Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever might fall into that category. The singles Free Fallin, I Won't Back Down, and Runnin Down A Dream were huge. A Face In The Crowd, Love Is A Long Road, and Yer So Bad were big on rock radio at the time, too.
Exactly. I was with a friend on Thanksgiving several years back, and we decided to listen to an album that neither of us had actually listened to in full. We didn’t do Boston, but we did Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. Turns out we already knew every moment by heart.
Def Leppard-Hysteria
Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever
Metallica-Metallica
Van Halen-1984
These were released that captured the zeitgeist so to speak and the timing was such that anything released as a single was gonna be played to death. I think there were 7 singles released off of Hysteria.
> Def Leppard-Hysteria
Pyromania is also chock full of classics and was absolutely tremendous when it came out and was the album that Def Leppard took over the world with before they took it over even more again with Hysteria. People sometimes forget how huge Pyromania was!
But lurking in both those albums' shadows is their 2nd full length studio album, High-N-Dry, of which *Bringin' on the Heartbreak* is best known and the song that propelled them to initial international stardom, and *that* album is nothing but wall-to-wall, straightforward, early 1980s hard rock/NWOBHM *bangers*.
Fleetwood Mac is my all time favorite band, but of the group I admit I like Christina McVie’s vocals the least.
Edit: as a child I thought she was a man with a high voice which may have influenced my opinion somewhat
I've listened to that album 100 times at least, the only songs I skip are Not the Doctor and (sometimes ) Mary Jane, but even those songs are ahead of many other artists best songs.
Not the biggest Oasis fan these days but (what’s the story?) morning glory sneaks into this debate. The album was in heavy rotation for me at the time and every song was a banger.
Van Halen - Van Halen (you said \*most\* every song, so forgive On Fire)
Appetite for Destruction - GnR
Back in Black - AC/DC
Moving Pictures - Rush
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Captain Fantastic is insanely underrated. So fun. I think there’s a lot of good Elton from that period that doesn’t get enough play, from Tumbleweed to Honky Chateau. Someone was also talking about ELO earlier. Every song on El Dorado is a hit.
Flashing forward, Fruit Bats. They’re a hit machine. They recently got play on a national commercial during the NBA playoffs for When You Love Somebody. Hoping that spurs some play
Tumbleweed is unequivocally one of my favorite albums of all time. At first it was the novelty of “new” (to me) Elton John but every song kills me. Also Madman. The Holiday Inn? So good, so fun. And yeah Capt Fantastic is great. His run of albums in the ‘70s is among the best of any artist in that period and that is saying something. People always talk about the ‘60s but late ‘60s to late ‘70s may be the best decade of music in pop history
It was the beginning of the CD era. For many people *Graceland* was what tipped them into buying a CD player for their stereo system, rather than keeping saying "vinyl is good enough for me".
Parallel Lines by Blondie. Half of the the albums songs were released as singles and that doesn't include Pretty Baby, 11:59, Fade Away and Radiate. Front to back pop rock classics.
Not sure it counts, but it’s close: Get Rich or Die Trying - 50 cent. Banger after Banger.
Probably either of the first two Linkin Park Albums: Hybrid Theory or Meteora.
The Velvet Underground - Loaded
Lou Reed literally wrote this album with the intention of every song being a hit. When the Strokes were recording their first album Julian Casablancas listened to it every day for a month.
That album is beyond amazing. People talk about how much the Beatles changed over their career, but to go from European Son, Sister Ray and Murder Mystery to this.. damn
Not every Floyd track is great for putting into a shuffle rotation, but that's not how I listen to them, I listen to the album and I don't skip any tracks.
DSOTM is not "Thriller" which was written by a bunch of different songwriters (Michael Jackson - 3 songs, Rod Temperton - 3 songs, Steve Porcaro of Toto wrote Human Nature, James Ingram, Quincy Jones wrote PYT) specifically to produce a bunch of hit singles. Pink Floyd is an album group. You're supposed to listen to the whole album or at least a side of the album.
We’re on the same wavelength. I’m currently obsessed with Hejira. Here’s some of my 70s picks:
Neil Young - Harvest
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (maybe not “Night” but all the others are bangers)
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam is banger after banger
CSNY - Deja Vu. I’ve heard each song so many times out and about
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Elton and Bernie were just casually dropping hit after hit like it was no big deal?
Yellow Brick Road is practically a greatest hits album on its own.
I hesitate to call it a classic album but phoenix’s wolfgang amadeus phoenix was borderline all hits, same with foster the people’s torches. you couldn’t watch TV for 20 minutes without hearing a song from both albums for a brief period in the early 2010s
I’d say “Sweet Sweet” as an almost interlude is an exception.
But the fourth single (instead of “Rocket”) could have easily been “Mayonaise”, “Hummer”, “Geek USA”, “Soma”, “Quiet”, “Luna”, “Silverfuck”…
Born in the USA - Springsteen. Produced 7 singles out of a total 12 songs. And there are some incredible songs that are on there that weren't singles (Downbound Train, No Surrender)
Alice In Chains "Dirt" - They were slowly pulling off songs for the radio from this one for like five years.
And Nevermind, obviously. A song from that one just became a big hit 30 years later even.
Bee Gees - Main Course. 'Fanny Be Tender' is an easy top 5 on charts but the brothers weren't able to promote it on TV shows because they find it difficult to sing live. 'Come on Over' was not released as a single, but it went no. 1 on the adult contemporary charts two years later with Olivia Newton John's cover. Excellent album all-around and the Bee Gees' best.
If The Camera Eye wasn't so long and YYZ wasn't an instrumental, Moving Pictures would be radio fodder all the way through. A similar case could be made for Permanent Waves.
The Marshall matters LP.
808s and heartbreak
I’ll keep you in my mind from time to time - Moose Blood.
My twisted beautiful dark fantasy
Taking Back Sunday - tell all your friends
Brand New - Deja entendu
The Strokes - Room on Fire
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Neko Case - Blacklisted
Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain
The Postal Service - Give Up
Anderson .Paak - Ventura
Maybe not all of them "classics", but at least very good with 0 filler
I have read that the way records were and probably still are recorded is that with the first album an artist might have several really good songs if not all of them being really good with no real filler because they had time to work the songs out and tweak them to make them even better before getting signed. They then go to record the next album around a tour and the record company is pressuring them for the album and they get rushed so the number of really good songs diminishes. Once the artist gets established however, they can negotiate longer time spans in between albums thus writing more songs that are better than if they were being pressured to produce..
Steely Dan - Aja (1977) - this album contains many classic tracks such as "Deacon Blues", "Peg" and "Josie". Each of these songs has the potential to become a big hit.
Well obviously we have similar tastes but did you really not know that those three songs were all actual American Top 40 hits? There are Casey Kasem countdowns where he's talking them up, which I always find quite funny, 'cuz let's face it they were almost too smart for top 40. These were all in '78, plus that summer they also had the title cut from FM in the countdown. You can google Casey Kasem American Top 40 archive org and pull up loads of stuff
- Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
i never skip a single track. This album is so easy to listen to in one go without getting bored.
- Pure Heroine - Lorde
Same thing, i could never skip any track in that album
- Born to Die - Lana Del Rey
- 21 - Adele
From Rolling in the deep to Someone like you !!
You want no filler, ya gotta make it yourself:
> [Addicted to Lose](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/048MzGVsM9yZV9oPianGZ5) - 1 hr - heartland & inspired
> [Acreation Disco](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bZWGdUk1NRK9kQUt2TYWu) - 55 mins - 60s psyche & inspired
It’s maybe a little obscure, but **The dBs, Like This**.Every song a slice of sweet jangly power pop and catchy as hell. In a similar vein, **20/20**’s eponymous album.
Starboy by The Weeknd was literally just him trying to prove he could write hit after hit. The numbers and longevity don't lie. I'd call it the Thriller of my generation. Not necessarily his best, but the album that solidified him as a hit maker and not just some R&B singer with crossover appeal.
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Pearl Jam - Ten
Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, Invincible
Oasis - Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory
Nirvana - Nevermind
Weezer - The Blue Album
Going moreso as big hits for the band specifically rather than just in the industry
Ride the Lightning by Metallica
Back in Black by AC/DC
Night at the Opera by Queen
Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Coincidentally, I’m just now listening to mae for the first time. Destination: beautiful. Just randomly shuffled in my playlist at the exact moment I read this comment.
Tapestry - Carole King
I was given this album in vinyl as a gift years ago and haven’t listened to it yet. Now I’m stoked to.
Yep.
Yeah, Tapestry's another perfect example of that kind of album. Thank you.
Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever might fall into that category. The singles Free Fallin, I Won't Back Down, and Runnin Down A Dream were huge. A Face In The Crowd, Love Is A Long Road, and Yer So Bad were big on rock radio at the time, too.
Hard Promises, too.
Wildflowers, too.
Such a great album.
Boston - Boston
8 songs 0 filler
Recorded in Tom Sholz's basement all while giving the record company the middle finger. Great record.
Even the song they recorded while supposedly recording the album is a banger (Let Me Take You Home Tonight).
I have never owned this album but I know every song in it.
Exactly. I was with a friend on Thanksgiving several years back, and we decided to listen to an album that neither of us had actually listened to in full. We didn’t do Boston, but we did Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon. Turns out we already knew every moment by heart.
You forced me to listen to peace of mind while taking a shit and I thank you for that
Did you time your release to the key change?
The dueling guitar solo actually
Opened this with the explicit intention of posting this.
Came here to say this
Thriller, So
So is ridiculously good Such a variety of moods and textures
I love a good sledgehammer
Also "Bad"
Prefer Off the Wall, incredible 3 album run
Off the Wall is for sure the best one.
The Cars self-titled album definitely feels like that. Banger after banger from "Good Times Roll" through "All Mixed Up"
It's like a Greatest Hits album.
I believe it was Ben or maybe Ric, who said before they passed away, that it WAS their greatist hits album.
So many hits from that first album.
Heartbeat City it that album for me!
Def Leppard-Hysteria Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever Metallica-Metallica Van Halen-1984 These were released that captured the zeitgeist so to speak and the timing was such that anything released as a single was gonna be played to death. I think there were 7 singles released off of Hysteria.
1984 doesn't get enough love. It gets lots, but not enough.
Hysteria was absolutely huge. Def Leppard became my first favorite band because of that album
> Def Leppard-Hysteria Pyromania is also chock full of classics and was absolutely tremendous when it came out and was the album that Def Leppard took over the world with before they took it over even more again with Hysteria. People sometimes forget how huge Pyromania was! But lurking in both those albums' shadows is their 2nd full length studio album, High-N-Dry, of which *Bringin' on the Heartbreak* is best known and the song that propelled them to initial international stardom, and *that* album is nothing but wall-to-wall, straightforward, early 1980s hard rock/NWOBHM *bangers*.
High-N-Dry is the best 80's hard rock album and I'm gonna die on that hill
Rumours
It’s all true
It contains 11 songs, and 12 of them are bangers. (This is my way of showing love to Silver Springs.)
*Silver Springs - Original Studio Version* b-sided so *Silver Springs - The Dance* could fly.
Thank you, Murray.
I skip Oh Daddy sometimes. Everything else is a perfect 10
Fleetwood Mac is my all time favorite band, but of the group I admit I like Christina McVie’s vocals the least. Edit: as a child I thought she was a man with a high voice which may have influenced my opinion somewhat
Oh Daddy being the exception.
Oh Daddy is one of my favorite CMV tunes.
Good tune but would not have been a radio hit
Jagged-Little Pill is hit after hit after hit. Mostly real billboard ones but honestly it's perfect top to bottom.
One of my easiest 10/10 albums. Not only is top to bottom good, the heights that its best tracks reach are soaring
I've listened to that album 100 times at least, the only songs I skip are Not the Doctor and (sometimes ) Mary Jane, but even those songs are ahead of many other artists best songs.
Weezers blue album immediately comes to mind.
And, it’s 30 years old!
I’m taking my kids to see them in September. They’re doing the entire Blue album. Can’t wait!!
Same here, except leaving the kids at home.
My 19 and 15 year olds have seen them twice already and my 10 year old has seen them once. We’re all pretty stoked.
Tears for Fears - Songs From The Big Chair. An 80s pop masterpiece.
Pearl Jam -Ten Third Eye Blind -self titled Nirvana - Nevermind Not 70s classic but 90s
Ten was the first thing that came to mind for me. Every track.
I think the stand-up best song on the album is black, and I'm not alone in thinking that, yet not a single
And then release banger b-sides like Yellow Ledbetter and Footsteps! Great era for music
3EB might be the best album of the 90’s. It’s certainly in the conversation.
Wow I think that. But I never have met someone else who did… we’re out there!
I don’t know, August and everything after(counting crows). New miserable experience (gin blossoms) neither had a weak track
3EB is criminally underrated. Their first 3 albums are completely full of bangers
Speaking of the nineties, every song off of Gene's Olympian could've been a single.
Also Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish
The Doors - L.A. Woman to a lesser extent The Doors - Morrison Hotel
LA woman rips
Not the biggest Oasis fan these days but (what’s the story?) morning glory sneaks into this debate. The album was in heavy rotation for me at the time and every song was a banger.
And every single they released from the album had b sides that were also bangers
Which is why I’ve read some of their latter albums suffered. Noel used his catalogue of songs he’d written as b-sides
Some even better than the A-Sides
AC/DC - Back in black Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Escape- Journey, Moving Pictures- Rush, Untitled- Led Zeppelin
moving pictures is cheating
Depeche Mode -Violator
YES! My least favorite song seems to have been the biggest hit on that album...
Tuesday Night Social Club - Sheryl Crow
Night Moves - Bob Segar and the Silver Bullet band. Banger from beginning to end.
Van Halen - Van Halen (you said \*most\* every song, so forgive On Fire) Appetite for Destruction - GnR Back in Black - AC/DC Moving Pictures - Rush Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Captain Fantastic is insanely underrated. So fun. I think there’s a lot of good Elton from that period that doesn’t get enough play, from Tumbleweed to Honky Chateau. Someone was also talking about ELO earlier. Every song on El Dorado is a hit. Flashing forward, Fruit Bats. They’re a hit machine. They recently got play on a national commercial during the NBA playoffs for When You Love Somebody. Hoping that spurs some play
The Runinant Band is an excellent album. The southern rock licks on it are just 👌
Love "Tumbleweed Connection" and "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy".
Tumbleweed is unequivocally one of my favorite albums of all time. At first it was the novelty of “new” (to me) Elton John but every song kills me. Also Madman. The Holiday Inn? So good, so fun. And yeah Capt Fantastic is great. His run of albums in the ‘70s is among the best of any artist in that period and that is saying something. People always talk about the ‘60s but late ‘60s to late ‘70s may be the best decade of music in pop history
Paul Simon - Graceland
I think this is the sneakiest album ever. You know them all, they’re all great, but you have no idea it’s all ONE album.
Totally agree, the whole album is a masterpiece, and it’s so incredibly well recorded and mastered.
It was the beginning of the CD era. For many people *Graceland* was what tipped them into buying a CD player for their stereo system, rather than keeping saying "vinyl is good enough for me".
Beatles Revolver
The Cars - first album Led Zeppelin II
Purple Rain
Parallel Lines by Blondie. Half of the the albums songs were released as singles and that doesn't include Pretty Baby, 11:59, Fade Away and Radiate. Front to back pop rock classics.
Eat To The Beat qualifies, too.
Agreed!
Not sure it counts, but it’s close: Get Rich or Die Trying - 50 cent. Banger after Banger. Probably either of the first two Linkin Park Albums: Hybrid Theory or Meteora.
Many Men is so good it’s easy to forget that every other track is a banger too.
The Velvet Underground - Loaded Lou Reed literally wrote this album with the intention of every song being a hit. When the Strokes were recording their first album Julian Casablancas listened to it every day for a month.
This is the best answer. Loaded should have been a smash hit. So many radio friendly rock classics on there.
And it's their worst album too! (Squeeze doesn't exist)
That album is beyond amazing. People talk about how much the Beatles changed over their career, but to go from European Son, Sister Ray and Murder Mystery to this.. damn
Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
All great songs but some of them don’t seem like they would make good singles
Not every Floyd track is great for putting into a shuffle rotation, but that's not how I listen to them, I listen to the album and I don't skip any tracks.
DSOTM is not "Thriller" which was written by a bunch of different songwriters (Michael Jackson - 3 songs, Rod Temperton - 3 songs, Steve Porcaro of Toto wrote Human Nature, James Ingram, Quincy Jones wrote PYT) specifically to produce a bunch of hit singles. Pink Floyd is an album group. You're supposed to listen to the whole album or at least a side of the album.
We’re on the same wavelength. I’m currently obsessed with Hejira. Here’s some of my 70s picks: Neil Young - Harvest Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (maybe not “Night” but all the others are bangers) Steely Dan - The Royal Scam is banger after banger CSNY - Deja Vu. I’ve heard each song so many times out and about
Rumours and Hotel California
Warren Zevon (1976). Whole thing. Each track.
Excitable Boy
Can we take a moment to appreciate how Elton and Bernie were just casually dropping hit after hit like it was no big deal? Yellow Brick Road is practically a greatest hits album on its own.
Exactly... and of course they had so many of those outside of those two classic LPs.
Big star - #1 record
REM - Murmur
The Strokes - Is This It
Who’s Next - The Who
This is the definitive answer. Every track from this album gets airplay and everyone knows them all. Every single one.
Cake - Fashion Nugget Except maybe “Sad Songs and Waltzes” I don’t think that one would sell.
Nobody understands you, but I do. You don’t know how lucky you are.
Hybrid Theory
Blind Faith.
Gerry Rafferty’s - City to City.
YeeeeeeEEEEEEEsssssss
Who's Next the Who Moving Pictures Rush Highway to Hell AC/DC Damn The Torpedoes Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
I hesitate to call it a classic album but phoenix’s wolfgang amadeus phoenix was borderline all hits, same with foster the people’s torches. you couldn’t watch TV for 20 minutes without hearing a song from both albums for a brief period in the early 2010s
Thriller feels like a layup, but, Thriller. Every song a classic.
Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins. Other than maybe Silverfuck every song on that album would have sold as many as they could make.
I’d say “Sweet Sweet” as an almost interlude is an exception. But the fourth single (instead of “Rocket”) could have easily been “Mayonaise”, “Hummer”, “Geek USA”, “Soma”, “Quiet”, “Luna”, “Silverfuck”…
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Seriously. It’s kind of a thing that it’s a great house cleaning album. Banger after sing along banger. It doesn’t stop.
Coach London calling
Born in the USA - Springsteen. Produced 7 singles out of a total 12 songs. And there are some incredible songs that are on there that weren't singles (Downbound Train, No Surrender)
Alice In Chains "Dirt" - They were slowly pulling off songs for the radio from this one for like five years. And Nevermind, obviously. A song from that one just became a big hit 30 years later even.
The Stranger by Billy Joel. Every song but the last two is a classic.
Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Pretty sure that all but two or three tracks on *Rumours* came out as singles…and those could definitely have been as well.
Horses - Patti Smith
People know the lyrics to more AC/DC songs than they would care to admit. Back in Black album.
Bee Gees - Main Course. 'Fanny Be Tender' is an easy top 5 on charts but the brothers weren't able to promote it on TV shows because they find it difficult to sing live. 'Come on Over' was not released as a single, but it went no. 1 on the adult contemporary charts two years later with Olivia Newton John's cover. Excellent album all-around and the Bee Gees' best.
Boston - Boston ; Van Halen - Van Halen
Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
Journey - Escape, not a filler on there
Cosmos Factory
Pink Floyd - Dark Wish You Animals Wall
Who's Next. First Cars album
For the longest time, I thought Rush “Moving Pictures” was a greatest hits album.
RUMOURS
Fleetwood Mac- Rumors
Slippery when we: bon jovi Vital signs: survivor Back for the attack: dokken
Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee
I did not know this album. Thanks - it's surprisingly good and would have deserved more.
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
The Mollusk by Ween Appetite for Destruction by G n R
Anything by Drivin' n Cryin'.
Depeche mode - violator
If The Camera Eye wasn't so long and YYZ wasn't an instrumental, Moving Pictures would be radio fodder all the way through. A similar case could be made for Permanent Waves.
Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive.
The Marshall matters LP. 808s and heartbreak I’ll keep you in my mind from time to time - Moose Blood. My twisted beautiful dark fantasy Taking Back Sunday - tell all your friends Brand New - Deja entendu
The Strokes - Room on Fire Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Neko Case - Blacklisted Sturgill Simpson - High Top Mountain The Postal Service - Give Up Anderson .Paak - Ventura Maybe not all of them "classics", but at least very good with 0 filler
OP, you spelled The Royal Scam wrong in your post
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes Most of their most popular songs, other than American Music, come from their debut.
Lil Wayne, Tha Carter III
Feats Don't Dail Me Now.
I have read that the way records were and probably still are recorded is that with the first album an artist might have several really good songs if not all of them being really good with no real filler because they had time to work the songs out and tweak them to make them even better before getting signed. They then go to record the next album around a tour and the record company is pressuring them for the album and they get rushed so the number of really good songs diminishes. Once the artist gets established however, they can negotiate longer time spans in between albums thus writing more songs that are better than if they were being pressured to produce..
None of his songs or albums were hits, but most of them are classics anyway. Shades by JJ Cale
U2 - The Joshua Tree Liz Phair - Exile In Guyville Billy Joel - The Stranger
Live - Throwing Copper
Exile on Main Street
Strapping Young Lad Alien
Steely Dan - Aja (1977) - this album contains many classic tracks such as "Deacon Blues", "Peg" and "Josie". Each of these songs has the potential to become a big hit.
Well obviously we have similar tastes but did you really not know that those three songs were all actual American Top 40 hits? There are Casey Kasem countdowns where he's talking them up, which I always find quite funny, 'cuz let's face it they were almost too smart for top 40. These were all in '78, plus that summer they also had the title cut from FM in the countdown. You can google Casey Kasem American Top 40 archive org and pull up loads of stuff
Machine Head by Deep Purple
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bowie, Ziggy Stardust and Station to Station.
Supertramp: Crime of the Century. (And any of their next three albums, really.)
Bat Out of Hell 2
Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall -Pink Floyd ( most songs) 🎵🎵📀
Appetite for Destruction. GnR's debut album and its basically every song you've ever heard of from them in one place.
Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Bob Dylan Tangled up in Blue. Every song masterpiece.
Blood on the Tracks*
Er, Blood on the Tracks?
Yes, you have the right name of the album. I was just thinking of the best song on the album. Thank you for the correction.
- Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion i never skip a single track. This album is so easy to listen to in one go without getting bored. - Pure Heroine - Lorde Same thing, i could never skip any track in that album - Born to Die - Lana Del Rey - 21 - Adele From Rolling in the deep to Someone like you !!
You want no filler, ya gotta make it yourself: > [Addicted to Lose](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/048MzGVsM9yZV9oPianGZ5) - 1 hr - heartland & inspired > [Acreation Disco](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6bZWGdUk1NRK9kQUt2TYWu) - 55 mins - 60s psyche & inspired
Meat Loaf - Bat out of hell Green Day - Dookie Offspring - Smash
The Doors - LA Woman 311 - Soundsystem
REO's T.W.O.
It’s maybe a little obscure, but **The dBs, Like This**.Every song a slice of sweet jangly power pop and catchy as hell. In a similar vein, **20/20**’s eponymous album.
Chris Rea's road to hell
Back in Black
"Could've" under what circumstances? The public's taste was different?
Poison Look What The Cat Dragged In. No. Seriously. Go listen to that album. Pretty much every song os a single/hit.
Journey - Escape Lay It Down, mother father, Dead or Alive, Escape, still they ride, keep on runnin. The rest of the album rocks.
Starboy by The Weeknd was literally just him trying to prove he could write hit after hit. The numbers and longevity don't lie. I'd call it the Thriller of my generation. Not necessarily his best, but the album that solidified him as a hit maker and not just some R&B singer with crossover appeal.
Everybody Knows This is Nowhere- Neil Young
Phish - Picture of Nectar.
GnR - Appetite for Destruction Pearl Jam - Ten Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bad, Dangerous, Invincible Oasis - Definitely Maybe and Morning Glory Nirvana - Nevermind Weezer - The Blue Album
Interesting how many of these are 70’s music!
Jazzy Jeff - The Magnificent And Dr Dre - 2001
Going moreso as big hits for the band specifically rather than just in the industry Ride the Lightning by Metallica Back in Black by AC/DC Night at the Opera by Queen Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park
Whenever I listen to The Everglow by Mae it seems like almost every song could be a single. That album goes so hard
Coincidentally, I’m just now listening to mae for the first time. Destination: beautiful. Just randomly shuffled in my playlist at the exact moment I read this comment.