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5 Star Albums: Every Song
Are there any albums (any genre) on which every song merits 5 stars or whatever your highest designation is?
This is not quite the same question as 'what albums have no filler', because it seems inappropriate to call a 3 or 4 star song 'filler'. The question is also not necessarily 'what is your favorite album', because your favorites might have some filler. Upon consulting I-Tunes, the only albums whose every track I have given 5 stars to are: Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult Kind of Blue - Miles Davis Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins No doubt it helps that these are relatively short albums. Very close contenders were: Powertrip - Monster Magnet Crush the Insects - Reverend Bizarre Death is this Communion - High on Fire Master of Reality - Black Sabbath Painkiller - Judas Priest Tyranny and Mutation - Blue Oyster Cult |
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Albums on which every song is a classic?
Alligator-The National Dummy-Portishead The Stone Roses-S/T Led Zeppelin IV Highway 61 Revisited-Bob Dylan Heartworm-Whipping Boy Illmatic-Nas Radiator-Super Furry Animals If You're Feeling Sinister-Belle & Sebastian |
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I'm gonna have to go with:
Mr. Bungle - California Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd - Animals Between the Buried and Me - Colors Opeth - Deliverance Runners up Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters Opeth - Blackwater Park Opeth - Damnation |
To be honest, I think every single album I've ever heard has at least one song that's no higher than a 4. Therefore, that's all I can contribute.
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Sorry, I meant Miles Davis. That was dumb of me.
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I guess that which comes closest is R.E.M.'s "Reckoning," but mind you that doesn't mean it's my favorite album ever. It's just very consistently excellent.
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Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Pixies - Doolittle Operation Ivy - Energy And although I don't really think it would fit in well wit all these other albums, I still feel like Choking Victim's No Gods / No Managers doesn't have a bad song on it. |
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I've always been under the impression that Doolittle was more universally accepted than Surfer Rosa but I guess that doesn't always make a 5 star album.
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Remember also that there is a distinction between a five star album and an album filled with five star songs...
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Here's a handful of albums I won't stop playing until they get to the end...
Motorhead - Overkill The Cure - Faith New York Dolls - S/T Primal Scream - XTRMNTR Iron Maiden - S/T Slayer - Reign In Blood Can - Ege Bamyasi Blur - Modern Life Is Rubbish Talking Heads - Fear Of Music Poison Idea - Feel the Darkness Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation Napalm Death - From Enslavement To Obliteration Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality Pulp - His & Hers |
GY!BE-Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada. Kind of cheating being that it's only 2 songs, but they're both 5 stars without a shadow of a doubt.
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^Amen to that.
Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come is perfect from start to finish. Most albums I think might fit this criteria still have at least one 4 star song. |
Hmm... off the top of my head,
Faith No More -Angel Dust Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera Blackalicous - Blazing Arrow Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power Been listening to This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall a lot this past week and it's certainly looking like it could one day be in this group. |
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As for more traditional albums, Spiderland, Mezzanine, The Queen is Dead, and Portishead's Third pop up in mah head. |
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr.
Over-Nite Sensation - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention Doolittle - The Pixies I'd agree with Btown and say Doolittle. I prefer Surfer Rosa, as Doolittle sounds more like a greatest hits compilation or something... it just doesn't flow quite as well together. Some that come extremely close: Finding Beauty in the Wretched - Dirty Elegance because out of 18 songs, there's only 2 that don't deserve the 5 star rank from me. Beautiful Freak - Eels American Beauty - Grateful Dead |
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There's plenty of albums where I enjoy every song on it, but maybe my rating system is too strict, or I just don't listen to any of the right music...cause I came up with nothin. :confused: Even some of my favorite groups only have five or so songs that I would rate an absolute 5 when I think about it. Oh well. |
I was going to say YLAOM also but I just can't say Poledo is 5 stars.
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Off the top of my head, each of these...
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - In the Heart Of the Moon The Fall - The Infotainment Scan Scott Walker - The Drift David Bowie - "Heroes" Steel Pulse - True Democracy Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part The The - Mind Bomb Barrington Levvy - Here I Come Augustus Pablo - East Of the River Nile Junkie XL - Today The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms Black Uhuru - Red Frank Zappa - Hot Rats Supergrass - Road To Rouen Midnight Oil - Earth and Sun and Moon ...and probably a few more are pretty much spotless when it comes to quality. |
Superunknown - Soundgarden
Violator - Depeche Mode The Queen is Dead - The Smiths |
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A few that seem to have been forgotten:
Pink Floyd - Animals http://dkpresents.files.wordpress.co...ls-frontal.jpg John Coltrane - A love Supreme http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp...mg55013217.jpg Violent Femmes - self titled http://lineout.thestranger.com/files...selftitled.jpg |
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A couple more: Fugazi - 13 Songs Minor Threat - Discography The Specials - s/t Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (Can't remember if I already mentioned Wu-Tang's 36 chambers or not) |
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Heres my personal picks
Facelift by Alice In Chains 1990 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fzJdhW9xP1...0/FACELIFT.jpg 1. "We Die Young" 2:32 2. "Man in the Box" 4:46 3. "Sea of Sorrow" 5:49 4. "Bleed the Freak" 4:01 5. "I Can't Remember" 3:42 6. "Love, Hate, Love" 6:26 7. "It Ain't Like That" 4:37 8. "Sunshine" 4:44 9. "Put You Down" 3:16 10. "Confusion" 5:44 11. "I Know Somethin' ('bout You)" 4:22 12. "Real Thing" 4:03 Purple Rain by Prince 1984 http://www.soundstagedirect.com/medi...urple_rain.jpg 1."Let's Go Crazy" – 4:39 2."Take Me with U" – 3:54 3."The Beautiful Ones" – 5:13 4."Computer Blue" – 3:59 5."Darling Nikki" – 4:14 Side two 1."When Doves Cry" – 5:54 2."I Would Die 4 U" – 2:49 3."Baby I'm a Star" – 4:24 4."Purple Rain" – 8:41 Runner up: Wanted! The Outlaws by Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Tompall Glaser, Jessi Colter 1974 http://static.rateyourmusic.com/albu...5dcf/53913.jpg 1."My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" (Sharon Rice) – 2:48 Performed by Jennings 2."Honky Tonk Heroes" (Billy Joe Shaver) – 3:27 Performed by Jennings 3."What's Happened to Blue Eyes" (Jessi Colter) – 2:15 Performed by Colter 4."You Mean to Say" (Colter) – 2:28 Performed by Colter 5."Suspicious Minds" (Mark James) – 3:55 Performed by Jennings and Colter [edit] Side two 1."Good Hearted Woman" [Live] (Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson) – 2:56 Performed by Jennings and Nelson 2."Heaven or Hell" (Nelson) – 1:37 Performed by Jennings and Nelson 3."Me and Paul" (Nelson) – 3:45 Performed by Nelson 4."Yesterday's Wine" (Nelson) – 2:58 Performed by Nelson 5."T for Texas" (Jimmie Rodgers) – 4:12 Performed by Glaser 6."Put Another Log on the Fire (Male Chauvinist National Anthem)" (Shel Silverstein) – 2:16 Performed by Glaser Even though this album is legendary, I just can't make myself put this up there in my top slots because of Jessi Colter. The woman didn't earn her position on this album because she was a good singer, I will assure you. Being Waylon Jennings' girlfriend didn't hurt her opportunites in the business, thats for damn sure. |
Frank Zappa-Joe's Gargae
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime Jeff Beck-Truth |
My picks. I have quite a few cds that i can listen to every single song on and love them all. I don't really rate songs however.
Black Sabbath; Greatest hits 1970-1978 The Best of Mercyful Fate Thin Lizzy; The Definitive Collection W.A.S.P; The Best Of The Best Sublime; 40 Ozs To Freedom Mighty Mighty Bosstones; Question The Answers Dirty Looks; Cool From The wire Plenty more I can't think of |
That Handsome Devil - A City Dressed in Dynamite
Stooges- Fun House (god i love LA Blues) Bad Relgion- Suffer & Against the Grain Miles Davis- Kind of Blue Mastodon- Leviathan Nas- Illmatic |
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Joni Mitchell - Blue The Band - S/T Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight ABC - Lexicon of Love Roxy Music - Country Life David Bowie - Alladdin Sane Manic Street Preachers - Holy Bible Melvins - Houdini Metal Church - S/T Voidvod - Diminesion Hatross Sepultura - Beneath the Remains |
I recently started using the rating feature on iTunes, and so far only two albums in my iTunes library have recieved five stars from me on all songs, those are:
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The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute.
Song by song it's perfect and their best album. However there is something about De-Loused that makes me love it more despite all of its flaws. Some sort of magic. Frank Zappa- Hot Rats Oh Christ it's whimsical. It's like a ****ing disney movie made love to Charles Mingus and an electric guitar. That's all really, but I'm always looking to change that. |
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I'm gonna add Bad Brains - s/t Black Flag - Damaged |
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