Favourite play-as-one-giant-song albums
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Favourite play-as-one-giant-song albums
What are you favourite albums that are meant to be played straight through from beginning to end? You know, the ones that coulda/woulda/shoulda been one giant track, at least in your mind?
Here are some of mine:
'Wish You Were Here' - Pink Floyd
'American Idiot' - Green Day
'Songs in the Attic' - Billy Joel
'Close to the Edge' - Yes
'Kind of Blue' - Miles Davis
'In the Court of the Crimson King' - King Crimson
'Grand Slam' - Spiderbait
'Dark Side of the Moon' - Pink Floyd
'Boys for Pele' - Tori Amos
'Abbey Road' - The Beatles
'Try Anything Once' - Alan Parsons
'Worlds Apart' - Saga
'When the Pawn' - Fiona Apple
'Puzzle' - Dada
'Heavier Things' - John Mayer
Here are some of mine:
'Wish You Were Here' - Pink Floyd
'American Idiot' - Green Day
'Songs in the Attic' - Billy Joel
'Close to the Edge' - Yes
'Kind of Blue' - Miles Davis
'In the Court of the Crimson King' - King Crimson
'Grand Slam' - Spiderbait
'Dark Side of the Moon' - Pink Floyd
'Boys for Pele' - Tori Amos
'Abbey Road' - The Beatles
'Try Anything Once' - Alan Parsons
'Worlds Apart' - Saga
'When the Pawn' - Fiona Apple
'Puzzle' - Dada
'Heavier Things' - John Mayer
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One side of In-a-gadda-da-vida is that way but then it is one song.
the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A couple of songs from this album are always inluded next to each other on "greatest hits" albums and tend to be played together on the radio.
I don't own it but Queensryche's Operation Mind Crime would be one since it's telling a story.
the Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
A couple of songs from this album are always inluded next to each other on "greatest hits" albums and tend to be played together on the radio.
I don't own it but Queensryche's Operation Mind Crime would be one since it's telling a story.
By the pricking of my thumb,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks.
Man is Obsolete, erased, extinct. Fear Factory - Obsolete, in fact, all Fear Factory albums are like that, even digimortal, but obsolete sticks out in my mind.
Daft Punk - Discovery has an anime dvd that goes along with it with a whole story to it, that i heartily recommend to everyone.
...And Oceans - Cypher is one of those really amazing albums that when you listen to one of the songs, you feel compelled to listen to the other ones.
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us is an album that really works altogether, and it really amplifies the excellence of the songs.
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Kataklysm - Serenity in Fire
Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt - You cannot not listen to this album all at once, it's simply not a done thing.
Propellerheads - decksanddrumsandrocknroll
Slayer - raining blood - what...40 minutes of classic thrash/speed/evil metal.
Daft Punk - Discovery has an anime dvd that goes along with it with a whole story to it, that i heartily recommend to everyone.
...And Oceans - Cypher is one of those really amazing albums that when you listen to one of the songs, you feel compelled to listen to the other ones.
Chemical Brothers - Come With Us is an album that really works altogether, and it really amplifies the excellence of the songs.
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Kataklysm - Serenity in Fire
Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt - You cannot not listen to this album all at once, it's simply not a done thing.
Propellerheads - decksanddrumsandrocknroll
Slayer - raining blood - what...40 minutes of classic thrash/speed/evil metal.
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This is totally on the opposite end of the spectrum, I hate "Tommy", by The Who. Anytime any of those songs come on the radio I either switch the channel or smash the radio in a fit of rage, depending on whether or not it's the song that goes "Touch me, heal me" over and over again.
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Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds. Every song has a similar sound and it's one long continuous track. Well worth getting.
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Offspring-Smash. Just a great album.
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X-Ray Blues
X-Ray Blues
Abbey Road
The White Album
Sgt. Pepper
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Highway 61 Revisited
Achtung Baby!
The Joshua Tree
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
Before These Crowded Streets (DMB, guilty pleasure)
Kind of Blue
Chicago Transit Authority
Led Zeppelin IV
Appetite For Destruction
The White Album
Sgt. Pepper
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Highway 61 Revisited
Achtung Baby!
The Joshua Tree
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
Before These Crowded Streets (DMB, guilty pleasure)
Kind of Blue
Chicago Transit Authority
Led Zeppelin IV
Appetite For Destruction
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Each of Liz Phair's four albums (Exile in Guyville, Whip-smart, whitechocolatespaceegg, and her self-titled forth album.)
Jewel - Pieces of You
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Daft Punk - Discovery (And yes, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is very cool indeed.)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira soundtrack
That's really all I can recall at the moment.
Jewel - Pieces of You
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Daft Punk - Discovery (And yes, Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem is very cool indeed.)
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Akira soundtrack
That's really all I can recall at the moment.
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- Tommy - The Who - (bring it, Hemlock! )
- Another mention for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
-Abbey Road always seemed vaguely like a whole followup piece, especially the back end.
-Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues - a bit odd and not exactly excellent music all the way through, but a good concept album and Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin and a few other moments in it make the intentional-childish-music at the start worthwhile
- Another mention for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds
-Abbey Road always seemed vaguely like a whole followup piece, especially the back end.
-Days of Future Passed, The Moody Blues - a bit odd and not exactly excellent music all the way through, but a good concept album and Tuesday Afternoon, Nights in White Satin and a few other moments in it make the intentional-childish-music at the start worthwhile
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Absolution by Muse
All Change by Cast
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Movie Masterpieces by Ennio Morricone
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Wow, and I thought nobody else would even have HEARD this ... but it very definitely belongs in this list! Listened to it on a couple coast-to-coast drives and it was eerily perfect for that monotonous crossing of Nebraska.Gandalf wrote:Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds. Every song has a similar sound and it's one long continuous track. Well worth getting.
I'd add The Who's Quadrophenia to the list, and every time I put on Little Feat's double-live Waiting for Columbus, I end up listening to the whole thing. Elton John's Goodbye Yellowbrick Road is worth a mention here.
Zaia, love your list but I'd replace Try Anything Once with Tales of Mystery and Imagination.
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NOFX - The Decline (wait a minute, that is one 18 minute song...)
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (ok I usually skip part of "War Pigs" but close enough)
Led Zeppelin - I & II
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying
The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
Sarah Slean - Nightbugs
Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd come close, but there's always a song or 2 which breaks the flow for me. Maybe I need to increase my drug usage a bit...
Tori Amos - Scarlet's Walk
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Towards Ecstasy
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Black Sabbath - Paranoid (ok I usually skip part of "War Pigs" but close enough)
Led Zeppelin - I & II
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky is Crying
The Tea Party - The Edges of Twilight
Sarah Slean - Nightbugs
Dark Side of the Moon, Meddle, and Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd come close, but there's always a song or 2 which breaks the flow for me. Maybe I need to increase my drug usage a bit...
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Pssssh, i've listened to that almost every week since I was 8. I can almost recite the whole thing from memory. Its fucking brilliant.Wow, and I thought nobody else would even have HEARD this ... but it very definitely belongs in this list! Listened to it on a couple coast-to-coast drives and it was eerily perfect for that monotonous crossing of Nebraska.
Plus the opening monologue is greatly superior to the monologue on the trailer for the new movie.
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:pounces and huggles: YES! You win.Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:The Phantom of the Opera OST.
As per my choices, I don't really buy CD's..I...uh....accquire them legally... But either way when I burn CD's and make playlists I try to design them to sound like one big song. I love that feeling you get when you don't even notice when songs end and begin...
IMO, there are a lot of artists whose songs just blend together because of the artists particular style, so you could call these my 'one-big-track' artists, even if there is no specific album.
The Dresden Dolls
Rhapsody
Senses Fail
The Offspring
Blind Guardian
The Cure
Crossfade
More to come later as I remember them.
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