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Every song absolutely amazing.

 

What other albums are amazing beginning to end?

 

 

Go!

 

 

 

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Fleetwood Mac Rumours comes close, but I just don't like Christine McVie's songs.  They are meh at best.

 

 

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16 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, a phenomenal album. 

 100%

 

Amazing album

 

 

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

 

Animals - Pink Floyd

 

The Wall  -----  hmmmmmmm Not every song is amazing, but nearly.  So it doesn't count

 

I would also add Here, My Dear by Marvin too.  Amazing album considering it was supposed to be just made to contractually cover his divorce.

 

 

 

 

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How about this for just being effortlessly silly

 

 

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8 hours ago, Lovecraft said:

Fleetwood Mac Rumours comes close, but I just don't like Christine McVie's songs.  They are meh at best.

 

Rumours comes closest imo - not one weak song.

Wish You Were Here's got Have a Cigar, so not sure.  Animals gets better each time you listen.

Personally:

Aztec Camera - High Land Hard Rain

The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It and Air's Moon Safari is pretty strong, start to finish.

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I agree with Radiohead - saw them basically do the whole thing live in London a couple of months after its release, expecting to feel almost suicidal,  and was stunned by how uplifting and generally fab it wa sand also just how much it was the Thomas Yorke show.

 

Mar 24 London England The Forum FM Broadcast 1995
The Bends
Just
Anyone Can Play Guitar
Bones
High & Dry
Black Star
Banana Co.,
Prove Yourself
Vegetable
Fake Plastic Trees
Planet Telex
Ripcord
Creep
My Iron Lung
You
Nice Dream
Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Stop Whispering
Lozenge Of Love

 

Apart from that I would say 

 

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon (can't understand how anyone thinks Animals or the wall are better!). I was slightly disappointed with Wish Youe Were here when that was released, thought the title track is brilliant

 

Kingdom Come: Journey 1973 - anyone who likes progressive rock/ spacey stuff needs to listen to this - - warning doesn't get going until after the first minute of the innovative drum machine

 

Wishbone Ash, Argus

 

Fairport Convention: What we did on our Holidays - simply amazing electrified folk with Sandy Denny's heartbreakingly good vocals

 

 

 

 

 

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17 hours ago, Lovecraft said:

Every song absolutely amazing.

 

What other albums are amazing beginning to end?

 

 

Go!

 

 

 

 

A very different vibe, but Yorke's latest album, Anima, is a belter start to finish.

 

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Cream....Disraeli Gears, wonderful from start to finish.

 

Bankruptcy...Dr Hook, faultless.

 

Steely Dan...Can't buy a thrill, brilliant.

 

Thunder...Back Street Symphony,  for a debut album it is brilliant. 

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27 minutes ago, Lee_Mellon said:

The Brown Album - for me, perfect from beginning to end.

Hard to disagree with that. 

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Clash Combat Rock-To be honest I’d written them off after Sandinista

The Who - Quadrophenia.  Double album of genius

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen 

Black Crowes Southern Harmony

 

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15 hours ago, Ray Gin said:

 

A very different vibe, but Yorke's latest album, Anima, is a belter start to finish.

 

 

His solo albums are brilliant and everything they have done since 2000 has been incredible. 

 

The Bends and Pablo Honey are Radioheads worst albums.

 

By a mile.

 

There. I said it. 

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Big fan of Radiohead and the bends is a great album, for me i think ‘In Rainbows’ is their best album start to finish. 

Three other albums I consider flawless:
 

The Cure-Disintegration
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours

Bruce Springsteen-Born to run

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On 25/05/2020 at 23:18, Lovecraft said:

Every song absolutely amazing.

 

What other albums are amazing beginning to end?

 

 

Go!

 

 

 

 

Brilliant album 👍

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16 hours ago, Jamhammer said:

Clash Combat Rock-To be honest I’d written them off after Sandinista

The Who - Quadrophenia.  Double album of genius

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Ghosteen 

Black Crowes Southern Harmony

 

All about opinions but i wouldn't even put Ghosteen in a top 5 of Nicks albums.

 

I actually hate it. 

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My five stone-cold classics. Plenty of other albums that I love... but these few are my "twenty goal per season strikers" that I keep coming back to.

 

Depeche Mode - Violator

 

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes

 

Primal Scream - Screamadelica

 

Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers

 

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead

 

 

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All Mod Cons     -      The Jam

 

Quadrophenia    -     The Who

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Les Izemore

Dexy’s - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels

 

Just don’t waste your time trying to decipher wtf Kevin Rowland is on about. 

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21 hours ago, Lee_Mellon said:

The Brown Album - for me, perfect from beginning to end.

Which one ? Led Zep or the The Band ? Both stunning albums 🙂

 

A composite sepia photograph of the band, with members of the Jasta 11 Division of the Luftstreitkräfte, in front of a hydrogen cloud expanding from an outline of the Hindenburg exploding.

 

 

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1 hour ago, whodanny said:

Which one ? Led Zep or the The Band ? Both stunning albums 🙂

 

A composite sepia photograph of the band, with members of the Jasta 11 Division of the Luftstreitkräfte, in front of a hydrogen cloud expanding from an outline of the Hindenburg exploding.

 

 

The Band (album) coverart.jpg


The Band - I do own Led Zep II, a decent album but I don’t play it very often. Whereas The Band has been getting in my ears regularly for the last fifty years. 

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Tazio said:

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young - Deja Vu is pretty faultless. 

Agreed, as is the first CSN album - and now I think about it so is the first Manassas album and Neil Young’s After the Gold Rush. 

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48 minutes ago, Lee_Mellon said:


The Band - I do own Led Zep II, a decent album but I don’t play it very often. Whereas The Band has been getting in my ears regularly for the last fifty years. 

 

 

Yep, it's got a timeless quality to it, seems very old but is fresh every time I play it. I'm tempted by the recent 180g vinyl pressing, my old vinyl copy is getting on a bit and I'm playing it mostly on CD theses days.

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9 minutes ago, whodanny said:

Yep, it's got a timeless quality to it, seems very old but is fresh every time I play it. I'm tempted by the recent 180g vinyl pressing, my old vinyl copy is getting on a bit and I'm playing it mostly on CD theses days.

Like me, it is very old!

 

I’ve more or less given up on vinyl nowadays. Sounds great on my CD player, especially Levon’s drums, but then my ears aren’t what they were...

 

I’m in danger of turning the thread into a Brown Album love in so, how about Astral Weeks for a perfect album?

 

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3 minutes ago, Lord BJ said:

 

Very much this, amazing album.

 

Bends also a very good album

 

Probably should add one myself. Probably wont be popular because of genre but Ilmatic Nas. Absolutely brilliant on so many levels. Granted if not into hip hiop ****ed 🤷🏻‍♂️

Brilliant album, groundbreaking stuff. 

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5 hours ago, jambogemz said:

All about opinions but i wouldn't even put Ghosteen in a top 5 of Nicks albums.

 

I actually hate it. 

I think I love it because it resonates with me because of the loss of a loved one if you know what I mean? 
I think all music has that power to touch a person due to what is going on with them.

 

Apart from Bob Jovi. Obviously 

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1 hour ago, Jamhammer said:

I think I love it because it resonates with me because of the loss of a loved one if you know what I mean? 
I think all music has that power to touch a person due to what is going on with them.

 

Apart from Bob Jovi. Obviously 

That's certainly something that resonates with myself. 

 

Also agree regarding Bon Jovi 😂

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13 hours ago, jambogemz said:

That's certainly something that resonates with myself. 

 

Also agree regarding Bon Jovi 😂

I did one of those backward things with Nick Cave. I watched the documentary One more time with feeling then bought Push The Sky Away and have been going backwards. Haven't found an album I don't like yet

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3 hours ago, Jamhammer said:

I did one of those backward things with Nick Cave. I watched the documentary One more time with feeling then bought Push The Sky Away and have been going backwards. Haven't found an album I don't like yet

The back catalogue is fantastic.

 

Don't forget his albums with the band The Birthday party or his first release with The boys next door called "Door Door" which is now available again.

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14 minutes ago, jambogemz said:

The back catalogue is fantastic.

 

Don't forget his albums with the band The Birthday party or his first release with The boys next door called "Door Door" which is now available again.

Or Grinderman.

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9 minutes ago, Dawnrazor said:

Or Grinderman.

Of course, how could i forget!!

 

 

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1 hour ago, jambogemz said:

The back catalogue is fantastic.

 

Don't forget his albums with the band The Birthday party or his first release with The boys next door called "Door Door" which is now available again.

Will check out

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Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers/ Let it Bleed/Beggars Banquet.

Stevie Wonder Innervisions.

Agree with The Bends and The Band shouts.

Let Love In my favourite Nick Cave album.

Never skip a track on that one.

 

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Velvet underground, Loaded

Nick Drake, Pink moon

Elvis Costello, My aim is true

 

All close to perfection in different ways.

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On 25/05/2020 at 23:18, Lovecraft said:

Every song absolutely amazing.

 

What other albums are amazing beginning to end?

 

 

Go!

 

 

 

Saw them live 3 times around the early Pablo Honey 92/93 period.

 

Twice as a support band at The Venue - 1st one was  with The Frank & Walters headlining then the 2nd was Kingmaker who bizarrely also had a mime artist on the bill as well - which Radiohead were actually on before so they were 3rd under a bloody mime artist haha! 3rd one was a their own headline show at the Subway in the Cowgate.

 

Funnily enough Ive never been a huge fan but agree The Bends is really good mate.

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On 27/05/2020 at 14:33, whodanny said:

Which one ? Led Zep or the The Band ? Both stunning albums 🙂

 

A composite sepia photograph of the band, with members of the Jasta 11 Division of the Luftstreitkräfte, in front of a hydrogen cloud expanding from an outline of the Hindenburg exploding.

 

 

The Band (album) coverart.jpg

 

I'd assumed you were all talking about Orbital!

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44 minutes ago, Craig_ said:

 

I'd assumed you were all talking about Orbital!

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That one did cross my mind too. :thumbsup:

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The Natural Order

The Bends is a great album but not in the same league as Dummy by Portishead.

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16 hours ago, Weakened Offender said:

Alabama 3, Exile on Coldharbour Lane. 


It has been seriously years since I’ve heard that. Used to listen to the album constantly, not a track skipped. 

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10 hours ago, tamflogel said:


It has been seriously years since I’ve heard that. Used to listen to the album constantly, not a track skipped. 

 

Get back to it Tam, it's a timeless masterpiece. 

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