Rendclaw Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 You know those albums, the ones that once you listen to the first track, you're hooked until the album is over.... or if you have an MP3 player, you take it off of shuffle to hear it all the way through. Here are mine (and yes, I know I am stuck in the 80s and early 90s. Deal.): Iron Maiden - Powerslave Joe Satriani - The Extremist Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power Dream Theater - Images and Words Whitesnake - Whitesnake Dokken - Back for the Attack Van Halen - Fair Warning Stuart Hamm - Kings of Sleep Rush - Moving Pictures, Signals Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime Metallica - Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning, Kill 'em All Megadeth: Youthanasia Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction Faith No More - The Real Thing John Williams - Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Soundtrack Post yours, and discuss.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Most of the time, that's how I listen to music. And I think I've only listened to Appetite all the way through from your list.
Copper Feel Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 I am the same as Edwin, but here is a list of albums I believe to have no weak spots: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy David Bowie - Hunky Dory David Bowie - Station to Station The Smiths - Meat Is Murder Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensation The Beatles - Abbey Road Prince - Purple Rain Radiohead - Ok Computer Morrissey - Your Arsenal Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks The Who - Who's Next Oasis - (What's the Story?) Morning Glory Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Ripper Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Alanis's Jagged Little Pill. Never have to skip a track there.
Mr. S£im Citrus Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Jon B - Bonafide Janet Jackson - janet Hikaru Utada - Distance Boyz II Men - II Jon B - Cool Relax Digital Underground - Sex Packets The Notorious BIG - Ready to Die (Disc 1 only) Erykah Badu - Baduism Michael Jackson - Thriller Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Janet Jackson - The Velvet Rope Digital Underground - Sons of the P LL Cool J - Mr. Smith Boyz II Men - Cooleyhighharmony LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out Janet Jackson - All 4 You Michael Jackson - Off the Wall Prince - Purple Rain Christina Aguilera - Stripped Digital Underground - The Body Hat Syndrome And, as an "honorable mention," the albums I listen to the most that I don't like every song: Jon B - Stronger Everyday: The first half of the album is great; the second half is garbage. LL Cool J - Phenomenon: I literally like every other song. Jamiroquai - A Funk Odyssey: I love the first three tracks and the last two, and can't stand the five in between. Do "Best of" collections count?
Black Lushus Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Dr. Dre-The Chronic Ice Cube-Death Certificate Guns N Roses-Appetite For Destruction Pearl Jam-Ten Wu Tang Clan-Enter the Wu-Tang Faith No More-Angel Dust A Perfect Circle-Mer de Noms Mastodon-Blood Mountain Prodigy-Fat of the Land Alice in Chains-Dirt Spice 1-187 He Wrote AC/DC-Back in Black Strapping Young Lad-Alien Royce da 5' 9"-Death is Certain
Red Baron Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd: Animals The Who: Who's Next Tragically Hip: Fully Completly Rage Against The Machine: Self-Titled
Tully316 Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 Here's mine: Guns 'n Roses - Appetite for Destruction Guns 'n Roses - Use Your Illusions I & II Counting Crows - August & Everything After Pearl Jam - Ten U2 - Joshua Tree U2 - Achtung Baby Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II AC/DC - Back in Black Eagles - Hotel California
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 7, 2007 Report Posted April 7, 2007 I'm another guy who rarely skips anything. Unless a song's absolutely dreadful, I can deal with it.
Rendclaw Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Posted April 8, 2007 having 3600 songs or so in my collection means that I am hitting shuffle a lot... but especially when I am on my route, I hear one song and then I have to hear the whole album. Thanks for the Digital Underground love, Slim... now I need to get that album...
Henry Spencer Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 The Smiths - Meat Is Murder C'mon, nobody likes the title track.
PLAGIARISM! Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 I *kind of* do, and probably wouldn't skip it if it wasn't the closer.
Copper Feel Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 I like the title track. Musically the Smiths have many better songs, but contained within is one of Morrissey's deepest cutting and most poetic lyrics.
Youth N Asia Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 REM - Murmur AFI - Sing the Sorrow Hawthorne Heights - If Only You Were Lonely...hey, no one's more shocked that I am Blink 182 - Dude Ranch Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy and Warren Zevon Say Anything - ...Is a Real Boy Led Zeppelin - II Van Morrison - Moondance Ash - Free All Angels Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 There have been times where I shut off Meat is Murder after "Barbarism Begins at Home."
Guest Tzar Lysergic Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Anything by Agoraphobic Nosebleed
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 I would've fit in well back when vinyl reigned supreme. Can you imagine having to get up, lift the needle and place it back down accurately on the right groove every time you wanted to skip a track? Preposterous.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 How often did Byrds fans bother to move the needle whenever "Mind Gardens" came on, I wonder. edit: Speaking of which, there's one that I occasionally skip.
Gary Floyd Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 For me Kraftwerk-Computer World Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here and Meddle Led Zeppelin-III My Bloody Valentine-Loveless Coil-Love's Secret Domain Pharcyde-Bizzare Ride 2 The Pharcyde Cabaret Voltaire-The Crackdown and 2x45 Wu-Tang Clan-Enter the 36 Chambers Massive Attack-Mezzanine Public Image Limited-Second Edition 23 Skidoo-Seven Songs Aphex Twin-Selected Ambient Works 85-92 The Orb-The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld Talking Heads-Fear of Music and a few others that haven't entered my mind right now
PLAGIARISM! Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 To move things slightly, what's the longest album you never skip? A lot of my 'non-skip' candidates aren't very long, ie Spiderland. Mine's probably tindersticks (2nd).
Smartly Pretty Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 The Strokes - Is This It Pixies - Doolittle The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Murmuring Beast Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Someone convinced me 'Mind Gardens' was good, so I tolerate it now.
Murmuring Beast Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 The Headmaster Ritual Rusholme Ruffians I Want The One I Can't Have What She Said That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore How Soon Is Now Nowhere Fast Well I Wonder Barbarism Begins At Home Meat Is Murder I love 'Nowhere Fast' but I always skip 'How Soon is Now' and 'That Joke...' is really too long. Title track is probably when my patience runs out with the thing. Good album though.
cabbageboy Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Am I the only one who hasn't hardly heard any album that doesn't have some skip worthy tracks? Pearl Jam's Ten has 3 or 4 songs on it that are mediocre and skippable. Even some of my favorite CDs ever like Nevermind and In Utero have something I skip (Territorial Pissings and Tourette's for instance). Actually I'll be more elaborate when it comes to Ten. That CD is mostly listenable, but it's sorta like I'll listen to each song and then skip to the next one about midway through.
Guest Vitamin X Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Like some of the above posters, I'm also the kind that likes to listen to an album all the way through. Thanks to Soulseek, I've become much more appreciative of the album format, provided it's executed well. I can probably think of a dozen off the top of my head, but the one that stands out to me the most out of my current collection would be The Moody Blues-Days of Future Passed. That's the prime example of an album that just has to be listened to from start to finish, for me.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 but I always skip 'How Soon is Now' I do this sometimes, too, now that I think about it. It's not any fault of the song, though.
PLAGIARISM! Posted April 8, 2007 Report Posted April 8, 2007 Yes. 'How Soon is Now?' is great, but maybe because its the longest of the commonly heard Smiths songs I've skipped it a few times. Come to think of it, I haven't listened to a Smiths album through in ages. I'll amend that.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Neither have I, though "Panic" came up in shuffle the other day.
Murmuring Beast Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 Pet Sounds: Sometimes I can't get past 'God Only Knows'. I mean, how can it be followed? 'Caroline, No', I hardly ever listen to.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted April 9, 2007 Report Posted April 9, 2007 To move things slightly, what's the longest album you never skip? A lot of my 'non-skip' candidates aren't very long, ie Spiderland. Mine's probably tindersticks (2nd). I never skip a thing on London Calling or Blonde on Blonde. Am I the only one who hasn't hardly heard any album that doesn't have some skip worthy tracks? I tend to approach albums in a style completely opposite to that. A single mediocre song often becomes a lot less mediocre when it's part of a cohesive album, and to skip that song disrupts the flow of the whole larger item. I find that's really the case with some artists particular, like Brian Eno or Can.
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