'Complete' albums

underdog

RocknRollDave;648392" said:

underdog said:

Dave may have been easier to just type them out in one post and She's Electric rules Definitely Maybe out for me.







How so, She's Electric's not even ON Definitely Maybe....?!

Sorry digsys diner, both stand out as the worst songs on their respective albums. Though married with children is one of my favourite songs of all time, along with slide away.

The OP asks a good question as so many great albums have at least one filler track, often it's terrible to go with it. So few are actually perfect.

I've just realised another one though Rage Against the Machine - RATM

robinbowes

lloyd said:

jpttaylor said:

The Strokes - Is This It (the UK version) 

Jeff Buckley - Grace 

Tempted to add In Rainbows but I always skip Faust Arp.

Good shout with The Strokes, fine album (I'm not a Jeff Beck fan though)

Jeff *Buckley*

R.

robinbowes

Good shouts on lots of these, including: The Bends, DSOTM, Stanley Road, Stone Roses, Rumours, Infected, Doolittle, Kind Of Blue, Weather Report, The Joshua Tree, Quadrophenia, Dreamtime, Grace, Parachutes, lots of Smiths albums, Never Mind The Bollocks, 

Some more of my favourites:

The La's - The La's

Script Of The Bridge - The Chameleons

The Man Who - Travis

Highway To Hell - AC/DC

Brothers & Sisters - The Allman Brothers

Emotion & Commotion - Jeff Beck

One-Eyed Jacks - Spear Of Destiny

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

Deadwing - Porcupine Tree

Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty

Paradise Valley - John Mayer

Of Moor & Mesa - Steve Tilston & Maggie Boyle

I'm sure I could go on...

R.

ICBM

robinbowes said:

Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams

I don't agree, it's got Old Before I Die on it, which is abysmal.

Sing When You're Winning and Escapology are his best albums.

DulcetJones

A couple more come to mind;

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

The Who - Tommy

Muddy Waters - Live at Newport

A lot of great bands/albums mentioned so far, I almost included some Joy Division, Kansas and The Smiths but as much as I love a lot of their music I can't pull a single "complete" album out.  My favorite Kansas is "Two For the Show", a double live album that might have been better if they only released it as a single album with just the real stand outs(IMO).  I also like "Monolith" but never checked out "Audiovisions".   And besides Muddy Waters there's a lot of great blues albums out there, more thinking is due.

thumpingrug

Some really good albums listed above.  Many i would have mentioned so I won't duplicate, but will also add,

Born to Run - Springsteen

Marbles - Marillion

Black Sheets of Rain - Bob Mould.

robinbowes

ICBM;648554" said:

robinbowes said:Life Thru A Lens - Robbie Williams





I don't agree, it's got Old Before I Die on it, which is abysmal.

Sing When You're Winning and Escapology are his best albums.

Ah the joys of opinions. R.

stickyfiddle

I'd argue Bruce has 3:

Born To Run

Darkness on the Edge of Town

Born In The USA

I'd add Kid A to the Radiohead list. There are some tracks I wouldn't put on a playlist on their own, but I never skip anything when listening to the album.

For Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head is better than Parachutes - We Never Change is AWFUL. I'd add QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf and ...Like Clockwork

Did I miss Nevermind and Back In Black or has noone said that yet?!?!

ICBM

robinbowes said:

Ah the joys of opinions. R.

I'm not the only one, it almost killed Robbie's entire career stone dead when he released OBID as the first single… it was only when Angels came out that he made it. I am a fan too! But there's usually at least one stinker on all of his albums.

underdog

stickyfiddle;648641" said:

I'd argue Bruce has 3:

Born To RunDarkness on the Edge of TownBorn In The USA

I'd add Kid A to the Radiohead list. There are some tracks I wouldn't put on a playlist on their own, but I never skip anything when listening to the album.

For Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head is better than Parachutes - We Never Change is AWFUL. I'd add QOTSA's Songs for the Deaf and ...Like Clockwork

Did I miss Nevermind and Back In Black or has noone said that yet?!?!

Its funny because We never change Is a really special song for me, though shiver is the stand out track on it.

robinbowes

ICBM said:

robinbowes said:

Ah the joys of opinions. R.

I'm not the only one, it almost killed Robbie's entire career stone dead when he released OBID as the first single… it was only when Angels came out that he made it. I am a fan too! But there's usually at least one stinker on all of his albums.

I would agree it's not necessarily an obvious single, but it's one of my favourites on the album. I listened to it all on Spotify on the way to work this morning

R.

Marktigere1

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Urban Hymns - The Verve

Misplaced Childhood - Marillion

Cheers

Marktigere1

ICBM said:

Ten not mentioned so far I don't think…

Queen - News Of The World

Genesis - Wind And Wuthering

Oh good shout.  I forgot those two.

robwright

I love 'Old Before I Die' - the perfect riposte to My Generation. Rock 'n roll all growed up!

Just saying, like!

robwright

And I love the line he used to stick in about 'living to receive channel 5'

Angels did save his career though!

hubobulous

Marillion - first four albums. Every single one of them a gem

Satriani - Surfing with the Alien, (I would have added FIABD but it has The Phone Call on it)

Fifth Angel - Fifth Angel

I'd agree with August and Everything After

Bryan Adams - Reckless

Maiden - Powersalve

Gary Moore - Still got the Blues

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Dokken - Back for the Attack

AC/DC - Back in Black

Black Crowes - Shake your Money Maker

GnR - AFD

Boston - Boston

Extreme - Pornograffitti

Marina and the Diamonds - Family Jewels

Shed Seven - A Maximum High

Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time

Tesla - Mechanical Resonance and The Great Radio Controversy

Jeff Healey - Hell to Pay

Whitesnake - Slide it In, (US Version)

ICBM

hubobulous said:

Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time

Which reminds me - New Gold Dream and Street Fighting Years (even with some of its slightly overtaken-by-events content).

Philly_Q

hubobulous said:

Maiden - Powerslave

Really?  Even with "Back in the Village" on it?

hubobulous

Philly_Q said:

hubobulous said:

Maiden - Powerslave

Really?  Even with "Back in the Village" on it?

Yep :-)

Bellycaster

@Philly_Q

I would have put Leftoverture in there too, but certain segments of Magnum Opus don't do it for me, but it's a "nearly". I've not heard a lot of the Monolith Album, I'll have to stick it on Y.T.

Cheers @viz

I'll have to add Michael Jackson - Thriller

:-)