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847badgerfan

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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #56 on: March 25, 2025, 08:54:50 AM »
I never got into FM. I dislike Nicks' voice.
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #57 on: March 25, 2025, 11:19:03 AM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 24, 2025, 03:55:11 PM
I really thought Fleetwood Mac's Rumours would be on my list. I haven't listened to it all in a couple of decades but I remember liking it.
They were quite good with Bob Welch before Buckingham/Nicks joined the group. This classic comes to mind

https://youtu.be/fDzXbdxeeHI
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #58 on: March 25, 2025, 03:09:27 PM »
Secret Combination -- Randy Crawford

Excellent pop/r&b straight through.  
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #59 on: March 25, 2025, 03:15:19 PM »
Great concept to think about.  I'm starting to realize how that out of pretty much all of my favorite albums, almost none of them are no-skippers for me.  On a great albums list I could put Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence."  But it's null and void for this exercise because it has two tracks I usually pass on.  
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« Reply #60 on: March 25, 2025, 03:16:46 PM »
The Way It Is -- Bruce Hornsby and The Range
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #61 on: March 25, 2025, 04:22:03 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on March 25, 2025, 03:15:19 PM
Great concept to think about.  I'm starting to realize how that out of pretty much all of my favorite albums, almost none of them are no-skippers for me.  On a great albums list I could put Don Henley's "The End of the Innocence."  But it's null and void for this exercise because it has two tracks I usually pass on. 
I think the premise has to assume that you don't live in the CD / streaming era. That you live in either the record or cassette era where skipping a song takes a little more work than just pressing a button.

I.e. if you're like @utee94 and a song on an album is one that you hate SO much that you'll copy the tape (or burn a CD) with every song except that one? Then it's enough to disqualify the album. But if it's a song that wouldn't make you get up out of your chair to move the needle on a record, or press "fast forward / play" and keep repeating to make sure you didn't go too far, and you'd otherwise sit through it... Then it's okay for this. 
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #62 on: March 25, 2025, 04:42:50 PM »
Hmm....well that changes things quite a bit. 

Don Henley's end of the the innocence goes back on the list.  
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #63 on: March 25, 2025, 04:48:04 PM »
Yeah... Plus this is sort of a "choose your own adventure" OT thread. 

Like the one that I think I started about best one hit wonders. Some band has one MASSIVE hit and gets tossed into the ring and someone else says "but they had that one other song that briefly charted!" and thus claims they're not a one hit wonder. 

To me, it was more about bands that you remember as being one hit wonders, rather than an absolute definition. 

For me that was a-ha and Take on Me, and someone pointed out The Sun Always Shines On TV, a song I'd either never heard or just flat out didn't recall. Maybe that means they don't perfectly fit the definition...
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utee94

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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #64 on: March 25, 2025, 05:29:22 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on March 25, 2025, 04:48:04 PM
Yeah... Plus this is sort of a "choose your own adventure" OT thread.

Like the one that I think I started about best one hit wonders. Some band has one MASSIVE hit and gets tossed into the ring and someone else says "but they had that one other song that briefly charted!" and thus claims they're not a one hit wonder.

To me, it was more about bands that you remember as being one hit wonders, rather than an absolute definition.

For me that was a-ha and Take on Me, and someone pointed out The Sun Always Shines On TV, a song I'd either never heard or just flat out didn't recall. Maybe that means they don't perfectly fit the definition...

Yeah that was my own specific brand of pedantry.  But I loved a-Ha and classifying them as a 1-hit wonder was downright offensive.

Dexys Midnight Runners, on the other hand, only had 1 single that made the US charts, the stereotypical 80s hit "Come On Eileen."  They actually had numerous singles that charted in the UK, but only the one here in the US.  To me that's a one-hit wonder.

Surprisingly Toni Basil had 3 hits that charted in the USA.  The only one I recall, was "Micky."  But she sucks, while a-Ha is awesome, and therefore they are not the same at all.
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #65 on: March 25, 2025, 11:47:59 PM »
What are the worst albums to listen to straight through? The one where you should have just picked up the single, because the rest of it is nothing but clunkers? 
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #66 on: March 26, 2025, 12:46:35 AM »
Quote from: 847badgerfan on March 25, 2025, 08:54:50 AM
I never got into FM. I dislike Nicks' voice.
Same, but I just don't get it.  Her voice is not my reason, but I don't find it especially good.  I've never heard a F.M. song I enjoyed.
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #67 on: March 26, 2025, 09:02:09 AM »
It's a completely personal and subjective response.  Lots of people love Bob Dylan.  I can't stand him.  I don't like Mick Jagger's voice either and there are only a couple of Rolling Stones songs that I like, the vast majority I really, really hate.

On the flipside, I love Rush, but a lot of people really don't like Geddy Lee's voice.  Just the nature of subjectivity.


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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #68 on: March 26, 2025, 10:04:03 AM »
Quote from: Brutus Buckeye on March 25, 2025, 11:47:59 PM
What are the worst albums to listen to straight through? The one where you should have just picked up the single, because the rest of it is nothing but clunkers?

Back in the mid-90's one of the Batman movies had Seal's "Kiss From a Rose," which I liked, so I eventually bought the album.  I don't know if it meets your exact criteria because there was another song on there I wound up liking (which was also a single), but the rest of it was pretty meh.  I don't know that I'd call them clunkers, but almost none of the rest of it lived up to what I thought I'd be getting based on the Batman song.  
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Re: OT - Best albums to listen to straight through
« Reply #69 on: March 26, 2025, 10:06:19 AM »
Back in 1992, Blind Mellon's first album had "No Rain" which I liked, so I bought the CD, and then didn't like any of the rest of it.  Independently at the same time in College Station, my i s c & a aggie wife did the exact same thing.

So now we have two copies of that album and only the one song we like between the both of them.
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