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I have a question for you NS people, have you ever had a CD whos tracks, every single one, you really liked? That is to say you like every song on the cd very much, your kind of music if you will.

Mine is Creedence Clearwater (Revival). I have never liked a band as much. You can listen to their tracks in any situation.

So whats yours?

Some albums off the top of my head:

The Band, Music from the Big Pink, Northern Lights/Southern Cross - The Band

Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Revolver, Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Picaresque - The Decemberists

Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

Kill the Moonlight, Girls Can Tell, Series of Sneaks - Spoon

i think the entire nevermind album by nirvana is good, that and nevermind the bollocks heres the sex pistols

Some albums off the top of my head:

The Band, Music from the Big Pink, Northern Lights/Southern Cross - The Band

Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Revolver, Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Picaresque - The Decemberists

Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

Kill the Moonlight, Girls Can Tell, Series of Sneaks - Spoon

Dude .. I love your taste in music :p

Venetian Snares and Speedranch "Making Orange Things"
Techno Animal "Brotherhood of the Bomb"
Sunn "White 2"

the story of o by damien rice

august and everything after by counting crows

two just off the top of my head, i'm sure i'll think of some more

American Idiot, Green Day

American Idiot, Green Day
O.o

Testament - Signs of Chaos: the Best of Testament
Testament - Days Of Darkness
Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory
God Forbid - Gone Forever
Iron Maiden - Best Of The Beast
Metallica - Metallica (the Black Album)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence
Alice In Chains - Dirt
KoRn - Issues
Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (yeah, all THREE CDs ;) )
Cream - Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream

on all of em, every song kicks ass - not one song i'd skip :)

I can give some favorite bands, but I cannot select favorite albums from among them.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Angels of Light
Akron/Family

Among many others. Music is a passion of mine, so I have a lot I listen to. These are just the artists that seem to spend more time in my CD player than most.

Nirvana - Unplugged in New York (although as it isn't a proper studio album it may not count...)
Franz Ferdinand - selftitled
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queen - A Night at the Opera
The Clash - The Clash
London Calling
R.E.M. - Murmur
Automatic For the People
The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady

Dude .. I love your taste in music :p

If you have listened to more than half of those albums, I know that I would love your taste in music.

The Smashing Pumpkins Siamese Dream

The Gathering Nighttime Birds

U2 Achtung Baby

there are many more. I love my taste in music!

Nirvana - Nevermind
Leftfield - Leftism
Massive Attack - Blue Lines
RATM - RATM
1 Giant Leap - 1 Giant Leap
Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
U2 - Rattle and Hum

All 10 out of 10 albums with not one filler track....you just wont skip a song...

Led Zeppelin I- for my dad and I (and probably a lot of other people too) its a quasi-religious experience. In terms of sheer album quality (making every track unique and memorable, but allowing them to merge into a unified whole), Led Zeppelin is peerless. While they are not my favorite band per se, I can't name any other band with such consisent output in the album format.

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols

The Clash - The Clash

The Ramones - Leave Home

The Ramones - Rocket To Russia

The Ramones - Road To Ruin

The Professionals - Never Saw It Coming

The Professionals - The Professionals

Rammstein - Sonne
Deftones - White Pony
Marilyn Manson - Holy Wood (except the weird non-song tracks)
The Pogues - The Ultimate Collection
The Clash - The Story of The Clash Vol 1

Oh yeah!

Public Image Limited - Metal Box

The Rich Kids - Ghosts Of Princes In Towers

Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American

[Futures by them is also very good, 90% great tracks and just gets better the more you listen to it]

Led Zeppelin I- for my dad and I (and probably a lot of other people too) its a quasi-religious experience. In terms of sheer album quality (making every track unique and memorable, but allowing them to merge into a unified whole), Led Zeppelin is peerless. While they are not my favorite band per se, I can't name any other band with such consisent output in the album format.


I cannot listen to any Led Zeppelin album without skipping at least one song.
I always skip Stairway to Heaven. That song is terrible.

Now RUSH on the other hand. . .

I can listen to Hemispheres and Test For Echo all day long. In fact I have.

American Idiot, Green Day

you should die

I cannot listen to any Led Zeppelin album without skipping at least one song.
I always skip Stairway to Heaven. That song is terrible.

Now RUSH on the other hand. . .

I can listen to Hemispheres and Test For Echo all day long. In fact I have.

ROCK ROCK ON my friend

Listen to these great bands-
Belle & Sebastian
Radiohead
!!!
LCD Soundsystem
The Shins
The Decemberists
Fiery Furnaces
The Cure
The Dandy Warhols
The Flaming Lips
The Futureheads
The Go! Team
Iron & Wine
Kaiser Chiefs
Moving Units
The New Pornographers
The Wrens
The Velvet Underground

Led Zeppelin I- for my dad and I (and probably a lot of other people too) its a quasi-religious experience. In terms of sheer album quality (making every track unique and memorable, but allowing them to merge into a unified whole), Led Zeppelin is peerless. While they are not my favorite band per se, I can't name any other band with such consisent output in the album format.

its amazing but you must be one of a handful who have ever got the Led out

I cannot listen to any Led Zeppelin album without skipping at least one song.
I always skip Stairway to Heaven. That song is terrible.

Now RUSH on the other hand. . .

I can listen to Hemispheres and Test For Echo all day long. In fact I have.

Stairway To Heaven..Terrible Song???????? WTF are u on dude?

ANYWHO...

Btw, u guys left out one of the most important albums ever...

Led Zeppelin IV

My favs besides that is...

Metallica-Master of Puppets
Metallica-Ride the lightning
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
Cradle of Filth - Dusk and Her embrace
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin - Physical graffiti


....ALL TIME CLASSICS

G. Love, Blues Traveler, Dave Matthews Band
do you know them?

Nirvana- Nevermind
The Replacements- Pleased to meet me
Sublime- Second Hand Smoke
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
Joni Mitchell- Blue
Soundgarden- Superunknown
Smashmouth- Fush Yu Mang
The Roots- The Tipping Point


I'm not schizoid, I'm diverse.

Pink Floyd ~ Wish You Here Were
Dire Straits ~ Brothers In Arms
U2 ~ The Joshua Tree
The Jimi Hendrix Experience ~ Electric Ladyland

My four favourite albums of all time. Every song on each album absolutely fantastic.

My favorite album is the Poop Soup EP, by the Misunderestimated Amurricans, in stores sometime next year.

www.freewebs.com/themusa
(We're getting a domain name soon, we've only had that for a few weeks just to have something)

Iced Earth - Alive In Athens (yeah, all THREE CDs ;) )

<3 Iced Earth :)

Ayreon - "The Human Equation". Fantastic album. As are all of Ayreon's albums :D

American Idiot, Green Day

Pfff. If you like one Green Day song, you'll like them all, because they're all exactly the same.

Pfff. If you like one Green Day song, you'll like them all, because they're all exactly the same.

That's actually not true. A good deal of their songs sound the same; I'll give you that.

Pfff. If you like one Green Day song, you'll like them all, because they're all exactly the same.
Oooh thats harsh. Green Day don't rank amongst my most favourite bands, but they're fun and not that bad...

And great live.

A good deal of their songs sound the same; I'll give you that.

Yes, that's the point I was making, via use of hyperbole. Really, though, their songs sound so similar, that they needn't have bothered making more than a few. One of my housemates has green day on quite often, and to be honest, unless you notice the few seconds' silence, it's pretty impossible to tell when one song has stopped and the next one has started.

I wouldn't mind so much, but their one perpetually regurgitated tune is so bland that it doesn't bear listening to more than once anyway.

Albums I love every track of? Not counting hings like the DJ-Kicks series...

Mardi Gras .bb - Zen Rodeo
Mardi Gras .bb - 29 Moonglow
Mardi Gras .bb - Supersmell

Herbie Hancock - Headhunters

The Superpreachers - Stereophonic Sometimes

Björk - Homogenic

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Johnny Cash - American IV - The Man Comes Around

I'll just say it I LOVE

Korn
Tool
NIN
Smashing Pumpkins

Some albums off the top of my head:

The Band, Music from the Big Pink, Northern Lights/Southern Cross - The Band

Blonde on Blonde, Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

Revolver, Rubber Soul - The Beatles

Picaresque - The Decemberists

Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins

Kill the Moonlight, Girls Can Tell, Series of Sneaks - Spoon
I agree! Great taste in music! I particularly love the Decemberists, but I've never met anyone whose heard of Spoon before... they're definitely up there.

I have a question for you NS people, have you ever had a CD whos tracks, every single one, you really liked? That is to say you like every song on the cd very much, your kind of music if you will.

Mine is Creedence Clearwater (Revival). I have never liked a band as much. You can listen to their tracks in any situation.

So whats yours?

Metallica.

Weezer the Blue Album*
RHCP BloodSugarSexMajik
The Offspring Americana
Pink Floyd The Wall
Smashing Pumpkins Moonlight o starlight dawn til dusk(cant remember real name)
*New album yay!

Smashing Pumpkins Moonlight o starlight dawn til dusk(cant remember real name)
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a two-disc set, one disk "Dawn to Dusk" and the other "Twilight to Starlight". Is that what you're thinking of?

I've never met anyone whose heard of Spoon before... they're definitely up there.
I have!
Unfortunately, I don't have any of their CDs. I would buy one if I could find them anywhere.
:(
I think they've got some stuff up on Epitonic.com or something, because I have some of their tracks lying around somewhere on my harddrive.

one of the best bands in the UK right now are Biffy Clyro. theyre truly amazing. just saw them live as well.

other great bands include Radiohead, Metallica, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana and Muse. and lots more

Pretty much any radiohead or coldplay album...coldplay b-sides too.

Muse is great too, especially absolution.

Albums I love every minute of:

Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20
Cosmic Rough Riders - Too Close To See Far
Jimi Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love
Rory Gallagher - Etched In Blue
Orchestra Baobab - Specialists In All Styles
Ornette Coleman - The Shape Of Jazz To Come
Johnny Cash - American Recordings (don't make me choose which one)
REM - Automatic For The People
The 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' Soundtrack

Albums I loathe every minute of:

Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Travis - The Man Who
Radiohead - anything

Some albums off the top of my head:

The Band, Music from the Big Pink, Northern Lights/Southern Cross - The Band


The Band! I need to see the Last Waltz again. In fact, that was a great album too.

Add
Working Man's Dead -- The Grateful Dead

ANY Kaizer's Orchestra cd.

Bands I hate and want to kill with a ball peen hammer.

ICP, Korn, Slipknot, Metallica, Green Day, Anti-Flag, Evanescese(sp?), or Avril Lavine(sp?)

I agree! Great taste in music! I particularly love the Decemberists, but I've never met anyone whose heard of Spoon before... they're definitely up there.

Yeah, I had never read a post that mentioned Spoon on here.

None of their albums really pop into my head when thinking of something to listen to, but I can listen to them nonstop, everyone of them.

Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20

Excellent choice. I heard "Moonshiner" about a year and a half ago, went out and bought that album, and it has been on steady rotation ever since.

Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

damn Phil could sing high back then..

I have a question for you NS people, have you ever had a CD whos tracks, every single one, you really liked? That is to say you like every song on the cd very much, your kind of music if you will.

Mine is Creedence Clearwater (Revival). I have never liked a band as much. You can listen to their tracks in any situation.

So whats yours?

Rush - Every song they've ever put out I've liked. All 90+ of them!

Any album by The Young Gods. Probably my favourite band.
Also any early album (pre 1970's) by Miles Davis.
'Pre-millenium Tension' and 'Only Heaven' by Tricky.
'White Album' by the Beatles* ('Revolver would make it, if not for Yellow submarine!). You did say albums in which EVERY song was great. ;)
'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea' by PJ Harvey.
'Mezzanine' by Massive Attack.
'Reggae Greats' and 'Arkology' by Lee 'Scratch' Perry.
'Legend' by Bob Marley.
'Aenima' by TOOL.
'Machine Gun Etiquette' by The Damned.
'Independent Worm Saloon' by The Butthole Surfers.
'Debaser' by The Pixies.
'Chocolate and Cheese' by Ween.
'Ende Neu' by Einstürzende Neubauten.
'Hush' by Bobby McFerrin and Yoya Ma.
'Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots' by The Flaming Lips.
'Talking Book' by Stevie Wonder.
'At Action Park' by Shellac.
'Odelay' by Beck.
'Hot Buttered Soul' by Isaac Hayes.
'Ritual de lo Habitual' by Jane's Addiction.
'Weezer' by Weezer.
'London Calling' and 'The Clash' by The Clash.

I'll stop now before this list gets too long.




*I was tempted to do the Alan Partridge joke and say my favourite Beatles album would have to be their 'Best of'.

ANY Kaizer's Orchestra cd.

Bands I hate and want to kill with a ball peen hammer.

ICP, Korn, Slipknot, Metallica, Green Day, Anti-Flag, Evanescese(sp?), or Avril Lavine(sp?)

How can you hate the black album???

Led Zep albums I-IV
The Doors - L.A. Woman, The Doors.

Nirvana - Bleach, In Utero
Led Zeppelin - I, IV, Physical Graffiti
The Doors - The Doors, L.A. Woman
R.A.T.M - Rage Against the Machine, Battle of Los Angeles
Tool - Aenima
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Kyuss- Welcome to Sky Valley
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R, Songs for the Deaf

I can honestly say I like *every* song on these albums.

....
Bands I hate and want to kill with a ball peen hammer.

ICP, Korn, Slipknot, Metallica, Green Day, Anti-Flag, Evanescese(sp?), or Avril Lavine(sp?)

I really agree with you for most of those, except for Green Day and Metallica, although now Metallica is a sellout, and if I hear "American Idiot" one more time.....

But seriously, anyone who likes ICP or Slipknot should take their advice and kill themselves. Korn's songs are abrasive and weird. If I hear another song by Avril Lavigne I'm going to open the window and hurl my tiny red radio out of it onto the sidewalk.

Train of Thought-Dream Theater
Blackwater Park-Opeth
Tapestry-Carole King
The Odyssey-Symphony X
Layla and other Assorted Love Songs-Derek and the Dominos
Supernatural-Santana
Ballads & Blues-Gary Moore
Suzanne Vega-Suzanne Vega
Experience Hendrix-Jimi Hendrix
Somnium-Thou Shalt Suffer
Discipline-King Crimson
Come Away With Me-Norah Jones
Ba ba/Ti ki/Di do-Sigur Ros
Citizen Steely Dan-Steely Dan
Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven-God speed you! Black Emporer
Definitive Collection-Stevie Wonder
G3: Live in Concert

G3: Live in Concert
have you got the DVD too? is seriously so awesome :p

and btw, the rest of your list rocks (and gives me a few ideas... :) )

have you got the DVD too? is seriously so awesome :p

and btw, the rest of your list rocks (and gives me a few ideas... :) )

I have! It's amazing. First time I saw it I basically sat there gaping :p Hehe makes me laugh aswell, on the one where they're all lined up playing each other guitars. But seriously, it's just...wow. They're my Gods lol

Thanks :fluffle: you have great taste in music ;)

I have! It's amazing. First time I saw it I basically sat there gaping :p Hehe makes me laugh aswell, on the one where they're all lined up playing each other guitars. But seriously, it's just...wow. They're my Gods lol

Thanks :fluffle: you have great taste in music ;)
lol that bit was sweet :D
i also have one of Satch & Vai playing with Brian May, wich rocks :)

lol that bit was sweet :D
i also have one of Satch & Vai playing with Brian May, wich rocks :)

I know :D It would be fantastic to see them in concert. Heh, I also liked the part where it showed this guy in the audience doing all the fingering in the air lol
Wow, that would be cool. Oh, something you might like. Amazing albulm called "An Evening with John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess" Fantastic. Definitly worth checking out. It's more accoustic then DT but... wow. It's great.

I love all the Metallica albums.

Kill Em' All
Ride The Lightning
Master Of Puppets
...And Justice For All
Metallica (Black album)
Load
Reload
Garage Inc. (It's an album of covers, but it's still great. Has all the same covers as 'Garage Days Re-Revisited' as well as many more)
S&M (Symphony Of Metallica)
St. Anger

The Beatles
The Velvet Underground
The Clash
The Libertines
The Shins
The Sounds
Belle and Sebastian
Bjork

These are the few musicians that I can listen to perpetually without going mad.

Saetia - a retrospective.

Greatest CD ever, bonus points because it also includes their whole career, all 17 songs, on one disc.

How can you hate the black album???

It's a perfect case of how to overproduce an album. And the songs aren't nearly as strong as either, somewhere along the lines James turned into an angry, middleclass hick.

Old Metallica was aggressive but not angry, new Metallica sounds like it's trying to be angry, but not very well. If you want to be angry, play old school hardcore, metal doesn't work when it's angry.

Well, maybe some nu-metal, but nu-metal almost universally sucks for other reasons.

If you want to be angry, play old school hardcore, metal doesn't work when it's angry.

Are you suggesting that heavy metal is just an exercise in camp? Surely not.

Nevermind - Nirvana
Siamese Dream - Pumpkins
Turn On The Bright Lights - Interpol
Songs of Leonard Cohen
OK Computer - Radiohead
Queen Is Dead - The SMiths
Doolittle - Pixies
Andy Warhol - Velvet Undg + Nico
Knighthawks at the Diner - TOm Waits
Harvest - Neil YOung

Theres 10 off the top of my head... could think of way more though..

Oh I forgot 2 of my favourites - "A Collection Of Pop Classics" by Reagan Youth and "Relationship Of COmmand" by At the drive-in

Nirvana : Nevermind

Tenacious D : Self Titled

Red Hot Chilli Peppers : Bytheway/californication

The Killers : Hot Fuss

The Darkness : Permission to land

Greenday : American Idiot

System of A Down : Self Titled / Toxicity / Steal This Album

Songs of Leonard Cohen


I'd rank Songs Of Love And Hate above that one, to be sure. Songs Of Leonard Cohen doesn't really have any particularly duff tracks, but it just doesn't really match up to SOL&H over all - some of them are somewhat unmemorable, whereas the same can't be said for SOL&H.

Relationship of Command - At the drive-in
Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come

Golgothastan - YAY! Someone else who hates Radiohead...and here I thought I was the only one! :D

Anyways...albums I listen to without skipping any tracks...

Nine Inch Nails- The Downward Spiral
Fear Factory - Demanufacture (digipak - 4 bonus tracks)
In Flames - Colony
Tool - Aenima
Sevendust - self titled
Mudvayne - L.D. 50
A Perfect Circle - Emotive
System of a Down - self titled
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Stabbing Westward - Darkest Days
Machine Head - Burn My Eyes

I'd rank Songs Of Love And Hate above that one, to be sure. Songs Of Leonard Cohen doesn't really have any particularly duff tracks, but it just doesn't really match up to SOL&H over all - some of them are somewhat unmemorable, whereas the same can't be said for SOL&H.

Yeah you're probably right, but Songs of Leonard COhen was the first one i heard.. I have it on vinyl..its a sentimental thing..

Shape of punk to come is a great album by the way..

Yeah you're probably right, but Songs of Leonard COhen was the first one i heard.. I have it on vinyl..its a sentimental thing..

Have you heard the Famous Blue Raincoat LP by Jennifer Warnes - all covers of Cohen tunes with a couple of guest vocals by the man himself? Definitely worth tracking down if onlty to see how his earlier tunes sound with a full band orchestration.

Have you heard the Famous Blue Raincoat LP by Jennifer Warnes - all covers of Cohen tunes with a couple of guest vocals by the man himself? Definitely worth tracking down if onlty to see how his earlier tunes sound with a full band orchestration.

Yeah, also have that on vinyl.. its my Dads.. Not a big fan though.

I really agree with you for most of those, except for Green Day and Metallica, although now Metallica is a sellout, and if I hear "American Idiot" one more time.....

But seriously, anyone who likes ICP or Slipknot should take their advice and kill themselves. Korn's songs are abrasive and weird. If I hear another song by Avril Lavigne I'm going to open the window and hurl my tiny red radio out of it onto the sidewalk.

Hmmm, to clarify...

I hate Metallica post-sellout/St. Anger. <--- one of the worst albums ever.

How can you hate the black album???

Easy, it was the start of their slow descent into music hell. (not in a cool metal way, but a bad bad way...)

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet, Cross Road and These Days.

Some which haven't been mentioned

Tori Amos: Boys for Pele
Jimi Tenor: Intervision
Yann Tiersen

Easy, it was the start of their slow descent into music hell. (not in a cool metal way, but a bad bad way...)

Now, to see Metallica's slow decent into music hall, I would certainly pay money.

does anyone know the name of the song at the title of resivior dogs is? that songs is awesome. so are most of the ones of the soundtrasck too.

the song "mad world" from the donnie darko soundtrack also rules but i can't remeber the artist.

albums that every track i like.

The Roots - tipping point
Sublime - gasoline alley
nivana - best off i think.
barry white - grreastest hits ( you can't beat it)
Powerfinger - greastest hits or best of i don't recall( go aussies)

other groups i love but not every song inlcude groups like public enemy,r.a.t.m,depeche mode,jackson 5 , bob marley, bob dylan,sivlerchair, the list is nearly endless.

My favourite bands:

Tool
A Perfect Circle
Queens of the Stone Age
Nirvana
Iron Maiden
Slayer
The Datsuns (nz band)
8 Foot Sativa (nz metal band)

not listed in any order, would be too hard to list based on which is my favorite ::) <--yes, that is a guy with four eyes.

A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe
U2 - Joshua Tree
Led Zeppelin - I
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Audioslave - Audioslave
Staind - Break the Cycle
Foo Fighters - Nothing Left to Lose
Tool - ænima (except (-) Ions and Intermission are really retarded, but it's a good album.)


:: ) retard formatting screwed up my above smiley. Here it is hopefully not automatically formatted

All songs by System of A Down
Queens Of The Stone Age Songs for the Deaf
Strapping Young Lad (Need to like constant heavy metal)
Deep Purple Machinehead
AC/DC All Of Them
Shame on your all. AC/DC are the Kings of Metal and have not had a mention