I love all the songs on this album.

A-frickin’-men.

I also agree with the Peter Gabriel suggestions posted above, except I really enjoyed “Blood of Eden” on Us.

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”

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.

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’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.

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.

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.

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 :))

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.

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.

Boston’s first album.
Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell
And I have to check, but I think Supertramp’s Breakfast In America

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.

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? :slight_smile:

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.

Pearl Jam - Yield. :wink:

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.))

Cure for Pain-- Morphine

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.

*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”

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

Crime of the Century - Supertramp.

Bookends Simon & Garfunkel