I often think about stellar albums. The ones where they’re really isn’t a skip-able track. Off the top of my head, these come to mind: The Beach Boys Pet Sounds, Collective Soul Collective Soul (blue album), Bush 16 Stone, and Green Day Dookie. What are some of your perfect albums?

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    Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

    Twin Fantasy - Car Seat Headrest

    Perfect from Now On - Built to Spill

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      +1 for Twin Fantasy. I haven’t listened to a lot of CSH’s discography but man that album… every time I hear a song I’m pulled back in and end up listening to the whole thing. It’s amazing how quickly those 15 minute songs seem to end.

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    i listen to a lot of songs from albums that have a lot of filler on them, but the one i always listen to straight through is born to run. thunder road is how every album should start, every side flip should be rewarded with born to run, and every album should end with jungleland.

    throw-in: the sound of three fans clapping to welcome thunder road was also the perfect way to start the live set.

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    I agree with a lot of what people have already mentioned, so I’ll add a few I haven’t seen yet

    • Turnstile - Step 2 Rhythm
    • Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence
    • Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
    • Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
    • Meshuggah - Obzen
    • Panic at the Disco - Pretty Odd
    • Fall Out Boy - Take This to Your Grave
    • Carly Rae Jepsen - Dedicated
    • Oso Oso - Sore Thumb
    • Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
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    A few of my favorite classics:

    • Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
    • Opeth - Blackwater Park
    • Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
    • Yes - Close To The Edge
    • Supertramp - Crime of the Century
    • Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
    • Genesis - Duke
    • Nektar - Remember The Future
    • Camel - Moonmadness

    And for newer stuff, I’d go with Anno Domini High Definition by Riverside and English Electric by Big Big Train

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    Radiohead’s Kid A has no filler tracks. Anyone who thinks Treefingers is filler is wrong

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    A few I can think of right now:

    AC/DC - If You Want Blood (maybe cheating a bit because it’s a compilation of songs from different albums, but it’s the best live album of all time to me and AC/DC at their rockingest.)

    All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker or Nothing A The Ideal (both albums warrant a full playthrough almost always.)

    Elephant Tree - Elephant Tree (my favorite album of the last decade)

    Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (although Elder keep getting better and better, and are ever more amazing live, this album has a special place in my heart)

    Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (masterpiece from beginning to end.)

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    • The Foo Fighters - The Foo Fighters
    • The Foo Fighters - The Color & The Shape
    • 65daysofstatic - Wild Light
    • Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones
    • The Weakerthans - Left and Leaving

    There isn’t a note I’d change on any of those albums.

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    “Gorillaz - Demon Days” It is like a story unfolding, where they really have fun with the music, and effortlessly meld through different genres.

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    Mew - Frengers Architecure in Helsinki - In Case We Die of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? Tally Hall - Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum The Strokes - Is This It? The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Nightmare of You - Nightmare of You The Fiery Furnaces - EP The Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder Memory Tapes - See Magic

    EPs Voxtrot - Raised by Wolves Locale A.M. - The Characters Miami Horror - Bravado

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    For more mainstream music, I have to put forward “By the Way” by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and “Demon Days” by the Gorillaz. For a slightly deeper cut, “The Protomen” (a.k.a. “Act I”) and “Act II: The Father of Death” by the Protomen. I usually jump through shuffled music or skip songs, but these albums are all ones that I can listen to straight through.