Albums without "duds".

[AlexTheDictator]

Long list of albums I find myself listening to in somewhat regular rotation:

Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Audioslave - self-titled, Out of Exile
Beatles - Revolver
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Dream Theater - Scenes from a Memory, Systematic Chaos, Train of Thought
Eric Johnson - Ah Via Musicom
Green Day - Dookie
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love
Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes - Live at the Greek
King's X - self-titled, Please Come Home...Mr. Bulbous
Led Zeppelin - II, Presence
Less Than Jake - Losing Streak
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - More Noise and Other Disturbances
Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
Particle - Launchpad
Phish - Lawn Boy, Rift
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Platypus - Ice Cycles
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely
Rage Against the Machine - Battle of Los Angeles, self-titled
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Stadium Arcadium
Redemption - The Fullness of Time, The Origins of Ruin
Reel Big Fish - Why Do They Rock So Hard
Robert Randolph & The Family Band - Unclassified
Rush - A Farewell to Kings, Permanent Waves, 2112
Shinedown - Leave A Whisper, The Sound of Madness, Us and Them
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Stone Temple Pilots - Core, Purple
Sublime - self-titled, 40 Oz. to Freedom
Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition
Symphony X - The Oddyssey, V: The New Mythology Suite
Tool - Opiate, Undertow
Trey Anastasio - self-titled
Umphrey's McGee - Anchor Drops, Local Band Does O.K., Mantis
The Who - Quadrophenia
3 Doors Down - The Better Life

There's many, many more I listen to, but this group right here is awesome starting from track one until the end.

[Alcestis]

Originally Posted by T-rex

so what are the chances that the OP will download and listen to every one of these albums?

Slim-to-none, because "I will listen to most of these" doesn't mean the same thing as "I'll listen to every one so help me God". There's no way my landlady's bandwidth can take slogging through some of the posts with over 20 albums on them, with no repeats, even if they are good. xD But for every band I don't know, I'll find snippets of their music and see if I enjoy their sound before deciding on downloading the whole album. I think it's a fair way to judge and use my resources. =)



Already have quite a few of these, so that's awesome. Great taste in music if I don't say so myself, the lot of you. I'm prioritizing stuff that's been mentioned more than once for this first round, so that said, starting out with:

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia (or hell, anything of this band, I really love their sound )
Bad Religion - Suffer
AFI - Sing The Sorrow

Two random ones from the first few posts:
The Airborne Toxic Event - self-titled
The Faint - Danse Macabre



I'll get through this thread, slowly but surely. Thanks for the suggestions, gents (and ladies). Keep them coming if you have more!

[Simas]

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

I think thats the only record I can listen to w/o skipping tracks actually. If you havent heard it ya need to.

[Neuad]

The OP isn't the only one going from this list, I just downloaded a coupe CD's from this group, Bad Religion, Lagwagon, and Strung Out.

Thanks guys

[Ham n Cheese]

Originally Posted by Simas

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea.

I think thats the only record I can listen to w/o skipping tracks actually. If you havent heard it ya need to.

Good album but too me the most overrated albums ever (from it's 'crowd') imo. I think it's one of the few albums to get a 10 score on p4k too

[Adam12]

Originally Posted by Neuad

The OP isn't the only one going from this list, I just downloaded a coupe CD's from this group, Bad Religion, Lagwagon, and Strung Out.

Thanks guys

Yeah, this was a pretty good idea for a thread.

If you two end up liking Suffer, there's a lot of good shit that follows it from BR and the Cali punk scene. NOFX, Rancid, Lagwagon, Strung Out, No Use For a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes etc etc.

If you can find it, pick up Short Music for Short People from Fat Wreck Chords (NOFX's own label). It's 101 songs from 101 punk bands, all songs coming in between 30 - 60 seconds.

[WillzZz]

Some great albums, fun idea. I love these kind of albums, even the best artists have duds but sometimes they just connect on every swing.

Gravity Kills - Gravity Kills
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Buckethead - Colma
NIN - Broken
SOAD - SOAD
Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
John Petrucci & Jordan Rudess - An evening with

and gotta agree with RATM self titled. I'll have to check out some of these albums when I get home

[Neuad]

Originally Posted by Adam12

Yeah, this was a pretty good idea for a thread.

If you two end up liking Suffer, there's a lot of good shit that follows it from BR and the Cali punk scene. NOFX, Rancid, Lagwagon, Strung Out, No Use For a Name, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes etc etc.

If you can find it, pick up Short Music for Short People from Fat Wreck Chords (NOFX's own label). It's 101 songs from 101 punk bands, all songs coming in between 30 - 60 seconds.

I have 300 some odd NoFX songs already, I'm fairly into them =p
Rancid was always a bit meh for me. . .I like a few songs but not much that I've heard.

I just never knew much more Cali punk, but thanks alot of the suggestions, I am def going to check some of them out.

[decairn]

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Motorhead - Motorhead
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand The Weather
Third World - 96 Degrees In The Shade
Steele Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love And Dancing
Japan - Tin Drum
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
The B52's - Wild Planet
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm
The Cult - Love

Even some of my favourite have CDs have at least 1 skip, like RATM track Settle For Nothing is always skipped through as is SRV's Mary Had A Little Lamb on Texas Flood.

[Simas]

Originally Posted by Ham n Cheese

Good album but too me the most overrated albums ever (from it's 'crowd') imo. I think it's one of the few albums to get a 10 score on p4k too

Yea, its def an album "everyone" likes. I could see an argument that its overrated but only because it is so highly rated. Id disagree though.

I didnt know about the pitchfork score, now im wondering what all has gotten a 10. I have a sorta love/hate relationship with pitchfork, they write like douches but usually if they say its good its at least worth a listen. Then some times they lose thier shit over bands and I just dont get it (No Age and Grizzly Bear come to mind).

[pemulis]

the flaming lips - the soft bulletin
destroyer - destroyer's rubies
lush - spooky

[xKALECx]

Originally Posted by decairn

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
Motorhead - Motorhead
Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand The Weather
Third World - 96 Degrees In The Shade
Steele Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
The League Unlimited Orchestra - Love And Dancing
Japan - Tin Drum
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
The B52's - Wild Planet
Hawkwind - Quark, Strangeness And Charm
The Cult - Love

Even some of my favourite have CDs have at least 1 skip, like RATM track Settle For Nothing is always skipped through as is SRV's Mary Had A Little Lamb on Texas Flood.

+1 for mentioning The Cult's Love album. One of the best albums of all time. By the way, did you know that The Cult is about to go on tour again, and they are playing the Love album in it's entirety?

[decairn]

Originally Posted by xKALECx

... By the way, did you know that The Cult is about to go on tour again, and they are playing the Love album in it's entirety?

Yes. I have tickets. And I still have the ticket from the original tour. In that show I watched Astbury throw himself into the crowd from the stage in a seated venue (London's Hammersmith Odeon); crazy fucker, lucky for him the crowd caught him.

[Clarity]

Isis - Panopticon
The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocurnal
Cult of Luna - Salvation
Clutch - Live in Flint, Michigan (both discs)
Fear Factory - Demanufacture
High on Fire - The Art of Self Defense, Blessed Black Wings
Irepress - Samus Octology
Kehlvin - The Mountain Daylight Time
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Meshuggah - Nothing
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun, The Eye of Every Storm, A Sun that Never Sets
Pelican - Australasia
Primus - Tales From the Punchbowl
Russian Circles - Enter
Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
These Arms are Snakes - Oneneers or The Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home
Tool - Undertow, Opiate
White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000
Opeth - Blackwater Park, My arms your hearse
Sleep - Dopesmoker (yeah go go one song hah)

[Speedteeth_DRo]

I'm having a hard time here recognizing the fact that people who mention TOOL are not recommending AENIMA. I love them and like both Opiate and Undertow a lot but Aenima is by far and away their pinnacle for me. That album is just epic from beginning to end. Radiohead I realize has so many people on their dick and I agree OK Computer fits this catergory the op asked for but I would also argue for Kid A and even The Bends. Both albums are fantastic and don't have a bad track.

These are all albums I can repeatedly listen to with no skipping.

Fugazi - 13 songs ( I can't even flippin believe this album is almost 20 years old when I listen to it)
Beastie Boys - Check Your Head
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
X - Los Angeles
Deftones - White Pony
Prize Fighter Inferno - My Brothers Blood Machine
Anything by Jose Gonzales, seriously.
Faith No More - Angeldust
Jay Z - The Black Album
VAST - Visual Audio Sensory Theater
Tricky - BlowBack
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Alice in Chains - Sap, Jar Of Flies
The Bronx - White Drugs
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero Remixed ( ok it has once trance-y track that is way too fucking long but every other track is $$$)