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+ 1 for Depeche Mode - Violator
+ 1 for SP - Siamese Dream
Deftones - Around the Fur
FNM - Angel Dust
Violator is one of my all time favorites though. I still get the same enjoyment from that album as the day I first played it.
Siamese Dream is also amazing, and I've got really great memories associated with the song 'Today.'
Lateralus by Tool
Half of the tracks make little sense on their own, but together add up to the perfect album
I know a few have already been said. (I don't think a greatest hits counts)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
Guns'n'Roses - Appetite For Destruction
A few others:
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Sleeper - The It Girl
Royal Blood - Royal Blood
Kind of blue by Miles Davis
I'll add..
Ray LaMontagne - Trouble
Tesla - Mechanical Ressonance
Ratt - Invasion of your privacy
Piece Orchestra - Piece Orchestra
Machine - There for the grace of God go I
Just a few of my "complete" choices.
Or endtroducing by DJ Shadow, for very similar reasons to Lateralus
Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Primal Scream - Screamadelica
New Order - Low-Life
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Led Zeppelin's third album
Pixies - Doolittle
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
John Martyn - Solid Air
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Big Star - #1 Record
Radiohead - The Bends
Teenage Fanclub - Songs From Northern Britain
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf
The The - Soul Mining
Nirvana - Nevermind
Disintegration by The Cure.
Can't believe no one's mentioned
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
I'll add
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Ohhh have to do more now that I have had time to think.
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Fugazi - Repeater
Paul Simon - Graceland
The Avalanches - Since I left You
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Portishead - Dummy
Jota....you just beat me to it :D....can't believe it wasn't mentioned until now.
A few people have said Appetite for Destruction. I'd perhaps think that the Use Your Illusion double was a more complete (pair of) albums. Appetite is a stone cold classic and arguably "better", but Illusion is far more comprehensive and coherent as a piece of musical art as opposed to Appetite's collection of single-worthy tracks.
(can open, worms all over the place)
Parallel Lines - Blondie
Thriller - Wacko Jacko
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime 😉
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Deftones - Around The Fur
Death Angel - Act III
FNM - Angel Dust & The Real Thing
Slayer - South of Heaven
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Dire Straits - Alchemy (live)
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
The Vines - Highly Evolved
No doubt a few will turn their noses up some of these.
A lot of these are old but I keep returning to (most of) them.
Puppets probably takes it for me though.
I want to say David Comes To Life by ****ed Up. (I hope that's not swear filter avoidance... If I star out any more it's probably hard to understand...) But it's a harder sell. It starts out brilliantly, gets really pretty bogged down in the middle, goes on for too long then ends with the most ridiculous 1-2 knockout. But it still works despite that because it's the sag in the middle that sets up the ending (also there is a plot, it's just that it's basically incomprehensible even if you could understand what pinkeye is screaming). So it's more complete in the sense of the journey than the music.
Lots of awesome albums mentioned so far (and I'm delighted to find loads of them on t'ipod) but most complete album?
Surely NIN's The Downward Spiral has to be it!
Surprised to see only the one previous mention of Leftism. The first album to spring to my mind when reading the OP.
Tomorrow it might be a different one.
Usual collection, the bends,wish you were here,dsotm
Plus -
Kraftwerk both Trans Euro Express & Tour de France
U2 (sorry folks) The Joshua Tree & Acting Baby
To me "most complete album" tends to suggest it waS written as an album so
Quadrophenia
Sgt. Peppers
Tubular bells
Practically any early yes but certainly
Tales from Topographic oceans would make my list
As would
Dark side of the moon
Things that wouldn't make my list include
Springsteen
Queen
Tom petty much as I like all 3
And such as
Oasis,
G & R
Smiths etc
Electric Ladyland
Ill Comunication
In Utero
Exile on Main Street
Mellow Gold
Leftism
Endtroducing
What Ever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
Sheet One
Black Sunday
Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned
Scissor Sisters - Scissor Sisters
Both just flow right and have a definite beginning and end.
Black Love - Afghan Whigs
Contino Sessions- Death in Vegas
Exile is a good shout, probably nothing you'd call a hit on there but its a great album. Blood On The Tracks is a classic too, almost autobiographical. And a third vote for Southern Harmony, possibly my favourite album of all time and hugely underated.
"To me "most complete album" tends to suggest it waS written as an album"
If so, add in Tommy & perhaps The Lamb lies down on Broadway from the days of grandiose rock opera & concepts.
On the "all killer; no filler", then of suggestions above, it's probably either Thriller, Kind of Blue or Blue Lines- happy to hear any song off the albums.
Great idea for a thread. There's so many! Time to get the headphones on
Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Hands down no contest perfect album.
conceived as a full album from the off, even down to making the album exactly 70mins long just so the cover design would look correct
OK, so imagine its an LP, you have two sides, unless a double gatefold which I will allow. No picking the needle up, no squirming in your chair until a track has finished. Only albums which 'flow' from start to finish...
I will just add:
geogaddi - boards of Canada
Amber - Autechre
my favourites :
Screamadelica
Endtroducing
Check ya head
Couple of slices of perfection from the late 90s -[i]In the aeroplane over the sea[/i] by NMH and [i]On fire[/i] by Galaxie 500.
On Fire is just awesome, maybe not complete as such. In the aeroplane, though - stands out as something special. It's more than just 11 great songs.
Some good shouts I'll add:
Layo & Bushwaka! - Night Works
Beastie Boys - I'll Communication
Kristin Hersh - Hips and Makers
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Love this forum - almost all my suggestions already mentioned in the first page:
The Bends
Blood on the Tracks
What's Goin On
Born to Run
Dark Side of the Moon
Paul's Boutique
After the Goldrush
Transformer
For Django
(Live) At Fillmore East
Just played one from the old days. Genesis - Nursery Chryme.
I just played one of Genesis best too - Selling England By the Pound.
Happy memories!
How to Operate With a Blown Mind
Rafi's Revenge
A Northern Soul
Mirror Conspiracy
Wide Angle
Cold Water Music
Telling Stories
I normally listen to these albums without skipping tracks.
Lots of those mentioned above.
West Ryder - Kasabian
GY!BE - F#A# Infinity
GY!BE - Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Stereolab - Dots and Loops
Gas - Pop
Gas - Zauberberg
Gas - Königsforst
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet
Can - Future Days
Pulp - His n Hers
🙄Junkyard - lazarus
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
These have been constant over the years, albums that I can put on and listen to from beginning to end, without a single lack-lustre track:
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Joni Mitchell - Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones
Kris Delmhorst - Song For A Hurricane
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
Loads of 60s and 70s ones, too many to mention.
Lots of albums listed on here already are complete.
Completely shit, I mean. Not naming names, but you know who you are. I'd like to think some of you are joking, but sadly it's bad taste central on this forum at times.
Oh, go on then, I'll join in - any Coldplay or Elbow album, they're all complete.
lot's of good albums in the lists.
Mien would be the one I am listening to right now,
Zeit Tangerine Dream
Obviously STW is middle age + as no one has asked what an album is! 😉
Just finished listening to Neil Young's Harvest... 🙂
Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in spaceHands down no contest perfect album.
Bit boring though? And I was a massive Spacemen/Spiritualized fan beforehand.
At least I managed to offload my vinyl version for £100 on Discogs a year or so ago.
🙂
+1's for The Sophtware Slump and Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In space.
Personally I'd go for:
Paracletus - Deathspell Omega
Catch 33 - Meshuggah (both written as "full albums", you can't get away with putting them on shuffle!)
The Guessing Game - Cathedral
Comments Of The Inner Chorus - Tunng
Summer Sun - You La Tengo
Clocks Are Like People - Circulus
Ghost Reveries - Opeth
Blood Inside - Ulver
In Absentia - Porcupine Tree
Radiator - Super Furry Animals
I just played one of Genesis best too - Selling England By the Pound.
This coupled with Misplaced Childhood formed the basis of every trip to visit the South Wales relatives from my earliest memories to my late teens. Proper albums that don't need fast forwarding.
I've now turned into my dad and doing the same to my children. 😈
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I would agree about 'Dark Side of the Moon', it flows...
So does diarrhoea.
My contribution would be
Ramones Its Alive
The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette
Clash Clash
Jason and the Scorchers Lost and found
So many near misses, The Bends is sublime until Street Scene which is awful.
Stiff Little Fingers Inflamabe Material is gold until Answering Machine.
Very very few albums are brilliant all the way through.
Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
Paul's Boutique
4 pages before anyone mentioned that - I was just about to declare you all dead to me and flounce
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.
Artic Monkeys.
The only album where you've no need to skip tracks, you listen to it all. In one sitting from start to finish. It all fits.
Paul Simon - Graceland
Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Levellers - Levelling the Land
Wu Tang Clan - Enter the 36 Chambers
Therapy? - Troublegum
12 Crass songs Jeffrey Lewis
Brandenburgs JS Bach
Beggar's Banquet Rolling Stones
Sgt Pepper Beatles
Jason and the Scorchers - Lost and Found is a good pick. A superb and criminally under rated band / album.
PWEI - This is the day, this is the hour, this is this!
🙂
Couple of slices of perfection from the late 90s -In the aeroplane over the sea by NMH and On fire by Galaxie 500.
I've just checked and ITAOTS is the only album where I've starred every track on Spotify. Raindogs is pretty close to a perfect record as are Give Up by The Postal Service, '64-'95 by Lemon Jelly and Terror Twilight, Pavement.
4 pages before anyone mentioned that (Pauls Boutique) - I was just about to declare you all dead to me and flounce
+1
Thought I was the only person who bought it originally, now own it on about 80 different formats and it just keeps getting better.
Dark side of the moon is spectacular, but I don't actually like it all that much - just appreciate it, 'of its age', like Sgt Peppers (though I do like that and will listen to it end to end).
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'Illmatic' by Nas, it's sublime.
'Liquid Swords' by GZA.
'Dark Side of the Moon', naturally.
'Blonde on Blonde' is almost perfect but is probably edged as a complete album by 'Highway 61 Revisited'.
The Eels - Electroshock Blues
Another vote for Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
and
Dog Man Star - Suede
[i]Jason and the Scorchers - Lost and Found[/i]
Hmm.. I used to like them, but I could only name 1 track off that.
I'm going to go for...
The Scream
In the Flat Field
Entertainment
Nevermind
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
I'm sure there's loads of more recent ones but I don't very often listen to whole albums since the days of shuffle on the iPod.
'Entertainment' wins anyway.
Secondhand Daylight
Dog man star?!
No, no, no, no, no
🙂
Anyone mentioned..
Damen Albarn - Everyday Robots.
?
Pretty damn complete I reckon.
Was giving this subject a bit of thought while folding 73,000 letters for enclosing today, and a few more that came to mind while I had the pod keeping me entertained.
Maria McKee - Absolute Barking Stars. Did consider a Lone Justice album, but ABS is such a consistently great album.
Talk Talk - It's My Life.
Peter Gabriel - 4. PG 1 came close, but 4 just shades it for me.
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Andrew Bird & The Amazing Production Of Eggs. I love everything about this album; great tunes and intelligent lyrics.
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. The album that introduced found sounds. Sampling, IOW.
Anyone mentioned..
Damen Albarn - Everyday Robots.
?
Pretty damn complete I reckon.
Mr Tembo ??? Jeez
Another vote for Infected it's truly brilliant.
Kind of blue
Bjork - Homogenic
Curtis Live
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
Crikey, don't we all have strikingly similar tastes, we must all be in the 40+ bracket.
I do have a few to add though
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Barclay James Harves - Octoberon
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
You'd have Jar of Flies above Dirt?
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
This. You have to love a record where the only identifiable sound in 45min is the drum roll at the beginning. I saw them live on the reunion tour and though my fillings were going to be shaken loose. Loudest thing I've ever heard, apart from Mogwai Fear Satan in the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh.
Which reminds me of another: Mr Beast.
Or Ride the Fader by Chavez.
Not listened to much so I'll go with
Prince - Lovesexy
Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
PWEI - This is the day, this is the hour, this is this!
Awesome, Wise Up! Sucker is one of my favourite songs of all time.
Just listened to this for the 1st time in a long time & it ticks all the boxes
Marquee Moon by Television
Replicas Gary Numan
Nail foetusinterruptus
Lateralus Tool
System of a down system of a down
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf. Every song is an absolute banger and the radio concept links it together perfectly.
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf. Every song is an absolute banger and the radio concept links it together perfectly.
Yup I agree.
Also Joe's Garage as mentioned earlier, but then the same applies to many Zappa albums - Apostrophe, Sheikh Yerbouti, You Are What You Is, etc.
Another My Bloody Valentine/Loveless fan here.
How about Jane's Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual?
Or Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
or Le Rythmes Digitale - Darkdancer
or Leftfield - Leftism....There's too many!!
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet,
John Coltrane, "A love Supreme".
Amazing musicians working perfectly together. Recorded in one session, on one day makes it more remarkable.
Good thread.
🙂
Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours.
Tom Waites - The Heart Of Saturday Night.
The Band - Eponymous first and Music From Big Pink.
Lou Reed - Berlin, Coney Island Baby & Transformer.
Bob Calvert - Captain Lockheed, Freq, etc....
Elvis - Sun Sessions.
Dare's a good one too, works really well.
Oh and Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty. Best album from one of my favourite bands. All their other stuff is more hardcore/metalcore/punky but this album has the perfect balance of big riff swagger and heaviness imo.
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State is the soundtrack to my teenage years as well, so many good songs on it.