# Full albums you still listen to **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970 "2010-03-10T14:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MarcusF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/67e7ee/32.png) [@MarcusF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarcusF)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/41 "2010-03-10T22:08:38Z")
Classic albums that I definitely prefer as albums: Dire Straits _Brothers in Arms_ Eurythmics _Savage_ Fairport Convention\* Liege & Lief\* ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/42 "2010-03-10T22:23:33Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > _Boomtown_, David & David. > [@WordMan](#): > > I was going to reply to your post and agree with your D+D choice - it stands up well Double concur. ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2010, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/43 "2010-03-10T22:40:28Z")
Depeche Mode, _Black Celebration_. One of my favorite albums ever - when I’m feeling particularly depressed, I put it on and wallow in the depression for a while, then by the time _But Not Tonight_ comes on, I’m done with wallowing and ready to accept the hand up that it offers. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/44 "2010-03-11T00:01:22Z")
> [@Oni no Maggie](#): > > Depeche Mode, _Black Celebration_. One of my favorite albums ever - when I’m feeling particularly depressed, I put it on and wallow in the depression for a while, then by the time _But Not Tonight_ comes on, I’m done with wallowing and ready to accept the hand up that it offers. Agreed, except I listen to the remaster, which restored the album to its original ending - sans “But Not Tonight”. Oftentimes, I’ll still then flip to that track. I listen to a lot of albums all the way through, so I’ll just list the ones I’ve done so lately or really like: **Mesh** The Perfect Solution **VNV Nation** Of Faith, Power and Glory **Goldfrapp** Seventh Tree **Chris Isaak** Forever Blue **Death Cab for Cutie** Transatlanticism **Depeche Mode** Some Great Reward **IAMX** Kingdom of Welcome Addiction **Nine Inch Nails** Broken (though it’s only an EP) **Postal Service** Give Up **Tool** ænima ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/45 "2010-03-11T11:54:14Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > btw, I assume you know about David B’s association with Sheryl Crow’s first album, Tuesday Night Music Club? It was _his_ TNMC… !!! No I didn’t. I just sorta assumed the two guys made that one great album then went their own ways; I had no idea David B was even still around. Although I love her version of ‘First Cut is the Deepest’ (and in fact my band covered her version a few years back), I’ve never been that big of Sheryl Crow fan. But now I’m going to have to go back and listen to TNMC again. And while I’m at it - what White Stripes album would you recommend? I’ll give them one more chance to prove me wrong. ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/46 "2010-03-11T12:12:31Z")
Two Dire Straits albums; _Love Over Gold_ and _Making Movies_. I don’t mind listening to singles off of any other Dire Straits or Mark Knopfler album, but these two _must_ be listened to as albums. ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/47 "2010-03-11T13:19:49Z")
The Rolling Stones’ Forty Licks and my Benninghoff’s Bad Rock Blues Band album. ---
**Author:** ![Manwich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@Manwich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manwich)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/48 "2010-03-11T14:06:10Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > for obscure stuff - I will say \*\*#1 Record \*\*and **Radio City** , both by **Big Star** and \*\*Marquee Moon \*\*by \*\*Television \*\*- excellent stuff… Not too obscure, and I definitely like to listen to those albums the whole way through. But I love Third/Sisters Lovers too, so what do I know… I mostly listen to albums at least one side at a time, if not the whole way through. But certain albums come to mind as really working much better listened to in one sitting: Kraftwerk - Radio-Acctivity/Autobahn/Computer World/Trans-Europe etc., at least one side at a time is best Built to Spill - Perfect from Now On Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars Neil Young - Tonight’s the night, Everybody, Zuma, etc. (you just need to get the feel of what he is doing.) ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/49 "2010-03-11T14:58:07Z")
> [@DragonAsh](#): > > !!! > No I didn’t. I just sorta assumed the two guys made that one great album then went their own ways; I had no idea David B was even still around. > > Although I love her version of ‘First Cut is the Deepest’ (and in fact my band covered her version a few years back), I’ve never been that big of Sheryl Crow fan. But now I’m going to have to go back and listen to TNMC again. > > And while I’m at it - what White Stripes album would you recommend? I’ll give them one more chance to prove me wrong. White Stripes - to me, **De Stijl** , their second CD, is a solid entry point. He’s not quite as aggressively, well, \*Jack White \*about everything - so if you haven’t acquired the taste yet, you don’t feel overwhelmed. After that, **Elephant**. David B and Sheryl Crow - [here’s the wikipedia entry](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday_Night_Music_Club), but it doesn’t capture the buzz of the moment. The TNMC was friends with John O’Brien, who wrote Leaving Las Vegas, the novel which became the movie. To my knowledge, David B or another TNMC’er brought the idea to the table for a song when Sheryl landed the record deal. I don’t know who wrote the actual song, but it emerged from the book and her association with the TNMC. When the song broke and she played it on Letterman, Dave gave her props by approaching her after the song to actually talk. He complimented her on the song and asked if she wrote it based on stuff in \*her \*life. And, to her everlasting regret, she answered Yes (I read later that she has said that she just got caught like a deer in the headlights when Dave approached her and she babbled out an answer…). That exacerbated the already-strained relationships she had with the TNMC who were stunned by her album’s overwhelming success (sold over 5million copies)… …really too bad because Sheryl Crow is _entirely legit_ as a musician and songwriter (you are welcome to not like the songs or how she has been marketed - but I don’t want to hear someone just dismiss her like a cougar Britney Spears - Crow is hugely talented) - it took a while for her to get some distance from that buzz. Having a massive second album certainly helped… ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/50 "2010-03-11T16:03:51Z")
I would have to list all 5000-6000 of my albums. I prefer to listen to albums. I only really use the shuffle feature on my iPod when I’m hiking or training or maybe on a long drive. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/51 "2010-03-11T16:42:12Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Especially when I just mentioned it two posts upthread from his. 😉 Nope, you mentioned their 2nd and 3rd albums. I posted their first self-titled album 8 posts before that but he’ll still kick himself when he finds that out!😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/52 "2010-03-11T17:27:10Z")
Some that come to mind immediately: Small Faces - _Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake_ Procol Harum - _A Salty Dog_ Rolling Stones - _Beggars Banquet_ Rolling Stones - _Let It Bleed_ Rolling Stones - _Get Yer Ya-Yas Out_ The Clash - _London Calling_ But there are so many others. Those of us who grew up with vinyl and turntables are predisposed to listen to the whole album, because that’s what we did. There weren’t remote controls and track skipping. Frankly, it had to be a pretty crappy song to make you get up, walk across the room, pick up the tonearm, and move it to the next track! All of the albums I list above are organic entities. I think it’s weird if I hear them with the _sequence_ if the songs changed! ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/53 "2010-03-11T21:45:43Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Nope, you mentioned their 2nd and 3rd albums. I posted their first self-titled album 8 posts before that but he’ll still kick himself when he finds that out!😃 Old age; it’s a bitch…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/54 "2010-03-11T22:26:14Z")
[Appropriate news item](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_hi_te/eu_britain_pink_floyd_11) ---
**Author:** ![Claude\_Remains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@Claude\_Remains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claude_Remains)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/55 "2010-03-11T22:28:14Z")
**Deep purple** - Machine head. Just last week for old times sake. **Frank zappa** -Joe’s Garage. On my ipod for long trips. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/56 "2010-03-12T00:26:15Z")
**Timepeace** by Tery Callier. Really needs to be listened to from start to finish. I don’t like listening to it any other way. **Dark Side Of The Moon**. Definitely. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/57 "2010-03-12T01:22:06Z")
> [@KneadToKnow](#): > > [Appropriate news item](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100311/ap_on_hi_te/eu_britain_pink_floyd_11) This brings up an interesting point about listening habits. One of the reasons I like to listen to whole albums is because it is presented as a collection of things to be experienced as a set, IMO. I know that often the songs on an album are written as just songs, with no real relation to each other. But other artists write songs around or about or in relation to other songs , so that the entire album is more than just 10 songs, it’s a mini-opus. **Pink Floyd** ’s _The Wall_, **Neil Young** ’s _Rust Never Sleeps_, **Art Of Noise** ’s _The Seduction Of Claude Debussy_ are all examples of great albums whose songs were written to compliment each other and to further a narrative or exposition. Listening to just one song out of the whole album might be an enjoyable enough 3 minutes and 30 seconds, but the song has greater depth and meaning when heard in proper relation to the rest of the album. In fact, I consider even albums like **AC/DC** ’s _Back In Black_ or **Joe Walsh** ’s _But Seriously Folks_ to be more than just a random collection of singles: they are a slice of time and of an artists life, views, mores, and abilities. I find much greater satisfaction in listening to the whole album than I would if I was constantly skipping around individual songs. I mean, who would read a novel a chapter at a time, and out of order? Re-read chapter 9 over and over and over, but only read chapter 14 once? Who would watch a movie in 8 minute segments, destroying the narrative structure that the filmmaker had created? Don’t get me wrong, sometimes it’s fun to shuffle songs up, but mostly I prefer to experience the music in the manner the artist presented it to me: as a distinct and meaningful anthology. ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/58 "2010-03-12T02:14:46Z")
I’m old fashioned - I only buy whole albums. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970/59 "2010-03-12T02:34:10Z")
> [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](#): > > I’m old fashioned - I only buy whole albums. Ditto. Even if there’s only one song on the album I know and like, I’ll take the chance on the other 9 songs rather than pay $1 for a download. I’d even buy a 33 1/3 before I’d pay for a download of a song (at least I get a 2nd “mystery” song that way), but if the song is on an album, I’ll buy the album. ---
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pearl jam- 10 Pink Floyd -Dark side of the moon Beastie Boys -Paul’s Boutique coldplay -a rush of blood to the head wilco- yankee hotel foxtrot, sky blue sky & a ghost is born STP -purple & core counting crows- august and everything after flaming lips - yoshimi battle the pink robots [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/full-albums-you-still-listen-to/531970.md?page=4)