OT: What Album Do You Listen To All The Way Through?
Mid afternoon in Shanghai drinking and listening to music. Looking for feedback from the Board on albums (I say that in a generic sense in today's digital world) you put on and listen to all the way through.
Most of mine are old school since, one, I'm old (not like Herm old though), and, two, I just download one off songs these days.
Please enlighten me on what albums you play and listen to from start to finish so I can download some more music.
A few off the top of my head that I listen to from start to finsih.
Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
Kid A - Radiohead
It's Dark and Hell is Hot - DMX
Gentlemen - Afghan Whigs
The Roots Come Alive - The Roots
Room On Fire - The Strokes
Bossanova - The Pixies
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
Disintegration - The Cure
Nevermind - Nirvana
Life After Death - Notorious BIG
Murmur - REM
Pleased To Meet Me - The Replacements
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Pretty Much Any Grateful Dead Live
That's enough....yes, I listen to The Beatles and The Smiths too...
EDIT: As expected you all came through! I spent way too many hours checking out a lot of different music today and dowloading quite a bit. Now it is sleep time in Shanghai. Thanks!
Exodus: Tempo of the Damned.
Anything by the Black Keys, Thickfreakness is my favorite.
Dear and the Headlights - Drunk Like Bible Times
Ben Folds Live
The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism
Bright Eyes - Lifted; or the Story is in the Soil
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
Cold War Kids - Robbers & Cowards
Crash Kings - self-titled
And to top it off - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
A lot of mine have already been mentioned, so I'll just go with my absolute, all-time, top two:
U2 - War (I don't wanna say exactly that U2 went downhill after Achtung Baby, but almost all my favorite U2 songs are from AB or before. War is awesome. The album, snarkheads.)
Better Than Ezra - Deluxe (the entire music industry can put its collective heads together and not in a thousand years will they write a better album for listening to on a warm, sunny Friday afternoon in spring.)
That is some hardcore devotion right there. I can't claim to have sacrificed any body part in the name of BTE. You might've at least picked a better song than Cry in the Sun, it's the least good song on the album :P (No such thing as a "bad song" or a "worst song" on a favorite album, though.) Friction, Baby is alllmost as good as Deluxe.....but not quite there.
I have a friend with whom I've had quite a series of debates about that, by the way, over the course of oh basically our entire high school and college lives. He has always placed way more importance on the lyrics of a song than I have.
Morrissey - Your Arsenal
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Duncan Sheik - White Limousine
The Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray
Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe
The Sundays - Static and Silence
Alice In Chains - Unplugged
The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
R.E.M. - Automatic For the People
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Pink Floyd - The Wall
All Toad the Wet Sprocket albums.
I keep hearing a new Toad album is in the works. Been like 14 or 15 years on a new studio LP. All their albums are great and I consider "Fear" to be a classic.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV4_0PzNKtQ Sound great here live.
I hope so. I like most of Glen Phillips' solo stuff over the last several years, but really miss the "completeness" of the Toad sound...
Exits - The Boxer Rebellion
Union - The Boxer Rebellion
Hot Fuss - The Killers
for now.
Westside Connection, I gets a f*&*in erection
tool's lateralus in fibonacci sequence 6,7,5,8,4,9,3,10,2,11,1,12,13
Destroyer-KISS
Master of Puppets-Metallica
Death Magnetic- Metallica
Nightmare-Avenged Sevenfold
All That Remains-Fozzy
A few off of the top of my head:
- The Beatles - Abby Road/Sgt. Peppers
- Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise/Greetings from Michigan
- Macklemore - VS. (redux)
- Muse - The Resistance
- Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
- K'Naan - The Dusty Foot Philosopher
My God, I forgot Pet Sounds. Minus 100 to me.
The Cool- Lupe Fiasco
Food and Liquor- Lupe Fiasco
All of Wale's mixtapes
The Adventures of Bobby Ray- B.o.B
+1 for More About Nothing...
...these are what I've been listening to (full-album style):
On the commute:
Tycho - Dive
Lusine - A Certain Distance
Really, just about anything from Ghostly International record label
At the office (when buried under headphones):
First Aid Kit - Lion's Roar
Bob Marley - Legend
At the beach:
Jimmy Buffett - Songs you know by heart
Kings of Leon - Come around sundown
Postprandial apperitif:
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
Party/Dance or Working out:
Anything and everything from the Kitsuné record label
All time favorite full album (yet only played during December):
Vince Guaraldi Trio- A Charlie Brown Christmas
I've said it before and I'l say it again. We're an incredibly diverse bunch and we have only one thing totally in common our Love for the Wolverines !!!!!
Guns N' Roses- Appetite, really anything but the New thing Axl put out.
Black N' Blue-all their stuff
Cinderella-All
Really most of the 80's Metal/hair bands, that was my generation. I'm 45 and a father of 3 girls. Get ready to Gasp... I'm also happily going to see Pop Evil tomorrow in Johnson City, Tn. I'm also going to implore them to sing "In The Big House" here in the heart of SEC country. Nothing like a slap at all these Vols/SEC fans for me.
Cunninlynguists --- Strange Journey Vol. 1
Lupe --- The Cool, Food And Liquor
Kanye --- Graduation, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Atmosphere --- You Can't Imagine How Much Fun I'm Having
The Roots --- Rising Down
Nas --- Illmatic
Masta Ace --- Disposable Arts
TV On The Radio --- Dear Science
People Under The Stairs --- O.S.T.
His album Long Hot Summer Is incredible too. Ace is one of those rare Hip Hop artists that got better with age like De La Soul (except for that weird First Serve or whatever it's called album they just dropped.)
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
Outkast - Aquemini
Outlast - ATLiens
There's probably a couple more....
listen to the ALABAMA SHAKES - BOYS AND GIRLS.
This is the album of the year, IMO.
I've heard Hold On...I'll check out the whole thing.
These are my favorite albums. All of them worth listening to straight through.
Lana del Rey - Born to Die (My favorite right now)
Off Mosnters and Men - My Head is an Animal
Childish Gambino - Camp
The xx - xx
Adele - Both 19 and 21
The Black Keys - Brothers and El Camino
Blakroc - Blakroc
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever
Broken Bells - Broken Bells
Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer
Coldpay - Mylo Xyloto, Viva la Viva, and X&Y
Das Racist - Relax, Shut Up Dude, Sit Down Man
Dave Matthews Band - Under the Table and Dreaming
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Florence and the Machine - Lungs
Foster the People - Torches
G. Love - Lemonade
Jack Johndon - On and On
Jurassic 5 - Feedback
Everything by the Gorillaz
The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing, Hometowns
The Roots - Undun
In Rainbows
In Rainbows
The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
Anything from Tool or APC
Eminem - Recovery
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication & Stadium Arcadium
Lately it's been Childish Gambino - Camp
extended version every song is a hit
iTunes shuffle has spoiled me, but the follwing are albums I can listen to without hitting skip:
AC/DC-Highway To Hell, Back In Black
Bon Jovi-New Jersey
Led Zeppelin-IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti
Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of A Madman
Peter Gabriel-So
Pink Floyd-Wish You Were Here
Steely Dan-Aja
Van Halen-I, II, 1984
Motorhead: Ace of Spades
WHICH album you ask? Clapton Unplugged. Over and over again.
Joyce Manor - S/T
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu Tang (36 Chambers)
Back to Black
Def Leppard- Hysteria & Pyromania
AC/DC- Back in Black
Tom Petty- Greatest
Allman Brothers- Decade of Hits
i love these posts, i'll be looking up some new bands this week
as for me..TOOL, Radiohead, RUSH, The National and i've been listening to Sufjan Stevens alot lately. Also of course MOZ and The Smiths
Saw Radiohead in Cincy this past week, they are incredible.
These posts make me feel old. About every 10th post I recognize a band or two.
Deftones - White Pony
Tool - Aenema
Vampire Weekend - Contra
Rizzle Kicks - Stereo Typical