It seems like these days fewer and fewer people are purchasing music albums, but instead purchasing more specific tracks / songs. Not surprising since we hardly ever get to hear from all the various artists / bands out there other than the VERY SELECT songs that are constantly played on the local radio stations. (Seriously, it seems like most artists have a catalog of exactly ONE SONG if you go just by what is played on the radio.

We've probably all done this at some point, where you purchase an album from a band / artist that you like and then come to find most of the album isn't really worth listening to, most of the album is just ... meh. You might only like the song you know or maybe just a few others, with most of the album being just filler music or songs that you would skip and not bother listening to.

So what albums out there would you classify as "perfect" albums, the album that you will listen to without ever skipping over songs? Something that you can put in while you are driving and listen to full thing from start-to-finish?

This is open to all genres as we all have different musical tastes.


A few that I would propose:

AC/DC - Back in Black
Bad Religion - The Gray Race
Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
The Offspring - Ignition
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Weezer - The Blue Album

 

This is becoming a rare thing. Artists are being pressured to release more and more albums. But they don't have the capacity to come up with that much good music.

But there are still a few out there... Off the top of my head...

Rudimental, Home


Feed Me, Calamari Tuesday


And I really dislike have single song artists in my library. It's discography or nothing.

 

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the moon, Another brick in the wall
Grateful Dead: In the Dark
Kansas: Leftoverture, Song of America
Garth Brooks: No fences, 'Ropin in the wind
Eagles: Every album both studio and live
the Mamas & the Papas: If you can believe your eyes and ears
Kenny Loggins/Top gun Album
Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
NWA: Straight Outta Compton
Ice Cube: Death Certificate, The Predator, Lethal Injection.
Dr Dre: The Chronic
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the alien

I am sure I have missed many, but that is a good list to start someone out on a "perfect" tour of music from the 1969-2000

 

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
Corrosion of Conformity: Deliverance
Dave Brubeck: Jazz Impressions of Eurasia
Cake: Motorcade of Generosity
Eric Hutchinson: Moving Up Living Down
Bad Religion: Recipe for Hate
Crash Test Dummies: God Shuffled His Feet

 

Being- Anthropocene

And every Rush album ever

 

 

Metallica - S&M

 

Turbonegro - Party Animals
Toxic Holocaust - Conjure and Command
Rise Against - The Sufferer & the Witness

 

for me it is
Rage Against The Machine
AFI
Nirvana
Ice Cube
Dre
E-40
Los Tigres Del Norte can bump those Corridos all day

 

The Offspring - Smash
Tool - Aenima
Rage Against the Machine - Battle of LA
Dr Dre - The Chronic 2001
Snoog Dogg - Doggystyle

 

Incubus - Morning View. Tracks 5-10 are some of the best and most underrated songs by them (IMO).

 

Orbital - Orbital 2 (The Brown Album)

and/or

Orbital - In Sides

And others I'm forgetting... was more an album guy when I had ready access to all my CDs, which are in storage, and haven't been ripped yet. Not sure if I want to at this point though, for both the time and effort and chex's initial assertion that the album seems dead these days. I like the limits of being locked into the 79:59 a CD affords one, and that's the same limit I put on myself when maxing mix CDs.

 

I have a pretty diverse library of music. I generally can listen to albums thru and thru.. few songs i have to skip and cant really stand. I guess Ill just name off the major ones

311
Greatest Hits 93-03

AFI
Black Sails in the Sunset
The Art of Drowning

Alice In Chains
Dirt
Black Gives Way to Blue

Atmosphere
God Loves Ugly
Sad Clown Bad Fall 10

Audioslave
self titled

Avenged Sevenfold
self titled

Brand New
Deja Entendu

Breaking Benjamin
Phobia
Saturate

Chevelle
Wonder Whats Next
This Type of Thinking Could Do Us In
Hats Off to the Bull

CKY
Infiltrate.Destroy.Rebuild

Deftones
all albums

Eminem
The Marshal Mathers LP

Fall Out Boy
From Under the Cork Tree

G-eazy
Must Be Nice

The Game
The Documentary

Godsmack
Awake

Green Day
Dookie
Insomniac

Incubus
Make Yourself
Warning

Iration
Time Bomb
Automatic

Korn
Follow The Leader
Issues

Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory
Living Things
The Hunting Party

Metalica
The Black Album

Mudvayne
The End of All Things To Come
Lost and Found

Nirvana
Nevermind

NWA
Straight Outa Compton

The Offspring
Smash
Americana

Papa Roach
all albums

A Perfect Circle
Mer de Noms

POD
Satellite

Rage Against The Machine
self titled
Battle of LA

Rebelution
Courage to Grow
Bright Side of Life

Red Hot Chili Pepers
Californication

Seether
Disclaimer
Karma and Effect

Slightly Stoopid
all albums

Slipknot
Vol 3 The Subliminal Verses
All Hope is Gone

Static X
Wisconsin Death Drip
Machine

Sublime
self titled
40oz to Freedom

Three Days Grace
self titled
One X

Tool
Ænima
Lateralus

 

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (and of course DSoTM)
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Deftones - White Pony
Godsmack - Other Side
Tool - all of them
Beastie Boys - All of them

Those two are definitely meant to be experienced as a whole.

Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
BT - nouveau morceau subrosa
BT - IMA (import has the whole thing mixed as a single track)
Porcupine Tree - Voyage 34

 

Thus the and/or

They have different characters to them that I like for one mood more than another, but they def can be listened in a straight go, all 2-3 hours worth if you count the 2nd CD on In Sides.

+1 For Chem Bros too.