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[KidA Seven]

Radiohead: Kid A, and In Rainbows

 

[scotcheggz]

You guys have ADD or what?

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

So how do you know what it sounds like before you buy it?

If an album has 10 amazing songs and 2 shit songs you won't buy it?

You don't, but when I get an album that is mostly filler I barely listen to it any more. In a few cases where a song is terrible and is the only bad song on the album I'll delete it so it never has to offend my ears again (Talking Bird by Deathcab for Cutie, I'm looking at you...).

If 15 albums you can listen to without skipping is really a challenge, you need to find some better albums... Just going through my iPod A-Z here -

Adem - Homesongs
Adem - Love and other planets
Aereogramme - A Story in White
Aereogramme - Sleep and Release
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Amen - Amen
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Suburbs
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever...
Asobi Seksu - Citrus (actually this is a bit of a cheat, there is one song that ends with 10 minutes of pink noice, i usually skip that once it starts, but the rest of the song and album is great)
At the Drive in - Relationship of COmmand
The Beatles - Any from Revolver onwards
Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe waitress
Ben Folds Five

There we go, easy peasy.

 

[jdforge]

Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies

Air - 10,000hz Legend

Nirvana - MTV Unplugged

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Radiohead - Kid A

Band of Horses - Cease to Begin

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been?

Zero 7 - Simple Things

Teen Dream - Beach House

Moby - Play

The Strokes - This Is It

Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase

Air - Moon Safari

 

[Lafiel]

About half of my music listening is done on vinyl, so I guess every album I own on vinyl.

Actually I think that an album gets better, or at least you get a better understanding of the album, when you listen to it from the first track to the last. There's really a lot of thought put in to the order of the tracks etc., that you don't appreciate when you just listen to tracks randomly.

I'm sure most people don't listen to music that way though! ... except for my dad who seems to listen to all his music shuffled.:lol

 

[Mailenstein]

First thing that came to my mind when I saw the thread title:

Tenacious D

 

[Excko]

The first few albums that comes to mind are:

Avenged Sevenfold - Avenged Sevenfold
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Muse - The resistance
Stone Sour - Audio Secrecy
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

 

[CaptainMintMan]

Coldplay - All Of Their Studio Albums (+4)
All Shall Perish- Awaken The Dreamers
A Day To Remember - For Those Who Have Heart & Homesick
Florence & The Machines - Lungs
Paramore - All We Know Is Falling
Tha Connection - Moonwater
Metric - Fantasies
Gorillaz- Demon Days & Plastic Beach
Adele - 19
Andre Bocelli- Amore
Kina Grannis - Stairwells

 

[sefskillz]

I'm no longer into dredg but El Cielo is really well sequenced.

yea, i kinda fell off them too. i remember leitmotif being fantastic as well, but not sure how well it holds up

 

[BaronLundi]

Ctrl+f Portishead.

I leave disappointed.

 

[Anemone]

I second the D, and The Cure's disintegration. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-g1gRzoq98 "Disintegration is the best album ever!"

 

[truly101]

My 15 albums I like to listen to from beginning to end

Nirvana- In Utero
Failure- Magnified
Truly- Fast Stories...From Kid Coma
Pinback- Summer in Abaddon
Radiohead- Kid A
Spoon- Kill the Moonlight
The Books- Lost and Safe
Doves- Lost Souls (US Version)
Soundgarden- Superunknown
Brian Wilson- Smile
Wilco- A Ghost is Born (Ok, I would FF through the feedback in Less Than You Think)
Trail of Dead- Source Tags & Codes
Dismemberment Plan- Change
REM- Document
Swervedriver- Raise
Air- Talkie Walkie (close between this and Moon Safari)
The Smiths- Louder Than Bombs

EDIT: Ok its 17

 

[Stephen Stills]

They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A#oo
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
Pixies - Bossanova (I could just cheat and say every Pixies album)
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
The Books - Lost and Safe
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

 

[LegendOfGood]

Daft Punk - Discovery
Justice - Cross
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
The Welcome Wagon - Welcome to the Welcome Wagon
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
AIR - Moon Safari
Radiohead - Amnesiac
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Nobuo Uematsu - Piano Collections Final Fantasy IX
Nujabes - Modal Soul
Jack Johnson - Sing-a-Long and Lullabies from the film "Curious George"
Uyama Hiroto - A Son of the Sun
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Mark Mothersbaugh - The Royal Tenenbaum's Soundtrack

 

[PhoncipleBone]

I consider Hail to the Thief to be Radiohead's second best album and damn near perfect. Still cant figure out, to this day, how people think In Rainbows is better.

Because it is. Hail to the Thief is near the bottom of Radiohead's list for me. The Bends is the top one though. But they are all good.

 

[The Friendly Monster]

This thread is disturbing.

I always listen to albums.

 

[sooperkool]

How about albums that you almost have to listen to the whole thing like:

Amerikkka's Most Wanted - Icecube

 

[mooooose]

Nice Placebo mention. Black Market Music is a classic in my book and something me and my girlfriend hold near and dear to our hearts. Great album.

Pleasantly surprised by a lot of the things posted in this thread. Not the typical GAF.

 

[MWS Natural]

Radiohead - Anything
Jill Scott - Anything
The Roots- Anything

 

[g.r.e.]

E.L.O. Greatest Hits
Poets Of The Fall Twilight Theater
Bathory Nordland I
Bathory Nordland II
Iron Maiden Brave New World
Iron Maiden No prayer for the dying

 

[Verdre]

Kylie Minogue - Fever
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals
Motorhead - Motorizer (Ace of Spades is the easy answer, of course)
The Runaways - The Runaways
Lucky Pierre - Lucky Pierre
Gogol Bordello - Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike
Garbage - Version 2.0
The Duke Spirit - Neptune
Fiona Apple - When The Pawn...
The Cardigans - Super Extra Gravity
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - 13 Above The Night
Switchblade Symphony - Bread and Jam for Frances
The The - Dusk

 

[Chemo]

As an album listener I'm shocked and almost offended by the thread title's assumption that albums are so hard to listen to all the way through that people should make a list of them.

 

[AlteredBeast]

As an album listener I'm shocked and almost offended by the thread title's assumption that albums are so hard to listen to all the way through that people should make a list of them.

Not at all. That's your interpretation, not mine

 

[TheLastCandle]

Ooooh I love album list threads. And no band repeats either? All for the better.


Rainbow - Rising
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time *
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Manowar - Hail to England *
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side *
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
Dio - Holy Diver
Lost Horizon - Awakening the World
Moonsorrow - Kivenkantaja
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Helloween - Time of the Oath

The asterisks are there to show that even though these albums are kickass the entire way through, they still aren't my favorite album by those bands. Some albums have maybe one or two tracks that lag behind the rest, but the brilliance of the other songs makes up for it.

 

[Phobophile]

Uh, all of my albums?

The fact that people can't listen to full albums anymore just shows the deplorable state of popular music.

 

[Robot 492]

I could fill most of this list with Radiohead and Beatles albums, but since we can't repeat artists...


Arcade Fire -- Funeral
The Beatles -- Revolver
Wu-Tang Clan -- Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Radiohead -- OK Computer
Nirvana -- Nevermind
Nas -- Illmatic
Eminem -- The Marshall Mathers LP
Michael Jackson -- Bad
The Notorious B.I.G. -- Ready to Die
2Pac -- Me Against the World
Black Star -- Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Weezer -- Pinkerton
The Killers -- Hot Fuss
GZA -- Liquid Swords
Raekwon -- Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Jay-Z -- Reasonable Doubt

 

[soultron]

We have one of these "best album" threads every week. Do a search from now on, OP.

 

[LegendOfGood]

Uh, all of my albums?

The fact that people can't listen to full albums anymore just shows the deplorable state of popular music.

Which is why we make lists of the albums that we do listen to all the way through- the ones that shine bright in the midst of a world filled with bad music.

 

[WEGGLES]

Wu Tang Clan - Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Animal Collective - Feels
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Battles - Mirrored
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beck - Odelay
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Do Make Say Think - Other Truths
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# oo

Well... that's 15, but there's more.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada

That's an ep

 

[Warm Machine]

Easy...

Bush - The Science of Things
The Offspring - Smash
Jem - Finally Woken
Nirvana - Nevermind
Metallica - ...and Justice for All
The Prodidy - Fat of the Land
Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
Eagle-Eye Cherry - Desireless
Pendulum - In Silico
Alanis Morrisette - Jagged Little Pill
Jes - Disconnect
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Megadeth - Youthenasia
Rammstein - Reise, Reise

 

[HarryDemeanor]

I can't name 15 but I'll name some.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Arcade Fire - Funeral
U2 - Achtung Baby
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (It may be a live album but it's really damn good.)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
Coldplay - Rush Of Blood To The Head
The Killers - Hot Fuss

 

[SnakeXs]

Uh, all of my albums?

The fact that people can't listen to full albums anymore just shows the deplorable state of popular music.

.

 

[Shalashaska161]

The Album Leaf - Discography
Alexisonfire - Self-Titled
Arcade Fire - Discography
Atmosphere - Discography
Between the Burried and Me - Alaska
Blink 182 - Discography
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
The Darkness - Permission to Land
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - The Photo Album
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Dredg Discography
Pelican - City of Echoes
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Shiny Toy Guns - We are Pilots
Straylight Run - Self-Titled
Yukon Blonde - Self-Titled

I'm sure I could add alot more but I'm too lazy to keep searching through my itunes.

 

[vatstep]

I actually can't think of a single album where I skip any songs.

 

[RJT]

Glad to see so many people mentioning Wu Tang 36 Chambers. That is my definition of an album. It's so brilliantly consistent, especially considering the fact that it includes 9 different artists (who all had solo albums after 36 chambers).

 

[hyduK]

Amon Amarth - Once Sent from the Golden Hall
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Big L - Lifestyles Ov Da Poor and Dangerous
Big Pun - Capital Punishment
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Clipse - Till the Casket Drops
Common - Resurrection
Eminem - Slim Shady LP
Eminem - Marshall Mathers LP
Eminem - Infinite
Ensiferum - Iron
Fugees - The Score
Gorod - Leading Vision
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Lunar Strain/Subterranean
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
J. Cole - The Warm Up
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
Kalmah - The Black Waltz
Kanye West - Graduation
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mobb Deep - Hell of Earth
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Mos Def - Black Star
Nas - Illmatic
Nas - I Am
Notorious B.I.G - Ready To Die
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Outkast - ATLiens
P.O.S - Never Better
Protest the Hero - A Calculated Use of Sound
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx
Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost
Sonata Arctica - Ecliptica
System of a Down - Toxicity
Talib Kweli - Eardrum
Tool - Lateralus
Wintersun - Wintersun
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang
50 Cent - Power of the Dollar


Sorry, couldn't do 15.

 

[Corwood Rep]

The Clash - The Clash US
Otis Redding - Live At The Whisky
X - Under The Big Black Sun
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
The Flesh Eaters - A Minute To Pray, A Second To Die
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Tom Waits - Real Gone
Sleater-Kinney - One Beat
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
Leonard Cohen - Live In London
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Global A Go-Go
Junior Kimbrough - All Night Long
Townes Van Zandt - Rear View Mirror
Johnny Cash - The Man Comes Around
R.L. Burnside - Wish I Was In Heaven Sitting Down

 

[Princess Carl]

Decemberists - The Crane Wife
Decemberists - The Hazards of Love

 

[Manics]

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Rush - Moving Pictures
The Who - Who's Next
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
U2 - War
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde

 

[castlegar]

Cake - Comfort Eagle
Hawksley Workman - For Him and the Girls
Hawksley Workman (Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power
Stone Temple Pilots - Tiny Music....
Live - Throwing Copper
David Usher - Strange Birds
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
Gord Downie - Battle of the Nudes

All i can think of off the top of my head

 

[Jaroof]

Beck - Modern Guilt
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Ronald Jenkees - Disorganized Fun
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Ratatat - Ratatat
The Good, The Bad, & The Queen - The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
Black Eyed Peas - The E.N.D.
OneRepublic - Waking Up
Madvillain - Madvillainy
BT - This Binary Universe
Daft Punk - Discovery
Eminem - Relapse
Ludacris - Red Light District
Timbaland - Shock Value II

 

[OrangeGrayBlue]

Aesop Rock - Labor Days
Atmosphere - God Loves Ugly
Atmosphere - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint that Shit Gold
The Black Keys - Brothers
Brother Ali - Shadows on the Sun
Brother Ali - Us
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange (requires a full listen, really. Anyone familiar knows why)
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Murs - The 9th Edition
One.Be.Lo - Sonogram
P.O.S - Never Better
The Roots - How I Got Over

 

[teruterubozu]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Yes - Drama
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine
King Crimson - Discipline
The Orb - UFORB
Sade - Stronger than Pride
Saga - Worlds Apart
Simple Minds - Sparkle In the Rain
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
BT - These Hopeful Machines
Dr. Dre - The Chronic

 

[n0b]

Protip: If you can't listen through an album, its probably a bad album.

The only albums that I can say I actually like that I rarely listen through are the ones that are bloated because the artists forgot to pare down the fluff.

 

[Dwight Schrute]

 

[rar]

Uh, all of my albums?

The fact that people can't listen to full albums anymore just shows the deplorable state of popular music.

or the fact that most bands only put out 2 or 3 good tracks??

 

[TheUsual]

Coheed and Cambria: Good Apollo I'm Burning Star, Vol 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (insane album name, but my favorite of C&C)
Avenged Sevenfold: self titled album
Tool: Lateralus
Tool: Aenima
A Perfect Circle: Mer de Noms
Wolfmother: Self titled album
Slipknot: Iowa
Eve 6: Horrorscope (strangely addicting album to listen to)
Green Day: Dookie
Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP

 

[WEGGLES]

Protip: If you can't listen through an album, its probably a bad album.

The only albums that I can say I actually like that I rarely listen through are the ones that are bloated because the artists forgot to pare down the fluff.

Honestly? One serious dud doesn't ruin an entire album...

I love Kid Cudi's Man on the Moon: The End of Day, but can not stand Hyyerr. I always skip it. Doesn't make it a bad album though.

 

[Mileena]

Protip: If you can't listen through an album, its probably a bad album.

The only albums that I can say I actually like that I rarely listen through are the ones that are bloated because the artists forgot to pare down the fluff.

Well The Beatles (album) has at least five shitty filler tracks and it's still a great album so you're wrong.

 

[megashock5]

Keeping it to one per artist...


New Order - Technique
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Pop Will Eat Itself - This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This... Is This!
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Flaunt It
Public Enemy - It Take a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
Peter Gabriel - Security
Depeche Mode - Violator
The Cure - Disintegration
Electronic - Electronic
Muse - Absoution
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Radiohead - OK Computer
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Pet Shop Boys - Very

If I stretch it for a couple more:
Prince - Sign O the Times
Duran Duran - Rio