Most 'complete' album…

Spiritualized – ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space

Hands down no contest perfect album.

Bit boring though? And I was a massive Spacemen/Spiritualized fan beforehand.

At least I managed to offload my vinyl version for £100 on Discogs a year or so ago.

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+1’s for The Sophtware Slump and Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In space.
Personally I’d go for:
Paracletus – Deathspell Omega
Catch 33 – Meshuggah (both written as “full albums”, you can’t get away with putting them on shuffle!)
The Guessing Game – Cathedral
Comments Of The Inner Chorus – Tunng
Summer Sun – You La Tengo
Clocks Are Like People – Circulus
Ghost Reveries – Opeth
Blood Inside – Ulver
In Absentia – Porcupine Tree
Radiator – Super Furry Animals

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

This coupled with Misplaced Childhood formed the basis of every trip to visit the South Wales relatives from my earliest memories to my late teens. Proper albums that don’t need fast forwarding.
I’ve now turned into my dad and doing the same to my children. 😈

I would agree about ‘Dark Side of the Moon’, it flows…

So does diarrhoea.

My contribution would be

Ramones Its Alive
The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette
Clash Clash
Jason and the Scorchers Lost and found

So many near misses, The Bends is sublime until Street Scene which is awful.

Stiff Little Fingers Inflamabe Material is gold until Answering Machine.

Very very few albums are brilliant all the way through.

Interpol – Turn On the Bright Lights

Paul’s Boutique

4 pages before anyone mentioned that – I was just about to declare you all dead to me and flounce

Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not.

Artic Monkeys.

The only album where you’ve no need to skip tracks, you listen to it all. In one sitting from start to finish. It all fits.

Paul Simon – Graceland
Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Levellers – Levelling the Land
Wu Tang Clan – Enter the 36 Chambers
Therapy? – Troublegum

12 Crass songs Jeffrey Lewis
Brandenburgs JS Bach
Beggar’s Banquet Rolling Stones
Sgt Pepper Beatles

Jason and the Scorchers – Lost and Found is a good pick. A superb and criminally under rated band / album.

PWEI – This is the day, this is the hour, this is this!

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

I’ve just checked and ITAOTS is the only album where I’ve starred every track on Spotify. Raindogs is pretty close to a perfect record as are Give Up by The Postal Service, ’64-’95 by Lemon Jelly and Terror Twilight, Pavement.

4 pages before anyone mentioned that (Pauls Boutique) – I was just about to declare you all dead to me and flounce

+1

Thought I was the only person who bought it originally, now own it on about 80 different formats and it just keeps getting better.

Dark side of the moon is spectacular, but I don’t actually like it all that much – just appreciate it, ‘of its age’, like Sgt Peppers (though I do like that and will listen to it end to end).

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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

Jason and the Scorchers – Lost and Found

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.