An album without a bum track on it

[dandanthebrightonfan]

https://youtu.be/8JIQJc8WU7U

 

[BBassic]

All three Cymbals Eat Guitars albums.
Johnny Flynn - A Larum

And Abbey Road. Obviously. Yes, even Maxwells Silver Hammer.

 

[mac04]

Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood

and another vote for Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

 

[timco]

A few that are close, but the winner is-






Hunky Dory - David Bowie





Yes, even Eight line Poem

I personally think Aladin Sane is a better more complete album....

Anyway all is subjective in what you consider to be good and what genre you are in to.

Whole albums I liked and still like to this day
The Smoker you drink the player you get - Joe Walsh
Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
Hotel California - Eagles
Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

there are loads more great albums that all of the tracks hang together in.

For those who have never heard the Joe Walsh one here it is on Youtube

 

[timco]

Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood

and another vote for Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

I would back all 3 of these and add clutching at straws also by Marillion

 

[jazz pancake]

Clash - London Calling, a double album without a bad track.
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, a single album without a bad track
Clash - Sandinista, a triple album with lots of bad tracks...of course paradoxically if the 12 best tracks were lifted out of the 36 on it, it would be an album without a bad track.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Kate Bush, The Kick Inside
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood

and another vote for Fleetwood Mac's Rumours

Would not argue with any of those three. Flawless albums.

 

[Garage_Doors]

Never mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols

Perfect album not a single bad track on there

 

[Bombadier Botty]

https://youtu.be/8JIQJc8WU7U

Massive Who fan here, but not a big fan of Quadrophenia and would personally struggle to classify it as 'bum track free'

 

[Icy Gull]

I personally think Aladin Sane is a better more complete album....

Anyway all is subjective in what you consider to be good and what genre you are in to.

Whole albums I liked and still like to this day
The Smoker you drink the player you get - Joe Walsh
Silk Degrees - Boz Scaggs
Hotel California - Eagles
Dark Side of the Moon - Floyd
Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis

there are loads more great albums that all of the tracks hang together in.

For those who have never heard the Joe Walsh one here it is on Youtube

I agree with all your selections but especially Joe Walsh and Boz Scaggs. I reckon I have probably played Silk Degrees more than any album I have ever owned now you've jogged my memory. It was only a week ago I listened to it in it's entirety last.

 

[Bombadier Botty]

Good call on The Lamb Lies Down

 

[Mowgli37]

All three Cymbals Eat Guitars albums.
Johnny Flynn - A Larum

And Abbey Road. Obviously. Yes, even Maxwells Silver Hammer.

I've never understood the hate for MSH. Not stand-out by any means but still streets ahead of rubbish like Revolution 9, Why Don't We Do It In the Road? facepalm or their version of Mr Moonlight.

 

[timco]

I agree with all your selections but especially Joe Walsh and Boz Scaggs. I reckon I have probably played Silk Degrees more than any album I have ever owned now you've jogged my memory. It was only a week ago I listened to it in it's entirety last.

Jogged my own memory listening to it now just after the whole of Joe Walsh such variations on both albums Planet Rock even played the Lido Shuffle the other week!

 

[Soulman]

For me, Songs in the key of life - Stevie Wonder and I Am - Earth Wind and Fire.

 

[Whitechapel]

Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid, m.A.A.d City.

The Streets - Original Pirate Material.

Lupe Fiasco - The Cool.

The Kooks - Inside In / Inside Out

 

[1234andcounting]

Either NSC is over-stocked with unimaginative old farts or there hasn't been an exceptional album made in the last 25 years or so going by this thread (the Paul Weller one about the only relatively contemporary one posted so far).

Not strictly true Botty. There is a sprinkling of the obligatory Radiohead and Arcade Fire,both whippersnapper bands to us grizzled ancients. Other recent-ish ones (recent being a comparative term) for me include

Tame Impala - Lonerism
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

 

[Seagull58]

Any Arctic Monkeys album.

But the third album doesn't have a good track on it.
The first two are spectacularly good.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Clash - London Calling, a double album without a bad track.
Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus, a single album without a bad track
Clash - Sandinista, a triple album with lots of bad tracks...of course paradoxically if the 12 best tracks were lifted out of the 36 on it, it would be an album without a bad track.

I have had Sandinista cut down to a double for decades & you're right suddenly it becomes a World beater. Maybe that was the plan, to leave nothing on the cutting room floor & let each of us decide!?

 

[Mowgli37]

If it wasn't for Seamus, Meddle by Pink Floyd would definitely be on here.

 

[timco]

I once downloaded a huge file called 1000 albums to listen to before you die.....must start soon running out of time!

Anyway some more modern albums that stand together as Albums with no really weak tracks

Hopes and Fears - Keane (lots of bands first Albums are cracking albums because they had years to produce the material)
Who Killed the Zootons? - The Zootons
Outsider - Uriah Heep
The Whippoorwill - Blackberry Smoke