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Albums without a single bad track on them

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  • #52
    retalivity
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    Pivot Eoin wrote: »
    Air - Moon Safari

    Yes! On this note:
    Royksopp - Melody AM
    Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun


  • #53
    spurious
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,270 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Janis Ian - Between the Lines


  • #54
    Tony EH
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    CBear1993 wrote: »
    Is this thread closed off to old lads? Haven’t seen many albums post 2000 on here yet :D:D

    Well, the time of classic "albums" is pretty much over, isn't it? The was a golden age, from the 60's to the 90's, where the album was king. People charted a band's rise and fall through their album output.

    The thing is, a lot of today's good albums, where there isn't "a single bad track on them" are probably very few and far between. Although I say that as someone who finds it harder and harder to find albums that I can put on and listen to straight true these days.

    I think the last, most recent, ones were Australian punks like Amyl and the Sniffers or The Chats. But how long they'll live in my playlist is another matter.


  • #55
    Truthvader
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    Zaph wrote: »
    My contributions to the thread:

    Talking Heads - Remain in Light
    Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
    Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
    Alabama 3 - Exile on Coldharbour Lane

    Great shout on Graceland earlier, it's an album that has really stood the test of time.

    Big shout for Lloyd Cole. Brilliant work


  • #56
    NapoleonInRags
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    Whittled down from a much bigger list!

    Beatles – Revolver
    Beatles – Abbey Road
    Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One
    Grant Lee Buffalo – Fuzzy
    Pixies – Doolittle
    Smiths – Queen is Dead
    Go-Betweens – 16 Lovers Lane
    Nick Cave – Henrys Dream
    Ride – Nowhere
    Kiasmos – Kiasmos
    The Jam – All Mod Cons
    My Bloody Valentine – Loveless
    The Strokes – Is this It?
    Arcade Fire – Funeral
    The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
    Radiohead – In Rainbows
    Rolling Stones – Let it Bleed
    The National – Boxer
    David Bowie – Ziggy Stardust
    Stevie Wonder - Innervisions


  • #57
    [Deleted User]
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    Heaven And Hell - Meatloaf and Bonnie Tyler


  • #58
    Declan A Walsh
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    I have accumulated many albums over the years in various formats, but there are very few where I would like every single track. Some came close with maybe just one dud track.

    Here are the ones I can think of (at the moment) where I liked every single track:
    Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
    Going for The One - Yes
    A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile
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  • #59
    accensi0n
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    Ambulance LTD - LP


  • #60
    NewbridgeIR
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    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    I have accumulated many albums over the years in various formats, but there are very few where I would like every single track. Some came close with maybe just one dud track.

    Here are the ones I can think of (at the moment) where I liked every single track:
    Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd
    Going for The One - Yes
    A Walk Across The Rooftops - The Blue Nile

    Blue Nile Hats is savage too


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  • #61
    Rothko
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    The Cure - Disintegration. There's a caveat. The LP has 10 songs but was a terrible pressing. The 12 track CD is the one to own but the extra pair are superfluous; just programme it to skip Last Dance and Homesick.

    No way, both are great songs.


  • #62
    NewbridgeIR
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    Rothko wrote: »
    No way, both are great songs.

    How did you hear it first?

    I bought the LP when it was released, played it twice every night while cramming for my Leaving Cert and a couple of months later got a copy of the CD with the extra tracks so I could listen to them before my favourite ever gig

    The two of them always felt out of place for that reason.


  • #63
    JPCN1
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    Throwing Copper - Live.
    August and everything after- Counting Crows.
    Quadrophenia -The Who.
    All Mod Cons- The Jam.
    The Visit - Loreena McKennitt.


  • #64
    CrankyHaus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,281 ✭✭✭CrankyHaus


    Nas - Illmatic
    Air - Moon Safari
    Sly and The Family Stone - Stand
    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
    Cymande - Cymande
    Oasis - First two albums

    Bob Dylan -Highway 61 Revisted (arguably there's one bad song, the rest is 10/10)

    Edit: can't believe I forgot to mention The Pogues, not a dud to be heard until their fourth album.


  • #65
    accensi0n
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    JPCN1 wrote: »
    Throwing Copper - Live.
    August and everything after- Counting Crows.
    Quadrophenia -The Who.
    All Mod Cons- The Jam.
    The Visit - Loreena McKennitt.

    Just had to be different didn't ya. :pac:


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  • #67
    road_high
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    Never mind the Smiths or Metallica...here’s where the quality uplifting tunes are;
    https://www.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fen%2Fc%2Fc2%2FPartytimecover.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPartyTime_(album)&tbnid=LWrFpa-FZaMj6M&vet=12ahUKEwjT0bvokZDqAhV7YBUIHX74DuMQMygAegQIARB9..i&docid=YpfZY8-hQgA3VM&w=300&h=300&q=cheeky%20girls%20album&hl=en-gb&client=safari&ved=2ahUKEwjT0bvokZDqAhV7YBUIHX74DuMQMygAegQIARB9


  • #68
    pgj2015
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    Eminem - The marshall mathers LP

    Chase and status - No more idols

    50 cent - get rich or die tryin


  • #69
    Sam Hain
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    JPCN1 wrote: »
    Throwing Copper - Live.
    August and everything after- Counting Crows.
    Quadrophenia -The Who.
    All Mod Cons- The Jam.
    The Visit - Loreena McKennitt.

    I'm pretty sure Counting Crows never wrote a good song.


  • #70
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,541 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    George Orwell predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four that music would be written by computers, we're nearly there.

    Rattle And Hum is utter shyte, an embarrassment to all concerned. If they could erase that period of their career, they would.

    Some good ones mentioned already, but not this :

    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    An absolute classic, compulsory listening.

    Sonic Youth - Goo
    Some regard this as a sell out just because it was their first major label album. It's more accessible than most of their work and they made low budget videos for each track with unknown directors like Spike Jonze :)

    Nirvana - Bleach. Their best work.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #71
    tayto lover
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    Graceland - Paul Simon.


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  • #72
    Conall Cernach
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    retalivity wrote: »
    'Hats off to Roy Harper' says hello
    If find that to be one of the better tracks on the album. It is an exemplar of traditional slide blues. I prefer it over Celebration Day and Friends anyway.



    Led Zeppelin IV is pure perfection though. The Battle of Evermore was one of the first tracks that got me hooked on Zeppelin.


  • #73
    NewbridgeIR
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    George Orwell predicted in Nineteen Eighty-Four that music would be written by computers, we're nearly there.

    Rattle And Hum is utter shyte, an embarrassment to all concerned. If they could erase that period of their career, they would.

    Some good ones mentioned already, but not this :

    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    An absolute classic, compulsory listening.

    Sonic Youth - Goo
    Some regard this as a sell out just because it was their first major label album. It's more accessible than most of their work and they made low budget videos for each track with unknown directors like Spike Jonze :)

    Nirvana - Bleach. Their best work.

    I met a guy in the mid-90s who proudly told me he "never bought albums on major labels". He had a beard.

    Goo is great; saw them on the tour with Teenage Fanclub. £6 a ticket; someone paid £70 outside McGonagles. Shocking.

    Daydream Nation is good but I prefer Sister and EVOL from that era.
    I bought EVOL and Now 7 at the same time in 1986 and will never forget the record shop guy's look of approval followed by disgust and contempt. That was the point where I decided that music snobs were d*ckheads.


  • #74
    Hotblack Desiato
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    It seems mad nowadays but I hadn't even heard about the McGonagles gig until it was sold out, was raging.

    I saw them in the Top Hat in '91, tickets had gone up to £8 :), bought upstairs in HMV in their original location on Grafton St. Some unknown called Kurt Cobain had to hump his own amp onto stage before playing support :) about two weeks later, Nevermind came out.

    Scrap the cap!



  • #75
    NewbridgeIR
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    I remember the HMV ticket concession place. The Top Hat & Sir Henry's gigs are seminal - I managed to miss out. The Nevermind buzz was massive. Every house party I went to in Dublin in autumn / winter 1991 had it on the stereo. And Screamdelica after 2.00am.


  • #76
    Strumms
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    The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

    The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

    Richard Hawley - Late Night Final / Lowedges


  • #77
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Harvest; Neil Young.
    Stone Roses; Stone Roses.
    In Rainbows; Radiohead.
    Ok Computer; Radiohead.
    Last Broadcast; Doves.
    In Symmetry; Muse.
    Forgot to add Ten; Pearl Jam.


  • #78
    callaway92
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    Kendrick Lamar - OD
    Kendrick Lamar - Section 80
    QOTSA - Songs For The Deaf
    The Streets - Original Pirate Material
    Jay-Z - Black Album


  • #79
    thebourke
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    iron maiden -number of the beast


  • #80
    phelixoflaherty
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    I'll just fire in Smog. A river ain't too much to love and
    Rollerskate Skinny- Horsedrawn wishes


  • #81
    Dyr
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    thebourke wrote: »
    iron maiden -number of the beast

    Invaders is generally acknowledged as a **** song, Gangland isn't much better. Oddly they left a far better track from those sessions off the album for those two turkeys. Their debut is the one album they released that was all killer no filler.

    And while I'm at it, Disintegration has a few ropey moments. Pornography was The Cures one album without a single duff track

    Hopefully someones mentioned London Calling by now.


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  • #82
    [Deleted User]
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    Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs


  • #83
    PTH2009
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    Def Leppard- Hysteria


  • #84
    Rodney Bathgate
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    StupidLikeAFox wrote: »
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    It was hard to pick between this and "I love the smell of silage" but I think this is his best work

    Is Richie related in any way to Mattress Mick?


  • #85
    Fr Tod Umptious
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    Paul Simon - Graceland

    Dire Straits - Brother's in Arms

    Blur - Parklife

    Radiohead - The Bends (even though most of the tracks on Ok Computer are better)

    Mercury Rev - Deserters Songs.

    STP - Purple.


  • #86
    rolling boh
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    some girls beggars banquet and let it bleed rolling stones


  • #87
    NewbridgeIR
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    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

    Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms.

    Ruined by the Walk Of Life IMHO


  • #88
    NewbridgeIR
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    Bambi wrote: »
    Invaders is generally acknowledged as a **** song, Gangland isn't much better. Oddly they left a far better track from those sessions off the album for those two turkeys. Their debut is the one album they released that was all killer no filler.

    And while I'm at it, Disintegration has a few ropey moments. Pornography was The Cures one album without a single duff track

    Hopefully someones mentioned London Calling by now.

    I think Killers is better than the debut. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son next.

    What are Disintegration’s ropey moments (I posted above that the two extra tracks don’t work for me, interested to see what yours are)

    Pornography brilliant aside from the title track. The Head On The Door (my first) is remarkably consistent too


  • #89
    Reberetta
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    Check out this thing I'm running.

    Boardsies Decide the Greatest Album Of All-Time.


  • #90
    Dyr
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    I think Killers is better than the debut. Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son next.

    What are Disintegration’s ropey moments (I posted above that the two extra tracks don’t work for me, interested to see what yours are)

    Pornography brilliant aside from the title track. The Head On The Door (my first) is remarkably consistent too

    Killers is my personal favourite but theres some fillers on there, unlike the first album

    Last dance is very average IMO, actually my attention usually wanders around halfway through Closedown and perks up a bit for Lovesong and disappears for Last Dance. the bonus tracks are so-so. I really like Pirate Ships from the Disintegration sessions,


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  • #91
    thereitisgone
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    R.E.M Automatic for the People
    INXS Kick

    End of conversation


  • #92
    the purple tin
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    AC/DC: Powerage
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    Rock and roll belters all the way through.


    Neil Young: Sleeps with Angels
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    One of Young's best and most overlooked albums. Atmospheric, brooding, dark and rocking.


    Bruce Springsteen: Devils and Dust
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    Also tends to be overlooked but this is arguably the Boss's greatest acoustic album.


  • #93
    Tony EH
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    Bambi wrote: »
    Invaders is generally acknowledged as a **** song, Gangland isn't much better. Oddly they left a far better track from those sessions off the album for those two turkeys. Their debut is the one album they released that was all killer no filler.

    Every album from "classic 80's" Iron Maiden had some duff tracks on them and the versions of the songs felt flat when compared to their live counterparts. I can't really listen to any of the studio albums now, except maybe 'Piece of Mind'. But even then.

    Their live album, 'Live After Death', which was the first album I heard from them, is still one of the greatest examples of live records, even though there was a lot of post production done on it. But every version of every song on that record is far, far, superior to their studio counterparts.
    Bambi wrote: »
    Pornography was The Cures one album without a single duff track

    The production sucked though, which brings the whole thing down.


  • #94
    Rothko
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    NewbridgeIR wrote: »
    How did you hear it first?

    I bought the LP when it was released, played it twice every night while cramming for my Leaving Cert and a couple of months later got a copy of the CD with the extra tracks so I could listen to them before my favourite ever gig

    The two of them always felt out of place for that reason.

    Yeah, I heard it with those two included so I can't imagine the album without them. I still think I'd love them even if they were just b-sides or something.


  • #95
    s1ippy
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    Not a Bad Track on em, A Part 1/3

    Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323W1GcfcTA


    Alabama 3 - Hits and Exit Wounds
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-H5Ox14psc


    Alt J - An Awesome Wave
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Laq9dsj21gg


    Amy Winehouse - Frank
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a-Au0t1bKA


    The Andrews Sisters - The Dancing 20s
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKtmYAo_Bm4


  • #96
    s1ippy
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    A 2/3

    Andrew Bird - My Finest Work Yet
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJhweRNNzk


    Antonio Vivaldi -
    The Four Seasons
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg903HyGWFc


    Violin Sonatas Op. 2
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiijZmW9jKM


    Nisi Dominus/Stabat Mater
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXRtnZydQrI


    Arrigo Boito - Mefistofele Abdravakof
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94cmOHQgri8


    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32jp-7QlkqM


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  • #97
    s1ippy
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    A 3/3

    Arctic Monkeys -
    self-titled
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOSxM0rNPM


    Favourite Worst Nightmare
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30w8DyEJ__0


    Arcutus - The Sham Mirrors
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0o7Vx0bmno


    Aretha Franklin - Lady Soul
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS7LKoX_atM


    Audioslave -
    Audioslave
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UnEhcMEtTw


    Out of Exile
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOWS89a_ODM


    Might do Bs tomorrow, I have a list about 300 long total since starting whenever this thread opened, not sure if anyone will really be too bothered but I'm happy to have made the list of all my favourites cos it's also a lot of vinyl I need to buy. Plus it's handy to have to hand all the albums you can just stick on in full.


  • #98
    Basq
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    Arcade Fire - Funeral
    The Postal Service - Give Up
    Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
    Counting Crows - August And Everything After
    Bon Iver - Bon Iver


  • #99
    NewRed2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 999 ✭✭✭NewRed2


    U2 - Joshua Tree


  • #100
    gammygils
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    I've covered a few decades here

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    Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
    My all time favourite

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    Tango In The Night - Fleetwood Mac. I love every track

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    70's classic

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    Brilliant albums from one half of Steely Dan

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    Great "Make Out" album back in the day :P

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    "The Big Romance" - David Kitt

    A classic imo


  • #101
    NewbridgeIR
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    @ gammy gils

    Great list
    Much prefer Unknown Pleasures to Closer (has two weak links - The Eternal and Heart & Soul)
    Tango In The Night fantastic as is Rapture
    Was playing both Donald Fagens last night.
    My mother had the Clifford T Ward LP.

    Don't like The Big Romance at all. I reviewed it for Cluas.com in 2001 - they wanted to publish a positive and a negative review. Mine was the latter.


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