Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good

Roxy54 nailed it. I don't like, want or need political commentary in my music.

I listen for enjoyment and not aggravation. More than a few artists have gone

down this path and lost not only me but many others. Steve

There is only 1 name on any recording where one can be ABSOLUTELY 

sure it is truly GREAT , name IS BACH !!!

Mark Lanegan - Houston

Subjective, ofc but these come to mind:

 

Deep Purple - Machine Head
ACDC - Back in Black
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

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.

Stones - Sticky Fingers 

Music is so subjective and perfect albums are very arguably not perfect. This is like a desert island disc list.  To my taste and liking I can suggest 3 that I don't think have been mentioned...

REM- Document

U2- War

Replacements - Tim

  

Dylan, Time Out Of Mind

When it comes to Live albums - Strangers In The Night - UFO

For me every song was 'on it' and is considered by many as one of the best live 'Rock Albums'  The band had quite few lead guitarists but on this Album it was MIchael Schenker and he was positively 'smoking'...!  His abrupt solo ending in the song 'Love to Love' was one of the finest I heard in live 'Rock' and he was awesome in songs 'Rock Bottom' 'Lights Out'  The vocals, piano and rest of the band had such a great synergy and gave such a hundred and ten percent performance ....

Two I can think of off the top of my head, Aftermath The Rollings Stones, and The Raven Rebecca Pidgeon.

October Project - Falling Farther In.

Durand Jones & The Indications - American Love Call

I love a good thread about perfect albums rather than the usual group beating off to Diana Krall. 

Some alt rock and soul additions:

The Pixies - Doolittle

Violent Femmes - self titled

Jill Scott - Experience (live)

Scapegoat Wax - Much Against Everyone's Advice

Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville

Afghan Whigs - Gentleman 

forgot to put freddy fender - before the next teardrop falls on my previous list

Seatrain - Their first self-titled album.

Jack The Toad - Savoy Brown

CCR Cosmo's Factory.

Elton John “Madman Across the Water” for the year of their recording it was the best sound quality of anything else.

The vinyl sounder as good as the cd recording.

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.

The Turning Point

John Mayall

Polydor 1969

Not a drummer anywhere to be heard; an audacious experiment into Jazz Blues fusion! One of my favorites! 

 

George Jones, I Am What I am.

Definitely.

Lots of great albums listed, but some groups un/under represented:

Gentle Giant

• Free Hand
• Power and the Glory

Audience

• House on the Hill
• Lunch
• Friend's Friend's Friend

Procol Harum

• Live with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
• Broken Barricades
• Grand Hotel

Some Newer

Within Temptation

• An Acoustic Night at the Theater
• The Heart of Everything

Epica

• The Quantum Enigma
• The Phantom Agony

Tristania - Illumination

Theater of Tragedy - Aegis

@dadork 

Hell yeah!

The rest are all pretty damned good too.

Adding to your list ;-) Permanent Waves 

Rush- Hemispheres

Rush-2112

Rush- Moving Pictures

The rest are all pretty damned good too.

Not much of a Radiohead fan but IMO OK Computer is possibly the best pop record ever, followed by M83’s Hurry Up We’re Dreaming and Elvis Costello’s This Year’s Model.

August And Everything After, Counting Crowes

Storms of Life, Randy Travis

I had already posted earlier but since the Country music issue has come up I thought I would add a few of my favorites. 

Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger

Johnny Cash - Hello, I'm Johnny Cash

Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches,

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

And as far as new country goes come on.

Chris Stapleton - Traveller

Sturgill Simpson - Sailors Guide to Earth

 

 

 

The Snow Goose, Moonmadness, Breathless, and Stationary Traveller by Camel

@mjmcubfn I'm a part-time country audiophile when i go to the lake in S Dak for the summer and that's all i get to hear--i agree with whoever said "not much of a fan of the new country" --every song sounds the same with the same chord progression--so not so much audiophile material 

I almost put "No Fences" on my list--the first 12 songs are stellar--but  i always stop the music when it comes to the last two...

Did Free actually manage to record one single bad song?

@richdirector 

Hey, we got several favorites in common. Sweetheart of the Rodeo. I saw the Byrds at the Troubadour during that moment on the Byrds' existence. Television's Marquee Moon. Saw them at the Whiskey during that band's brief moment in time. And oh yeah, I spent many years paying dues to IATSE and MPEG.

Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow

Will also do :)

 

The Cult - Electric

Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese

Henry Rollins - Weight 

Any three albums will do if you're having a Stereo duel with neighbor ;-)

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Extra ++ for the sound quality.

 

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres

Lyle Lovett "I Love Everybody."

Village Green Preservation Society - The Kinks

Speak of the Devil - Chris Isaak

Crossing The Liquid Mirror - Mystic Diversions

French Kiwi Juice - FKJ

Days of Twang - De-Phazz

Cantoma - Cantoma

Simple Things - Zero 7

Illumined Blues - Steve Gold

I swear I saw Shocking Blue at the Palm Beach Pop Festival 1969, but can’t find it documented anywhere.

 

@dmlaudio

The Band - All the first four Albums

Santana - Caravanserai Yeah

@gratefuleric

Son and wife saw Rufus Du Sol a couple weeks ago. Didn’t get me a ticket. Gave them hell. I am older than you.

"Records where every single song is good", according to whom?

 

Colter wall - songs of the plain

Bon Iver - for Emma forever ago

Joni mitchel - blue

Paul Simon - graceland (although 25th anniversary version has rehearsal gems incl Ray phiri killing it on diamonds....)

Television - marquee moon

Bill Callahan - once we were horses

Bonnie prince Billy - I see a darkness

Talking heads 77

Bob dylan desire

Gram parsons GP

Byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo

Beach Boys - pet sounds

Roberta flack first take

Lcd soundsystem sounds of silver and American dream

Kraftwer - tour de france

Ray lamontaigne trouble

Fleet foxes shore

First aid kit lions roar 

Animal collective Merriweather 

Moby - play (although played. To death)

Phosphorescent - here’s to taking it easy

Radiohead OK computer And In Rainbows

Sufjan Stevens illinois

Smog - dogs of sevotion

Miles Davis - kind of blue

All I can play and sing tap and hum too..... So many more with just one song that irritates

@gkim1986 @mjmcubfn 

I'm not much of a fan of modern/new country as I don't find it very country. However, I like old school country and I love Americana. That said, for me, one country album that I could put on this list is 

David Ball - "Thinkin' Problem"

I've always loved it and typically listen all the way through when I play it.

Garth Brooks - No Fences

Any country audiophiles out there?

@audioguy85  - That would be David Gray - "White Ladder. I too have had it on CD since its release and recently bought the 2XLP 20th anniversary vinyl. Unfortunately, mine must be defective. The vocals on the second LP have terrible distortion. I'm sending it back.

Fortunately (I hope) my wife had bought me the 4XLP special edition, direct from the David Gray site, and it's expected within the next couple of days. Hopefully, it will not suffer the same issue.

BTW, you are correct. It deserves to be on this list.

Also, I just received David Gray - "Mutineers" on vinyl, for Christmas, and it is fantastic! Great album and excellent sound quality...

Some are asking for newer music.

The best I can come up with is the Avicii Tribute Concert available on YouTube.

Not a bad track and exceptional show/production. Lots of real feelings.

If you thought the guy was just a dj you may rethink.

Hopefully on Blu-ray sometime.

RIP

 

 

Hot Rats.     Zappa.  Bizarre records

Manchester Orchestra - Hope

 

Thriller - MJ

Morning Phase - Beck

@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.