Listening to Albums in Their Entirety

[ImCoolBeans]

Are you somebody who likes to listen to an album in it's entirety? There is not much more that I love more than an album where every song on it is great. What are some of your favorite albums to listen to in their entireties?

I especially like:
- Stadium Arcadium by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Blue Sky Noise by Circa Survive
- Is This It by The Strokes
- Room on Fire by The Strokes
- Some Girls by The Rolling Stones
- The Peoples' Key by Bright Eyes

[Luminous]

Spring Awakening, Next to Normal, and 13! (all three are musicals) have great full albums.

[Stryker125]

Wildlife, Somewhere at the bottom of the river Between Altair and Vega, and Rooms Of The House by La Dispute, Is This It and Room On Fire by The Strokes, Tigers Jaw, The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me by Brand New, Mean Everything To Nothing and Cope by Manchester Orchestra, Bring Me Your Love by City And Colour, and probably a bunch more that I'm forgetting

[Apassionato]

My idea of art is that the only way to truly respect it is to experience it in the way the artist intended it to be enjoyed in - albums are produced in the album format, so they should be enjoyed in that format at least once. It's the most complete, the highest form of the art of popular music (next to the concert).

A great album is just insanely fulfilling, 30-80 minutes of great music that flows as one and follows a common concept, it's incredible.

The first great such album that comes to mind is SingerSen's The World in My Eyes from 2012. For rap/hip-hop fans I can really recommend O.C.A.D.'s The Truth, they're a recently debuted New York based duo who put out one of the strongest debuts I've ever heard.
Oh! And Mylene Farmer's Innamoramento!

[backjruton]

Michael Jackson XSCAPE is an amazing album from start to finish and I'm in a way surprised I like it as much as I actually do. but woooow :D

[gothy]

The Downward Spiral Nine Inch Nails
Antichrist Superstar Marilyn Manson
Bites Skinny Puppy

[Lost in the Echo]

Tbh, the only albums I genuinely enjoy from start to finish are Nirvana's "Nevermind" and Metallica's "Black Album".
There could be more but those are the only two that come to mind.

[Unde4dmau5]

Continuous Deadmau5 albums. Can't be beat. You listen to the full album, and there are no pauses between songs. Gives a club mix feel to the songs. But if I'm not in the mood for Deadmau5...
-American Idiot by Green Day
-Dookie by Green Day
And that's about it... ;D

[Babs]

the album I listen to in its entirety the most is the Execution of All Things by Rilo Kiley. I don't know what it is but that album always gets me.

[RunnerRunner]

I listen to the enitre albums of The Amity Affliction. such as Youngbloods, Let The Ocean Take Me and Chasing Ghosts

[Fractured Silhouette]

I would upload the youtube streams of these albums but something tells me people with slow internet connections won't appreciate the effort.

Everything Between Paint and a Wall - Grandview
The Hidden Words - Fellsilent
LUN - Destiny Potato
Februus - Uneven Structure
The Discovery - Born of Osiris
Tomorrow We Die Alive - Born of Osiris
No Place - A Lot Like Birds
Lights In The Sky - Area 11
Perception - Breakdown of Sanity
Artifacts In Motion - Circle of Contempt
Severance - Heart of a Coward
Beloved - I Killed The Prom Queen
Earthwalker - In Hearts Wake
Singularity - Northlane
Themata - Karnivool
Altered State - TesseracT
One - TesseracT
Gnosis - Monuments
IO - No Consequence
Supreme Truth - Shokran
Blinding White Noise - Skyharbor
Life Through A Window - Structures
Antares - Sybreed
Dead Years - This or The Apocalypse
Eclipse - Veil of Maya
Void - Stories
Augment - Erra
Wish Upon a Blackstar - Celldweller
Hollow Crown - Architects
Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
The Trees are Dead and Dried Out and Waiting for Something Wild - Sikth
The Echo Verses - The Arusha Accord
Masstaden - Vildhjarta

I listen to the enitre albums of The Amity Affliction. such as Youngbloods, Let The Ocean Take Me and Chasing Ghosts

Really?! Fuark never thought you'd be into The Amity Affliction's albums, especially with a name like that.

[RunnerRunner]

I would upload the youtube streams of these albums but something tells me people with slow internet connections won't appreciate the effort.

Everything Between Paint and a Wall - Grandview
The Hidden Words - Fellsilent
LUN - Destiny Potato
Februus - Uneven Structure
The Discovery - Born of Osiris
Tomorrow We Die Alive - Born of Osiris
No Place - A Lot Like Birds
Lights In The Sky - Area 11
Perception - Breakdown of Sanity
Artifacts In Motion - Circle of Contempt
Severance - Heart of a Coward
Beloved - I Killed The Prom Queen
Earthwalker - In Hearts Wake
Singularity - Northlane
Themata - Karnivool
Altered State - TesseracT
One - TesseracT
Gnosis - Monuments
IO - No Consequence
Supreme Truth - Shokran
Blinding White Noise - Skyharbor
Life Through A Window - Structures
Antares - Sybreed
Dead Years - This or The Apocalypse
Eclipse - Veil of Maya
Void - Stories
Augment - Erra
Wish Upon a Blackstar - Celldweller
Hollow Crown - Architects
Death of a Dead Day - Sikth
The Trees are Dead and Dried Out and Waiting for Something Wild - Sikth
The Echo Verses - The Arusha Accord
Masstaden - Vildhjarta



Really?! Fuark never thought you'd be into The Amity Affliction's albums, especially with a name like that.


oh haha real funny -.-

[Typhlosion]

Does skipping intros count?

It really depends on the band and genre. I usually can't listen to a whole thrash album (like Metallica or Heathen) or heavy (M.A.R.S., Iron Maiden) without discarding the few unappreciated songs. Sometimes an album has only a few worthwhile gems, like The Hunter by Persuader or Eventide's albums.

I do listen to these mostly on one go, though. (Band - Album)

Persuader - Evolution Purgatory
Persuader - When Eden Burns
Persuader - The Fiction Maze
Pyramaze - Melancholy Beast
Scientic - Empire of the Mind
StormWarrior - Heathen Warrior
Mastodon - Leviathan
Däng - Tartarus: The Darkest Realms
Black Soul Horde - Tales of the Ancient Ones
Colossus - Wake
Agalloch - The Mantle
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose
Creation's End - A New Beginning
Ayreon - The Human Equation
Ayreon - 01011001
Haken - Visions
Anciients - Heart of Oak

These bands I listen to ALL their albums in one go. (Single-album artists included above)

Darkwater
Circus Maximus
Elder
Allen-Lande
Ghost

ALMOST ALL INSTRUMENTAL ALBUMS, FROM ARTISTS SUCH AS:

Intervals
Chon
Plini
Sithu Aye
Edward Box
Animals as Leaders
Earth
Angel Vivaldi
Blotted Science
Exivious
Cloudkicker
Scale The Summit
God is an Astronaut
BTBAM (Alaska (Instrumental))
Odyssey

[alphazenofi]

I like listening to albums in their entirely, in particular all the albums of Depeche Mode <3 <3

[Bigdon]

The albums that I usually always listen to the entirety of are-

AC/DC- Powerage, Black Ice, High Voltage
Tom Petty- Into The Great Wide Open, Full Moon Fever
Def Leppard- Hysteria
Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath
Neil Young- Psychedelic Pill
Rush- Moving Pictures
Guns N Roses- Use Your Illusion I and II

[CharlieHorse]

Evanescence - Evanescence
Fallen - Evanescence
Meteora - Linkin Park
Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park
A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

just a few. I will spend hours listening to these through

[Dannibabi]

Stadium Arcadium is definitely a good one.
Seeds By Hey Rosetta! is a very good album I like.

There's plenty of others, I just don't really feel like making a list right now because I'm lazy.

[Karkat]

LOVE listening to great albums from start to finish.

Here's an...Abbreviated list ^^;

Comfort Eagle- Cake
The Downward Spiral- Nine Inch Nails
Business Casual- Chromeo
Anything In Return- Toro Y Moi
Any and all of The Beatles albums, but namely Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, Help!, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Hybrid Theory- Linkin Park
It Girl-It Rock- Claddagh Ring
You'll Rebel To Anything- Mindless Self Indulgence
Sino- Cafe Tacvba
Manners- Passion Pit
Mezmerize- System Of A Down
The Family Jewels- Marina and the Diamonds
The Second Stage Turbine Blade- Coheed and Cambria
Torches- Foster the People
Infinity On High- Fall Out Boy
Save Rock N Roll- Fall Out Boy (Though it took me...Time to like this one at all. I hated it at first. :/)
Cartel- Cartel
Blueprints For the Black Market- Anberlin
Never Take Friendship Personal- Anberlin
Cities- Anberlin
New Surrender- Anberlin
Vital- Anberlin
Eat Sleep Repeat- Copeland
You Are My Sunshine- Copeland
Most Rush albums
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank- Modest Mouse
With A Twist- Straight No Chaser
PTX I- Pentatonix
PTX II- Pentatonix
Funeral- Arcade Fire
The Suburbs- Arcade Fire
Mad Season- Matchbox 20


I feel like I'm missing a ton >_> These were just the ones that immediately came to mind that I listen to over and over again a lot (wow Ren)

[Syvelocin]

I don't understand people who don't do this. I remember in school I had a lot of friends who would just buy specific songs and listen to them out of context. Sure, much of the music didn't have a lot of context, but I still found it strange that people chose artists who had big hits but then ignored the rest of the album while I love artists who can craft a stellar album beginning to end. I do listen to a lot of artists who put stories into their albums though. I don't mind putting it on shuffle but I like to listen to the albums all the way through every now and then because there are things you can pick up listening through the album that you don't with just one piece of it.

[xXoblivionXx]

Green Day's American Idiot
Rixton's Me and My Broken Heart

[JusticeandMercy]

Generally, when I find a band or artist, I listen to at least one of their albums start-to-finish to decide what songs of theirs I like the most.
Even if I've already listened to a lot of songs by a certain band, I still often go back and listen to some of their entire albums.

[Southside]

Its only two albums that I will listen to without skipping any songs, those are:

Revolutionary Volume 2-Immortal Technique
Resurrection- Common

[LouBerry]

Unfortunately, I'm not usually like that. I usually have like, four-six songs from an album that I listen to over and over again, and forget about the rest. The exceptions are:
Every single album by Panic! At The Disco
The 1975 by The 1975
Native by One Republic
What Separates Me From You by ADTR

[Big O]

Well today in school I listened to Aviciis entire "True" album great album

[Abyssal Echo]

Any
Pink Floyd
Black Sabbath
Ozzy
Led Zeppelin
Metallica

[LuciferSam]

The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
Soul to Soul - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Led Zeppelin IV - Duh
Tommy - The Who

[Snowfall]

I take it up a notch: if I get a discography I listen to it in its entirety.
Some of my favorite albums:
All That You Can't Leave Behind, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, The Joshua Tree-U2
Pulse, Echoes-The Best of Pink Floyd
AM -Artic Monkeys
The Suburbs -Arcade Fire
OK Computer, Hail to the Thief -Radiohead
Classic Rock Covers -The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Revolver, The White Album - The Beatles
By The Way, Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers

I think this is getting too long, won't list any more, but I got more.

[Apassionato]

Metallica

Even their early albums? I could never see what all the fuss was about to be honest, they always seemed like a lesser Diamond Head to me in their first years - with their cover of Am I Evil? being the greatest thing on their first album.

[Abyssal Echo]

Even their early albums? I could never see what all the fuss was about to be honest, they always seemed like a lesser Diamond Head to me in their first years - with their cover of Am I Evil? being the greatest thing on their first album.

Obviously you are entitled to your opinion.
The question was what what albums "I" listen to in their entirety NOT YOU!

[Apassionato]

Obviously you are entitled to your opinion.
The question was what what albums "I" listen to in their entirety NOT YOU!

Why are you getting so rude over a simple question? I was genuinely interested and trying to understand what in particular you liked about their early albums. Jeez...

[Melodic]

I can never do that unless all the songs have a good beat or meaningful lyrics at the time.

[Emerald Dream]

Most of what I listen to is pop/rock, and I do have a few (but not many) that I can listen to from start to finish:

3 Sides to Every Story - Extreme
Love - DramaGods
Cherry Alive - Eve's Plum
Fire and Ice - Yngwie Malmsteen
Pyromania - Def Leppard
Hysteria - Def Leppard
5150 - Van Halen
We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
Night Visions - Imagine Dragons