What constitutes a great album for me is when you listen to it straight through or on shuffle and you don't feel the need to skip a song.
Examples:
- Korn, Follow The Leader.
- Nirvana, Nevermind.
- Pearl Jam, Ten.
- Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Blood Sugar Sex Magic.
- Gomez, In Our Gun.
- Mazzy Star, So Tonight That I Might Find.
- Silverchair, Frogstomp.
- VAST, Visual Audio Sensory Theatre.
- Metallica, Kill 'em All.
What makes a good album and what are a coupla of your favourites?.
anything but metallica..even ABBA (spelled backwards is Abba..amazing)
ReplyDeleteGod I loath hetfield and his bitch..the euro-drummer.
Insightful.
ReplyDeletePretty much like you said there-you listen to the whole thing without skipping any songs, or you can leave it in the car and listen to it for several days in a row.
ReplyDeleteSince my musical tastes appear to be somewhat older than yours, here are a few faves:
Johnny Cash-Live at San Quentin
The Who-Quadrephenia
Jimmy Buffett-Songs You Know By Heart
Rush-Moving Pictures
Beatles-Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
AC/DC-Back In Black
Led Zeppelin-Led Zeppelin IV
Zeppelin again-Physical Graffiti
Eagles-Greatest Hits 1971-75
If I have those in the car, I can go cross country.
1968: The Kinks, Village Green Preservation Society. Awesomely good.
ReplyDeleteoooooooo The Kinks. Forgot about them.
ReplyDeleteYa've got some good ones I haven't heard in YONKS YDog. Cheers.
What makes a good one, well, you've pretty much covered it. Its good when they mix it up a bit, different styles, tempo etc on the one album.
ReplyDeleteAlthough that rules out most ACDC albums ;) but agree with YD, Back in Black is one of the best!
Also liking :
Nightwish - Once
ZZ Top - Eliminator, Afterburner
Metallica - The Black Album
Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th Son
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall
Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell
Though theres a lot less album buying going on now in the age of the mighty Ipod !
Alice, From the inside
ReplyDeleteFloyd's early to middle stuff
War of the worlds, 'nuf said
Early nah most Queen albums
Ridgeway
Bob Hillman
and the still listen to Ellen Reid, I want more.
I could second ZZ Top's 'Eliminator' and Satriani's 'Surfing with the Alien' and any '70s Queen album.
ReplyDeleteI'd replace Metallica with Tiesto.
ReplyDeleteNightwish's Once is kickass.
Ah yes, the great lost art of the "album". I have been lamenting the loss of the artist vision of an album since the invention of pods... there are still some good ones coming out though.
ReplyDeleteAnything by Augie March. These are albums you can listen from 1 to 13 and detect (even if you don't understand) the underlying narrative.
In the same vein, The Drones have that album mentality as well.
Further afield and you'll find some great album-esque storytelling from Irish superstars The Frames. Specifically try The Cost or Burn The Maps.
Listen to Human Frailty by Hunters and Collectors right now. Such a document of the times. Lovely.
Stevie Ray Vaughn -- Blues at Sunrise
ReplyDeleteRadiohead -- The Bends
Radiohead -- Ok Computer
Led Zeppelin -- III
Jeff Beck -- Truth
Jefferson Airplane -- Surrealistic Pillow
Nat King Cole -- The Very Best Of
Doris Day -- Her Life In Music
I can listen to any of the first five Creedence Clearwater Revival albums straight through and one after the other :-)
ReplyDeleteAny Beatles album after they started writing their own stuff.
Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Sky is Crying, Texas Flood
This is tough because I reckon iTunes might spell the end for the album, with the focus on singles and picking the eyes out of bands' catalogues. I hope not because the good-from-start-to-finish album is a rare and awesome thing. That and my HD packed up last week taking my iTunes library with it so I'm a bit down on electronic music right now...
ReplyDeleteGood-throughout albums? Start with a couple of your lot:
Either album from the D4 (6Twenty and Out Of My Head)
Shihad - General Electric (bar the soft first/last tracks)
Datsuns debut album
Strayans:
Obviously pretty much anything by AC/DC - let's say the double Live album if we gots to narrow it (unless we're banning live albums or compiles)
Airbourne - Runnin' Wild (it's boganlicious)
Wolfmother's first and probably only album
Gurus - Crank
Monarchs - Make Yer Own Fun
Frenzal Rhomb - A Man's Not A Camel
Spiderbait - Tonight Alright
Powderfinger - Vulture St
The Casanovas' debut album
Grinspoon - Easy
The Stalkers (OK it's only a long-ish EP but it is awesome)
Most of Even's albums - massively underrated Melbourne indie band
Internationals:
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades
Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
Donnas - Spend The Night
Stooges - Raw Power
Oasis - Definitely Maybe
RATM's debut album (back into '92, still in a room without a view)
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
Spinal Tap soundtrack
Veruca Salt - 8 Arms To Hold You
Obviously Hendrix, Zep et al - I'd suggest the BBC Sessions albums of both
Cream - Disraeli Gears
Blues Explosion - Damage
Black Keys - Thickfreakness
Deep Purple - Machine Head
The Hives - Your New Favourite Band (which is technically a compile, so Veni Vidi Vicious then)
Electric Six - Fire
Guitar Wolf - Jet Generation (seminal Jap garage punk band - don't understand a word but Christ it sounds big)
Really there's loads, where do you stop? Here I guess, before I bore everyone witless.