Best complete album

[Hawkeye]

Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

I feel the same about Autobahn.

But my all-time best complete album would have to be Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. I was a freshman in college when it was released and being on a lagging-edge budget I had a stereo system which included an 8-Track player. My roomate picked up the tape downtown and then for pretty much the rest of the school year it was played almost non-stop. In fact our weekend ritual was to pop in the tape after our last class on Friday and let it play on repeat mode until we left for class on Monday morning. We did this virtually every weekend from the fall of '75 until mid May of '76. To this day I can only think of it as one long piece.

[Mr MidFi]

Most of the ones I was going to mention have already been mentioned by others (most notably "Trick of the Tail" and "Dark Side of the Moon").

I also feel the same way these days about Wilco's YHF and Being There. And The Notwist's "Neon Golden." And American Idiot.

[opt80]

Warren Zevon S/T
Luke Doucet Broken
Dave Alvin Out in California
Richmond Fontaine The Fitzgerald
Susie Arioli Band Learning To Smile Again
John Dee Graham The Great Battle
Clive Gregson & Christine Collister Change In The Weather
Chas Guay & Christine Forgeron S\T


Alan

[Davey]

Richmond Fontaine The Fitzgerald

How ya liking that one Alan? Pretty nice, huh? Some of my buddies around here don't seem to appreciate it like me, but I'm totally sold, and it definitely can play all the way through once or twice or more at my house (well, provided I'm alone, that is ).

[Troy]

Some great all the way thru titles listed already like World is a Ghetto and English Settlement. Couple of DID's for me for sure.

Coming up with albums with NO fair or worse tracks is tougher than it sounds.

Some of mineses:
Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
The Yes Album
Mosquitoes- Stan Ridgway
Honky Chateau- Elton John
The Sky Moves Sideways (single CD version) Porcupine Tree
Aqualung- Jethro Tull
Psychodots
California- Mr. Bungle
Big Express- XTC

[Javier]

jetrho tull thick as a brick and passion play.
Yes fragile and close to the edge.
Pink Floyd Animals final cut and DSOTM
Rush moving pictures,2112,
Andreas wolleinveider under the tree
Opeth ghost reveries
Porcupine tree deadwing
Bjork vespertine
Bethoven 5th
Rachmaninof 2nd piano concerto
Elton Jhon GYBR
cat stevens mona bone jackon
al Dimeola orange and blue
Spock beard kidness of strangers
genesis wind and whutering,tresspas,selling england

And some others of course

[opt80]

How ya liking that one Alan? Pretty nice, huh? Some of my buddies around here don't seem to appreciate it like me, but I'm totally sold, and it definitely can play all the way through once or twice or more at my house (well, provided I'm alone, that is ).

Davey,
Yep it is a good one,Do you like The Magnolia Electric Co.? Same type of music,though MEC may be edgier

Alan

[daviethek]

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Dan Hicks - Last train to Hicksville
Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Simon- Graceland
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing At Baxters ( the American Sgt Peppers )
Tower of Power - Back to Oakland
Lambert Hendrix & Ross - Best of (CBS)

[Swish]

that I can't begin to make a deserving list, but I'll try.

World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
Los Lobos - Kiko
Pavement - Crooked Rain x 2
The Who - Who's Next
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Radiohead - Ok, Computer
Neil Young - Harvest

Ok, that's a short list, now I hafta do some thinkin' and come up with more.

Swish

[rockecat]

Lot of great albums some I know some I don't. I will definetely be checking out some of the ones I don't. My wife had a great idea for our next favorite how about the longest song
you know the one you just don't want to end I can think of a few and we can include
EP's that should be very interesting.

[SlumpBuster]

Two albums instantly came to mind. Bernd already got The Stone Roses, but I can't believe no one has mentioned Definitely Maybe by Oasis. My favorite quote about Oasis goes something like "For a brief moment in the mid-nineties, the biggest band in the world was also the best band in the world."

[SoundGuyDave]

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Wilco - A Ghost is born
Foo Fighters - Colour and the Shape

[daviethek]

Oh ohh... can I play?

1. "What's Going On?" Marvin Gaye - Complete masterpiece from beginning to end.

2. "The World is a Ghetto" - War

3. "Hot Buttered Soul" - Issac Hayes

4. "Gonna Take a Miracle" - Laura Nyro

5. "Mothership Connection" - Parliment

6. "Superfly" - Curtis Mayfield.

7. "Sign of the times" - Prince.

8. "Free Will" - Gil Scott Heron

9. "The Last Poets" - The Last Poets

10. "Love Power Peace" - James Brown Amsterdam Live

Da Worfster

Judging from you list, just curious how you feel about Tower of Power. To this date, one of the cleanest and coolest concerts I have ever seen ( 33 years ago, ouch! ) dk

[dingus]

....
Split Enz - Time & Tide
....

a truly fantastic album, in my top 10 as well.


Woodface by Crowded House tops my list.

[3db]

Hmmm...Mine would be

Led Zeppelin 1,
PinkFloyd Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall
Yes Fragile
Cars Candy O
The Knack "Get The Knack*
Supertramp Crime of the Century
Styx Grand Illusion
Tom Petty & the Heart Breakers "Dam the Torpedoes"
The Doors "LA Woman"
The Kinks "Misfit"

[thepogue]

Boston - Boston

Areosmith - Get your Wings

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

Kiss - Alive 1

Zappa - Joes Garage

CSN&Y - DéjÃ* Vu

Floyd - The Wall


ok ok....I need to stop

Pogue

[3db]

Boston - Boston

Areosmith - Get your Wings

Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

Kiss - Alive 1

Zappa - Joes Garage

CSN&Y - Déj�* Vu

Floyd - The Wall


ok ok....I need to stop

Pogue

Damm how could I miss Boston

[thepogue]

lol...I'm sure there 100's we could both miss...but hey...as long as someone mentions it!!...I was really glad to see the split enz here....one of me favs!!

Pogue

[C-Z]

Lots of gooduns already listed. Here's some of mine that come to mind.

Ten Years After - A Space In Time
The Who - Who's Next
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
Nektar - Remember the Future
Montrose - S/T
Jethro Tull - Stand Up & Thick as as Brick
Mark Knopfler - Golden Heart
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold & Brothers in Arms
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Black Sabbath - S/T
Floyd - DSOTM & WYWH
Yes - The Yes Album
Jan Garbarek & the Hilliard Ensemble - Officium
Rush - Moving Pictures
Kevin Gilbert - Thud
Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine

Can't think of any more right now - too lazy to look at my albums and cds

CZ

[shokhead]

lol...I'm sure there 100's we could both miss...but hey...as long as someone mentions it!!...I was really glad to see the split enz here....one of me favs!!

Pogue

I think they are coming out with a remastered Boston.

[Lifes-A-Blast]

Re: Tower of Power- the year 1973 , Masonic Temple - Detroit Mich TOP was the warm up to one Cheech & Chong. Great show needless to say the bong headers booing them off the stage after abour 30 minutes of playing . from that point on always a fan .
BTW the bongheaders wound up doing 2 ovations worth of buzz humor that night.
What is Hip????

[thepogue]

I was really bummed first time i heard it on CD..etchy big time..I'd love to hear the re-masters

Pogue

I think they are coming out with a remastered Boston.

[20to20K]

1. Steely Dan - Aja
2. Santana - Abraxous
3. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
4. Earth, Wind and Fire - All n All
5. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
6. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
7. Pat Metheny - As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
8. U2 - The Joshua Tree
9. Peter Tosh - Legalize It
10.Weather Report - Black Market

[swicken]

Spaced Out: The Best of Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner

Best. Album. Ever.

[Dusty Chalk]

Well now, that's just silly.