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For me, it would be 'The Bends' by Radiohead
For me Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump. Much more than a collection of songs.
Exile on Main St. Rolling Stones.
+1 the bends!
Dark Side of the Moon.
But "Exile" also.
And isto is right about "The Sophtware Slump", most excellent.
Blood on the tracks - Bob Dylan
Smashing pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Orbital - II (brown album) ....... there is a theory of möbius, a twist in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop, ............even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
Not necessarily the best album but for me one of the most complete is A grand don't come for free by the Streets. Purely because it's one long story from beginning to end.
So many in the running but tracy chapman crossroads gotta be up there
Pearl jam - ten
The doors - LA woman
Fleetwood mac -rumours
And of course darkside of the moon. The wall and not forgetting the greatest record by floyd the final cut
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stoneage
Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
Grace by Jeff Buckley
Blood on the tracks
Dylan.
The The - Infected
Fast Cars and Songs for the Deaf are good shouts.
For me I still get lost in:
Automatic for the People
Paul Simon, Graceland
Leonard Cohen, I'm Your Man
Fatboy Slim - On the Floor at the Boutique
I would agree about 'Dark Side of the Moon', it flows...
Some good calls above. Again for completeness rather than greatness
Rubber Soul - Beatles
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
2112 - Rush
Back in Black - AC/DCC (that autocorrect was too funny to change)
Man Machine - Kraftwerk
Can't decide whether its 'Now thats what I call music 1' or 'Now thats what I call music 89' or one of the ones in between. If they released them as a box set it would be a no-brainer.
Automatic for the People - REM
Definitely Maybe, Oasis. It just works.
I'd have said OK Computer was more "complete" than The Bends.
Software Slump and Siamese Dreams superb too.
Queen - Greatest Hits 😈
The Queen is dead.
Pavement's Slanted and enchanted
Harvest
Siamese Dream gets better with time - and great when released.
Pinkerton by Weezer. Flawless from start to finish.
Also agree about The Sophtware Slump
The holy bible by the Welsh.
I thought Operation Mindcrime was the STW-approved answer here?
(But I'd have said Bridge of Spies so what do I know.)
Loads, but today i'm going for Gil Scott Heron's 'Pieces of a Man'.
+ for The The's 'Infected' too. Inspired, cohesive and has a symmetry that works just right.
I'd go with the Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. But there a so many good ones to choose from....
Loads of choice.
Some random picks
Hall of the Mountain Grill - Hawkwind
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Moving Pictures - Rush
Oh and of course The Beatles Greatest Hits 🙂
+1 for The Holy Bible and Infected.
Appetite for Destruction
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant.
Fat of the Land
Honey's Dead
Thunder and Consolation
Loads of other possibilities...
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
That was my first thought too. Quick story - when was 15 yrs old a chap down our street borrowed my Saxon Wheels of Steel single. Never returned it. He claimed his girlfriend dropped an iron on it by accident. In return they gave me Sabotage LP, (original, on Warner Bros, no NEMS sh*t). It was such a heavy slab of awesomeness. Even the vinyl itself was so thick and heavy i thought the music must've been extra dense. Lyrics too ;-). Still favourite Sab album by a mile. I was saved by the iron.
Never Mind the Bollocks.
Definitely Maybe.
You got a good deal there Malvern Rider.
I've still got my Warner vinyl version of Sabotage as well.
Forever Changes.
Notorious Byrd Brothers.
Pearl Jam - Ten
Depeche Mode - Violator
HMHB - Achtung Bono
What do you mean by complete? Is confused.
The Correct Use Of Soap - Magazine
The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
I'll never tire of either one
Appetite for destruction or The Stone Roses first album.
[i] ..STW-approved answer here?[/i]
If there's one thing you can guarantee on here, it's that we won't agree about music!
(I have never heard of Operation Mindcrime)
Troubelgum - therapy
Generation Terrorists - Manics
Songs of faith and devotion - depeche mode
sceamadelica - primal scream..
hang on im stuck in the 90's
Man Who Sold The World
Some good calls. I'd also add:
Music for the Jilted Generation - Prodigy
Mezzanine - Massive Attack (in a really dark, dystopian, ****ed up way)
Original Pirate Material - the Streets
Up to our Hips - the Charlatans
Grand Prix - Teenage Fanclub
The complete stone roses?
Or more seriously let it bleed by Rolling Stones Or decline of british sea power by British sea power
Blood on the tracks is a good shout. I'd add Cash at Folsom and Townes van Zandt at the Old Quarter.
The first Hell is for Heroes album, Neon Handshake. Probably the only time doing that stupid "whole album in order" thing at a gig has ever made perfect sense. Even the less good songs fit in places where a less good song is ideal.
oh forgot about TEN by Pearl Jam... stuck in the 90's again!
cinnamon_girl - Member
What do you mean by complete? Is confused.
I guess I mean that the 'complete' album is greater than the sum of it's parts. The composite songs may be ok on their own, but listening to the whole album from start to finish, without skipping any tracks is my definition of greatness.
For this reason I don't think we can include 'Best of..' albums 🙂
What do you mean by complete? Is confused.
It seems to mean name your favourite album
Is equally confused
Um OK, I think!
'Astral Weeks' it is. 😀
A lot of albums have some great tracks, some alrightish ones, and some blatant fillers where they ran out of ideas. All put together in a random order. The albums people are listing work as a whole, with great tracks put together in a meaningful order, that works as a narrative.
It's really not that confusing 😀
[i]It's really not that confusing[/i]
I agree, but I can't narrow it down to 1 or 2 albums. Or even 4 or 5.
Let's have 'em then Dezzy Baby? I'll add Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
Clarkson Rocks.
I was going to say Astral Weeks....'Astral Weeks' it is.
I would also offer up:
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Let England Shake - PJ Harvey
I See A Darkness - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle - Bill Callahan
Thank You - Royal Trux
Like grandaddy
Like screamadelica
But I'd say "in rainbows" by radiohead
Or sign o the times by prince. Lush album that
It's really not that confusing
It is if you look at some of the choices
Some are clearly folk just going I like x as a number of the albums mentioned are unlikely to feature on a list never mind win it
Yep Screamadelica is another good shout, as is The Man Machine.
I just take the criteria to be an album that is the complete realisation of a musical concept (and good obvs)
More suggestions (specific to my taste tbh)...
Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike
Crystal Castles first album
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Junkyard - lazarusSome are clearly folk just going I like x as a number of the albums mentioned are unlikely to feature on a list never mind win it
So? It could be the most complete but obscure or highly unpopular album, it's basically entirely different things.
Exactly. The Neon Handshake is cracking example. As is Siamese Dream.
But also Ocean Rain by the Bunnymen and Microcastle by Deerhunter. And the first Amusement Parks On Fire album. Like a complete journey from the start to the finish.
OK Computer for me.
Revolver by The Beatles is good.
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
The decline of Britsh Sea Power +1. 12th anniversary gigs in London and Manchester this summer!
Neurosis: Through Silver in Blood
Metallica: Ride the Lightning
Alice in Chains: Dirt
Abbey Road: Beatles
Nevermind: Nirvana
In Rainbows: Radiohead
with honourable mentions to: Dummy, and Ill communcation,
George Best - The Wedding Present
Lots of albums I like in the lists above (The Neon Handshake, Violator, Loveless, Mezzanine, The Bends, OK Computer, In Rainbows, Back in Black, the list goes on).
Saying that though, complete albums for me tell a consistent story all the way through, hence the Weddoes (using some 90s NME terminology).
Agree with blood on the tracks and the stone roses. Can't think of any fillers on Leftism or Selected ambient works 85-92 either.
+1 for Blood on the Tracks.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Ziggy Stardust
Mule Variations
Apart from ABBA, Bee Gees there is only one James Last.
James Last reminds me of happier time while the rest are just music to kill yourself.
+1 for Blood on the Tracks and Mule Variations. I'd add:
Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Shoot out the Lights, Richard and Linda Thompson
The 5000 Spirits, Incredible String Band
Oh, dear. Stuck in the 60s and 70s, me.
Magnum - Storytellers Night
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Deftones - White Pony
If there's one thing you can guarantee on here, it's that we won't agree about music!
(I have never heard of Operation Mindcrime)
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/queensryches-operation-mindcrime
hang on im stuck in the 90's
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I'd go with the Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. But there a so many good ones to choose from....
Seconded, brilliant album but not the best, I'd go for The Stone Roses
Born To Run - Springsteen
Blonde On Blonde - Dylan
Epic albums that just seem to build and build and leave you shattered at the end.
+1 for Blood On The Tracks, but moving forward, I really like The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.
QOTSA : songs of the deaf
The Cardigans : long gone before daylight
Pendulum : Hold your colour
Ladyhawke : Ladyhawke
Sgt Pepper - and I'm not a Beatles fan.
The White stripes - Elephant ,
I had been listening to electronic music and learning to DJ/beat match and this and "The strokes this is it" got me listening to real instrument music again - we even went to see jeff beck pilled off our heads at the south bank - now that was interesting all these beardy Jeff beck fans and 4 of me and flat mates avin it on our own (i think we were asked to leave more than once)
Any way this started a love affair with The White Stripes and both Jack and Meg .When faced with Jack at Quantom of solice premier all i could do was tell him he was a legend .