Albums that you enjoy in every way

[Miek]

Death of a Dead Day - SikTh

[dave_mc]

You two are the only people ive ever met that can listen that album. I'm glad im not the only one who liked it!

:lol:

:D

[blue]

(hand up)

i like Chinese Democracy too!  think it's a seriously high quality record.  it was just inevitable that, no matter how good it was, it was going to be a letdown after 17 years.  maybe this is the beginning of the backlash against the backlash!  :P

[Philly Q]

^

For me it wasn't even close to a letdown, it was about 100 times better than I expected - on first listen I would go so far as to say I was amazed!  But then I wasn't a massive fan of the band - I never even bought Use Your Illusion.

And I think some people just set against it because it didn't have Slash on it - which doesn't bother me in the slightest, personally.

[JacksonRR]

Every Primus album
Every Insomnium album
COB- Hate Crew Deathroll
Kalmah- 12 Gauge(the other albums get about an 85% though)
Every Arch Enemy album after Angela joined
Carcass- Heartwork
Sylosis- Conclusion of an Age
Amon Amarth- all of it
Rush- 2112, Moving Pictures
the entire Floyd catalog
Nirvana- Nevermind and Incesticide

[dave_mc]

^

For me it wasn't even close to a letdown, it was about 100 times better than I expected - on first listen I would go so far as to say I was amazed!  But then I wasn't a massive fan of the band - I never even bought Use Your Illusion.

And I think some people just set against it because it didn't have Slash on it - which doesn't bother me in the slightest, personally.

i really like gnr, but as i only really found them later after they'd split up, i probably wasn't as invested in them as some of the people who'd been fans from day 1.

I mean, I like slash, but it doesn't worry me that slash isn't there as long as there's good guitar playing (and good songs). I mean ron thal is a way better player than slash, imo.

and i'd agree... the fact everyone had been saying it was a letdown meant i was pleasantly surprised by it.

[Sancho]

I've only ever liked Appetite, really... :?

[plastercaster]

In The last 10 years:

Separation Sunday and Boys & Girls in America
The Hold Steady
Two of the best rock records of all time- great riffs, great songs and the lyrics are gorgeous.
They really work as proper albums too- the flow from the almost spoken word and organ of "crucifixion cruise" into the riff of "how a resurrection really feels" is truly sublime.

Elephant
The White Stripes
The guitar work on "Ball and Biscuit" is as good as anything by Jimi. Perhaps the earlier albums had better highlights (Raucous cover of "Death letter" and the menacing slide of "little bird" being great tracks off de stijl) but Elephant was the only one that was truly dazzling end to end (devoid of the uninspired rambles which punctuated their earlier work).

Funeral
The Arcade Fire
Intelligent and energetic. Perfect.

In Rainbows
Radiohead
Their simplest and most beautiful set of tracks to date.

Josh Pearson
Last of the Country Gentlemen
Well, it's country. And four of the songs run over 10 minutes. But they're sung with so much feeling; I've never heard a man sounds so sorry, or broken. I don't listen to it all that often but when I do I put aside an hour for listening to it end to end.

and Finally...
Whatever people say I am that's what I'm not
Arctic Monkeys
Or maybe it's just because I grew up with it. I love all of these songs. 2006 was a good year.

[HTH AMPS]

* PJ Harvey - Stories From The City....

Ok, so PJ Harvey's album is from a while back, but its just amazing so fu*ck it.

I love that album.  But struggle with some of her other stuff.

Yep, me too. I think Let England Shake is massively, massively overrated. More so than Exile on Main Street.

same here, all her other albums have flashes of brilliance - To Bring You My Love for example is an excellent song, but not so struck on the rest of the album.

[_tom_]

Every Time I Die - The Big Dirty
Blur - Blur
The Bronx II
Blink 182 - Enema Of The State
Touche Amore - ...to the beat of a dead horse
Fugazi - Red Medicine
GnR - AFD
Down - NOLA

All of those are "all killer no filler" type albums for me! Both song-wise and production wise.

[Ian Price]

In The last 10 years:

Separation Sunday and Boys & Girls in America
The Hold Steady
Two of the best rock records of all time- great riffs, great songs and the lyrics are gorgeous.
They really work as proper albums too- the flow from the almost spoken word and organ of "crucifixion cruise" into the riff of "how a resurrection really feels" is truly sublime.

Finally! I've found someone else who loves The Hold Steady! "How a Resurrection Really Feels" always gives me goose bumps as does "Killer Parties". Great stuff and a hugely underrated band IMO. I also love Stay Positive - another great collection of songs with a narrative to them that continues the theme from their other albums. Very clever writing throughout and songs with a real energy to them.

I'm not so convinced about Heaven is Whenever. I felt they lost a lot when Franz left the band.

[Frank]

Frank Zappa and the Mothers, Live at Fillmore East

A work of absolute undiluted genius from beginning to end, there's nothing even remotely weak on the whole album

[plastercaster]

In The last 10 years:

Separation Sunday and Boys & Girls in America
The Hold Steady
Two of the best rock records of all time- great riffs, great songs and the lyrics are gorgeous.
They really work as proper albums too- the flow from the almost spoken word and organ of "crucifixion cruise" into the riff of "how a resurrection really feels" is truly sublime.

Finally! I've found someone else who loves The Hold Steady! "How a Resurrection Really Feels" always gives me goose bumps as does "Killer Parties". Great stuff and a hugely underrated band IMO. I also love Stay Positive - another great collection of songs with a narrative to them that continues the theme from their other albums. Very clever writing throughout and songs with a real energy to them.

I'm not so convinced about Heaven is Whenever. I felt they lost a lot when Franz left the band.

I could have typed that myself! totally agree on all points.
Like the other albums, heaven is whenever grew on me after seeing it performed live but it's not up there with the first four. I LOVE closing my eyes and listening to any of the first three all the way through; reaching killer parties and being hit by a wave of innocence lost/nostalgia/ can't quite place finger on it. Such a powerful song! Likewise resurrection, as it fades out leaving just the glockenspiel... a really beautiful moment.

Agree on Franz too. The sound as a whole holds together but without touches like the run up the scale under "but she did and she got sick/ now she's pinned and way too shaky" on chillout tent and the pounding keys just before "we drink and we dry up and then we crumble into dust" in stuck between stations, they're missing a really crucial tool in their armoury. But I reckon that Heaven is whenever is a bit transitional, Craig Finn is such an incredible lyricist and songwriter I'm sure that there's more to come. If I ever write a lyric half as evocative as the middle eight in chillout tent I'll be very happy indeed.

[juansolo]

In the last 10 years (according to my iTunes tags anyhow):

Monster Magnet - Mastermind / Monolithic Baby! / 4 Way Diablo
Halestorm - Halestorm
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Judie Tzuke - Songs 2
Within Temptation - The Heart of Everything
Scorpions - Humanity: Hour 1
Riverside - Rapid Eye Movement
Clutch - From Beale St. to Oblivion / Robot Hive/Exodus / Blast Tyrant
Antimatter - Leaving Eden
Tool - 10,000 Days / Lateralus (just squeezes in)
Deathstars - Termination Bliss (trashy I know)
Iommi - Fused
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
For My Pain  - Fallen
3 Doors Down - Away From The Sun

[_tom_]

Forgot Tenacious D's self titled. Best comedy album ever!