Albums you listen to all the way through

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Tue May 16, 2006 12:03 am

Without skipping through tracks.EVER

1.Tool- AEnima
2. All 3 Jimi Hendrix Experience albums
3. Jamiroqui-Return of the space Cowboy
4. Melvins-Houdini
5. Queens of the Stone-Songs for the Deaf
6. Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Tue May 16, 2006 2:06 am

As brilliant as Ænema is, I still skip through the weird sound effect tracks (8, 10, 12, 14, I think).

OK Computer is definitely an "all the way through" album.

Same goes for Dark Side of the Moon. (Obvious, but someone had to say it.)

Smahing Pumpkins - Gish
Slayer - Reign In Blood

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:18 am

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan wrote:As brilliant as Ænema is, I still skip through the weird sound effect tracks (8, 10, 12, 14, I think).

OK Computer is definitely an "all the way through" album.

Same goes for Dark Side of the Moon. (Obvious, but someone had to say it.)

Smahing Pumpkins - Gish
Slayer - Reign In Blood

the sound effects are actually pretty cool. This chanting shit on the new CD is a definete skip.

RACK Gish

patsy stone · Post by **patsy stone** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:08 am

Any Radiohead album
Any David Gray album
Any Coldplay album
Any Death Cab For Cutie album
Cat Power - The Greatest
Gillian Welch - Soul Journey
Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
The Beautiful Mind Soundtrack

And lately, Trespassers William - Different Stars, because it's sad and I've been in the mood for it because we just buried my grandmother this morning. :(

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue May 16, 2006 3:08 am

Too damn many to name. There's a lot of great fucking albums out there that y'all are missing if you only can come up with 5 or so that you don't skip through.

That being said, the iPod shuffle feature gets used about half the time on my pod.

PSUFAN · Post by **PSUFAN** » Tue May 16, 2006 4:00 am

Spinach Genie · Post by **Spinach Genie** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:48 am

Joy Division - Closer
Brian Eno - Fourth World
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Single Cell Orchestra (self titled)
Future Sound of London - Lifeforms
The Cranberries - Everybody Else is Doing It, So Why Can't We?

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Tue May 16, 2006 2:09 pm

OK Computer
Soft Bulletin
Vee Vee
No Depression

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue May 16, 2006 5:00 pm

bands put however many songs on an album for a reason. if i have time for it, i will always listen to an album all the way through. if i don't, i might skip around.

but i thought every serious music fan had their revelation where they realized why albums are better than singles (i despise the ipod shuffle). mine: 02, driving home from kalamazoo with a friend, listening to the blue weezer album all the way through for the first time, and the first time i had listened to weezer since 95. i really went through a phase where i didn't think much of them, all i knew was buddy holly got old quick and the sweater song wasn't that great.

but i was amazed. the whole album from front to back is great. only in dreams is the perfect closing song for that album. i then realized the beauty of the album concept, and how fm radio is shit. plus, the album was produced by ric ocasek, who is god damn brilliant.

oh and after the gold rush i always listen to as an album. i'd pay a ton of money for a 4' x 6' poster of that album cover.

MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan · Tue May 16, 2006 9:25 pm

Screw, thanks for the Weezer reminder.

Weezer - Pinkerton
The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Clutch - Jam Room
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Ween - The Pod

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Tue May 16, 2006 11:56 pm

Hmmm...
Things Fall Apart was a big example of albums where I'll only listen to certain songs. After Next Movement I'll forward to the Badu track.

Pinkerton and The Pod are good examples. My wife really got into Weezer and I can't stomach much of their recent stuff.

Misfits... Walk Among Us
Minor Threat... Minor Threat

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Wed May 17, 2006 4:13 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:bands put however many songs on an album for a reason. if i have time for it, i will always listen to an album all the way through. if i don't, i might skip around.

but i thought every serious music fan had their revelation where they realized why albums are better than singles (i despise the ipod shuffle). mine: 02, driving home from kalamazoo with a friend, listening to the blue weezer album all the way through for the first time, and the first time i had listened to weezer since 95. i really went through a phase where i didn't think much of them, all i knew was buddy holly got old quick and the sweater song wasn't that great.

but i was amazed. the whole album from front to back is great. only in dreams is the perfect closing song for that album. i then realized the beauty of the album concept, and how fm radio is shit. plus, the album was produced by ric ocasek, who is god damn brilliant.

oh and after the gold rush i always listen to as an album. i'd pay a ton of money for a 4' x 6' poster of that album cover.

Even still, you just can't force yourself to like songs that just don't do anything for you. For me, the best example is Lovers by The Sleepy Jackson. The first three songs are so good that the album is worth owning, but the rest of the disc is almost unlistenable.

Shoalzie · Post by **Shoalzie** » Wed May 17, 2006 10:33 pm

Who's Next
Live At Leeds
Led Zeppelin IV
Exile On Main Street
Shake Your Money Maker
Back In Black
The Colour and the Shape
Nevermind
Ten (Pearl Jam)
The Joshua Tree
Purple (Stone Temple Pilots)
Appetite For Destruction
Blue Album (Weezer)
Dookie
Permission To Land (The Darkness)

Killian · Post by **Killian** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:31 pm

The Rising - Springsteen
Born to Run - Springsteen
We Shall Overcome - Springsteen
Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ - Springsteen
Indian Summer - Carbon Leaf
Chasing Daylight - Sister Hazel
Under the Table and Dreaming - Dave Matthews
A Life of Saturdays - Dexter Freebish
Brushfire Fairytales - Jack Johnson
Shine - The Pat McGee Band
Gold - Ryan Adams

SunCoastSooner · Post by **SunCoastSooner** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:47 pm

Nickleback - Silverside Up
Big Wreck - The Pleasure and the Greed
Stone Temple Pilots - Core
Rehab - Southern Discomfort
Kid Rock - Devil without a Cause
Bob Segar - Greatest Hits
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
DMX - It's Dark and Hell is Hot & ...And Then There was X
Petey Pablo - Diary of a Sinner
Dr. Dre - Chronic 2001

Fat Bones · Post by **Fat Bones** » Thu May 18, 2006 7:05 pm

Galactika Lemon Strike

mothster · Post by **mothster** » Thu May 18, 2006 8:07 pm

rush------moving pictures
elp------brain salad surgery
king crimson------discipline
zz top---deguilo
journey----escape
ufo-----strangers in the night
ac/dc-------highway to hell
cult------electric

L45B · Post by **L45B** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:03 pm

Pearl Jam - Yield
Oasis - Morning Glory
Alice In Chains - Jar of Flies
Killswitch Engage - End of Heartache
Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Weezer - Blue Album
Depeche Mode - Violator
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
Days of the New - Green Album
Led Zeppelin - III
[obvious]Pink Floyd - DSOTM[/obvious]

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Sat May 20, 2006 4:58 pm

stooges: funhouse

side 3 of the White Album.

Big Star: #1 record

probably the Beatles Help!: but i don't own it.

the re-mastered Live at Leeds. foogin A.

coltrane: a love supreme

sides 1 and 3 of Double Nickels.

axis: bold as love.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Sun May 21, 2006 7:24 am

here's my ode to ac/dc:

they were the first band i ever loved. back in 1990, when my dad got a copy of the razor's edge. my life changed forever on taht day. i don't know what it was, other than the opening riffs to thunderstruck and "c'mon, LOVE ME FOR THE MONEY." not to metion i won a lottery for a $25 gift certificate when i was 10 years old at the local shit mall, which iused to get my ear pierced, a big johnson shirt, and BACK IN BLACK. i thought this band was the greatest band on the face of the earth. i dreamed of being bon scott. granted, i was 10 years old at the time. but when i finally do learn how to play guitar, thunderstruck will eventually be on my list. and now i understand why my mother didn't really like the fact i wanted to listen to the album coming back from mass.

other than that, i grew out of my ac/dc phase when i went to western, but i saw them in gr in august 2000, and it is still the loudest show i have ever attended. for those about to rock will always rule.

Mac22 · Post by **Mac22** » Mon May 22, 2006 3:49 am

drunken lullabies - flogging molly
a grand don't come for free - the streets

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Mon May 22, 2006 2:39 pm

Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral

Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

The Velvet Underground & Nico

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Mon May 22, 2006 4:41 pm

Kid A
GBV - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
Flaming Lips - Transmissions

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:00 pm

Screw_Michigan wrote:but i saw them in gr in august 2000, and it is still the loudest show i have ever attended. for those about to rock will always rule.

They are more than overdue for an album and tour. THey have gone pretty long between albums and tours since The Razor's Edge.

mothster · Post by **mothster** » Mon May 22, 2006 5:59 pm

MuchoBulls wrote:
Screw_Michigan wrote:but i saw them in gr in august 2000, and it is still the loudest show i have ever attended. for those about to rock will always rule.
They are more than overdue for an album and tour. THey have gone pretty long between albums and tours since The Razor's Edge.

i think they're done..........that school kid outfit on a 55 year old don't quite work no more

MuchoBulls · Post by **MuchoBulls** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:39 pm

mothster wrote:i think they're done..........that school kid outfit on a 55 year old don't quite work no more

It only stays on for like a half an hour. Angus could certainly still play on the last tour, so I doubt he wouldn't be capable now.

They apparently have been in the studio for a while, so I would hope the finished product is going to be damn good. I thought Stiff Upper Lip was pretty good.

buckeye_in_sc · Post by **buckeye_in_sc** » Mon May 22, 2006 8:01 pm

Korn - Korn and Follow the Leader
Pantera - Great Southern Trendkill and Far Beyond Driven
Alice in Chains - Facelift
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Rush - Moving Pictures, 2112, Counterparts, Presto, mostly all of them
Slipknot - Slipknot (1st album)

Donovan · Post by **Donovan** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:08 am

There's one album I have to listen to from start to finish. Even if I'd hear a song from it on the radio I'd have to listen to the rest as soon as possible. I know most of you don't share my love for it, but Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" is just about the most solid record, from beginning to end, that I've ever heard. It's not my favourite record by a long shot, but there's something about it that requires a complete and thorough listening.

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Tue May 23, 2006 2:40 pm

6. Public Enemy-It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back

I was searching through the P's for a Primal Scream CD and came across this one. Listened to it on the way to work, and came to the conclusion that I would have to disagree wif you. There are probably four tracks on there I skip over; two of which are Terminator X noodlings.

MgoBlue-LightSpecial · Tue May 23, 2006 3:34 pm

Donovan wrote:There's one album I have to listen to from start to finish. Even if I'd hear a song from it on the radio I'd have to listen to the rest as soon as possible. I know most of you don't share my love for it, but Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" is just about the most solid record, from beginning to end, that I've ever heard. It's not my favourite record by a long shot, but there's something about it that requires a complete and thorough listening.

I like the album but there's two tracks that ruin the entire album "experience" for me. The sreeching vocals on some tracks are more than I can handle...and as a Rush fan, that says something.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:51 pm

Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I haven't read this thread word for word, since some of y'all's fagitude kinda turns my stomach...

But Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime is THE ultimate "start-to-finish" album.

Abbey Road does it for me, too.

And Animals...Animals shreds from start to finish...just has that "flow" thing going.

Fat Bones · Post by **Fat Bones** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:24 pm

Dinsdale wrote:Haven't seen it mentioned yet, but I haven't read this thread word for word, since some of y'all's fagitude kinda turns my stomach...

But Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime is THE ultimate "start-to-finish" album.

Abbey Road does it for me, too.

And Animals...Animals shreds from start to finish...just has that "flow" thing going.

RACKIDILLO. Mindcrime was one of those recordings I acquired and really wasn't ready for it at the time, later discovering the genius within. Abbey Rd has been replaced/refreshed/reformatted so many times in my humble collection I've lost exact count, and ANIMALS...well, what can I say? It's definitely my favorite PF material...DSOTM seems to be truncated somehow.

I'll add ZZ Top - Tres Hombres, JLP- Open Mind, Aerosmith - Rocks as some more releases that don't prompt me to look for the remote prematurely.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:59 pm

Fat Bones wrote:Mindcrime was one of those recordings I acquired and really wasn't ready for it at the time, later discovering the genius within.

Pretty much. All other "rock opera/concept albums" pale in comparison. Certainly not an uplifting social commentary, by any means.

I doubt the much-younger set understand how wrong for the era that album was. It stopped short of actually naming Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell as its "targets," but that was absolutely scathing social commentary, in an era where saying anything bad about Ronald RayGun was strictly forbidden...and they hit #1 with it. Hell, there was only one tune that ever got any radio play, and it didn't have really any references to the points the album made, just kind of the conclusion to the protagonist's nightmare.

I mean..."Seven years of power, corporation law, the rich control the government, the weak and poor must fall"....making the "Seven years" reference in 1988 kind of makes it obvoius.

"I'm tired of all this bullshit
They keep selling me on T.V.
About the communist plan
And all the shady preachers
Begging for my cash
Swiss bank accounts while giving their
Secretaries the slam"

After seven years, somebody finally spoke out against the flagrant brainwashing of America's youth, to get the future taxpayers to never bat an eye at the out-of-control "defense" spending, and the Reagan Administration's government-support of television ministries and their evil leaders.

I will forever RACK them for it.

As children of the Cold War, that album meant a lot to me and mine, as we were helplessly watching the country being sold down the river. And Queensryche spoke out against what they saw happening, and kinda voiced what the angry youth of America were all thinking, in very dramatic, poignient fashion.

That was a truly brilliant work, in its day. Very powerful for its time.

I think I'll put it on, start to finish, ASAP.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:01 pm

Dinsdale wrote:I think I'll put it on, start to finish, ASAP.

OK...WTF?

That CD from 1988 (when the Compact Disk was a fairly new innovation) lives in my computer desk, rather than the streo CD rack...and it's not here.

Fucker better turn up, pronto, or I'll have me a three-freaking-alarm meltdown with a quickness.

At Large · Post by **At Large** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:11 pm

A real mixed bag here...

Archers of Loaf - White Trash Heroes
Clash - London Calling
Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales of Urban Bohemia
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
For Squirrels - Example
Jetplane Landing - Once Like a Spark
Marcy Playground - Shapeshifter
Masters of Reality - The Blue Garden
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Weezer - Blue Album
AC-DC - Back in Black
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Green Day - American Idiot
Local H - Pack Up the Cats
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Nirvana - Nevermind
Who - Tommy
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:31 pm

At Large wrote:Dandy Warhols - 13 Tales of Urban Bohemia

Uh-ohhhhhhhh

King Crimson · Post by **King Crimson** » Tue May 23, 2006 10:50 pm

hell, Dins....even Genesis' deplorabale Invisible Touch LP was taking shots at Reagan before 1988.

i hear ya, though. this was kind of my point in the 80's nostalgia thread......kids born in 1984 who think the Thompson Twins are cool scare the hell out of me.

there were a lot of bands (not just Queensryche) that were having a so-called take on the Reagan era.

verbal · Post by **verbal** » Wed May 24, 2006 2:56 am

public enemy-fear of a black planet
led zep-IV
nin-the fragile
a perfect circle-mer de noms
beck-mellow gold
days of the new-II
def leppard-hysteria
korn-self titled
metallica-kill em all
pantera-far beyond driven
testament-practice what you preach

The Assassin · Post by **The Assassin** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:21 am

Add Digable Planets-Reachin, to my list

Bizzarofelice · Post by **Bizzarofelice** » Thu May 25, 2006 4:28 am

The Assassin wrote:Add Digable Planets-Reachin, to my list

Digable's 2nd Blowout Comb is:

1) a great sex album
2) a much better album than the first.

Just

Sayin'