Album's that are great from start to finish.

Level 42 - World Machine
Simply Red - picture book (I know, I know, but this was back before we realised he was a pr**k)
 
American Football - American Football

Only discovered this album earlier this year, and after seeing them live this year as well, this would be a worthy addition to any list of albums that are solid all the way through, and I agree with many of the ones mentioned above.
 
Some great albums listed, some of which have passed me by. As they've cropped up several times in this thread I think I owe it to myself to check them out, particularly Sigur Ros - Takk.

Depeche Mode - Violator
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Radiohead - OK Computer
Hard Knocks - School of Hard Knocks (massively underrated rap album)
Public Enemy - Yo Bum Rush the Show
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a sea of love
Atoms for Peace - Amok
U2 - Joshua Tree
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Nirvana - Nevermind
 
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
The Wonder Stuff - If the Beatles Had Read Hunter
U2 - The Joshua Tree
 
Paul Simon - Graceland
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Primal Scream - Scramadelica
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast
Leftfield - Leftism
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at The Star Club
Air - Moon Safari (+2)
Chi Chk Chk - Myth Takes
Portishead - Portishead
Seal - Seal
 
Hawkwind - Levitation
Joe Bonammassa - Live in Amsterdam.
Pink Floyd - Animals
Dave Gilmour - Rattle that lock
 
The Who - quadrophenia

U2 - Rattle and Hum

U2 - Joshua Tree
 
Many of the albums already mentioned plus a few off the top of my head.

Queen - A Night at the Opera
10cc - The Original Soundtrack
10cc - Sheet Music
10cc - Deceptive Bends
10cc - How Dare You?
Neil Young - Harvest
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Bob Dylan - Desire
Blur - Parklife
 
Rapscallion said:
Paul Simon - Graceland
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
Primal Scream - Scramadelica
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Nick Cave - Dig Lazarus Dig
Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast
Leftfield - Leftism
Jerry Lee Lewis - Live at The Star Club
Air - Moon Safari (+2)
Chi Chk Chk - Myth Takes
Portishead - Portishead
Seal - Seal
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Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast great call
 
rjbell said:
Badly Drawn Boy - Bewilderbeast great call
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Also really like Have you fed the fish.

The album on that list that I keep trying to get people to listen to is the Jerry Lee Lewis album. I'm not a lover of 60s rock, but that is one of the greatest live performances I have ever heard, the energy and ferocity just do not stop, Jerry giving it everything from the opening, absolutely hammering that piano and vocals as though it was his life depended on it. Truly something special.

Save it for when you can put it on LOUD and went to rock!

 
Saliva - Back in my system
Van Halen -1984
AC/DC - Black Ice
Chase & Status - No more idols
The Prodigy - Experience
Left field - A Final hit
Placebo - Once more with feeling

:)
 
Pearl Jam - Ten (Non-import version!) I hate Dirty Frank

U2 - The Joshua Tree + Wide Awake In America

Alice In Chains - Dirt

Amy McDonald - This Is The Life

Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine

Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks. (I know it's a sort of best-of, but I still I love this album)

NIN - The Downward Spiral (headphones, headphone amp, dark room, Montecristo No.2, a large whisky and feet up!)
 
Rapscallion said:
Also really like Have you fed the fish.

The album on that list that I keep trying to get people to listen to is the Jerry Lee Lewis album. I'm not a lover of 60s rock, but that is one of the greatest live performances I have ever heard, the energy and ferocity just do not stop, Jerry giving it everything from the opening, absolutely hammering that piano and vocals as though it was his life depended on it. Truly something special.

Save it for when you can put it on LOUD and went to rock!
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Some musicians and bands just have to be seen live to do them justice and I think JLL is one of them. Listening is only a small part of the overal performance. Others are so boring on stage that listening is really the only option. There's more charisma in the stickers on their guitar cases than they exude.

Back on topic, here's a band that I loved in the 80s and hadn't listened to for years and only recently started listening to again.

Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis?
Supertramp -Breakfast in America
 
praxis said:
Hawkwind - Levitation
Joe Bonammassa - Live in Amsterdam.
Pink Floyd - Animals
Dave Gilmour - Rattle that lock
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Agree on 'Levitation' and would like to add the Lillingtons' "Too Late Show"

Someone already mentioned Alkaline Trio's "Crimson", too.
 
If I could boil it down to just the one album, it's Phaedra by Tangerine Dream. I must have listened to it hundreds of times since I first came across it in 1982 and I'm still finding new bits of sound every time.
 
viv1969 said:
Does Jeff Wayne' s War of the Worlds count?
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Which one? I prefer the original but still like the second, more recent version. Seen both live and now considering the smaller stage production at the Dominion which starts in the new year.

ELO - Out of The Blue, A New World Record
AC/DC - Back in Black. Rock or Bust, Black Ice, Who Made Who
Steve Hackett - Please Don't Touch
Rush - Farewell to Kings, 2112, Moving Pictures, Clockwork Angels
UFO - No Place To Run, The Visitor, The Wild the Willing and the Innocent, Strangers in the Night.
Waysted - Say Your Prayers
Pink Floyd - WYWH, DSoTM, Delicate Sound of Thunder, The Wall, Pulse, A Momentary Lapse of Reason,
Genesis - And Then There Were Three, Abacab, Invisible Touch, Foxtrot, A Trick of The Tail
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1), Peter Gabriel (2) So
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Marillion - A Misplaced Childhood, Clutching at Straws
Fastway - Trick or Treat
Bruce Springsteen - The River, Born in the USA
 
nilagin said:
Which one? I prefer the original but still like the second, more recent version. Seen both live and now considering the smaller stage production at the Dominion which starts in the new year.

Marillion - A Misplaced Childhood,
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The only one that counts. The original.

(And fixed Marillion for you ;) )
 
Ian D J said:
If I could boil it down to just the one album, it's Phaedra by Tangerine Dream. I must have listened to it hundreds of times since I first came across it in 1982 and I'm still finding new bits of sound every time.
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Good choice, though I prefer Ricochet, esp side two.
 
i have a new album from 2015 i think is going to be a classic and should be added to the list. Jamie xx - in colour. It's been lorded about all year so i thought i would see what all the fuss is about and i have to agree with the critiques its a cracking album from start to finish. Wasn't sure first play but now i've been listing to it over the last day or so i love it. I wholehearted recommend i listen or two.
 
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (I still cannot believe this was released in 1968!)
 
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers & Let it Bleed

Edit - Sticky Fingers already listed, by me :oops: :$
 
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