# I love every song on this CD! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599 "2003-04-09T17:53:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Death](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecccb3/32.png) [@Evil\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Death)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/41 "2003-04-10T11:06:58Z")
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? Janis Ian - Night Rains Goldfrapp - Black Cherry Cowboy Junkies - Best Of … and the Donnie Darko OST ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/42 "2003-04-10T11:17:02Z")
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers The Beatles - Revolver Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step Aerosmith - Get Your Wings Aerosmith - Rocks Bob Dylan - Bringin’ It All Back Home Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited The Band - Music From Big Pink Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore East Cry of Love - Brother ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/43 "2003-04-10T11:22:52Z")
John Martyn - Solid Air Nick Drake - Pink Moon Joni Mitchell - Song to a Seagull; Clouds ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/44 "2003-04-10T13:57:30Z")
I don’t get this thread. Do people seriously _buy_ albums only to not listen to half the tracks? On _every_ album that I buy, I listen to _everything_. Secret tracks, skits, _everything_. If I didn’t like a band enough to listen to all their stuff, I wouldn’t buy their album. And as a result, I find that eventually I’ll discover songs that once meant nothing to me. Take the Get Up Kids _Four Minute Mile_. There was a time when I didn’t particularly care for “The Last Place You Look” or “Fall Semester,” but eventually there came a time when these were my favourite songs on the album. If I’d just ignored these tracks after the first few listens, I would never have discovered their true value. I simply do not understand how one can listen to a cd and actually skip tracks. They’re albums. They work as a whole. It’s like skipping chapters in a book. ---
**Author:** ![chorizo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@chorizo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorizo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/45 "2003-04-10T15:13:51Z")
I totally agree with **gex gex**. They’re _albums_, people. You take the good with the bad. I’m of the opinion that the records I buy are put together as a cohesive statement by the band - not a collection of context-free singles. They recorded the songs and worked on sequencing them in the way that made the most sense to them, and I’m going to come along and second guess them? There are so many great _albums_ that have to be heard as a whole, not in little chunks. Maybe you don’t like a song as much as another one, but the band put it there for a reason and I’m going to trust them. I’m not saying that there aren’t great single songs that I would never buy on an album - there are lots of those, but I’m content to hear most of those once in a while on a mix CD or something. I only buy _albums_, not a song or two at a time. And I have close to a thousand of them. I never skip tracks when I’m listening. “UMass” by the Pixies is SUPPOSED to come right after “Head On”. Every Song on “London Calling” must be heard, and in that order. Hearing them any other way is just wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Zanshin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e274bd/32.png) [@Zanshin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zanshin)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/46 "2003-04-10T15:17:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Cholo \* > \*\* > Cry of Love - Brother \*\* Holy moly, I can’t believe someone owns this CD besides me! I love these guys, although nobody else I know has ever heard of 'em. My list: Marcy Playground - Marcy Playground Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle Barenaked Ladies - Gordon BoDeans - Joe Dirt Car Ben Folds - Ben Folds Live Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Live On Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Trouble Is… Kane Roberts - Saints and Sinners ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/47 "2003-04-10T15:24:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*Saturday Morning (Punk rock bands playing old cartoon songs) > \*\* I have that one too! It’s great! ---
**Author:** ![karomon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@karomon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/karomon)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/48 "2003-04-10T15:25:12Z")
Pertaining to Brother … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zanshin \* > \*\*Holy moly, I can’t believe someone owns this CD besides me! I love these guys, although nobody else I know has ever heard of 'em. > \*\* My dad is crazy over them! He saw them once at Celticfest (or something) in Betlehem, PA, and he bought up all their CDs. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/49 "2003-04-10T16:14:11Z")
I agree with **gex gex** and **chorizo**. I almost always listen to CDs all the way through without skipping songs, with the exception of alternative version bonus tracks that sometimes get tacked onto the ends of CDs. To their reasoning I would add that you never know when a song is gonna grow on you, and I came of age musically during the cassette era, so I’m not used to convenient skipping. I prefer “real” albums to “just a collection of songs.” I find that greatest hits compilations, movie soundtracks, and other repackaged collections tend to be less satisfying to listen to. But in defense of this thread, I’ll say that y’all have been naming some great albums—some I already love and some I may have to check out. (Kudos to **Skammer** for mentioning an obscure masterpiece!) ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/50 "2003-04-10T16:48:18Z")
Robyn Hithchcock - I Often Dream Of Trains XTC - Skylarking XTC - English Settlement XTC - Apple Venus Vol. 1 Sumack - Now Hear This Clash - London Calling Belle and Sebastian - If You’re Feeling Sinister Housemartins - People Who Grinned Themselves To Death Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison Morphine - Cure For Pain Travis - The Invisible Band Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & Lash Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God Poi Dog Pondering - Poi Dog Pondering Poi Dog Pondering - Wishing Like A Mountain And Thinking Like The Sea Space - Spiders Sugarplastic - Radio Jejune **gex gex** , **chorizo** , and **Thudlow Boink** : I could be wrong, but I don’t think the point of this thread is simply about CDs you merely listen to all the way through; but rather CDs you LOVE all the way through. I’m guessing even if you do listen to every CD you own all the way through from start to finish, there are songs on most of those CDs you don’t like as much as others, even if you don’t skip over them. I believe the point of this thread is to list ‘perfect CDs’; CDs that remain consistantly great from start to finish. Of course, threadstarter **Biggril** can correct me if I’m assuming incorrectly. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/51 "2003-04-10T17:07:17Z")
Or, **Biggirl** , as the case may be. I’m not sure who Biggril is. ---
**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:** [April 10, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/52 "2003-04-10T17:38:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Anamorphic \* > \*\* > > **gex gex** , **chorizo** , and **Thudlow Boink** : I could be wrong, but I don’t think the point of this thread is simply about CDs you merely listen to all the way through; but rather CDs you LOVE all the way through. I’m guessing even if you do listen to every CD you own all the way through from start to finish, there are songs on most of those CDs you don’t like as much as others, even if you don’t skip over them. I believe the point of this thread is to list ‘perfect CDs’; CDs that remain consistantly great from start to finish. Of course, threadstarter **Biggril** can correct me if I’m assuming incorrectly. 🙂 \*\* Hey, howja know I have a big grill? Now people, of course I listen to my CDs all the way through-- how would I know whether I liked all the songs on them or not? Once I’ve established that I really, really cannot stand _I Belong to You_ on Toni Braxton’s first album (the only reason that CD didn’t make my list) I see no reason to listen to it if my CD walkman’s skip button is less than an inch away from my finger. I have a question for you guys who love every single song on every single album you own-- how do you do that? Do you guys know every single song on every single album you buy before you buy them? Personally, I have to know and like at least 3 songs before I buy the CD and will consider myself lucky if there are 3 other songs I love on it. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/53 "2003-04-10T17:53:12Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Biggirl \* > \*\*I have a question for you guys who love every single song on every single album you own-- how do you do that? \*\* And if you don’t like a song, why do you sit listen to it? Just because it’s on the CD? Life’s too short to listen to music that you don’t like. I love the skip button. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/54 "2003-04-10T18:44:56Z")
For whatever reason, the albums that fit the OP usual end up in my car. There’s nothing better than an album you don’t have to skip through when taking a long drive. Marah- Let’s Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later Marah- Kids in Philly Nine Inch Nails- Pretty Hate Machine Peter Gabriel-So The Pogues- Hell’s Ditch The Smiths- The Queen is Dead The Smiths- Hatfull of Hollow Morrissey- Bona Drag Jay Farrar- Sebastepol Bright Eyes- Lifted, or Keep Your Ears to the Ground the Story is in the Soil (though I usually just suffer through the first bit of the first song…with all the background noise and whatnot) Lucinda Williams- Carwheels on a Gravel Road and interesting hodge-podge of groups…but not a bad egg in the bunch IMHO ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/55 "2003-04-10T18:59:23Z")
I’m going to offer some 2-disc live sets: Ani DiFranco–Living In Clip Roger Waters–In The Flesh Live Pink Floyd–Pulse Eric Clapton–24 Nights and possibly the greatest live album ever recorded (not a 2-disc, unfortunately…) Bob Marley–Babylon By Bus ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/56 "2003-04-10T19:22:27Z")
A few that have gone unmentioned: Cheri Knight Jayhawks, specifically _Hollywood Town Hall_ Jeff Buckly needs repeating The album _Deadicated_ (Dead covers) Most all Cowboy Junkies albums Hey **Gex Gex**! Gotta ask you again: Where do you keep it? * * * She said I was terribly handsome. Was I insulted? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/57 "2003-04-11T03:47:32Z")
I mentioned The Jayhawks - Smile. Speaking of the Jayhawks - I’m listening to the new album, and it’s great. _Rainy Day Music_ - highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![pezboy2u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@pezboy2u](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pezboy2u)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/58 "2003-04-11T04:04:30Z")
Smiths- Queen is dead Smiths-self titled Morrissey-Vauxhall & I Wilco- Summerteeth R.E.M.-New adventures in hi-fi Jesus & Mary Chain- psychocandy My Life Story- Mornington crescent Rialto-self titled I usually give every cd I buy several spins thru each song before I start skipping over certain tracks. A lot of songs I love now, didn’t hit me the first time I heard them, either because I wasn’t listening under the right circumstances, or in a bad mood. ---
**Author:** ![ghandi5569](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@ghandi5569](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ghandi5569)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/59 "2003-04-11T04:27:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jonathan Chance \* > \*\*Emmet Swimming - Arlington to Boston > > Cowboy Mouth - Mercyland > > Cornershop - When I Was Born For the 7th Time \*\* I love those three albums. Especially Emmet Swimming (no one seems to have heard of them, but they rock). Add to that: Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (both CDs, in order). Any Counting Crows CD Red Hot Chili Peppers: One Hot Minute Nada Surf: High Low Any Collective Soul CD but the first one (Hints, Allegations, and Things Left Unsaid) Green Day: Warning ---
**Author:** ![Treviathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@Treviathan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treviathan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599/60 "2003-04-11T05:59:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sam Stone \* > \*\*I mentioned The Jayhawks - Smile. > > Speaking of the Jayhawks - I’m listening to the new album, and it’s great. _Rainy Day Music_ - highly recommended. \*\* I love the Jayhawks too, but there always seems to be one or two songs (“Pretty Thing” on the otherwise exquisite _Smile_ comes to mind) that completely turn me off. But I will add Kathleen Edwards’ stunning _Failer_ and Counting Crows’ _Hard Candy_ to my previous selections. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-love-every-song-on-this-cd/167599.md?page=4)