Name a record without a single dud song on it.

The Stooges, Fun House
Yes, Close to the Edge
Frank Sinatra, In the Wee Small Hours, No One Cares and Sings for Only the Lonely
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here

Heptones - On Top
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
Delroy Wilson - Good All Over
Sunny Ade - Juju Music
Larry Marshall - Presenting Larry Marshall
Burnt Batch - The Produce Aisle

Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit

Granted there are only two songs on that one.

Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left (I'm sure Drake fans will all argue over which of his studio albums is the one that is flawless - this is mine)

The Dreaming

sandie shaw -- reviewing the situation
x-ray spex -- germfree adolescents
sly -- there's a riot going on
manic street preachers -- the holy bible

Fugazi - 13 Songs
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Fugazi - End Hits
Fugazi - The Argument

sly -- there's a riot going on

I was gonna say this too but I was afraid of getting mocked!

Broken Social Scene - You forgot it in people

Arcade Fire - Funeral

(ducks)

to the nameless dead still the best record in this thread

Fiery Furnaces - Bitter Tea

(ducks again)

(I'm actually serious I'm listening to it right now and it sounds perfect but it's 3am)

Oh I got another one:

The Books - Lost and Safe

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

(Should I keep ducking?)

I guess Fiery Furnaces qualifies, in that all the songs are duds.

Haha I can't explain why I love them so much nowadays, whenI used to hate them with passion. You can blame Matthew Perpetua. I remember giving them a chance because he was always raving about them. I think the first song that hooked me was "Waiting to know you" reminded me strongly of another song from the 60's I love: Irma Thomas "anyone who knows what love is.

I love her voice but I know the quirkyness in the lyrics and the music is too much to handle most of the time. If it helps, they keep bouncing between endearing and embarassing for me.

Panda Bear - Person Pitch

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:00 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed. also Feels by the ac

Fugazi - 13 Songs
Fugazi - Repeater
Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing
Fugazi - In on the Kill Taker
Fugazi - Red Medicine
Fugazi - End Hits
Fugazi - The Argument
― JRN, Monday, September 21, 2015 10:07 PM (Yesterday)

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No duds on the 3 Songs EP, Furniture EP, or the demo, either.

hahahahaha

Now for my big closer: no duds on Instrument Soundtrack!

i will agree with that since guy p doesnt say anything on it.

ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Associates - Sulk
New Order - Technique
Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise
Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
Television - Marquee Moon
Prince - Dirty Mind
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Broadcast - Tender Buttons
Cameo - Word Up
David Bowie - Station To Station
The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
The Blue Nile - Hats
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
John Foxx - Metamatic
Gang Starr - Moment Of Truth
Britney Spears - Blackout
Insides - Euphoria
Aaliyah - Aaliyah
Duran Duran - Rio
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Supergrass - In It For The Money
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Susanne Sundfør - Ten Love Songs
Suede - Dog Man Star

Sleep - Dopesmoker
William Basinski — El Camino Real

us maple - talker

in the aeroplane over the sea

kanye west - graduation

Van Morrison - Moondance

Hounds of Love

Depeche Mode - Violator
Metallica - Master of Puppets

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Monday, September 21, 2015 10:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM (x2)

Van Morrison - Moondance

No way, but Astral Weeks fits.

No way, but Astral Weeks fits

nah, Beside You fucks the vibe up track two. Moondance is perfect all the way through. Forget how many times you heard the song Moondance on the radio, that thing was magic once upon a time. It still is. The album is as good as it gets.

close to the edge

Stone Roses s/t

The Very Best Of Des O'Connor

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Abbey Road features a dud medley instead.

Abbey Road features a dud medley instead.

― Vic Perry, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 5:59 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The Beatles - Revolver and Stevie Wonder - Innervisions are my go-tos for this. checked out all these threads and agreed with many of the selections. I realized The Spinners - Mighty Love fits the bill for me too. also just remembered The Meters - Rejuvenation is another love 'em all.

revolver and hard day's night are the only beatles albums that fit this category for me. maybe past masters vol. 1, but the german-language songs are a bit distracting.

same for me though "When I Get Home" seems a more negligible cut (than tuthers) on A Hard Day's Night. I still like it though!

reading the two currently active threads on this topic I realized that ~ peaks and troughs be damned ~ the perfect albums (as opposed to but certainly overlapping with personal faves) are ones where there's not a cut you love a fair bit less than the others.

this thread allows for a lot more leeway, since lots of albums have no outright duds, but the other open thread great from start to finish
requires that all cuts be better than adequate.

for me this excludes Wire - 154 cos I like "Once Is Enough" a lot less than the other cuts (though it's fun to see the live video of it) and to be honest there are a handful of tracks I like a lot more than the others.

also, Talking Heads - Remain In Light, absolutely LOVE all of side one plus "Once In A Lifetime" and "Seen And Not Seen", but merely like or slightly meh about the other 3 side B cuts, which I understand are some people's faves...

I agree, plenty of albums have no duds, which doesn't even necessarily make them great albums.

"Once is Enough" is insane! wwwoooooooooaaaahhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHHHHH and all that metallic clatter. "My advice is simple." That last song though, whatever it's called, I find it as boring as most of those kinds of experiments to actually listen to regularly.

I enshrine More Songs About Buildings & Food, not a single wasted second, completely satisfying unified start to finish sonic experience.

x-post bit:
still, I like the bassline/rhythm of "Houses In Motion" and the music of "Listening Wind". but "The Great Curve" and "Once In A Lifetime" really jump out from that record for me.

post-Vic:
so as you say I find the previous (all 3?) albums more steadily strong start to finish.

"40 Versions" has a great Bruce Gilbert lyrical content/concept though - presumably about the diverse potential personalities that exist in us all (well, most of us...). there's that line inspired by Castenada about reality existing in the spaces between things. probably sounds best on headphones or cranked up because of the production effects. one of 154's flaws is it tends to dazzle the head instead of stick in the heart. it still took over my life for a year or two.

I only heard 154 for the first time about six years ago, and I've been content to just slowly warm up to it. I've liked it the most when I'm traveling somewhere new.

Let's see. I think 77 has some trivial junk, but I always love to hear "New Feeling" "Book I Read" "Pulled Up" and probably some more too. But "First Week, Last Week" and "Who Is It" are so forgettable, "No Compassion" is ordinary (complete with a dumb false ending), and most of all I Always Hated that "Psycho Killer" is permanently considered a major TH song, to this damn day!! something every writing on them just has to mention. When I was a teenager I thought "Don't Worry About the Government" was a profound statement but now I think it's warmed over, bubblegummed Jonathan Richman. I don't get why they left better songs like "Clean Break" and "Love Goes to Building on Fire" off their first album, but I'm not sorry they did.

Fear of Music, Side One is unassailable. As with MSAB&F, I love every second, it's a masterpiece, it's like nothing else on earth, etc. Side Two is pretty great (and is also like nothing else) but over the years "Drugs" and "Animals" and "Air" have slipped for me as listening experiences, and of course there's "Electric Guitar" which I have a soft spot for, but it's still kinda not quite.

Um, Remain in Light. I nod sometimes during side one (songs one and three) and more often on side two (after the undeniable Once In A Lifetime). Huge downturn in ambition with the lyrics. (Once in a Lifetime excepted). Musically I prefer the less well-regarded My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

but Astral Weeks fits ...

nah, Beside You fucks the vibe up track two.

OTM.

sign O the times (changed my mind about "the cross" earlier this year)

Revolver is mostly great but it has that yellow turdmarine song that disqualifies it also that Harrison song which is perhaps his least memorable tune ever written, I cant remember its name even. Ditto for Abbey Road with Maxwell Silver Hammer. It's fine if you like them but they stand out like a sore thumb in otherwise great albums.

xp "the cross" is an amazing track!