# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/61 "2009-06-19T19:48:14Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > 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. I agree. And in fact I agree so much that I’m going to do an Old Guy’s Rant. The idea of “why buy whole CDs?” makes me kind of sad. Back in the Old Days, people typically had a certain limited amount of money to spend on a limited amount of albums. So you picked your albums carefully and listened to them repeatedly from start to finish. And when you found one you really liked, you developed a _relationship_ with that album and the songs on it. There were the tracks that grabbed you right away, that you couldn’t get enough of. And the ones that you didn’t “get” at first, but that gradually revealed themselves to you over a number of listenings. Each one would show off a different facet of the musicians’ abilities and personalities, allowing you to get to know them more fully. And some cuts might introduce you to entire new areas of music that you would never have investigated on your own, had those musicians not decided to include them. If you approach an album as a kind of Chinese menu, picking one from Column A and one from Column B, you lose all that. [OGR off] ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/62 "2009-06-19T20:00:11Z")
> [@Sateryn76](#): > > 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 **Tapestry** almost makes it (with the exception of I feel the Earth Move, which for some reason reminds me of a “lounge lizard” scene from a 1970s B movie). \*\*Revolver \*\*definitely. **Aja definitely. I’m gonna throw down for Dark Side of the Moon**, too. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/63 "2009-06-19T20:01:23Z")
Just thought of another one: Talking Heads - _Little Creatures_ ---
**Author:** ![bathsheba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@bathsheba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bathsheba)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/64 "2009-06-19T23:37:35Z")
INXS - The Swing ---
**Author:** ![KarlGrenze](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/dbc845/32.png) [@KarlGrenze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGrenze)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/65 "2009-06-20T00:01:07Z")
Manu Chao- Clandestino and Próxima Estación: Esperanza. Manu’s songs blend into one another, so I tend to buy and like the whole album. Marc Anthony’s (salsa) is awesome, but my favorite is an older album of his, Todo a su tiempo. I like all the salsa and slow songs in that album. Another fan of Paul Simon’s Graceland here. Those are the ones I can think of now… ---
**Author:** ![Made\_in\_Macau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eada6e/32.png) [@Made\_in\_Macau](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Made_in_Macau)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/66 "2009-06-20T00:23:13Z")
My son asked me - 'Is there a better album of songs than XTC’s ‘Oranges and Lemons?’ and all I could say was, they may not be better, but try ‘Want 1’ by Rufus Wainwright and ‘Blue’ by Joni Mitchell. He came back to me and said ‘In Rainbows’ by Radiohead. I disagreed. MiM ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/67 "2009-06-20T00:52:01Z")
> [@HelloKitty](#): > > Bob Marley - _Tuff Gong_ This is not an album. ---
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/68 "2009-06-20T01:46:04Z")
**Pearl Jam** -Yield, Ten **XTC** -Mummer, Skylarking **The Smiths** -Hatfield of Hollow, The Queen is Dead **Live** -Mental Jewelry **Genesis** -Selling England by the Pound ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/69 "2009-06-20T01:56:49Z")
Well, just about everything by **Alice Cooper** of course but particularly \* Hey Stoopid\* and \* Raise Your Fist And Yell\* as whole albums. There are a number that come very close to making the “whole CD” cut but one or two songs just don’t quite make it, Actually, the “I don’t like it” list is WAAAAAAY shorter!! ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/70 "2009-06-20T01:58:43Z")
> [@pepperlandgirl](#): > > Paul McCartney: _Band On the Run_ Even better is the bonus disc from the 25th Anniversary Edition, where Paul and others involved reminisce about the making of the album. ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/71 "2009-06-20T02:06:51Z")
**Every Single Song** : “Hot Fuss” -The Killers “Sam’s Town” -The Killers “The Division Bell” -Pink Floyd “The Wall, Disc One” -Pink Floyd “Wish You Were Here” -Pink Floyd “Royal Highness” -Kottonmouth Kings “Cracked Tiles” -Zug Izland “3:33” -Zug Izland **Every Song Except One** : “Dark Side of the Moon” -Pink Floyd “High Society” -Kottonmouth Kings ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/72 "2009-06-20T03:47:15Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Should this be _Pink Floyd’s The Wall_? 😕 :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/73 "2009-06-20T03:53:48Z")
This is a surprisingly tough one for me - even on albums I love, like Exodus, there’s usually one track that doesn’t measure up. I don’t necessarily hate that track but I won’t love it. Making Movies is a perfect example; I don’t know why the hell they tacked Les Boys on there. But Graceland is a great choice, and I’d second the Allmans’ Fillmore album and add Eat a Peach. And OK Computer, by Radiohead. ---
**Author:** ![WPA-Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a6a055/32.png) [@WPA-Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WPA-Guy)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/74 "2009-06-20T04:17:58Z")
3 Supertramp Albums: Crime of the Century, Breakfast in America, …Famous Last Words. Donnie Iris and the Cruisers: King Cool and a couple by Bob Welch: French Kiss, 3 Hearts ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f07891/32.png) [@Little\_Plastic\_Ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Plastic_Ninja)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/75 "2009-06-20T07:44:22Z")
> [@Joe Frickin Friday](#): > > U2, _The Joshua Tree_ What I came in here to say. EDIT: Okay, also probably TMBG’s Flood and Simon and Garfunkel’s Sounds of Silence. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/76 "2009-06-20T12:52:32Z")
Probably loads, but a few that come to mind are **Small Faces** - _Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake_ **Grateful Dead** - _Workingman’s Dead_ **Beach Boys** - _Sunflower_ (the old UK release that opens with _Cottonfields_; the first lp I owned… ) **Mercury Rev** - _The Secret Migration_ **Grant Lee Phillips** - _Virginia Creeper_ **Bunny Wailer** - _Rock ‘n’ Groove_ ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/77 "2009-06-20T13:08:13Z")
_Blood Sugar Sex Magick_ by The Red Hot Chili Peppers _The Wall_ by Pink Floyd not only qualifies as an eminently listenable album, it’s also a concept album, so it’s a double whammy. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/78 "2009-06-20T15:07:12Z")
Greg Kihn’s _Mutiny_ is a CD that I always listen to all the way through. Quite different from his more famous (?) power-pop stuff, this album is acoustic folk and blues, complete with Dylan and Lou Reed covers and even a sea shanty. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/79 "2009-06-21T02:21:33Z")
Mine that were already named: Supertramp, Breakfast in America Paul Simon, Graceland Two that first came to mind: Squeeze, Babylon and On David + David, Welcome to the Boomtown Mr. S’s picks: Neil Young, Harvest Moody Blues, Days of Future Passed Wings, Band on the Run America, Homecoming Traveling Wilburys, Vols. 1 and 3 (I’ll second these) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171/80 "2009-06-21T17:34:14Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > This is not an album. Of course, not: it’s a pipe! 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-all-the-songs-on-this-album/500171.md?page=5)