Truly greatest albums where every single track is a classic

Declan A Walsh · 20-12-2019 2:00pm

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Going for the One - Yes

flasher0030 · 20-12-2019 2:45pm

PTH2009 wrote: »

Def Leppard- Hystria
Bruce Springsteen- Born in the USA
Metallica- Black Album

This thread has truely been railroaded by "people's favourite albums". There are few albums available whereby every track is a classic. It's like putting on a CD and not knowing which song to pick cause every one of them is so damn good. I don't know of any such album. The closest for me is Whipping Boy - Heartworm. But even at that, there's one tune I would skip.

Def Leppard - Hysteria. Seriously?? There are some nice tunes like the well-know Hysteria, Animal, Love Bites. But for me, they are more than negated by rubbish like Armageddon it, or Run Riot.

Declan A Walsh · 20-12-2019 3:12pm

In my case, I listed the albums where I felt every single track was a classic.

The Nal · 20-12-2019 3:37pm

Metallica - Rust in Peace
Bruce Springsteen - Scarecrow
Thin Lizzy - Rumours
Stone Roses - Bummed
Van Halen - Nevermind
Kate Bush - Bat out of Hell
Prince - OK Computer

partyguinness · 20-12-2019 3:48pm

ACDC- Let there be rock (my favorite ACDC album by a mile)
Leonard Cohen- Songs of Love & Hate (In fact all of his first 3 albums)
The Strokes- Is this it
Velvet Underground- Loaded
Ice Cube- The Predator
Dr Dre- The Chronic
Snoop Doggy Dogg- Doggystyle
Black Sabbath- Master of Reality & Paranoid
Nick Drake- Pink Moon
U2-Achtung Baby & Joshua Tree
Alice in Chains- Dirt

Everything by the Wolf Tones.

partyguinness · 20-12-2019 3:51pm

jharr100 wrote: »

Rainbow - Rising
Deep Purple - Come Taste The Band
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King or Red
UFO - Strangers in the night
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
Rush - Moving Pictures
Boston - First album
Blue Oyster Cult - Some Enchanted Evening
The Who - Whos Next
Pink Floyd - Animals
Jimii Hendrix- Are You Experienced?
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Santana - Abraxas
Van Halen - First Album

I listened to Black Sabbath- Sabotage (on headphones in a dark room is creepy) constantly in LC back in 1995/1996 while the rest of the lads were fighting over Oasis and Blur and basically styling their hair like they were just born.

I forgot Rainbow- Rising on my list.

Man Vs ManUre · 20-12-2019 5:29pm

Taylor Swift - Red, 1989, Lover.

Mental Mickey · 20-12-2019 9:06pm

Man Vs ManUre wrote: »

Taylor Swift - Red, 1989, Lover.

Wrong thread

olestoepoke · 20-12-2019 9:12pm

Primal Scream Give out but don't give up.
Tom Waits. Closing time
Bob Marley Uprising
Bob Marley Confrontation
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Mark Knophler Golden Heart

tastyt · 20-12-2019 9:21pm

Youth and young manhood - KOL

Whatever people say i am... Artic Monkeys

Definitely maybe - Oasis

Mental Mickey · 20-12-2019 10:47pm

The Nal wrote: »

Metallica - Rust in Peace
Bruce Springsteen - Scarecrow
Thin Lizzy - Rumours
Stone Roses - Bummed
Van Halen - Nevermind
Kate Bush - Bat out of Hell
Prince - OK Computer

WTF

Marty Xavier · 23-12-2019 6:11pm

Chicken Talk - Richie Kavanagh

bcklschaps · 23-12-2019 7:44pm

There's usually a filler track or two on every album. But I suppose "filler track" is a relative term.

The albums listed below certainly have a high density of cracking tracks and are effectively "best of" s from the
artists. (Tom Waits being the exception). I could happily listen start to finish without hitting the skip button.

Simply Red - Stars
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
David Gray - White Ladder
AC/DC - Back in Black
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Steely Dan -Can't buy a thrill
David Bowie - Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust
Tom Waits - Bad as me
U2 - Acthung baby

Marty Xavier · 24-12-2019 1:20pm

Marty Xavier wrote: »

Chicken Talk - Richie Kavanagh

I agree.

crazy 88 · 25-12-2019 2:48am

Supergrass - In it for the money

Mental Mickey · 26-12-2019 12:47pm

bcklschaps wrote: »

There's usually a filler track or two on every album. But I suppose "filler track" is a relative term.

The albums listed below certainly have a high density of cracking tracks and are effectively "best of" s from the
artists. (Tom Waits being the exception). I could happily listen start to finish without hitting the skip button.

Simply Red - Stars
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
David Gray - White Ladder
AC/DC - Back in Black
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Steely Dan -Can't buy a thrill
David Bowie - Rise and fall of Ziggy Stardust
Tom Waits - Bad as me
U2 - Acthung baby

Some of that aren't R&M

Tigerbaby · 26-12-2019 12:54pm

David Crosby - If I could only remember my name. ( feat. Mitchell, Young, Garcia, Stills and many others)

a trip of an album that ( the listener) needs no chemicals to enjoy.

Jay Dee · 28-12-2019 8:19pm

LP's From my collection:

Van Morrison – Moondance
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Neil Young - Harvest
Led Zeppelin - II
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Bob Dylan – Blonde on Blonde
The Band - The Last Waltz
The Who - Who's Next

Nephilim Wolf · 05-01-2020 11:59pm

I've got quite a few 10/10 albums:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Alcest - Shelter

Amorphis -Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Amorphis - Elegy
Amorphis - Tuonela
Amorphis - Skyforger
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Amorphis - Circle

Anathema - Serenades
Anathema - Eternity
Anathema - Judgement
Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun 1998

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Bathory 1984
Bathory - Hammerheart

Bal Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil made Flesh
Cradle of Filth - Vempire
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty And the Beast

Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Dawn - Slaughter Sun
Deep Purple - In Rock

Def Leppard - On Through The Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

Dimmu Borgir - For all Tid
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions

Dissection - The Somberlain
Dissection - Storm of The Lights Bane
Dream Theater - Images and Words

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to The Welkin at Dusk
Empyrium - A Winter Sunset

Enslaved - Frost
Enslaved - Eld

Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium

Gehenna - First Spell
Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils of Darkness

Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
Hawkwind - Levitation

Heart - Bebe Le Strange
Heart - Heart (1985)
Heart - Bad Animals

Hecate Enthroned - Upon Promeathean Shores....... (Unscriptured Waters)
Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence... A Requiem for The Mighty
Hecate Enthroned - Dark Requiems... And the Unsilent Massacre
Hecate Enthroned - kings of Chaos

Immortal - Diabolical Full Moon Mysticism
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Immortal - At the heart of Winter
Immortal - Sons of northern Darkness

In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Colony
In Flames - Clayman

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Caught somewhere in time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Judas Priest - Killing Machine
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
Keep of Kalessin - Epistemology
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat
Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate

Mactätus - Blot
Mactätus - Provenance of Cruelty

Magnum - On a Storytellers Night

Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Megadeth - Youthanasia
MercyfulFate - Melissa
Mercyfulfate - Don't Break the Oath
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

NFD - Dead Pool Rising
NFD - Waking The Dead

Nightwish - Angels fall First
Nightwish - Ocean Born
Nightwish - Wishmaster

Nokturnal Mortum - To The Gates Of Blashpemous Fire
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Nokturnal Mortum - Verity

Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering
Old Mans Child - The pagan prosperity
Opera IX - The Black Opera

Opeth - Orchid
Opeth - Morning Rise
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park

Paradise Lost - Gothic
Paradise Lost - Shades of God
Paradise Lost - Icon
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Paradise Lost - One Second

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - DivisionBell

Rush - 2112
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Signals

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Scorpions - In Trance
Scorpions - Lovedrive

Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
Septic Flesh - Esoptro
Septic Flesh - Revolution DNA
The Cult - Love
The Cure - Disintegration
The Damned - Phantasmagoria
Tiamat - Wildhoney

To Die For - All Eternity
To Die For - Epilogue

Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Tribulation - The Children of The Night

The Stone Roses - 1989

Therion - Theli
Therion - Vovin

Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative - October Rust
Type O Negative - World Coming Down

U2 - Boy
U2 - War

Watain - Lawless-Darkness
Watain - The Wild Hunt

While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn

Within Temptation - Enter

Sorry if this list of albums is rather large, but all these albums are just stunning from start to finnish. The have great guitars, vocals, lyrics, arrangments, drumming and song writing.

nyarlothothep · 06-01-2020 11:01pm

1. Lulu-Lou Reed/Metallica
2. Hotspace-Queen
3. Hard to Swallow -Vanilla Ice

Losty Dublin · 07-01-2020 3:21am

afro man wrote: »

Let there be rock ac/dc

Only seeing this thread now and it was the very first album that I thought of.

The Nal · 07-01-2020 10:19am

nyarlothothep wrote: »

1. Lulu-Lou Reed/Metallica

Loved that album

Joffrey · 10-01-2020 7:03pm

Strangers With Guns - Degenerate Art

does have 1 stinker though

Raconteuse · 10-01-2020 7:05pm

Pixies' Doolittle is the only album which is perfect imo.

Declan A Walsh · 10-01-2020 10:05pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Pixies' Doolittle is the only album which is perfect imo.

While I would not like every track on it, it certainly has some excellent tracks such as Monkey Gone to Heaven, Gauge Away and No. 13 Baby.

PropJoe10 · 10-01-2020 11:00pm

Lateralus - TOOL.

S.M.B. · 10-01-2020 11:59pm

Massive, massive fan of both Doolittle and Laterals but again, I still don't think they are albums full of classics.

Silver a classic? Not for me. Same for Ticks & Leeches.

Raconteuse · 11-01-2020 12:49am

I don't know of any album whose every track is a classic though. Not saying they don't exist, just that I don't know one. So the closest for me is an album with no bad track (imo) and that's Doolittle by miles for me (if just talking rock; other albums of other genres).

PropJoe10 · 12-01-2020 9:49pm

S.M.B. wrote: »

Massive, massive fan of both Doolittle and Laterals but again, I still don't think they are albums full of classics.

Silver a classic? Not for me. Same for Ticks & Leeches.

Ah, see I love both of those songs. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, of course

partyguinness · 18-02-2020 2:48pm

Nephilim Wolf wrote: »

I've got quite a few 10/10 albums:

Agalloch - The Mantle
Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain
Alcest - Shelter

Amorphis -Tales From the Thousand Lakes
Amorphis - Elegy
Amorphis - Tuonela
Amorphis - Skyforger
Amorphis - Silent Waters
Amorphis - Circle

Anathema - Serenades
Anathema - Eternity
Anathema - Judgement
Arcane Sun - Arcane Sun 1998

Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Bathory 1984
Bathory - Hammerheart

Bal Sagoth - A Black Moon Broods Over Lemuria
Bal-Sagoth - Battle Magic
Bal-Sagoth - The Power Cosmic
Bal-Sagoth - Atlantis Ascendant

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Masters Of Reality
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell

Cradle of Filth - The Principle of Evil made Flesh
Cradle of Filth - Vempire
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and her Embrace
Cradle of Filth - Cruelty And the Beast

Children of Bodom - Something Wild
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder

Darkthrone - A Blaze in the Northern Sky
Dark Tranquillity - Construct
Dawn - Slaughter Sun
Deep Purple - In Rock

Def Leppard - On Through The Night
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations

Dimmu Borgir - For all Tid
Dimmu Borgir - Stormblast
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant
Dimmu Borgir - Spiritual Black Dimensions

Dissection - The Somberlain
Dissection - Storm of The Lights Bane
Dream Theater - Images and Words

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse
Emperor - Anthems to The Welkin at Dusk
Empyrium - A Winter Sunset

Enslaved - Frost
Enslaved - Eld

Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor
Fields of the Nephilim - The Nephilim
Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium

Gehenna - First Spell
Gehenna - Seen Through The Veils of Darkness

Ghost - Opus Eponymous
Hammerfall - Legacy of Kings
Hawkwind - Levitation

Heart - Bebe Le Strange
Heart - Heart (1985)
Heart - Bad Animals

Hecate Enthroned - Upon Promeathean Shores....... (Unscriptured Waters)
Hecate Enthroned - The Slaughter of Innocence... A Requiem for The Mighty
Hecate Enthroned - Dark Requiems... And the Unsilent Massacre
Hecate Enthroned - kings of Chaos

Immortal - Diabolical Full Moon Mysticism
Immortal - Pure Holocaust
Immortal - At the heart of Winter
Immortal - Sons of northern Darkness

In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Colony
In Flames - Clayman

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - Caught somewhere in time
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son

Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
Judas Priest - Killing Machine
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Katatonia - Dance of December Souls
Katatonia - Brave Murder Day
Katatonia - Discouraged Ones

Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
Keep of Kalessin - Epistemology
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist

Lord Belial - Kiss The Goat
Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate

Mactätus - Blot
Mactätus - Provenance of Cruelty

Magnum - On a Storytellers Night

Manic Street Preachers - Generation Terrorists
Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible

Mayhem - De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas
Megadeth - Youthanasia
MercyfulFate - Melissa
Mercyfulfate - Don't Break the Oath
Metallica - Ride the Lightning

NFD - Dead Pool Rising
NFD - Waking The Dead

Nightwish - Angels fall First
Nightwish - Ocean Born
Nightwish - Wishmaster

Nokturnal Mortum - To The Gates Of Blashpemous Fire
Nokturnal Mortum - Weltanschauung
Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel
Nokturnal Mortum - Verity

Old Man's Child - Born of The Flickering
Old Mans Child - The pagan prosperity
Opera IX - The Black Opera

Opeth - Orchid
Opeth - Morning Rise
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park

Paradise Lost - Gothic
Paradise Lost - Shades of God
Paradise Lost - Icon
Paradise Lost - Draconian Times
Paradise Lost - One Second

Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Animals
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - DivisionBell

Rush - 2112
Rush - A Farewell To Kings
Rush - Hemispheres
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Signals

Satyricon - Dark Medieval Times
Satyricon - The Shadowthrone
Satyricon - Nemesis Divina
Scorpions - In Trance
Scorpions - Lovedrive

Septic Flesh - Mystic Places of Dawn
Septic Flesh - Esoptro
Septic Flesh - Revolution DNA
The Cult - Love
The Cure - Disintegration
The Damned - Phantasmagoria
Tiamat - Wildhoney

To Die For - All Eternity
To Die For - Epilogue

Tribulation - The Formulas of Death
Tribulation - The Children of The Night

The Stone Roses - 1989

Therion - Theli
Therion - Vovin

Type O Negative - Slow, Deep and Hard
Type O Negative - The Origin of the Feces
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Type O Negative - October Rust
Type O Negative - World Coming Down

U2 - Boy
U2 - War

Watain - Lawless-Darkness
Watain - The Wild Hunt

While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
While Heaven Wept - Of Empires Forlorn

Within Temptation - Enter

Sorry if this list of albums is rather large, but all these albums are just stunning from start to finnish. The have great guitars, vocals, lyrics, arrangments, drumming and song writing.

Oh FFS...:rolleyes:

There's always one.

Truly greatest albums where every single track is a classic

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