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Albums without a single bad track on them

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭Paranoid Mandroid


    Loving Dexys midnight runners - "Don't stand me down". Great shout 👍



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭thebronze14


    QOTSA - Songs for the Dead



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 458 ✭✭Paranoid Mandroid


    Blondie - Parallel Lines



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Ok Computer is a great album, but, really, have you ever thought to yourself at any point in time - "Wow, I would absolutely love to throw on Fitter Happier now, and immerse myself in its beauty". It sounds like Stephen Hawkins on acid.

    This thread is to discuss an album that doesn't have a sing bad track on it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,350 ✭✭✭nc6000


    Yeah, OK Computer is great but I nearly always skip that one. Electioneering doesn't do much for me either.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,335 ✭✭✭Mike Litoris


    I hated that "track" for the longest time especially when it was first released. I love it now. Might be a nostalgia thing but I think it's trippy and creepy as hell and quite enjoy it. I'd never skip it now. I voted for that album too despite that track being lower than Marmite. I'm not really a fan of Climbing up the Walls but I wouldn't call it bad either.

    Most of my absolute favourite albums have a single bad song on them. That would have been an easy list! 🙂



  • Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 9,648 Mod ✭✭✭✭mayordenis


    At the Drive-in - Relationship of Command

    QOTSA - Rated-R

    Metallica - Ride the Lightning

    Arctic Monkeys - AM

    Rancid - And out come the wolves

    Neil Young - Harvest

    Turnstile - Glow on

    Weezer - Ok Human

    Deftones - White Pony

    Slayer - Reign in Blood

    Tame Impala - Currents

    Ghost - Meliora

    Beastie Boys - License to Ill

    NWA - Straight Outta Compton

    Sugar - Copper Blue


    And to show you that I really mean business...

    Andrew WK - I Get Wet



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Ya, I cannot think of any album that has no bad song. The closest for me would be a Sigur Ros album - maybe "the brackets" album. But I am extremely biased on that one, as I am a fanboy. My other closest would be Whipping Boy - Heartworm . But I don't really like the song Blinded. But then again, I wouldn't class it as a bad track. So it would probably get my vote.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,533 ✭✭✭SuperBowserWorld


    Yup, a great album and a great cover. Ridiculously good.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I like (), takk and ‘med sud i ……’ but the sigur ros album that is regarded as their classic, and a 10/10 is ‘Agaetis Byrjun’. It’s one of the greatest albums of all time.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭flasher0030


    Ya, I know Agaetis Byrjun is excellent. I could listen to Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása forever. But for me I prefer () - probably because it is the first of their albums that I got. Song 8 is the best composition of a tune that I have ever heard. And e-bow. I couldn't pick a bad track on the album.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,011 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    The Cure - Disintegration

    Only if you consider Last Dance and Homesick as non-canon bonus tracks.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,381 ✭✭✭Man Vs ManUre


    I also say to people that song 8 on () is the greatest song ever made. And to experience it live when they were at their peak in the mid to late 2000s was a near out of body experience.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭flasher0030



    Ya, I've been to a fair few gigs, but nothing will ever top that last 15 minutes or so of the Olympia gig in 2005 - Popplagið with the transparent curtains down. And lights flashing everywhere. I have seen them 3 times since, but the bigger venues (and outdoor in Kilmainham) doesn't do justice.

    https://www.hotpress.com/music/sigur-ros-live-at-the-olympia-dublin-2840089

    New album is growing on me too. But to be honest, I don't know where Sigur Ros go from here, if they continue. The could continue with the same pattern and produce nice transient type music, but there is a risk that it will just fade into mediocrity. Or could they do a Radiohead type complete makeover????? I don't know.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,227 ✭✭✭littlevillage


    I already mentioned

    Leonard Cohen - I'm your man


    I would suggest the following albums also which I would happily play from start to finish. Soo basically they have no dud tracks.

    Simply Red - Stars

    David Gray - White ladder

    Moby - Play

    The Waterboys - Fisherman's blues

    Def Leppard - Hysteria

    Tom Petty - Full moon fever

    Travelling Wilburys - Volume 1



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,220 ✭✭✭Declan A Walsh


    I had/have copies of White Ladder, Play, Fisherman's Blues and Full Moon Fever. The only album amongst those where I liked every single track is Play by Moby. White Ladder and Full Moon Fever have some very good songs and are both excellent albums, but I did not like all of them. Fisherman's Blues is a more patchy affair.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,625 ✭✭✭Jinglejangle69


    Stone Roses- Stone Roses.


    Ocean colour scene- Moseley Shoals.



  • Posts: 2,725 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Suede - Dog Man Star

    Whipping Boy - Heartworm

    Deftones - White Pony



  • Registered Users Posts: 1 tetre


    as a standalone its nothing special to say the least, but in the context of the whole album i think it works really well. its placed perfectly and plays into the reoccurring concepts of technology and dissatisfaction with life.


    anyways heres a few of my picks:

    Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There

    the grandiose instrumentation and then-leadsingers vulnerable writing and vocals lace an intricate mesh of fragility and triumph that'll build you up and tear you back down again. every piece of this 7 person ensemble falls into place meticulously and creates a one of a kind listen.

    Recommended tracks: Concorde, Haldern, Basketball Shoes


    Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain

    this one grew on me exponentially with each listen. every track is filled with so much personality and charm, all backed up by amazing production and prince giving it 110%

    Recommended tracks: Purple Rain (obviously), When Doves Cry


    System Of A Down - Toxicity

    i'm not a metal head, this was actually the first metal album i ever listened to. but it doesnt require a metal attuned ear to appreciate. great vocals, great writing that delves into political and naturalistic themes, great album.

    Recommended tracks: Prison Song, Toxicity, Forest


    David Bowie - Blackstar

    a dark dive into bowies life, career and mortality. even so late in his career he was uncovering new sounds and styles to create a tightly packed swansong.

    Recommended tracks: Blackstar, Dollar Days


    Radiohead - In Rainbows

    in rainbows feels like the culmination of radioheads years of experimenting into a supernal experience that feels larger than life. its hard to put into words the landscape the band create. if you can imagine adam watching god build nature around him in bewilderment, thats how this album feels to me, especially on tracks like nude, reckoner, house of cards and videotape.

    Recommended tracks: Weird Fishes, Reckoner, Videotape



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