Your perfect album.?

[miles'tone]

[Nail Soup]

An album which springs to mind as an archetypal "All Killer" as generally considered (personally I love the album buts it's never going to make my top ten):

Parallel Lines by Blondie

 

Yielded a lot of singles for sure.

[NAS Bass]

3 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

 

Nearly but for me its one track too long, Radio bloody 4....

[Reggaebass]

5 hours ago, Barking Spiders said:

Fat of the land - Prodigy

Great album, I do like the Prodigy 

[greenolive]

Quite a few , but love these two .....

 

 

 

May as well make it 5 😉

 

 

 

Edited September 2, 2022 by greenolive
May as well make it 5 albums !

[gjones]

This is the title track from Justin Currie's first solo album. He described it as a diary of doom, full of songs he wrote which were too miserable for Del Amitri.

 

He also said it got 5 stars with all the reviewers but sold eff all.

 

Despite that it is a fantastic album and definitely has no filler.

 

 

[NAS Bass]

I've never ever grown tired of listening to this from end to end. Runners up for me include:

 

Damned Damned Damned

Physical Graffiti 

Aladin Sane

Ramones (first)

Bollocks

Shades of Blues - Don Rendell/Ian Carr Quintet

 

[knirirr]

12 hours ago, bubinga5 said:

I mean those albums that every song you hear next you want to hear. Not a skipper...

 

Tricky... There are so many albums where a track or two isn't particularly exciting.
This might fit the bill, though:

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_m6hixNLj6XQlfGvUqyfGYxYfPzYQX-2GA

 

 

[Mudpup]

Ah yeah! New Gold Dream should be in my list as well....

[BassTractor]

Gentle Giant: The Power and The Glory"

as in: the original album, without the ghastly bonus track that was the single "The Power and The Glory".

 

 

[Cato]

Counting Crows: August and Everything After

Maximo Park: A Certain Trogger

 

Not a weak song on either album and, in my opinion, whilst both bands released some strong material over the years that followed neither of them ever got close to that level of excellence again.

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

I'm sure I'll think of a few more, but this immediately sprang to mind....

 

[Nail Soup]

I can't be the only one who feels like this, but there are some bands who, during a certain period, I was so totally 'bought into' I loved every track on those albums... even if there was the odd track that may not stand up alone.

For example first 4 Stranglers albums, first 3 Ramones albums, first 3 Velvet Underground albums, first 10-odd years of Fall albums.

[StickyDBRmf]

First 3 Jimi Hendrix Experience albums. Noel Redding songs don't count.

[Nail Soup]

If I have to commit to one perfect album, then no problem it's this one - The Fall, "Grotesque - After The Gramme"

[Nail Soup]

7 minutes ago, StickyDBRmf said:

Noel Redding songs don't count.

That's cheating !

And while we're here... why are you dissing the bass player?

😉

Edited September 2, 2022 by Nail Soup

[StickyDBRmf]

Just now, Nail Soup said:

That's cheating !

And while were here... why are you dissing the bass player?

😉

Oh, his bass playing was great! His songwriting sucked!

[dclaassen]

Eagles Hotel California

Brad Paisley This Is Country Music

Todd Rungren Something Anything

James Taylor Sweet Baby James

Jackson Browne Running On Empty

Oscar Peterson Night Train

Eva Cassidy Songbird

 

just off the top of my head

[hiram.k.hackenbacker]

Just thought of another one....

 

[paul_5]

8 hours ago, SteveXFR said:

And out come the wolves by Rancid

Every track is an absolute killer tune. Certainly the best punk album (opinion, not fact of course) of all time

 

 

This Even more impressive when you consider the length of the album (18 tracks).

[miles'tone]

50 minutes ago, Nail Soup said:

That's cheating !

And while we're here... why are you dissing the bass player?

😉

Because he was a guitarist that was handed a bass? 😉

Billy Cox all the way! ✊️

[chris_b]

Nothing is perfect, but I'd vote for

 

The Band, brown album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUPbIbHUem0&list=PLE31AAD9114F343C4&ab_channel=Nalencer

 

Little Feat, Feats Don't Fail Me Now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-bfli0B4ss&list=PLz6cAheObZcg_WXTIn-YKPOr3PUOkrXG0&ab_channel=SouthernRocker

 

[Nail Soup]

31 minutes ago, miles'tone said:

Because he was a guitarist that was handed a bass? 😉

Billy Cox all the way! ✊️

True, he was a conscript not volunteer on bass.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

Far too many to list here! I rarely skip tracks when listening to albums, unless they're absolute stinkers, and if they were I probably wouldn't hold them very dear anyway.

[Old Man Riva]

… thought of another (plus three!)

 

The Pretenders’ debut album

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Prince - Sign O’ The Times

Ian Dury - New Boots And Panties!!

Edited September 3, 2022 by Old Man Riva
Massive Attack et al added…