink Floyd

The newer live Steely Dan, "Northeast Corridor".  A fresh take on old favorites, rare for Steely Dan.

I’m following Teo_audio post - "Anything from K-Tel.....or Ronco".
You’re never too old for those albums! 🤣

Boston debut

Dark Side of the Moon

Van Halen I

AC/DC - Back In Black

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer

Fleetwood Mac - The White Album

Sade - Love Deluxe

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

Trapeze - Medusa

Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human (guitar instrumental)

Michael Angelo Batio - No Boundaries (guitar instrumental)

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (guitar-focused)

Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale (doom metal)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (thrash metal)

Metallica - And Justice For All (thrash metal)

Metallica - Ride The Lightning (thrash metal)

Draconian - Sovran (doom metal)

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (heavy metal)

Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror (doom metal)

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache (metalcore)

The Destro - Harmony of Discord (groove metal)

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (groove metal)

Warfect - Exoneration Denied (thrash metal)

Aeon - Aeons Black (death metal)

Feasting On Darkness - The Black Cloud (instrumental death metal)

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I (folk, symphonic, black metal)

Just listening to

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English

Tommy Bolin - Teaser

Billy Cobham - Spectrum

Doesn’t get any better.

 

 

 

I was going to write another joke reply by listing greatest hits albums of great artists, then I thought I'd just play it straight.

The Who - Who's Next

Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Boston - Boston

Aja - Steely Dan

Breakfast in America - Supertramp

Abbey Road and Sgt. Pepper - The Beatles

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

I think Pet Sounds, Tapestry, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 2112, Hotel California, Blood on the Tracks, Wish You Were Here are great, great albums, I just don't think every song on these are great. And Rolling Stone Magazine's top 50 in list of the greatest 500 albums of all time is an absolute joke.

I don't post often...almost never but I really like these types of posts-I get to check out a bunch of music I don't know...so thanks for that.  For me, an album that didn't get much airplay but I hope some of you will check it out.  Straight ahead rock/roll with good lyrics, fun start to back.

The Refreshments-Fizzy, Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy

@rodcrownover2 

I love that album by the refreshments! Was going to list that myself. One of the few albums where I put on a set of headphones at a music store and bought the CD. So great when you discover something yourself. I have 2 LP copies of it!...just in case.

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

John Hiatt - Walk On

Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player

U2 - Joshua Tree

Pink Floyd - The Wall, WYWH, DSOTHM

 

Natalie merchant Tigerlily

pink Floyd the wall

Harry Belafonte live at Carnegie hall 

 

My 'desert island' list:

Allman Bros. - Fillmore East

Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here

Hendrix - Blues

Derek - Layla

Santana - Caravanserai, Abraxas, Moonflower

Boston - Boston

Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow

Miles - Kind of Blue

Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Blue Train

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby, Moonbeams, Everybody Digs, Trio 65, Undercurrent

Metheney - As Falls Wichita

Maynard Ferguson - Live at Jimmy's

Bobby Hutcherson - Head On

Yo Yo Ma - The Cello Suites Inspired by Bach

Wynton Marsalis - Baroque Music for Trumpets, Trumpet Concertos, Baroque Music for Trumpet (with Edita Gruberova)

Alison Balsom - Bach Works for Trumpet

Rachel Podger - Biber's Rosary Sonatas (also good renditions by Hélène Schmitt and John Holloway (The Mystery Sonatas))

Mercury Baroque - Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3

 

 

There are lots and lots of them on an individual album basis, but only one group's entire catalogue fits this criteria (with a very minor exception).....Steely Dan. Exception is one song where Becker (RIP) sings on their last album. Dire Straits is close since they have a few albums that meet the criteria as does Pink Floyd, and the Beatles certainly have several (they are neck and neck with the Dan in terms of quantity of perfect albums, but have many bad songs).

Couple that haven't ben mentioned:

Pretenders "Learning to Crawl"

Carol King "Tapestry"

Van Morrison "Poetic Champions Compose"

Tom Waits "Closing Time"

  -G

OMG, how could I forget this one. And a double album at that. Saw his goodbye tour in 2019, played the whole album and EVERY song was a awesome.

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

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Some have been mentioned:

The Cars debut album "The Cars"

Marvin Gaye "What's Goin' On"

Mister Mister "Welcome To The Real World"

Foreigner's debut album "Foreigner"

 Steely Dan "Aja" (Saw them do this in concert a few years back)

Eagles "Hotel California"

I have other Ambient and EDM albums that I enjoy, but probably too obscure for this forum.

I like all kinds of music whether it's old or new, except for Opera. The one rule I follow when listening to the same album over again or paying for a concert is - "do I get tired of hearing that singer's vocal?".  With that being said,,,,,,

The one album that I will always return and listen from beginning to the end is Boston's debut album. Brad Delp vocal is one of Rocks iconic singer - hands down!

Crean: Disraeli Gears

Pretenders: Debut (self-titled) album

Stones: Sticky Fingers

Doors: L.A. Woman

CSN&Y: Deja Vu

Bowie: Pin-ups (nothing but covers but all 12 are great and Aynsley Dunbar is the drummer!

Forgot about Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful.

Also, have to agree re. Beatles albums having at least one dud (though this is more applicable to their post-Rubber Soul stuff).  I am probably the only person on the plan who does not care for Long and Winding Road.

Doors (1st Album)

LA Woman

Dr. Feelgood

Blood on the Tracks

Dark Side of the Moon

Iron Maiden Piece of Mind

I could go on and on....... and on. 

 

@gratefuleric Thanks for the newer artist list. I’ll be listening to all you posted hopefully find one or two to add to my collection. I agree partly with @artemus_5, I have a tough time getting into the newer music. Responses like those posted here help me expand my music appreciation and increase my enjoyment of the hobby.

 I interpret the posted question as what can you listen to every song on an album as there are certainly stronger and weaker songs even on those albums deserving to be on this list such as Pink Floyd - DSOTM.

I see my suggestions in the replies already so I won’t repeat them here.

Thank you to @1111art for posing this question.

Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good.

Okay. As usual, this has turned into answering the question

SHARE ALBUMS THAT ARE EXCELLENT!

FWIW. I own and listen to many of these albums that have been posted. I know that some of these albums have filler songs. Yes, they are excellent albums. But they don't fit the criterion of the OP original question.

OTOH it is interesting to see what others believe is good music. I'm always interested in new music. But too often it is a soulless & mechanical due to all the computers and processors used and often needed because the artists today only need to look god and have stage Charisma. Auto Tune will take care of the poor vocal abilities. Thats just the beginning.

As for newer music that I like which has little or no fillers

  • Layla Zoe - Breaking Free & Live Spirrit of 66
  • Within temptation - Black Synpkony
  • Beth Hart & Joe Bonamasa - Live
  • Toronzo Cannon - The Chicago way - Preacher, Politician Or the Pimp
  • Sass Jordan - Racine - &   Rats
  • ZZ Top  - Most all of them

 

 

 

It took me a while to think about  but Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel  does not have one track on it that I do not like.