Author Topic: Albums where all tracks are GREAT? (Read 3284 times)

WildRanger · « **on:** March 13, 2021, 07:24:47 AM »

What albums would you nominate here?
Choose a few of them.

HOF · « **Reply #1 on:** March 13, 2021, 07:38:19 AM »

Without a ton of thought or quibbling over the definition of “GREAT”:

Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
Rush - Power Windows
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Big Big Train - The Underfall Yard
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

Lowdz · « **Reply #2 on:** March 13, 2021, 07:59:52 AM »

Phew. Difficult one. Even my two favourite albums of all time have at least one track not at the level of the others (Under A Glass Moon and Operation Mindcrime‘S title track). I’ll have to think about it.

KevShmev · « **Reply #3 on:** March 13, 2021, 08:00:46 AM »

Wham! - Make It Big

Zook · « **Reply #4 on:** March 13, 2021, 08:10:25 AM »

A "few":

Dream Theater - Images and Words
Volturian - Crimson
Evergrey - The Storm Within
Angel at my Table - Light
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Symphony X - The Odyssey
Symphony X - Underworld
Circus Maximus - Isolate
In This Moment - The Dream
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

SoundscapeMN · « **Reply #5 on:** March 13, 2021, 08:26:10 AM »

Toy Matinee - Toy Matinee

Dave_Manchester · « **Reply #6 on:** March 13, 2021, 08:35:21 AM »

Top of my head:

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here and Animals.
Dire Straits: self-titled debut
Godspeed You Black Emperor: F# A# Infinity and Lift Your Skinny Fists.
Yes: Close to the Edge, Relayer and Going for the One.

HOF · « **Reply #7 on:** March 13, 2021, 09:20:15 AM »

Quote from: Dave_Manchester on March 13, 2021, 08:35:21 AM

Top of my head:

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here and Animals.
Dire Straits: self-titled debut
Godspeed You Black Emperor: F# A# Infinity and Lift Your Skinny Fists.
Yes: Close to the Edge, Relayer and Going for the One.

Close to the Edge is a good call. The fewer the tracks, the easier it is to have an album with only great songs!

TheCountOfNYC · « **Reply #8 on:** March 13, 2021, 09:56:11 AM »

Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon
Metallica-Master of Puppets
Dream Theater-Images and Words

These are the three standouts to me where there isn’t a single second of wasted music.

cfmoran13 · « **Reply #9 on:** March 13, 2021, 10:31:30 AM »

Boston - Boston
Rush - Moving Pictures

WilliamMunny · « **Reply #10 on:** March 13, 2021, 10:46:44 AM »

Quote from: cfmoran13 on March 13, 2021, 10:31:30 AM

Boston - Boston
Rush - Moving Pictures

Very good call - to these I'd add:

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Radiohead - In Rainbows (wincing at the thought of Stadler reading this)

Revenge319 · « **Reply #11 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:14:21 AM »

Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Haken - The Mountain
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing
Between the Buried and Me - Automata II
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Transatlantic - The Whirlwind (while I've still only heard Disc 1 and consider it one whole song, the individual movements are all amazing anyway)

Architeuthis · « **Reply #12 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:15:31 AM »

Quote from: cfmoran13 on March 13, 2021, 10:31:30 AM

Boston - Boston
Rush - Moving Pictures

Those are the first two that came to my mind. Literally in that order.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #13 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:16:10 AM »

Without thinking too hard on it, the first ones that came to mind were:

Dream Theater - Images and Words
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zep - IV

WildRanger · « **Reply #14 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:18:24 AM »

Quote from: Cool Chris on March 13, 2021, 11:16:10 AM

The Who - Who's Next

My Wife and Going Mobile are great songs?

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #15 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:24:15 AM »

Here's my list:

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Dream Theater - Octavarium
The King Blues - Save the World, Get the Girl
Machine Head - The Blackening
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - The Black Album
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Slipknot - Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

It breaks my heart that I can't put a single Coheed and Cambria album on this list. As my favourite band of all time, it's hard to admit they have at least one song on each album that holds it back.
Megadeth - Rust in Peace would've made the cut, if it wasn't for Dawn Patrol!

Revenge319 · « **Reply #16 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:30:37 AM »

Quote from: twosuitsluke on March 13, 2021, 11:24:15 AM

Here's my list:

Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket
Children of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children of Bodom - Follow the Reaper
DragonForce - Sonic Firestorm
Dream Theater - Octavarium
The King Blues - Save the World, Get the Girl
Machine Head - The Blackening
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - The Black Album
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Opeth - Watershed
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Slipknot - Vol. 3 (The Subliminal Verses)
System of a Down - Toxicity
The Wildhearts - The Wildhearts Must Be Destroyed
Wolfmother - Wolfmother

It breaks my heart that I can't put a single Coheed and Cambria album on this list. As my favourite band of all time, it's hard to admit they have at least one song on each album that holds it back.
Megadeth - Rust in Peace would've made the cut, if it wasn't for Dawn Patrol!

Octavarium was really close to making my list, and would've made it if I was more familiar with Sacrificed Sons.

Cool Chris · « **Reply #17 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:48:30 AM »

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 11:18:24 AM

Quote from: Cool Chris on March 13, 2021, 11:16:10 AM

The Who - Who's Next

My Wife and Going Mobile are great songs?

Yeah, maybe not. But My Wife was in their setlist frequently, so either their thought highly of it, thought the fans did, or it was a sop to John.

MirrorMask · « **Reply #18 on:** March 13, 2021, 11:50:19 AM »

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

Setlist Scotty · « **Reply #19 on:** March 13, 2021, 12:29:51 PM »

Riverside - Anno Domini High Definition

wolfking · « **Reply #20 on:** March 13, 2021, 12:46:27 PM »

Quote from: MirrorMask on March 13, 2021, 11:50:19 AM

Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding

Oh yeah!

pg1067 · « **Reply #21 on:** March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM »

Quote from: HOF on March 13, 2021, 07:38:19 AM

Rush - Power Windows

Calling @TAC

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")
Dream Theater - SFAM (AD and UAGM keep I&W off this list)
Fates Warning - Parallels
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (tracks like Empty Room and Waiting for 22 aren't "great on their own, but they are in the context of the album)
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Triumph - Allied Forces
Yes - Close to the Edge and Tales from Topographic Oceans

pg1067 · « **Reply #22 on:** March 13, 2021, 12:56:05 PM »

Quote from: Cool Chris on March 13, 2021, 11:48:30 AM

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 11:18:24 AM
Quote from: Cool Chris on March 13, 2021, 11:16:10 AM

The Who - Who's Next

My Wife and Going Mobile are great songs?

Yeah, maybe not. But My Wife was in their setlist frequently, so either their thought highly of it, thought the fans did, or it was a sop to John.

My Wife is absolutely a great song! Going Mobile not so much

WildRanger · « **Reply #23 on:** March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM »

Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

King Postwhore · « **Reply #24 on:** March 13, 2021, 02:45:08 PM »

Boston - ST
Asia - ST
Cars - ST
Journey - Escape
Beatles - Abbey Road
Kiss - Destroyer
Rush - Moving Pictures
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
AC/DC - Back in Black

NoseofNicko · « **Reply #25 on:** March 13, 2021, 02:48:59 PM »

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM

Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

Just because they aren’t bolded on RYM doesn’t mean they aren’t great songs.

HOF · « **Reply #26 on:** March 13, 2021, 02:58:18 PM »

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM

Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

Entre Nous and Different Strings are, but Jacob’s Ladder is a little dodgy. ;-)

Dave_Manchester · « **Reply #27 on:** March 13, 2021, 03:44:48 PM »

Thought about it a bit more:

Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes
Peter Gabriel: 4/Security
John Petrucci: Suspended Animation and Terminal Velocity (fight me)
Ozzy: Diary of a Madman
Oasis: Morning Glory
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Arena: Pepper's Ghost
The Beatles: Rubber Soul
Judas Priest: British Steel
Nightwish: Wishmaster

And to pre-empt the question: yes, I consider such-and-such to be a "great song".

TAC · « **Reply #28 on:** March 13, 2021, 05:20:17 PM »

Quote from: kingshmegland on March 13, 2021, 02:45:08 PM

Boston - ST
Rush - Moving Pictures
AC/DC - Back in Black

I'm on board with these. I had to think about Destroyer though. I personally cannot stand God Of Thunder, and Great Expectations is iffy. But the rest is pretty great.

Elite · « **Reply #29 on:** March 13, 2021, 05:29:42 PM »

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Adami · « **Reply #30 on:** March 13, 2021, 05:30:58 PM »

Without looking through any of my albums...

Dream Theater - Awake
Pain of Salvation - Perfect Element
Pain of Salvation - Remedy Lane
Iced Earth - Burnt Offerings
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - ...and Justice for All
Metallica - Metallica
Jinjer - Cloud Factory
Jinjer - King of Everything

Probably a good amount more, but that's all I can quickly think of.

pg1067 · « **Reply #31 on:** March 13, 2021, 05:35:10 PM »

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM

Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

Yes. Yes they are (although I'll concede that Different Strings might be borderline).

Quote from: HOF on March 13, 2021, 02:58:18 PM

Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM
Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

Entre Nous and Different Strings are, but Jacob’s Ladder is a little dodgy. ;-)

If, by "dodgy," you mean a top 20 Rush track that is vastly better than every song on Power Windows, then I agree.

HOF · « **Reply #32 on:** March 13, 2021, 06:09:24 PM »

Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 05:35:10 PM

Quote from: HOF on March 13, 2021, 02:58:18 PM
Quote from: WildRanger on March 13, 2021, 02:39:50 PM
Quote from: pg1067 on March 13, 2021, 12:54:33 PM

Rush - Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures (I really wanted to include AFTK, but I just can't call Madrigal "great")

From Permanent Waves, Entre Nous and Different Strings are GREAT songs?

Entre Nous and Different Strings are, but Jacob’s Ladder is a little dodgy. ;-)

If, by "dodgy," you mean a top 20 Rush track that is vastly better than every song on Power Windows, then I agree.

Nope, that’s not what I meant at all! ;-)

Jacob’s Ladder is a fine song. It’s just the oddball track on Permanent Waves that doesn’t quite land for me. Every 80s Rush album had one of those until Power Windows. Every second of Power Windows is perfect. It’s an objective fact. ;-) ;-)

jjrock88 · « **Reply #33 on:** March 13, 2021, 06:14:13 PM »

Quote from: TAC on March 13, 2021, 05:20:17 PM

Quote from: kingshmegland on March 13, 2021, 02:45:08 PM
Boston - ST
Rush - Moving Pictures
AC/DC - Back in Black

I'm on board with these. I had to think about Destroyer though. I personally cannot stand God Of Thunder, and Great Expectations is iffy. But the rest is pretty great.

God of Thunder is one of my all time favourite Kiss songs no question...

- Rush- Moving Pictures
- Judas Priest- Painkiller
- AC/DC- Back in Black
- Whitesnake- s/t
- Gunners- AfD
- Iron Maiden- Somewhere in Time
- Dio- Holy Diver
- Black Sabbath- H&H
- QR- O:M

There will easily be more if I think about it

Crow · « **Reply #34 on:** March 13, 2021, 08:17:41 PM »

Green Carnation - Light of Day, Day of Darkness

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Author Topic: Albums where all tracks are GREAT? (Read 3284 times)