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Albums without a single bad track on them

AndyBoBandy

Had a look and couldn't find a thread (so apologies if such a thread does exist)

I saw some promoted facebook thing a few weeks back listing albums that didn't have a single bad track on them, and thought of a few myself, and would love to hear some others examples of the 'perfect' album.

So in no particular order, I think the below albums are examples of albums that don't have a single bad/weak track on them... (album covers shown because why not?)

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Not a whole lot needs to be said really, it's just fantastic from start to finish.

Red Hot Chill Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik

A Funky masterpiece, have been listening to this lately for the first time in years, and every single track is just brilliant.

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

A masterpiece, but Evil Empire & The Battle of Los Angeles could also easily make this list as in my opinion, everything they did was just spectacular (even Renegades, the cover album they did).

in fact, feck it;
Rage Against The Machine - Evil Empire

Evil Empire simply takes up where their debut left off, track after track of absolute belter.

Leftfield - Leftism
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For me, one of the 2 groundbreaking electronic music albums that will just never get old. Still as amazing and fresh sounding today 25 years after its release as it was back in 1995.

Daft Punk - Homework

the 2nd groundbreaking electronic music album in my opinion. Daft Punk before the masks, before the pyramids, before the light shows. It's just perfect.

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

Another band that could justifiably have multiple entries on this list, but for me
The Suburbs is a masterpiece.

Band of Skulls - Baby Darling Doll Face Honey

Solid album that doesn't put a foot wrong really.

The Beatles - Revolver

Not a whole lot to say about Revolver, other than it's brilliant.

Bjork - Debut
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Precedes Leftism & Homework by a few years, but nonetheless excellent electronica. (one blip on an otherwise perfect album is The Anchor Song, but it's allowed based on teh strength of every other track).

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing

Sample City, but crafted by a master of his art.

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

probably not one for the purists, but an excellent album that doesn't put a foot wrong!

Metallica - Black Album

again, the die hards will probably disagree, but its a stonker from start to finish.

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening

Another band that could easily have multiple entries on this list, but This Is Happening stands out for me.

This list could clearly go on and on, but I'll leave it there, and over to you to let us know what in your opinion is a perfect album..

honourable mentions;
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
House of Pain - House of Pain
Portishead - Dummy
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
plus I'm sure many many more.......

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BeefeaterHat

Van Morrison - astral weeks. Best album of his with moondance and veedon fleece a close second and third.

Derek and the dominoes- Layla best rock album ever made imo

Mike Litoris

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Def Leppard - Pyromania

Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible

Radiohead - OK Computer (yes, even Fitter Happier!)

BonnieSituation

Pivot Eoin wrote: »

Have to echo Nas - Illmatic and DJ Shadow Endtroducing

To try mention a few that havent come up:

Mylo - Destroy Rock&Roll (excellent for its time)
Killers - Hot Fuss
Dr.Dre - 2001 (if you remove the Intros/skits)
Martyn - Air Between Words (For Techno Heads)
Reflection Eternal - Train of Thought
Gangstarr - Moment of Truth
Kanye - Twisted Dark Faded Fantasy (on a production note)
Vitalic - O.K Cowboy
Paul Kalkbrenner - Berlin Calling
Damien Rice - O
RJD2 - Deadringer
Air - Moon Safari
Moby - play
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby

Was not expecting someone else to post that.

Not a drop in quality from start to finish.

A masterpiece.

In fact when I saw the thread pop up it was the first album I thought of that fulfills the criteria.

Be a toughie to think of more...

Johnken1514

I found it very cool.

supernova5

Wildness by Snow Patrol is superb, In my estimation their best album to date

Declan A Walsh

What surprised me was that I listened to four of my old albums today (for another thread) and three have them did not have a single track I had to skip. Hence my three posts on this thread today. The possibility of that happening with my large collection is pretty low I can tell you!

Lockheed

Strange Days by the Doors is a treat from start to finish. Many people don't like Horse Latitudes but imo its pure poetry from Jim Morrisson

blue note

Joe_ Public wrote: »

I'm Your Man was the first time i really got Leonard Cohen and understood the impish sense of humour that underscored every track. Still one of my favourite ever albums and all the ones since have been high quality too.

It's incredible how good the albums in later life have been. All the way up to you want it darker they were still genuinely terrific albums.

Joe_ Public

blue note wrote: »

What a great thread. I hadn't seen it before but having read the first 10 pages it just brought back heaps of great memories of great albums. And it really shows the difference in people's opinions on who's great and what's a great album.

Just to throw a few into the list

Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
Lou Reed - transformer
Santana - abraxas
Jeff Buckley - grace
The clash - Londons calling
Antony and the johnsons - I am a bird now
eels - beautiful freak
John mayall with Eric Clapton- blues breakers
Eric Clapton mtv unplugged
St Germain- tourist

I don't think there's a weak track on any of them.

I'm Your Man was the first time i really got Leonard Cohen and understood the impish sense of humour that underscored every track. Still one of my favourite ever albums and all the ones since have been high quality too.

ellee

Great thread

I would just say Daft Punk's Random Access Memories is a seriously underrated album and actually fills the criteria perfectly.

PGE1970

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes

The Smiths - The Smiths

Pulp - Different Class

The Waterboys - This is the Sea

blue note

What a great thread. I hadn't seen it before but having read the first 10 pages it just brought back heaps of great memories of great albums. And it really shows the difference in people's opinions on who's great and what's a great album.

Just to throw a few into the list

Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
Lou Reed - transformer
Santana - abraxas
Jeff Buckley - grace
The clash - Londons calling
Antony and the johnsons - I am a bird now
eels - beautiful freak
John mayall with Eric Clapton- blues breakers
Eric Clapton mtv unplugged
St Germain- tourist

I don't think there's a weak track on any of them.

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Steps Gold & The ultimate collection aka Abba on speed

igCorcaigh

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

Days of Open Hand by Suzanne Vega is another flawless album in that there is no bad track.

Just listening to it now. Class.

Declan A Walsh

Days of Open Hand by Suzanne Vega is another flawless album in that there is no bad track.

dvcireland

Graceland by Paul Simon was played to death in our house, i think my dad bought it with his redundancy money.

Another one was The Dubliners 25 Celebration.

My own selection:

The Beatles - Revolver
R.E.M - Reckoning
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Depeche Mode - Violator - still sounds a fresh as a daisy
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
Orbital - In Sides
Radiohead - Kid A

Trekker09

George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice.

Declan A Walsh

I was listening to Suzanne Vega's self-named debut album. I played it all the way through only to find I actually liked the last track - I used to always skip it! There's another album for this list.

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Declan A Walsh wrote: »

I'm just after listening to Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan in full, for the first time in some years. I liked every single track - I think I must have given some tracks more of a chance this time!

1989 was the year of the “old guy comeback album”:
Neil Young - Freedom
Lou Reed - New York
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy

The Dylan record is great, love Lanois production. And the best track from the sessions was left off- Series Of Dreams. Eventually surfaced on the first Bootleg Series box in 1991.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgqGUBP3Cx0

Declan A Walsh

I'm just after listening to Oh Mercy by Bob Dylan in full, for the first time in some years. I liked every single track - I think I must have given some tracks more of a chance this time!

sbsquarepants

Born to run - Bruce Springsteen (the single greatest album ever made in my opinion)

Tunnel of Love + The wild the innocent and the E Street Shuffle by Bruce also - 2 absolute gems from start to finish.

Tapestry - Carole King
In search of - N.E.R.D
The Black Album - Jay Z
Graceland - Paul Simon
Rumours -Fleetwood Mac
1989 - Taylor Swift (I get quite a bit of slagging for this one, but fúck it, i stand by it, that album is a masterpiece if you just take the time to listen to it)
The bends - Radiohead

Chivito550

U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard

Surreptitious

Listening to Lana del Rey Born to Die again.
I still think it's ace.

BOSTIK

NewbridgeIR wrote: »

New deluxe edition is fabulous. Have been playing all week.

For years all I had was the cassette version. It gets the odd outing in the car stereo when the ipod's taking a sleep.

Porklife wrote: »

What a brilliant list! Agree with all of it and the album's I'm not familiar with I'll be listening to now as you clearly have great taste!

(blushes) Ah, that's nice. I'd say you'd enjoy the Supergrass & House of Love albums judging from your own list.

Gervais08 wrote: »

Massive love for Violator there!!!!

All absolute pure beauty but World In My Eyes is my fave.

I’m going to listen to it now!!!

WIME is good, but you can't beat "Halo". And then there's "Clean", some way to close an album.

FHFM50

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

I much prefer definitely maybe. It’s more raw and natural.
Tho I think their first 3 albums are all great. Yes, even be here now I think is brilliant. But after that it all went so bad, 1 or 2 good track but the rest absolute garbage in each album. Who can ever forget the song Liam write on standing on giants, ‘little James’. Jeez it was so bad.

Standing on giants was bad, Heathen chemistry wasn't great either but was an improvement.

I found they got their mojo back with Don't believe the truth and Dig out your soul.

the purple tin

Western Stars by Bruce Springsteen.

Man Vs ManUre

FHFM50 wrote: »

(What's the story) Morning Glory is 25 years old.

Yes Noel lifted a few things from other bands but you can't deny this album is 10/10

I much prefer definitely maybe. It’s more raw and natural.
Tho I think their first 3 albums are all great. Yes, even be here now I think is brilliant. But after that it all went so bad, 1 or 2 good track but the rest absolute garbage in each album. Who can ever forget the song Liam write on standing on giants, ‘little James’. Jeez it was so bad.

FHFM50

(What's the story) Morning Glory is 25 years old.

Yes Noel lifted a few things from other bands but you can't deny this album is 10/10

tayto lover

Beatles One album.

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers.

pawdee

Probably been said already but for me..... Dopesmoker by Sleep.