Albums where you liked EVERY song on the record

by **MartyMoffatt** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 5:58 pm

My criteria for this is.... if I was in my car listening to an album on my Ipod (ie where at the press of a button I could easily switch to any one of hundreds of other albums) would I happily listen to it the whole way through or would I skip any track. On that basis there are very few albums I think are flawless from start to finish. Even excellent albums invariably have one or two songs that I simply don't have the patience to listen to. Those that do satisfy this criteria and which I will happily invest an hour or so of my time to include:-

Rush - Hold Your Fire, Moving Pictures, Signals, Snakes & Arrows
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Talisman - 7
Jimmy Barnes - Freight Train Heart
Camel - Rajaz
Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton
Paul Rodgers - Cut Loose

I find it really interesting to note how often Rush appear in these sort of lists. They are of course my favourite band so I notice these things LOL. Now Journey I can understand getting mentioned a lot as this is after all a Journey board, but after them, it seems to me that Rush get mentioned more often than anybody else - a testament to the consistent quality of their output.

Marty

by **mriesenb** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:31 pm

Marc S wrote:
mriesenb wrote:
Marc S wrote:
mriesenb wrote:Giant - Last of the Runaways

Gotta agree with that, awesome album

It's an interesting question, actually. I did quite some thinking and there's not many albums I know which only have great songs. As big a Toto fan I am there's no single Toto cd I like entirely. Even my fav. Isolation has a weak track (Holyanna). Same goes for Whitesnake's 1987 and Journey's Escape and Frontiers.

Exactly, it isn't that easy, hand on heart to say every track is great. That first Giant album was not just composed it was crafted, every last note, nothing Dan Huff and co. did was surplus to requirement. Funny, I wrestled with Isolation too for Hollyanna and to a degree, Stranger in Town which hass essence of cheese throughout.... saw Giant once thank God i did they were mind-blowing.

Yeah, I can't believe how long the list is of some people. I have many favorite albums, but albums with ONLY great songs are very few.

by **mriesenb** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:35 pm

X factor wrote:
mriesenb wrote:
Marc S wrote:
mriesenb wrote:Giant - Last of the Runaways

Gotta agree with that, awesome album

It's an interesting question, actually. I did quite some thinking and there's not many albums I know which only have great songs. As big a Toto fan I am there's no single Toto cd I like entirely. Even my fav. Isolation has a weak track (Holyanna). Same goes for Whitesnake's 1987 and Journey's Escape and Frontiers.

LOL! That's my FAVORITE track on that album

Seriously?

While the rest of the album is high energy melodic rock, this song is so left of centre, nothing like the rest of the album.

by **Moon Beam** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:11 pm

mistiejourney wrote:As usual, mine are wierd!
Mad Season - Matchbox Twenty

Suitable for Framing - Three Dog Night

I see nothing ab normal here lady, just good taste!

by **Invisible Cajun** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:39 am

Three Dog Night - Cyan
Montrose - Montrose
Rush - Rush
Moxy - Moxy
Moxy - Ridin' High
Dakota - Dakota
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Journey - Look Into The Future
SS Fools - SS Fools

by **Gordon from Edinburgh** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 8:37 am

90125 - Yes
ASIA - ASIA
Van Halen ! - VH
The Wild Heart - Stevie Nicks
Living In Oz _Rick Springfield
Back IN Black - ac/dc
Rising - Rainbow
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Heart - Heart (1985)

by **Big J** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:06 am

ProgRocker53 wrote:
Rip Rokken wrote:Quite a few out there, but I guess as it's been fresh in my player, the new Scorps album instantly comes to mind.

The new Scorpions album is absolutely amazing. Probably the best of 2007 right there.

Absolutely.

by **7 Wishes** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:20 pm

mriesenb wrote:
Yeah, I can't believe how long the list is of some people. I have many favorite albums, but albums with ONLY great songs are very few.

Michael, I'm just a musical whore - it doesn't take much for me to love every song on a record!

No, that's not entirely true. But I admit, I don't have the exacting standards some others do.

BTW...I just sent a third email to Ass (Czar) tonight. I know he's putting the finishing touches on his solo CD, so that may explain why I haven't heard back from him yet.

Looking forward to the new record, my man. Love your stuff...outstanding.

by **scarygirl** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:23 pm

StoneCold wrote:
scarygirl wrote: love "Oh Scary"... Hate Running Alone. Don't know why.

Man, you girls are on it tonight. First Sarah and now you.

"Oh Scary" from Street Talk

Weird Al missed that one.

"Oh Scary" is gonna be his ticket into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

by **7 Wishes** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:34 pm

scarygirl wrote:
"Oh Scary" is gonna be his ticket into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Yeah, because the fact he had the most perfect voice in the history of contemporary music, and was a stratospherically talented song- and melody- writer just won't cut it. Fucking ROR Hall of Shame. Assholes!!!

by **scarygirl** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 1:40 pm

7 Wishes wrote:
scarygirl wrote:
"Oh Scary" is gonna be his ticket into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Yeah, because the fact he had the most perfect voice in the history of contemporary music, and was a stratospherically talented song- and melody- writer just won't cut it. Fucking ROR Hall of Shame. Assholes!!!

He'll get in. Would be a crime if he didn't. And if he doesn't, it's BUSH'S FAULT!!! :lol:

by **epresley** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:25 am

AC/DC--Highway to Hell
Nazareth--Expect No Mercy
Judas Priest--British Steel
Iron Maiden--Number of the Beast
Alice Cooper--From the Inside
Journey--Escape
Paul Stanley--Paul Stanley
Rush--2112 and/or All The World's A Stage
Rainbow--On Stage and/or Difficult to Cure
Lord Tracy--Deaf Gods of Babylon
Van Halen--I, II, and/or 5150
Dio--Holy Diver and/or Last in Line
Queensryche--Operation Mindcrime and/or Empire
Whitesnake--Slide it In
Def Leppard-High 'n' Dry

by **mistiejourney** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:34 am

Moon Beam wrote:
mistiejourney wrote:As usual, mine are wierd!
Mad Season - Matchbox Twenty

Suitable for Framing - Three Dog Night

I see nothing ab normal here lady, just good taste!

Thanks! It just seems my lists are never like anyone else's list! :lol:

by **YoungJRNY** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:49 am

To say ANY greatest hits albums among bands just doesn't do justice to this difficult thread so I'm staying away from that..

So I can only think of 2 as a whole that the whole CD feels like it's a 5 min cd.

#1 Hootie and the Blowfish
#2. Arrival- Journey

by **Moose** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:43 am

Michael Jackson - Thriller

by **YoungJRNY** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:44 am

Moose wrote:Michael Jackson - Thriller

Nice Moose....Good call bro

by **T-TIME** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:07 am

Prince -1999, Purple Rain, Sign O The times
Gnr - Appetite

by **X factor** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:23 am

epresley wrote:AC/DC--Highway to Hell
Nazareth--Expect No Mercy
Judas Priest--British Steel
Iron Maiden--Number of the Beast
Alice Cooper--From the Inside
Journey--Escape
Paul Stanley--Paul Stanley
Rush--2112 and/or All The World's A Stage
Rainbow--On Stage and/or Difficult to Cure
Lord Tracy--Deaf Gods of Babylon
Van Halen--I, II, and/or 5150
Dio--Holy Diver and/or Last in Line
Queensryche--Operation Mindcrime and/or Empire
Whitesnake--Slide it In
Def Leppard-High 'n' Dry

Props for listing the Paul Stanley album (not a bad tune on it! Good call) and , damned if you didn't pull out LORD TRACY! That WAS a killer album! ("This is a song about FISH...") LOVE IT! I saw those guys twice at a club I used to play in Nash-vegas, and they were some damned nice dudes who put one one HELL of a show! They did a KILLER cover of Lizzy's COWBOY'S SONG. Good times...

by **Ehwmatt** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:26 am

Dream Theater - Images & Words (Octavarium and Scenes From A Memory miss the cut by 1 song each)
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Boston - Boston
The Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Don Henley - The End of the Innocence
Jim Peterik - Above the Storm
Journey - Journey
Little River Band - Test of Time (from the new line-up, but damn is it good)
Loverboy - Just Getting Started
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
REO Speedwagon - R.E.O.
Survivor - Vital Signs
Utopia - Utopia

by **Melissa** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:52 am

Mine are a weird mix I'm sure, lol, & there's some I'm leaving out I'm sure, but off the top of my head:

Metallica- Black album
Boston
Rush- Moving Pictures
Def Leppard- Hysteria
Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Tonic- Lemon Parade
Prince- Purple Rain
Alter Bridge- One Day Remains
Goo Goo Dolls- Live In Buffalo

by **Blueskies** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:58 am

Melissa wrote:Mine are a weird mix I'm sure, lol, & there's some I'm leaving out I'm sure, but off the top of my head:

Metallica- Black album
Boston
Rush- Moving Pictures
Def Leppard- Hysteria
Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Tonic- Lemon Parade
Prince- Purple Rain
Alter Bridge- One Day Remains
Goo Goo Dolls- Live In Buffalo

Are you sure about that? :lol:

by **lparn** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:40 am

matchboxtwenty more than you think you are
Tall stories- Tall stories

by **Melissa** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:53 am

Blueskies wrote:
Melissa wrote:Mine are a weird mix I'm sure, lol, & there's some I'm leaving out I'm sure, but off the top of my head:

Metallica- Black album
Boston
Rush- Moving Pictures
Def Leppard- Hysteria
Guns N Roses- Appetite For Destruction
Tonic- Lemon Parade
Prince- Purple Rain
Alter Bridge- One Day Remains
Goo Goo Dolls- Live In Buffalo

Are you sure about that?

About what? You don't like my list?

j/k

MR

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