Great, this thread is going to cost me more money! I'm with Fred60 on
Lynryd Skynyrd and Marshall Tucker Band. Have always thought Marshall
Tucker was very underrated and appreciated. Oh yeah, put me down for
Aja. Cheers, Steve
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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Lot's a great ones... a few more
Buena Vista Social Club In a Silent Way- Davis A tribute to Jack Johnston - Davis At Fillmore East _Allman Bros. Band Fear of Music- Taking Heads Half in the City- St Paul and the Broken Bones Breath - Dr. Lonnie Smith Rodrigo y Gabriela-Mettavolution A Go Go - Scofield The in Sounds from Way Out - Beastie Boys (They could play!) Witcues Stew -Lettuce Out of the blues - Boz Scaggs
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Great thread with lots of good choices. Guess I'll have to go obscure, or at least semi - obscure, to try and not repeat anything: JJ Cale - Naturally Rosanne Cash - Interiors Lloyd Cole & Commotions - Rattlesnakes Crack The Sky - Animal Notes Mark Eitzel - Sixty Watt Silver Lining Everything But The Girl - Amplified Heart Grapes of Wrath - Treehouse It's Immaterial - Life Is Hard and then You Die Ivy - Apartment Life Grant McLennan - Horsebreaker Star Pousette - Dart Band - S/T debut Wishbone Ash - Argus Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene |
I also agree that many of the lists contain very good or excellent albums, but not necessarily with every track being great. I guess it depends if you interpret the original poster literally, that every track is at least "good", versus every track is excellent. And of course, you have to account for individual taste! |
While music is subjective, I agree, that happened pretty quickly. I don't know of any artist that has a discography that doesn't have filler. And albums devoid of songs I merely tolerate, zone out of, use as snack break material, or skip altogether is rare. I'd say somewhere on the order of 1-2% of my collection. Heck, I even left Black Sabbath's Master of Reality off my list because it has the 28-second filler Embryo. |
A great question. Soooo many to choose from but my go to albums are: Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon Pink Floyd - Meddle Dire Straits - Dire Straits Gary Wright - Dream Weaver Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Santana - Supernatural Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat Uriah Heap - Solisbury David Bowie - Lets Dance Deep Purple - In Rock Led Zeppelin - II Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm Deodato - Prelude Eagles - Hell Freezes Over Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue REM - Automatic for the People Wings - Band on the Run Robert Plant - Fate of Nations Supertramp - Crime of the Century Big Pig - Bonk
Not necessarily in that order as it depends on the MOOD. |
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon; The Wall; Is Anybody Out There; A Momentary Laps of Reason; Division Bell Jennifer Warnes: The Hunter Van Morrison: Avalon Sunset; Moon Dance Neil Diamond: Hot August Night; Stones Beth Neilson Chapman: You Hold The Key; Sand and Water Billy Squire: Don't Say No Eva Cassidy: Song Bird Leonard Cohan: Ten New Songs Amy Winehouse: Back to Black Fleetwood Mac: Rumours Eagles: Hotel California Jennifer Rush: The Power of Love Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights Jack Johnson: Brushfire Ferry Tales Jackson Brown: The Pretender Ray La Montagne: Gossip In The Grain Amos Lee: Mission Bell WOW, so many more and haven't even started on Classical, Jazz or Country Jim |
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. |
Motörhead. Most albums! Boston. S/T dark angel. Darkness descends. venom. First 3 albums onslaught. The force. bathory. First 4 albums. slayer. Hell awaits death Angel. Ultra violence. Y&T. several albums!
Sodom. Many albums. thin lizzy. Not much filler throughout. ! rory Gallagher. Couple filler songs, most albums are great throughout. Riot. Everything!
can list so many more, I’m double visioned and ….gnight |
For openers.... Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon S&G. Bookends EBTG- Eden Vivaldi-4 Seasons Everything by Mozart, Beethoven, Getz, Brahms-Violin Concerto Joni Mitchell-Blue, Court & Spark, For the Roses Kate Bush-Hounds of Love Dylan- ’62, ’63,’64,’65,’66 J. Airplane-Surrealistic Pillow, Volunteers J. Starship-Blows Against the Empire Neil Young-Neil Young’69, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, After the Gold Rush Leonard Cohen-Songs of Leonard Cohen’67 Tim Buckley-Happy Sad Dream Academy-The Dream Academy ’85 Blue Nile-Hats Most of Miles, Coltrane Van Morrison-Moondance, Astral Weeks Marvin Gaye-What’s Goin On Who- Tommy, Who's Next
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New adds: Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" Jefferson Airplane "30 Seconds Over Winterland" Big Brother & The Holding Co. "Cheap Thrills" Bonnie Raitt "Nick of Time" Paul McCartney "Ram" David Bowie "ChangesOne" Creedence Clearwater Revival "Greatest Hits" Santana self-titled first album and "Abraxas" The Who "Quadrophenia", "Live at Leeds" Little Feat "Sailn Shoes", "Dixie Chicken" Nirvana "Nevermind" Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Black Sabbath "Paranoid" U2 "Achtung Baby" The Eagles "Hotel California"
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My two cents: I would have included Cafe Blue as well except there is one cut on it that I always skip over. Many people suggested Joni Mitchell's Blue and that is a good choice although I personally prefer Hejira. Kind Of Blue deservedly made many lists including my own although I get the feeling the OP was thinking about rock and pop. You can certainly tell a lot about a poster by the music he/she listens to. |
I’m 41 and feel compelled to drop a short, non-exhaustive list (of music made in my lifetime😅) to add to all of the excellent suggestions made previous. 1) OK Computer - Radiohead 2) B52s yellow record 3) My Finest Work Yet - Andrew Bird 4) Rain Dogs - Tom Waits 5) Summerteeth - Wilco 6) Pinkerton - Weezer 7) High Violet - The National 8) Elephant - The White Stripes 9) Howl - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club 10) Texas Sun - Khruangbin and Leon Bridges Bonus - I learned the hard way - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings -and a cheat, because I don’t think this is in the spirit of the OP) Lovely Creatures - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds May your new year be filled with records you want to listen all the way through. Dir Gordon Cole |
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
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@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. |
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! |
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. |
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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). |
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
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