Most 'complete' album…

Appetite for destruction or The Stone Roses first album.

..STW-approved answer here?

If there’s one thing you can guarantee on here, it’s that we won’t agree about music!
(I have never heard of Operation Mindcrime)

Troubelgum – therapy

Generation Terrorists – Manics

Songs of faith and devotion – depeche mode

sceamadelica – primal scream..

hang on im stuck in the 90’s

Man Who Sold The World

Some good calls. I’d also add:

Music for the Jilted Generation – Prodigy
Mezzanine – Massive Attack (in a really dark, dystopian, ****ed up way)
Original Pirate Material – the Streets
Up to our Hips – the Charlatans
Grand Prix – Teenage Fanclub

The complete stone roses?

Or more seriously let it bleed by Rolling Stones Or decline of british sea power by British sea power

Blood on the tracks is a good shout. I’d add Cash at Folsom and Townes van Zandt at the Old Quarter.

The first Hell is for Heroes album, Neon Handshake. Probably the only time doing that stupid “whole album in order” thing at a gig has ever made perfect sense. Even the less good songs fit in places where a less good song is ideal.

oh forgot about TEN by Pearl Jam… stuck in the 90’s again!

cinnamon_girl – Member
What do you mean by complete? Is confused.

I guess I mean that the ‘complete’ album is greater than the sum of it’s parts. The composite songs may be ok on their own, but listening to the whole album from start to finish, without skipping any tracks is my definition of greatness.

For this reason I don’t think we can include ‘Best of..’ albums 🙂

What do you mean by complete? Is confused.

It seems to mean name your favourite album
Is equally confused

Um OK, I think!

‘Astral Weeks’ it is. 😀

A lot of albums have some great tracks, some alrightish ones, and some blatant fillers where they ran out of ideas. All put together in a random order. The albums people are listing work as a whole, with great tracks put together in a meaningful order, that works as a narrative.

It’s really not that confusing 😀

It’s really not that confusing

I agree, but I can’t narrow it down to 1 or 2 albums. Or even 4 or 5.

Let’s have ’em then Dezzy Baby? I’ll add Spiritualized – Ladies and Gentlemen we are Floating in Space

Clarkson Rocks.

‘Astral Weeks’ it is.

I was going to say Astral Weeks….

I would also offer up:

What’s Going On – Marvin Gaye
Let England Shake – PJ Harvey
I See A Darkness – Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle – Bill Callahan
Thank You – Royal Trux

Like grandaddy
Like screamadelica

But I’d say “in rainbows” by radiohead

Or sign o the times by prince. Lush album that

It’s really not that confusing

It is if you look at some of the choices

Some are clearly folk just going I like x as a number of the albums mentioned are unlikely to feature on a list never mind win it

Yep Screamadelica is another good shout, as is The Man Machine.

I just take the criteria to be an album that is the complete realisation of a musical concept (and good obvs)

More suggestions (specific to my taste tbh)…

Magnetic Fields – 69 Love Songs
Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions…
The Go! Team – Thunder Lightning Strike
Crystal Castles first album
David Bowie – Hunky Dory

Junkyard – lazarus

Some are clearly folk just going I like x as a number of the albums mentioned are unlikely to feature on a list never mind win it

So? It could be the most complete but obscure or highly unpopular album, it’s basically entirely different things.

Exactly. The Neon Handshake is cracking example. As is Siamese Dream.
But also Ocean Rain by the Bunnymen and Microcastle by Deerhunter. And the first Amusement Parks On Fire album. Like a complete journey from the start to the finish.

OK Computer for me.

Revolver by The Beatles is good.

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd

The decline of Britsh Sea Power +1. 12th anniversary gigs in London and Manchester this summer!

Neurosis: Through Silver in Blood
Metallica: Ride the Lightning
Alice in Chains: Dirt

Abbey Road: Beatles
Nevermind: Nirvana
In Rainbows: Radiohead

with honourable mentions to: Dummy, and Ill communcation,

George Best – The Wedding Present

Lots of albums I like in the lists above (The Neon Handshake, Violator, Loveless, Mezzanine, The Bends, OK Computer, In Rainbows, Back in Black, the list goes on).

Saying that though, complete albums for me tell a consistent story all the way through, hence the Weddoes (using some 90s NME terminology).

Agree with blood on the tracks and the stone roses. Can’t think of any fillers on Leftism or Selected ambient works 85-92 either.

+1 for Blood on the Tracks.
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Ziggy Stardust
Mule Variations

Apart from ABBA, Bee Gees there is only one James Last.

James Last reminds me of happier time while the rest are just music to kill yourself.

+1 for Blood on the Tracks and Mule Variations. I’d add:
Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell
Songs of Leonard Cohen
Shoot out the Lights, Richard and Linda Thompson
The 5000 Spirits, Incredible String Band

Oh, dear. Stuck in the 60s and 70s, me.

Magnum – Storytellers Night
Prefab Sprout – Steve McQueen
Deftones – White Pony

If there’s one thing you can guarantee on here, it’s that we won’t agree about music!
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hang on im stuck in the 90’s

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

Seconded, brilliant album but not the best, I’d go for The Stone Roses

Born To Run – Springsteen

Blonde On Blonde – Dylan

Epic albums that just seem to build and build and leave you shattered at the end.

+1 for Blood On The Tracks, but moving forward, I really like The Suburbs by Arcade Fire.

QOTSA : songs of the deaf
The Cardigans : long gone before daylight
Pendulum : Hold your colour
Ladyhawke : Ladyhawke

Sgt Pepper – and I’m not a Beatles fan.

The White stripes – Elephant ,
I had been listening to electronic music and learning to DJ/beat match and this and “The strokes this is it” got me listening to real instrument music again – we even went to see jeff beck pilled off our heads at the south bank – now that was interesting all these beardy Jeff beck fans and 4 of me and flat mates avin it on our own (i think we were asked to leave more than once)
Any way this started a love affair with The White Stripes and both Jack and Meg .When faced with Jack at Quantom of solice premier all i could do was tell him he was a legend .