Album's that are great from start to finish.

Asia - Asia
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night, Rumours
Foreigner -4
Dire Straits - Lover over Gold., On every Street
U2 -Joshua Tree
AC/DC Highway to Hell
 
Pink Floyd meddle -- Hmmm I think you must have forgotten about Shamus...... My fav PF album but I hate that track

For me Astral Weeks by Van Morrison....
 
Quite a few already mentioned but…

Pink Floyd (of course :D) - DSotM, WYWH, PatGoD, Animals & The Wall
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (')
Bob Dylan - Highway 61
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
Captain Beefheart And His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
The Who - Who’s Next
Anathema - Judgement
ELP - Tarkus
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations
The Beatles - Revolver
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Radiohead - OK Computer
Steven Wilson - HAND. CANNOT. ERASE.
Tool - Ænima
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Fairport Convention - Liege And Lief
Neil Young - Harvest
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
Rush - Fly By Night
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Sigur Rós - Takk…
The Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
The Small Faces - Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake
Jethro Tull - Stand Up


I could go on…however I’ll finish with any of Nick Drake’s albums and I’m a big Porcupine Tree fan so… Stupid Dream, FoaBP, Deadwing & In Absentia would all be high up there :D
 
I'm surprised by how much overlap there is in music taste here - spanning several genres. I guess it goes to show it doesn't matter what style it is , as long as it's good. :)

Will definitely have to go and listen to Sigur Ros's Takk now. I know some of their work, but haven't heard the whole album, and I have some HMV vouchers... :D
 
Yep just shows to show a good album is a good album whatever the genre. Sigur Ros is my go too insomnia album. Glad to see Siamese Dreams pop up a few times.

I forgot all about Tool - Ænima i think i might go and give that a listen now.

A great guilty pleasure pop album is Niles Rodgers Like A Virgin album with Madonna singing the songs for him :)

I highly recommend the Anthony and the Johnson album mentioned above. Its been my fav for a number of years now.
 
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Some of these are quite obscure.

Steve Reich - Music for 18 musicians (original ECM release). A masterpiece from start to finish.
Queen - Queen, and Sheer heart attack
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Richard Thompson - Pour down like silver, Hokey pokey, I want to see the bright lights tonight
Marillion - Script for a jester's tear, Fugazi and Misplaced Childhood
The Enid - In the region of the summer stars
Suzanne Vega's eponymous first album
Mary Coughlan - Under the influence
Queensryche - Operation mindcrime
Iron Maiden - Number of the beast and Powerslave

and because it's me, the obligatory selection of music performed mostly on analogue synths from the 1960s and 70s:
Redhsift -Ether & Siren
Arc - Arcturus
Mark Shreeve - Assassin
Tangerine Dream - Logos, Encore, Quichotte, Ricochet, Tangram, Stratosfear, Poland ...
 
Deep Purple - Made in Japan
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Eagles - Hotel California
Dire Straits - Alchemy Live
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
U2 - Shake, Rattle and Hum
 
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas,
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a dying Sun, Anastasis, The Serpent's Egg.
The Damned - Phantasmagoria
Faithless - No Roots
Yes - 90125
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Simple Minds - Big Music
Air - Moon Safari
Pink Floyd - DSOTM, Wish you Were Here, The Division Bell, Meddle.
David Bowie - Let's Dance.
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine.
Yello - Baby and just about every other album they've done.

So many others. Most of the Floyd are ones are start to finish players too.
 
Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen

Neds Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder

Martha Wainwright - Martha Wainwright

10000 Maniacs - Unplugged

The Meices - Tastes Like Chicken

Red Red Meat - Jimmywine Majestic

Dinosaur Jr - Where You Been

Cold Water Flat - Cold Water Flat

Power of Dreams - Immigrants Emigrants and Me

Counting Crows - August and Everything After

I could probably go on for days
 
Showing my age now;

'Parallel Lines' - Blondie
'War of the Worlds' - Jeff Wayne
'Something That I Said' - The Ruts
'Rattus Norvegicus' - The Stranglers
'Essential Ten Years After' - Ten Years After
'Live in Germany 1976' - Rainbow
 
Just having a look through some alums I listen all the way through - tend to save them as whole albums rather than individual tracks:

bonnie prince billy - i see a darkness
godspeed - lift your skinny fists
massive attack - mezzanine
metallica - ride the lightning
my bloody valentine - loveless
nick drake - pink moon
pink floyd - atom heart mother
portishead - dummy
radiohead - ok computer
talk talk - spirit of eden
flaming lips - the soft bulletin
the velvet underground - the velvet underground & nico
 
So many great albums to choose from ...here are a few of my favourites:

10CC - Bloody Tourists
Alice Cooper - School's Out
Carol King - Tapestry
CSNY - Deja Vu
David Bowie - MWSTW
Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours / Tusk
Mark Knopfler - Kill To Get Crimson
Neil Young - Harvest
Paul Simon - Rhythm Of The Saints
Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Queen - A Night At The Opera
Roxy Music - Avalon
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Beetles - St Pepper's ...
Eagles - Hell Freezes Over / Hotel California
Moody Blues - A Night At Red Rocks
 
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Bill Bragg - Back to Basics
Leftfield - Leftism
Carter USM - 30 something
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Death in Vegas - Contino Sessions
Nine in Nails - Downward Spiral
Levellers - Levelling the Land
Wonderstuff - Construction for the modern Idiot
Nirvana - Nevermind
 
nevermind the b*****ks..........sex pistols
roger waters .....radio chaos
pink floyd...the final cut
 
Off the top of my head ( but no doubt I'll be thinking about this all day now!)

Radiohead - OK Computer
Tool - Aenema
Deftones - White Pony
Pearl Jam - Ten
Dj Shadow - Entroducing
Kate Bush - Lionheart
Machine Head - Through The Ashes Of Empires
Nirvana - Unplugged
Wu-tang Clan - 36 chambers
 
This is inspiring me to create the obvious companion thread - great albums let down by one shoddy track!

(Although the White Album would surely win...)
 
Llamaman said:
This is inspiring me to create the obvious companion thread - great albums let down by one shoddy track!
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Leige and Lief by Fairport Convention would be my contribution. I always start on in track 2.
 
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (though as technically, it's only one track anyway, It may not be eligeable)
Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
David Lee Roth - Eat 'em and Smile
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Vicious Cycle, Pronounced
Pink Floyd - DSOTM, Wish You Were Here
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
 
TheBigYin said:
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick (though as technically, it's only one track anyway, It may not be eligeable)
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You need to turn it over for track 2...

Spoiler: a hare loses some spectacles.
 
Kaolin said:
PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea
Bill Bragg - Back to Basics
Leftfield - Leftism
Carter USM - 30 something
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Death in Vegas - Contino Sessions
Nine in Nails - Downward Spiral
Levellers - Levelling the Land
Wonderstuff - Construction for the modern Idiot
Nirvana - Nevermind
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Gareth, are you my long lost twin ;)

Some excellent choices (y)
 
Billy Bragg - talking with the taxman about poetry
temple of the dog
Tom Waits - Rain dogs
Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Smiths - Hateful of Hollow
Sunhouse
The Bush, The Tree & Me
Gomez - Bring it on
Elbow - The take off & landing of everything
 
30 Something - Carter USM
Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos
Copper Blue - Sugar
Automatic for the People - REM
Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil
Misplaced Childhood - Marillion
Levelling the Land - Levellers
Jesus Jones - Jesus Jones (really!)
Bellybutton - Jellyfish
Wasting Light - Foo Fighters
August & Everything After - Counting Crows
Shake your Moneymaker - Black Crowes
Race for Space - Public Service Announcement

Probably loads more that I can't remember too [emoji1]
 
Foxbase Alpha - Saint Etienne
The Raven - Stranglers
Now That's What I Call Music! - 52
 
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