Most 'complete' album…

+ 1 for Depeche Mode – Violator
+ 1 for SP – Siamese Dream
Deftones – Around the Fur
FNM – Angel Dust

Violator is one of my all time favorites though. I still get the same enjoyment from that album as the day I first played it.

Siamese Dream is also amazing, and I’ve got really great memories associated with the song ‘Today.’

Lateralus by Tool

Half of the tracks make little sense on their own, but together add up to the perfect album

I know a few have already been said. (I don’t think a greatest hits counts)

Oasis – Definitely Maybe
Guns’n’Roses – Appetite For Destruction

A few others:

The Killers – Hot Fuss
Sleeper – The It Girl
Royal Blood – Royal Blood

Kind of blue by Miles Davis

I’ll add..

Ray LaMontagne – Trouble
Tesla – Mechanical Ressonance
Ratt – Invasion of your privacy
Piece Orchestra – Piece Orchestra
Machine – There for the grace of God go I

Just a few of my “complete” choices.

Or endtroducing by DJ Shadow, for very similar reasons to Lateralus

Smiths – The Queen Is Dead
Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Primal Scream – Screamadelica
New Order – Low-Life
Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland
Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Led Zeppelin’s third album
Pixies – Doolittle
Dexys Midnight Runners – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures
Nick Drake – Pink Moon
John Martyn – Solid Air
Waterboys – Fisherman’s Blues
Big Star – #1 Record
Radiohead – The Bends
Teenage Fanclub – Songs From Northern Britain
Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf
The The – Soul Mining
Nirvana – Nevermind

Disintegration by The Cure.

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned

Pet Sounds – The Beach Boys

I’ll add

This Year’s Model – Elvis Costello

Ohhh have to do more now that I have had time to think.

De La Soul – 3 Feet High and Rising
Fugazi – Repeater
Paul Simon – Graceland
The Avalanches – Since I left You
The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds
Portishead – Dummy

Jota….you just beat me to it :D….can’t believe it wasn’t mentioned until now.

A 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)

Parallel Lines – Blondie
Thriller – Wacko Jacko

Queensryche – Operation Mindcrime 😉
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Deftones – Around The Fur
Death Angel – Act III
FNM – Angel Dust & The Real Thing
Slayer – South of Heaven
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon
Dire Straits – Alchemy (live)
QOTSA – Songs For The Deaf
The Vines – Highly Evolved

No doubt a few will turn their noses up some of these.
A lot of these are old but I keep returning to (most of) them.
Puppets probably takes it for me though.

I want to say David Comes To Life by ****ed Up. (I hope that’s not swear filter avoidance… If I star out any more it’s probably hard to understand…) But it’s a harder sell. It starts out brilliantly, gets really pretty bogged down in the middle, goes on for too long then ends with the most ridiculous 1-2 knockout. But it still works despite that because it’s the sag in the middle that sets up the ending (also there is a plot, it’s just that it’s basically incomprehensible even if you could understand what pinkeye is screaming). So it’s more complete in the sense of the journey than the music.

Lots of awesome albums mentioned so far (and I’m delighted to find loads of them on t’ipod) but most complete album?

Surely NIN’s The Downward Spiral has to be it!

Surprised to see only the one previous mention of Leftism. The first album to spring to my mind when reading the OP.

Tomorrow it might be a different one.

Usual collection, the bends,wish you were here,dsotm

Plus –
Kraftwerk both Trans Euro Express & Tour de France
U2 (sorry folks) The Joshua Tree & Acting Baby

To me “most complete album” tends to suggest it waS written as an album so

Quadrophenia
Sgt. Peppers
Tubular bells
Practically any early yes but certainly
Tales from Topographic oceans would make my list
As would
Dark side of the moon

Things that wouldn’t make my list include
Springsteen
Queen
Tom petty much as I like all 3

And such as
Oasis,
G & R
Smiths etc

Electric Ladyland
Ill Comunication
In Utero
Exile on Main Street
Mellow Gold
Leftism
Endtroducing
What Ever People Say I Am That’s What I’m Not
Sheet One
Black Sunday

Machine Gun Etiquette – The Damned
Scissor Sisters – Scissor Sisters

Both just flow right and have a definite beginning and end.

Black Love – Afghan Whigs
Contino Sessions- Death in Vegas

Exile is a good shout, probably nothing you’d call a hit on there but its a great album. Blood On The Tracks is a classic too, almost autobiographical. And a third vote for Southern Harmony, possibly my favourite album of all time and hugely underated.

“To me “most complete album” tends to suggest it waS written as an album”
If so, add in Tommy & perhaps The Lamb lies down on Broadway from the days of grandiose rock opera & concepts.

On the “all killer; no filler”, then of suggestions above, it’s probably either Thriller, Kind of Blue or Blue Lines- happy to hear any song off the albums.

Great idea for a thread. There’s so many! Time to get the headphones on

Spiritualized – ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Hands down no contest perfect album.

conceived as a full album from the off, even down to making the album exactly 70mins long just so the cover design would look correct

OK, so imagine its an LP, you have two sides, unless a double gatefold which I will allow. No picking the needle up, no squirming in your chair until a track has finished. Only albums which ‘flow’ from start to finish…

I will just add:
geogaddi – boards of Canada
Amber – Autechre
my favourites :

Screamadelica
Endtroducing
Check ya head

Couple of slices of perfection from the late 90s –In the aeroplane over the sea by NMH and On fire by Galaxie 500.

On Fire is just awesome, maybe not complete as such. In the aeroplane, though – stands out as something special. It’s more than just 11 great songs.

Some good shouts I’ll add:

Layo & Bushwaka! – Night Works
Beastie Boys – I’ll Communication
Kristin Hersh – Hips and Makers
Jeff Buckley – Grace

Love this forum – almost all my suggestions already mentioned in the first page:
The Bends
Blood on the Tracks
What’s Goin On
Born to Run
Dark Side of the Moon
Paul’s Boutique
After the Goldrush
Transformer
For Django
(Live) At Fillmore East

Just played one from the old days. Genesis – Nursery Chryme.

I just played one of Genesis best too – Selling England By the Pound.

Happy memories!

How to Operate With a Blown Mind
Rafi’s Revenge
A Northern Soul
Mirror Conspiracy
Wide Angle
Cold Water Music
Telling Stories

I normally listen to these albums without skipping tracks.

Lots of those mentioned above.

West Ryder – Kasabian

GY!BE – F#A# Infinity
GY!BE – Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Stereolab – Dots and Loops
Gas – Pop
Gas – Zauberberg
Gas – Königsforst
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Tim Hecker – Harmony in Ultraviolet
Can – Future Days
Pulp – His n Hers

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

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These have been constant over the years, albums that I can put on and listen to from beginning to end, without a single lack-lustre track:
Goldfrapp – Felt Mountain
Arcade Fire – Funeral
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound
Joni Mitchell – Hissing Of Summer Lawns
Paul Simon – Hearts And Bones
Kris Delmhorst – Song For A Hurricane

Frank Zappa – Joe’s Garage
Pixies – Trompe Le Monde

Loads of 60s and 70s ones, too many to mention.

Lots of albums listed on here already are complete.

Completely shit, I mean. Not naming names, but you know who you are. I’d like to think some of you are joking, but sadly it’s bad taste central on this forum at times.

Oh, go on then, I’ll join in – any Coldplay or Elbow album, they’re all complete.

lot’s of good albums in the lists.

Mien would be the one I am listening to right now,
Zeit Tangerine Dream

Obviously STW is middle age + as no one has asked what an album is! 😉

Just finished listening to Neil Young’s Harvest… 🙂