Albums with no bad songs

So my rule of thumb is that if a music artist orbandhas produced at least one perfect album, that is, one that contains no bad songs (not all of them have to be great songs, but ones that you can at least listen to and enjoy) then that band is truly great. So lets brainstorm some such albums. Here are thefirst three that come to my mind:

Frightened Rabbit - Winter of Mixed Drinks is probably *that* album for me. I listen to it front to back all the time.

For me, it's also gotta be High Violet by The National. I'm a little wary of putting this down, only because for one of the tracks they've released a much better alt. version on the extended edition of HV (Terrible Love), but I think it still counts.

Somewhat opinion based, don't know if it's worth me even bothering to post mine, just ask me "what's your favoroite albums" you get the same result.

By the way, Red Hot Chilli peppers are boring, Counting Crows, seen them live at V festival, can't remember which one, boring again, I think I walked off while he was live and tucked into the Barcadi Tent where my face got smothered in boobies. I use eminem as a factor for if I want to make the act of sex last longer, I just think of him and the orgasim climax takes a few steps back.

Frightened Rabbit - Winter of Mixed Drinks is probably *that* album for me. I listen to it front to back all the time.

For me, it's also gotta be High Violet by The National. I'm a little wary of putting this down, only because for one of the tracks they've released a much better alt. version on the extended edition of HV (Terrible Love), but I think it still counts.

Sharpie125

I can listen to those albums back to back.

Somewhat opinion based, don't know if it's worth me even bothering to post mine, just ask me "what's your favoroite albums" you get the same result.

Not really. You can like a band but styill think that they put out some crappy songs. I for one love eminem but I honestly think the eminem show was is only truly great album. Everything else was kinda hit or miss. A mixture of 30% good songs 10% great songs and 60% bad ones.

By the way, Red Hot Chilli peppers are boring, Counting Crows, seen them live at V festival, can't remember which one, boring again, I think I walked off while he was live and tucked into the Barcadi Tent where my face got smothered in boobies. I use eminem as a factor for if I want to make the act of sex last longer, I just think of him and the orgasim climax takes a few steps back.

Good for you.

Evil_Saluki

I second High Violet.

I choose these

This is easy:

And I'll stop there but there is so much more I could pick...

That is a toughy but surprisingly albums with "no" bad songs are more practicle than what one might think. Even in the mainstream. Some albums I can say have no bad songs are

The Cure Pornography- Not their best work, but its by far their most cohesive. It has solid alternative tracks, and some great pop songs as well which ease the albums seriousness.

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Nirvana-Nevermind- Hate them or love them, theres a reason why Nirvana's Nevermind is considered a Pop masterpiece. Im not the craziest fan of the album but each song is so catchy, and incredible easy to get into. Its no wonder everyone felt like they were into punk by listening to it, the album honestly embodies such an easy welcome despite its vicious undertones.

Arcade Fire-Funeral- I wish some people would put the whole, "its indie, its pretentious" crap aside and just listen to music for its quality, not its fashion. The amazing thing about Funeral is that it never cared for any of that, it was to pre-occupied making the listener get the emotional message across. But the one thing Funeral does that rarely any album in history has done is that its incredible Pop like yet is deep and grandiose all at the same time. I really dare anyone tell me there is a single bad song in Funeral, the songs are so well woven together, its truly a great work of art that never tried to be.

I can go on and on, but I don't have time right now.:P The point I am trying to make is that albums with no bad songs can come from anywhere despite stereotypical belief

KiIIyou

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mexicangordo

This.

This was the one that came to mind for me:

11 strong songs imo.

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Arcade Fire-Funeral- I wish some people would put the whole, "its indie, its pretentious" crap aside and just listen to music for its quality, not its fashion. The amazing thing about Funeral is that it never cared for any of that, it was to pre-occupied making the listener get the emotional message across. But the one thing Funeral does that rarely any album in history has done is that its incredible Pop like yet is deep and grandiose all at the same time. I really dare anyone tell me there is a single bad song in Funeral, the songs are so well woven together, its truly a great work of art that never tried to be.

mexicangordo

Was going to put down Funeral after I posted earlier :P. I think you actually inadvertently got me hooked on Arcade Fire when you posted a link to "Intervention" months and months ago. After listening to that, I went through and listened to AF's complete discography. Love them so much now. I think my only gripe with Funeral (it's miniscule) is that a few of the songs that I really love always end the same, with the quickening of the tempo for whatever reason (Une Anee Sans Lumiere, Crown of Love, Wake Up). Sometimes I'd wish they'd just play out, but overall it's not such a huge deal.

Hot Fuss by the Killers.

Mind you though I havent listened to many albums on their whole.

Albums I can think of that had no bads songs.

illmatic, hot rats, master of puppets, the clash (almost)

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Arcade Fire-Funeral- I wish some people would put the whole, "its indie, its pretentious" crap aside and just listen to music for its quality, not its fashion. The amazing thing about Funeral is that it never cared for any of that, it was to pre-occupied making the listener get the emotional message across. But the one thing Funeral does that rarely any album in history has done is that its incredible Pop like yet is deep and grandiose all at the same time. I really dare anyone tell me there is a single bad song in Funeral, the songs are so well woven together, its truly a great work of art that never tried to be.

Sharpie125

Was going to put down Funeral after I posted earlier :P. I think you actually inadvertently got me hooked on Arcade Fire when you posted a link to "Intervention" months and months ago. After listening to that, I went through and listened to AF's complete discography. Love them so much now. I think my only gripe with Funeral (it's miniscule) is that a few of the songs that I really love always end the same, with the quickening of the tempo for whatever reason (Une Anee Sans Lumiere, Crown of Love, Wake Up). Sometimes I'd wish they'd just play out, but overall it's not such a huge deal.

Very good observation about Funeral. Musically its not perfect, while I believe emotionally it is. You are correct, just about all the songs end in a "triumphant" or tempo change note. Une Anee San's, Crown of Love, Wake Up, Rebellion, and Backseat all do that. Its AF's signature thing but is rather redundant, they do so in all their albums. I think Une by far captures the best impact and emotion with the "She loves him, ca'mon give it to her" Its just the emotion that Win gives in his delivery, its so imperfect and technically "horrible" singing but he takes you to your child hood, using nostalgia to observes ones life as a kid. What a risk for a first album.

Reasons like that make Neon Bible my favorite. A lot of the songs end with the same triumphant feel, and one can say they are dragged on much more than they should but they end completely differently. Intervention, No Cars go, Ocean of Noise and Black Wave are incredible different with different level of delivery and impact. The Suburbs even continues that tradition with, Rococo, The Spwrall ll, Half Light 1, Suburban War.

I could listen to tthe entire thing over and over again

I agree with your Californication as well, TC.

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For me, it's also gotta be High Violet by The National. I'm a little wary of putting this down, only because for one of the tracks they've released a much better alt. version on the extended edition of HV (Terrible Love), but I think it still counts.

mexicangordo

Thanks for that recommendation, just gave it a listen,

Off the top of my head:

Plus I cant think of any horrible tracks from Legacy either,

yup

here are mine, i could listen to these albums all day. not one song on them is bad. In My Opinion

Mastadon-Crack the Skye

Four Year Strong-Rise or Die Trying

Yep. Great record, even though it's been a long, long time. Paul Simon's Graceland. Also, how do you post images?SuperWowie

you cant post them yet. you have to be level 3 to post pictures.

Very good observation about Funeral. Musically its not perfect, while I believe emotionally it is. You are correct, just about all the songs end in a "triumphant" or tempo change note. Une Anee San's, Crown of Love, Wake Up, Rebellion, and Backseat all do that. Its AF's signature thing but is rather redundant, they do so in all their albums. I think Une by far captures the best impact and emotion with the "She loves him, ca'mon give it to her" Its just the emotion that Win gives in his delivery, its so imperfect and technically "horrible" singing but he takes you to your child hood, using nostalgia to observes ones life as a kid. What a risk for a first album.

Reasons like that make Neon Bible my favorite. A lot of the songs end with the same triumphant feel, and one can say they are dragged on much more than they should but they end completely differently. Intervention, No Cars go, Ocean of Noise and Black Wave are incredible different with different level of delivery and impact. The Suburbs even continues that tradition with, Rococo, The Spwrall ll, Half Light 1, Suburban War.

mexicangordo

I love a good crescendo (it really works in Backseat's favour), but a complete shift is jarring to me. I think AF has to be the only band that I listen to that does that lol. But that can only say great things about them as artists.

Neon Bible is a great album, I might even like it more so than Funeral. The Suburbs is good as well (I listen to it on my Zune whenever I go to Costco, why, I have no idea) but it has a few songs that kind of diminish my enjoyment of the entire album overall. Love the cohesiveness of the lyrics and general feel to the album, though.

Thinking of albums that don't have bad songs isn't really saying much. There's plenty of great artists out there...

Megadeth's first four albums, and pretty much everything Death ever made.

Arcade Fire-Funeral- I wish some people would put the whole, "its indie, its pretentious" crap aside and just listen to music for its quality, not its fashion. The amazing thing about Funeral is that it never cared for any of that, it was to pre-occupied making the listener get the emotional message across. But the one thing Funeral does that rarely any album in history has done is that its incredible Pop like yet is deep and grandiose all at the same time. I really dare anyone tell me there is a single bad song in Funeral, the songs are so well woven together, its truly a great work of art that never tried to be.

I can go on and on, but I don't have time right now.:P The point I am trying to make is that albums with no bad songs can come from anywhere despite stereotypical belief

mexicangordo

Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Ballads, Blue Train, Dakar, A Love Supreme, My Favorite Things, Crescent
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, 'Round About Midnight, Tutu, Bitkes Brew
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil, Juju, Night Dreamer
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters, Takin' Off, Maiden Voyage, Mr. Hands
Camel - Mirage, Music Inspired by the Snow Goose
King Crimson - Lizard, In the Court of the Crimson King
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Ommadawn
Ozric Tentacles - Curious Corn, Pungent Effulgent

I could name TONS of them, but I'd be here all day. But here's a few.

I can listen to those albums back to back.

Proobie44

I wouldn't agree about Sgt. Pepper. I think Good Morning Good Morning is a pretty bad song.

You have to be in the mood for this one, given how its very African-influenced and some of the background vocals are awful(I Know What I Know) but it's very good to me.

For all the crap she's been given, I really enjoy this album and nearly every song could have been a single here.

I love me some grunge, and its more for the sound, which this album does in spades...

*insert Nirvana's Nevermind cover*

As does this one.

BTW, I don't neccesarily think not having any bad songs makes an album great.

Sure, consistency is a good thing in an album and an album with a bad song would undoubtedly be stronger without that bad song, but I'd take an interesting album with a good number of great songs and a few bad ones over an album that has just a bunch of good songs but no great ones.

There are probably a lot of albums where I'd rarely skip a song since I like every track.

[spoiler] American Football - s/t
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
Bad Religion - No Control
Cunninlynguists - A Piece of Strange
The Cure - Pornography
The Cure - Disintegration
Curren$y - Pilot Talk
Death From Above 1979 - You're a Woman I'm a Machine
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
GZA - Liquid Swords
J Dilla - Donuts
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Kno - Death is Silent
Madvillain - Madvillainy
Modest Mouse - The Moon & Antarctica
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nas - Illmatic
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Outkast - ATLiens
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
UGK - Ridin' Dirty [/spoiler]

I wouldn't call all of those perfect albums since there are varying degrees of good but none of those albums have a song I dislike.

BTW, I don't neccesarily think not having any bad song makes an album great.

Sure, consistency is a good thing in an album and an album with a bad song would undoubtedly be stronger without that bad song, but I'd take an interesting album with a good number of great songs and a few bad ones over an album that has just a bunch of good songs but no great ones.

GreySeal9

Agreed. Outkast's Aquemini is one of my favorite albums ever but I really don't like the track Mamacita so I didn't include it in this thread.

This.

This album always comes to mind when I think of albums where I like every song. :)

The Cure Disintegration....

The Cure Pornography

And...

Depeche Mode Black Celebration

Pearl Jam Ten

The Clash London Calling

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures

The Cure Disintegration....

The Cure Pornography

And...

Depeche Mode Black Celebration

Pearl Jam Ten

The Clash London Calling

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures

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Proobie44

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BTW, I don't neccesarily think not having any bad song makes an album great.

Sure, consistency is a good thing in an album and an album with a bad song would undoubtedly be stronger without that bad song, but I'd take an interesting album with a good number of great songs and a few bad ones over an album that has just a bunch of good songs but no great ones.

JML897

Agreed. Outkast's Aquemini is one of my favorite albums ever but I really don't like the track Mamacita so I didn't include it in this thread.

Aquemini is one of my favorites as well and I don't like the track Y'all Scared.

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