# Albums/CDs you can listen to all the way through, from beginning to end, without skipping any songs
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**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 2, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056 "2010-05-02T19:21:09Z")
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/1 "2010-05-02T19:21:09Z")
I come not to praise the iTunes era, but to bury it.
Seriously, the album as a work of art is fast approaching extinction in this age of the mp3 file. And that’s kind of sad, since I’ve always kinda loved the album, concept or otherwise, as a thing to get lost in for a half hour or 45 minutes (less so, since the CD expanded the standard album length to nearly an hour and twenty minutes, but there are exceptions even there). That said, though, there’s certainly always been a plethora of dross, with bands putting sometimes appalling amounts of filler onto their albums just so the customer won’t feel cheated. This goes double for the CD era.
Still and all, though, there have always been certain albums that I can put in and have the sheer pleasure of listening to from beginning to end, as every single song on them is a gem. Some examples:
**The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars** - David Bowie
**I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got** - Sinéad O’Connor
**Cosmic Thing** - The B-52’s
**Abbey Road** - The Beatles
**Diesel and Dust** - Midnight Oil
**God Save the Queen** - The Smiths
**Dark Side of the Moon** and **Animals** and **The Wall** - Pink Floyd
**Led Zeppelin** through **Presence** - Led Zeppelin
**Murmur** , **Reckoning** , **Document** , and **Automatic For the People** - R.E.M.
**Ride the Lightning** , **Master of Puppets** , and **…And Justice For All** - Metallica
**If I Should Fall From Grace With God** - The Pogues
How about you? What are the albums that you can listen to from beginning to end without getting the least bit antsy or bored?
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### Author:  [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/2 "2010-05-02T19:28:48Z")
**The Hazards of Love** by The Decemberists.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/3 "2010-05-02T19:30:40Z")
> [@Aesiron](#):
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> **The Hazards of Love** by The Decemberists.
Is it that easy to tune out Colin Meloy’s awful, awful voice?
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### Author:  [@crypto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crypto)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/4 "2010-05-02T19:47:56Z")
Any album by the Counting Crows.
I’ve never had a need to skip forward to the next song.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/5 "2010-05-02T19:48:17Z")
Nitpick: there’s a difference between “Albums/CDs you can listen to all the way through, from beginning to end, without skipping any songs” and “every single song on them is a gem”.
But just a short sampling of albums that have not been mentioned yet that I can usually listen to without wanting to skip tracks:
Pretty. Odd. - Panic at the Disco
A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out - Panic! at the Disco
All American Rejects - All American Rejects
The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most - Dashboard Confessional
Of these four, only Fever and Places are albums in which I would consider every song “great”.
I’m sure there are others, and there are some albums that I used to feel this way about but no longer do. Plus some albums that I sometimes can listen to all the way through without wanting to skip, but not consistently (for instance, the first two albums by Coheed and Cambria, but more often I just feel like listening to a particular track.)
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### Author:  [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/6 "2010-05-02T19:53:59Z")
**Face the Music** , **A New World Record** , and **Out of the Blue** - Electric Light Orchestra
**The Yes Album** , **Fragile** , and **90125** - Yes
**Asia** - Asia
**A Night at the Opera** , **The Game** , **The Works** - Queen
**Boston** - Boston
**Rubber Soul** , **Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band** , **Abbey Road** - The Beatles
**Volume 1** - Traveling Wilburys
**Mystery Girl** - Roy Orbison
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/7 "2010-05-02T20:43:42Z")
Beatles albums\*\* Rubber Soul through “The White Album”\*\*
Belle & Sebastian albums, **Tigermilk through The Boy With the Arab Strap**
**Ten, Vs. & Vitalogy** - Pearl Jam
**The Downward Spiral** - NIN
**Ben Folds Five** & **…Reinhold Messner** - Ben Folds Five
**Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots** - Flaming Lips
**OK Computer** - Radiohead
**Rock Spectacle** - Barenaked Ladies
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/8 "2010-05-02T20:54:23Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Pretty. Odd. - Panic at the Disco
> A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out - Panic! at the Disco
> All American Rejects - All American Rejects
> The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most - Dashboard Confessional
Golly, that’s an awful lot of emo. Careful you don’t OD on mascara and floppy hair.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/9 "2010-05-02T20:56:52Z")
I plum forgot two: **Nevermind** and **In Utero** - Nirvana.
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### Author:  [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/10 "2010-05-02T20:57:26Z")
Hey, MTCicero - first you invite lists, and then you mock them!?
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### Author:  [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/11 "2010-05-02T21:00:01Z")
For me, it’s the opposite - I can’t think of any artists where I’ve bought the album and would want to skip any songs.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/12 "2010-05-02T21:00:34Z")
Yes. As you’re certainly free to do with any an all of my entries.
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/13 "2010-05-02T21:03:13Z")
> [@MTCicero](#):
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> Golly, that’s an awful lot of emo. Careful you don’t OD on mascara and floppy hair.
The majority of albums I’ve bought from the 2000s were classified as emo by someone or another, altho I’ve never tried mascara and too much hair gives me a headache. The ones from the 70s that I can listen to all the way though have already been mentioned.
Forgot a couple from that era, though:
Dreamboat Annie by Heart.
Moving Pictures by Rush.
I listened to them all the way through time and again back in the day, and every song on them was superb.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/14 "2010-05-02T21:05:28Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> Moving Pictures by Rush.
Yes. Most definitely.
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### Author:  [@MTCicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MTCicero)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/15 "2010-05-02T21:07:35Z")
> [@Ludovic](#):
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> altho I’ve never tried mascara and too much hair gives me a headache.
RE: the hair - I’m probably just jealous, as I haven’t been able to grow a full head of hair for a very looong time.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/16 "2010-05-02T21:33:00Z")
I can’t think of any album I have that I’m willing to skip songs on.
Oh, wait. **Beatles 1.** I skip “The Long and Winding Road.”
I also won’t bother listening to the CD extras, since they’re usually things that weren’t good enough for the album in the first place.
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### Author:  [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/17 "2010-05-02T21:42:56Z")
Live, _Throwing Copper._ I feel that album is flawless. Each song has a different mood, a different rhythm, a different sensibility, but I dig them all.
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)
#### Post date: [May 2, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/18 "2010-05-02T22:34:00Z")
Boston - Boston
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### Author:  [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/19 "2010-05-03T00:16:25Z")
The first three that came to mind:
Laura Veirs, _July Flame_
Emiliana Torrini, _Fisherman’s Woman_
Camera Obscura, _Let’s Get Out Of This Country_
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-cds-you-can-listen-to-all-the-way-through-from-beginning-to-end-without-skipping-any-songs/538056/20 "2010-05-03T01:23:08Z")
The Beatles, _Abbey Road_ and _Sergeant Pepper’s_.
Electric Light Orchestra, _A New World Record, Discovery_ and _Xanadu_
Alan Parsons Project, _Turn of a Friendly Card, Eve_ and _Eye in the Sky_
Asia, _Asia_ and _Astra_
Tchaikovsky, _Nutcracker Suite_ and _Symphony No. 5_
Yes, I have weird musical tastes.
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