Since I seem to be in a confessing mood— Just like Jagged Little Pill didn’t make the list because of Mary Jane, Bobby Brown’s Don’t Be Cruel doesn’t make the cut because of All Day All Night.
Phew! Almost had to admit to liking Bobby “I’m so cracked up it ain’t even funny” Brown.
Wow these were all going to be on my list. Also:
Shriekback - Big Night Music
Pink Floyd - The Wall, Wish You Were Here, A Momentary Lapse of Reason. I would say Dark Side of the Moon, but I often skip past “Great Gig in the Sky”
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Suzanne Vega - 99.9F
Sinead O’Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Well I was going to start another thread but since the OP did it, twice: 
Albums I’d listen to all the way through but for one song:
SWASS, by Sir Mix-a-Lot: didn’t like whatever that last slow song was and never listen to it.
The Aforementioned LZIV, (I’d skip over four sticks if I had it on CD.)
Navy Blues by Sloan - “Chester the Molester” isn’t a bad song but sometimes I skip over it due to the endless repetition of the title phrase.
The Mamas and the Papas “The Mamas and the Papas” containing Dream A Little Dream of Me
I’ve got quite a few of these, but the most recent addition to the list was Harlan T. Bobo’s Too Much Love.
Modern Times. Every single cut. Listening to it right now.
mangeorge
Sheryl Crowe’s self-titled album.
Soundtrack to Romeo Is Bleeding
The first Tranceplanet collection
Soundtrack to Bringing out the Dead
The Pogues–“If I Fall From Grace With God”, “Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash”, “Red Roses for Me”, and “Peace and Love”
I’d third or fourth Our Time in Eden, but I can’t stand “Circle Dream”
Every Steely Dan album from '72-80
also,
Aimee Mann - I’m With Stupid
Dave Matthews - Crash
Elvis Costello - This Year’s Model
Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky
King Crimson - Discipline
The Kinks - Arthur, and also Lola
Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel
Peter Gabriel - His third self-titled album (meltface), as well as Security and So
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
The Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed
Santana - Abraxas, Santana III and Caravanserai
Squirrel Nut Zippers - Perennial Favorites
Van Morrison - His Band and Street Choir
The Who - Quadrophenia
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Let Love In
Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream
The Rentals Return of the Rentals
Led Zepplin Houses of the Holy
I’m not afraid to break the mold by saying that Blind Man’s Zoo is my favorite and most listenable-in-its-entireity album by 10,000 Maniacs.
Gillian Welch Hell Among the Yearlings
Kiss Alive! Though you’ll have to excuse me if I’ve heard “Rock and Roll all Nite” one too many times and I’ll skip the extended drum solo in the aptly named “100,000 Years”.
I used to not be such a big fan of Tenth Avenue Freeze Out. It is a little oddly placed and lacks some energy that we get on really all the other tracks. Then I heard it live (and subsequently got a few live albums that had it on it), and it changed my view of the song. I used to skip over it most of the time; now I do enjoy it quite a bit.
And Darkness would be a much better album, IMHO, if Candy’s Room had not found its way onto it.
I totally agree with Tunnel of Love, though. I think it’s one of the most horribly underrated albums ever.
Some more additions to the list are:
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Let it Roll - Little Feat
You beat me to it. When I first read gigi’s comment I almost shouted “Blasphemy!” at the computer. Tenth Avenue gradually grew on me – it’s now one of my all-time favorites. And nope, never have heard it live either.
Bruce Springsteen - * Born To Run; Born in the USA*
Simon and Garfunkel - Wednesday Morning at 3AM; Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme; Greatest Hits
Jackson Browne = Running On Empty
INXS - * Listen Like Thieves; Kick*
the soundtracks to Saturday Night Fever and Grease (now my dirty secret’s out!)
Queen - *A Night At The Opera[/a]
I can listen to both Meat Loaf’s Bat Out Of Hell and The Clash’s London Calling in small doses, but I don’t listen to either often enough to qualify them in the above list. Ditto anything by The Eagles.
Interesting that the majority of my list are the albuns with which I went through high school. Except for S&G – they were my very first introduction to “popular” music because neither of my parents liked The Beatles.
My five perfect albums in my collection:
Weezer - Pinkerton
The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan
Green Day - American Idiot
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Almost making the cut, but one song made them miss:
The Postal Service - Give Up (“Natural Anthem” isn’t that good.)
Weezer - Make Believe (“We Are All On Drugs” just didn’t do it for me.)
System of a Down - Mezmerize (“Cigaro”)
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf (“Six Shooter”)
Explosions in the Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (“Yasmin the Light”)
Lyle Lovett and his Large Band
Mary Chapin Carpenter, Come on Come On
John Prine, Prime Prine and In Spite of Ourselves
Any of the Oxford American Southern Music Samplers
Calla - Collisions
I got one song off this album from Audiofile (It Dawned on Me) and promptly went out that weekend to buy the CD. I turned around the next weekend and bought practically their entire discography (I’m short one of their singles). Their first CD (Calla) is unlistenable, personally, but I don’t actually regret any of it. Besides that, their earlier CDs are personally better but not nearly as consistent.
The Iguanas - Nuevo Boogaloo
I spent five years trying to find this album. It was worth it. 'nuff said.
Every Beatles album, I believe, except for the White Album, which may be my favorite Beatles album. “Revolution 9.” 'Nuff said.
When I see threads like this, I immediately think, Making Movies by Dire Straits, but then I have to actually acknowledge that Les Boys exists. I do think it was nice of them to put that track at the end of the album, so you can just pretend it was never there.
Seriously. Probably the number one contender for “Most awful song on one of the most awesome albums ever.”
I’d vote for a lot of what others have already put:
My vote for most consistently listenable Maniacs album is Hope Chest. I guess it’s because it’s full of youthful energy and creativity (and it was recorded in my hometown!) Our Time in Eden has some fairly bad tracks that I’d skip over if I had it on CD (although Stockton Gala Days refers to a place, and sort of an event, that was 3 miles from my hometown :))
I’d vote for the Dan, too: Aja and Gaucho (except I skip Third World Man.)
I remembered one album I consider perfect:
Indigo Girls Rites of Passage
and their self-titled album is right up there too
Yeah, I usually think of the “bigger” albums (bigger sound, bigger airplay) as his best but then I put this on and the lyrics and smaller but heartfelt sound blows me away. 'Walk Like a Man", “All That Heaven Will Allow”…whoa.
Most of my favorite nonstop albums are from the 80’s, so I bought these on cassette (CD players didn’t become affordable til the 90’s, unfortunately for me).
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow and **The Lonesome Jubilee
**Peter Wolf - Lights Out, Come As You Are, and Up To No Good
Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast and End Of The Innocence
Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1
John Fogerty - Centerfield
Van Halen - 5150
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A. and Tunnel Of Love
Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Paul Simon - Graceland
And yes, I have since repurchased all these albums on compact disc.
Yes, ZZ Top. Do not play this album while driving. :eek: