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'Illmatic' by Nas, it's sublime.
'Liquid Swords' by GZA.
'Dark Side of the Moon', naturally.
'Blonde on Blonde' is almost perfect but is probably edged as a complete album by 'Highway 61 Revisited'.
The Eels - Electroshock Blues
Another vote for Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space
and
Dog Man Star - Suede
[i]Jason and the Scorchers - Lost and Found[/i]
Hmm.. I used to like them, but I could only name 1 track off that.
I'm going to go for...
The Scream
In the Flat Field
Entertainment
Nevermind
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes
I'm sure there's loads of more recent ones but I don't very often listen to whole albums since the days of shuffle on the iPod.
'Entertainment' wins anyway.
Secondhand Daylight
Dog man star?!
No, no, no, no, no
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Anyone mentioned..
Damen Albarn - Everyday Robots.
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Pretty damn complete I reckon.
Was giving this subject a bit of thought while folding 73,000 letters for enclosing today, and a few more that came to mind while I had the pod keeping me entertained.
Maria McKee - Absolute Barking Stars. Did consider a Lone Justice album, but ABS is such a consistently great album.
Talk Talk - It's My Life.
Peter Gabriel - 4. PG 1 came close, but 4 just shades it for me.
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Andrew Bird & The Amazing Production Of Eggs. I love everything about this album; great tunes and intelligent lyrics.
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. The album that introduced found sounds. Sampling, IOW.
Anyone mentioned..
Damen Albarn - Everyday Robots.
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Pretty damn complete I reckon.
Mr Tembo ??? Jeez
Another vote for Infected it's truly brilliant.
Kind of blue
Bjork - Homogenic
Curtis Live
Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
Crikey, don't we all have strikingly similar tastes, we must all be in the 40+ bracket.
I do have a few to add though
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Barclay James Harves - Octoberon
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
You'd have Jar of Flies above Dirt?
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
This. You have to love a record where the only identifiable sound in 45min is the drum roll at the beginning. I saw them live on the reunion tour and though my fillings were going to be shaken loose. Loudest thing I've ever heard, apart from Mogwai Fear Satan in the Liquid Rooms in Edinburgh.
Which reminds me of another: Mr Beast.
Or Ride the Fader by Chavez.
Not listened to much so I'll go with
Prince - Lovesexy
Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
PWEI - This is the day, this is the hour, this is this!
Awesome, Wise Up! Sucker is one of my favourite songs of all time.
Just listened to this for the 1st time in a long time & it ticks all the boxes
Marquee Moon by Television
Replicas Gary Numan
Nail foetusinterruptus
Lateralus Tool
System of a down system of a down
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf. Every song is an absolute banger and the radio concept links it together perfectly.
QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf. Every song is an absolute banger and the radio concept links it together perfectly.
Yup I agree.
Also Joe's Garage as mentioned earlier, but then the same applies to many Zappa albums - Apostrophe, Sheikh Yerbouti, You Are What You Is, etc.
Another My Bloody Valentine/Loveless fan here.
How about Jane's Addiction- Ritual de lo Habitual?
Or Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
or Le Rythmes Digitale - Darkdancer
or Leftfield - Leftism....There's too many!!
Not sure if this has been mentioned yet,
John Coltrane, "A love Supreme".
Amazing musicians working perfectly together. Recorded in one session, on one day makes it more remarkable.
Good thread.
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Frank Sinatra - In The Wee Small Hours.
Tom Waites - The Heart Of Saturday Night.
The Band - Eponymous first and Music From Big Pink.
Lou Reed - Berlin, Coney Island Baby & Transformer.
Bob Calvert - Captain Lockheed, Freq, etc....
Elvis - Sun Sessions.
Dare's a good one too, works really well.
Oh and Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty. Best album from one of my favourite bands. All their other stuff is more hardcore/metalcore/punky but this album has the perfect balance of big riff swagger and heaviness imo.
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State is the soundtrack to my teenage years as well, so many good songs on it.
As a complete album rather than simply a collection of individual songs that are all great, something that's difficult to identify a distinct fragment of as anything other than a part of the album, or in that the fragment sounds alone and lost without the rest of the record - rambling definition! - I can't see past Loveless. Just a beautiful record, perfectly self-contained. I doubt I could name more than three individual tracks without having to look, but I know every note on it.
BBC4 had a Friday night type programme the other week on the subject of the guitar riff which featured an - all too short - segment with Kevin Shields demonstrating how he built up the wall of noise, well worth finding on iplayer if you're a fan.
I've seen MBV many times throughout their lifetime but always feel that their live show suffers a bit from simply being too loud, detracts from it a bit. Still amazing though.
Stop the thread!
Cougar - ModeratorA few people have said Appetite for Destruction. I'd perhaps think that the Use Your Illusion double was a more complete (pair of) albums. Appetite is a stone cold classic and arguably "better", but Illusion is far more comprehensive and coherent as a piece of musical art as opposed to Appetite's collection of single-worthy tracks.
(can open, worms all over the place)
What?! Really?!
IMO it's a handful of (half?)decent tracks and LOADS of B-sides!
Just remembered
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
Elvis Costelloe - Armed Forces.
As nobody has said it yet...
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
So much more than just Unfinished Sympathy, as attested to by the fact I often get 'the big wheel, keeps on turning' stuck in my head while grinding up a hill on a singlespeed 29'er.
And you will know us by the trail of dead - Worlds Apart
Therapy ? Troublegum.
36 Crazyfists - Snowcapped Romance.
New Race - First and Last.
No wonder I've got tinnitus.
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.
So many great shouts, my faith in STW membership is being rejuvenated by musical taste alone.
FNM
Beck
Lou Reed
Dylan
Pumpkins
Doors
Stones
Beatles
Massive Attack
Kraftwerk
Ramones
Fleetwood Mac
even Bill Callahan (inspired shout) all represented and I concur with them all and many others.
May I add:
Paul's Boutique
Led Zep I,II,III,IV
The Real Thing
Reflektor/Suburbs/Funeral
A nods as good as a wink (to a horse)
The Stooges
Sticky Fingers
The Soft Bulletin
Let's Dance (seriously!)
Sea Change
The Downward Spiral
Man I could go on. I'm going to source every suggestion on this thread that I havent already heard/don't already own.
Ain't moosic great?
Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac...
Listen to the guy losing his mind thru his lyrics Dammn
Wait, forgot Murray Street.
Best of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac...
Ah yes. The only REAL Fleewood Mac.
Ooooh, Murray St!
And Daydream Nation/Sister
Doves - Lost Souls/ Last Broadcast.
Led Zep 1 to 4? Physical Graffiti is easily their most complete album, although perhaps that is because half of it is from sessions for the previous five albums. Complete in this case meaning covering the most range of musical styles and influences.
Anyhow, these threads are subjective so I'm out. Just like my Zep!
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
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Have I missed something here? For me, at least, a "complete" album is one where every single track is worth a serious listen. Most of my extensive collection (on flac, BTW) comprises albums where I only ever listen to a couple of tracks.
That's my take on it too oldboy - or where "artistically" the album works ideally in its entirety (good ol' prog concept albums?). The ones I've suggested are those where I have to play the whole thing.
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, great album end to end.
Sasha and Digweed Northern Exposure may be a bit out as it's a mix, brilliant for the time and genre though. Few mixes are that good.
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire is a good call too.
Older stuff, Led Zep 4 maybe.
oldboy - Member
Have I missed something here? For me, at least, a "complete" album is one where every single track is worth a serious listen. Most of my extensive collection (on flac, BTW) comprises albums where I only ever listen to a couple of tracks.slowoldman - Member
That's my take on it too oldboy - or where "artistically" the album works ideally in its entirety (good ol' prog concept albums?). The ones I've suggested are those where I have to play the whole thing.
That's pretty much what I said, and it applies to all of the albums I've mentioned, and a fair few listed by others.
Of course there are loads with stand-out tracks, with largely fillers, but the whole point of the thread is as oldboy says, odd though that it's taken six pages for oldboy to notice... 😉
One of the advantages of downloads is I can cherry-pick the tracks I like from albums that I wouldn't otherwise consider buying.
That may not please artists who consider their album as sacrosanct, and should only be considered as one entity, but I couldn't give a toss about that; if there's only a couple of tracks on an album that tickle my (musical) taste buds, then I'm not buying the whole thing to satisfy someone's ego.
Looking forward to a bunch of new albums this year that'll probably get played from beginning to end for ages, The Staves new one is looking [i]very[/i] promising indeed.
Don't laugh now I love The Bends but for me it has to be City to City by Gerry Rafferty. Not a bad song on that album but Right down the line gets me every time. As for song writing craft he can't be beaten.
Does Jeff Waynes War of the Worlds count ?
If not then Dark side of the Moon has it for me .
Dog man star - fits the bill
Add Back in the DHSS by Half man Half Biscuit and Script of the Bridge by the Chameleons.......minor classics, rather listen to them than dark side of hell or bat out of the moon!