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Offline Halloran

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Seems like a lot of music albums these days have a couple of good hits with a lot of filler in between. But there are some gems out there, both new and old. Here is a short list of some albums I can listen to all the way through:

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Pink FLoyd - Dark Side of the Moon/The Wall/Wish you were Here
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Beck - Midnite Vultures
Operation ivy
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
The Doors - Strange Days
Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Nine Inch Nails - Broken/Downward Spiral/Pretty Hate Macine
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses/October Rust/World Coming Down
U2 - Joshua Tree
Tool - Opiate
Led Zeppelin I & II
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
Miles Davis - Birth of Cool

What are some albums on your list?
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This topic labels me as old because my gut reaction is:

"All of them.  The artist/band put them on there for a reason; you should listen to them.  That's what is wrong with kids these days.  If they don't like something right away, they give up on it.  You never find the really good songs if you just download the hits.  That's how we end up with the Ga-Ga's and the Biebers.  Damn Kids!"
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Every Led Zeppelin album except Presence.
Pink Floyd - Animals
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A few off the top of my head:

OK Computer - Radiohead
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Anything by The Smiths ("Death at One's Elbow" on Strangeways is a crap song, but everything else on it is brilliant!)
Disintegration - The Cure
Trompe le Monde - Pixies
Do You Love Me - Nick Cave
His 'n Hers - Pulp

Pink Floyd - Animals

My fav PF album!
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Album - Artist

Eternal Nightcap - The Whitlams
Original Pirate Material - The Streets
A Grand Don't Come For Free - The Streets
Suit - Nelly
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Belle & Sebastian - The Boy With The Arab Strap
Counting Crows - August And Everything After
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - The Bends
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Ryan Adams - Rock & Roll
The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Darklands
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Rosebuds - Night Of The Furies
Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Iron & Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Beck - Sea Change
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All of those are solid, wanted to contribute:

Kings of Leon-only by the night
yeah yeah yeahs-It's Blitz

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Pixies - Doolittle, Surfer Rosa
Metric - Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?
The Breeders - Last Splash
The Kills - Midnight Boom
The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles II
Portishead - Dummy, Portishead
Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
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Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - The Bends
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
Beck - Sea Change

YES.

Also:
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Islands - Return to Sea
Grizzly Bear - Veckatemist
Built to Spill - Ancient Melodies of the Future
Bonnie Prince Billy - I See Darkness
Arcade Fire - Funeral
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This topic labels me as old because my gut reaction is:

"All of them.  The artist/band put them on there for a reason; you should listen to them.  ... You never find the really good songs if you just download the hits.

surely this was about re-listens, not reviewing an album for the first time.
if I'm not in a rush (if I wait 'til I have the whole thing before listening) I'll listen in order ... but then I pick out the ones I like best, and listen to those songs whenever I feel like it. I jump from artist to artist.

That's what is wrong with kids these days.  If they don't like something right away, they give up on it. ... That's how we end up with the Ga-Ga's and the Biebers.  Damn Kids!"

I've always thought that more just due to ignorance. ...much like people who only listen to the old stuff and say new music is terrible. They just don't know anything else. it's nothing to do with how they listen to an album, it's about the fact they don't explore enough, they just take what's put in front of them.

If you look for stuff and download random songs, you don't end up as a Bieber fan. there's no connection at all between whether or not you listen to whole albums chronologically and who you listen to.
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I admit that I was using my old man voice for comic effect.  In truth, I imagine that Ga Ga and Bieber are just as relevent to their fans as The Flatlanders and David Bowie are to me.

However, as an actual "older" person, I am in the habit of listening to all albums start-to-finish (because of the technology I guess; I actually miss the break between sides 1 and 2).  I'm not just talking about the first couple of times either.  Afte a couple of years of listening to an album my favorite songs change; Aqualung is great right off the bat but My God takes a little warming up to.  I doubt that I would have bought it if I only listened once or twice. [/ramble]
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I admit that I was using my old man voice for comic effect.

oh. sorry, I missed that (as an old man at heart with many things)

However, as an actual "older" person, I am in the habit of listening to all albums start-to-finish (because of the technology I guess; I actually miss the break between sides 1 and 2).  I'm not just talking about the first couple of times either.  Afte a couple of years of listening to an album my favorite songs change; Aqualung is great right off the bat but My God takes a little warming up to.  I doubt that I would have bought it if I only listened once or twice. [/ramble]

how many albums would you say you've heard in your lifetime?
I can't imagine ever discovering the songs I love if I was still recycling the same old CDs--it's so hard to find the time as it is with my very impatient approach.
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Oh!  I wanted to add

David Bowie - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
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Moody Blues -- Days of Future Past comes to mind immediately.  The songs are great alone, but as an album are quite brilliant.
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Most of Radiohead, yes (I still don't get Amnesiac...)
Beck from Mutations on except for The Information, yes...
Most of what Neutral Milk said, yes...
and...


The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle
Calexico - The Black Light
Supergrass - Supergrass
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Nirvana - Unplugged in NY
Beatles - Abbey Road

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