What album(s) can you listen all the way through without skipping a track?

[Gary]

Eric, you're dead to me.

Here's the twist... He's been dead all along!

[Eric.]

We'll call it even for your fondness of Zappa.

 

And I didn't say I was proud of it.  So, shut up.

[Eric.]

I'm not a Ringo hater.  He was essential to the band.  Maybe not musically, but he injected a lot of Beatle flavor into the Beatles.  They wouldn't have been the Beatles without him.

[..Kev]

38 Special - Flashback

AC/DC - Back in Black

April Wine - Nature of the Beast

Boston - First 2 albums

DIO - Holy Diver

Eagles - Hotel California

Foreigner

Foreigner -  Double Vision

Kansas - The Best Of

Night Ranger - Greatest Hits

Pat Benatar - Best Shops

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Rush - 2112

Scorpions - Love At First Sting

Steve Miller - Greatest Hits

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Any

Styx - Pieces of Eight

Supertramp - Breakfast in America

Yes - 90125

[TerryMcK]

I don't dislike him either. He could hold a beat OK (not one of the worlds best drummers either) but he couldn't sing. That is good enough IMO for all Ringo vocal recordings to be wiped. Leave the backing tracks.

Mind you some of the lame singing on a Simon Cowell vehicle disguised by autotune is worse than Mr Starkey.

[wouldwurker]

Good records in that list, Kev. 

 

Adding:

Ramsey Lewis: Sun Goddess

[wouldwurker]

Not to side track, but have you guys heard those alternate tracks and takes on the Wall re-release?  Comfortably Numb with entirely different lyrics and called "Doctor"?  A terrible Waters song called "Teacher Teacher".  Pretty insane stuff if you haven't heard it yet.

[TerryMcK]

No not heard that Vin. Is there any link on Youtube or somewhere else to get a preview?

[Vyrolan]

Wow it's becoming clear that I'm on the young side on this forum...which is kind of surprising to me.   I've never heard of most of the responses.   Honestly, I can only think of at most 5 albums where I've actually heard every song, let alone would actually listen to the whole thing in order.  That just seems crazy to me...these threads are fascinating lol.   I've always picked-and-choosed...first it was burning CDs and later via ipod/iphone and now via Pandora.

[..Kev]

Not to side track, but have you guys heard those alternate tracks and takes on the Wall re-release?  Comfortably Numb with entirely different lyrics and called "Doctor"?  A terrible Waters song called "Teacher Teacher".  Pretty insane stuff if you haven't heard it yet.

 

You tube Dream Theater covering Pink Floyd..  It's pretty amazing!

[Eric.]

Re: Ringo...

 

Photograph is a great song that can't be denied.  Of course George wrote it.

[Cochese]

Soundgarden - Superunknown; Down on the Upside

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple; Core

DMB - Live at Piedmont Park

[wouldwurker]

No not heard that Vin. Is there any link on Youtube or somewhere else to get a preview?

The Spotify web browser is free. everything you'd ever want is on there.

It's the Wall 2011 Remaster.

Disc 3 is all the scrapped tracks.

There's also a 'Wish you were here' 2011'remaster with live early versions of Dogs and Sheep from Animals, totally different lyrics and called 'you got to be crazy' and 'raving and drooling'.

[Llama]

One of my embarrassing guilty pleasures is Under the Table and Dreaming. Great album. I also like Parachutes by Coldplay, even though I hate admitting it because of what they turned into later. But Parachutes was a masterpiece.

I'll mail you a copy of the bootleg. You'll like it. No need to hide any longer! Be free!

[TerryMcK]

 Lots of the world's "best drummers" would struggle with No Quarter.  It is slow and the groove is monsterous. 

Now Bonham was seriously awesome. I agree on No Quarter.

[Eric.]

As a drummer I really appreciate Ringo.  His creativity, groove and musicality on the drums is up there with the best.  I mean that sincerely.  Maybe not the most technically flashy, but he played with soul and that can't be taught.  It is more difficult to hold a groove and keep time when you are playing fewer notes.  I think Don't Let Me Down and While My Guitar Gently Weeps really showcase his feel and restraint.  A Day in the Life is good, too.  

 

Amen, Mike!

[TerryMcK]

Two more I've thought of prog rockers:

Brain Salad Surgery - ELP

And jazz lovers:

A Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis. Nothing better to hand cut dovetails to.

[DarrylR]

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

-Darryl

[Shane Jimerfield]

some serious classic rock junkies up in here.

I too like many of of those albums.

but also,

Alejandro Escovedo - 1999 - Bourbonitis Blues

Billie Holiday - 1956 - Lady Sings The Blues

Blue Cheer - 1968 - Vincebus Eruptum

Brian Eno & David Byrne - 1981 - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

The Clash - 1979 - London Calling

Cowboy Junkies - 1988 - The Trinity Session

The Cult - 1985 - Love

The Doobie Brothers - 1976 - Takin' It To The Streets

Echo & The Bunnymen - 1983 - Porcupine

Fleetwood Mac - 1977 - Rumours

Guns N' Roses - 1987 - Appetite For Destruction

Lackawanna Blues - 2004 (soundtrack)

Mazzy Star - 1996 - Among My Swan

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - 1996 - Murder Ballads

Rush - 1978 - Hemispheres

Sinéad O'Connor - 1990 - I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got

The Smiths - 1986 - The Queen Is Dead

The Stooges - 1969 - The Stooges

Talking Heads - 1983 - Speaking In Tongues

Tangle Eye - 2004 - Alan Lomax's Southern Journey Remixed

Temple Of The Dog - 1991

Tom Waits - 1980 - Heartattack And Vine

Uncle Tupelo - 1993 - Anodyne

The Velvet Underground & Nico - 1967 - The Velvet Underground & Nico

U2 - 1980 - Boy

[wtnhighlander]

What?!!??

Not a single ABBA title in this whole thread?

[TerryMcK]

The original question was what albums would you listen all the way through without skipping a track. Obviously first hear you would do but on subsequent listens would you still do it?

I can only think of a few.

Add Yessongs to mine and one by Be Bop Deluxe - Live! In the Air Age not the track Life In The Air Age but the whole album including the EP that came with the vinyl version.

[Eric.]

Add Yessongs to mine and one by Be Bop Deluxe - Live! In the Air Age not the track Life In The Air Age but the whole album including the EP that came with the vinyl version.

 

I put this into gargle translate but still came up empty...

[wouldwurker]

+1 on whoever out there said STP - Purple.

[TerryMcK]

one is prog and the other isn't.

[TerryMcK]

What?!!??

Not a single ABBA title in this whole thread?

ABBA are good tunesmiths - not sure if I could listen to an entire album though.