What is your start-to-finish disc?

[Jeff Scott]

Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells"

The first time I heard Tubular Bells was during the pre-show wait for Genesis to take the stage in the Fall of 1973, at the Allen Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. The following Spring, at the same venue while waiting for Genesis to, once again, take the stage we got turned onto Tomita's Snowflakes are Dancing.

 

[StringNavigator]

As a BP, I enjoy playing along with these from start to finish:

Paul Butterfield: Rod Hicks b.
Paul Butterfield Blues Band Live

Beatles: Paul McCartney b.
Rubber Soul 1965
Revolver 1966
Sgt. Pepper's 1967
Magical Mystery Tour 1967
White Album 1968
Abbey Road 1969
Let It Be 1970

Jethro Tull: Glen Cornick b.
This Was 1968
Stand Up 1969
Benefit 1970
Aqualung 1971

Booker T & The M.G.'s: Donald Dunn b.
Green Onions 1962
Soul Dressing 1965
And Now! 1966
Hip Hug-Her 1967
Doin' Our Thing 1968
Soul Limbo 1968
McLemore Avenue 1970
Melting Pot 1971
Stax Instrumentals

 

[Sonicfrog]

I know I'll leave something out, but here's my list at the moment.

Duke - Genesis
Play - Squeeze
Time And Tide - Split Enz
Bedtime Stories - David Baerwald
Triage - David Baerwald (really depressing, but DAMNED it's good!!!)
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
Toy Matinee
Third Matinee
Go On - Mr. Mister
Synchronicity - The Police
Soul Cages - Sting

 

[winterburn69]

I'll try to get most of them:

Grease soundtrack
Grease 2 soundtrack
David Bowie - Station to Station (but pretty much every Bowie album as well)
blink-182 - blink-182
Boys Like Girls - Love Drunk
The Maine - American Candy
MCR - Danger Days
Patrick Stump - Soul Punk
Patrick Stump - Truant Wave
Panic at the Disco - Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die
Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock & Roll
Fall Out Boy - Folie à Deux
Peter Gabriel - So
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Cure - The Head on the Door
The Police - Certifiable
Duran Duran - Rio
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Miles Davis - The Man With The Horn
Miles Davis - Jazz in Paris: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day

 

[funkytoe]

Wish you were here - Pink Floyd
Rumors - Fleetwood Mac
Live at the Filmore East - Allman Brothers
Seven Turns - Allman Brothers
Legend - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Boston - Boston
Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
Live - Donny Hathaway
Moondance - Van Morrison
Harvest - Neil Young

 

[PWRL]

Uncle Tupelo - Still Feel Gone
Led Zeppelin - III and Presence
Bongwater - a certain album the title of which I won't risk mentioning
Galaxie 500 - On Fire
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Xmal Deutschland - Viva
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace Of Sin
Skinny Puppy - Too Dark Park
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures, Closer

lots more but I'm too sleepy to think

 

[ERIC31]

Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil
The Cure - Head On The Door
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
The Cult - Love
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Suicidal Tendencies - S/T
Black Uhuru - Anthem
B-52's - Wild Planet
Earth Crisis - Destroy The Machines

 

[bassfran]

Chris Whitley- Dirt Floor, War Crime Blues
John Hiatt- Bring The Family
Tom Petty- Wildflowers
Stones- Beggars Banquet, Some Girls
Jeff Beck- Wired, Blow By Blow

And anything by; Mingus, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, PJ Harvey, Tomahawk, Booker T & the MG's, Mahalia Jackson, The Cramps, The Staple Singers, Iggy, Dylan, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Randy Newman, Willie Nelson, Tom Waits...

 

[pingvuiini]

Exit...Stage Left

I've worn out 2 vinyl copies, 6 cassettes and 3 CD's of ESL over the years, some songs wearing out faster than others. Thank goodness for mp3s!

 

[IngloriousOz]

 

[RolandMHall]

D'angelo - Voodoo
Kendrick Lamar - to Pimp a butterfly
Michael Jackson -off the wall
Marvin Gaye - here my dear
Prince - Purple rain soundtrack

 

[carldogs]

Gerry raferty City to city
Ac/dc back in black
Kiss alive 2

 

[interp]

Kind of Blue -- Miles Davis
Aja -- Steely Dan

 

[cnltb]

Way too many to even start...I wouldn't know where to stop.

 

[AztecViking]

From an early formative perspective on my playing I used to jam along with these two a few times a week as a quite fun bass workout. My "jam along to" playlist has now expanded quite a bit in different ways than just classic fusion so I don't exclusively concentrate on those two anymore but I originally chose them because I simply loved them so much. I never did it out of any sense of duty or forced discipline. It was for the sheer love of it.

In my early daze I loved these two too. Both very good from start to finish in my book.

Edit: Munjibunga's entry below has also reminded me of the sheer brilliance of this one...

And from Mr. Marley...

This one always did and still does tickle my particular fancy

 

[Munjibunga]

Countdown to Ecstacy ~ Steely Dan

 

[Spidey2112]

Look no further than my avatar... see you in 96 years.

 

[Honch]

What album/tape/CD/release did you love from beginning to end? No dogs, all awesome songs! No best-of's or compilations.

Porcupine Tree - In Absentia.
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield

That's about the ony ones I remember. With Oldfield, you really can't break it up. It has changed over time, but since it's soo easy these days to just skip tracks on CD, or do a very personal tidbit list on iTunes or Spotify I don't think it's huge deal. But mostly those albums with overlapping segues into next numbers, like most Pink Floyd albums, (or Marillion as you said) or prog genre it's almost a sort of "SONG" that's just 45-50 minutes long but consists of different parts. I remember even Neil Young saying this in interview of which albums are the most important to him himself. He just threw it all out on the floor (CD cases) laughed and said "Everyone is equal! Please regard it all as one large piece of book, with different chapters, it's not albums or songs, its' Neil Young". Since I know guys that when requests they are more sort of "Play anything with Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Toto..." which means any tune will do. So they regard these artist moreso of a certain "flavor" or "timbre" that they like whatever tune is played. Or if they play an album back to back, no problem...

 

[Honch]

I know I'll leave something out, but here's my list at the moment.
Toy Matinee
Third Matinee

Hey, that was an odd choice. Didn't think I would see that name around here anyway at all. Yes for Toy Matinée, but definitely not Third...it's good but entirely different.

 

[LowActionHero]

I started transferring music from my old computer to my new one, and took my old mp3 player to work, so I'll list the ones I've played through this last week, more than once...

Joe Walsh - There Goes the Neighborhood
Alan Parsons Project - Eve
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In the Sky
ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
Veruca Salt - Ghost Notes
Megadeth - Peace Sells
The Misfits - Walk Among Us
The Machines of Loving Grace - Concentration and Gilt
Styx - Paradise Theater
The first 2 Nickelback discs... Don't judge, they USED to be good...