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Top 5 no-skip albums - your personal list (6 Viewers)
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Mister CIA
Footballguy
I rarely listen to albums start to to finish any more, and can't remember the last time I did, but back in the days these are the one I recall being worthy of such attention:
Love - Forever Changes
Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Van Morrison - Moondance. I would select Astral Weeks nowdays if choosing, but back in the day Into the Mystic was a pretty big deal to me.
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Jimi Hendrix - Axis:Bold As Love
The Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain
stopping before I get to 50.
Love - Forever Changes
Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood Dream
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
Van Morrison - Moondance. I would select Astral Weeks nowdays if choosing, but back in the day Into the Mystic was a pretty big deal to me.
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Jimi Hendrix - Axis:Bold As Love
The Youngbloods: Elephant Mountain
stopping before I get to 50.
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
Blind Melon - Soup
Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled Album
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Deftones - Adrenaline
Rage Against the Machine - Self Titled Album
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Deftones - Adrenaline
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Limiting to 5 is tough. Here are 5 of probably a dozen:
Beatles - Abbey Road
Metallica - Master
Slayer - Reign
Queensryche - Operation
Pink Floyd - Wall
Beatles - Abbey Road
Metallica - Master
Slayer - Reign
Queensryche - Operation
Pink Floyd - Wall
El Floppo
Footballguy
Those are both pretty perfect too.
Desert_Power
Footballguy
Been a while since I sat through that one, good call.
Desert_Power
Footballguy
I easily could have put most Radiohead albums for me. Rarely skip. Sometimes King of The Limbs gets a few.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Too many to list, and I feel I am pretty picky about albums. I also didn't read the criteria that it would be our personal top 5, not just 5 we'd recommend. 
I will just answer with the 5 I am listening to on a loop currently that I would miss the most right now:
Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Opeth - Last Will and Testament
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
People Under the Stairs - Fun DMC
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
I will just answer with the 5 I am listening to on a loop currently that I would miss the most right now:Lord Huron - Strange Trails
Opeth - Last Will and Testament
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
People Under the Stairs - Fun DMC
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand
Ron Swanson
Footballguy
Operation Ivy - Energy
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
Rancid - ...And Out Come the Wolves
FairWarning
Footballguy
Not repeating what has been posted, so here goes -
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Montrose - self titled
The Cult - Electric
Def Leppard - High N Dry
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
UFO - Strangers in the Night live
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Montrose - self titled
The Cult - Electric
Def Leppard - High N Dry
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced?
UFO - Strangers in the Night live
DocHolliday
Footballguy
Damn great list!
Todem
Footballguy
Monty Burns
Footballguy
Doors - LA Woman
Led Zeppelin IV
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Led Zeppelin IV
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Parrothead
Footballguy
In no order:
Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Steely Dan - Royal Scam
Styx - Grand Illusion
Kansas- Leftoverture
Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Steely Dan - Royal Scam
Styx - Grand Illusion
Kansas- Leftoverture
rockaction
Footballguy
My shtick is that is has to be this century
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Run The Jewels - I, II, or IV
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Japandroids - Post-Nothing
Run The Jewels - I, II, or IV
Mogwai - Mr. Beast
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
GnR - Appetite for Destruction '87...that would be the list for me but I'll play by the rules
Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd '74
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever '89
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique '89
Metallica - And Justice For All '88
Clapton - 461 Ocean Blvd '74
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever '89
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique '89
Metallica - And Justice For All '88
mr. furley
Footballguy
that may be but didn't Public Enemy sue them blind for this?
Todem
Footballguy
Ummmmm not at all.
The Gator
Footballguy
Alice in Chains - Dirt
northern exposure
Footballguy
Great choice. I'm a huge fan, so I would add 2 albums that had The 400 Unit with Isbell. Reunions and Weathervanes.
Sullie
Footballguy
I find this exercise incredibly difficult. I really got into music in college. I had about a 25-30 minute walk to campus from where I lived so I used to pop a cassette into my Walkman and just listen to entire albums. There used to be (don't know if it still exists) a place called Mole's that sold used albums/cd's/tapes and I used to buy a ton of music from there back then.
Anyway, here goes:
Overall - Rush - Permanent Waves (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Moving Pictures, Power Windows, Hemispheres, Signals, A Farewell To Kings, etc.)
Metal - Metallica - Ride The Lightning (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, The Black Album, Kill 'Em All, etc.)
80's non-Rush - The Police - Reggatta de Blanc (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Ghost in the Machine, Outlandos d'Amour, Zenyatta Mondatta, Synchronicity, etc.)
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Aja, Gaucho, Katy Lied, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Two Against Nature, etc.)
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream (blah, blah, Surfing w/the Alien, The Extremist, Crystal Planet, etc.)l
Honorable mentions :
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction album is perfect.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - pretty much any and everything but Couldn't Stand the Weather and Texas Flood are damn near perfect albums to my ears.
Kim Mitchell - Big fan of the album Rockland, but Akimbo Alogo, Shakin' Like a Human Being, etc.
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Van Halen - Van Halen is perfect but I'm a fanboy of all of them.
AC/DC - so many, all the Bon Scott and a lot of Brian Johnson but some of the later is mid.
Stone Temple Pilots - Core & Purple are my favorites.
The Doors - The Doors, the best of The Doors
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective is amazing.
The Who - Who's Next
Dokken - Back for the Attack, Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key, etc.
Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy, Detonator, Dancing Undercover, Out of the Cellar, etc.
Kix - Blow my fuse, Hot Wire, etc.
Anyway, here goes:
Overall - Rush - Permanent Waves (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Moving Pictures, Power Windows, Hemispheres, Signals, A Farewell To Kings, etc.)
Metal - Metallica - Ride The Lightning (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Master of Puppets, And Justice For All, The Black Album, Kill 'Em All, etc.)
80's non-Rush - The Police - Reggatta de Blanc (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Ghost in the Machine, Outlandos d'Amour, Zenyatta Mondatta, Synchronicity, etc.)
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (depending on the day of the week could be replaced with Aja, Gaucho, Katy Lied, Countdown to Ecstasy, Pretzel Logic, Two Against Nature, etc.)
Joe Satriani - Flying in a Blue Dream (blah, blah, Surfing w/the Alien, The Extremist, Crystal Planet, etc.)l
Honorable mentions :
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction album is perfect.
Stevie Ray Vaughn - pretty much any and everything but Couldn't Stand the Weather and Texas Flood are damn near perfect albums to my ears.
Kim Mitchell - Big fan of the album Rockland, but Akimbo Alogo, Shakin' Like a Human Being, etc.
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
Van Halen - Van Halen is perfect but I'm a fanboy of all of them.
AC/DC - so many, all the Bon Scott and a lot of Brian Johnson but some of the later is mid.
Stone Temple Pilots - Core & Purple are my favorites.
The Doors - The Doors, the best of The Doors
Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective is amazing.
The Who - Who's Next
Dokken - Back for the Attack, Tooth and Nail, Under Lock and Key, etc.
Ratt - Invasion of your Privacy, Detonator, Dancing Undercover, Out of the Cellar, etc.
Kix - Blow my fuse, Hot Wire, etc.
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BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
sorry about that. Morning View and Throwing Copper are the two albums that came to the top of my head and someone already mentioned Throwing Copper.
I don't really remember listening to that many full albums and when I listen on youtube I either listen to specific tracks or just let it auto play to various albums. So when I was out tonight I kinda thought about what cds I had as a kid that I liked that I THINK I did listen to the full album so other than Morning View and Throwing Copper the 3 that came to mind are
Hybrid Theory-Linkin Park
Jagged Little Pill-Alanis Morissette
No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
*though I reserve the right to change my answers once I look through my list of cds
As a bonus The Greyest of Blue Skies-Finger Eleven
For something newer that I HAVEN'T listened to the whole thing (this thread has inspired me to do that tonight) but I like a lot of the songs on it: Phobia-Breaking Benjamin
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
loved the first album from FF
would add:
Interpol Turn On the Bright Lights
The Strokes Is This It
fatness
Footballguy
Produced by Todd Rundgren.Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
rockaction
Footballguy
Without a doubt those are two I missed. I should have said that I looked at my record collection before I did mine. Is This It isn't a part of it. I keep waiting on the Vinyl Me Please club edition to get re-issued, and it hasn't. I do have Turn On the Bright Lights right at the front of my record bin tonight, so there's that. But those two I can easily put on and just sit and listen to them front to back.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Tracy Chapman | Tracy Chapman |
Miles Davis | In a Silent Way |
Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde |
Joni Mitchell | Blue | Court & Spark | (the chalk answer is terrific but love the 1974 even more)
The Replacements | Don't Tell a Soul |
Yes | Close to the Edge |
Miles Davis | In a Silent Way |
Bob Dylan | Blonde on Blonde |
Joni Mitchell | Blue | Court & Spark | (the chalk answer is terrific but love the 1974 even more)
The Replacements | Don't Tell a Soul |
Yes | Close to the Edge |
El Floppo
Footballguy
Oh... Good one
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Garth Brooks - No Fences
Mister CIA
Footballguy
You're welcome.
BobbyLayne
Footballguy
Navin Johnson
Footballguy
The_Man
Footballguy
Sugar - Copper Blue
Transformer - Lou Reed
Reckoning - R.E.M.
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
Making Movies - Dire Straits
This is all music that got hard-wired into my brain during adolescence. Of course there are some songs on these that would be skippable for many people, but I have a personal relationship with every one of them - would be like turning my back on a very old friend. To be honest, Pleased to Meet Me isn't my favorite Replacements album but I didn't list any of the others because I can understand why songs like "Gary's Got A Boner" might qualify as a skip for someone hearing it for the first time
Transformer - Lou Reed
Reckoning - R.E.M.
Pleased to Meet Me - The Replacements
Making Movies - Dire Straits
This is all music that got hard-wired into my brain during adolescence. Of course there are some songs on these that would be skippable for many people, but I have a personal relationship with every one of them - would be like turning my back on a very old friend. To be honest, Pleased to Meet Me isn't my favorite Replacements album but I didn't list any of the others because I can understand why songs like "Gary's Got A Boner" might qualify as a skip for someone hearing it for the first time
skol asylum
Footballguy
I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
open.spotify.com
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
open.spotify.com
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BobbyLayne
Footballguy
I started doing this last year my spotify playlists. Gives texture and context listening to the tracks in their intended order.
Cowboysfan8
Footballguy
Lynyrd Skynyrd - pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
El Floppo
Footballguy
I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
skol asylum
Footballguy
Like I said, Spotify and other streamers have ruined the album experience for most. Remember when you had to pay for your music and you listened to the same cassette, CD or whatever all the way through over and over? That's how I grew up listening to music. I still enjoy that experience. I still also like to use the Al Gore Rhythm and let Spotify mix it up and lead me to similar artists to the stuff I like. And when I find something I really like maybe give the full album a few spins.I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
El Floppo
Footballguy
I think great bands are still putting out top-to-bottom great albums.Like I said, Spotify and other streamers have ruined the album experience for most. Remember when you had to pay for your music and you listened to the same cassette, CD or whatever all the way through over and over? That's how I grew up listening to music. I still enjoy that experience. I still also like to use the Al Gore Rhythm and let Spotify mix it up and lead me to similar artists to the stuff I like. And when I find something I really like maybe give the full album a few spins.I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
spotify has allowed bands with some great songs to put those out too... but that doesn't help make a great album. those 4 bands you listed are bands in my regular spotify rotation- big fan of all of them- but I've been underwhelmed when listening to those albums front to back. tbh, nothing has really changed since vinyl- there were always bands like that that I loved... where the albums were uneven relative to a few stand out songs. the advantage is now I don't have to bother with the rest of it the way I did with vinyl, cassette and even CDs.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I don't get this sentiment. I listen to a ton of spotify and listen to albums the vast majority of the time.Like I said, Spotify and other streamers have ruined the album experience for most. Remember when you had to pay for your music and you listened to the same cassette, CD or whatever all the way through over and over? That's how I grew up listening to music. I still enjoy that experience. I still also like to use the Al Gore Rhythm and let Spotify mix it up and lead me to similar artists to the stuff I like. And when I find something I really like maybe give the full album a few spins.I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
skol asylum
Footballguy
I think most people do not. The whole playlist model is built on liking individual songs. I think I'm a rare person who doesn't do that. I used to add albums to my library and stopped doing that because I was trying to add every album of every artist I liked. Now I basically just follow artists I like. I have a few playlists where i have just added complete albums for newer albums from the last few years. I also really don't spend time building playlists. I just listen to the ones Spotify creates for me or go to artist or song radio.I don't get this sentiment. I listen to a ton of spotify and listen to albums the vast majority of the time.Like I said, Spotify and other streamers have ruined the album experience for most. Remember when you had to pay for your music and you listened to the same cassette, CD or whatever all the way through over and over? That's how I grew up listening to music. I still enjoy that experience. I still also like to use the Al Gore Rhythm and let Spotify mix it up and lead me to similar artists to the stuff I like. And when I find something I really like maybe give the full album a few spins.I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
El Floppo
Footballguy
definitely agree that the model has changed how I listen to albums.I think most people do not. The whole playlist model is built on liking individual songs. I think I'm a rare person who doesn't do that. I used to add albums to my library and stopped doing that because I was trying to add every album of every artist I liked. Now I basically just follow artists I like. I have a few playlists where i have just added complete albums for newer albums from the last few years. I also really don't spend time building playlists. I just listen to the ones Spotify creates for me or go to artist or song radio.I don't get this sentiment. I listen to a ton of spotify and listen to albums the vast majority of the time.Like I said, Spotify and other streamers have ruined the album experience for most. Remember when you had to pay for your music and you listened to the same cassette, CD or whatever all the way through over and over? That's how I grew up listening to music. I still enjoy that experience. I still also like to use the Al Gore Rhythm and let Spotify mix it up and lead me to similar artists to the stuff I like. And when I find something I really like maybe give the full album a few spins.I like all those bands a lot... and still found myself skipping over most of the songs on those albums.I feel like alot of people don't listen to albums anymore with the move to digital music. I'm still a full album guy. That said I'm going to add a few newer albums I think are great all the way through to maybe get a little renewed appreciation of the full album experience and these great artists.
Also I just don't like ranking things. No order or top whatever. Just great music.
On the Intricate Inner Workings of the System
The Bug Club · Album · 2024 · 11 songs
with it so easy to just dump songs I like into playlists (I keep annual lists for new songs, and then dump everything into a catchall). I'll often get around to listening to entire albums of my favorites- but I'm not forced to do that like how it was before streaming.... when I'd have to buy the entire thing and then play through them to get to the stuff I liked better. there are a bunch of albums I now don't get around to listening to, so yeah- my album listening has changed (again- even though I still listen through them)
HellToupee
Footballguy
:great album. In my personal top 10
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