Reply With QuoteABC - the Lexicon of Love.
+1 for Springsteen. His more recent stuff is not up to scratch, although I like The Ghost of Tom Joad.Originally Posted by craig1912
The River (double album), I would argue there isn't a bad song on it.
Darkness is outstandingly good.
ABC - the Lexicon of Love.
Given that a few of the acts mentioned here didn't have the longest careers a few fillers might have squeezed them another album at least
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Completely agree with the bends. One of the all time great albums
Led Zeppelin IV
Agree with lots but no mention yet for
Thin Lizzy- Live and Dangerous
Eric Clapton- 461 Ocean Boulevard
Slap your wrists
Just listened to those three in a row. Positively, not one filler.
Just been listening to Raintown by Deacon Blue (one of my favourite albums from the late eighties); apart from the two stand-out tracks - When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring) and Destiny, all the rest are all well crafted songs with first-class lyrics and certainly not a filler among them.
Many choices of mine have been said above...but add another that I don't think has been
Cracked Rear View - Hootie and The Blowfish.
Average White Band -- AWB (aka The White Album).
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Jim.
Harvest - Neil Young.
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Cheers,
Neil.
To be honest its only with this thread in mind that I have started listening to complete albums again. Its far too easy to move the CD or IPod on if you don`t fancy a track at that moment. In the 12" and cassette tape era it was much harder !!
Anyway a couple of contenders
Deep Purple in Rock
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Out here brothers best hits and east 17 number 1s
I quite like some of Ringo Starrs songs. Act Naturally, Octopuses Garden, With a Little Help From My Friends and Don't Pass Me By.
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I quite like some of Ringo Starrs songs. Act Naturally, Octopuses Garden, With a Little Help From My Friends and Don't Pass Me By.
Lots of classic stuff. This is bang up to date and dare I say it is a "classic".
Article Monkeys - AM
I haven't listened to a whole album this much for years.
Bloody hell...not one Michael Jackson album yet?!
I'd say Thriller, just about excusing the cloying The Girl is Mine duet with Paul McCartney.
Discovery - Daft Punk
By the way - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Now - Maxwell
Simple Things - Zero 7
OK - Talvin Singh
Dark Side of The Moon/The Division Bell/Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Ten Years After - TYA & Stonedhenge
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Sky - Sky 1
Genisis - Invisible Touch
Paul Simon - Graceland (can't believe that hasn't been mentioned already!)
Avicii - True
Boards of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Múm - Yesterday Was Dramatic, Today is OK
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Leftfield - Leftism
Swedish House Mafia - Until Now
Ellie Goulding - Halcyon
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygen and Equinox
Probably a good few more but they're the first ones that come to mind.
Pearl Jam - Ten
Tricky one - I struggle to think of a single album in over 40 years of buying that doesn't have a few 'less than stellar' tracks.
A few albums (like ABC's Lexicon Of Love, for example) work really well as a full piece, but not all the tracks are universally great.
Looking at some of the nominations here, I feel that some people are just listing their favourite albums, rather than being brutally honest about the 'no filler tracks' bit.
If, on the other hand, by 'no fillers' you simply mean 'no tracks you always skip over on the CD or MP3', then nearly all the albums I own fall into that category, except "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "The Beatles (white album)"!
M.
Breitling Cosmonaute 809 - What's not to like?
Good call!!
Roger Daltry, 'Under A Raging Moon'.
Cracking album IMO, but not that easy to find. The CD was unavailable for several years in the UK but was eventually re-released.
Paul
+1
Steely Dan - Aja, Pretzel Logic, Gaucho
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Alison Krauss & Union Station - Paper Airplane
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 4
Joe Jackson - Body & Soul
Billy Joel- The Stranger
Depeche Mode - Violator
Agree entirely.
Its extremely hard to find any album that has every single track that could stand alone on its own merit.Yet to find a album where I dont flick over at least one track.
No mention yet of Sugar - Copper Blue
Brighty
Last edited by patrick; 19th March 2014 at 21:32.
This thread has prompted me to delve into the CD cupboard and root out some forgotten gems. Totally subjective and definitely not to everyone's taste but I'd add:
Buenos Hermanos - Ibrahim Ferrer, absolutely spellbinding
I Never Loved a Man the Way I loved You - Aretha Franklin, the pinnacle of Muscle Shoals output IMHO
Aerial Ballet - Harry Nilsson - what a voice, what a waste
Cheers
Ian
Excellent call. My kids grew up listening to that album and one of them went to see Bob Mould play it from start to finish recently. She said the crowd was a 50/50 mix of folks her age and mine....
People's choices in this matter are subjective. There is no right or wrong, only opinion.
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Jim.
Given that suggestions in this thread have gone beyond pop/rock, I’m a bit surprised no one has mentioned ‘Mingus Ah Um’ by Charles Mingus yet.
All of the tracks are excellent and the album effortlessly combines a highly melodic and accessible surface with a great musical depth that keeps drawing you back for repeat listens.
Last edited by CamCG; 20th March 2014 at 13:50.
^^^^
Without even listening to it the whole look of that album is undeniably cool.
Cheers,
Neil.
Not a single dud amongst the 9 tracks. RJD on great form (showing once again why IMHO he was one of the all time top rock vocalists).
Not that surprising really as he had recorded this just a few years earlier which again has no fat whatsoever (again IMHO).
jeff
Any Beatles album from Rubber Soul onwards.
Some great suggestions and eclectic choices, totally agree with The Queen Is Dead, OK Computer, The Bends, Stone Roses, Dark Side Of The Moon and all Beatle suggestions (Revolver is my favourite) but need to throw in: Pixies - Doolittle, The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow, Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid and I Am Kloot - Sky At Night. Loads of other favourites but these have stood the test of time and still get listened to regularly.
Strange days by the Doors.
Face the Music - Electric Light Orchestra
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Broadsword and the Beast - Jethro Tull
Very subjective of course.
Cheers,
Asian Dub Foundation
R.A.F.I
Just listened to Green Day - American Idiot all the way through for the hundredth time. No fillers on there an absolute cracking album.
Not mentioned so far (I think)
Eat - Sell me a god
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Left Lane Cruiser - Junkyard Speed Ball
Swell - 41
and live, so a bit of a cheat;
Blue Öyster Cult - Extraterrestrial Live
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue, an oldie but still a goodie
Asian Dub Foundation...blimey, that takes me back! To uni years...I bought the CD single of Buzzin' but had forgotten all about them.
I know but they are fantastic! The first time I ever saw them was on TV on a Glastonbury show and they blew my mind ( must have been 15)
You really can listen to the whole album.
Spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space is another great album
I'm going to go back and have a listen to their old stuff (most of which I didn't hear the first time around) - so you can take credit for that :-)
Let me (us) know how you get on.
From the left field: Music Has A Right To Children by Boards of Canada. Brilliant from start to finish. If you like that sort of thing.
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