Albums that consist completely or almost entirely of songs of equal excellence
 

Basically the same as 100 other threads with a different title. Regardless:
Loveless
Weezers first album (Shamless pop fun)
OK Computer
The Bends
Disco Volante
Hit To Death In The Future Head (Bonus Track doesn't count)
Bee Thousand
Alien Lanes
Doolittle
Different Class
Dig Your Own Hole
Prodigy's first two albums

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
The Fall - Grotesque
Mogwai - Young Team
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - All the albums
Double Leopards - Halve Maen
Boards Of Canada - All the albums too

Basically any album by artists that focus on atmosphere (drone/ambient, electronica, post-rock and all that) more than actual songs.

At The Drive-In - Relationship of Command
Elliott Smith - Either/Or, Roman Candle
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Joni Mitchell - Hejira, Blue, The Hissing of Summer Lawns

Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
Liars - They Were Wrong, So We Drowned
!!! - Louden Up Now

i love all of bleach

This thread is difficult. Even albums I LOVE have songs I don't think are as great as other songs on the album... I agree with some of your guys's picks (Doolittle, Grotesque) but I disagree with most (OK Computer, They Were Wrong, So We Drowned!!!!). So, uhhh... I'm going to respond to this very cautiously...

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Q And Not U - No Kill No Beep Beep
Theory of Ruin - Counter Culture Nosebleed

Are albums where I PRETTY MUCH think every song is of equal excellence (I could cheat and say things like Stars of the Lid or something but I'm not going to). I sat on this thread for 10 minutes, trying to think of more and I couldn't. You stumped me!

Slint - Spiderland

Albums where I like all the songs on a same (or very near same) level are far and few between.

The Notwist - Shrink / Neon golden
U2 - The Joshua tree

blonde redhead - fake can be jus as good
mono - under the pipal tree
massive attack - mezzanine
nearly god - S/t
ulan bator - vegetale
erase errata - other animals
sonic youth - evol
the black heart procession - three
P.U.S.A. - II
velvet underground & nico

these are all albums with all great songs, even if they include (quite obviously) some which are "more favourite" in a way...

See, as much as I like "other animals", there are like 2 guitar noise only tracks and a filler track or two, so that seems to contradict the purpose of this thread. Unless, of course, you find those of equal excellence and listenability as "Fault List"... to each their own.

Also, I could have listed stuff like Boris - Flood, but that's cheating since it's one big song ...

I recently realised that it's my favorite Blonde Redhead record (I used to prefer Misery is a butterfly but it doesn't age very well), and I would agree if I could stand In particular (I don't why but I hate that song).

You're probably right, actually. I do love the "flow" of the record, but a couple spots are a bit lacking...

Revolver by The Beatles (this would be any other band's gretest hits, and it would be an amazing greatest hits at that)

Freak Out by Frank Zappa (just behind Daydream Nation for my favorite album of all time)

Ramones debut LP (say what you will about them, I have always been a huge fan, and this album is brilliant from beginning to end)

Bringing It all back home by Bob Dylan (while one or two of the songs might not be as lyrically amazing as some of the others, I'd say it is a consistently good album.)

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie (fucking fantastic)

Electric Warrior by T.Rex (Consistent level of goodness throughout)

This does not necessarily equate to my favorite albums although some of them are favorites. Daydream would be there but someone else mentioned it already.. and providence is scignificantly not as good as the rest of the album.

And no, not everything I listen to is this mainstream, these are just the albums I think meet the specification XD

in particular is on "melody of certain damaged lemons" :D

I think I might add REM's Automatic for the people to my list.

OK :D So it's Melody of certain damaged lemons that I like from beginning to end except for In particular.

EITS - The Earth is Not A Cold Dead Place
Hot Snakes - Suicide Invoice
At the Drive-in - in/casino/out
Joanna Newsom - Milk-Eyed Mender

damn, one of my BR favourite songs ever! ...altough I prefer the french version - En Particular, out of this EP:

yeah, it kinda kills the "flow" of the mood on that album...

I know, I don't know why but I think the song sounds silly.

I don't know how I forgot Marquee moon :eek:

Be Your OWN Pet - Get Awkward
























































ok that was just to get on atsonicpark's nerve :D

damn right

Also, ASMZ - He Has Left Us Alone But Sometimes Shafts Of Light Still Grace The Corners of Our Room
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a Bird Now
Yellow Swans - Bring The Neon War Home

hmmm,

stooges-fun house
white light white heat
trout mask replica
autechre-confield
the ex-singles.period
omoide hatoba-kinsei
napalm death-scum
black flag-damaged
wu tang-enter the 36 chambers
nas-illmatic
aphex-selected ambient works volume 2
coltrane-a love supreme

i tried to keep this to older classic records, i didnt wanna add a lot of noise, noise rock, experimental, or a lotta contemporary stuff cuz i dont feel like getting into much debate.

well actually fun house's first side is infinitley better than the second so that doesnt count, and white light white heat has sister ray so that doesnt count either, this is hard.

unknown pleasures
vu&nico
revolver
loveless
you'd prefer an astronaut
in the aeroplane over the sea
disintegration
a place to bury strangers
psychocandy
spiderland

i cant be arsed to write down the band names

Sorry, mr pumpkins, I recently bought this album and I didn't find it fun. Which song do you find excellent ? :confused:
I'd replace this one by Sister. A good album from the beginning till the end.

Yes.

*cough*Tripping Daisy*cough*

*cough*download in sig*cough*

I had no idea you liked APTBS.

i think that a lot of the great funk records are perfect the whole way through, i mean the whole think with funk was flow, and some of those records flowed perfectly.

some of my favorite funk/soul records that i consider totally perfect are:
sly stone-theres a riot goin on
james brown-the payback/sing it loud, im black and im proud
parliament-maggot brain
curtis mayfield-superfly soundtrack
stevie wonder-innervisions

i love a lot of funk music, the record that really got me into it was oddly enough hendrix's band of gypsies. i first heard that record when i was 14 and it made me wanna play guitar and established me as a life long jimi fanatic, and also id read a lot about it being inspired by a lotta the aforementioned funk artists. funks great because it can simultaneously be psychedelic, radical, fun/danceable, and musically significant when its at its best.

spacemen 3-perfect prescritpion is perfect the whole way through, flaming lips have a couple ablums with 0 bad songs (transmissions from the sattelite heart, the soft bulletin).

bad brains-roir cassette is perfect, mdc-millions of dead cops is perfect.

cryptoposy's ...and then youll beg

i love this thread, its made me pull out a lotta records i havnt listened to in ages.

Unwound - Repetition
Pavement- Brighten The Corners
Pink Floyd - Animals
Slint - Spiderland
Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
Sonic Youth - Murray St.
Bob Dylan - Bringing It All Back Home

rites of spring- end on end
minor threat- discography
the wipers- is it real?
black flag- damaged
the velvet underground- white light white heat

oh yeah, daydream nation

DD-Sonic Youth
Unknown Pleasures-Joy Division
She Hangs Brightly- Mazzy Star
Whip It On- The Raveonettes
Bleach- Nirvana
Pretty Hate Machine- NIN
Horses- Patti Smith
It Takes a Million to Hold us Back- Public Enemy
Automatic for the People- R.E.M.
Beauty & Crime- Suzanne Vega
The Velvet Underground & Nico- The Velvet Underground & Nico
De Stijl- The White Stripes.

Mount Eerie,
MACHINA,
Downward Is Heavenward,
A Thousand Leaves...

Avoiding ones that have already been mentioned:

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here
Meat Puppets - II
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Weezer - Pinkerton
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor
Bikini Kill - Pussy Whipped
Wipers - Youth of America

bikini kill two eps on one cd