# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![FlyingRat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/59ef9b/32.png) [@FlyingRat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRat)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/21 "2009-06-18T16:26:47Z")
> [@Joe Frickin Friday](#): > > U2, _The Joshua Tree_ A-frickin’-men. I also agree with the Peter Gabriel suggestions posted above, except I really enjoyed “Blood of Eden” on _Us_. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/22 "2009-06-18T16:56:23Z")
Electric Light Orchestra, “Face The Music” and “A New World Record” Yes, “The Yes Album” and “90125” Dire Straits, “Brothers In Arms” The Traveling Wilburys, “Volume 1” Movie Soundtracks: “The Empire Strikes Back” and “Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/23 "2009-06-18T17:14:35Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Nowadays there’s no need to buy whole albums to get to the songs you like. Does anyone still buy whole CDs? Hell yes. To me, what you’ve said makes about as much sense as “nowadays there’s no need to buy whole movies to get the scenes you like” or “there’s no need to buy whole books to get the chapters you like.” I tend toward **Cisco** ’s point of view. [QUOTE=Cisco] 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. [/QUOTE] I tend to listen to albums start-to-finish, without skipping. This is partly because some albums are designed to be listened to this way, are more than the sum of their parts, and provide a satisfying begining-to-end listening experience, where, even if there are tracks I don’t like as much, having them there somehow enhances my enjoyment of the tracks I do love or of the album as a whole. And it’s partly because I’ve very often had the experience of having a song grow on me, where it didn’t do much for me the first couple of times I heard it but later, with many more listens, I came to really appreciate it. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/24 "2009-06-18T17:17:54Z")
> [@Enright3](#): > > I’ll jump on the Graceland bandwagon so to speak. I’m almost with you; it’s an incredible album. Except for Gumboots…and Crazy Love…which are less-than-incredible. ETA: just so I’m not accused of thread-shitting, I’ll add: Soundtrack to **The Mambo Kings.**. Perfect in every way. ---
**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, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/25 "2009-06-18T17:59:31Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > Hell yes. To me, what you’ve said makes about as much sense as “nowadays there’s no need to buy whole movies to get the scenes you like” or “there’s no need to buy whole books to get the chapters you like.” Someone in the previous thread said almost the same thing about the book. I like the analogy but only if the movie is Grindhouse or it’s a book of short stories. Yes, the song may (or may not) make a whole, but I don’t have to like all of the movie shorts or short stories to like the whole movie/book. ---
**Author:** ![Stauderhorse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Stauderhorse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stauderhorse)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/26 "2009-06-18T18:13:28Z")
Abbey Road - The Beatles More - Pink Floyd (just listened to this one the other day and was astounded at how good it was) The soundtrack for _Rent_, as well as _Sweeney Todd_ It’s pretty rare that I find an album with nothing but great songs; but when I do find one, I run right out and buy it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/27 "2009-06-18T18:32:43Z")
Funny, _More_ is one of the least-solid Floyd albums IMO. Although I do like every one of the songs on the first “side” of the album – the Mediterranean jazz noodling isn’t too intrusive at that point. Funny, it’s rare to find a Floyd album I _do_ like every song on, even though they’re probably the solidest band in existence! For instance Obscured by Clouds has the muddling Mudmen, and Interstellar Overdrive and Pow R Toc H mar an otherwise perfect PatGoD (that said, I _like_ IO, but I don’t _love_ it per the OP.) That said, I do love every track on their Big Four albums, as well as Meddle (even Seamus and San Tropez :)) ---
**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, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/28 "2009-06-18T18:42:03Z")
My favorite band has 11 major-label studio albums, and I only dislike about 3 of their songs - and 2 of them are on the new album so they might grow on me. I’ve never skipped a track on a Sufjan Stevens album. Primus’ _Sailing the Seas of Cheese_ is a very cohesive album. I can’t imagine liking one of the songs on it and not all the rest as well. ---
**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, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/29 "2009-06-18T18:51:49Z")
> [@FlyingRat](#): > > A-frickin’-men. > > I also agree with the Peter Gabriel suggestions posted above, except I really enjoyed “Blood of Eden” on _Us_. I guess “Blood Of Eden” is not that bad, but the lyric “I cannot get insurance anymoooooooore” is very un-Gabrielish and takes me right out of the listening experience. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/30 "2009-06-18T18:59:15Z")
Boston’s first album. Meat Loaf’s _Bat Out of Hell_ And I have to check, but I _think_ Supertramp’s _Breakfast In America_ ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/31 "2009-06-18T19:12:21Z")
There’s a quote from Penn Gillette (I think) on first hearing the Ramones, something like ‘I couldn’t believe a band had made an album and decided to miss out the crap songs’ It is surprising to hear an album with no weak spots. \*Spiderland \*by Slint and \*I see a Darkness \*by BPB are both complete albums - epic from start to finish. They don’t have that many songs on them, though. \*Nevermind \*is also exceptionally strong IMO. Not listened to it in beards but I’d never skip a track. \*Toxicity \*by SOAD is a more recent hard rock album that is quality front to back. ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/32 "2009-06-18T19:46:37Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > 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. Yeah, I thought this was a zombie at first but there weren’t enough responses. I kept thinking, didn’t she already do this with Tapestry before? 🙂 I really like, in the more recent stuff: Sara Bareilles–Little Voice Duffy–Rockferry Rafael Saadiq–The Way I See It (technically, this has a song by Jay Z that I hate, but it’s another version of a song Rafael sings on the album, so I contend it doesn’t count) Older suff: Delbert McClinton–One of the Fortunate Few Lyle Lovett–Lyle Lovett and His Large Band The Bee Gees–Main Course Stevie Wonder–Signed, Sealed and Delivered Derek and the Dominoes–Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs Aretha Franklin–I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You The Beatles–Rubber Soul, Revolver and, of course, Tapestry. ---
**Author:** ![in\_hiding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c5a1d2/32.png) [@in\_hiding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/in_hiding)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/33 "2009-06-18T19:53:37Z")
Pearl Jam - Yield. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/34 "2009-06-18T20:09:46Z")
Too many to count in classic rock, but in the non-classic rock arena:\* Agree on Nevermind Panic (!) at the Disco’s two albums. Modest Mouse - We were dead before the ship even sank. Although it has my least favorite best song, it also has no duds. Their other albums have bigger highs and lows. Elvis Costello: This Years Model. Other albums have a couple duds on them (but generally only one or two.) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists: Hearts of Oak Echo and the Bunnymen’s eponymous album, as well as _What Are You Going to do With Your Life_. \*I was going to say “era”, but Costello is not in the classic rock _genre_ despite that album being in that _era_. Oh, okay, I lied. One entry from the Classic Rock genre that might not get mentioned otherwise: Heart’s _Dreamboat Annie_. It’s so good that for awhile I thought it had to be a compilation album because the songs are so solid (and I didn’t even know at the time that it was _Crazy on You_ that was their big hit from that album, since the local rock station mainly played _Magic Man_. I might stop going to Heart shows since the only stuff from that album they ever play are MM, CoY and sometimes an acoustic version of _Dreamboat Annie_, but never any deeper cuts in the 5 times I’ve seen them. But they make up for it in their varied Led Zeppelin covers – the only stuff from LZIV that I have not seen them cover in concert is When the Levee Breaks, Four Sticks, and Stairway, and the last two have obvious reasons not to cover them (i.e. being only sort of good for a LZ song and risking seeming cheesy, respectively. I think they’d do a good job with Levee, though. I know their version of Battle of Evermore is probably better than the Zep could do in concert without resurrecting Sandy Denny.)) ---
**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:** [June 18, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/35 "2009-06-18T20:15:57Z")
Cure for Pain-- Morphine ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/36 "2009-06-18T20:24:08Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > 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.” How perfect that you single out Poison – they were the first ones to pop into mind when I read the thread title. I’ve always said that _Look What The Cat Dragged In_ was the most complete album ever made. It aimed to be a perfect compilation of cock-rock party pop, and that’s what it was. Was it corny? Yeah, it was – but listening to it as a seven-year-old would give a very different impression than it did as as a 19-year-old longhair rockstar-wannabe crusing the Seaside strip looking to get laid. For that, it was was a perfect soundtrack\*. And for the record, the band that put out the least amount of filler was Hanoi Rocks. _Oriental Beat_, _Back to Mystery City_ and _Two Steps from the Move_ don’t have a bad song among them, while _Self Destruction Blues_ and _Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks_ each have only one lame track apeice. \*Although we usually skipped past _I Won’t Forget You_ while cruising the strip. ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@Baby\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Driver)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/37 "2009-06-18T21:20:18Z")
\*In Rainbows \*by Radiohead _Sounds of Silver_ by LCD Soundsystem _The Crane Wife_ by The Decembrists Both _The Boxier_ and _Alligator_ by The National Almost \*A Night at the Opera \*by Queen, but with the big exception of “Sweet Lady” ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/38 "2009-06-18T21:26:09Z")
Lyle Lovett– **Lyle Lovett and His Large Band** Mary Chapin Carpenter– **Come On, Come On** Sheryl Crow–**Tuesday Night Music Club Mona Lisa Smile Original Soundtrack** ---
**Author:** ![BACI](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ce73a5/32.png) [@BACI](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BACI)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/39 "2009-06-18T21:34:06Z")
Crime of the Century - Supertramp. ---
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