I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

  • fl1ghtless@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique is and always will be an absolute masterpiece to me. It was awesome 20 years ago and still goes hard to this day.

  • pootriarch@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    2 years ago

    i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.

    throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.

  • mint@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Discovery by Daft Punk is a no skip for me. Also food and liquor by lupe fiasco.

  • PanaX@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Tool - Aenima

    Sky Cries Mary - A Return to the Inner Experience

    Dead Can Dance - Spirit chaser

    Depeche Mode - Violator

    Faith No More - The Real Thing.

  • kommadieb@feddit.deEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Ok, now that more people have posted long lists, I don’t feel so bad about mine ;)

    • Arcade Fire – Funeral
    • Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
    • At The Drive-In – Relationship of Command (also their EPs Vaya and In/Casino/Out)
    • Kae Tempest – Let Them Eat Chaos
    • Mercury Rev – Deserter’s Songs
    • My Morning Jacket – Z
    • Public Service Broadcasting – Every Valley
    • Radiohead – OK Computer
    • Radiohead – In Rainbows
    • The Decemberists – Picaresque
    • The Diggs – Commute
    • The Dismemberment Plan – Emergency & I
    • The Libertines – s/t
    • The Mars Volta – Deloused in the Comatorium
    • The Notwist – Shrink
    • Tokyo Police Club – A Lesson in Crime (just a fantastic debut; barely an album though)

    German:

    • Deichkind – Niveau Weshalb Warum

    Some may be an acquired taste (PSB?, also I know that The Libertines’ is not everyone’s favorite – but it’s mine :). The Arcade Fire, even though I don’t listen to them these days that much, is decade-defining for me, as is Radiohead’s OK Computer (together with Nevermind, although for some reason it didn’t make this list).

  • joshLaserbeam@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    A few of my favorite classics:

    • Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
    • Opeth - Blackwater Park
    • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
    • Yes - Close To The Edge
    • Supertramp - Crime of the Century
    • Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
    • Genesis - Duke
    • Nektar - Remember The Future
    • Camel - Moonmadness

    And for newer stuff, I’d go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

  • kyrla@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    Radiohead’s Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

  • rustyspoon@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago

    I agree with a lot of what people have already mentioned, so I’ll add a few I haven’t seen yet

    • Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm
    • Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
    • Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
    • Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
    • Meshuggah - Obzen
    • Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
    • Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
    • Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
    • Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
    • Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
  • EponymousBosh@beehaw.org
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    2 years ago
    • Good News For People Who Love Bad News, Modest Mouse
    • Sgt Pepper, The Beatles
    • The Fame Monster, Lady Gaga
    • Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Elton John
    • Folie a Deux, Fall Out Boy