Best complete album

[rockecat]

What is your favorite complete album, not one you play one side or certain tracks
but the one you just have to play the whole album.I have many that I will play complete but If I had to choose one I think I would go with Alan Parsons tales of mystery and imagination, hang on oooohhh Moody Blues days of future passed noYes Fragile
never mind to hard to pick.

[Bernd]

Hi,
Nice choices. All are in my play all category. Here are three more I really like :

Stone Roses-First
The High-Somewhere Soon
The Waterboys-This is the Sea
and many more

Enjoy what you have been given

Bernd

[rockecat]

I was also going to mention that in 1978 there was a album Jeff Waynes musical version
of war of the Worlds this is an incredible album featuring Richard Burton as the narrator
and music by Justin Hayward, David Essex and many more perfect for Halloween.

Drag the kids away from the nintendo and put this on I assure you they will sit and listen
I have seen some on E-bay and this album really is a hidden treasure.

[Bernd]

Hi,
You are right.It is a great album. I have two copy's. One is been used and one is still wrapped from when I bought it all those years ago.Where is the time gone?

Enjoy what you have been given!

Bernd

[rockecat]

Hi,
You are right.It is a great album. I have two copy's. One is been used and one is still wrapped from when I bought it all those years ago.Where is the time gone?

Enjoy what you have been given!

Bernd

No way, that is really wierd I figured there is no way anybody remembered that one !
Ok now I know I am not the only old guy!!

[Bernd]

No way, that is really wierd I figured there is no way anybody remembered that one !
Ok now I know I am not the only old guy!!

No you're not.

Bernd

Whats playing: The Clash-The Story of the Clash

[ForeverAutumn]

No way, that is really wierd I figured there is no way anybody remembered that one !
Ok now I know I am not the only old guy!!

I just purchased the remaster. So there!

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory. I always listen to this one from start to finish.

[Kaboom]

Pink Floyd. Just about ALL their albums, but specially Division Bell, the Wall, DSOTM and WYWH
Spock's Beard: Snow
Jetrho tull: A Passion Play
MArillion: Script for a jester's tear
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Green Day: American Idiot
and lots of others, but those are the ones i spin most

[Hyfi]

Jetrho tull: A Passion Play

I missed Benefit on my list

[Mike Anderson]

Delerium: Karma. And to a lesser extent, Poem.

[shokhead]

I missed Benefit on my list

Thats one of mine and i wish JT would do sme good remasters. I'll add Grand Funk Railroad, Grand Funk- Import. One of the best bass music cd i have.

[-Jar-]

so this is sort of "all killer, no filler" kind of thing?

hmmm.

I don't often come across albums that don't contain at least one filler song, one that really should have not made it past the final cut, so to speak.

I was reading an article in REVOLVER about AC/DC's BACK IN BLACK. It does come just about as damn close to having no filler as any album that I've heard.

As far as albums that I truly care about? I'd probably pick CLOSER by Joy Division. Nothing even remotely close to filler on that one.

-jar

[unleasHell]

always liked Unknown Pleasures better than Closer...

as far as releases without a clunker on them, how about:

Ziggy Stardust: by you know who
Cave Down to Earth: Far East Family Band
Mirage: Camel
Madness: Madness
Eloy: Floating
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

[Dusty Chalk]

I think it's a step beyond all-killer-no-filler. There's something about several albums that have been mentioned here:

Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds
Marillion, Misplaced Childhoold
Jethro Tull, A Passion Play, Thick as a Brick
Dream Theater, Scenes from a Memory

etc. that just require one to listen to them in their entirety.

Mine:

Slowdive, Just for a Day
Tool, Lateralus
Shotgun Messiah, Violent New Breed
Skinny Puppy, Too Dark Park (although I usually resequence it as 6-10,1-5)
most live albums (Rush's All the World's a Stage comes to mind as one I would never play in anything less than its entirety)

[Bernd]

always liked Unknown Pleasures better than Closer...

as far as releases without a clunker on them, how about:

Ziggy Stardust: by you know who
Cave Down to Earth: Far East Family Band
Mirage: Camel
Madness: Madness
Eloy: Floating
Jethro Tull: Thick as a Brick

Hey-an Eloy man. I like it. How about Eloy-The Planets that's a great album.

Like your selection

A couple more that have not been mentioned without a filler:

Stan Ridgeway-Mosquitos
Lou Reed-New York
Neil Young-This Note's for You
Christy Moore-Smoke and strong Whiskey
Martin Stephenson-Gladsome,Humour and Blue

Do you agree that in order to have a great complete album,the recording needs to be of a high quality too? My complete fav's. are all decent quality.

Peace

Bernd

[ForeverAutumn]

Also, as start to finish listens, is any of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra disks. Most of the songs will stand well on their own, but they just don't have the same impact without the flow of them all together.

[dean_martin]

Some of my favorite "all-the-way-through" albums are:

Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet (If I had to pick one, this would be it.)
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bob Marley - Natty Dread
DJ Shadow - Preemptive Strike
Young American Primitive - s/t
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism
Sonic Youth - Made in USA (soundtrack)
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
REM - Murmur
REM - Reckoning
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

These make using a turntable easy.

[Dave_G]

The Clash - London Calling
Yes - Tormato
Marillion - Fugazi
XTC - English Settlement
Genesis - Trespass
Split Enz - Time & Tide
Ultravox - Vienna
Bob Marley - Kaya
Thin Lizzy - Thunder & Lightning
Tubes - Love Bomb


Regards,

Dave

[Worf101]

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

[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

[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????

[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.

[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"