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Albums without a duff track.

seth plum
seth plum Posts: 53,448
edited August 2011 in Not Sports Related

It occurs to me that there are some albums without a filler, a novelty or a rubbish track on them. Some come close, for example nearly every Beatles album, but are disqualified because they have a crap track in the mix i.e the Ringo track they had to put on. Others simply are one step from perfection because of one bad call, e.g The Swimming Song on the otherwise perfect first album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle .

I know there may be a lot of qualifiers out there; they shouldn't be nominated because they're a particular favourite (although that helps) but because they are more or less flawless. Maybe because they have no tracks you skip.

I'll start with some easy ones:

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (and certainly Wish You Were Here)

Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy

Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Obviously there are others.

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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    The Stone Roses first album.
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,821
    In Ghost Colour by Cut Copy, all winner no filler
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,018
    Brothers In Arms- Dire Straits.
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    Physical graffiti: Led Zep.
  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Physical graffiti: Led Zep.
    Add to that Led Zep 2, Led Zep 1... in fact almost all of their output as far as I am concerned!
  • EastStand
    EastStand Posts: 4,109
    Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights. 
  • CharltonKerry
    CharltonKerry Posts: 2,963
    Bridge over troubled waters, for the younger person Simon and Garfunkle
  • Rothko
    Rothko Posts: 18,821
    Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers
  • RedMist
    RedMist Posts: 1,404
    Physical graffiti: Led Zep.
    Add to that Led Zep 2, Led Zep 1... in fact almost all of their output as far as I am concerned!


    Yea fair do's: I feel it's the most 'complete' of their stuff. Though all good!

    Also Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385

    another Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark

    Santana: Abraxas, Caravanserai, 3rd Album (Man with Outstretched hand cover)

    Temptations Greatest Hits

    Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (one stream of hard to decipher supernoise)

    Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swinging Lovers

    (you notice, nothing after about 1975 !!!!), am I stuck in my listening ways ?


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  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,064
    The Stone Roses first album.



    Without a doubt
  • Radzinsky
    Radzinsky Posts: 100
    Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane over the sea
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,448
    Violator - Depeche Mode
    Troublegum - Therapy?
    Angel Dust - Faith No More
    South Of Heaven - Slayer
    Diamond Eyes - Deftones
    Master Of Puppets - Metallica
    And The Circus Leaves Town - Kyuss
    Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
    Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
    This Is My Truth - Manic Street Preachers
    Only Forever - Puressence
    Meantime - Helmet
    Necroticism - Carcass
    10,000 Days - Tool
  • BigBadAlan
    BigBadAlan Posts: 227
    Brothers In Arms- Dire Straits.
    without question 
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,131
    Trouble is, it's all so subjective
    I'd argue that every track on the Thin Lizzy album is crap (no filler or novelty just a bunch of ordinary songs); particularly set against, say, Revolver which you might disqualify due to Yellow Submarine.

    Getting into the spirit ,these:-
    Sgt Pepper - The Beatles
    Revolver - The Beatles
    Beggars Banquet - The Stones
    Something Else - The Kinks
    The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd
    Stand Up - Jethro Tull
    The Yes Album - Yes
    Harvest - Neil Young
    Led Zeppelin III
    Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers
    Sheet Music - 10cc
    Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
    Automatic for the People - REM



  • shuffles67
    shuffles67 Posts: 105
    Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
    Nevermind by Nirvana
  • Six-a-bag-of-nuts
    Six-a-bag-of-nuts Posts: 8,131
    Oh, how did I forget: - 
    Hunky Dory - David Bowie
    For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
    Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan
    Blood on the Tracks - Dylan
    Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    Omg your all old or at least most of your music is Nevermind by Nirvana
    Hey, flaming cheek !!!!!!  Nirvana are hardly this century .. how long has Curt C been brown bread?
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,385
    Oh, how did I forget: - 
    Hunky Dory - David Bowie

    For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

    Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan

    Blood on the Tracks - Dylan

    Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
    how did I forget Blood on the Tracks ?  .. simply a masterpiece
  • shuffles67
    shuffles67 Posts: 105
    Lol some of the albums mentioned were around when my mum was a teenager
    Defiantly maybe by Oasis except for married with children

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  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
    Nevermind by Nirvana



    That's at least twenty years old...

  • Saga Lout
    Saga Lout Posts: 6,845
    Moontan - Golden Earring. Try to find the original vinyl, because I think some CD releases leave off one of the tracks and add some others!

    Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

    Paulo Nutini - These Streets

    If I had more time I'd add a couple hundred more.
  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,423
    Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
    Nevermind by Nirvana



    That's at least twenty years old...

    It is twenty years old this year I believe.
  • shuffles67
    shuffles67 Posts: 105
    Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
    Nevermind by Nirvana



    That's at least twenty years old...



    Granted but some of these albums are older than me and my kids think I'm old so therefore!!!
    But there are some classic ones mentioned
  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    Steet Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd......... Last album with original band members and IMO their best. What might have been????????
  • RedArmySE7
    RedArmySE7 Posts: 5,407
    A Tale of Two Cities - Mr Hudson and the Library
  • LonelyNorthernAddick
    LonelyNorthernAddick Posts: 2,423
    Oh, and:
     Black Stone Cherry (Self-titled).
    Franz Ferdinand (Self-Titled)
    Billy Talent - I
    Machine Head - The Blackening
    Metallica - Ride The Lightening/Master Of Puppets
    AC/DC - Back in Black/High Voltage
    Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
    Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison
    Conor Oberst (Self-titled - for those of you in the folk-rock persuasion)
    Dinosaur pile-up -Growing Pains
    Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies
    Foo Fighters - A few of their albums
    Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

    And a fair few others... I apologise for getting carried away.
  • Oliver Street
    Oliver Street Posts: 5,133

    Most good albums have at least one duff track but here are a few exceptions (IMO):

    Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink

    Soft Machine - Third

    Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North

    Koop - Waltz for Koop

    Terry Callier - Timepeace

    Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue, In a Slient Way, Water Babies + a good few more

    Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller

    East of Eden - Mercator Projected

    Darryl Way's Wolf - Canis Lupus

    Pentangle - Basket of Light

  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    I like all music but my nominations are
    buddy holly 1st album
    stone roses as mentioned above
    Rem - automatic
  • DaveMehmet
    DaveMehmet Posts: 21,630

    The Who - Who's Next

    ACDC - Back in Black

    Stones - Let it Bleed

    Nine Below Zero - Live at the Marquee

    Green Day - American Idiot

    The Jam - Dig The New Breed

    Oasis - 1st 2 albums

    The Police - Ghosts in The Machine

    Most Beatles albums, with a few exceptions

     

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