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Truly great albums with no duff moments

I can think of a lot of Dylan albums that fit the bill:
- Blonde on Blonde
- Highway 61...
- Blood on the Tracks
 
Astral Weeks for me by Van Morrison. As does Highway 61 Revisited by Bobby D. Forever Changes almost does it but the track Old Man doesn't work for me as well as the other tracks. Blue Lines by Massive Attack is also one track short - Big Wheel.

Actually a thread for magnificient albums let down by one track might be worth a stab sometime.
 
Gong - You
Kate Bush - Aerial
Pink Floyd - Piper
Leftfield - Leftism
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
King Sunny Ade - Juju Music
Toy - Toy
 
Germ Free Adolescents - X Ray Spex
Funhouse - The Stooges
Radios Appear - Radio Birdman
Sail Away - Randy Newman
Everybody Knows this is Nowhere - Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The 3 EPs - The Beta Band
Arbeit Macht Frei - Area (A recent discovery)
 
Ooh, second Germ free Adolescents. Also:-

Computerwelt - Kraftwerk
Infected - The The
Fin de Siecle - Divine Comedy
Rock Around The Clock - Bill Haley
FoxBase Alpha - Saint Etienne
90125 - Yes
Strangeways... - The Smiths
Dirty Fingers - Gary Moore
3 Feet High and Rising -De La Soul
Any MasterCuts SalSoul compilation
Switched-On Bach - Walter Carlos (heh heh..)

Albums that are 'ruined'?
Now We Are Six - Steeleye Span (if you have to ask why..)
The Ecstatic - Mos Def (just tails off a little there at the end)
 
Kraftwerk- Ralf & Florian
The Damned- Damned Damned Damned
Microdisney- The Clock Comes Down The Stairs
Easterhouse- Contenders
The Go-Betweens- Liberty Belle...
Holger Hiller- 'Oben Im Eck'/ 'Ein Bundel Faulnis....' (2 albums on 1 CD, both excellent)

*Prefab Sprout- 'Swoon' (would've made it but for 'Ghost Town Blues')*
 
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Talking Heads - More Songs/Fear Of Music/Remain In Light
Eno - Another Green World
Fela Kuti - Black President/Zombie
Van Morrison - Moondance
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden/Laughing Stock
Can - Future Days
Leslie Winer - Witch
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim/Surfer Rosa/Doolittle
Efterklang - Parades
The Earlies - These Were The Earlies
Joni Mitchell - Hejira/The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
David Bowie - Station To Station/Hunky Dory
 
gassor said:
Astral Weeks for me by Van Morrison. As does Highway 61 Revisited by Bobby D. Forever Changes almost does it but the track Old Man doesn't work for me as well as the other tracks. Blue Lines by Massive Attack is also one track short - Big Wheel.

Actually a thread for magnificient albums let down by one track might be worth a stab sometime.
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That idea was kind of included in the original OP :)
 
Just about every jazz album released on Blue Note, Impulse, Prestige, Riverside, Verve, Columbia or Atlantic up until the mid 60s.
 
LostAtSea said:
FoxBase Alpha - Saint Etienne
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+1

Also...

Reading, Writing & Arithmetic - The Sundays
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Apollo - Brian Eno

Started typing Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order but deleted it.

Surely an awful loot of great soundtrack albums out here with no duff tracks?
 
Not many albums have no tracks that I dislike.

Paul Weller - Wildwood was a very strong album. One of my favourites from a while back.
Dire Straits Communique is also pretty strong throughout, as is Making Movies.

Crowded House Woodface would have made the list if it wasn't for "Italian Plastic" .... what a terrible song.

I get the feeling too many albums are spoiled by a moment of weakness where the band agrees to "let the drummer have his song on the album".
 
Laura Nyro - Gonna Take A Miracle
Al Green - Call Me
Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess
The Impressions - The Young Mods Forgotten Story
Frank Sinatra - Only the Lonely
 
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