[Closed] What other albums as complete and great as Dark Side of the Moon?

Lots of good albums listed, but after DSOTM the next port of call should be Animals by Pink Floyd.

Dummy is the only one listed so far that I agree with.
I would add moon safari, but it does have a track that ruins it as a complete album.

agree with a good few posted already

adding

the strokes - this is it
sasha & digweed - renaissance, all three discs

Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase

Rage Against The Machine - RATM

Magenta - The 27 Club

I'll second

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Queen - A Night At The Opera

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The Wall is pretty awesome as far as story's go.

I often find the "full listeners" can initially be the hardest albums to get into. But once there, they're worth it.

Loads of good ones already listed,I'll add
Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual ,
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless,
& Sabres of Paradise - Sabresonic...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Bad Brains - Rock for Light
Sublime - 40oz to Freedom
Discharge - Why? (technically a 12" Single I know)

I have never listened to a Pink Floyd in its entirety.

Clash and Machine Gun Etiquette still stand up for me

Lost and Found Jason and the Scorchers

Magnum cum Louder Hoodoo Gurus

There are lots of good suggestions, but the bestest answer (as in the one i thought of before opening the thread) has kindly been provided already by Pedropete... Hounds of Love - Kate Bush.

Angeldust
Master of Puppets
Holy Bible
Nevermind
Pretty Hate Machine
...Like Clockwork

Songs for the deaf?

+1 for Holy Bible and Endtroducing

Pixies - Doolittle

Lightspeed Champion - Falling off the Lavender Bridge

Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Any of the Carpenter's album.

Tool - Lateralus
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 1
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Mr Bungle - Disco Volante

Husker Du New Day Rising, if Zen Arcade lost a few tracks it would be in the frame.

cinematic orchestra - Every Day
lou reed - new york
another for 'wish you were here'

I spent christmas away at a cottage last year that had a turntable and a massive collection of classic albums on vinyl.

Having not listened to an album on vinyl for at least 15 years, the nostalgia was wonderful and it did strike me that the format did lend itself towards listening to an album properly from start to finish.

Nowadays, music is disposable. Not to say there aren't brilliant albums being put out, but I'd say the incidence of them is far smaller in proportion to total musical output nowadays. Quite sad really.

Great shout AlanF, if you like that then try

Consolers of the Lonely by the Raconteurs

(no it doesn't have steady as she goes on it, which is as good thing as it makes you listen to the full album, it's a corker)

Metallica - Metallica
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

And I total curve ball but Employment by the Kaiser Chiefs never fails to disappoint in its start to finish, jam packed, sing along, good rocky pop songs.

Not sure if it's nostalgia from the days when you'd memorise each nuance in an LP..

Wish You were Here +1
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

but it's all very subjective - depends on context too, list would be different tomorrow!

Currently working my way happily through the double 12" gatefold of Baroness's red album. One of the finest 'complete' albums I own, everything just fits together beautifully.

Worth owning on vinyl for the artwork alone

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When it's finished I'll probably move onto the blue one.

Having not listened to an album on vinyl for at least 15 years, the nostalgia was wonderful and it did strike me that the format did lend itself towards listening to an album properly from start to finish.

This. I generally browse on Spotify but get vinyl for the keepers. Looking forward to trying out some of the ones I don't know above. My contribution:

Goa Mix - Paul Oakenfold (not strictly an album I admit)
Upstairs At Eric's - Yazoo
Penthouse And Pavement - Heaven 17

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Nearly all the LPs that spring to mind are from my teens and 20s. Says something about the way I consume music these days, which is a pity.

Crowded House - Together Alone
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Erasure - The Innocents
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Just realised that no one has mentioned The Beatles Greatest Hits

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DJ Shadow, Entroducing

I was starting to get concerned that it took until page 2 for someone to mention this

I think BoardinBob and others have it about right. So much of what people have listed above is actually quite old. Is it simply reminiscence from the days when we actually sat and [i]listened[/i] to albums, rather than music now being more of a background activity? That's certainly the case for me. I probably listen to more music now than I ever did, but i don't [i]Listen[/i] to it.

Here are some more recent ones that spring to mind that I have thoroughly enjoyed - and listened to - as complete albums:

Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Szuletett
Patrick Watson - Adventures in your Own Backyard
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt

Forever Changes
Blows against the empire
Tago Mago
Notorious Byrd Brothers
Tubular Bells
Not your kind of people
Sketches of Spain
Happy trails
A Capella

Etc etc etc

[s]Sketches of Spain[/s] Kind of Blue
Santana Abraxas

I agree with a few of the above, others I'll have to have a listen to.

A couple that spring to mind from the last couple of years for me are

Grizzly Bear - Shields
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic

Elastica by Elastica
Menace to Sobriety by OPM
American Idiot by Green Day
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables by The Dead Kennedys (already mentioned I know)
Most early Stranglers albums and the last two
Non Stop Erotic Cabaret by Soft Cell
American Idiot by Green Day

Some random contributions...

Bowie - Hunky Dory
PE - It Takes a Nation Of Millions
Lemonheads - It's a shame about Ray
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (debut)
The Velvet Undergorund & Nico (just about)
Kraftwerk - TEE

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Didn't really rate it that much for individual tracks, but as a whole it's a beaut. After the end of Contact I always feel like I need a ciggy and a lie down 8)

Loving the list so far! First thoughts...

Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
REM - Automatic for the People
The Congos - Heart of the Congos
Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Currently listening to American Beauty!

Copper Blue
Troublegum
Second Coming

Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO by The Besnard Lakes. Also The Besnard Lakes Are The Roaring Night
Microcastle by Deerhunter
Loveless, of course.

Well I feel both saddened for you and ashamed by you, not a single mention of Pearl Jam yet 😛

For me these are some I love and one I've back to today just to validate the statement:

Idelewild - The Remote part
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (Melancollie a close second)
Pearl Jam - Vs (could have been Vitalogy but for Foxy Mophandle Momma)
Of Monsters and men - My head is an animal
Alexisonfire - Crisis
Rival schools - United by fate
f*cked up - David comes to life

I'm sure there are others, but these would be first that spring to mind.

Despite owning a copy DSOTM has never really floated my boat. Wish You Were Here I can understand though. I don't want to get into a slagging match (personal taste and all).

I'll give +1 to the following though:

Theres a Riot Going On
Whats Going On
Kind of Blue
In a Silent Way (probably my fave Miles album, it was my first too)
Astral Weeks
Horses

Whilst I love the following I prefer the stated other:

Illinoise (there are a couple of things that spoil it for me and there are a handful of tracks that stand out that affects the whole). I'd offer Seven Swans

Tago Mago (being a double its difficult to hold the brilliance of Helleluwah across 4 'sides') - so, Ege Bamyasi.

Stations - Feeding is the better (see also above re. doubles...) 🙂

To add:

Let England Shake & White Chalk - PJ Harvey
Marquee Moon - Television
Kanon Pokajanen - Arvo Part/Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
Weather - Michael Gordon
Greetings From LA - Tim Buckley
Blues & Roots - Charles Mingus

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Pearl Jam - Vs (could have been Vitalogy but for Foxy Mophandle Momma)

I can go for months at a time without remembering that Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me is at the end of Vitalogy. It's one of the few tracks that have been left behind when I've ripped my CDs to mp3. Me and a Gun is about the only other one I can think of - not something you want to start playing when you're not expecting it.

Bob's 'Nashville Skyline'
Nas's 'illmatic'
Gza's 'Liquid Swords'

Amused to Death - Roger Waters.

End of thread.

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)

All the way through-ers:
Pscyhomodo - Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel (the early concept stuff was so brilliant!)
Pinups - Bowie
Into the wild - Eddie Vedder (makes me cry)

For me -

Wish You Were Here
The Bends
Achtung Baby
Chrome Dreams
Farewell To Kings

Just realised that no one has mentioned The Beatles Greatest Hits

[Pedantalert] Actually it's 'The Best of the Beatles' [Pedantalert/]

Lots of god shouts above. Particularly for me Troublegum, Appetite and Graceland. Also Levelling the Land for me, could always listen through without wanting to skip a track. Like the mention of Copper Blue too.

Metallica - Metallica
ACDC - Back in Black
Green Day - American Idiot
My Chemical Romance - Welcome to the Black Parade
Prodigy - Fat of the Land
Pendulum - In Silico