# Choose an album for me to listen to, beginning to end. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 14, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817 "2017-02-14T15:07:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/41 "2017-02-14T22:56:12Z")
> [@yanceylebeef](#): > > David and David, Boomtown. One of the best beginning to end albums ever made. EVER MADE! Second that! Good choice. ---
**Author:** ![pythonzzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9e8a1a/32.png) [@pythonzzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pythonzzz)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/42 "2017-02-14T23:01:44Z")
Oasis - What’s the story, Morning Glory? Duke Special - Adventures in Gramophone Hunters & Collectors - Fate Chris Rea - Road to Hell Crowded House - Farewell to the World ---
**Author:** ![swampspruce](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampspruce/32/261_2.png) [@swampspruce](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampspruce)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/43 "2017-02-14T23:03:52Z")
I’ll second Depeche Mode-Violator and third Boomtown. I’d add R.E.M.- [Fables of the Reconstruction](https://play.spotify.com/album/26vUt4edIwqnvkaTzHqkv3?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open) and NIN- Year Zero Remixed to the list, as well. ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/44 "2017-02-14T23:19:24Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > ELI AND THE THIRTEENTH CONFESSION, Laura Nyro, 1968. This. And while you’re listening you can marvel that she was just a kid (barely 20) when she wrote this stuff. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/45 "2017-02-14T23:20:13Z")
> [@gnoitall](#): > > Rush, _Subdivisions_. Nitpick: “Subdivisions” is a song. The album is _Signals._ My recommendation (especially for anyone who likes prog-metal with a wall of sound that would make Phil Spector blush): Devin Townsend - _Ocean Machine: Biomech._ ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2017, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/46 "2017-02-14T23:28:54Z")
_Cure for Pain_– Morphine _Blood on the Tracks_– Dylan ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/47 "2017-02-15T00:00:20Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > I don’t know if it’s on spotify, but I consider “Rites of Passage”, Indigo Girls to be a perfect album. Is that the one containing the immortal rhyme: I went to the mountain, and drank from the fountain? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/48 "2017-02-15T00:03:24Z")
Slayer - Reign in Blood. You’ll be done cleaning in 29 minutes flat! ---
**Author:** ![Fleetwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fleetwood/32/271_2.png) [@Fleetwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fleetwood)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/49 "2017-02-15T00:09:03Z")
Who’s Next. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/50 "2017-02-15T01:11:24Z")
Queen - A Night at the Opera (Eumir) Deodato - Prelude ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/51 "2017-02-15T01:27:52Z")
[Fields of the Nephilim, Elizium](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxp_c_OXkdtCZk1qv8jrAlshz5NQS7l_t) ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/52 "2017-02-15T01:28:57Z")
The National, “Boxer”. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/53 "2017-02-15T01:37:20Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > Oddly enough Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation Show from that album just played on my playlist. > > Good choice. Hot August Night it is. > > I will check in later for the next suggestion. Since you like music from that era, I’ve always thought that one of the best concept albums ever, with both good music and a coherent story, is _To Our Children’s Children’s Children_, by the Moody Blues. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/54 "2017-02-15T07:36:26Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > > [@scabpicker](#): > > > > Kraftwerk - Autobahn , it seems like good house cleaning music to me. > > Great suggestion! I bought this on vinyl when it was current, played it to death. I don’t think I’ve heard it in \>30 years though. > mmm Hehehe, dang. I can’t imagine resisting the urge to listen to it for that long. One of my happiest moments in a public bathroom was looking over at the window frame and seeing “Wir fahren fahren fahren auf der Autobahn”\* written there. Since we seem to have some intersection in taste: If you’ve got extra cleaning to do, or you wanna have a highball after you’re done. I would recommend Cal Tjader’s [Latin Kick](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1N0j65H-0). I don’t know if it’s on Spotify, but I would still recommend the YouTube link, because that’s a great album cover. \*Mangled though, the graffiti artist was as fluent in German as I am. ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/55 "2017-02-15T10:21:15Z")
Want One - Rufus Wainwright Listen Without Prejudice - George Michael Band On The Run - Wings Hejira - Joni Mitchell The Red Album - Weezer MiM ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/56 "2017-02-15T14:47:49Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Nitpick: “Subdivisions” is a song. The album is _Signals._ Indeed, thanks for reminding me. Tells me it’s been too long since I actually fired up the album. ☹ “Subdivisions” was the single, but IMHO not even the best track. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/57 "2017-02-15T16:03:14Z")
Don’t know if either is on Spotify but Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick Gwar - Hell-o OK - I have varied musical tastes; I know that already. ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/58 "2017-02-15T17:35:18Z")
**Of Montreal** - Lousy with Sylvianbriar **Van Dyke Parks** - Discover America Off the top of my head. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/59 "2017-02-15T18:03:03Z")
Closer by Joy Division. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2017, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817/60 "2017-02-15T18:05:23Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > _ **The Notorious Byrd Brothers** _ Another interesting thing about this album (from a music nerd standpoint) is that there’s two songs in 5 on it (5/4 or 5/8): “Get To You” and “Tribal Gathering.” The latter actually has very much a cool, Brubeck “Take Five” kind of feel to it. And the former is kind of a folky truncated waltz (interspersed with 6/8 in the bridges). Maybe not that interesting given the prog rock suggestions here, which can get a little crazy in that vein (much of “Subdivisions” is in 7), but pretty cool for more poppy psychadelic-folk songwriting. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/choose-an-album-for-me-to-listen-to-beginning-to-end/779817.md?page=2)