What albums are meant for listening to front to back?

[Linas]

What albums are meant to be put on and listened to from the first song to the last??

If this topic has been covered, pardon me......

I'll start....

Heavy Weather
In the Court Of the Crimson King

[Mike Shevlin]

My first thought was 'KISS ALIVE' becuase at age 11 -it was the closing thing I had experienced to going to an actual concert.

[jimmyjammer]

Here are some of my 'no random play' selections:

Back in Black- ACDC
The Number of the Beast- Iron Maiden
Enema of the State- Blink 182
Exit Stage Left- Rush

[wagstaff]

Scenes from a memory - Dream Theater

Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence disk 2 - Dream Theater

The Ugly Organist - Cursive...

Concept albums basically

[iamthebassplayr]

Some of my favorites.


The Who-
Tommy
Quadrophenia
The Who Sell Out

The Beatles-
Sgt. Peppers

Pink Floyd-
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
The Final Cut
Animals
The Wall

Camel-
Snow Goose

[Matt Till]

Can - Future Days


With good headphones... LOUD.

[fenderhutz]

Pearl Jam - Ten

Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary

[steamthief]

Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

[Montsegour]

[quote=wagstaff;6412257]Scenes from a memory - Dream Theater

Man I love you for that one =)

Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
Audioslave - Audioslave
Wintersun - The only album they got

[Poor Tom]

I only listen to albums from first song to last. Of course I feel free to skip a song or two occasionally, but if there are that many songs on an album that I don't want to listen to, it obviously isn't worth having in my collection to begin with.

So my answer is: I listen to all my albums from first song to last.

[mimaz]

I tend to think of most Zappa albums that way, but "Joe's Garage" comes immediately to mind.

[René_Julien]

Almost every album from Ayreon.

(progressive rock with many new age influences, many different singers from various rock and metal bands)

I just love it.

[gnome_hunter]

pink floyd- the wall
its a rock opera, thats the whole point.

[mfgl]

Pink Floyd - Animals, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, DSOTM,
Queensryche - Mindcrime
King Diamond - most of the solo albums
Opeth Damnation, Ghost Reveries
Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain
Tool - Undertow, 10000 Days
Janes Addiction - Ritual....although been caught stealing doesnt fit.
Orange Goblin - Frequencies from Planet Ten
Rush - 2112

[scottice]

U2 - Joshua Tree

[emblymouse]

Spirit- The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Jimi- Electric Ladyland

[atheos]

Kingston Wall: III - Tri-Logy

Seriously. There's even no gap between the first 10 tracks but instead the complete songs (6 or so) within those 10 tracks are all glued together with FAN-TASTIC outro/intro tracks. And the remaining three are just as amazing pieces of psychedelic hard rock as the first 10 tracks. The trivially titled first two albums I and II are also equally awesome.

Mini trivia: Kingston Wall was a very Hendrix-influenced psychedelic hard rock trio from Finland, being active from 1987 to 1994. Their singer/songwriter/guitarist Petri Walli committed a suicide for unknown reasons in 1995. The drummer Sami Kuoppamäki and bassist Jukka Jylli are both considered as one of the best in Finland and Petri was an exceptional guitarist who could truly express feelings with his guitar playing.

Here's a live video from 1992 (it cuts in the middle of a song, sorry - not my video though so don't blame me):
Part 1 ("Shine on Me" + beginning of "I'm Not the One": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCZWb0-SPhk
Part 2 (rest of "I'm Not the One" + Hendrix's "Fire"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWVNn3R75K0

Oh, did I just over-advertise an Finnish band again? Sorry

[Baird6869]

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch-hiking
AC/DC - Black in Black
Crash Test Dummies - The Ghosts that Haunt Me

[dannster]

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

[UncleBalsamic]

Radiohead - Ok Computer