# I love all the songs on this album. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171 "2009-06-18T14:01:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/1 "2009-06-18T14:01:41Z")
Very rarely do I like every song on an album. Close to never, if you don’t include Greatest Hits-- and I don’t. Nowadays there’s no need to buy whole albums to get to the songs you like. Does anyone still buy whole CDs? Here are my precious few I Love Every Song On This CD list: Tapestry-- Carole King Songs About Jane-- Maroon 5 Jagged Little Pill _almost_ makes the list since I love all the songs very much. All except Mary Jane. P.S. I feel like I’m starting far too many threads here in CS and this one is a repeat of one from years back. But I got a lot of good music suggestions from it and I’m still curious about other people’s opinions. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/2 "2009-06-18T14:08:28Z")
Do the Beatles even count for this thread? Sgt. Peppers, The White Album, Revolver - all of them do it for me. Steely Dan’s Aja Paul Simon’s There Goes Rhymin Simon ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/3 "2009-06-18T14:09:27Z")
I very rarely buy individual songs. I usually buy the whole CD or pay for the whole album download. Usually there are one or two songs that I don’t particularly like but the price break in downloading the entire album is better than individual selection. I listen to a lot of blues artists who don’t get heavy rotation on the air or other free access areas like Pandora. So I have to buy a lot of music “unheard”. It’s rare that I’m disappointing. That sometimes happens when I download a new artist but its not enough to change my spending habits. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/4 "2009-06-18T14:30:45Z")
I think all of the Peter Gabriel solo albums up to “So” were without a dud. It took “Us” and the songs “Only Us” and “Blood Of Eden” to break that streak. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/5 "2009-06-18T14:34:24Z")
There are dozens of albums where I love every song. Some include: Spirit – _The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus_ It’s a Beautiful Day – _It’s a Beautiful Day_ Bonzo Dog Band – _Urban Spaceman_ Led Zeppelin – _Led Zeppelin_ and _Led Zeppelin IV_ Procul Harum – _Procul Harum_ Rick Wakeman – _The Six Wives of Henry VIII_ Beatles – _Revolver, Rubber Soul, Abbey Road_ Rolling Stones – _Let it Bleed_ The Who – _Who’s Next_ and _Who Are You?_ Soft Machine – _Third_ Emitt Rhodes – _Emitt Rhodes_ The Reverend Payton’s Big Damn Band – _The Whole Fam Damily_ The Clash – _London Calling_ Traffic – _John Barleycorn Must Die_ The Band – _The Band_ Allman Brothers Band – _Live at Fillmore East_ Elton John – _11/17/70_ Flash and the Pan – _Lights in the Night_ (ignoring the CD Bonus tracks) Jethro Tull – _Aqualung_ and _Thick as a Brick_ ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/6 "2009-06-18T14:48:03Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Jethro Tull – _Aqualung_ and _Thick as a Brick_ _Thick As A Brick_? Isn’t that cheating? I almost mentioned _The Way Up_ by the Pat Metheny Group, but figured that was cheating for the same reason as _Thick As A Brick_. (There’s only one song on each of these albums). ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/7 "2009-06-18T14:55:27Z")
Van Morrison’s _Moondance_ is the only one I can think of that fits the bill. Pure gold from start to finish. A few of my favorite albums fall one or two tracks short: John Mellencamp, _Scarecrow_ Bruce Springsteen, _Born to Run_ and _Born in the USA_ The Blasters, eponymous release John Fogerty, _Centerfield_ Dwight Yoakam, _Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc._ ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/8 "2009-06-18T15:01:25Z")
Bruce Springsteen, _Born to Run_ The Rolling Stones, _Beggars Banquet_ Concrete Blonde, _Bloodletting_ Miles Davis, anything between 1958 and 1964 ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/9 "2009-06-18T15:04:56Z")
I’m the opposite. Rarely do I dislike more than 1 or 2 songs on an album I like, and quite often I like every song. Pop music is notorious for just trying to get a couple of radio hits and filling the rest of the album with garbage, so if that’s the kind of music you’re into, you will find it harder to find albums that you enjoy from start to finish. I was really into Poison when I was real young, and even as an 7 year old kid I would listen to some of the deeper cuts on their albums and think, “ok, this is fuckin’ corny.” ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/10 "2009-06-18T15:05:11Z")
I’ll second “London Calling.” And for me… “Tronic,” Black Milk “The Cold Vein,” Cannibal Ox “Davy,” Coconut Records “The Bake Sale,” Cool Kids “One of the Boys,” Katy Perry “Illmatic,” NaS “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” Phoenix “All Your Summer Songs,” Saturday Looks Good to Me I primarily buy albums; I buy singles from artists who I don’t expect to enjoy entire albums from. I won’t be buying Black Eyed Peas’ latest, for instance, but I’ll download the singles. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/11 "2009-06-18T15:19:01Z")
The two that come immediately to mind are “Blood on the Tracks” (Dylan) and “Graceland” (Paul Simon). There might be a couple more. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/12 "2009-06-18T15:23:26Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > _Thick As A Brick_? Isn’t that cheating? Then I shouldn’t include “A Passion Play”? About Aqualung, Tull played at my university back in 2005 and they played, though not in order, every song on Aqualung, every one of which I do love. It turns out that 2 days later they recorded “Aqualung Live” a live version of the album so I guess they were practicing. I would also add: AC/DC: Back in Black Highway to Hell Van Halen: 5150 And just about any Who album 1979 and earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Enright3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/enright3/32/2897_2.png) [@Enright3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enright3)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/13 "2009-06-18T15:24:19Z")
I’ll jump on the Graceland bandwagon so to speak. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/14 "2009-06-18T15:33:08Z")
Wilco: _A Ghost is Born_ Wilco: _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_ Wilco: _Summer Teeth_ Wilco: _Mermaid Avenue Vol 1_ The Beatles: _Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band_ The Beatles: _Abbey Road_ The Beatles: _Beatles For Sale_ The Beatles: _A Hard Day’s Night_ Paul Simon: _Graceland_ The Band: _The Band_ Paul McCartney: _Band On the Run_ Paul McCartney: _Flaming Pie_ Horsefeathers: _House with No Home_ Johnny Cash: _American IV: The Man Comes Around_ Shearwater: _Winged Life_ The Frames: _The Cost_ The Frames: _Burn the Maps_ Fireman: _Electric Arguments_ Bon Iver: _For Emma, Long Ago_ Elliot Smith: _From a Basement on a Hill_ The Magnetic Fields: _69 Love Songs Vol 1_ Jeff Buckley: _Grace_ Atherton: _Skyline Motel_ Gary Jules: _Trading Snake Oil for Wolf Tickets_ ---
**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:** [June 18, 2009, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/15 "2009-06-18T15:52:02Z")
Dire Staits - _Making Movies_ Now, some people will tell you that this is _almost_ a perfect album, except for the final track, _Les Boys_. I don’t know where these people come up with their crazy ideas, because no such song was ever recorded. I think these are the same people who believe they saw movies called _Highlander 2_ or _Star Trek V_, or a TV show called _The Star Wars Christmas Special_. Seriously, one of the things I love about mp3 players is that I can rip _Making Movies_ and just leave off the final track. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/16 "2009-06-18T15:55:24Z")
Led Zeppelin IV, side 1 of which is rumored to be highly desirable for making out. ---
**Author:** ![ErinPuff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dbc845/32.png) [@ErinPuff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ErinPuff)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/17 "2009-06-18T15:56:10Z")
From a quick scroll through my iTunes library: Andrew Bird, _Armchair Apocrypha_ Anna Ternheim, _Separation Road_ Basia Bulat, _Oh, My Darling_ Camera Obscura, _Let’s Get Out of This Country_ Dar Williams, _The Green World_ Eisley, _Room Noises_ Emiliana Torrini, _Fisherman’s Woman_ The Hush Sound, _Goodbye Blues_ Jeff Hanson, _Jeff Hanson_ Joanna Newsom, _Ys_ Kate Bush, _The Kick Inside_ Laura Marling, _Alas I Cannot Swim_ Mariee Sioux, _Faces in the Rocks_ Piñataland, _Songs for the Forgotten Future, vol. 1_ Universal Hall Pass, _Mercury_ Venus Hum, _Big Beautiful Sky_ I almost always buy full albums (usually from Amazon MP3). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/18 "2009-06-18T16:04:56Z")
The Crow Soundtrack Pearl Jam, _Ten_ ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/19 "2009-06-18T16:14:05Z")
U2, _The Joshua Tree_ ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/20 "2009-06-18T16:22:27Z")
Offspring- \*Americana \*is one that always surprises me. When I start listening I always feel like I’m going to skip a few clunker songs. But the album together is one of the most cohesive albums as a whole. The songs individually are okay but together they make something greater than the sum of its parts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171.md?page=2)