Albums you are compelled to listen to start to finish

I'm talking not necessarily about "great albums" but about the ones that you need to leave time because to stop before the last track would throw the universe (yours, anyway) out of balance and you're listening in the car you have to keep driving until you reach the end.

 

And I feel like I've done myself a disservice otherwise

 

High Llamas - Cold and Bouncy


Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night


Dressy Bessy - Pink Hearts Yellow Moons


Essex Green - Everything is Green


Of Montreal - Satanic Panic in the Attic

 

Every one, start to finish.

 

None. Love my albums but if I'm at my destination then the album gets turned off.

I may wait until the end of a song, however.

 

Born To Run
- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

 

OK Computer
- Radiohead

Probably one reason it's an album meant for listening at home, not really for getting physically from point A to point B.

"May the music be your vehicle" he said in a pseudo-semi-mystical-stereotypical introspectively smug and winky manner...

 

Yes! That's another one that I have to listen to from start to finish every time.

 

Some that, for me, were made to be heard uninterrupted...









In truth, most every (enjoyable) album is best heard uninterrupted, but the above are almost sinful to stop in my opinion! You either go along for the journey or you should just put them back in the sleeve and not even drop the needle...

 

I rareley skip a song. On the rare ocassions I do, I include a written warning saying ¨skip track/s 2 etc, mostly boring or pointless/endless intos/outros.

 

Forever changes

 

I listen to all albums from beginning to end.

 

The Cure: 17 Seconds, Faith, Pornography
CSN: Daylight Again
Zep: I, II, III, IV
Siouxsie And The Banshees: Kaleidoscope
Steely Dan: Gaucho
Destroyer: Kaputt

 

Most electronic and jazz music for me. Rock, pop, country, folk, etc I can shut off at anytime if the situation warrants it.

 

Even in the car??

 

I used to be hardcore like that, but lately don’t mind putting music on Random. Either a Band on Random, or all music on Random. I just don’t seem to have enough time to sit and play a whole album anymore.

 

No, not once I hit my destination. But when I resume driving the albums picks back up again where I left off and I then complete it.

 

Gotcha. I had a mental picture of some guy sitting in his car for 45 minutes because his OCD wouldn't let him get out until he finishes the album.

 

I guess I shouldn't say always. I'm sure there are times I don't but as a general rule, I tend to. I've been listening like that for about 35 years.

 

Abbey Road

 

Pet Sounds

 

Santana Abraxas
It deserves it

 

That's one of mine too. Also, Pink Floyd -Wish You Were Here .

 

Bruce Springsteen-The River. I listened to the whole album today.

 

I listen to all albums from start to finish. In the car I listen to songs.