For me, it would be ‘The Bends’ by Radiohead

For me Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump. Much more than a collection of songs.

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Exile on Main St. Rolling Stones.

+1 the bends!

Dark Side of the Moon.

But “Exile” also.

And isto is right about “The Sophtware Slump”, most excellent.

Blood on the tracks – Bob Dylan

Smashing pumpkins – Siamese Dream

Orbital – II (brown album) ……. there is a theory of möbius, a twist in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop, …………even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.

Not necessarily the best album but for me one of the most complete is A grand don’t come for free by the Streets. Purely because it’s one long story from beginning to end.

So many in the running but tracy chapman crossroads gotta be up there

Pearl jam – ten
The doors – LA woman
Fleetwood mac -rumours

And of course darkside of the moon. The wall and not forgetting the greatest record by floyd the final cut

My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

Songs for the Deaf – Queens of the Stoneage

Underworld – dubnobasswithmyheadman

Grace by Jeff Buckley

Blood on the tracks
Dylan.

The The – Infected

Fast Cars and Songs for the Deaf are good shouts.

For me I still get lost in:
Automatic for the People
Paul Simon, Graceland
Leonard Cohen, I’m Your Man

Fatboy Slim – On the Floor at the Boutique

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I would agree about ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, it flows…

Some good calls above. Again for completeness rather than greatness

Rubber Soul – Beatles
Bat out of Hell – Meatloaf
2112 – Rush
Back in Black – AC/DCC (that autocorrect was too funny to change)
Man Machine – Kraftwerk

Can’t decide whether its ‘Now thats what I call music 1’ or ‘Now thats what I call music 89’ or one of the ones in between. If they released them as a box set it would be a no-brainer.

Automatic for the People – REM

Definitely Maybe, Oasis. It just works.

I’d have said OK Computer was more “complete” than The Bends.

Software Slump and Siamese Dreams superb too.

Queen – Greatest Hits 😈

The Queen is dead.
Pavement’s Slanted and enchanted
Harvest

Siamese Dream gets better with time – and great when released.

Pinkerton by Weezer. Flawless from start to finish.

Also agree about The Sophtware Slump

The holy bible by the Welsh.

I thought Operation Mindcrime was the STW-approved answer here?

(But I’d have said Bridge of Spies so what do I know.)

Loads, but today i’m going for Gil Scott Heron’s ‘Pieces of a Man’.

+ for The The’s ‘Infected’ too. Inspired, cohesive and has a symmetry that works just right.

I’d go with the Black Crowes, Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. But there a so many good ones to choose from….

Loads of choice.

Some random picks

Hall of the Mountain Grill – Hawkwind
Sabotage – Black Sabbath
Moving Pictures – Rush

Oh and of course The Beatles Greatest Hits 🙂

+1 for The Holy Bible and Infected.

Appetite for Destruction
Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant.
Fat of the Land
Honey’s Dead
Thunder and Consolation

Loads of other possibilities…

Sabotage – Black Sabbath

That was my first thought too. Quick story – when was 15 yrs old a chap down our street borrowed my Saxon Wheels of Steel single. Never returned it. He claimed his girlfriend dropped an iron on it by accident. In return they gave me Sabotage LP, (original, on Warner Bros, no NEMS sh*t). It was such a heavy slab of awesomeness. Even the vinyl itself was so thick and heavy i thought the music must’ve been extra dense. Lyrics too ;-). Still favourite Sab album by a mile. I was saved by the iron.

Never Mind the Bollocks.
Definitely Maybe.

You got a good deal there Malvern Rider.
I’ve still got my Warner vinyl version of Sabotage as well.

Forever Changes.
Notorious Byrd Brothers.

Pearl Jam – Ten

Depeche Mode – Violator
HMHB – Achtung Bono

What do you mean by complete? Is confused.

The Correct Use Of Soap – Magazine
The Monitor – Titus Andronicus

I’ll never tire of either one