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Can you guys & gals please post the names of albums where you like every single track. I don't have many but here are a few
Pink Floyd - DSOTM (obviously)
REM - Automatic for the People
Mark Knopfler - Screenplaying
Mike Batt - Caravans
Vangelis - Reprise
Shawn Phillips - Faces & Second Contribution
Roxy Music - Avalon
Mike Oldfield - The Songs of Distant Earth
Brian Eno - Apollo - Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Jean Michael Jarre - Oxygene
James Taylor - Live
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad
Neil Young - Harvest
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I'd say Ziggy but the cover of It Ain't Easy doesn't fit the overall concept of the album IMHO !
This is a tough one.... The Clash - London Calling and the Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet are two I can attest to !
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I noticed a live album in there ! That changes the whole thread ....definitely these live albums ....Green Day - Awesomse as F***, Beatles - Live at Hollywood Bowl, The Killers - live at Royal Albert Hall, James Taylor Live, Carole KIng and James Taylor - Live at the Troubadour, Jethro Tull - Bursting Out, Supertramp = Live in Paris...on and on and on ....a LOVE live albums...they are a greatest hits performance so therefore there are a lot of albums whereby I like all the tracks !
Studio albums that are superb from start to finish are a rare bird IMHO !
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Automatic for the People is definitely on my list. I have to think some more but that one popped into my head first.
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I love every song from all three albums that have been released so far by my most favorite singer James Otto.
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God bless you and him always!!!
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P.S. May a new album from him be released soon!
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Listen to my most favorite singer here sometime, James Otto that is!
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wouldn't know where to begin
Bob Dylan alone exceeds that list
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like you MH,wouldnt know where to start but...
probably 15 of Neil Young's albums, most of Springsteen's and Elvis Costello's and possibly at least half of Nick Cave's for me, yeh, at least ten of Dylan's also....,
will, give a list of others by the weekend
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Iâm struggling to think of one. Most albums I like, have at least one track I donât like (which makes rating albums out of 10, quite difficult).
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for your consideration << not a smart-mouth opening, as will be clear soon.
All of the above are outstanding artists with top-notch, career-defining masterpieces. One thing, though, is that they all had total or at least very strong control over what the music was to be, how it was played/shaped, sequencing, sidemen, studio choice, etc. etc. ...And then there were pieces (plural) of pop brilliance by a guy and pals who had almost none of that: Brian Wilson. They even made the throwaways, the drek, work.What we lost in his self-destructiveness! Thus, all the first 4 albums qualify en masse because of seamlessness. Surfin' Safari/Surfin' USA/Surfer Girl/Little Deuce Coupe--these stand with a big buncha folks total career output
This is not a comedy post. I truly believe...
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OK, to bring back the original premise:
Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd--
Jazz Samba << career-defining and genre-changing; brought a lot of folks into the jazz fold AND legitimized Latin rhythms to the greater Western (for which read: Gringo) audience.
These jazz first-to-lasters are so numerous, it's "shooting-fish-in-a-barrel" easy (Erroll Garner's 1950's recordings, e.g.) but indulge me in one more:
Miles Davis--
Kind of Blue marks a transition point for a major artist--accessible but advanced. Don't know that you can dance to subsequent MD recordings...All-Star sidemen/contributors, wonderful songs fully explored,good charts and recorded right--what more do you want?
AMG on these 2:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/jazz-samba-mw0000594010 and
http://www.allmusic.com/album/kind-of-blue-mw0000191710 << don't listen to me--convince yourself.
