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...and Led Zeppelin IV
In that case we gotta add Steve Harley & The Cockney Rebels with their albums for the period 1973-1975:
The Human Menagerie
The Psychomodo
The best years of our lives
(I listened a lot to Steve, Supertramp and Queen those years..both live and on records)
2 1 2 0
Salt of the Earth IS WITHOUT DOUBT A MASTERPIECE. From the Stones, in this era, it is just so brilliantly ON
Rod
I take the criterium to be every song a masterpiece rather than that much vaguer term "classic". Then the prime candidates to meet it from the Stones or the Beatles perhaps ought to be, not saying that the former necessarily is the best album of the Stones, STICKY FINGERS and REVOLVER. How much that I love and like STICKY FINGERS or John Lennon's four psychedelic songs (and really like so many other songs) on REVOLVER, I doubt that any song on those two albums may be seen as a masterpiece. And that was the proposed claim.
Without surveying other candidates, I suppose that albums, which should be evaluated to contain only masterpieces, are hard to find.
True. Such and album will work, though, if the flow is there and the collection is one with songs that go well together.
Those two songs were not even the songs that I had in mind.
In case, very few songs, for instance, on REVOLVER would be masterpieces, because at least "Doctor Robert" to me is one.
Why?
Seriously! Lennons take on the drugdealer-doctor is almost above a masterpiece with it's odd song-construction...and Dead Flower..pretty boring to play but very attractive to listen to...
2 1 2 0
As one of four songs of grand Beatles psychedelia.
I like both, for different reasons, but I must admit I think they both pale in comparison with their companion songs on those albums.
Doctor Robert, a masterpiece? Well, to each his own...
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Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
MrBobMartini
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Date: September 30, 2015 01:19
Faces- Ooh La La
B.B. King- Live at the Regal
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B.B. King- Live at the Regal
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-09-30 01:20 by MrBobMartini.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
TheBlockbuster
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Date: September 30, 2015 01:56
Neil Young - Harvest
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Dream Theater - Awake
The Who - Who's Next
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Shinedown - Us And Them
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Faces - Ooh La La
The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Dream Theater - Awake
The Who - Who's Next
Pearl Jam - Vs.
Shinedown - Us And Them
The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
Faces - Ooh La La
The Rolling Stones - Bridges To Babylon
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
dmay
()
Date: September 30, 2015 02:11
Some additions to my prior list which I somehow overlooked.
B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds
Charlie Rich - Pictures and Paintings
B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds
Charlie Rich - Pictures and Paintings
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
kammpberg
()
Date: September 30, 2015 02:46
A lot of great posts here on "amazing - classic albums", but the original post said where EVERY song is a masterpiece. Exile, London Calling and others listed are among my all time favorite albums and they flow as a perfect album, but not every song is a masterpiece. There are very few albums like that.
I would pick Sticky Fingers. Someone asked about Bowie and i'm a huge Bowie fan but the closest he comes to this would be Ziggy Stardust album. I'd also put in Quadrophenia and Dark Side Of The Moon. First Pretenders album is close as is the first Cars album........Any Dire Straits fan's out there? Brothers In Arms? Making Movies?
I would pick Sticky Fingers. Someone asked about Bowie and i'm a huge Bowie fan but the closest he comes to this would be Ziggy Stardust album. I'd also put in Quadrophenia and Dark Side Of The Moon. First Pretenders album is close as is the first Cars album........Any Dire Straits fan's out there? Brothers In Arms? Making Movies?
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
ROPENI
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Date: September 30, 2015 03:18
Born To Run......
"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"
"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Marhsall
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Date: September 30, 2015 03:53
The Velvet Underground 'Loaded', 'White Light/White Heat'
The Doors 'Strange Days', 'Morrison Hotel'
The Rolling Stones 'Let It Bleed', 'Beggars Banquet', 'Sticky Fingers', 'Exile On Main St.'
Grateful Dead 'American Beauty' 'Europe '72', 'Workingmans Dead' 'Live/Dead'
The Who 'Quadrophenia','Tommy'
The Kinks 'Muswell Hillbillies', 'Something Else', 'Lola vs. Powerman & The Money-Go-Round Part 1.', 'The Village Green Preservation Society'
Led Zepplin 'Houses of the Holy'
Jefferson Airplane 'Volunteers'' 'Crown of Creation'
John Entwistle 'Smash Your Head Against The Wall'
Alexander Spence 'Oar'
Johnny Cash 'American I-VI'
The Sex Pistols 'Nevermind the Bullocks'
Santana 'I-III'
The White Stripes 'Elephant', 'White Blood Cells','Get Beind Me Satan'
Nick Drake 'Pink Moon'
And of course, Each & EVERY song recorded by Robert Johnson & Muddy Waters!!
"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"
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The Doors 'Strange Days', 'Morrison Hotel'
The Rolling Stones 'Let It Bleed', 'Beggars Banquet', 'Sticky Fingers', 'Exile On Main St.'
Grateful Dead 'American Beauty' 'Europe '72', 'Workingmans Dead' 'Live/Dead'
The Who 'Quadrophenia','Tommy'
The Kinks 'Muswell Hillbillies', 'Something Else', 'Lola vs. Powerman & The Money-Go-Round Part 1.', 'The Village Green Preservation Society'
Led Zepplin 'Houses of the Holy'
Jefferson Airplane 'Volunteers'' 'Crown of Creation'
John Entwistle 'Smash Your Head Against The Wall'
Alexander Spence 'Oar'
Johnny Cash 'American I-VI'
The Sex Pistols 'Nevermind the Bullocks'
Santana 'I-III'
The White Stripes 'Elephant', 'White Blood Cells','Get Beind Me Satan'
Nick Drake 'Pink Moon'
And of course, Each & EVERY song recorded by Robert Johnson & Muddy Waters!!
"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"
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Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
matsumoto33
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Date: September 30, 2015 04:49
Animals - Pink Floyd
Live at Leeds - The Who
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Live at Leeds - The Who
Hunky Dory - David Bowie
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
its good to be anywhere
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Date: September 30, 2015 05:59
Stones-Let it Bleed.
Jethro Tull-Aqualung.
Led Zepplin- II
Jethro Tull-Aqualung.
Led Zepplin- II
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
FeelTheFire
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Date: September 30, 2015 06:07
Sticky Fingers
Exile
Blonde On Blonde
Blood On The Tracks
Brothers In Arms
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Exile
Blonde On Blonde
Blood On The Tracks
Brothers In Arms
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2015-09-30 06:10 by FeelTheFire.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
KRiffhard
()
Date: September 30, 2015 08:09
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FeelTheFire
Sticky Fingers
Exile
Blonde On Blonde
Blood On The Tracks
Brothers In Arms
...and Led Zeppelin IV
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Come On
()
Date: September 30, 2015 08:32
Frank Sinatra - Every album on Capitol and Reprise (1954 - 1983)
Frank Zappa - The Shit (everyone)
Amy Winehouse - Both of them
Elvis Presley - Each and every album
Miles Davis - All
John Coltrane - Yes
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Frank Zappa - The Shit (everyone)
Amy Winehouse - Both of them
Elvis Presley - Each and every album
Miles Davis - All
John Coltrane - Yes
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Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Silver Dagger
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Date: September 30, 2015 10:24
Love - Forever Changes
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Who Sell Out
The Who - Who's Next
And the Stones Big 4 for starters.
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Who Sell Out
The Who - Who's Next
And the Stones Big 4 for starters.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: September 30, 2015 10:25
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Silver Dagger
Love - Forever Changes
The Pretty Things - SF Sorrow
The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers
The Who Sell Out
The Who - Who's Next
And the Stones Big 4 for starters.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
marcovandereijk
()
Date: September 30, 2015 10:37
Crime of the Century by Supertramp should be mentioned too.
And does A Night at the Opera by Queen count as well?
Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away
And does A Night at the Opera by Queen count as well?
Just as long as the guitar plays, let it steal your heart away
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Come On
()
Date: September 30, 2015 11:16
Quote
marcovandereijk
Crime of the Century by Supertramp should be mentioned too.
And does A Night at the Opera by Queen count as well?
In that case we gotta add Steve Harley & The Cockney Rebels with their albums for the period 1973-1975:
The Human Menagerie
The Psychomodo
The best years of our lives
(I listened a lot to Steve, Supertramp and Queen those years..both live and on records)
2 1 2 0
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
bitusa2012
()
Date: September 30, 2015 11:34
Quote
LieB
or Salt of the Earth masterpieces?
Salt of the Earth IS WITHOUT DOUBT A MASTERPIECE. From the Stones, in this era, it is just so brilliantly ON
Rod
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
HMS
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Date: September 30, 2015 11:58
The already mentioned Supertramp´s Crime Of The Century and Pink Floyd´s Animals are a very good choice. Marvelous albums both.
Springsteen´s Tunnel Of Love strikes me also from start to finish. His last great album, imo.
Springsteen´s Tunnel Of Love strikes me also from start to finish. His last great album, imo.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Witness
()
Date: September 30, 2015 12:34
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keefriff99
We've been debating the last classic Stones album, and someone made the comment that a classic album requires every song on the album be a classic. I tend to disagree...
...but it raises a question that I don't know has been debated here: albums from the rock'n'roll era where EVERY song is a classic/masterpiece.
I'll start off with a couple of ideas:
Springsteen - Born to Run
Stones - Sticky Fingers
I take the criterium to be every song a masterpiece rather than that much vaguer term "classic". Then the prime candidates to meet it from the Stones or the Beatles perhaps ought to be, not saying that the former necessarily is the best album of the Stones, STICKY FINGERS and REVOLVER. How much that I love and like STICKY FINGERS or John Lennon's four psychedelic songs (and really like so many other songs) on REVOLVER, I doubt that any song on those two albums may be seen as a masterpiece. And that was the proposed claim.
Without surveying other candidates, I suppose that albums, which should be evaluated to contain only masterpieces, are hard to find.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: September 30, 2015 12:50
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
HMS
()
Date: September 30, 2015 12:53
Yes they are hard to find.
Imo, one or two "stinkers" or average songs on an otherwise great album do no harm. The great songs even shine brighter.
An album containing only masterpieces can be boring in some way, because nothing stands out really... just a thought...
Imo, one or two "stinkers" or average songs on an otherwise great album do no harm. The great songs even shine brighter.
An album containing only masterpieces can be boring in some way, because nothing stands out really... just a thought...
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: September 30, 2015 12:59
Quote
HMS
Yes they are hard to find.
Imo, one or two "stinkers" or average songs on an otherwise great album do no harm. The great songs even shine brighter.
An album containing only masterpieces can be boring in some way, because nothing stands out really... just a thought...
True. Such and album will work, though, if the flow is there and the collection is one with songs that go well together.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Witness
()
Date: September 30, 2015 13:01
Quote
DandelionPowderman
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Those two songs were not even the songs that I had in mind.
In case, very few songs, for instance, on REVOLVER would be masterpieces, because at least "Doctor Robert" to me is one.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
dcba
()
Date: September 30, 2015 13:25
I think we should retitle this thread "Albums where EVERY song is great and three of them are a masterpiece". Otherwise it's going to dry up quickly as there isn't a single album ever released that matches this criteria...
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
kowalski
()
Date: September 30, 2015 13:57
Albums that have only great songs from start to finish (while browsing through my discography)
Love - Forever Changes
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Lou Reed - Berlin
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Small Faces - Ogden's Nuts Gone Flake
Led Zeppelin - IV
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Radiohead - In Rainbows
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Pixies - Doolittle
Patti Smith - Horses
Velvet Undergound - S/T (3rd album)
The Who - Quadrophenia
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
The Roots - Undun
Clash - London Calling
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
The Stooges - Funhouse
Nirvana - Nevermind
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
Mick Jagger - Wandering Spirit
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
New York Dolls - S/T
Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks...
The La's - S/T
The Libertines - S/T (2nd album)
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
and probably dozens of others...
Love - Forever Changes
T.Rex - Electric Warrior
Lou Reed - Berlin
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Small Faces - Ogden's Nuts Gone Flake
Led Zeppelin - IV
Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Radiohead - In Rainbows
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Pixies - Doolittle
Patti Smith - Horses
Velvet Undergound - S/T (3rd album)
The Who - Quadrophenia
Them Crooked Vultures - S/T
The Roots - Undun
Clash - London Calling
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
The Stooges - Funhouse
Nirvana - Nevermind
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
Mick Jagger - Wandering Spirit
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Janis Joplin - Pearl
Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Jay Reatard - Watch Me Fall
New York Dolls - S/T
Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks...
The La's - S/T
The Libertines - S/T (2nd album)
Ty Segall Band - Slaughterhouse
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
and probably dozens of others...
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
ChrisL
()
Date: September 30, 2015 13:58
Besides all the great ones mentioned, I didn't see this one ...
Carole King - Tapestry
Carole King - Tapestry
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: September 30, 2015 13:59
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WitnessQuote
DandelionPowderman
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Those two songs were not even the songs that I had in mind.
In case, very few songs, for instance, on REVOLVER would be masterpieces, because at least "Doctor Robert" to me is one.
Why?
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
FickyStingers
()
Date: September 30, 2015 14:18
Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties
Montrosr - Montrosr
Montrosr - Montrosr
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Come On
()
Date: September 30, 2015 14:19
Quote
DandelionPowderman
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Seriously! Lennons take on the drugdealer-doctor is almost above a masterpiece with it's odd song-construction...and Dead Flower..pretty boring to play but very attractive to listen to...
2 1 2 0
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
Witness
()
Date: September 30, 2015 14:27
Quote
DandelionPowdermanQuote
WitnessQuote
DandelionPowderman
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Those two songs were not even the songs that I had in mind.
In case, very few songs, for instance, on REVOLVER would be masterpieces, because at least "Doctor Robert" to me is one.
Why?
As one of four songs of grand Beatles psychedelia.
Re: Albums where EVERY song is a masterpiece
Posted by:
DandelionPowderman
()
Date: September 30, 2015 14:27
Quote
Come OnQuote
DandelionPowderman
Doctor Robert and Dead Flowers aren't masterpieces, imo.
Seriously! Lennons take on the drugdealer-doctor is almost above a masterpiece with it's odd song-construction...and Dead Flower..pretty boring to play but very attractive to listen to...
I like both, for different reasons, but I must admit I think they both pale in comparison with their companion songs on those albums.
Doctor Robert, a masterpiece? Well, to each his own...
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