Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good


It rarely happens to me, but in a pile of records I bought over the summer I

found one with no cover. Shocking Blue’s 2nd album. 'At Home' (I’m your Venus is on it).

Even most Beatles albums have at least one song I could pass on, but not this one. Horrible fidelity, scratched to hell, but damn...

So I’d love to hear of other records that you all could suggest.

 

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Natalie merchant Tigerlily

pink Floyd the wall

Harry Belafonte live at Carnegie hall 

 

My 'desert island' list:

Allman Bros. - Fillmore East

Floyd - Dark Side, Wish You Were Here

Hendrix - Blues

Derek - Layla

Santana - Caravanserai, Abraxas, Moonflower

Boston - Boston

Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow

Miles - Kind of Blue

Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Blue Train

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby, Moonbeams, Everybody Digs, Trio 65, Undercurrent

Metheney - As Falls Wichita

Maynard Ferguson - Live at Jimmy's

Bobby Hutcherson - Head On

Yo Yo Ma - The Cello Suites Inspired by Bach

Wynton Marsalis - Baroque Music for Trumpets, Trumpet Concertos, Baroque Music for Trumpet (with Edita Gruberova)

Alison Balsom - Bach Works for Trumpet

Rachel Podger - Biber's Rosary Sonatas (also good renditions by Hélène Schmitt and John Holloway (The Mystery Sonatas))

Mercury Baroque - Vivaldi L'Estro Armonico, Op. 3

 

 

There are lots and lots of them on an individual album basis, but only one group's entire catalogue fits this criteria (with a very minor exception).....Steely Dan. Exception is one song where Becker (RIP) sings on their last album. Dire Straits is close since they have a few albums that meet the criteria as does Pink Floyd, and the Beatles certainly have several (they are neck and neck with the Dan in terms of quantity of perfect albums, but have many bad songs).

Couple that haven't ben mentioned:

Pretenders "Learning to Crawl"

Carol King "Tapestry"

Van Morrison "Poetic Champions Compose"

Tom Waits "Closing Time"

  -G