[Closed] What other albums as complete and great as Dark Side of the Moon?

Wish You Were Here 🙂

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Here comes a thread full of everyone telling you that their musical taste is orsumz!

For me, it would be;

G'n'R - Appetite for Destruction
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
IAM - Ombre est lumière (Double album version)
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam

What do you mean by "complete"?

Some all killer no filler albums OTTOMH

Prodigy - Fat of the Land & MFTJG
Daft Punk - Discovery
Leftfield - Leftism
Battles - Mirrored

sgt peppers

Screamadelica

Led Zep 2

Stone Roses

Led Zeppelin - IV
Neil Young - Harvest

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Parliament - Maggot Brain
Nick Cave - The Lyre of Orpheus/Abattoir Blues
Joni Mitchell - Blue or Ladies of the Canyon
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
Paul Simon - Graceland

By "complete" I mean an album which is great to listen to as a whole, end to end.
It may or may not work as individual tracks (e.g. most darkside tracks are just "OK" on their own but as a whole the album is brilliant.)

One other I love in the same way is The Prodigy Fat of the Land - the last half really flows.

By "complete" I mean an album which is great to listen to as a whole, end to end.

My suggestions stand. But, as pointed out, Fat of the Land, or Music for the Jilted Generation are both up there as well!

Sigur Ros - ( )
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
Radiohead - OK Computer

Astral Weeks.
St Dominics Preview.
In The Wee Small hours.
Kind Of Blue.
Aja.
Blood On The tracks.
Music From Big Pink.
Quadrophenia.
The Beatles.
The Wall.
London Calling.
The Queen Is Dead.
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables.

Current stack by the stereo.
It's been classic vinyl day.
Well, week.
🙂

Ziggy Stardust's a cracker too.

Disintegration by The Cure.
The Bends by Radiohead.
Bright and Guilty by The Wolfhounds
Contenders by Easterhouse.

City to City. Gerry Rafferty
Rumours. Fleetwood Mac
The Wall. Pink Floyd
A Night At The Opera. Queen
Nevermind. Nirvana

A few off the top of my head, all of which infinitely greater than the tediousness of DSOTM:

Pet Sounds
Exodus
Back in Black
Teen Dream
Fear of a Black Planet
Equal Rights
Highway 61
Giant Steps
Kind of Blue
Horses
American Water
Blues Run the Game
Dummy
Is This Desire
Aldous Harding
Reprazent
Cease to Begin
What's Going On

Happy to list off plenty more before I'd go anywhere near DSOTM....!

Kind of Blue.

edit:

Happy to list off plenty more before I'd go anywhere near DSOTM....!

That in spades

What about Burial - Untrue; that's a good "full listener"

Also, another which for some reason I love, is Logistics - Now more than Ever

Happy to listen to the whole album? I'd have to go with Welcone to the Pleasuredone, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
(I'm bound to get someone tell me I've lost the plot there)

Agree with many of the others.

Rachel

This is a very subjective thread I guess, but for me, off the top of me head...

Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Nightmares on wax - smokers delight
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion
Nick Cave - Push the sky away
Darkside - psychic (this one is basically DSOTM 2.0)

These albums have to be listened to in their entirety in one sitting through headphones or loud speakers without anyone coming to turn it down!!

Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space
Nightmares on wax - smokers delight
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion
Nick Cave - Push the sky away
Darkside - psychic (this one is basically DSOTM 2.0)

I like you.

Love it. 25% of what's listed so far I know and yeah, fully agree with, most of the rest have never heard, so I interpret that as new albums to go listen to which is the whole point !

(What's with the knocking DSOTM BTW, personal taste and all that...)

I often find the "full listeners" can initially be the hardest albums to get into. But once there, they're worth it.

Sufjan Stevens - Illinois

Yeah, that's a perfect example

Yes, lemonysam. Yes, davidtaylforth.

At Folsom Prison
Songs of Love and Hate
A Love Supreme
Free Jazz
London Calling
Yoshimi....
Lifeforms
One Last Laugh....
Stay Positive
The Creek Drank the Cradle
The Man Machine

In fact there's probably several hundred albums I'd listen to before DSOTM. Indeed, before I'd even possess a copy....!

Happy to listen to the whole album? I'd have to go with Welcone to the Pleasuredone, Frankie Goes to Hollywood.
(I'm bound to get someone tell me I've lost the plot there)

I often find the "full listeners" can initially be the hardest albums to get into. But once there, they're worth it.

Yep, the exact opposite of the "instantly catchy" pop that's everywhere, instantly likeable but usually no substance.

Oh, just remembered - quite different from DSOTM, Nine Inch Nails, "Pretty Hate Machine"

Nobody mentioned my bloody valentine- loveless yet?

Flicking through the vinyl now....

Brewing Up With Billy Bragg.
Terry and Jerry - From Lubbock To Clintwood East.
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby, Berlin & Transformer.
Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain.

All, great albums.
🙂

Ooh, Number Of The Beast, there's another one.

John Martyn Solid Air
Bowie Ziggie
Kate Bush Hounds of Love
Richard Thompson Rumor & Sigh
Neil Young Harvest and Harvest Moon

Leftfield - Leftism
FSOL - Lifeforms
Apollo 440 - Electro Glide in Blue
Cut Chemist/DJ Shadow/Double Dee & Steinski - Ultimate Lessons 1
Journeys by DJ - Coldcut - 70 Minutes of Madness

The ones in my collection that always come to mind as the best and most complete albums are:

The Notwist - Neon Golden
Jim White - Wrong Eyed Jesus!
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Dire Straits - Dire Straits

Unfortunately all my music is stored on an old hard drive somewhere, so I cnan't look back through it all a remeniss. One more that came to mind but not listened to it for a long time is Roots Manuva - Run come save me.

Dark side of the moon is ok...

But

What's going on
The Bends
Soul Searching by AWB
And (blush). The lamb

Dub side of the moon and Dubber side of the moon are better than DSOTM too...

Dare - Human League.

Not had that on in ages!

A few, off the top f my head:

Neurosis - Through Silver in Blood
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Solstafir - Otta

There are others but that'll do for now.

Jethro Tull 'Thick as a Brick', the whole album is one track!

After the Goldrush.
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.
Beggars Banquet.
Let it Bleed.
Murder Ballads - Nick Cave.
Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

I'm not a huge music collector, but love listening to music - maybe I should devote more time to listening to full albums, although there are usually a few tracks that annoy me on most albums...

One that does spring to mind for me though, is Reverend and the Makers - The State of Things

[b]pedropete[/b]- good list.
The LPs I used to play through frequently were Tommy, The Lamb lies down on Broadway and Low.

DJ Shadow, Entroducing

Junky XL, Big Sounds of the Drags

Leftism

Rudimentary Peni: Cacophony.
Crass: Stations

Queen II

Loads of stuff, but then I generally listen to complete albums.

Random stuff to chuck in though:

Most Orbital albums,
Blur, in particular Parkfile and Great Escape.
Bowie, loads are great beginning to end, though 1.Outside is great as a complete story
Pulp - Different Class
Daft Punk - Discovery
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Queen - A Night at the Opera, Day at the Races, News of the World
Beatles - Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Abbey Road

Agree with many of the above, here are some different

Doves Some Cities
Shakti Natural Elements
Neil Young Tonights the Night
Verve A Northern Soul
Bob Dylan Time out of Mind
Bob Dylan New Morning

Snivellisation
Dubnobasswithmyheadman
PJ Harvey Dry
Misty in roots
Jackie mittoo - can;t remember the album name - bugger
Fila Brazilia Black Market Gardening

and of course

Orb Live 93 - even though it's a 'compilation' it just goes from end to end without missing a beat (excpet where it's meant to)

Showing my vintage here somewhat 😳

Lots of good albums listed, but after DSOTM the next port of call should be Animals by Pink Floyd.

Dummy is the only one listed so far that I agree with.
I would add moon safari, but it does have a track that ruins it as a complete album.

agree with a good few posted already

adding

the strokes - this is it
sasha & digweed - renaissance, all three discs

Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase

Rage Against The Machine - RATM

Magenta - The 27 Club

I'll second

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Queen - A Night At The Opera

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The Wall is pretty awesome as far as story's go.

I often find the "full listeners" can initially be the hardest albums to get into. But once there, they're worth it.

Loads of good ones already listed,I'll add
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual ,
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless,
& Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Discharge - Why? (technically a 12" Single I know)

I have never listened to a Pink Floyd in its entirety.

Clash and Machine Gun Etiquette still stand up for me

Lost and Found Jason and the Scorchers

Magnum cum Louder Hoodoo Gurus

There are lots of good suggestions, but the bestest answer (as in the one i thought of before opening the thread) has kindly been provided already by Pedropete... Hounds of Love - Kate Bush.

Angeldust
Master of Puppets
Holy Bible
Nevermind
Pretty Hate Machine
...Like Clockwork

Songs for the deaf?

+1 for Holy Bible and Endtroducing

Pixies - Doolittle

Lightspeed Champion - Falling off the Lavender Bridge

Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Any of the Carpenter's album.

Tool - Lateralus
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 1
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante

Husker Du New Day Rising, if Zen Arcade lost a few tracks it would be in the frame.

cinematic orchestra - Every Day
lou reed - new york
another for 'wish you were here'

I spent christmas away at a cottage last year that had a turntable and a massive collection of classic albums on vinyl.

Having not listened to an album on vinyl for at least 15 years, the nostalgia was wonderful and it did strike me that the format did lend itself towards listening to an album properly from start to finish.

Nowadays, music is disposable. Not to say there aren't brilliant albums being put out, but I'd say the incidence of them is far smaller in proportion to total musical output nowadays. Quite sad really.

Great shout AlanF, if you like that then try

Consolers of the Lonely by the Raconteurs

(no it doesn't have steady as she goes on it, which is as good thing as it makes you listen to the full album, it's a corker)

Metallica - Metallica
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

And I total curve ball but Employment by the Kaiser Chiefs never fails to disappoint in its start to finish, jam packed, sing along, good rocky pop songs.

Not sure if it's nostalgia from the days when you'd memorise each nuance in an LP..

Wish You were Here +1
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

but it's all very subjective - depends on context too, list would be different tomorrow!

Currently working my way happily through the double 12" gatefold of Baroness's red album. One of the finest 'complete' albums I own, everything just fits together beautifully.

Worth owning on vinyl for the artwork alone

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When it's finished I'll probably move onto the blue one.

Having not listened to an album on vinyl for at least 15 years, the nostalgia was wonderful and it did strike me that the format did lend itself towards listening to an album properly from start to finish.

This. I generally browse on Spotify but get vinyl for the keepers. Looking forward to trying out some of the ones I don't know above. My contribution:

Goa Mix - Paul Oakenfold (not strictly an album I admit)
Upstairs At Eric's - Yazoo
Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Nearly all the LPs that spring to mind are from my teens and 20s. Says something about the way I consume music these days, which is a pity.

Crowded House - Together Alone
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Erasure - The Innocents
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Just realised that no one has mentioned The Beatles Greatest Hits

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DJ Shadow, Entroducing

I was starting to get concerned that it took until page 2 for someone to mention this

I think BoardinBob and others have it about right. So much of what people have listed above is actually quite old. Is it simply reminiscence from the days when we actually sat and [i]listened[/i] to albums, rather than music now being more of a background activity? That's certainly the case for me. I probably listen to more music now than I ever did, but i don't [i]Listen[/i] to it.

Here are some more recent ones that spring to mind that I have thoroughly enjoyed - and listened to - as complete albums:

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
Patrick Watson - Adventures in your Own Backyard
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

Forever Changes
Blows against the empire
Tago Mago
Notorious Byrd Brothers
Tubular Bells
Not your kind of people
Sketches of Spain
Happy trails
A Capella

Etc etc etc

[s]Sketches of Spain[/s] Kind of Blue
Santana Abraxas

I agree with a few of the above, others I'll have to have a listen to.

A couple that spring to mind from the last couple of years for me are

Grizzly Bear - Shields
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

Elastica by Elastica
Menace to Sobriety by OPM
American Idiot by Green Day
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by The Dead Kennedys (already mentioned I know)
Most early Stranglers albums and the last two
Non Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell
American Idiot by Green Day

Some random contributions...

Bowie - Hunky Dory
PE - It Takes a Nation Of Millions
Lemonheads - It's a shame about Ray
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (debut)
The Velvet Undergorund & Nico (just about)
Kraftwerk - TEE

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Didn't really rate it that much for individual tracks, but as a whole it's a beaut. After the end of Contact I always feel like I need a ciggy and a lie down 8)

Loving the list so far! First thoughts...

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
REM - Automatic for the People
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Currently listening to American Beauty!

Copper Blue
Troublegum
Second Coming

Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO by The Besnard Lakes. Also The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Microcastle by Deerhunter
Loveless, of course.