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Well I feel both saddened for you and ashamed by you, not a single mention of Pearl Jam yet 😛
For me these are some I love and one I've back to today just to validate the statement:
Idelewild - The Remote part
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Melancollie a close second)
Pearl Jam - Vs (could have been Vitalogy but for Foxy Mophandle Momma)
Of Monsters and men - My head is an animal
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Rival schools - United by fate
f*cked up - David comes to life
I'm sure there are others, but these would be first that spring to mind.
Despite owning a copy DSOTM has never really floated my boat. Wish You Were Here I can understand though. I don't want to get into a slagging match (personal taste and all).
I'll give +1 to the following though:
Theres a Riot Going On
Whats Going On
Kind of Blue
In a Silent Way (probably my fave Miles album, it was my first too)
Astral Weeks
Horses
Whilst I love the following I prefer the stated other:
Illinoise (there are a couple of things that spoil it for me and there are a handful of tracks that stand out that affects the whole). I'd offer Seven Swans
Tago Mago (being a double its difficult to hold the brilliance of Helleluwah across 4 'sides') - so, Ege Bamyasi.
Stations - Feeding is the better (see also above re. doubles...) 🙂
To add:
Let England Shake & White Chalk - PJ Harvey
Marquee Moon - Television
Kanon Pokajanen - Arvo Part/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Weather - Michael Gordon
Greetings From LA - Tim Buckley
Blues & Roots - Charles Mingus
toby1 - Member
Pearl Jam - Vs (could have been Vitalogy but for Foxy Mophandle Momma)
I can go for months at a time without remembering that Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me is at the end of Vitalogy. It's one of the few tracks that have been left behind when I've ripped my CDs to mp3. Me and a Gun is about the only other one I can think of - not something you want to start playing when you're not expecting it.
Bob's 'Nashville Skyline'
Nas's 'illmatic'
Gza's 'Liquid Swords'
Amused to Death - Roger Waters.
End of thread.
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
All the way through-ers:
Pscyhomodo - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (the early concept stuff was so brilliant!)
Pinups - Bowie
Into the wild - Eddie Vedder (makes me cry)
For me -
Wish You Were Here
The Bends
Achtung Baby
Chrome Dreams
Farewell To Kings
Just realised that no one has mentioned The Beatles Greatest Hits
[Pedantalert] Actually it's 'The Best of the Beatles' [Pedantalert/]
Lots of god shouts above. Particularly for me Troublegum, Appetite and Graceland. Also Levelling the Land for me, could always listen through without wanting to skip a track. Like the mention of Copper Blue too.
Metallica - Metallica
ACDC - Back in Black
Green Day - American Idiot
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Pendulum - In Silico
Dylan - Desire
Waits - Blue Valentine
Dead - Workingmans Dead
Sasha & Digweed Northern Exposure Expeditions
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Prodigy - MFTJG
Daimien Rice - O
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Charlatans - Tellin Stories
Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and steady and easy
JJ Cale - Troubadour
an lots of others...
Dunno if anyone's said it yet, but I think Neon Bible by Arcade Fire sounds good all the way through & I don't particularly like them...
Also "The Last Waltz" by The Band - it was released as an album
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In acknowledgement of the fact that most of the albums here are 20+ years old, I'll add a few more recent entries.
Swans - The seer
Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
Bjork - Vulnicura
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Good shout on Fever Ray
I'm in...
1 giant leap - as an album with message from start to finish... or
Orbital - Snivilisation
LCD Sound system - LCD Sound system
Arctic monkeys - Whatever people say i am ......
Bjork - Debut
Royksopp - Melody AM
Sasha - Involver 2 or 3 or 1 ? I can never decide
Andrew Weatherall - Matsterpeices
The XX
Disclosure - Disclosure
Happy happy - love these threads!!!!
The Wedding Present's Seamonsters is rather good IMHO.
Arcade Fire-Funeral
Belle and Sebastian-The Boy with the Arab Strap
Television-Marquee Moon
Elliott Smith-Figure 8
Broken Bells-Broken Bells
Neil Young-Harvest
Aretha Franlin-I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Tom Waits-Closing Time
Joy Division-Closer
Oh, and Stars-Set Yourself on Fire
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Eels - Electro Shock Blues plus Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your Skinny Fists... (though pretty much anything by them works better as a complete piece)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (if I was forced to pick just one)
I saw Floyd play at Earl's Court in '94. The second half of the gig was Dark side of the moon in full. It was awesome.
Some crackers on here happy to see Smokers Delight and Everyday.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Marvin Gaye - Whats going on
The JB's - Pass the peas
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time out
Portishead - Dummy
London Grammar - If you wait
TM Juke - Maps from the Wilderness
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Carole King - Tapestry
Gotan Project - La ravancha del tango
There's hundreds, thousands maybe!!
A few more classics I found on itunes at work.
Capdown - Civil Disobedients
Chemical Brothers - Come with us (probably not their best album though)
Fugazi - Repeater
RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to tell.
Prodigy getting alot of mentions - massive appeal, regardless of what sort of music you're normally into.
Pauls Boutique - Beastie Boys . is the stand out for me.
Sgt Peppers natch.
To a lesser extent
OK Computer Radiohead
The Queen is Dead The Smiths
Portishead Dummy
Trailer Park Beth Orton
Freedom Fields Seth Lakeman
Stone Roses Stone Roses
Cant believe I forgot to add Dream River - Bill Callahan.
Each album he releases is (usually) better than the previous... and that's saying something.
Gary Numan Replicas
John Foxx Metamatic
Fad Gadget Under the Flag
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel Nail
SOAD SOAD
Tool AENIMA
Rammstein Mutter
Some great suggestions on this thread. And some new things to listen to too!
I'd add:
Crazy on the weekend by Sunhouse
Out of Season by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
Beautiful Skeletons by Gavin Clark
Lots of really good stuff on here, I'm quite surprised 😉
Some bands manage to be exceptionally good at their genre so if you like that that particular style then they can put some great albums together. Oasis - Definitely Maybe and Artic Monkeys - What ever people say I am, that's what I'm not, spring to mind as they are not to everyone's tastes but if you like that style they're great.
For no other reason other than I think they're great start to finish albums but haven't been listed yet I'd add:
Bloc Party - A weekend in the city
The Bluetones - Expecting to fly
Ian Brown - Music of the spheres
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood
Mansun - Attack of the grey lantern
Maximo Park - A certain trigger
The Rapture - Pieces of people we love
Royal Blood
Sting - Ten summoners tales
Supergrass - in it for the money
We are Scientists - With love and squalor
Zero 7 - When it falls
Some great albums being listed but no Moody Blues yet!
So here goes....
In Search of the Lost Chord
just a few off the top of me head.....
rattus and no more heroes by the stranglers
stone roses
prodigy fat of the land
carter USM 30 something and 101 damnations
nick cave murder ballads
siouxsie the scream
latest one ive heard that i think fits the bill so far... killing jokes new one, pylon.
Some great suggestions already
Beatles, abbey road
War on drugs, lost in the dream
Massive attack, protection
Nas, illmatic
Stones, let it bleed
Carl Craig, landcruising
John Cale, Paris 1913
Kanye, mbdtf
John Hopkins, immunity
Surprised that no-one has mentioned "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by Wilco yet. Perfect.
Albums that must be listened to from start to finish-
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
KLF - Chillout
U2 - Achtung Baby
Stone Roses
Screamadelica
Leftism
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Apollo 440 - Millenium Fever
Lo Fidelity Allstars - How to Operate With a Blown Mind
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Verve - Northern Soul
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Little Barrie - Shadow
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Orbital - Brown Album
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
BOC Maxima
Moderat II
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Dabrye - One Three
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Falling Through A Field
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Murder Was The Case Soundtrack
Tycho - Dive
+ lots more
nin the downward spiral/broken
pink floyd the final cut (i prefer it to dsotm tbh)
manhunter soundtrack
blade runner sountrack
the crow soundtrack
lost highway soundtrack
public service broadcasting inform-educate-entertain
wasp the headless children/the crimson idol
goldie timeless
can add more.
NIN - the downward spiral.
Manic Street preachers - The holy bible.
Depeche mode - violator
Daft Punk - Tron:Legacy OST
Justice - (Cross)
ATCQ - Midnight Marauders (The Low End Theory - a close 2nd)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People...
Editors - The Back Room
Bat Out of Hell - 485 weeks in the UK charts!
Can Tago Mago
The Clash London Calling
Tricky Maxinquaye
Shooglenifty Whisky Kiss
Silly Wizard Live
Metamatic. There was an album...
2 on order so far as a result of this thread.. That might be three.
Sonic Youth - Daydream nation
Live - Throwing copper
Silverchair - Diorama
Lifehouse - No name face
Alice in chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Ben Howard - I forgot where we were
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizy up the girl
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions - deluxe version
Hell Is For Heroes -The Neon Handshake. Literally the only "play the entire album" set I've ever seen that wasn't worse than a normal setlist
****ed Up- David Comes To Life. Well. It sags in the middle but that gives power to the highlights, which are just magnificent.
Biffy Clyro- Vertigo Of Bliss.
This is up there, IMO:
Also:
Magma. Both 'KA' and 'MDK' albums are spectacularly complete, I never seem to tire of discovering new ways of listening to them from start to finish.
The Who - 'Quadrophenia'
XTC - 'Skylarking'
Can - 'Future Days'
David Axelrod - 'Song of Innocence'
Carole King - Tapestry
British Sea Power - Sea of Brass
Queen - Greatest Hits. 😆
Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Air - Talkie Walkie
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Prince - Purple Rain
I listen to these often...
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
M83 -Before the Dawn Heals Us
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyhead
would just like to point out SLF inflammable material would have taken an honorary place if it wasnt for that 'kin stupid 'beep beep im an answering machine' track >-(
+1 Inflammable Material, same for me with the Bends, Streetscene makes my teeth itch.
Ramones Its Alive (best live album ever, but we have done that one)
Orange Goblin: Time Travelling Blues
Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Is there a theme here??
Great to the The Fat of the Band is popular amongst you lot. Who'd have thought it?
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Isn't that Abu Hamza post op?
Etherwood...
Back in black - complete 80's rock
Never mind the bollocks - complete 70's punk
Definitely maybe - complete 90's britpop
Soul Mining by The The
Sophtware Slump -Grandaddy
An Awesome Wave - Alt J
For me, all timeless wonders.
Some fantastic choices already but I have to add
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Darklands.
closer - joy division
Horses - patti smith
the Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan
Exodus - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Setting Sons - the Jam
Nice to see Soul Mining get a mention.
Just been listening to it after going through my random CD drawer.
Top album.
Sophtware Slump -Grandaddy
Yes! Brilliant album
The wedding present- bizarro
High on fire- death is this communion
Beck-odelay...if he had omitted the 'experimental' electronic stuff.
Fields of the nephilim-the nephilim
In flames-reroute to remain
Fluke-puppy
Massive attack-mezzanine
Ministry-the land of rape and honey/ the mind is a terrible thing to taste
Soul 2 soul-club classics vol1
Spiritualized-lazer guided melodies
System7-777
Van halen-1984
Wormed-planispharium
The wonderstuff-eight legged groove machine
John mayall-blues breakers
Link in park-hybrid theory
Cypress hill-temples of boom
Husker du-the living end
The smiths-rank
Auto correct made me chortle ...''[i]lazier[/i] guided melodies'
And 'busker two' 😀
Came to this late as usual but would add: Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and Disintegration.
My favorite from the already mentioned is Ladies and Gentleman we are.... but i'd add Dog Man Star, Peggy Suicide and Stormcock by Roy Harper as Lps that hold together as one sitting wonders.
Problem is with albums are that an Artist's/Band's first isn't a 'true' album, it's a collection of tracks that they've already written packaged up, but it's often their best as it has all the ideas and enthusiasm hence 'second album syndrome', it's much harder to write a 'proper' album.
Saying that here's the ones that have stuck with me over the years, most of these have the 'shock of the new' when they first appeared. Probably showing my age a little bit too..
The Orb: Adventures beyond the ultraworld
808 State: Newbuild
Boards of Canada: Music has the right to children
Orbital: Brown LP
Bola: Soup
Butthole Surfers: Locust abortion technician
The Breeders: Last splash
Primal Scream: Screamadelica
Portishead: Dummy
Coldcut : Journeys by a DJ
Various: Artificial intelligence vol. 1
AFX: Selected ambient works 85-92
Reload: A collection of short stories
Cool to as Peggy Suicide mentioned, but I prefer Jehovakill as a complete thing.
Also.
Manic Street Preachers. The Holy Bible.
Lou Reed. New York.
Ride. Nowhere.
Disraeli and the Young Gods. Moving in the Dark.
Scroobius Pip. Distraction Pieces
New Model Army. Thunder and Consolation.
The The. Infected.
Clockwork Angels in that it tells a story from start to finish.
Mando Diao. Hurricane Bar. Awesome album.
Forgot about -
LONE - Lemeurian (and most other albums)
OPN - Returnal
Screamadelica
RATM
Nevermind
Turner - Slow Abuse
Erlend Oye - Unrest
Bononbo - Dial M
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Zoot Woman - Zoot Woman
Beck, pretty much everything he's done but especially Sea Change and Modern Guilt.
Spiritualized-lazer guided melodies
Yes.
Probably the most complete album from the whole Spacemen/Spiritualized/Sonic Boom mess. Though Spectrum's Soul Kiss album runs it close.
Nice to see such diverse tastes, and great to see Dave Brubeck, Marvine Gaye Mile Davis, Funkadelic, FSOL and the Prodigy appearing here. These are some I'd also add - I always want to hear them as a whole like Dark Side Of The Moon.
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Global Communication - 76:14
The Detroit Escalator Company - Soundtrack 313
Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
Crikey, so many ....
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer lawns
Bob Dylan - Desire
Tom waits - Rain Dogs
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Arctic Monkeys - first album
Nick Cave - No more shall we part
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Massive Attack - Blue lines
White Stripes - Elephant
Pentangle - Basket of Light
Jack Bruce - Songs for a Tailor
And loads more ....
Rediscovered this a few days ago, forgot how good they were
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So many, difficult to know where to start, around forty years of record buying n'all, and so many already mentioned, so I'll try not to to duplicate those that have already been posted up, but some will be impossible to avoid.
Aimee Mann - Whatever
Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production Of Eggs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Belly - Star
Beth Neilsen Chapman - Sand and Water
Björk - Homogenic
Blonde Redhead - 23
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
The Carpenters - Close To You
Catatonia- Way Beyond Blue
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
Curve - Doppelgänger
Daniel Lanois - Acadie
Danny & The Champions of the World
Dark Star - Twenty Twenty Sound
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
The Delgados - The Great Eastern
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain And Me
Dubstar - Disgraceful
Eddi Reader - Driftwood
Elbow - Asleep In The Back/The Take Off And Landing Of Everything
Elvis Costello - All This Useless Beauty
Emmylou Harris -Cowgirl's Prayer
Gemma Hayes - Bones + Longing
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Gerry Rafferty - City To City
Goldfrapp - Felt Mountain
Half Man Half Biscuit - Achtung Bono
Howling Bells - Radio Wars
J.D. Souther - Black Rose
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat
Joni Mitchell - Blue/Hissing Of Summer Lawns/Hejira
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love/Aerial
Killing Joke - Pandemonium
King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
Metric - Live It Out
Paper Aeroplanes - Little Letters
Patty Griffin - Flaming Red
Paul Simon - Hearts And Bones
Portishead - Dummy
Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richie Lee Jones - eponymous
Robbie Robertson - eponymous
Sandy Denny - Sandy
Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lat My Head
Shawn Colvin - A Few Small Repairs
The Sisters Of Mercy - Vision Thing
Stars - Set Yourself On Fire
The Staves - If I Was
Steeleye Span - Below The Salt
Steely Dan - Aja
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
The Stills -Oceans Will Rise
Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Tanya Donelly - Whiskey Tango Ghosts
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Thea Gilmore - Don't Stop Singing
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Tom McRae - eponymous
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - eponymous
Tori Amos - Boys For Pele
XTC - Apple Venus
In alphabetical order 'cos I've just scrolled down through my iTunes library... 😀
I'm resurrecting this thread in order to second this statement:
Jethro Tull 'Thick as a Brick', the whole album is one track!
What an incredible album!
Prog is such a great genre for the album; Metropolis by Dream Theater [sic], Blackwater Park by Opeth, or The Theory of Everything by Ayreon. They're designed to be listened to from start to finish, not just in 3 minute bursts.
MC Mabon - The Hunt for Meaning
It's by the cousin of the Super Furry Animals lead singer. A mad and beatiful album - one of the only ones I listen to as a whole.
Must be getting old as I have not heard of most of the non mainstream bands mentioned
Thick as a brick is great, but I rarely listen to the second side.
Bach Gammon Is Easy - Victor Bach, its a pure musical journey
Marks out of ten if you noticed Justin VanDerVolgen mash that up in one of his sets 😀
I am a serial song skipper or with vinyl I often just listen to one side over and over but these 2 are getting played through a lot at the moment.
Neil Young Zuma
Neil Young Tonights the Night
Hell Is For Heroes- the Neon Handshake
Fair play, they toured it nonstop for 2 years before finally releasing it so it was polished and tested to [i]near[/i]-perfection... If they'd just clipped "retreat" off the end it'd be perfect.
You know how usually when a band does that "playing album X in its entirety" thing, it's kind of bullshit? You end up thinking "Why are you playing the filler tracks, and not playing all those other great songs off other albums? Well, they did it for their last ever gig, supporting Hundred Reasons at [i]their[/i] last ever gig, and it broke me like a twig 😆 Best show I'll ever see.
Riskier option, David Comes To Life by F***ed Up. (I hope that's OK mods, every time i type their name I feel like I'm dancing with swear-filter avoidance, but if I fully star it you can't really tell the name of the band...). Starts out awesome, ends incredible, sags in the middle under the weight of its incomprehensible storyline but that puts the weight behind the knockout blows when they come. One More Night is the sort of song that makes me want to abduct people and force them to listen to it in my [s]sex[/s] music dungeon