# I love every song on this album! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 10, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883 "2017-03-10T17:17:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2017, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/21 "2017-03-10T23:57:24Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Laura Nyro’s _Eli and the Thirteenth Confession_. Just fucking perfect straight through. > > [Eli and the Thirteenth Confession - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_and_the_Thirteenth_Confession) This. Along with _Ladies of the Canyon_, by Joni Mitchell, which I was so busy playing over and over and over back when it came out that I somehow missed Laura Nyro’s stuff altogether. So, both of 'em. Also, _Surrealistic Pillow_, by Jefferson Airplane. Besides qualifying for not having a bad song on it, it gets the After-50-Years-I’m-Still-Not-Sick-of-It award. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/22 "2017-03-11T00:11:54Z")
Indigo Girls - Rites of Passage I want to include a few Springsteen albums but there’s always maybe one song I don’t like quite as well as the others, or at least that I feel doesn’t fit in as well. I guess The River is one where I love every song. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/23 "2017-03-11T01:08:26Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I’m just going to list one at this point. Rattling off 20 or so albums, they all sort of get lost in the sauce. > > **Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom** > > It is a complex, smart, very inventive string of songs, each one is brilliant. It feels like a concept album to me, and one I never tire of hearing. That’s a good one! ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/24 "2017-03-11T01:19:08Z")
Jethro Tull - **Thick As a Brick** Not a bad song on the album! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/25 "2017-03-11T01:28:26Z")
1. \*\*Sepultura - Roots \*\* Truly the greatest heavy metal album of all time. Shame Max Cavalera left the band after their pinnacle. No metal album has approached it. 2. \*\*Alice in Chains - Dirt \*\*I just really like every single song. I do grow tired of it some days, but I have to admit, it’s perfect. 3. **U2 - Joshua Tree** - Wow, what an album. I don’t even like this kind of music and I stand in awe of how great it is. 4. **Nirvana - Nevermind** Yep, it’s 10/10. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/26 "2017-03-11T02:10:14Z")
Manhattan Transfer - **Vocalese**. Everything on the album is super-fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/27 "2017-03-11T02:37:56Z")
Bonzo Dog Band – _Tadpoles_ (Their first three albums are great, but I like this one the best). _Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East_ Soft Machine – _Third_ (Amazing Jazz-Rock-Progressive fusion) Joe Cocker – _Mad Dogs and Englishmen_ J. Geils Band – _Full House_ Elton John – _Honky Chateau_ Kinks – _Low Budget_ Paul McCartney and Wings – _Band on the Run_ Joni Mitchell – _Ladies of the Canyon_ Procul Harum – _Procol Harum_ Queen – _A Night at the Opera_ ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/28 "2017-03-11T02:50:45Z")
Indigo Girls _Indigo Girls_ Moody Blues _Days of Future Passed_ Pink Floyd _The Wall_ Blondie _Parallel Lines_ 2 Nice Girls _2 Nice Girls_ Grieg’s _Holberg Suite_ by the Netherlands Guitar Quartet Carpenters _A Song for You_ They Might be Giants _Flood_ _Carmen_ featuring Maria Callas _Cabaret_ original cast recording Nirvana _Nevermind_ Pretty much anything by the Klezmatics ---
**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:** [March 11, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/29 "2017-03-11T02:51:48Z")
No! Don’t just write a name of an album. You must elaborate! ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/30 "2017-03-11T03:04:47Z")
Mmmmmmm…nice to run into some other Laura Nyro fans here. Every time I’ve tried to start a thread about her I’ve run into a wall of silence. Her _New York Tendaberry_ (1969) is almost as good as _Eli and the Thirteenth Confession_ (1968), but has a couple of misfires. And the abortion song, “Gibsom Street,” spooks me out every time I hear it…and it’s a real downer after the transcendent “Save the Country.” I started listening to Nyro years after she passed, thinking she was another excellent chick songwriter like Joni Mitchell or Carole King…but Laura stabbed me in the heart like no one else. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/31 "2017-03-11T03:12:45Z")
Also, _The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest_ (1984) by the **Young Fresh Fellows**. Debut album. Not as famous as most of the artists on here, but good golly, for a first album, it’s an AMAZING collection of great melodic/snarky pop/rock songs. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/32 "2017-03-11T03:27:54Z")
I agree about Dylan’s _Blood on the Tracks_, which has several of his best songs EVAR (“Tangled Up in Blue;” “Idiot Wind;” “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts”) but I don’t think it reaches the interstellar heights of _Highway 61 Revisited_. How can one possibly top an album that begins with “Like a Rolling Stone” and ends with “Desolation Row” ? ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/33 "2017-03-11T03:28:31Z")
I’m not the hugest nirvana fan. I do like nevermind, of course. BUT the real winner is nirvana unplugged. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/34 "2017-03-11T03:45:02Z")
**Rush** - Moving Pictures. Every song is perfect. Though some, like Red Barchetta and Witch Hunt, are _more_ perfect. Also, **U2** ’s The Joshua Tree, already mentioned above and for the same reasons. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/35 "2017-03-11T03:46:19Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Also, _The Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest_ (1984) by the **Young Fresh Fellows**. Debut album. Not as famous as most of the artists on here, but good golly, for a first album, it’s an AMAZING collection of great melodic/snarky pop/rock songs. Ooo…nice pick. I do like that Pacific Northwest power pop/punk scene or whatever you want to call it. Are you familiar with Pure Joy, the Fastbacks, Flop? Well, there’s a lot of albums that work for me as an entirety, as that’s how I tend to listen to music, but since Led Zeppelin is fresh on my mind because of another thread, I’ll have to go with Led Zeppelin IV. The weakest song on that album might be “Four Sticks,” but I still enjoy it from start to finish and would never dream of skipping over it. I may be a little sick of Stairway, though. (And, actually, that’s how I first ended up buying that album. Somehow, when I was 15 years old in 1990, I managed to go my whole life not hearing Stairway on the radio or anywhere else. I’ve heard other Zeppelin songs on the radio, but not that one for some reason. Maybe the classic rock station I listened to just didn’t play eight-minute tracks, or I was just incredibly unlucky, I don’t know. At any rate, I was getting a bit peeved that I apparently had this big black whole in my musical knowledge that I saved up some cash, walked down to Venture, and bought the cassette version of IV. And I remember loving every song on that album. Except for Stairway. I was so disappointed when I finally heard this legendary song that kept coming up in conversations with my guitarist friends. Eventually, I did warm up to it and to this day, I still think the album is solid from start to finish.) ---
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Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark Every song is just perfect, track order is perfect. Traffic- John Barleycorn Must Die Side one of this is my “perfect album side” Jellyfish- Spilt Milk I put this in because everyone should know about Jellyfish. So much work went into this album, and this band, and they deserve so much more recognition than they got. Phish-Junta I’m from New England. I was a ski bum in the 80s/90s. It’s the law. (See also, Seal’s first album) Joe Jackson-Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive- One listen is all you need. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883/37 "2017-03-11T11:54:58Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > How can one possibly top an album that begins with “Like a Rolling Stone” and ends with “Desolation Row” ? The \*\*Ukelele \*\*man raises a good point and pretty much closes the discussion, in my opinion… …and then I think about **Blonde on Blonde** … mmm ---
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Lots of fine choices. I will go low-brow and cite **The Sweet, Desolation Boulevard** : The U.S. Track list is: “Ballroom Blitz” (Chapman, Chinn) – 4:07 “The 6-Teens” (Chapman, Chinn) – 4:06 “No You Don’t” (Chapman, Chinn) – 4:36 “A.C.D.C.” (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:28 “I Wanna Be Committed” (Chapman, Chinn) – 3:14 “Sweet F.A.” (Scott, Tucker, Connolly, Priest) – 6:16 “Fox on the Run” (Scott, Tucker, Connolly, Priest) (7" version) – 3:28 “Set Me Free” (Scott) – 3:59 “Into the Night” (Scott) – 4:25 “Solid Gold Brass”. Some songs best heard in an end-to-end listen, but the run of songs from Ballroom Blitz to Fox on the Run are glam-fabulous. The whole thing holds up suprisingly well. - \*\*Van Halen \*\*- it’s maybe 30 minutes. Can’t not listen to the whole thing. ---
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The Rolling Stones-Sticky Fingers: Remarkable album that never lets up. This is truly such a departure from the 60’ Stones with the arrival of highly competent lead guitar of Mick Taylor and with what now is common for the Stones. A greasy horn section that punctuates the music like no guitar can. This songs are so accessible with great hooks. The Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street: Another album from the boys that is wonderful to listen to straight through. This would be my deserted island album if I was forced to choose one. I am fascinated with this record for precisely the opposite reason listed above. These songs are hard to get into on first listen or second, or third. However, 40 years later and I’m still finding treats throughout the songs. The mix is muddy and Mick is buried so it makes the listener work. The songs are not nearly as accessible but that makes it genuine somehow. The Stones (at the peak of their powers and the height of Keith’s addiction) decided to ignore a traditional release and instead went deep into their roots and released a double album that almost challenged the listener to like it. Hooks? Not so much. The songs themselves range from rock to gospel to country to whatever. The Stones really went deep on this album. They were never quite the same afterwards. ---
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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Mmmmmmm…nice to run into some other Laura Nyro fans here. Every time I’ve tried to start a thread about her I’ve run into a wall of silence. > > Her _New York Tendaberry_ (1969) is almost as good as _Eli and the Thirteenth Confession_ (1968), but has a couple of misfires. And the abortion song, “Gibsom Street,” spooks me out every time I hear it…and it’s a real downer after the transcendent “Save the Country.” > > I started listening to Nyro years after she passed, thinking she was another excellent chick songwriter like Joni Mitchell or Carole King…but Laura stabbed me in the heart like no one else. I was lucky enough to see Laura play, sometime in the 90s. As evidenced by her choices in the songs she covered, she came out of the soul tradition, nothing like Joni or Carole, though Carole did share that New York sensibility, her songs had nowhere near the depth. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-album/781883.md?page=3)