12 Albums with no skip tracks (solid from start to finish)

This has probably been done before (and if it has, someone point me to the thread). The challenge is to list a dozen albums with no "skip tracks" - a solid album from start to finish. The album can be a regular studio album, an E.P., a live album, or even a compilation record. You can go classical if you like, but that's not really what I have in mind.

There are more, but here are a few of mine that come to mind (in no particular order):

1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. The Beatles - Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club
3. Rush - Moving Pictures
4. Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
5. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
6. U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky (Live)
   
7. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
8. Pink Martini - Sympathique
9. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
10. Talking Heads - Stop Making Senses
11. Stan Getz & João Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
12. Boston - S/T

I could probably go on. What are some of yours?

 

The entire Beatles catalog except for the "White Album" where we all skip "Revolution 9".

(Obligatory Beatles post is now out of the way ... and correct)

 

LOL, nice to start with an exception. But kudos for mentioning the beatles first

 

Moving Pictures? Witch Hunt is dreadful, IMO. I don't like thinking of jazz albums for this, because I have hundreds of jazz albums and only a small minority have tracks I'd actually skip.

 

Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
David Bowie - Station To Station
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
The Clash - London Calling
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Wilco - Being There
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Nick Drake - Bryter Later
Can - Future Days
Steely Dan - Aja
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

 

Sgt. Pepper has at least 3 skippable songs.

 

Ha ha!

 

I love Witch Hunt.

 

Some GREAT choices in there. Marvin Gaye!!! - The Clash - Nick Drake - and a couple I don't know.

 

Two of the first ones to pop into my head. An additional 10 for me would be:

Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique (I wouldn't count tracks like "5 Piece Chicken Dinner")
Built To Spill - Keep It Like A Secret
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Fugazi - Repeater
Green Day - Dookie
Mr. Bungle - Mr. Bungle
Nirvana - Nevermind
Oingo Boingo - Only A Lad
Ween - The Mollusk
Weezer - Blue Album

 

I honestly only know one song by Oingo Boingo (guess which one) and I don't know many of the albums on your list, but Nirvana certainly belongs.

 

Who skips tracks??? What's that all about??

I didn't spend £10 on a CD to skip half of it. If I need to skip some of it then its classed as a not very good album and needs to leave my collection

 

Decisive! The album is perfect or it's out!!!

 

The Who - Who's Next
John Entwistle - Smash Your Head Against the Wall
The Pretty Things - Parachute
The James Gang - Rides Again
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel
Steppenwolf - For Ladies Only
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Maddy Prior - Arthur the King
John Wesley Harding - The Man With No Shadow
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief

 

Apparently you (the generic "you", not you) only need to skip "Revolution #9" on that Beatles album. I don't skip it though, it still fascinates me.

 

The Who ‘Who’s Next’
Alejandro Escovedo ‘A Man Under The Influence’
Bob Dylan ‘Blood On The Tracks’
Decemberists ‘Picaresque’
Free ‘Fire and Water’
Grateful Dead ‘American Beauty’

Jayhawks ‘Hollywood Town Hall’
Joni Mitchell ‘Court and Spark’
The Kinks ‘We Are The Village Green Preservation Society’
Neil Young ‘On The Beach’
Rickie Lee Jones ‘s/t’
Uncle Tupelo ‘Anodyne’

I have a few others on standby by am keeping within OP’s parameters.

 

Look's like a couple of votes for "Who's Next" which I heartily endorse. "American Beauty" is another great one. I could probably name a couple more Decemberists albums that fit the criteria!

 

Feel free to name more if you like - it's only for fun and sharing the love of music.

 

Purple Rain: Prince & The Revolution
Born To Run: Bruce Springsteen
Alive!: Kiss
Sticky Fingers: The Rolling Stones
Heaven Tonight: Cheap Trick
Rocks: Aerosmith
Too Fast For Love: Motley Crue
Pyromania: Def Leppard
What Time Is It?: The Time
Van Halen: Van Halen
Ramonesmania: The Ramones
Live And Dangerous: Thin Lizzy

 

Another list containing many albums I don't know. Interesting stuff!

 

Somebody likes late 70's / early 80's rock...

 

And what three would that be?
And if one of them is 'Within You Without You' I'm putting ya on my ignore list!

 

this will end up being a list of everyone's favorite albums

With that in mind and the first unskippable one that comes to mind? "Let England Shake"

 

Well you got one of them right. Guess the other two.

 

You've never heard "Liege and Lief"?

you're dead to me. Get crackin