# Albums with at least three undeniably classic tracks. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553 "2007-01-19T03:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/41 "2007-01-19T19:47:54Z")
**Sargeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band** the Beatles: title track, Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds, A Day In the Life (among others) Oh hell, any Beatles record has at least three tunes well known to the general public. As for more arguable Lps: **If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears** (the Mamas & the Papas): “California Dreamin’” “Monday, Monday” & “Go Where You Wanna Go” **Surrealistic Pillow** (Jefferson Airplane): “Somebody to Love”, “White Rabbit”, “Today” & “Embryonic Journey” **Cream** : “Strange Brew”, “Sunshine of Your Love” & “Tales of Brave Ulysses” **Crosby, Stills & Nash** (debut Lp): “Suite Judy Blue Eyes”, “Woodstock”, “Wooden Ships” **American Beauty** (Grateful Dead): “Friend of the Devil”, “Sugar Magnolia” & “Truckin’” **Pearl** (Janis Joplin): “Me & Bobby McGee”, “Mercedes Benz” & “Get It While You Can” **Court & Spark** (Joni Mitchell): “Help Me”, “A Free Man In Paris”, “Raised on Robbery” And just to let you know that I’m not some baby boomer relic of the 60s - \*\*Nevermind[/] (Nirvana) - “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, “Come As You Are” & “Lithium” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/42 "2007-01-19T19:50:42Z")
I’d suggest a special category for folks.bands who make the list with their first albums. I’d give Elvis Costello credit for his first two: My Aim Is True -Welcome to the Working Week -Alison -Red Shoes -Watching the Detectives This Year’s Model -Pump it Up -Lipstick Vogue -Radio, Radio And the Cars eponymous debut -Good Times Roll -Best Friends Girl -Just What I Needed -Bye Bye Love In fact, you could argue the Cars made the list with the first 3 songs on their first album. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/43 "2007-01-19T19:55:40Z")
[QUOTE=The New and Improved Superman] **Crosby, Stills & Nash** (debut Lp): “Suite Judy Blue Eyes”, “Woodstock”, “Wooden Ships” [/QUOTE] I was just listing “Crosby, Stills & Nash,” when on preview I saw you had. “Woodstock” is on “Deja Vu,” though. So substitutue “Marrakesh Express” and I think we have a winner! ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/44 "2007-01-19T20:06:46Z")
We’ve gone this far and not mentioned **U2**? War: Sunday Bloody Sunday, New Year’s Day, Two Hearts Beat As One The Unforgettable Fire: Pride (In The Name Of Love), title track, Bad The Joshua Tree: Where The Streets Have No Name, With Or Without You, I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For Achtung Baby: One, Mysterious Ways, Even Better Than The Real Thing ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/45 "2007-01-19T20:14:22Z")
Bush **16 Stone** Everything Zen, Little Things, Machinehead, Glycerine Red Hot Chili Peppers **Blood Sugar Sex Magik** Under The Bridge, Suck My Kiss, Breaking The Girl, Give It Away R.E.M **Monster** What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?, Bang And Blame, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream Garbage **Garbage** Only Happy When It Rains, Stupid Girl, Queer Alanis Morissette **Jagged Little Pill** You Oughta Know, Hand In My Pocket, Ironic, You Oughta Know ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/46 "2007-01-19T20:27:46Z")
**Motley Crue- Shout at the Devil:** Shout at the Devil, Looks that Kill, Too Young to Fall in Love, Helter Skelter ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/47 "2007-01-19T20:35:05Z")
Springsteen classics recognized as examples of the genre, or on classic rock: YES Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey: Blinded by the Light, For You, Growing Up, Spirit in the Night YES Born to Run: Born to Run, Thunder Road, Jungleland YES Born in the USA: Born in the USA, I’m on Fire, Downtown Train, My Hometown MAYBE The River: Hungry Heart, The River, Out on the Street ?? MAYBE The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy), Rosalita, The E Street Shuffle ?? MAYBE Darkness on the Edge of Town: Badlands, Darkness on the Edge of Town, The Promised Land??, Candy’s Room?? MAYBE Tunnel of Love: Tunnel of Love, Brilliant Disguise, One Step Up ?? Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell: Bat Out of Hell, Paradise by the Dashboard Light, Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/48 "2007-01-19T20:37:16Z")
I’ll third that we obviously aren’t all playing with the same definitions here. I am an audiophile, I listen to all types of music constantly, I have for 35 years, and I haven’t heard of half of the songs people are listing here. Since we’re just listing albums we’ve liked for a while, here are my additions: Duran Duran - “Rio” - Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf, Save a Prayer Duran Duran - “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” - The Reflex, New Moon on Monday, Union of the Snake Duran Duran - “Arena” - Is There Something I Should Know, Hungry Like the Wolf, Save a Prayer, The Wild Boys, Planet Earth Madonna - “Madonna” - Lucky Star, Borderline, Holiday Madonna - “Like A Virgin” - Material Girl, Like A Virgin, Dress You Up Madonna - “True Blue” - Papa Don’t Preach, Open Your Heart, Live to Tell, True Blue, La Isla Bonita John Cougar Mellencamp - “American Fool” - Hurts So Good, Jack and Diane, Hand to Hold On To John Cougar Mellencamp - “Uh-Huh”- Crumblin’ Down, Pink Houses, Authority Song, Jackie O, Play Guitar John Mellencamp - “Lonesome Jubilee” - Paper In Fire, Check It Out, Cherry Bomb Colin James - “Colin James” - Five Long Years, Voodoo Thing, Chicks 'n Cars (And the Third World War), Why’d You Lie, Hidden Charms Colin James - “Sudden Stop” - Just Came Back, Keep On Loving Me Baby, Show Me Colin James - “Bad Habits” - Saviour, Freedom, Real Stuff Red Rider - “Victory Day” - Big League, Victory Day, Calling America Tom Cochrane - “Mad Mad World” - Life Is a Highway, Mad Mad World, Sinking Like a Sunset Cyndi Lauper - “She’s So Unusual” - Money Changes Everything, Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Time After Time, She Bop, All Through The Night It might not be a bad idea to re-do this thread, except with some real criteria for what you’re looking for in responses. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/49 "2007-01-19T22:47:08Z")
Going with astorian’s definition of classic: **Van Halen** debut - “Running With The Devil”, “You Really Got Me”, “Ain’t Talkin’ 'bout Love”, “Jamie’s Crying”. And “Eruption” is certainly a classic track to the subset of humanity that has picked up an electric guitar anytime since 1978. **The Pretenders** debut - “Brass In Pocket”, “Mystery Achievement”, “Kid”, “Stop Your Sobbing”. 10 years ago I’d have added “Precious”, “The Wait”, and “Tattooed Love Boys”, but those seem to have disappeared from radio playlists in the last decade. The local new-wave/alternative/modern -ock/whatever-it’s-called-today station can’t go a day without playing something from **The Beastie Boys** _License to Ill_ , so I’ll throw that one in. “Fight For Your Right”, “Paul Revere”, “Brass Monkey”, “No Sleep Till Brooklyn” ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/50 "2007-01-19T23:00:12Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] Simon & Garfunkel probably have a couple. [/QUOTE] Bridge Over Troubled Water: Title track, The Boxer, Cecilia, plus a half dozen other gems. ---
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[Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness](http://album.lyricsfreak.com/s/smashing+pumpkins/mellon+collie+and+the+infinite+sadness_20009919.html) - \*\*Smashing Pumpkins \*\* : “1979” “Tonight, Tonight” “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” (The world is a vampire…) ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/52 "2007-01-19T23:35:27Z")
Well most of mine then aren’t classic, but they will be 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/53 "2007-01-19T23:44:53Z")
[Learning to Crawl](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/p/pretenders/my+city+was+gone_20110674.html) - **The Pretenders** “2000 Miles” “Back on the Chain Gang” “Middle of the Road” “Show Me” “My City Was Gone” ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/54 "2007-01-19T23:47:32Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] **David Bowie** - _The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars_: Ziggy Stardust, Suffragette City, Starman, Rebel, Rebel (or was that a re-release bonus track?) [/QUOTE] Rebel Rebel is from Diamond Dogs, of which I’d say the title track is the only other classic song. Pixies- _Surfer Rosa_: Gigantic, Where is My Mind?, River Euphrates The Velvet Underground- _The Velvet Underground and Nico_: Heroin, Venus in Furs, I’m Waiting for the Man, All Tomorrow’s Parties The Replacements- _Let it Be_: I Will Dare, Unsatisfied, Androgynous, Answering Machine The Beach Boys- _Today!_: Help Me Rhonda, Dance Dance Dance, Please Let Me Wonder, She Knows Me Too Well ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/55 "2007-01-19T23:56:59Z")
[Second Helping](http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/lynyrd+skynyrd/call+me+the+breeze_20086063.html) - **Lynyrd Skynyrd** : “Sweet Home Alabama” “Call Me the Breeze” “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” ---
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[QUOTE=Sublight] **Warren Zevon** - _Excitable Boy_: Excitable Boy, Werewolves of London, Lawyers, Guns and Money [/QUOTE] I agree about the album, but I’d have to put _Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner_ as one of the classic tracks. Not sure which of your three I’d bump to make room for it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/57 "2007-01-20T04:48:28Z")
That Zevon Album is full of classics. You can add _Warren Zevon_ - “Hasten Down the Wind”, “Poor Poor Pitiful Me”, “Mohammed’s Radio”, “Carmelia”, and the essential “Desperados Under the Eaves”… **John Prine** - _John Prine_ “Illegal Smile,” “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Donald and Lydia,” “Angel from Montgomery”, “Spanish Pipedream”, “Paradise”. ---
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Genesis: **Selling England by The Pound** Firth of Fifth Cinema Show I Know What I Like ---
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I challenge the legitimacy of these albums for this thread on the grounds of one or more of these things: 1. I haven’t heard of any of the songs listed. 2. There must be three classics at least, not one or two and a questionable third. 3. I don’t think they fit the spirit of the OP, even by **Astorian’s** definition, which I think is a little too vague (classic within the genre? What does that even mean? Should we be listing Mozart and Dwight Yoakam, then?) 4. My response on reading them as candidates for this thread was, “Are you freakin’ kidding me?” White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground, Fell In Love With a Girl, Hotel Yorba White Stripes - Elephant - Hardest Button to Button, I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself, Seven Nation Army Pixies - Doolittle “Debaser,” “Monkey Gone To Heaven,” “Here Comes Your Man” (“Wave Of Mutilation” and “Gouge Away” should probably qualify as well) Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables “California Uber Alles,” “Holiday In Cambodia,” “Let’s Lynch The Landlord,” “Chemical Warfare” The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out,” “The Boy With A Thorn In His Side,” “Bigmouth Strikes Again” The Smiths - The Smiths “Reel Around The Fountain,” “What Difference Does It Make?” “This Charming Man,” “Hand In Glove” Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes “Blister In The Sun,” “Kiss Off,” “Add It Up,” “Gone Daddy Gone” Weezer - The Blue Album “Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” “Say It Ain’t So” (maybe “My Name Is Jonas”) Modest Mouse -Lonesome Crowded West Teeth Like God’s Shoeshine; Trailer Trash; Styrofoam Boots; Sublime - Self Titled Garden Groove; Santeria; What I Got Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Gin & Juice, Tha Shiznit, Ain’t No Fun Operation Ivy - Energize Knowledge, Take Warning, Vulnerability, Smiling, etc take your pick. Maybe the most underrated album of all time (and its really not all that underrated, thats how good it is). Ween - Quebec It’s Gonna Be a Long Night, Happy Colored Marbles, Transdermal Celebration My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Only Shallow, Loomer, Sometimes NoFX - Heavy Petting Zoo Philthy Phil Philanthropist, Hot Dog in a Hallway, Drop the World Janes Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual Stop, Three Days, Been Caught Stealing Beck - Odelay Devil’s Haircut, Lord Only Knows, Jackass Tenacious D - Self Titled Kielbasa, Kyle Quit the Band, Karate, Rock Your Socks Off, Really almost the entire album. Pink Floyd - DostM, although I’ll pick Breathe, Time, & Money. I’ll also give honorable mention to Meddle with Fearless, One of These Days, and Echose (one of the best songs ever) Radiohead The Bends: Just, High And Dry, Street Spirit (Fade Out) OK Computer: Paranoid Android, Let Down, Karma Police Bobby Brown Don’t Be Cruel: Don’t Be Cruel, My Prerogative, Roni Primus, Sailing the Seas of Cheese - “Here Come the Bastards”, “Jerry Was a Race Car Driver”, “Tommy the Cat” Soundgarden, Badmotorfinger - “Rusty Cage”, “Outshined”, “Jesus Christ Pose” The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God: “If I Should Fall From Grace With God,” “Thousands are Sailing,” “Fairytale of New York,” “Streets of Sorrow/Birmingham Six.” Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate: “I Hope You’re Happy Now,” “Home is Anywhere You Hang Your Head,” “I Want You” Elvis Costello credit for his first two: My Aim Is True -Welcome to the Working Week -Alison -Red Shoes -Watching the Detectives This Year’s Model -Pump it Up -Lipstick Vogue -Radio, Radio Bush 16 Stone Everything Zen, Little Things, Machinehead, Glycerine R.E.M Monster What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?, Bang And Blame, I Don’t Sleep, I Dream Garbage Garbage Only Happy When It Rains, Stupid Girl, Queer Pixies- Surfer Rosa: Gigantic, Where is My Mind?, River Euphrates The Velvet Underground- The Velvet Underground and Nico: Heroin, Venus in Furs, I’m Waiting for the Man, All Tomorrow’s Parties The Replacements- Let it Be: I Will Dare, Unsatisfied, Androgynous, Answering Machine The Beach Boys- Today!: Help Me Rhonda, Dance Dance Dance, Please Let Me Wonder, She Knows Me Too Well Lynyrd Skynyrd: “Sweet Home Alabama” “Call Me the Breeze” “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” John Prine - John Prine “Illegal Smile,” “Hello in There,” “Sam Stone,” “Donald and Lydia,” “Angel from Montgomery”, “Spanish Pipedream”, “Paradise”. \*Genesis: Selling England by The Pound Firth of Fifth Cinema Show I Know What I Like \*I think Genesis should be on the list of undeniable classic albums for this thread, but why not an album with songs that people outside of England have heard of (like, say, “Invisible Touch”, with Throwing it All Away, Tonight Tonight, Land of Confusion, and Invisible Touch on it)? ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553/60 "2007-01-20T19:56:54Z")
[QUOTE=featherlou] I challenge the legitimacy of these albums for this thread on the grounds of one or more of these things: 1. I haven’t heard of any of the songs listed. [/QUOTE] Wow, you’ve kind of destroyed your credibility there, haven’t you? I don’t think you’re completely wrong in your other points but I can’t agree with that being any sort of bellwether of where an album is a classic or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-at-least-three-undeniably-classic-tracks/388553.md?page=4)