Mrswsf away, Darkside of the Moon just ending, got me thinking.

What other albums are as “complete”? I can’t think of many.

Wish You Were Here 🙂

The streets – a grand don’t come for free.

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.

+in a silent way, +bitches brew

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)

Not me. I was thinking exactly the same.

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

pedropete– 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