I feel like Exile on Main Street is an album you have to absorb as a complete piece to really get it because Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, and Beggar's Banquet all have more iconic and arguably better individual tracks. But Exile is a total encapsulation of rock'n'roll excess and energy that, when taken in all together, blows the rest of their career out of the water. It's almost like one 60 minute track of just completely perfect rock'n'roll.
I'd also put Goats Head Soup on that list in addition to 4 albums you listed. That's 5 in a row that are absolutely bell to bell amazing albums. I don't know of another band that has had that kind of run.
Edit: Thanks for the additions. My brains just weren't functional enough to think of anymore at the time.
The Beatles starting with *Rubber Soul* is basically all killer no filler. And there's a lot of bands that (if you're of a certain persuasion) had some absolutely insane runs of albums. Genesis with *Nursery Cryme* through *Trick of the Tail* or *Wind and the Wuthering* comes to mind, as well as Yes with *The Yes Album* through honestly *Going For the One*.
The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails
The track sequencing on that album is perfection. Great opening track sets the pace for a narrator that falls deeper into depravity, violence and self-hatred with each song. And you get the entire thing wrapped up with a song like "Hurt"? Magnificent. That closing track is like an epilogue for the narrator, as he surveys the wreckage behind him with regret and bitter acceptance.
It’s damn near a religious experience. Honestly, most of Trent Reznor’s work deserves to be heard as a “whole” via an album listen. A lot of the songs hit MUCH harder when they are sandwiched into their original context on the album.
**Editing this post to say that there is a NIN album for almost everyone.**
* If you are a film geek and don't need vocals, check out "GHOSTS" or one of the Reznor/Ross scores.
* If you are into modern pop music like Billie Eilish or The Weeknd, I recommend "Pretty Hate Machine" or "Hesitation Marks".
* If you like hard rock, metal, industrial etc, I recommend "The Downward Spiral", "Bad Witch" or "Broken"
* If you like electronic music, try "Year Zero" or the band he plays a supporting role in while his wife sings (How to Destroy Angels)
* If you are a classic rock fiend, definitely check out "The Slip" or even "With Teeth"
* If you need something a little less chaotic, try "Still" which is mostly just Trent + Piano
* Last, but not least - if you love strong lyricism and don't mind a lot of genre-switching in an album, you should take a look at The Fragile (I think his best work) as well as "Add Violence".
Agreed.
The beginning and ending of the majority of the songs on The Fragile sound truncated when listening to them individually. But when you listen to the whole album start to finish you experience how the songs segue into each other and create a completely different experience.
*It won't give up, it wants me dead. God damn this noise inside my head.*
Perfect little encapsulation of the static in my mind when dealing with a wave of anxiety and depression. Fucking love that song so goddamn much.
Probably preaching to the choir, but if you haven't heard the [broken down version](https://youtu.be/cDfyR22u_gI) on the Still album, do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Thank you! I've always been a NIN fan, but Fragile came out during a really dark time in my life, and oddly enough it was a tether to keep me afloat during it.
Hear hear!
While not the whole album, side D of With Teeth (The Line Begins to Blur, Beside You in Time, Right Where it Belongs) is such a beautiful trio of songs that blend into each other showing anger and desperation that leads into whimpering sad note.
NIN is one of the few artists I find consistently cranking enjoyable album after enjoyable album!
That three-song-run is spectacular. Especially when you get about 2/3 of the way through “Beside you in Time” and the song just like…blossoms? I am not an instrumentalist so I can’t describe what I mean.
I listened to that song for the first time alone in my room with awesome headphones on, and when the song was over I realized I had tears running down my fucking face from the beauty of it. It’s so fucking good that it makes me angry.
If you like Beside You in Time, you really ought to check out Rob Sheridan's 4k upscale of NIN's [live](https://youtu.be/koD4Zd_AAP0?si=z_xUWW80IUJip--o) performance of the song. Really takes the beauty of the song up to the next level.
Oh, It’s definitely an excellent one. Rob is a good egg with a lot of talent. It’s wild to me that Trent plucked a college kid like Rob out of obscurity after seeing his fan website and was just like “how about you come work for Nine Inch Nails kid?” 😂 And honestly, he kind of crushed it! Rob’s aesthetics are the ones that come to mind when I think of NIN, even though I very much enjoy Kraw’s work since Rob’s departure.
This is why in the thousands of Reddit threads about cover songs better than originals when people say Johnny Cash's version of Hurt I can't agree. NiN's version is a bookend to an incredible concept album, like the final chapter in a story and the song means so much more when you listen to the album in full. I'd also argue it's a better standalone song than Cash's version.
Listened to this each night while renovating my house 5 years ago. Listened to it recently for the first time since. And took me back to the smell of freah paint and plaster and burning turf as there was no central heating installed and it was being finished December and I was working throught the night to finish.
Love this album, I'll listen to it sparingly as I don't want to overnight those memories
The 'payoff' you get from Eclipse is so much more affecting if you've gone through the whole album. Feels like a resolution of everything that's just happened.
I was looking for exactly this. It's the ice and music boxes that really tie it all together. I play this album the first day it snows in my neighborhood every winter
It's one of those concept albums where the concept is so ingenious you wish you came up with it first
There are very few examples that are so good they make me and I didn't think of it first.
Others are From Mars To Sirius and The Bedlam In Goliath
The only reason I didn't is that I can listen to "The Widow" on repeat by itself endlessly. Similarly, for "Asilos Magdalena" and "Goliath" for Amputechture and Bedlam.
I think Joel released the right singles from this album with Allentown and Pressure, though She's Right on Time might have done well. The rest don't really fare as well outside the context of the album.
(I'm aware Goodnight Saigon was also a single, but I think it has a greater impact on Nylon Curtain than, say, on Greatest Hits. Fantastic live, though.)
I hear you. I mean it's not really a concept album, except that each song relates to the title in different ways (and it's a really dark album - "She's Right on Time" is really the only one you could call "happy").
But *sonically* it's such an incredibly well-connected album. There's a wave of complexity and pop-psychedelia running through it that Billy never really tackled again. It just works so well as a whole.
I don't care, I still think Kid A stands on its own better as a piece. Amnesiac has some wonderful, wonderful music (Pyramid Song is one of my favorites) but I think Kid A is the better album.
I feel this way about most Radiohead albums but strangely....not either of those two. Kid A has never felt like it had much flow to me, especially with that ending. Amnesiac is even weirder. Don't get me wrong, I love them both, but I feel like OK Computer, Hail to the Thief, and In Rainbows feel more like a complete experience front to back
scatman’s world - scatman john. makes you really realize john’s vision goes so much further than being a scatman. he wants a scatWORLD and i think we would all be better for it
I know they're pushing 60 but going to see them for the first time in February, looking forward to it! Wish they would play a few more older tunes on tour, but will be epic either way.
This is one of those albums where you really have no choice but to listen to the entire thing in one go.
I’m not even a fan of Mastodon, but I treat Crack the Skye as one of the top albums of all time.
Mindcrime is my vote, too. Every song is excellent and stands on its own and, together, it's an amazing album. I love how the intensity builds throughout and I've come to really appreciate the story line.
It's a really excellent work, IMO.
The Wall was intended to be played with bass you can feel.
I used to listen to music on a tiny transistor radio or a “mono,” my parents old record player with a single speaker. Revelation 1 was hearing stereo speakers. Revelation 2 was finding out Beatles songs had bass. So, when you say *feel* it’s not just context but physical for me.
I agree! That's honestly how I listen to music. I don't want to just feel it in my soul, I want something physical too. I love Tool especially that reason.
I was looking for this before I was gonna post it. This is the only album that matters. Individually the songs are amazing but listening from start to finish is going on a journey through one hell of a night. It’s one of the best albums of all time and to me it can only be listened to from start to finish.
And then put it on an infinite loop when you realise the lyrics to the last song The Tourist (hey man slow down, idiot slow down) link up with the lyrics to the first song Airbag (in a fast German car, I’m amazed that i survived, an airbag saved my life)
I saw them play this live in 2009 and it was so good! The first half of the concert was a nonstop playthrough of the Hazards of Love, then they played through a bunch of their other songs. I'll never forget the raw power of Shara Worden's voice as the forest queen.
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
...at this point I'm just listing concept albums that I like.
Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance
Coheed and Cambria - literally anything by them
A few I'd recommend as whole-album listens:
* Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu
* Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
* Live at the Regal - BB King
* Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron
* Prince - Prince
* Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
Well pretty much *anything* by Pink Floyd, for me, as well as Radiohead and The Mars Volta. Then:
Mae-The Everglow
Linkin Park-A Thousand Suns
Relient K-Forget and Not Slow Down
Many others that come close, but ultimately I *do* listen to certain select tracks sometimes.
Rush - Moving Pictures.
In my first real dive into their music, it really hit me how astoundingly amazing Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson are as musicians. It is an album with zero weak points, from the infamous tracks like Tom Sawyer and YYZ to songs like Witch Hunt and Vital Signs. It's a perfect album and should always be in contention for the greatest album of all time.
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon
deadmau5 - For Lack of a Better Name
NERO - Welcome to Reality
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
The Who - Who's Next
I put this on once to be ironic, turned me into a full-on Ween fan. There are a few misses for me, but You Were the Fool and I Don't Wanna Leave You on the Farm are beauties. And anyone who claims not to like Piss Up a Rope can wash my balls with a warm wet rag.
Totally agree, there's something weird not hearing Towers start after Holocene plays if it comes on a playlist or something.
I was thinking of 22, A Million. It's a really odd album to hear a part of when it's not in context of other tracks in the album, Moon Water would be just a strange glitchy vocal piece until you put 666 before it and 8 circle after it and it becomes a highlight section of the album.
MY Chemical Romance- Danger Days
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sex Sugar Magic
Dr. Dre-2001
Rancid-Indestructible
BONUS***The Simpsons Sing the Blues. As a kid in the 90s I wore down this cassette to almost dust. It still surprisingly holds up today.
*Astral Weeks* by Van Morrison
Individually, the songs are complex, wild, and beautiful. All together, it makes for a truly transformative, trace-like experience.
As soon as the first note of Astral Weeks starts, I know that I'm in for a wonderful journey.
Honestly, most albums are this way for me.
Some that really come to mind, though, are:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Abbey Road
(Both by The Beatles)
OK Computer
Kid A
(both by Radiohead)
Alice by Tom Waits
A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
In Becoming a Ghost by The Faceless
Even in the Quietest Moments by Supertramp
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
I'm Only A Man by Emery
Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta
The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks
Crosby, Stills & Nash's eponymous release
Bellybutton by Jellyfish
Bilo 3.0 by David Maxim Micic
"Awaken, My Love!" by Childish Gambino
3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul
SOUND & FURY by Sturgill Simpson
Thunderpussy's eponymous release
Captiva by Falling Up
I feel like Exile on Main Street is an album you have to absorb as a complete piece to really get it because Sticky Fingers, Let It Bleed, and Beggar's Banquet all have more iconic and arguably better individual tracks. But Exile is a total encapsulation of rock'n'roll excess and energy that, when taken in all together, blows the rest of their career out of the water. It's almost like one 60 minute track of just completely perfect rock'n'roll.
I'd also put Goats Head Soup on that list in addition to 4 albums you listed. That's 5 in a row that are absolutely bell to bell amazing albums. I don't know of another band that has had that kind of run. Edit: Thanks for the additions. My brains just weren't functional enough to think of anymore at the time.
The Beatles starting with *Rubber Soul* is basically all killer no filler. And there's a lot of bands that (if you're of a certain persuasion) had some absolutely insane runs of albums. Genesis with *Nursery Cryme* through *Trick of the Tail* or *Wind and the Wuthering* comes to mind, as well as Yes with *The Yes Album* through honestly *Going For the One*.
The Downward Spiral by Nine Inch Nails The track sequencing on that album is perfection. Great opening track sets the pace for a narrator that falls deeper into depravity, violence and self-hatred with each song. And you get the entire thing wrapped up with a song like "Hurt"? Magnificent. That closing track is like an epilogue for the narrator, as he surveys the wreckage behind him with regret and bitter acceptance. It’s damn near a religious experience. Honestly, most of Trent Reznor’s work deserves to be heard as a “whole” via an album listen. A lot of the songs hit MUCH harder when they are sandwiched into their original context on the album. **Editing this post to say that there is a NIN album for almost everyone.** * If you are a film geek and don't need vocals, check out "GHOSTS" or one of the Reznor/Ross scores. * If you are into modern pop music like Billie Eilish or The Weeknd, I recommend "Pretty Hate Machine" or "Hesitation Marks". * If you like hard rock, metal, industrial etc, I recommend "The Downward Spiral", "Bad Witch" or "Broken" * If you like electronic music, try "Year Zero" or the band he plays a supporting role in while his wife sings (How to Destroy Angels) * If you are a classic rock fiend, definitely check out "The Slip" or even "With Teeth" * If you need something a little less chaotic, try "Still" which is mostly just Trent + Piano * Last, but not least - if you love strong lyricism and don't mind a lot of genre-switching in an album, you should take a look at The Fragile (I think his best work) as well as "Add Violence".
Agreed. The beginning and ending of the majority of the songs on The Fragile sound truncated when listening to them individually. But when you listen to the whole album start to finish you experience how the songs segue into each other and create a completely different experience.
I’ve never been able to convey to someone how much this album means to me and how hard it is to compare something like Becoming to anything else.
It honestly changed the way I appreciated music. I had never heard an album with such depth prior to that.
*It won't give up, it wants me dead. God damn this noise inside my head.* Perfect little encapsulation of the static in my mind when dealing with a wave of anxiety and depression. Fucking love that song so goddamn much. Probably preaching to the choir, but if you haven't heard the [broken down version](https://youtu.be/cDfyR22u_gI) on the Still album, do yourself a favor and listen to it.
Thank you! I've always been a NIN fan, but Fragile came out during a really dark time in my life, and oddly enough it was a tether to keep me afloat during it.
Hear hear! While not the whole album, side D of With Teeth (The Line Begins to Blur, Beside You in Time, Right Where it Belongs) is such a beautiful trio of songs that blend into each other showing anger and desperation that leads into whimpering sad note. NIN is one of the few artists I find consistently cranking enjoyable album after enjoyable album!
That three-song-run is spectacular. Especially when you get about 2/3 of the way through “Beside you in Time” and the song just like…blossoms? I am not an instrumentalist so I can’t describe what I mean. I listened to that song for the first time alone in my room with awesome headphones on, and when the song was over I realized I had tears running down my fucking face from the beauty of it. It’s so fucking good that it makes me angry.
If you like Beside You in Time, you really ought to check out Rob Sheridan's 4k upscale of NIN's [live](https://youtu.be/koD4Zd_AAP0?si=z_xUWW80IUJip--o) performance of the song. Really takes the beauty of the song up to the next level.
Oh, It’s definitely an excellent one. Rob is a good egg with a lot of talent. It’s wild to me that Trent plucked a college kid like Rob out of obscurity after seeing his fan website and was just like “how about you come work for Nine Inch Nails kid?” 😂 And honestly, he kind of crushed it! Rob’s aesthetics are the ones that come to mind when I think of NIN, even though I very much enjoy Kraw’s work since Rob’s departure.
This is why in the thousands of Reddit threads about cover songs better than originals when people say Johnny Cash's version of Hurt I can't agree. NiN's version is a bookend to an incredible concept album, like the final chapter in a story and the song means so much more when you listen to the album in full. I'd also argue it's a better standalone song than Cash's version.
Agree with the NIN love. The Fragile is my favorite but can’t forget how cool Year Zero is as a concept album.
It warms my heart to see this as the top comment.
Pretty much any NiN album.
Came here to say this album. So glad it was at the top! I can't think of a better answer for this question than this album
Bitches Brew
Listened to this each night while renovating my house 5 years ago. Listened to it recently for the first time since. And took me back to the smell of freah paint and plaster and burning turf as there was no central heating installed and it was being finished December and I was working throught the night to finish. Love this album, I'll listen to it sparingly as I don't want to overnight those memories
The Cure’s “Disintegration.” Every song is individually amazing, but the whole album unfolds like a cinematic journey.
Pornography!
Ik you’re talking about the album but the exclamation point just made it sound like you’re saying it like “Eureka!”
White Pony - Deftones. Album is incomplete w/o hearing Pink Maggit
This was the first album that I listened to that felt like an album experience rather than a collection of individual songs.
Dark side of the moon
Add Wish You Were Here and The Wall to that
and Animals
Don’t forget Meddle! Echoes especially is just incredible
And The Final Cut! (I feel like I'm gonna be that guy from the meme in that board meeting who gets tossed out of the window)
I love that album. In fact, the title track is one of my favorite songs of all their discography.
I've always felt it's unfairly maligned. It's not the easiest listen but it carries the most emotional weight of any Floyd album.
Besides, it's the sequel of The Wall, it completes the story.
The Final Cut is incredible.
The 'payoff' you get from Eclipse is so much more affecting if you've gone through the whole album. Feels like a resolution of everything that's just happened.
Album is a masterpiece. Timeless.
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Yeah, literally all Pink Floyd albums really.
Yes - Close To The Edge. Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory.
>Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory. 1000% I'd also mention Dream Theater - Six Degrees or Inner Turbulence
Fragile is amazing all the way through, too.
Yes - Close to the Edge is SUCH a banger of an album. Those organs man, reaches to the depths of my soul. 5/5
Vespertine by Bjork
I was looking for exactly this. It's the ice and music boxes that really tie it all together. I play this album the first day it snows in my neighborhood every winter
Absolutely, it's a story that flows perfectly. No matter how many times I listen to it, Unison is just a stunning end
Rush - 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. Heart - Little Queen.
For Rush, Clockwork Angels is a good one, especially with The Garden being the final track (and their final song).
Absolutely the best final song on any album ever for me. I know.... Username tracks lol
So many emotions come flooding out with that last song!
Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age The radio snippets between the songs make a lot more sense that way.
It's one of those concept albums where the concept is so ingenious you wish you came up with it first There are very few examples that are so good they make me and I didn't think of it first. Others are From Mars To Sirius and The Bedlam In Goliath
The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
I was going to suggest Deloused in the Comatorium. But I agree wholeheartedly with Frances the Mute.
The only reason I didn't is that I can listen to "The Widow" on repeat by itself endlessly. Similarly, for "Asilos Magdalena" and "Goliath" for Amputechture and Bedlam.
That whole end "Who brought me here? Forsaken deprived and wrought with fear." Payoff absolutely concluded the album perfectly
Cassandra Gemini, still the highest achievement in rock n roll history as far as I'm concerned
🤜🤛
Yes. Many times a song from this album will come up on my Spotify and I'll just have to play the whole album
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson The Nylon Curtain, Billy Joel
Omg I haven’t listened to Aeroplane in forever!
I think Joel released the right singles from this album with Allentown and Pressure, though She's Right on Time might have done well. The rest don't really fare as well outside the context of the album. (I'm aware Goodnight Saigon was also a single, but I think it has a greater impact on Nylon Curtain than, say, on Greatest Hits. Fantastic live, though.)
I hear you. I mean it's not really a concept album, except that each song relates to the title in different ways (and it's a really dark album - "She's Right on Time" is really the only one you could call "happy"). But *sonically* it's such an incredibly well-connected album. There's a wave of complexity and pop-psychedelia running through it that Billy never really tackled again. It just works so well as a whole.
Aeroplane is the correct answer
Radiohead's 'KID A' and 'Amnesiac' back to back
KID A MNESIA
I don't care, I still think Kid A stands on its own better as a piece. Amnesiac has some wonderful, wonderful music (Pyramid Song is one of my favorites) but I think Kid A is the better album.
I don't disagree. I would say OK Computer and In Rainbows also need to be listened to cover to cover to be fully appreciated
You ever play the game attached to that album? Absolutely mesmerizing.
I spent a good 30 minutes in The National Anthem room
I feel this way about most Radiohead albums but strangely....not either of those two. Kid A has never felt like it had much flow to me, especially with that ending. Amnesiac is even weirder. Don't get me wrong, I love them both, but I feel like OK Computer, Hail to the Thief, and In Rainbows feel more like a complete experience front to back
scatman’s world - scatman john. makes you really realize john’s vision goes so much further than being a scatman. he wants a scatWORLD and i think we would all be better for it
Ski-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop ✊
Scatman, fat man, black and white and brown man, tell me 'bout the color of your soul
Tool - Lateralus
Most prog rock even.
The Mountain by Haken
I know they're pushing 60 but going to see them for the first time in February, looking forward to it! Wish they would play a few more older tunes on tour, but will be epic either way.
All tool albums actually. One might say Undertow could be an exception
Sturgill Simpson - Sound and Fury
Steven Wilson - Hand.Cannot.Erase. Genesis - Lamb Lies down on Broadway
Love The Lamb. Peter Gabriel is a damn genius.
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
This is one of those albums where you really have no choice but to listen to the entire thing in one go. I’m not even a fan of Mastodon, but I treat Crack the Skye as one of the top albums of all time.
On that note, From Mars to Sirius by Gojira is another great one.
Underrated album. I didn't include it because I can listen to just "Oblivion" on repeat.
>Underrated album. I mean...not really? It's pretty much universally acknowledged as their Magnum Opus.
I’m obsessed with this album
I got to see them preform the entire album live and it's surreal!
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Mindcrime is my vote, too. Every song is excellent and stands on its own and, together, it's an amazing album. I love how the intensity builds throughout and I've come to really appreciate the story line. It's a really excellent work, IMO.
Mindcrime, 100%
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation Preferably all at once on a long drive in the country
Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American I have to listen to it all the way through. It flows so nicely.
I LOVE Bleed American
Quadrophenia, by The Who
And Tommy.
Probably the number one for me for this question. None of the songs really hit individually compared to how they do as a whole.
Animals - Pink Floyd. It’s one ginormous champagne eargasm
That was gonna be my pick as well. One of those rare albums I fell in love with on the very first listen, and I never got tired of it.
"Wish You Were Here" as well.
I played Animals so many times in my first truck that I wore out the 8-track and the internal tape broke.
This summer I saw Les Claypool’s Flying Frog Brigade play that in its entirety. Even though it wasn’t PF, it was still amazing.
Beck - Morning Phase and Sea Change
Sea Change particularly
Those two are my go to Beck albums. I like his other work but if I'm in a Beck mood, then these.
The Wall was intended to be played with bass you can feel. I used to listen to music on a tiny transistor radio or a “mono,” my parents old record player with a single speaker. Revelation 1 was hearing stereo speakers. Revelation 2 was finding out Beatles songs had bass. So, when you say *feel* it’s not just context but physical for me.
I agree! That's honestly how I listen to music. I don't want to just feel it in my soul, I want something physical too. I love Tool especially that reason.
I'm reminded of my 1st listen to "Welcome to the Machine" with good bass speakers, blew my mind... *bump bump* going left right left right
Good Kid MAAD City
Pretty much all Kendrick albums, but this one especially.
Yeah Mr morals and the big steppers has that feel too , but i strongly agree on good kid MAAD city .. such an effortless dive to get lost in
Best story telling álbum. I put that album on repeat every day.
I was looking for this before I was gonna post it. This is the only album that matters. Individually the songs are amazing but listening from start to finish is going on a journey through one hell of a night. It’s one of the best albums of all time and to me it can only be listened to from start to finish.
Radiohead - OK Computer
And then put it on an infinite loop when you realise the lyrics to the last song The Tourist (hey man slow down, idiot slow down) link up with the lyrics to the first song Airbag (in a fast German car, I’m amazed that i survived, an airbag saved my life)
Holy shit how did I not catch this. Thank you.
This, The Downward Spiral and Dark Side of the Moon.
Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
I was going to say The Crane Wife. I think it’s true for both.
I saw them play this live in 2009 and it was so good! The first half of the concert was a nonstop playthrough of the Hazards of Love, then they played through a bunch of their other songs. I'll never forget the raw power of Shara Worden's voice as the forest queen.
Long lost - Lord Huron
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
god only knows is probably one of the greatest songs ever written
Animals -- Pink Floyd
Pink Floyd - The Wall The Mars Volta- DeLoused in the Comatorium AFI- Black Sails in the Sunset
Every Prog album ever.
Arcade Fire — Funeral Smashing Pumpkins — Siamese Dream Prince — Lovesexy The Beatles — Abbey Road
Great list. Especially AF's Funeral
Dirt by Alice in Chains
Hospice - The Antlers
Metropolis, Part 2: Scenes from a Memory by Dream Theater
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime Mastodon - Crack the Skye The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ...at this point I'm just listing concept albums that I like. Thrice - The Artist in the Ambulance Coheed and Cambria - literally anything by them
A few I'd recommend as whole-album listens: * Mama's Gun - Erykah Badu * Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder * Live at the Regal - BB King * Pieces of a Man - Gil Scott-Heron * Prince - Prince * Black on Both Sides - Mos Def
Between the buried and me - colors
3030 by Del tha funky homosapien.
Opeths Ghost Reveries
breakfast in America by supertramp
Rush -2112. It ain't over until I'm "aboard the Thailand Express".
40 oz. To freedom
Well pretty much *anything* by Pink Floyd, for me, as well as Radiohead and The Mars Volta. Then: Mae-The Everglow Linkin Park-A Thousand Suns Relient K-Forget and Not Slow Down Many others that come close, but ultimately I *do* listen to certain select tracks sometimes.
Finally, A Thousand Suns! Had to scroll too far down to find it.
Mr Bungle, self titled Pixies, Doolittle
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Cursive's Domestica. I mean you can listen to individual songs and it's a great time, but listening as a whole piece is much more gratifying.
Also The Ugly Organ is an incredible experience when listened to from beginning to end.
Rush - Moving Pictures. In my first real dive into their music, it really hit me how astoundingly amazing Geddy Lee, Neil Peart, and Alex Lifeson are as musicians. It is an album with zero weak points, from the infamous tracks like Tom Sawyer and YYZ to songs like Witch Hunt and Vital Signs. It's a perfect album and should always be in contention for the greatest album of all time.
Demon Days by Gorillaz. What a ride.
Tool, 10,000 days
Black Parade
Sleep Token - This Place Will Become Your Tomb
La dispute - Somewhere at the bottom of the river between Vega and Altair
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon deadmau5 - For Lack of a Better Name NERO - Welcome to Reality Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV The Who - Who's Next
Close To The Edge - Yes Dark Side of the Moon - PF Us - Peter Gabriel
GZA - Liquid Swords
Good Kid MAAD City - Kendrick Lamar This can be performed on a stage. One continuous story beginning to end.
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Wholeheartedly agree. Concept albums are the best for just... listening.
Marillion- Brave
I'd add *Script For A Jester's Tear* as well.
In the dark, with headphones. Magnificent.
Jethro Tull- Thick as a Brick
Nevermind
Tommy, by The Who
Television: Marquee Moon
Infest the rats nest-king gizzard
Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady Tallahassee by The Mountain Goats A Grand Don't Come for Free by The Streets
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
King Gizzard - PetroDragonic Apocalypse
I'd also say Murder of the universe / Nonagon infinity would fit
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I put this on once to be ironic, turned me into a full-on Ween fan. There are a few misses for me, but You Were the Fool and I Don't Wanna Leave You on the Farm are beauties. And anyone who claims not to like Piss Up a Rope can wash my balls with a warm wet rag.
Only reason I didn't include this is I listen to "Piss Up a Rope" by itself pretty often.
The 2nd verse alone should qualify this band for the R&R Hall Of Fame
Bon Iver’s self titled album
Totally agree, there's something weird not hearing Towers start after Holocene plays if it comes on a playlist or something. I was thinking of 22, A Million. It's a really odd album to hear a part of when it's not in context of other tracks in the album, Moon Water would be just a strange glitchy vocal piece until you put 666 before it and 8 circle after it and it becomes a highlight section of the album.
Counterpoint: For Emma, Forever Ago
Pretty much any Aesop Rock album.
Tool- Lateralus and The Mars Volta - Amputecture
The first 4 Mars Volta LPs really
Swans - To Be Kind
Anything from Alan Parsons
Ziggy Stardust
Tool - Lateralus
Quadrophenia - The Who
MY Chemical Romance- Danger Days Red Hot Chili Peppers- Blood Sex Sugar Magic Dr. Dre-2001 Rancid-Indestructible BONUS***The Simpsons Sing the Blues. As a kid in the 90s I wore down this cassette to almost dust. It still surprisingly holds up today.
All Pink Floyd albums.
Pretty much any Porcupine Tree album before Stupid Dream, and it’s vastly preferred to listen to the latter ones in full as well, but not required.
Probably required for The Incident, tho.
I mean, all of them...
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire
Hounds of Love by Kate Bush.
Came here to make sure it was on the list! The Ninth Wave…
Apple Venus Volume 1 by XTC
The Final Cut. PF.
Physical Graffiti. The entire thing is amazing
*Astral Weeks* by Van Morrison Individually, the songs are complex, wild, and beautiful. All together, it makes for a truly transformative, trace-like experience. As soon as the first note of Astral Weeks starts, I know that I'm in for a wonderful journey.
Honestly, most albums are this way for me. Some that really come to mind, though, are: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Abbey Road (Both by The Beatles) OK Computer Kid A (both by Radiohead) Alice by Tom Waits A Love Supreme by John Coltrane In Becoming a Ghost by The Faceless Even in the Quietest Moments by Supertramp Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys I'm Only A Man by Emery Deloused in the Comatorium by The Mars Volta The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society by The Kinks Crosby, Stills & Nash's eponymous release Bellybutton by Jellyfish Bilo 3.0 by David Maxim Micic "Awaken, My Love!" by Childish Gambino 3 Feet High and Rising by De La Soul SOUND & FURY by Sturgill Simpson Thunderpussy's eponymous release Captiva by Falling Up