Best Full Albums

[piscator]

Every track super strong. Greatest Hits shouldn't count. Live albums need great performances.
If you're sure we don't already have it, some description would be nice, I guess.

I'm going to go band/album, even though it's patently obvious in a lot of cases:

Pink Floyd/DSOM
The Clash/London Calling
The Beatles/Abbey Road
Jimi Hendrix/Electric Ladyland
Cannonball Adderley/Somethin' Else
Bob Marley and the Wailers/Exodus
Yes/The Yes Album
Led Zeppelin/Houses of the Holy
Pearl Jam/10
Dr Dre/The Chronic
Tom Waits/Nighthawks at the Diner
Van Halen/Van Halen
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble/ Texas Flood
Metallica/Metallica (The Black Album)



...Might have skipped a few....

[cronus]

Malcolm McLaren / Fans

The Jam / Compact Snap

Foretold In The Language Of Dreams / Natacha Atlas & Marc Eagleton Project

Depeche Mode / Exciter

World Party / Egyptology

Miles Davis / Aura

etc...

[piscator]

The Rolling Stones / Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers...The Mick Taylor era was really their Golden Age.

Eric Johnson / Ah Via Musicom
The Lumineers / The Lumineers
Eddie Vedder / Into The Wild OST
Tommy Bolin / Teaser
Neil Young / Zuma
Joe Satriani / Surfing with the Alien
Air / Moon Safari
Traffic / John Barleycorn Must Die
John Mayer / Inside Wants Out
Les McCann trio with Eddie Harris / Swiss Movement
Modest Mouse / The Lonesome Crowded West
Brad Mehldau Trio / Brad Mehldau Trio Live
Moby / Play
Shakti / Natural Elements
Wilco / The Whole Love
Nappy Roots / Watermelon, Chicken, and Grtiz
Slipknot / The Subliminal Verses
Phish / Farmhouse
Doc & Merle Watson / Doc Watson Live Featuring Merle Watson
Skinny Puppy / Greater Wrong of the Right

[pErvinalia]

Wolf Mother / Whatever their first album was called.

The Offspring / Ixnay on the Hombre

and yeah, I'd agree with PJ 10. Maybe also

Soundgarden / Super Unknown

The Tea Party / that one with the mainly black cover

I clearly was a musical child of the '90s (and by extension the 70s).

[pErvinalia]

Maybe also Radiohead / OK Computer.

[Rum]

Maybe also Radiohead / OK Computer.

Beat me to it. Possibly the best LP ever in my book.

Sgt Pepper is up there too, but it is getting seriously old now.

[cronus]

George Harrison / Cloud 9

More recently the back catalogue of Belle & Sebastian

Thomas Dolby / Retrospective

[piscator]

A strong concept or unifying theme, like The Wall or Bat Out of Hell should help include an album too.

At the risk of Godwin, I think Herbert von Karajan conducted the Berlin Philharmonic to the best recorded version of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1963.

[cronus]

Megadeth / Rust in Peace

NYSQ / Power of 10

The Best Scottish Album in the World...Ever

Slade / Wall of Hits

John Martyn / Glorious Fool

Ian Anderson / Walk into Light

Kirsty Maccoll / Kite

St. Ettiene & Everything But the Girl....complete discography....on random play.

[rachelbean]

A few from the top of my head...

Stone Roses / Stone Roses
Ocean Colour Scene / Mosley Shoals
Jeff Buckley / Grace
Public Enemy / Fear of a Black Planet
Amy Winehouse / Back to Black
The Clash / Combat Rock
Depeche Mode / Violator
Fleet Foxes / Helplessness Blues
Pixies / Doolittle
Trash Can Sinatras / Cake
Radiohead / The Bends
Weezer / Weezer

[laklak]

Looks like piscator and I share an iPod.

[pErvinalia]

That must be hard to manage. You live at opposite ends of the country!

[Tero]

Though DSOM was a cool concept, it was never my favorite Pink Floyd album. It had too much arrangement to my mind. I guess if I had to play a whole album, the several before that and Shine On You Crazy Diamond.
Of my teenage albums, Sgt Pepper and Cream's Wheels of Fire are the ones I wore out the LP grooves from. Strangely I could only afford the one LP Electric Ladyland of the UK release so I never got the second LP back then.

[tattuchu]

Best? I'm not qualified to say. I can tell you some of my favorites, although keep in mind that back in the old days it was normal for full albums to be high quality and have no filler. So a list of "Best Full Albums" could be a very long list indeed.
Just some of my favorites, then, off the top of my head...

Beatles- Revolver
Paul McCartney- McCartney, Ram
John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band, Imagine
Cat Stevens- Teaser and the Firecat
Al Stewart- Year of the Cat
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin- IV (ZOSO), Houses of the Holy
Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here, Animals
Yes- The Yes Album, Fragile, Drama
King Crimson- In the Court of the Crimson King, Red, Discipline
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Trilogy, Brain Salad Surgery
Queen- Sheer Heart Attack, A Day at the Races, News of the World
Electric Light Orchestra- Face the Music, A New World Record, Zoom
Kansas- Leftoverture, Point of Know Return, Monolith
Jethro Tull- Benefit, Minstrel in the Gallery, Songs From the Wood, Heavy Horses, A, Broadsword and the Beast, Crest of a Knave, Walk Into Light (Ian solo)
Cheap Trick- Cheap Trick, Heaven Tonight, Dream Police
The Cars- Candy-O
Rush- 2112, Hemispheres
Thomas Dolby- Golden Age of Wireless
Peter Gabriel- Games Without Frontiers
David Bowie- Low, Heroes, Heathen
Dire Straits- Dire Straits, Communiqué
Elvis Costello- first three
Gary Numan- Replicas
A-Ha- Scoundrel Days
Crash Test Dummies- God Shuffled His Feet, Give Yourself a Hand
The Smiths- don't know which one(s)
Peter Murphy- Deep, Cascade
Front 242- Front By Front
Kate Bush- Hounds of Love
Bjork- Debut, Post
Natalie Merchant- Tigerlily, Ophelia
The Sundays- Reading Writing & Arithmetic, Blind, Static & Silence
The Cranberries- Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?, No Need to Argue, To the Faithful Departed, Wake Up and Smell the Coffee
Nick Lowe- Jesus of Cool, Labour of Lust, The Convincer
Talk Talk- It's My Life, The Colour of Spring
The Strokes- Is This It, Room on Fire
Death Cab for Cutie- Plans, Narrow Stairs
Arcade Fire- Funeral, Neon Bible


Alright well that's enough for now. I have other things to do, FFS.

[Tero]

Tat, our Beatles fans are divided on mcCartney. A few hold for McCarney, most of us for Ram and then a bunch for Band on the Run. I think that one needed Helen Wheels, only on the US LP. It was supposed to be a word play on Hell on Wheels.