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Originally posted by welsharnie
I was talking in a pub last night, and to cut a long story short, we started discussing albums which you could listen to in their entirity without feeling the need to skip a track on. (Some people may have lots, but i tend to be inclined to skip through a track I do not have a strong liking for, so find it is very rare I get an album I regularly listen to ...[text shortened]... s Don't cry: The Cure
Stanley Road: Paul Weller
Songs for the Deaf: Queens of the Stone Age
Lynard Skynard- all of them, especially "Street Survivors"
Ted nugent- "Strangelhold"
REM-"Monster"
All Led Zeppelin Albums
The Smitherens-"The Smitherreens"

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Enigma - 1990

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Originally posted by shavixmir
She's a femme fatale....la di laaa di laaaaa
I listened to European Son at maximum volume last night while cooking dinner. It was sweet.

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Why do you say that?
I dunno. I guess the percentage of songs I really like is much higher on Nino Rojo and Rejoicing in the Hands than on Cripple Crow.

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Hmm, how about a few unskipable albums from the past year or two, otherwise the list gets too big.

Boards of Canada - The campfire headphase
Bonnie'Prince'Billy&Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Emiliana Torrini - Fishermans woman
Gonzales - Solo Piano
Erlend Øye - Dj Kicks

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Originally posted by Starrman
I have two words for you biatch: Kelly Clarkson
Is that Jeremy Clarkson's missus?

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Originally posted by shavixmir
Rain Dogs - Tom Waits
Bone Machine - Tom Waits
The wild, the innocent & the E-street shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
Born to run - Bruce Sprinsteen
The Velvet Underground & Nico - VU
Live in Scotland parts 1, 2 and 3 - The Corries
The best of - The three Tenors, ABBA and Leonard Cohen
Live at the Beeb - David Bowie
Berlin - Lou Reed
If you want blood, ...[text shortened]...
Highway 61 revisited - Bob Dylan
Infidels - Bob Dylan
Jesus Christ superstar - The rock opera
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Zepplin IV.
agree with the ACDC though. That LP turned the worm for me. Baddddd stuff.

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Originally posted by dk3nny
Bonnie'Prince'Billy&Matt Sweeney - Superwolf
Say more...

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Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: David Bowie
The Hounds of Love: Kate Bush
Hot Rats: Frank Zappa
Rei Momo: David Byrne
Dog Man Star: Suede
Abbey Road: The Beatles
Synchronicty: The Police
Parade: Prince

(there are many, many more, usually when the tracks are segued and form the parts of a larger whole)

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Originally posted by Steve Exeter
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars: David Bowie
I'd say every Bowie album from Hunky Dory to Scary Monsters fits the bill, with the possible exception of Young Americans (still the only Luther Vandross I can listen to).

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A Night at the Opera by Queen
Flowers in Formaldehyde by Sopor Aeternus
Degüello by ZZTop
Toccata by J. S. Bach
Mazurka by Frederic Chopin
In the Court of the crimson King by King Crimson

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Originally posted by ETeach
2 pages in and no Page?
Zepplin IV.
agree with the ACDC though. That LP turned the worm for me. Baddddd stuff.
I've never got into Zepplin.
I like some of their songs, but they're nothing too great, if you ask me.
T-rex they are not!

I love Zappa, but he's not made one album that I don't have to skip tracks on. I don't like guitar solos. I like piano solos, sax solos, flute solos...but guitar solos (with the possible exception of the guitar solo on "Streets of fire" on Springsteen's "Darkness on the edge of town" album) bore the arse off me.

Donovan made some brilliant albums I can listen to all the way through as well as most of the first 7 by Dylan.
I never skip tracks on Sgt. Peppers, and if it wasn't for revolution nr. 9, I'd certainly have added The White Album as well.

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Originally posted by shavixmir
I've never got into Zepplin.
I like some of their songs, but they're nothing too great, if you ask me.
T-rex they are not!

I love Zappa, but he's not made one album that I don't have to skip tracks on. I don't like guitar solos. I like piano solos, sax solos, flute solos...but guitar solos (with the possible exception of the guitar solo on "Streets if it wasn't for revolution nr. 9, I'd certainly have added The White Album as well.
Dude, come on! Sax solos? You are even more of a mentalist than I had previously ascertained. Sax solos are like the night before your execution, spent in fear, loneliness and dread.

P.S. Bruce Springsteen sucks.

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Originally posted by Starrman
Sax solos?
You ain't hip to Coltrane, daddy-o?

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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
You ain't hip to Coltrane, daddy-o?
That's not what I'd call soloing. That's jazz-sax where the sax is the predominant factor of the piece. A solo in my mind is additional and tmeporary in a tune, to use for effect and dynamic.