Favourite play-as-one-giant-song albums

Post by **Zaia** » 2005-02-04 10:48pm

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

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2005-02-04 11:18pm

The only album like that I have is Dark Side of The Moon...

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2005-02-04 11:27pm

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.

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-02-04 11:34pm

Man is Obsolete, erased, extinct.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.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-02-04 11:40pm

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.

IndustrialNoise · Post by **IndustrialNoise** » 2005-02-04 11:41pm

Tool - Aenima
Tool - Lateralus
Fear Factory - Remanufacture
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Green Day - American Idiot
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Tori Amos - Boys for Pele
A Perfect Circle - eMOTIVe
Nine Inch Nails - Broken
KMFDM - Adios

Meest · Post by **Meest** » 2005-02-05 12:00am

Any "Explosions in the Sky" or "Trans Am", nice super long epic songs.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2005-02-05 12:21am

Jeff Wayne's War of The Worlds. Every song has a similar sound and it's one long continuous track. Well worth getting.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2005-02-05 01:01am

Offspring-Smash. Just a great album.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2005-02-05 01:01am

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

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-02-05 01:08am

Symphony No. 9 in D minor Op. 125 - Ludwig van Beethoven

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-02-05 01:45am

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.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-02-05 01:07pm

- 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

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-02-05 01:13pm

Bah, most of the ones I'd pick are already mentioned. Though its strange no-one mentioned Sky Valley by Kyuss. 3 tracks, each about 20mins long. Great stuff.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-02-05 01:26pm

Lifemixes. Thats why they are there for

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2005-02-05 02:47pm

Absolution by Muse

All Change by Cast

Tyrannosaurus Hives by the Hives

Movie Masterpieces by Ennio Morricone

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-02-05 03:12pm

Portishead - Dummy

Audioslave - Audio Slave

Tool - Aenima

Blur - Parklife

All classic albums that demand to be listened too all at once.

Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba · Post by **Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba** » 2005-02-05 03:58pm

Pink Floyd- The Wall. Any time I need to take trip, that album goes in immediately after the Police.

Chmee · Post by **Chmee** » 2005-02-05 04:10pm

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.

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.

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.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-02-05 05:09pm

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...

salm · Post by **salm** » 2005-02-05 05:31pm

sublime - 40 Oz to Freedom

2000AD · Post by **2000AD** » 2005-02-05 06:42pm

Bryan Adams - MTV Unplugged

DocHorror · Post by **DocHorror** » 2005-02-05 08:20pm

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.

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.

Plus the opening monologue is greatly superior to the monologue on the trailer for the new movie.

Mitth`raw`nuruodo · Post by **Mitth`raw`nuruodo** » 2005-02-05 09:27pm

The Phantom of the Opera OST.

Tinkerbell · Post by **Tinkerbell** » 2005-02-05 09:59pm

Mitth`raw`nuruodo wrote:The Phantom of the Opera OST.

:pounces and huggles: YES! You win.

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.