# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![orion007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@orion007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/orion007)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/81 "2001-04-04T01:35:19Z")
Greenday - Dookie Jimmie’s Chicken Shack - Bring Your Own Stereo Deftones - White Pony Offspring - Smash Metallica - S&M Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape Limp Bizkit - Three Dollar Bill, Yall ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/82 "2001-04-04T10:28:28Z")
I’m also going to chime in with something not mentioned before even though I agree with many of them. Marillion - Fugazi Marillion - Misplaced Childhood ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/83 "2001-04-04T11:27:06Z")
Led Zepplin - Houses of the Holy Rush - Moving Pictures (actually, most Rush albums before and including Grace Under Pressure) Queen - The Game ---
**Author:** ![Rockwell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Rockwell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rockwell)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/84 "2001-04-04T14:37:33Z")
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves Elton John - Goodbye Yellowbrick Road ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/85 "2001-04-04T15:22:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ghandi5569 \* > \*\* > Counting Crows–August and Everything After; This Desert Life > \*\* I agree, though I’d have to include “Recovering the Satellites” as well. And “Across a Wire,” but that’s just live performances of previously released material, excluding “Chelsea.” Ben Folds Five-“Whatever and Ever Amen” Anything by Billy Joel except “The Nylon Curtain.” I’m not a fan of “Goodnight Saigon.” The Corrs-“Talk On Corners” ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/86 "2001-04-04T15:33:16Z")
_ **The Book of Secrets** _ by \*\*Loreena McKennitt. \*\* Every single track on that disk is a miracle. ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/87 "2001-04-04T15:45:31Z")
Well, while I am a die hard fan…and when I say DIE HARD, I mean scheduling pregnancies around tour dates…I have to disagree that Sehnsucht by Rammstein is “every song a wonder”. Klavier is weird at best but everything else rocks. My votes? **Gordon** by Barenaked Ladies **Live in Australia** by Elton John and, in my humblest opinion…the greatest album…EVER **Music For The Masses** by Depeche Mode jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@Trout\_Mask\_Replica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trout_Mask_Replica)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/88 "2001-04-04T18:14:51Z")
Weezer, self-titled Rancid, _And Out Come the Wolves_ Green Day, _Dookie_ AC/DC, _Back in Black_ AC/DC, _Highway to Hell_ Metallica, _Ride the Lightning_ Led Zeppelin IV ---
**Author:** ![Albert\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9de053/32.png) [@Albert\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Albert_Rose)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/89 "2001-04-04T20:54:01Z")
**Tunnel of Love** – Bruce Springsteen **Moondance** – Van Morrison **Into the Music** – Van Morrison **Stand** – Sly and the Family Stone **The Velvet Underground** **Dumb Poet** – Immaculate Fools **Jagged Little Pill** – Alanis Morissette **Little Love Affairs** – Nancy Griffith **In My Tribe** – Ten Thousand Maniacs **Who’s Next** – The Who **Dark Side of the Moon** – Pink Floyd **The Joshua Tree** – U2 **Boy** – U2 **Lifes Rich Pageant** – R.E.M. **Document** – R.E.M. **Automatic for the People** – R.E.M. **Home** – Hothouse Flowers **Court and Spark** – Joni Mitchell ---
**Author:** ![chief](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@chief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chief)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2001, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/90 "2001-04-04T21:57:12Z")
good topic, i love these. Guns N’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction comes to mind at first, it is great! also albums from led zeppelin, floyd and several others mentioned before i can agree with! ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/91 "2001-04-05T03:50:16Z")
Gotta go with **Gerry Rafferty** ’s “City to City”. Not only do you get his biggest hit, Baker Street, with that incredible Raphael Ravenscroft sax and tasteful but kickin’ guitar, but you also get Right Down The Line and Home and Dry. Tasteful and thoughtful throughout. It’s the only album I’ve spent the money on to own in three different formats - vinyl, tape & CD. **Joni Mitchell** ’s “Court & Spark” that flows from song to song with charm and intelligence. **k.d. lang** ’s “Shadowland” a tribute to Patsy Cline’s style that sends shivers down my spine. What a voice! And for the lovers of the talented but lamentably obscure, the incredible **Frummox** and “From Here to There”. A pair of Texas singer-songwriters, Dan McCrimmon and Steve Fromholz, whose work together and singly is legendary. (Steve wrote one of Willie Nelson’s hits, “I’d Have to Be Crazy.”) ---
**Author:** ![Tommy\_Bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@Tommy\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tommy_Bear)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/92 "2001-04-05T13:15:51Z")
The Replacements - Let It Be, Tim, and Pleased to Meet Me (three consecutive works of perfection) Husker Du - New Day Rising and Flip Your Wig (yes, I even like “The Baby Song”) The Suburbs - Credit In Heaven (which isn’t available on CD, damn damn damn) And, just to be perverse and less Minnesota-specific, Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/93 "2001-04-05T22:27:47Z")
Garbage • {Garbage} Sarah McLachlan • Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Beth Nielsen Chapman • Sand and Water Enigma • Le Roi est Mort, Vive le Roi Styx • The Grand Illusion Pink Floyd • Animals Alan Parsons Project • I, Robot U2 • The Joshua Tree Kansas • Leftoverture Boston • {Boston} …and I’ll second (or in some cases third or fourth) the suggestions for: Carole King • Tapestry Pink Floyd • Wish You Were Here Meat Loaf • Bat Out of Hell …and almost for these as well (with exceptions noted): Pink Floyd • Dark Side of the Moon [you can skip Any Colour You Like and Money] Yes • Close to the Edge [uh, Siberian Khatru just isn’t all that] Pink Floyd • Meddle [leave Seamus, that’s the dog, outside] Led Zeppelin 4 [c’mon, admit it: you’d never play it just for side two alone] ---
**Author:** ![JimmyNipples](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@JimmyNipples](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimmyNipples)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/94 "2001-04-06T00:50:00Z")
Anything by **DEVO** New Tradisionalists Freedom Of Choice Are We Not Men…We Are DEVO Greatest Hits Greatest Misses Duty Now For the Future **The Crash Test Dummies** Keep A Lid On Things Good Christ, that is a fine album. EVERY tune is just dandy. I just played the tune on my show this afternoon…and said the same thing. Brad Roberts is somewhat of a doofus, but he sure can belt em out. ---
**Author:** ![A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@A\_Friend\_of\_the\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Friend_of_the_Devil)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/95 "2001-04-06T04:13:12Z")
Albums that no one has mentioned (I can’t believe no one has brought these to the party): **Machine Head** - Deep Purple (their very best album) **Classic Electric** - Hot Tuna **Deja Vu** - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young And some seconds for ones mentioned before: **Wish You Were Here** - Pink Floyd **Animals** (often overlooked) **Led Zepplin (I)** - Led Zepplin (the one with the Hindenburg on the cover) I suppose that my age shows here, too. For those of you who sneer at “rock and roll dinosaurs”, remember that the dinosaurs ruled the earth for 100 million years… ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/96 "2001-04-06T05:49:18Z")
“Marco Polo” by Ennio Morricone “Frantic” by Ennio Morricone “Under Fire” by Jerry Goldsmith “The Russia House” by Jerry Goldsmith And on and on. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/97 "2001-04-06T12:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommy Bear \* > Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music 🙂 Okay, just have a seat in the waiting room and the doctor will see you in a few minutes. This is the album Reed made so RCA would release him from his recording contract. And it worked. ---
**Author:** ![Evnglion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f04885/32.png) [@Evnglion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evnglion)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/98 "2001-04-06T12:22:22Z")
When I used to like their music, I thought Nirvana’s Nevermind was nothing but good songs…and Neon Genesis Evangelion Original Soundtrack 1 is awesome… and who can argue with John Williams and the Star Wars soundtracks, all 4 of em… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JayNewt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b3f665/32.png) [@JayNewt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JayNewt)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/99 "2001-04-06T12:24:01Z")
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest hits; Gin blossums Outside Looking In; Queen’s Greatest hits. All these CD’s have good songs throughout. Awsome stuff. Great songs. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2001, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402/100 "2001-04-06T12:40:11Z")
**Rush** Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Exit…Stage Left **Deep Purple** Machine Head **The Reverend Horton Heat** Smoke 'em if you got 'em **Alice Cooper** School’s Out **The Dickies** Dawn of the Dickies **Aerosmith** Toys in the Attic [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/every-song-on-the-album-is-great/60402.md?page=6)