# Every song on the album is great? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 1, 2001, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402 "2001-04-01T20:08:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/41 "2001-04-02T03:28:38Z")
[ul][li] **Sticky Fingers** - Rolling Stones[/li][li] **London Calling** - The Clash[/li][li] **Born to Run** - Springsteen[/li][li] **Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams** - The BoDeans[/li][li] **Dookie** - Green Day[/li][li] **Dream of the Blue Turtles** - Sting[/li][li] **Moondance** - Van Morrison[/li][li] **Rum, Sodomy and the Lash** - The Pogues[/li][li] **Murmur** - R.E.M.[/li][li] **Automatic for the People** - R.E.M.[/li][li] **Blood on the Tracks** - Bob Dylan[/li][li] **The Queen is Dead** - The Smiths[/li][li] **Bat Out of Hell** - Meat Loaf[/li][li] **Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc.** - Dwight Yoakam[/li][li] **Ten** - Pearl Jam[/li][li] **Nevermind** - Nirvana[/li][li] **Unplugged** - Nirvana[/li][li] **Siamese Dream** - Smashing Pumpkins[/li][li] **Greetings from Asbury Park** - Springsteen[/li][li] **True Colours** - Split Enz[/li][li] **The B-52s** - The B-52’s[/li][li] **Freedom of Choice** - Devo[/li][li] **War** - U2[/ul][/li] Not a weak track in the bunch. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/42 "2001-04-02T03:29:48Z")
Superunknown - Soundgarden Coil AND Dulcinea - Toad the Wet Sprocket Gordon - Barenaked Ladies Jman ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/43 "2001-04-02T03:35:53Z")
I forgot two: **Blue** by Joni Mitchell, and **Blonde on Blonde** by Bob Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/44 "2001-04-02T03:52:54Z")
Sgt. Pepper’s and Abbey Road: The Beatles How Does Your Garden Grow?: Better Than Ezra Automatic for the People: REM Siamese Dream: Smashing Pumpkins Rock Spectacle: Barenaked Ladies Nevermind: Nirvana The Wall: Pink Floyd Throwing Copper: Live I Megaphone: Imogen Heap Whip Smart: Liz Phair Little Plastic Castle: Ani Difranco ---
**Author:** ![Erika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/47e85d/32.png) [@Erika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Erika)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/45 "2001-04-02T04:12:47Z")
yay! I’m with Nocturne…I was waiting for Throwing Copper. And anything Ani. But I’m rather partial. ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Sousa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@Chris\_Sousa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chris_Sousa)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/46 "2001-04-02T04:46:45Z")
\*\* (What’s the Story?) Morning Glory \*\* by \*\* Oasis \*\* ---
**Author:** ![donnie\_rotten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/71e660/32.png) [@donnie\_rotten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/donnie_rotten)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/47 "2001-04-02T05:16:13Z")
Wow, it’s been a looong time since I’ve been on here… you have any idea what I had to go through to get my password just so I could participate in this thread? 😉 Had to do it, though, you’ve all put up some amazing works here! I just had to jump in with my two cent’s worth… Albums that kick ass all the way through… 1. OK Computer by Radiohead… everyone else who said it earlier, oh hell yeah! 2. Now and Again by the Grapes of Wrath… so good, I’ve had three copies stolen! 3. Badmotorfinger by Soundgarden 4. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd 5. What’s Cookin’ various artists, an acid jazz compilation released on the Ubiquity label. 6. Way to Blue by Nick Drake 7. Live at Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers… hey RealityChuck, Ludlow Garage does rawk, but Fillmore East is the best live Allmans album ever recorded… Duane ripping it up on Statesboro Blues… Damn!!! Probably could include Eat a peach here too, but I like the live stuff so much better than the studio stuff. 8. Texas Flood by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble… THE Texas blues album of all time. 9. Gord’s Gold by Gordon Lightfoot 10. can’t remember the name of it, but it’s a 2CD set recorded in the forties with Ella Fitzgerald fronting the Chick Webb Orchestra at the Savoy. AMAZING. My last girlfriend stole it, so if anyone can remember what it’s called, e-mail me please… I haven’t found it in any store up here… and of course, as Erika already pointed out, anything by ANI pretty much rawks… This is all kind of subjective, so go ahead and flame me… I could have listed off a bunch more, but I’m getting carpal tunnel syndrome as it is… Wow, what a long list! Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![typo\_mna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@typo\_mna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typo_mna)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/48 "2001-04-02T05:36:07Z")
Firstus, I have to agree with the following: Pretty Hate Machine (Nine Inch Nails) Led Zeppelin IV Wish You Were Here + The Wall (Pink Floyd) Blood Sugar Sex Magic (RHCP) Play (Moby) To which I will add Confessions of a Knife (My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult) I’d also like to mention that **HalberMensch242** seems to share my taste in music, so I’m going to go pick up the CDs he mentioned that I haven’t heard (of). ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/49 "2001-04-02T05:40:22Z")
Asassins, by Stephen Sondheim. Simply the best musical of the 1990’s (and considering the 1980’s, let’s throw that in too). Every trakc is gold. All it needs is some of Sam Byck’s monologues thrown in. ---
**Author:** ![Homer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df788c/32.png) [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/50 "2001-04-02T05:46:05Z")
Days of the New II by Days of the New. Travis Meeks is a GOD. –Tim ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/51 "2001-04-02T05:46:52Z")
The Clash - **The Clash** Husker Du - **Warehouse: Songs And Stories** Gang Of Four - **Entertainment!** The Replacements - **Let It Be** Miles Davis - **Kind Of Blue** The Go-Betweens - **16 Lovers Lane** Prince - **Sign ‘O’ The Times** I’ll second **Marquee Moon** by Television and **Murmur** by R.E.M. ( **Revolver** is my favorite Beatles album, but it’s slightly marred by George’s (of course) “Love You To”, IMO). ---
**Author:** ![King\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7bcc69/32.png) [@King\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/King_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/52 "2001-04-02T05:52:46Z")
The Band _The Band_ ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/53 "2001-04-02T06:09:47Z")
Damn, if my computer wasn’t such a cluncky piece of crap I’d pop on over to [allmusic.com](http://allmusic.com) and look it up. Over 25 years ago - Keith Richards’ statement that most albums are “one hit single and ten tracks of shit” was law of the land - and we first head Blue Oyster Cult’s… not Agents of Fortune - but the one with the drawing of the ME 262 jet on the cover… it was the first album we’d ever heard where every single track sounded like somebody gave a crap about it being as worth listening to as the rest. We were so dumfounded that we played it over several times to be sure. Now I remember - Secret Treaties! ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/54 "2001-04-02T07:33:39Z")
My choice is based on the fact that I’d gone through my collection within the PAST FEW WEEKS and played ONLY the songs that I like. I’m talkin–STONES, ELVIS, BEATLES, QUEEN, CHICAGO, jazz, classical, THRILLER, country, folk, 45s, Broadway, movie, disco,(aaarrrggghhh) vocals, dance. I loved this stuff! Only TWO albums/CDs got played ALL THE WAY THROUGH— WEST SIDE STORY—movie soundtrack DAYS OF THE FUTURE PASSED—Moody Blues ---
**Author:** ![Barney111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/898d66/32.png) [@Barney111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barney111)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/55 "2001-04-02T11:08:57Z")
No particuler order: Late for the Sky - Jackson Browne Graceland - Paul Simon So - Peter Gabriel Who’s Next - Who The Band - The Band Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat Astral Weeks - Van Morrison ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/56 "2001-04-02T13:26:50Z")
And not a one by the Sex Pistols??? Shocking!!! ---
**Author:** ![JohnBarleycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JohnBarleycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBarleycorn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/57 "2001-04-02T13:34:08Z")
I know some (or all) of these have been said. If so, just consider it as a “hell yeah!” [bold]Velvet Underground and Nico[/bold] Velvet Underground [bold]Dark Side of the Moon[/bold] Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![JohnBarleycorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JohnBarleycorn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBarleycorn)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/58 "2001-04-02T13:43:26Z")
AARRRGH!! those \*\* Submit \*\* and \*\* Preview \*\* buttons look awfully similar when your boss walks in the room and you have to scramble to find your work on the taskbar. ahem… \*\* Dark Side of the Moon \*\* by Floyd \*\* Velvet Underground and Nico \*\* \*\* I against I \*\* Bad Brains \*\* Repeater \*\* Fugazi \*\* In My Head \*\* Black Flag There are several more, but I should get back to work before I get the shaft and end up having to sell these favorite albums of mine for cheese. ---
**Author:** ![omni-not](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8dc957/32.png) [@omni-not](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/omni-not)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/59 "2001-04-02T13:52:15Z")
And of course… No ‘John Barleycorn Must Die’ by Traffic among the favourites!! What **is** it with you people?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2001, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/60 "2001-04-02T16:30:26Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sir Rhosis \* > \*\*“New York” by Lou Reed \*\* Absolutey. Well, except for the pretentious _Dime Store Mystery_. Sort of ruins the (mostly) straightforwardness of the rest of the album for me. **Imperial Bedroom** - Elvis Costello **Beggar’s Banquet** - Rolling Stones **Rust Never Sleeps** - Neil Young \*\*J.D. Crow and the New South \*\* - J.D. Crow and the New South (mid 70’s bluegrass) **Talkin with the Taxman About Poetry** - Billy Bragg [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402.md?page=4)