# Albums with no bad songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2002, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323 "2002-06-10T22:43:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/21 "2002-06-11T04:53:50Z")
**The Police** - Syncronicity ---
**Author:** ![Fifteen\_Iguana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Fifteen\_Iguana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fifteen_Iguana)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/22 "2002-06-11T05:01:01Z")
The Who - Who’s Next Jethro Tull - Aqualung Steeleye Span - Storm Force Ten Stan Rogers - Between the Breaks Live ---
**Author:** ![dreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@dreamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dreamer)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/23 "2002-06-11T05:25:20Z")
\*\*Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes Edie Brickell - Picture Perfect Morning Nancy Wilson (Jazz Singer) - Any CD she’s ever recorded 🙂 Joni Mitchell - Turbulent Indigo SEAL - Self-Titled SEAL - HU MANBE IN G Loreena McKennitt - The Mask and the Mirror Jane Monheit - Come Dream With Me \*\* I’m sure there’s more I can think of but these are great still 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dead0man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/edb3f5/32.png) [@dead0man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dead0man)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/24 "2002-06-11T05:55:54Z")
**NOFX - Punk in Drublic Pink Floyd - DSOTM Black Sabath - Paranoid Led Zeppelin - II Beck - Mellow Gold Smashing Pumpkin - Siamese Dreams Soundgarden - BadMotorFinger** dead0man ---
**Author:** ![bluddy\_bloodnut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@bluddy\_bloodnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bluddy_bloodnut)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/25 "2002-06-11T10:34:39Z")
New Order - Get Ready The Strokes - Is This IT Rocket Science - Contact High Something For Kate - Echolalia and Elsewhere for 8 Minuites Custard - Wisenheimer and Loverama Tripod - Open Slather Special Christmas Edition too amy others to name ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/26 "2002-06-11T10:43:18Z")
Elton John had several: **Tumbleweed Connection** **Madman Across the Water** **Honkey Chateau** **Goodbye Yellow Brick Road** (already mentioned) **Caribou** **Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy** **Rock of the Westies** ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/27 "2002-06-11T10:43:37Z")
Depeche Mode - Violator The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland The Cure - Disintegration (even South Park recognises this in the MechaStreisand episode) 🙂 If I only could take three albums to a deserted island, I´d take these. ---
**Author:** ![tourbot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@tourbot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tourbot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/28 "2002-06-11T11:41:36Z")
London Calling - The Clash Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/29 "2002-06-11T11:48:25Z")
**Warren Zevon** - **Sentimental Hygiene** **Bob Dylan** - **Blood on the Tracks** **Neil Young** - **Rust Never Sleeps** ---
**Author:** ![VDarlin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e56c9b/32.png) [@VDarlin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VDarlin)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/30 "2002-06-11T11:55:09Z")
I was going to include Goodbye Yellow Brick Road in my list, as it is, quite possibly, my favorite album of all time, but I honestly can’t stand, “Dirty little girl”, for some strange reason. I’ve managed to be able to listen to it, from time to time, so perhaps it’s not a bad song, it just kind of grates on my nerves enough that I didn’t mention it above. Two more I’ve thought of: The Cure - The head on the door Peter Gabriel - So ~V ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/31 "2002-06-11T12:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by alice\_in\_wonderland \* > \*\ ***The Police** - Syncronicity \*\* You liked “The telephone is ringing, is that my mother on the phone”? Otherwise I agree. My picks for your abuse: Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King Queen - A Night at the Opera Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Pixies - Doolittle Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/32 "2002-06-11T12:17:24Z")
“The Red Elvises - Live” “Liquor in Front” by the Reverend Horton Heat I’m going to butcher thier name, but Anthinaum’s self tittled (i.e. only) album is really good. “Bleach” by Nirvana “Rum Sodomy and the Lash,” as well as “Red Roses for me” both by the Pogues “Core” by Stone Temple Pilots “Pablo Honey” by Radiohead “Post” by Bjork “Magazine Dream” by Matt Hole and the HotRod Gang The Roadhouse Rebels’ self tittled album ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/33 "2002-06-11T13:22:34Z")
Jeff Buckley - _Grace_ Pink Floyd - _Meddle_ Meatloaf - _Bat Out of Hell_ Chris Isaac - _Heart Shaped World_ Lyle Lovett - _Pontiac_ Cowboy Junkies - _The Trinity Session_ ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/34 "2002-06-11T14:32:48Z")
**Old 97s** - _Too Far To Care_ **Rufus Wainwright** - _Poses_ **Brave Combo** - _Polkasonic_ I’ll second the nomination of **Lyle Lovett** - _Pontiac_ and add _Joshua Judges Ruth_ and _Road to Ensenada_ Others already named that I would have listed, but will “me, too” instead: **Nina Simone,** (you could add her entire catalog) **Fishbone, Allman Brothers** and **Miles Davis**. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/35 "2002-06-11T14:56:34Z")
**Beatles** –_Hard Day’s Night, Revolver_ **Crooked Fingers** –_Bring on the Snakes_ **David Gray** –_White Ladder_ **Moby** –_Play_ me too’s to _Blood on the Tracks_, _Is this It_, _Graceland_, _The Blue Album_, and _Sgt. Pepper’s_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/36 "2002-06-11T15:02:31Z")
Hmm… strictly speaking, I could make a long list of mediocre albums that fit the category! I can think of numerous albums that have no bad songs, but don’t have any great songs either. I mean, I rarely hated any of Journey’s songs, but I never liked a Journey album enough to buy one. I mean, I sort-of liked every song on Asia’s “Alpha” album. Every song on that album was either very good, pretty good, or pleasantly forgettable. On the other hand, I HATE two tracks on the Beatles’ “Revolver.” Fact remains, I consider “Revolver” one of the best albums ever made, but haven’t even thought much about Asia in several years. So, an album with no bad songs isn’t the same as an album with only great songs. - If I limit myself to albums on which I genuinely like every track, in no special order, there’s 1. “Close to the Edge” by Yes (just 3 very loooong songs!) 2. Enya’s “Watermark” 3. King Crimson’s “Discipline” (the ONLY Crimson album I’ve ever liked in its entirety) 4. Black Sabbath’s “Paranoid” 5. “The Notorious Byrd Brothers” 6. “Deep Purple in Rock” 7. “Who’s Next” 8. Pink Floyd’s “Animals” ---
**Author:** ![freckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47c2d/32.png) [@freckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckles)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/37 "2002-06-11T15:08:55Z")
there is way too many to mention but here are some: **The Strokes** - Is this it **Smashing Pumpkins** - Siamese Dream **Radiohead** - The Bends AND OK Computer **White Strips** - White Blood Cells ---
**Author:** ![freckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47c2d/32.png) [@freckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckles)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/38 "2002-06-11T15:10:29Z")
sorry forgot to preview before I posted :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/39 "2002-06-11T15:11:20Z")
**August and Everything After** - Counting Crows **Dark Side of the Moon** - Pink Floyd **Foreigner Four** - Foreigner **Hotel California** - The Eagles **Rumours** - Fleetwood Mac **Led Zeppelin IV** - Led Zeppelin **Goodbye Yellow Brick Road** - Elton John **A night at the Opera** - Queen **Back in Black** - AC/DC ---
**Author:** ![Jello](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f05b48/32.png) [@Jello](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jello)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323/40 "2002-06-11T15:24:01Z")
Wish You Were Here, Dark Side of the Moon and Animals - Pink Floyd American Beauty, Live/Dead, Wake of the Flood, and Anthem of the Sun - Grateful Dead Highway 61 Revisited, Blood on the Tracks and Bringing it all Back Home - Bob Dylan Apostrophe, Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar and Hot Rats - Frank Zappa Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-no-bad-songs/113323.md?page=3)