Albums I Can listen to Beginning to End, A...Z Options

[Existentialist]

I like Weezer Pinkerton and Rick Ross Port of Miami and can listen to them all the way through without skipping tracks. Please, let's help this poor man find some better music.

[thefunkyredcaboose]

Let me preface this with saying that I love the album creation process, and I recognize the beauty of how songs work together within an album on all albums, not just concept albums. I enjoy individual songs on their own, but to me there is nothing like a great set of songs that all interact with each other. Thus...

All of the albums that I really love are clearly made with care. To me, I can't call any album "great" if there is a song on it that is filler. I may not enjoy everything, but I think good albums are all made in a certain place and time and all of the songs have their own importance within the album. I don't really take albums as songs, but as completed works.

One example in Live land: "The Distance." Taken on its own, I don't enjoy the song, but in the context of the album it makes perfect sense and thus I enjoy it.

All that to say, my list for this topic would be insanely long and cover many, many artists. A couple of recent favorites just to contribute:

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
The Mars Volta - Bedlam and Goliath
Matthew Good - Vancouver

...and literally hundreds more.

This post has been edited by thefunkyredcaboose: Apr 30 2010, 12:20 am