James Last is good … used to be on telly every week … 😅

‘Boys Outside’ – Steve Mason

Hell yes!

Laughing Stock

Heavens yes!

Both of those are albums that deserve to be played unbroken.

I’ll add some…

Durutti Column – Sex & Death

David Bowie – Blackstar

Can – Tago Mago

New Order – Technique

Chemical Brothers – Born in the Echoes

Chromatics – Kill For Love

Crystal Fighters – Star of Love

F Buttons – Tarot Sport

Jane Weaver – The Silver Globe

Slint – Spiderland

Obviously Darkside Of The Moon but I listen to this more…

Bright And Guilty by The Wolfhounds

A truly stand alone classic album that absolutely no one else likes.

Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

Never get bored of playing it, so many tracks I enjoy.

Bright And Guilty by The Wolfhounds

A truly stand alone classic album that absolutely no one else likes.

Crikey … earache.

This is music but very sad …

Ones mentioned I agree with are A Northern Soul bu the Verve and Leftism. I would add

Orbital Brown Album
Apollo 440 Millenium Fever
Unkle Psyence Fiction
Underworld Everything Everthing
The Charlatans Tellin Stories
Lo Fi Alstars How to Operate With a Blow Mind
LTJ Bukem Logical Prog Sessions 1
Dexter Gordon One Flight Up

Loads of the above, and…..

Zappa – Sheik Yerbouti.
Marquee Moon.
First Roxy album.
St Dominic’s Preview.
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken.
Human League – Dare.
Hawkwind – Quark, Strangeness and Charm.
Blyth Power – A Little Touch of Harry in the Night.
Cake – Pressure Chief.
John Martyn – Solid Air.
Roy Harper – Whatever happened to Jugular.
Motorhead – No sleep ’till Hammersmith.

Thanks for all the responses. Lots of albums there (J5, Vs, Astral Weeks, RATM) that are also on my list. A few I’ll give a spin too.

QOTSA – Songs for the Deaf
Nurse – Therapy?
GNR – Appetite
Rumours
Metallica – Master of Puppets

I’m surprised by many of the answers above. There are loads of albums I love, but few where I wouldn’t skip a track or two … or three.
Massive Attack: Blue Lines was mentioned. I’d maybe agree with that. The only other I can think of for the moment is Dr Alimantado: Best Dressed Chicken in Town

Songs for the Deaf was ruined by No One Knows being constantly played on the radio in an old work place. Great album though. I’m always stuck between it, Rated R and Like Clockwork as the best one. Love the self titled, but it’s basically Kyuss lite.

Paul Simon – Graceland

The Stone Roses
Joy As An Act Of Resistance
Screamadelica
Darklands
Jake Bugg
Timeless

A bit eclectic…

Fields of the Nephilim – Elizium
George Michael – Listen without prejudice
Depeche Mode – Violator
Seal – Seal
Robert Cray – Midnight Stroll

Lunapark by Luna

Made all the better by the memories it brings back every time I hear it..

I agree.. Definitely Rumours
Also:
Aqualung and Bursting Out
Levelling the Land (if in the right mood)
Frampton comes Alive
Highway to Hell and If You Want Blood
Fishermans Blues
Live Rust

Therapy – troublegum
Pulp – this is hardcore
Joy Division – closer/unknown pleasures
Manic Street Preachers – holy bible
NIN – the downward spiral
The clash – London calling
Oasis – definitely maybe
NOFX – punk in drublic
Pet shop boys – actually
Big black – songs about ****
Nirvana – unplugged in New York
Belle and Sebastian – Tigermilk
Chase and status – more than a lot
New Order – Lowlife
Slipknot – we are not your kind

Agree with some mentioned already and would add:

Avalanches – since I left you
Longpigs – Sun is often out
Radiohead – Ok Computer
Stereophonics – Word gets around
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing

Autechre – NTS sessions 1-4
Merzbow – pulse demon
Swans – the Seer
Tool – Lateralus
Death – Leprosy
Aphex Twin – SAW II
DJ Shadow – Endtroducing
Jon Hopkins – Immunity
Melvins – Houdini

My immediate thought was Portishead’s “Dummy” album.

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Hell is for Heroes – The Neon Handshake

Was going to say this too. I guess it helps if you can’t get the studio to release the album so you can spend months polishing the thing, but it’s just flawless- no bad songs, and perfectly paced. I love that they left 2 awesome tracks off the album purely because they didn’t fit

And First Love by Emmy The Great. I got to see her do this one (plus the bonus tracks) as a solo show this year and it was just incredible.

I think the whole damn fool “play the whole album in order” tours are a good test. Like, literally the best show I ever saw was Hundred Reasons’ last ever gig, but even that was hurt a little bit by playing the first album in order. Not much though, it was still glorious.

But First Love works fantastically, and Neon Handshake could not be improved on.

Never mind the Bollocks
the the infected
Nick Cave no more shall we part
Lou Reed Transformer
Tom Waits Small Change
2nd Coming
Led Zeppelin III
eels Beautiful Freak

to name a few

There are some interesting choices here…

Can’t believe no one has mentioned What’s Goin On yet though. Like astral weeks this has had continual play over decades for me.

Also:
Ege bamyasi – CAN
Greatest Palace Music – Bonnie Prince Billy
Time (the revelator) – Gillian Welch
There’s a riot going on – Sly & Family Stone
Kind of blue – Miles
Philharmonic – Agnes Obel
El Mal Querer – Rosalìa
Kanon Pokajanen- the Arvo Part thing with the Estonian philharmonic chamber choir or whoever (I forget, it’s long, I’m old)
Symphony no 4 – (Arvo again) Los Angeles philharmonic
F#A# infinity – GSYBE!
EVOL sonic youth
Orphee – Johann Johannsson

Loads of mine have already been mentioned by the cool kids. obvs.
I’ll add Loveless, My bloody Valentine.
Sabresonic , Sabres of Paradise.
Singularity , Jon Hopkins .
Dead cities.. & Before The Dawn Heals Us , both by M83.
Oh & Chemicrazy by That Petrol Emotion!

The Ragga Twins – Reggae Owes Me Money

Probably not a hugely popular one but ‘101 Damnations’ by Carter.
Also ‘Kasabian’ by errrr Kasabian is pretty much perfect IMO.

As examples I love Idles – Joy as an Act of Resistance but have to skip June.

i assume you know the story behind it, and why theyll never play it live. i actually like having a slow, haunting song in the middle of all the noise and never skip it.

Paul Simon – Graceland

I came here to say this ^^

There are many, many artists who I like more than I like Paul Simon’s work, but that album has long been on my desert islands discs list just because it really is one of the very few albums that I really just never tire of.

Joy as an Act of Resistance but have to skip June

Yeah, if anything, it’s the Dirty Dancing cover that doesn’t work so well for me.

Brutalism is a far better album anyway.

I can’t list a top ten too many variables depending on mood…

Kate Bush – Hounds of Love is easily my number one album though. A stunning piece of work.

U2 – The Joshua Tree

Bowie – Ziggy
Wishbone Ash – Argus
Paul Simon – Gracelands
Fleetwood Mac – Then Play On
Mountain – Twin Peaks
Fairport Convention – Leige and Leif
And so many more

Mansun – Six
Adam Schmitt – World so bright
The Alice Band – Love Junk Store
Amanda Marshall – ST
Chroma Key – Dead air for radios
Corey Hart- young man running
The Rembrandts – Untitled
Evan and Jaron – ST
Grant Nicholas – Yorktown Heights
The Jezabels – Synthia

Can’t believe no one has mentioned What’s Goin On yet though. Like astral weeks this has had continual play over decades for me.

@metalheart mentioned on page one, one of my favourites of all time.

Great to see so much love for Dummy, I think it was unfairly lumped in with the trip hop phase, when it’s a much darker and more rewarding listen than that.

I’ll add:

Death Cab For Cutie – Plans

Bohren And Der Club Of Gore – Black Earth

Nirvana – Nevermind – I had it on cassette so skipping tracks wasn’t really an option – I did have to turn the tape over after “Polly” though

Magma – MEKANIK DESTRUKTIW KOMMANDOH

Gas – KÖNIGSFORST

And +1 for ‘ENDTRODUCING’

Lots of good ones already listed, though I have to reiterate

NIN – The Downward Spiral

and throw into the hat

Rancid – …And Out Come The Wolves

Red Roses for Me – The Pogues
Hanx – SLF
Power, corruption and lies and Lowlife – New Order
Manic Pop Thrill – That Petrol Emotion
Our Favourite Shop – Style Council
Neither Washington nor Moscow- The Redskins

Power, corruption and lies and Lowlife – New Order

Surely Technique 🙂

As chewkw failed to completely wreck the thread, I’d like to add a hip hop album