Having just watched the movie "Dig!", about the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, I got my Dandy Warhols "Thirteen Tales of Urban Bohemia" out again, and was thinking about albums that were designed to be listened to as albums, all the way through.

What is your favorite? Another one I liked in the past was Abbey Road, although it's mostly the second side that's like this.

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Pretty hard to pick just one! "Dark Side of the Moon," "Sgt. Pepper's...," and the Stones' "Exile on Main Street" immediately come to mind.

As far as newer albums are concerned, The Flaming Lips' "At War With the Mystics" and The New Pornographers' "Challengers" are great listens from start to finish. It's actually a rare treat these days to find an album that has more than just one or two good tracks.

Majority of albums by The Band
The Wall-Pink Floyd
Brothers in Arms-Dire Straits
Paranoid-Black Sabbath

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Texas Flood and Dark Side of the Moon are my personal favs.

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and i did a threesome anti-christ svperstar, mechanical animals and holywood as its a trilogy by marilyn manson

All the stuff Pink Floyd has released.....
Layla and other assorted love songs is pretty nice as an album as the tracks is on the album in the same order they were recorded
Otherwise, Fillmore East will get your senses working the whole way through the disc

Excuse my english, it's my bros birthday, after 20 hours of drinking and such, it's 8 o'clockin the morning here

Certainly Dark Side Of The Moon is one that, when listened to straight through, is an excellent experience. Certainly better today on CD than on LP as there is no need to flip the record, thus interrupting the mood.

I have to say the most enjoyable one for me is by Shawn Phillips - Second Conrtibution. I think it came out in 1970 or '71 and continues to be a thrill every time I have the opportunity to listen to it. As with Dark Side, better on CD than LP.

Sailing to Philadelphia by Knopfler, that's one that comes to mind.
Also, London Calling by the Clash, Ten by Pearl Jam (because of the story it tells).
And some other albums, but there arn't much people who know them, like 'For emma, Forever ago' by Bon Iver.

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Hi Ellen: totally agree with you about Abbey Road.

For the sake of something different, here's one that won't be popular round here...

When Sting's Soul Cages came out I really disliked it. Listened to it now and again over the months - and then one day something clicked. Now it's my fave Sting album: no particular hits, but unusually for him it has consistent themes and feel all the way through which I find powerful.

But then I have more time for Sting as a songwriter than most people here... (Still want to slap his face, though...)

Cheers - C

Dark Side of the Moon

2112

Aqualung

Animals

Toy Matinee

Kamakiriad (Daonld Fagen)

Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan)

Captain Beyond (the first album)


BTW, isn't "DIG!" just about the best music documentary ever? Absolutely compelling. And Abbey Road is great to listened to all the way through, a very good choice.

If you are a real Beatles fan, the best album to listen to all the way through is the George Martin & Son remix done for Cirque du Soleil, Love. It is an awesome experience, and you find your brain lighting up like a pinball machine as you start to identify where all the bits and pieces came from. An amazing studio painting.

Here are a few

Abbey Road - The Beatles
Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Aja - Steely Dan


Gil

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The White Album... had a job to do quite a few miles away. had to take the truck that has no sound system and actually went through the whole thing in my head... i was surprised at how much of the album i could put together.

other than that:
who - quadrophoenia & tommy
mountain - nantucket sleighride
zappa - the shut up and play yer guitar set
jeff beck - you had it coming
king crimson - red, lark's tongues in aspic, starless and bible black

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Some of my favorites

Dark Side of the Moon
Queen - Night at the Opera
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus