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Music What album in your opinion has ZERO bad songs?

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I'll start with one I highly recommend.

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

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This is one album I keep coming back to. My favourite track is probably "An Eagle in Your Mind" but another fave is "Olson". The third track right after the second track has had an amazing soothing effect on me in turbulent times.
 
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Ballon

This is very atypical for King Gizzard, using almost entirely acoustic instruments and a front to back 60s/dream pop sound. I think they've released a couple albums with no bad tracks, but not any as immediately enjoyable as this one.
Highlights are: Cold Cadaver, NGRI Bloodstain, Most of What I Like, and the title Track

 
The ones I can think of, off the top of my head

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Hamza - 1994
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Kids See Ghosts - Kids See Ghosts
Drake - Take Care / Nothing Was The Same
Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die / Live After Death
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Tracy Chapman - Crossroads
Pusha T - My Name is My Name / King Push / Daytona / It’s Almost Dry
Outkast - Stankonia
Booba - Panthéon
PNL - Le Monde Chico / Dans la Légende / Deux Frères
Luidji - Tristesse Business (Saison 1)
Talco - Combat Circus
All Kanye albums between Graduation and TLOP
All SCH albums
 
I think there's probably quite a few for me personally and people probably wouldn't agree with all of them haha (and a lot of them might have tracks I don't like or would choose to skip on a casual listen if they came up, but would still say they're good songs etc...) but here are a few of my favourites which I suppose is the purpose haha
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

Neko Case - Middle Cyclone

Scott Walker - Scott 4

Fleet Foxes - Crack Up
 
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory, Images & Words
Devin Townsend - Synchestra, Terria
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Tool - AEnima
Ayreon - The Human Equation
 
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Every Arctic Monkeys albums, but especially Suck it And See, and AM.
PNL - Le Monde Chico / Dans la Légende / Deux Frères
Hell yeah. "Dans la Légende" was such an event when it released. By far the most hype I've seen in the last 10 years for a french rap album.
 
This is kind of a leading question, cuz there are plenty of albums with songs that work in the context of the record but don't necessarily stand alone. Doesn't make them bad. So I'm just gonna interpret it as 'some albums I like a lot':
 
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King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Paper Mache Dream Ballon

This is very atypical for King Gizzard, using almost entirely acoustic instruments and a front to back 60s/dream pop sound. I think they've released a couple albums with no bad tracks, but not any as immediately enjoyable as this one.
Highlights are: Cold Cadaver, NGRI Bloodstain, Most of What I Like, and the title Track


I've somehow managed to avoid listening to King Gizz all this time because I know that if I love it I'm going to end up buying like 30 albums on vinyl, and my house cannot support that right now.
 
I love Arctic Monkeys too. My fav of theirs is probably Humbug, which I would absolutely consider an album with no "bad songs" if it didn't have Sketchhead on it haha
Being a Favourite Worst Nightmares kid, I had a lot of trouble getting into Humbug when it first released, but being an Arctic Monkeys fan I forced myself to listen to it many times and eventually it grew on me.
Nowadays I consider it as good as the others. Secret Doors is maybe a top 5 songs for me, and Crying Lightning and Cornerstone are huge classics too.

Do you consider Sketchead as a Humbug song ? It's a B-side from the Cornerstone single. I don't personally consider B-sides as part of the albums.
Or maybe you have a version (regional or re release) of Humbug that had it and that I'm not aware of !
 
Wow, some great picks in here. Pretty amazed by the response.

The Weeknd's After Hours is also a close pick of mine.
 
Being a Favourite Worst Nightmares kid, I had a lot of trouble getting into Humbug when it first released, but being an Arctic Monkeys fan I forced myself to listen to it many times and eventually it grew on me.
Nowadays I consider it as good as the others. Secret Doors is maybe a top 5 songs for me, and Crying Lightning and Cornerstone are huge classics too.

Do you consider Sketchead as a Humbug song ? It's a B-side from the Cornerstone single. I don't personally consider B-sides as part of the albums.
Or maybe you have a version (regional or re release) of Humbug that had it and that I'm not aware of !
yeah, it's not part of the official track list.
 
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(This band's music videos are wild... in more ways than one)



(Yes this one's the Bionicle band 😏)

Also I'm glad to see ZUN music on Spotify.


Favorite Worst Nightmare too, that's been listed.
 
"Back In Black" by AC/DC.
"Animals" by Pink Floyd.
"Reckless" by Bryan Adams.
"DNCE" by DNCE.
"Joy In The Wild Unknown" by Ripe.
"Boston" by Boston.
"Heartbeat City" by The Cars.
"Screen Violence" by CHVRCHES.

And how about some live albums?

"Flashpoint" by The Rolling Stones.
"Pulse" by Pink Floyd.
"Last Play At Shea" by Billy Joel.
 
...randomly see a thread outside of the gaming area... and then the first post nails it.

There are actually a ton.
Radiohead Kid A (or amnesiac, or in my opinion HTTT as well)
Portishead - Third
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works (actually 1 and 2)
Moderat - II
Modest Mouse - Good news for people who love bad news
Botch - American Nervoso
Caribou - swim
Converge - Jane Doe
Mars Volta - deloused in the comatorium
massive attack - mezzanine
the national - trouble will find me
nicolas jaar - space is only noise
slut - lookbook
notwist - neon gold and
swans - the seer, soundtrack for the blind
tim hecker - virgins, ravedeath 1972
tricky maxinquaye
isis - oceanic, wavering radiant

... i could add to this list for long. Does this man all of them are 10/10? don't know. just that i really like every song on those albums.
 
Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run is the first album I'll recommend to anyone within earshot who mentions casually they want to explore more of his discography. It is the quintessential distillation of an everlasting American summer night spread across eight tracks, the yearning of Clarence Clemons' sax solo in Jungleland, the longing to break out of physical and societal confines, cars that don't have to drive fast but just fast enough to escape small towns, bad jobs and to arrive at a promised land with prospects of love, a better life, and laughter with friends romantic and platonic, the ambiguous gender of Terry in Backstreets leading to many an academic discussion of the inherent queerness in his lyrics, and just that magnificent wall of sound that even if you strip away the backing melodies, the lyrics are still just so poignant and strike deep into the core of your heart. Even the album art, in the 1970s when most fonts chosen were big and bombastic, a stark and slim looking font as skinny as a 25 year old Springsteen on the front cover, and when opened up to show him leaning on Clarence playing his sax

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In his autobiography, he wrote his songs of a world where his friendship with someone outside his race wouldn't be so taboo. In the 70s and 80s, they would do the most rock n roll thing they could do to uplift the people who believe in a better and more accepting world and piss off the detractors who would rather see them dead and let them know their old ways of thinking are dying and no longer the norm.

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There are many a ways I could wax poetic of his music and how it inspires me throughout many situations in my life, but that's probably the basic gist before I go into an academic research essay when I should be working lol

But also Boston's self-titled debut album, Carly Rae Jepsen's E-Mo-Tion, The Weeknd's Dawn FM, The Gaslight Anthem's '59 Sound, and probably a few others I can't recall that I would categorize as a "perfect" album.
 
Not a lot of the albums I like have songs I'd say I dislike, let alone think they're downright bad. I even like Chemistry in Arcade Fire's Everything Now lol
 
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Are live albums considered cheating? Because I would like to nominate Nirvana's MTV Unplugged album.
 
Maybe this is a pedestrian choice, but I'd put Wish You Were Here on this list in a heartbeat.


Perhaps even more Pedestrian of a choice, but I dig pretty much all of Darkside of the Moon, even the weird transitional songs.
 
Folie a Deux by Fall Out Boy
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen
Strange Desire by Bleachers
Too Weird To Live, Too Rare to Die by Panic! at the Disco (not my favorite album by them but it's the shortest and there are no skips)
Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, The Black Parade, and Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys by My Chemical Romance. No skips.
SAWAYAMA by Rina Sawayama
Fast Times at Barrington High by The Academy Is...
American Idiot by Green Day

I'm sure there are more I can't think of at the moment
 
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I think there are really a massive number of albums that don't have a bad song, so I'll just go with albums that have only good or very good ones.

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West ("Heart Cooks Brain" and "Long Distance Drunk" are a bit borderline meh I suppose)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Pixies - Doolittle
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (Yes I like "Wild Billy's Circus Story")
David Bowie - Station to Station
Neil Young - On the Beach
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (eh maybe "Kids on the Run" isn't the best but it's not bad)
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service (rip Phife Dawg)
 
"Back In Black" by AC/DC.
"Animals" by Pink Floyd.
"Reckless" by Bryan Adams.
"DNCE" by DNCE.
"Joy In The Wild Unknown" by Ripe.
"Boston" by Boston.
"Heartbeat City" by The Cars.
"Screen Violence" by CHVRCHES.

And how about some live albums?

"Flashpoint" by The Rolling Stones.
"Pulse" by Pink Floyd.
"Last Play At Shea" by Billy Joel.
My Yeah was just for Last Play at Shea.

I think there are really a massive number of albums that don't have a bad song, so I'll just go with albums that have only good or very good ones.

Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West ("Heart Cooks Brain" and "Long Distance Drunk" are a bit borderline meh I suppose)
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Van Morrison - Moondance
Pixies - Doolittle
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (Yes I like "Wild Billy's Circus Story")
David Bowie - Station to Station
Neil Young - On the Beach
Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt (eh maybe "Kids on the Run" isn't the best but it's not bad)
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
A Tribe Called Quest - We got it from Here... Thank You 4 Your service (rip Phife Dawg)
On The Beach and The Monitor (but I'd also say Local Business).

Music is great.
 
Being a Favourite Worst Nightmares kid, I had a lot of trouble getting into Humbug when it first released, but being an Arctic Monkeys fan I forced myself to listen to it many times and eventually it grew on me.
Nowadays I consider it as good as the others. Secret Doors is maybe a top 5 songs for me, and Crying Lightning and Cornerstone are huge classics too.

Do you consider Sketchead as a Humbug song ? It's a B-side from the Cornerstone single. I don't personally consider B-sides as part of the albums.
Or maybe you have a version (regional or re release) of Humbug that had it and that I'm not aware of !
Yeah I loved FWN too but I love more psychedelic slower stuff like that, so Humbug just fell right in my wheelhouse (which was an unpopular opinion at the time, though I think now it's quite fondly looked at.) Sketchhead was always on my Australian version of Humbug but if it isn't officially on it, then I will consider it perfect!
 
Yeah I loved FWN too but I love more psychedelic slower stuff like that, so Humbug just fell right in my wheelhouse (which was an unpopular opinion at the time, though I think now it's quite fondly looked at.) Sketchhead was always on my Australian version of Humbug but if it isn't officially on it, then I will consider it perfect!
Yeah, it's funny now seeing Arctic Monkeys fans being like "The Car sucks, god I wish they would go back to their FWN and Humbug days" ahah

That's what I thought, that it was a regional variant thing ! I agree that Sketchead isn't their best B-side at all. At a concert not so long ago, someone in the crowd requested it and Alex Turner said "someone really asked for Sketchead ?!" Lmao
 
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whispers The Car is kinda good
Yeah I loved FWN too but I love more psychedelic slower stuff like that, so Humbug just fell right in my wheelhouse (which was an unpopular opinion at the time, though I think now it's quite fondly looked at.) Sketchhead was always on my Australian version of Humbug but if it isn't officially on it, then I will consider it perfect!
Maybe a digital bonus track? I don't see it on the track listings for the Aus CD release.
 
whispers The Car is kinda good
Of course, NME (and many other outlets) didn't reward it the best album of 2022 for no reason !
Many critics consider it their best album even. Personally I prefer Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Suck it And See, and AM, but I definitely understand why it can be consider as their best.
Maybe a digital bonus track? I don't see it on the track listings for the Aus CD release.
Probably a promotional re-release or something.
 
Of course, NME (and many other outlets) didn't reward it the best album of 2022 for no reason !
Many critics consider it their best album even. Personally I prefer Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, Suck it And See, and AM, but I definitely understand why it can be consider as their best.

Probably a promotional re-release or something.
My only real complaint with TBH&C and The Car is that they can feel a little bit samey, track-for-track. But Alex Turner remains a compelling lyricist, as he's always been, and both albums are vibes. Their first couple records are my personal favorites, but I admire any band that isn't afraid to take swings.
 
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whispers The Car is kinda good

Maybe a digital bonus track? I don't see it on the track listings for the Aus CD release.
I think it was probably the iTunes bonus or something like that when it released potentially (I have on vinyl but probably never noticed it wasn't on there) but it never said bonus track it just had it after Jeweller's Hand haha
 


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