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[Watevaman]

Metallica - ...And Justice For All

Hromovlad - Vládca Lesov, Skalných Stien

Ensiferum - Iron

Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty

Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle-Earth

and many more, but I limit myself to 5 here

 

[Frustrated_me]

Gaf... What the hell..?

 

[hateradio]

When I'm on the PC, I hardly ever skip songs.

Last.fm is my alibi.

 

[trab pu kcip]

When I'm on the PC, I hardly ever skip songs.

Last.fm is my alibi.

mogwai <3

 

[punkmaggit]

My parents raised me on this album - I pop it in now from time to time and it's still great. Also James Taylor - Greatest Hits.

I'm a big metal guy, so my albums are:

Animals as Leaders - Self-titled
Soilwork - A Predator's Portrait
Textures - Silhouettes
Volumes - Via

 

[Casanova]

Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West

 

[Randolph Freelander]

I listen to a lot of albums straight through. I have playlists, certainly, but I go back and forth to albums as well. How about a back-to-back-to-back killer combo.

 

[opoth]

Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Talking Heads - Remain in Light

 

[umop_3pisdn]

I find that if it's an album where I feel like I need to skip a lot of tracks, I just naturally don't listen to it much. Most albums I listen to from start to finish.

 

[dekline]

Ensiferum - Iron

Oh shit. Great choices.

 

[Cosmonaut]

I have yet to find an album where I enjoy every track. Sure I always listen to an entire album the first few times, but then I always skip through. No exceptions.

 

[GavinGT]

several Pink Floyd albums
several Beatles albums
Metallica's first four albums
Bob Dylan - first eight albums, Blood on the Tracks, Royal Albert Hall
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
Rolling Stones - their first ten or so albums
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
The Band - Music from Big Pink, The Band, and Stage Fright
Led Zeppelin - everything up through Physical Graffiti
Nine Inch Nails - first three albums
Grateful Dead - American Beauty, Workingman's Dead, and literally hundreds of live bootlegs
Green Day - Dookie
Allman Brothers Band - The Allman Brothers Band, Fillmore East, Eat a Peach
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Rush - Moving Pictures, 2112
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love
BB King - Live at the Regal, Live at San Quentin, Live in Cook County Jail
Weezer - Blue Album
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground and Nico, Velvet Underground
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Dr. Dre - Chronic, Chronic 2001
Ice Cube - first four albums
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Nirvana - Nevermind
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard, Slowhand
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
The Who - My Generation, Who's Next

 

[zerotol]

 

[Soma]

Glassjaw - Worship & Tribute

The Flashbulb - A Soundtrack to a Vacant Life

Boris - Feedbacker

Mainly those three come to mind. A lot of the times I just randomly pick out a song I like more after listening to a certain album a bunch of times but there are a few where some tracks aren't as great without the context of the rest of the album.

 

[OnettHansen]

The Sword - Warp Riders

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

Blind Guardian - A Night at the Opera

Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon

Black Country Communion - Live Over Europe

Every Judas Priest CD ever, except for Demolition, Angel of Retribution shall be the example.

and many many more there are only a few albums I can't listen to all the way through, Metallica's Reload being an example.

 

[ZachDeKoromaru]

Am I the only one who listens to whole albums exclusively? Sure when I'm out I'll just skip around on my ipod, but when I'm at home I always listen to the full album of whatever.

 

[Cptkrush]

Between the Buried and Me - Parallax II
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
System of a Down - Toxicity

Colors
The Great Misdirect
The Parallax
The Parallax II



BTBAM is god tier.

I'm gonna go ahead and third this one. As well as add

Periphery II: This Time It's Personal

 

[DrFunk]

I kid you not. Love this album

 

[Oemenia]

Its 67 minutes long but not for a second feels bloated. Every song beautifully links to the next.

 

[OnettHansen]

Crap, I forgot the most important album.

I could happily listen to both discs through, over and over again until my dying day. utter masterpiece.

 

[ClassyPenguin]

Tool - Lateralus

Ayreon - The Human Equation

Yes - Fragile

Devin Townsend Presents: Ziltoid the Omnicient

Joanna Newsom - Ys

Explosions in the Sky -The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place

and a wild card:
Chef Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx

 

[Lucian Cat]

Stone sour- house of gold and bones pt1
Eluveitie- Helvetios

I think these are the only 2 albums I can listen to all the way though atm.
Edit: oh and a local band called octanic. Their album is pretty spiffy. I can listen to that on repeat all day

 

[Brobzoid]

Hildur Gudnadottir - Without Sinking
Burial - Untrue
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath 1972
Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown

 

[Imm0rt4l]

Depeche mode-ultra

 

[quickwhips]

 

[Mulligan]

 

[maxxpower]

I listen to metal, so pretty much every album I can listen to all the way through.

 

[trab pu kcip]

fugazi, pixies, explosions in the sky...I'm impressed GAF!

 

[Mulligan]

fugazi, pixies, explosions in the sky...I'm impressed GAF!

GAF has good taste.

 

[jergrah]

Fugees - The Score
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Cudi - Man on the Moon
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a Cold Dead Place
Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash

 

[trab pu kcip]

GAF has good taste.

yeah I bet it would be awesome to create a GAF group on last.fm and
then listen to the group radio

 

[Agent Ironside]

An album is meant to be experienced as a whole piece

if you have to skip a song, its a shit album, pretty simple.

So you're telling me, that if the album as a whole isn't good, then none of the songs on it worth listening to? Or am I misunderstanding?

 

[ClassyPenguin]

I forgot this one:

Riverside - Out of Myself

incredibly underrated band from Poland.

 

[Servbot24]

I have yet to find an album where I enjoy every track. Sure I always listen to an entire album the first few times, but then I always skip through. No exceptions.

How is anything ever going to grow on you if you do that? Oftentimes the best music is hard to appreciate at first.

Also why are some people assuming that every artist has the exact same intentions when making an album? Maybe someone just had a bunch of good songs, threw em on a disc and doesn't give a shit what order you listen to them in. Not every album is some labored over prog masterpiece, nor should they be. Artists aren't entering into to a sacred contract of pretentiousness just because they put some songs on a disc.

 

[MidnightCowboy]

Most albums I listen to I listen to all the way through unless I am under time constraints. I don't like skipping songs.

 

[nimbus]

I listen to the shitty songs on albums to appreciate the good ones even more.

 

[deadmeadow88]

yeah I bet it would be awesome to create a GAF group on last.fm and
then listen to the group radio

Yes! Maybe there's one already?

Also, is that you in your avatar? Neurosis! <3

 

[spectros4]

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

I listen to this while running pretty often, and it's also great to listen to when I'm in the mood for some electronic music.

The xx - xx

Great to listen to when relaxing

 

[cj_iwakura]

Any BT album. System of a Down's self-titled. Any Five Iron Frenzy album.

But yeah, I listen to almost all albums I own track-to-track when I replay them.

 

[Dicer]

These, and plenty of others...these just sprang to mind

 

[Cameron122]

Undertow

Aenima

Lateralus

10,000 Days

 

[jtb]

Daft Punk - Discovery
Any Beatles album after and including Rubber Soul (bar the White Album... fuck you Revolution 9/Why Don't We Do It In The Road)
Kanye West - The College Dropout (very hit and miss but by far Kanye's best album because it comes together so damn well)

 

[AgentChris]

Taeyang - SOLAR

 

[Wolfe]

How is anything ever going to grow on you if you do that? Oftentimes the best music is hard to appreciate at first.

Also why are some people assuming that every artist has the exact same intentions when making an album? Maybe someone just had a bunch of good songs, threw em on a disc and doesn't give a shit what order you listen to them in. Not every album is some labored over prog masterpiece, nor should they be. Artists aren't entering into to a sacred contract of pretentiousness just because they put some songs on a disc.

Yeah this thread is pretty goofy, I enjoy and prefer when an entire album appeals to me but I definitely don't think it's a requirement for an album to be considered good. Hell some of my favorite albums have tracks that I don't care listening to and will gladly skip if I feel like it, a good example being Believe on Tales from the Big Chair by Tears for Fears.

Besides even if the entire album is considered good it doesn't mean everyone will enjoy every track, for whatever reason.

I'm cool with this thread as it's interesting to see albums that people enjoy the entire content of but some of the ideas being thrown around in the thread sound really pretentious.

Here's a few of my favorites that fall into this category:

 

[FO-totality]

Trenches - The Tide Will Swallow Us Whole

 

[Troll]

 

[AzureSkies]

Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory

(Also Images and Words & Awake by Dream Theater)

Journey - Eclipse

Scorpions - Sting in the Tail

Clockwork Angels by RUSH:

Unisonic - Unisonic

 

[Buddha Beam]

It's a pretty short list for me*... although if we stretched it out to include albums with only 1 song I feel the need to skip, it'd be a decent bit longer.


The first album I could ever listen to without skipping was

And it's followup, too...

Radiohead's The Bends.

I would include OK Computer and Kid A, if it weren't for Subterranean Homesick Alien and Treefingers.

These are 3 amazing albums from start to finish:

The Divine Comedy holds the record for the most albums I can listen to by one group. I can throw on any one of these and not even realize when the album is over...

I would have also included Bang Goes The Knighthood, but fuck At The Indie Disco.

 

[PianoGuy]

Zero 7 - When it falls

I can listen to the cd on repeat the entire day

 

[Jedeye Sniv]

Most of them, I have an attention span and don't listen to shitty albums. More than two bad tracks? then it's a bad album.