# Albums where (almost) every song is known

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 29, 2015, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606 "2015-12-29T01:14:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 4

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606/61 "2016-01-05T14:54:27Z")

</div>

Boston’s first may take it, since I know all the songs but never owned the album.  
The Police, Syncronicity is another one for me:  
Side one

1. “Synchronicity I”
2. “Walking in Your Footsteps”
3. “O My God”
4. “Mother” (Andy Summers)
5. “Miss Gradenko” (Stewart Copeland)
6. “Synchronicity II”  
Side two
7. “Every Breath You Take”
8. “King of Pain”
9. “Wrapped Around Your Finger”
10. “Tea in the Sahara”
11. “Murder by Numbers” (Summers, Sting)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606/62 "2016-01-05T15:40:19Z")

</div>

> [@Suburban\_Plankton](#):
>
> This has to be the ‘winner’, I think. If you’ve listened to AOR radio for any length of time over the past 40 years, you know all of these songs by heart.
> 
> More Than a Feeling  
> Peace of Mind  
> Foreplay/Long Time  
> Rock & Roll Band  
> Smokin’  
> Hitch a Ride  
> Something About You  
> Let Me Take You Home Tonight

Especially since they all sound pretty much the same. I guy across the hall in my freshman dorm played that album constantly, to the point where I never want to hear any of it again.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606/63 "2016-01-05T15:46:28Z")

</div>

Alan Parson’s I\* Robot\* is a pretty good match for the OP, for prog rock fans at least, but it did cross over into the mainstream as well.

1. I Robot
2. I Wouldn’t Want To Be Like You
3. Some Other Time
4. Breakdown
5. Don’t Let It Show
6. The Voice
7. Nucleus
8. Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
9. Total Eclipse
10. Genesis Ch. 1 V. 32

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-where-almost-every-song-is-known/741606.md?page=3)