Albums with no fillers whatsoever (or at least that what you think)

Wire - Pink Flag

The Eels - Beautiful Freak

Or obviously a track I just dislike altogether (xxpost).

R.E.M. - Murmur:

we walk?

murmur is a good choice. it's one of the default responses for a topic such as this.

new gold dream (81 blah blah blah) by simple minds is another one that instantly springs to mind.

and actually, i was listening to secret treaties by blue oyster cult earlier today and i decided that i think every track is great. kinda strange given that i've heard it described as "wildly erratic and patchy" or somesuch.

but yeah, there are tons of these albums. i wonder if the criteria is that the albums be of an even strong quality or whether varying degrees of good still counts?

and 'we walk' is fucking sweet.

"Secret Treaties" OTM

Even the reissue with the bonus tracks, all the bonus tracks are perfect too.

word.

Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

we walk?

I honestly really like 'We Walk', the melody's great.

In Utero

technique

Alien Lanes

You Am I - Hi Fi Way
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Henry's Dream
Pearl Jam - No Code
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera, also Dirty South

Debut albums tend to be good this way -- tight, no-filler mission statements. I'd add first albums by the Specials, Laurie Anderson, King Crimson, and the B-52s.

Also: E. Costello Get Happy!!; The Band s/t; Eno's four vocal albums in the 1970s; R&L Thompson, I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight; Material, Memory Serves

no filler on no code? very interesting.

the Who, Live At Leeds
The Clash (US version)
Funkadelic, Maggot Brain
Green's incomparable debut album
Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced?
Miles Davis, Get Up With It

The Bends

I love filler. A good album, like a good sausage, needs some cheap breadcrumbs and fat to bring out the meat and seasoning flavours. Aren't the ambient tracks on Another Green World, beautiful and memorable as they are, kind of the definition of perfect filler? They are to me, and that's one of my favourite ever records.

Trying to think of a pun on Thriller, but I'd forgotten about "The Girl is Mine".

Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Ween - The Mollusk

Live at Leeds -- I always considered "Magic Bus" filler, even on the original 6-song version of the album.

Is Exile on Main Street considered a double album? To me, it has no filler.

Drive By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera

You like the Rob Malone songs on SRO??

Pretty much every album I've heard has the ol filler, even my favs. Maybe Isn't Anything and the Menomena album Friend and Foe

Possibly The Mordern Dance too.

Synchronicity (though it took years for "Mother" not to be filler).

Nebraska

i don't think 'mother' could ever count as filler -- it is actively . . . something

Pretty sure there's some filler on FMac's Tusk, but even those tracks are better than 99.99% of recorded music, so...

I often end up liking the filler in the end. It's usually more representative of the sound of the band than the big lead single for one thing. Been listening to side two of Nevermind a lot lately, for example.

Fun House

Disco Inferno - In Debt

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

billstevejim, I love the bends, one of my fav albums of all time featuring many flawless tracks...but no filler? i'd prob put "bones" and maybe "sulk" in that category.

kid a however is 100% filler-free.

Big Star - Radio City

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Randy Newman - 12 Songs
Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed (even Country Honk fits right in)

many xposts: Airport, yeah Malone's songs were big sore thumbs when I first heard the album, but now they don't bother me. I see your point though. I wonder sometimes what it would have been like with Isbell instead of Malone. Triple album, lol.

Al Green - Call Me
Bowie - Station to Station
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
King Sunny Ade - Juju Music

Good call on those four Alfred.

craziest thing... i was going to suggest radio city myself. then i remembered 'morpha too', which i love incidentally. but it's vaguely filler no?

Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

A much more interesting question would be long/double+ albums with no filler whatsoever imo.

None exists.

Was briefly addressed upthread.

Sign 'o' The Times comes closest.

Most of my picks have been ten tracks or fewer. Quality control is very important.

Whiney OTM upthread. I can't seem to find any filler on "Skylarking". Also not on "Odessey & Oracle".

Orbital - Brown, Snivilization, In Sides, The Middle of Nowhere

"In Sides" comes close. The others have plenty of filler. The brown one I tend to skip the beginning and start with "Lush".

Tim Hardin 2

MBV - Loveless
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin

usually applies for most concept albums, I think. Disregarding interludes.

Jason Collett - Idols of Exile

Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
(It's almost perfectly sequenced, too.)

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

aaliyah s/t

silver jews - the natural bridge