Music Albums - All killer no filler...

[It Started With A Miss]

Love - Forever Changes

 

[pepguardiola'smoustache]

groundbreaking.
nuff said

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Velvet Underground and Nico
Murmur - REM
Escape Route From The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (Tape version) -The Fall
Crocodiles - Echo and the Bunnymen
Let it Bleed - Rolling Stones
Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Exile on Main Street.
Not one duff truck. Not one. Many, many times, I've annoyed myself by putting the needle on the record, saying to myself, “Ah shit, I'll just listen to ‘Rocks Off’, it's such a pick-me-up, then I'll go out for the evening with a fizz in my step…”
Approximately ninety minutes later…

 

[Lovebitesandeveryfing]

Some find Miss Gradenko and Mother a hard listen

Starting with Sting.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Skylarking - XTC

 

[Elbow beards]

Embrace - The good will out. Every track could have been a single.

 

[Silva2-1]

Back in Black AC/DC

 

[mikeyboy]

Rush - Moving Pictures
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Love - Forever Changes
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
Peter Gabriel - 3

 

[RobH]

Julia Holter -Something in the Room She Moves

MBV- Loveless and Isn’t Anything

Cocteau Twins- Blue Bell Knoll

Jesus Lizard- Goat

Elias Ronnenfelt- Speak Daggers

 

[Dizbuster]

groundbreaking.
nuff said

First time I heard of them was at a record store in Berkeley, CA in 1981, as they were playing "What's This For?" Fell in love with that album and sound.

 

[Dizbuster]

Heaven and Hell (1980)
My personal favorite from this band. 8 songs, 8 absolute bangers.

 

[jimmy blue shoes]

In Rainbows

 

[bennyboy]

Let it Bleed...Stones.
Live and Dangerous ...Thin Lizzy.
All Mod Cons...The Jam.
The Dirty South..Drive by Truckers.

 

[Victorinodennistua]

Back in Black AC/DC

AC/DC if you want blood. Black sabbath Sabotage. Faith no more, The real thing. Rush, moving pictures and ATWAS.

 

[ballbag]

DSOTM - perfection. Love listening to the pulse/heartbeat all the way through it too.

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

Skylarking - XTC

XTC are a band that have always passed me by, but what ive heard, i like....would that be a good album to start with?

 

[I'm With Stupid]

I thought Led Zeppelin IV was the universally acknowledged answer to this question.

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

I thought Led Zeppelin IV was the universally acknowledged answer to this question.

I prefer 3....or Physical Graffitti

 

[chesterbells]

There are very few albums I can listen to start to finish in one go. Can count them on one hand. I watch with interest what others say.

I agree with this too, to some extent.
(Compilation or Greatest Hits albums are the nearest thing to a cheat for this I suppose)

It’s a fundamental flaw with the album format (which does have strengths too) and became even more pronounced in the CD era when bands felt obliged to cram on 70 mins of content, which inevitably watered down the quality even more. It’s what those who look back to albums with a rose-tint seem to forget.

Perhaps part of the “appeal” was suffering the wheat with the chaff, and it meant when the really great song came on you relished it even more cos of the mediocre one that had gone before.