What is the most front-loaded album of all time?

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Madness.

not of all time but MGMT Oracular Spectacular is about as front loaded as you can get.

Kevin OTM with Camper Van B's Key Lime Pie. First side is essential, and then after that it's ehhhhh.

I don't totally dismiss side 2 of SOS Band's Just The Way You Like It, but DAMN... those first 3 songs!

Forgot about this, which would have to be on the Mt. Rushmore of frontloaded albums...

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siamese dream

but 'desire as' is my favorite on steve mcqueen. do people not love 'blueberry pies'?

wish there was a sb feature for zing touch

despite years of trying to believe otherwise, i only like the first three songs on 'different class.'

Bowie, Low

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The Glands s/t

Follow the Leader

some of you are coming out with some wacky choices... Siamese Dream is anything but frontloaded.

Kevin OTM with Camper Van B's Key Lime Pie. First side is essential, and then after that it's ehhhhh.

Hesitating to get all Camper Fan Boytoven over here, but "June" (side B track 1) is massive.

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The Glands s/t

That's insane. The songs are slower on side 2, but there's not a weak song on the entire record.

Nite flights by the walker brothers

― broodje kroket (dog latin)

Nothing will beat this.

Scott Walker, "'Til the Band Comes In"

... Pulp even wrote a song about it!

"It's like a late Tom and Jerry
When the two of them could've talk
Like the Stones since the eighties
Like the last days of Southfork, ohh
Like 'Planet of the Apes' on TV
The second side of ''Til the Band Comes In'"

("Nite Flights" still wins tho)

Good call Tom on "Til the band comes in"! All the covers at the back destroy the glow of that wonderful 7/8-track first run

With the Beatles

Anal Cunt "It Just Gets Worse"

Horrible sequencing for such great songwriting

Doesn't virtually every album released after the CD became the dominant format qualify here?

Otherwise, "Tarkus" by ELP.

Couldn't give a fuck about anything on Surfer Rosa after Where Is My Mind

or the fuckin' die bit

SOS Band actually used to be like this for a while. Something about using very hot producer/songwriters for the first side, and then substandard songs written and produced by less merited folks for the second side.

With the Beatles

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, May 17, 2011 4:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Crazy talk. Everything from track 3 forward on side 2 is essential. .

the white album then.

Nevermind

Brick is Red, I'm Amazed, & Oh My Golly are all gems (demo vers. of Amazed is better)

Serious answer: Van Morrison, Blowin Your Mind

Also maybe Marquee Moon & the first Roxy Music album (<tho I love this all the way thru)

'Genesis'

Jesus Jones, Doubt

Robert Palmer, Sneakin' Sally through the Alley

Not feeling Key Lime Pie at all. I thought just about everyone loved "All Her Favourite Fruit" and yeah, "June" is great. "Come On Darkness" is an excellent closer, etc...

Two I remember from childhood also had the singles stacked onto side one. The non-singles, while never awful, were quite unmemorable:

Pet Shop Boys - Please
Crowded House - Crowded House (though strong through to the first track on the second side)

I'd say "Woodface" is more obviously frontloaded than "Crowded House".

I'd say "Woodface" is more obviously frontloaded than "Crowded House".

Possibly. Although "Chocolate Cake" seems an increasingly goofy opener with the passage of time, diminishing the effect on WF.

the Electrik Red album, much as I love it, is kinda frontloaded -- i listened to it on shuffle so often that it took me a while to realize that my 5 favorite songs are tracks 1-5.

Ted Leo has a tendency to frontload his albums, the best stuff is almost always in the first five tracks

i feel like the '90s was the peak of deliberate label-mandated frontloading -- so many albums where the first single is track 1, second single is track 2, third single is track 3, etc. (Soul Asylum's Grave Dancers Union comes to mind)

Most They Might Be Giants albums

Probably lots of 60's Motown albums.