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Dylan - Desire
Waits - Blue Valentine
Dead - Workingmans Dead
Sasha & Digweed Northern Exposure Expeditions
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Prodigy - MFTJG
Daimien Rice - O
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Charlatans - Tellin Stories
Brooklyn Funk Essentials - Cool and steady and easy
JJ Cale - Troubadour
an lots of others...
Dunno if anyone's said it yet, but I think Neon Bible by Arcade Fire sounds good all the way through & I don't particularly like them...
Also "The Last Waltz" by The Band - it was released as an album
J
In acknowledgement of the fact that most of the albums here are 20+ years old, I'll add a few more recent entries.
Swans - The seer
Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
Bjork - Vulnicura
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Good shout on Fever Ray
I'm in...
1 giant leap - as an album with message from start to finish... or
Orbital - Snivilisation
LCD Sound system - LCD Sound system
Arctic monkeys - Whatever people say i am ......
Bjork - Debut
Royksopp - Melody AM
Sasha - Involver 2 or 3 or 1 ? I can never decide
Andrew Weatherall - Matsterpeices
The XX
Disclosure - Disclosure
Happy happy - love these threads!!!!
The Wedding Present's Seamonsters is rather good IMHO.
Arcade Fire-Funeral
Belle and Sebastian-The Boy with the Arab Strap
Television-Marquee Moon
Elliott Smith-Figure 8
Broken Bells-Broken Bells
Neil Young-Harvest
Aretha Franlin-I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
Tom Waits-Closing Time
Joy Division-Closer
Oh, and Stars-Set Yourself on Fire
Joanna Newsom - Ys
Eels - Electro Shock Blues plus Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift your Skinny Fists... (though pretty much anything by them works better as a complete piece)
Radiohead - OK Computer
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs (if I was forced to pick just one)
I saw Floyd play at Earl's Court in '94. The second half of the gig was Dark side of the moon in full. It was awesome.
Some crackers on here happy to see Smokers Delight and Everyday.
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Marvin Gaye - Whats going on
The JB's - Pass the peas
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time out
Portishead - Dummy
London Grammar - If you wait
TM Juke - Maps from the Wilderness
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Carole King - Tapestry
Gotan Project - La ravancha del tango
There's hundreds, thousands maybe!!
A few more classics I found on itunes at work.
Capdown - Civil Disobedients
Chemical Brothers - Come with us (probably not their best album though)
Fugazi - Repeater
RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to tell.
Prodigy getting alot of mentions - massive appeal, regardless of what sort of music you're normally into.
Pauls Boutique - Beastie Boys . is the stand out for me.
Sgt Peppers natch.
To a lesser extent
OK Computer Radiohead
The Queen is Dead The Smiths
Portishead Dummy
Trailer Park Beth Orton
Freedom Fields Seth Lakeman
Stone Roses Stone Roses
Cant believe I forgot to add Dream River - Bill Callahan.
Each album he releases is (usually) better than the previous... and that's saying something.
Gary Numan Replicas
John Foxx Metamatic
Fad Gadget Under the Flag
Jean Michel Jarre Oxygene
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel Nail
SOAD SOAD
Tool AENIMA
Rammstein Mutter
Some great suggestions on this thread. And some new things to listen to too!
I'd add:
Crazy on the weekend by Sunhouse
Out of Season by Beth Gibbons and Rustin Man
Beautiful Skeletons by Gavin Clark
Lots of really good stuff on here, I'm quite surprised 😉
Some bands manage to be exceptionally good at their genre so if you like that that particular style then they can put some great albums together. Oasis - Definitely Maybe and Artic Monkeys - What ever people say I am, that's what I'm not, spring to mind as they are not to everyone's tastes but if you like that style they're great.
For no other reason other than I think they're great start to finish albums but haven't been listed yet I'd add:
Bloc Party - A weekend in the city
The Bluetones - Expecting to fly
Ian Brown - Music of the spheres
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Kings of Leon - Youth and young manhood
Mansun - Attack of the grey lantern
Maximo Park - A certain trigger
The Rapture - Pieces of people we love
Royal Blood
Sting - Ten summoners tales
Supergrass - in it for the money
We are Scientists - With love and squalor
Zero 7 - When it falls
Some great albums being listed but no Moody Blues yet!
So here goes....
In Search of the Lost Chord
just a few off the top of me head.....
rattus and no more heroes by the stranglers
stone roses
prodigy fat of the land
carter USM 30 something and 101 damnations
nick cave murder ballads
siouxsie the scream
latest one ive heard that i think fits the bill so far... killing jokes new one, pylon.
Some great suggestions already
Beatles, abbey road
War on drugs, lost in the dream
Massive attack, protection
Nas, illmatic
Stones, let it bleed
Carl Craig, landcruising
John Cale, Paris 1913
Kanye, mbdtf
John Hopkins, immunity
Surprised that no-one has mentioned "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" by Wilco yet. Perfect.
Albums that must be listened to from start to finish-
Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
KLF - Chillout
U2 - Achtung Baby
Stone Roses
Screamadelica
Leftism
UNKLE - Psyence Fiction
Apollo 440 - Millenium Fever
Lo Fidelity Allstars - How to Operate With a Blown Mind
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Verve - Northern Soul
Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
Happy Mondays - Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
Hybrid - Wide Angle
Little Barrie - Shadow
Nigel Kennedy - Vivaldi's Four Seasons
Orbital - Brown Album
The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
BOC Maxima
Moderat II
DJ Koze - Amygdala
Dabrye - One Three
Com Truise - Cyanide Sisters
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Falling Through A Field
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works
Murder Was The Case Soundtrack
Tycho - Dive
+ lots more
nin the downward spiral/broken
pink floyd the final cut (i prefer it to dsotm tbh)
manhunter soundtrack
blade runner sountrack
the crow soundtrack
lost highway soundtrack
public service broadcasting inform-educate-entertain
wasp the headless children/the crimson idol
goldie timeless
can add more.
NIN - the downward spiral.
Manic Street preachers - The holy bible.
Depeche mode - violator
Daft Punk - Tron:Legacy OST
Justice - (Cross)
ATCQ - Midnight Marauders (The Low End Theory - a close 2nd)
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People...
Editors - The Back Room
Bat Out of Hell - 485 weeks in the UK charts!
Can Tago Mago
The Clash London Calling
Tricky Maxinquaye
Shooglenifty Whisky Kiss
Silly Wizard Live
Metamatic. There was an album...
2 on order so far as a result of this thread.. That might be three.
Sonic Youth - Daydream nation
Live - Throwing copper
Silverchair - Diorama
Lifehouse - No name face
Alice in chains - Dirt
Pearl Jam - Ten
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Ben Howard - I forgot where we were
Goo Goo Dolls - Dizy up the girl
Imagine Dragons - Night Visions - deluxe version
Hell Is For Heroes -The Neon Handshake. Literally the only "play the entire album" set I've ever seen that wasn't worse than a normal setlist
****ed Up- David Comes To Life. Well. It sags in the middle but that gives power to the highlights, which are just magnificent.
Biffy Clyro- Vertigo Of Bliss.
This is up there, IMO:
Also:
Magma. Both 'KA' and 'MDK' albums are spectacularly complete, I never seem to tire of discovering new ways of listening to them from start to finish.
The Who - 'Quadrophenia'
XTC - 'Skylarking'
Can - 'Future Days'
David Axelrod - 'Song of Innocence'
Carole King - Tapestry
British Sea Power - Sea of Brass
Queen - Greatest Hits. 😆
Happy Mondays - Pills n Thrills and Bellyaches
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Air - Talkie Walkie
Beck - Modern Guilt
Gorillaz - Demon Days
Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic
Prince - Purple Rain
I listen to these often...
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Otis Redding - Otis Blue
M83 -Before the Dawn Heals Us
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyhead
would just like to point out SLF inflammable material would have taken an honorary place if it wasnt for that 'kin stupid 'beep beep im an answering machine' track >-(
+1 Inflammable Material, same for me with the Bends, Streetscene makes my teeth itch.
Ramones Its Alive (best live album ever, but we have done that one)
Orange Goblin: Time Travelling Blues
Eva Cassidy: Live at Blues Alley
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
Is there a theme here??
Great to the The Fat of the Band is popular amongst you lot. Who'd have thought it?
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Isn't that Abu Hamza post op?
Etherwood...
Back in black - complete 80's rock
Never mind the bollocks - complete 70's punk
Definitely maybe - complete 90's britpop