In other news (apolitical thread)...

[MikeDeTiger]

Yeah I don't know if the singles got better, but the albums definitely got worse.  Ten is a full listen for me, but although I like several tracks off the next couple of albums, I always found myself skipping multiple songs on them.  And I'll still bust out Ten to this day, while I haven't broken out the next two in... decades I guess.

In retrospect, I think the issue must have been that I really liked Better Man back then.  

Now I like it no more or less than other good songs of theirs from that time period, so the theory kind of falls apart.  Now it just feels like the albums got worse and the good songs stayed about the same.  

[jgvol]

In retrospect, I think the issue must have been that I really liked Better Man back then. 

Now I like it no more or less than other good songs of theirs from that time period, so the theory kind of falls apart.  Now it just feels like the albums got worse and the good songs stayed about the same. 

I was big on Pearl Jam for 15 years.

They just had no staying power with me apart from a few songs, consequently -- none from "Ten".

They are a channel changer for me these days.

[betarhoalphadelta]

I was big on Pearl Jam for 15 years.

They just had no staying power with me apart from a few songs, consequently -- none from "Ten".

They are a channel changer for me these days.

That's me with Nirvana these days. 

[MikeDeTiger]

I was big on Pearl Jam for 15 years.

They just had no staying power with me apart from a few songs, consequently -- none from "Ten".

They are a channel changer for me these days.

I think it's fair to say I was never "big" on them, but they were a cultural phenomenon, and I did enjoy a handful of their songs in the early days.  I'd be disingenuous to claim I was into them like a lot of people were in those days.

[FearlessF]

AC/DC

High Voltage
Highway to Hell
Back in Black

[jgvol]

Bush — Sixteen Stone

[FearlessF]

Rockihnroll the sixth studio album by Greg Kihn Band

[SFBadger96]

Any Creedence album basically.

CCR is one of my all-time favorites, but it's fascinating to me how prolific they were for such a short period of time. Like three albums a year (or something like that) for three years (68-70), and then they burned out. Wild.
Alas, I haven't sat and listened to an album start to finish in forever. I agree that Floyd lends itself to that, but as a casual fan I disagree that their songs need their albums for support. Have a Cigar, Wish You Were Here, Welcome to the Machine, both Another Brick in the Wall 1 and 2, Comfortably Numb, Hey You, and Shine On (basically, all of Wish You Were Here) all stand well on their own (The Wall is great if you have the time, but many of its best songs are perfectly sustainable on their own). I think Dark Side of the Moon may fall more into the "must listen start to finish" category. 
It's not really a concept album, but as I've said before, Billy Joel's the Stranger is remarkable for its hit rate.
I used to love Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic and Rocks. Two very good start to finish albums, but--as noted--I haven't actually listed to them that way in ages.
Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill was great. Same for Guns and Roses Appetite for Destruction.
I suspect that once a band gets past a third album (or so), the demand to just keep writing overtakes the ability to make a nice, coherent collection.

[ELA]

You can define it however you like, it's an open ended question.  For me it doesn't need to be full of bangers, some of my favorite albums might only have 1 or 2 "hits" on them, the rest were merely album tracks.

But I will say that for me, my definition is-- it has to be an album with no weak songs, or no dislikable songs, no "immediate skips" or things like that. 

I'll illustrate, from one of the albums on your list.  I absolutely love U2 The Joshua Tree, it's one of my favorite albums of all time. But I also absolutely hate one song-- "Bullet The Blue Sky."  I find it pretentious, annoying, and also just a bad song.  It's an instant skip for me.  Which, for a vinyl LP record, means I have to stand up, walk over to the turntable, lift the tone arm, move it over manually, and drop it to the next track.  So that disqualifies that album for me.  In fact, when I dubbed that album to cassette tape, I just omitted that song, and then I never listened to the record or CD again, instead I always listed to the cassette tape.

Yeah, banger after banger was probably overkill.  I just meant albums that were no skips, even if they werent necessarily conceived as a collective.  I dont think I ever seek out an individual song from Abbey Road, but I dont think anyone has ever topped it as an album as an art form.  So I was naming my no skip albums, even if I dont think of them necessarily as one piece of art. 

Also Auguat and Everything After was a great call, cant believe I forgot it.  Also, I hate to include a Greatest Hits, but the Counting Crows Greatest Hits album is very well assembled.  It might be my favorite greatest hits other than Queen

[ELA]

Recovering the Satellites was also phenomenal.  Oasis and DMB were similar.  Put out 2-3 absolute masterpiece albums in the mid 90s, and just couldnt maintain it.  Oasis had their own internal issues I suppose

[ELA]

Every RHCP album from Mothers Milk through Stadium Arcadium is a non skip for me as well

[utee94]

I used to like RHCP.  At some point I completely wore out on them.  Almost any RHCP song is a channel changer for me now, and I don't know why.

[ELA]

I used to like RHCP.  At some point I completely wore out on them.  Almost any RHCP song is a channel changer for me now, and I don't know why.

In fairness, I don't think they've had a song in 15 years that I've loved, so I get it.  to me, that's the Eagles. and In fairness I didn't hear them until they were done, so it's not like they ever had new music for me to find. But at one point, they would have been in the running for my favorite band, and now I'm just so sick of the same dozen songs.  The only song of theirs I still have to listen to is Doolin Dalton.  And it's not that I dislike them, I think. I just honestly listened to five albums cover to cover too many times, and now I just can't do it with them anymore. I did it to myself

[utee94]

Yeah maybe they got overplayed for me.  I just got to a point where every song of theirs sounded the same to me, and they're all sort of monotone one-note and repetitive.