Quite a while back I started this same exact thread and got some very good albums from it. Now I’m back again, mining Doper gold.
My musical tastes tend to be all over the map and the years. I’m also not a snobby purist, so Greatest Hits and compilation CDs work out fine for me. In fact, I LOVE Greatest Hits and comps because there is a very high chance that I will not hit the ‘skip’ button on my walkman at all while listening to one.
This is so NOT the case with straight forward CDs. Of the 70 or so CDs (maybe more-- I’ve never actually counted) I have at work, there are only 5 that I do not hit the skip button on.
I LOVE every song on these CDs
Tapestry-- Carole King
Rumours-- Fleetwood Mac
Play-- Moby
Kish Kash-- Basement Jaxx
Songs About Jane (the newest member of this list)-- Maroon 5
I want to cheat and put Jagged Little Pill on this list but I must confess, I skip Mary Jane.
So Dopers, what are some of your no-skip, non-greatest hits, love EVERY song on this CD?
Paul Simon - Graceland Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Blaze of Glory - Joe Jackson Sports - Huey Lewis and the News Trick of the Tail - Genesis Thick as a Brick - Jethro Tull
In alphabetical order because I can’t remember what CDs I have without looking at my iTunes playlist:
Anthony Warlow - Centre Stage
Dar Williams - The Green World
Emiliana Torrini - Fisherman’s Woman
Jorane - The You and the Now
Piñataland - Songs for the Forgotten Future, vol. 1
Universal Hall Pass - Mercury
Venus Hum - The Colors in the Wheel
Blur - Parklife Air - Moon Safari Esthero - Breath From Another Pet Shop Boys - Very Assemblage 23 -* Defiance * (Storm nearly made the cut, but I can’t listen to 30kft without bawling like a baby, so I can’t include it)
Heh. I’d like to say Born to Run and Darkness on the Edge of Town, but I don’t like Tenth Avenue Freeze Out and Adam Raised a Cain, the second song on each respectively. It’s not just that they follow the unfollowable Thunder Road and Badlands (my favorite BS song I think) but the style is jarring.
Anyhoo, I’d go with
Emmylou Harris - Red Dirt Girl
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Soundtrack to Thelma & Louise
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
Abba - Gold
REM - Automatic for the People
Dire Straits - Alchemy (Live)
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
LZIV shouldn’t really count for me since I don’t have it on CD yet, and if I did I’d skip Four Sticks some of the time. But when I’m listening on tape it’s not worth it to skip (and it’s not a bad song, just not as good as the other 7 tracks.)
Otherwise:
– Heart, Dreamboat Annie.
– Echo and the Bunnymen.
– Beastie Boys, Paul’s Boutique.
– Everything by Pink Floyd except TDB, AHM, More, and ASoS. (Ummagumma isn’t their best but over the years I’ve grown to like all the tracks on it about the same.)
– Everything by … and You Will Know us by the Trail of Dead.
– Dashboard Confessional - Places you have Come to Fear the Most. It’s not often that I have an urge to listen to it (as opposed to seeing them live,) but when I do I don’t skip tracks.
– Coheed and Cambria - In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3. (Wouldn’t it be funny if that album were put out by …AYWKubtToD and had SSoSFAGTiaCaGwaP on it? Or is it just me?)
I listen to a surprising number of my CDs straight through.
Some of mine are there already (JAMC, NO, VF). I would put Jagged Little Pill there. Joy Division - Closer Kate Bush - The Kick Inside, Never Forever & The Sensual World 10 000 Maniacs - Hope Chest & Our Time in Eden R.E.M. - Out of Time Pixies - Doolittle & Trompe Le Monde Dido - No Angel Bauhaus - Mask
**Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity & Tender Prey Einsturzende Neubauten - Halbe Mensch Shelleyan Orphan - Century Flower Stone RosesStone Roses My Bloody Valentine - Isn’t Anything Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses, Songs from the Wood & Crest of a Knave Cocteau Twins - Treasure, *Garlands & Victorialand Dead Can Dance - Aion * The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me & Three Imaginary Boys New Model Army - Thunder & Consolation
Any Billy Bragg album
Any Smiths Album Morrisey - Viva Hate
**Pink Floyd **- The Dark Side of the Moon
**U2 **- Achtung Baby
**U2 **- All That You Can’t Leave Behind
**U2 **- The Joshua Tree
**R.E.M. **- Monster
**The Arcade Fire **- Funeral
**Jose Gonzalez **- Veneer
**Bruce Springsteen **- Born to Run
**The Killers **- Hot Fuss
**Green Day **- American Idiot
**Green Day **- Warning
**Joe Satriani **- Is There Love in Space?
**Tenacious D **- Tenacious D
**Bob Seger **- Greatest Hits (Og help me)
**Ten Mile Tide **- Flow
**Oasis **- (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
I listen to almost everything clear through–guess it’s my luddite background, pre-cd as it is. However, in the spirit of the thread, the ones I have loaded onto my computer at work that I will sit and listen to five or six times through in a row:
Sting, Songs from the Labyrinth
Evanescence, everything they’ve released
Piffaro, Stadtpfeffer–Music of the Renaissance
All I can think of right now (and damn, are my selections old): Bonnie Raitt – Nick of Time Bonnie Raitt – Sweet Forgiveness James Taylor – Hourglass James Taylor – Live Lyle Lovett – Road to Ensenada Great Big Sea – Turn Delbert McClinton – Never Been Rocked Enough Jackson 5 – Greatest Hits (1971), an album I had on 8-track and grew up with
almost every Beatles album up to Rubber Soul
Guys and Dolls Original Cast Recording (revival with Nathan Lane and Faith Prince) Barbara Cook – Close as Pages in a Book Eric Clapton – Journeyman Billy Joel – Turnstiles
The Jackson 5 Greatests Hits is one of my all time favorites and I will sing each and every one of those songs at the top of my very horrible voice— but I didn’t count it because, well, it’s a Greatests Hits CD. So it’s kind of cheating. You know, picking only the cream of the crop.
Let’s see -
Terence Trent D’Arby - “Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D’Arby”
Prozzak - “Saturday People”
Santana - “Supernatural” (this is one of my all time favourite albums, period.)
Dwight Yoakam - “Between the Covers” (he does a bluegrass cover of the Clash’s “Train in Vain” that really works. All of his covers work. I don’t like country much, but I have to respect an artist who can do this.)
The Eagles - All of their stuff.
Prince - “Purple Rain,” “Sign of the Times,” “O|-> (Symbol Album),” “Batman Soundtrack”
Alicia Keys - “Songs in A Minor,” “Diary of Alicia Keys”
Led Zeppelin - “Zeppelin Four”
Stevie Ray Vaughan - “In Step”
Robbie Robertson - “Robbie Robertson”
The Funk Brothers - “Standing in the Shadows of Motown”
Platinum Blonde - “Standing in the Dark”
Black Eyed Peas - “Monkey Business”
INXS - “Kick”
Queen - “The Game”
Manhattan Transfer - Mecca For Moderns. I can’t help it, I even dig the ultra-poppy-easy-listening Smile Again, and the experimental-sounding Kafka. Everything else on the album is slam dunk.
Manhattan Transfer - Vocalese. Far easier to explain to my friends. There ain’t a clunker, or even a near-clunker, on this beauty.
Miles Davis / Gil Evans - Sketches of Spain
Jefferson Airplane / Starship - Surrealistic Pillow*, Volunteers & Red Octopus
Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead, American Beauty & “Skullfuck”
Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon, Court & Spark
Patti Smith - Horses
U2 - War, the Joshua Tree
Kate Bush - the Sensual World
10,000 Maniacs - Our Time In Eden
*I confess I originally didn’t like “My Best Friend” but the song eventually grew on me.
Jethro Tull – Stand Up and Benefit
John Mayall - Turning Point
Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull (too bad the sound is so fuzzy, though) and Blue
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Incredible String Band - Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter (YM might well V)
Patty Griffin - Living with Ghosts
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
John Renbourn - The Lady and the Unicorn
Jefferson Airpalne - Surrealistic Pillow (seconded)
The Bealtes - Revolver and Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Talking Heads: *More Songs About Buildings and Food * and Fear of Music Brian Eno: Before and After Science Birdsongs of the Mesozoic: Sonic Geology Stereolab: Dots and Loops, *Emporer Tomato Ketchup * and Mars Audiac Quintet