What albums do yall listen to from beginning to end? There are plenty of artists and bands that I like with great songs but sometimes the album has filler in between the main tracks. Which albums do you feel like have little to no filler? I’d put up Chief Keef’s Finally Rich (debut album) Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys, maybe Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by Beatles, Curtis (1970) by Curtis Mayfield and Cuba Libre by Carlos Puebla. What are your favorites?
Lately I've been really into PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation and Fishing for Fishies by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I have listened both like more than 30 times already.
its quickly becoming a favorite, but king gizzard's new album petrodragonic apocalypse definitely ranks up there. overall favorite albums are probably human by death, shed by title fight, or fear of music by talking heads. all of kraftwerk's albums are also pretty close to favorites, especially "the mix", a re-recording of all their hits where they somehow take their masterpieces and make them even better. i own the mix on tape and listen to it almost every day lol
I've been listening to 2000s electronic lately, mostly Boards of Canada's "Geogaddi" and "Campfire Headphase" and sometimes The Unicorns' "Who Will Cut Our Hair"
Edit: I don't know how I forgot this, but "The Fire This Time" is an audio documentary about the us intervention in the Middle East that fans of IDM should definitely listen to.
Any album by La Dispute's Rooms of the House on back will pretty much never get a skip from me. Anti-Flag is also essentially my living anthem in band form.
I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
JESUS IS KING - Kanye West
Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
KOD - J. Cole
System of a Down - System of a Down
Honorable Mentions: 17 (XXX), The Moon & Antartica (Modest Mouse), Toxicity (SOAD), Cilvia Demo (Rashad), Back to the Woods (Angel Haze), Feet of Clay (Earl), ye (Kanye), iridescence (BROCKHAMPTON), S16 (Woodkid), Age of Empire 2 OST, Is This Beauty? (Fukkit), Big Fish Theory (Vince), untitled unmastered (Kendrick), 2022 VOL 1 & 2 (WILLIE G), Iron (Woodkid)
My ranking can be fickle sometimes, but my top 15 roughly stays the same
I slept hard on JESUS IS KING for, perhaps, some obvious reasons, but I heard it at work and its actually so good, some wince parts nonwithstanding but that's life.
Great list btw, Kendrick is a legend. I was a huge Kanye fan when I was younger and sorta listened to him less and less after his Trump turn, I completely skipped Jesus Is King bc it seemed like he was focusing too much on religion, I miss his old stuff, like anything from Life of Pablo all the way back to when he performed in ‘03 on Chappelle’s Show, but Donda had some amazing tracks here and there
Radiohead - In Rainbows
The Strokes - The New Abnormal
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
The Good, The Bad and The Queen - selftitled
Charlie Winston - Hobo
The Battle of Los Angeles, Rage against the Machine.
In a similar vein I'm pretty sure Zack De la Rocha is the only private citizen to successfully escape capitalism and become a comrade.
It's pretty niche, but I can't stop listening to Satellite High's "Sharks!". I also tend listen a lot to the whole Blood on the Dance Floor Michael Jackson album, even if I find some songs (and specially lyrics) not that good.
Listening to full albums is my preferred format, so I pretty much listen to anything to the end, other than a new album that I find myself disliking. But these are a few that I've listened to many times and that I also feel like tremendously benefit from the full album experience:
Down Colorful Hill by Red House Painters
This is a Long Drive by Modest Mouse
Hissing Fauna by Of Montreal
Modest Mouse is pretty good, I’ve seen them suggested throughout the post, I hear a few songs of theirs at work or on the radio, but now I feel like I need to listen to a full album from them with all of these recommendations lol, is This Is A Long Drive their best album in your opinion or would I be better suited listening to a more popular album by them? Keep in mind that I probably only know 2-4 songs of theirs
Their first two albums are very angry. Their first album, Long Drive, is my favorite, but most people think their second album, Lonesome Crowded West, is the better of the two. Long Drive alternates between sombre and aggressive where LCW is aggressive in parts but mostly mopey. LCW has some country aesthetic that's missing on Long Drive. Long Drive has many tracks that end with a minute or more of pure instrumental jams if that's your thing.
Their third album, Moon & Antarctic is a big departure from the first two in mood, the bitterness is gone. But this is still a fantastic album and very consistent, if the rough edges of the first two put you off this is where I'd start.
Personally I would skip Good News, it has some good songs but feels like it lacks a narrative. We Were Dead however feels like it has a cohesive vibe at the very least, and has some of their best pop forward tracks. The side project Ugly Casanova also has an album Sharpen Your Teeth that's quite good and different enough from everything else.
To each their own, but I can agree that plenty of albums have filler to make the album longer and sometimes you don’t have time for a whole album, that’s usually the case for me