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I have a few.
Aerosmith-Permeant Vacation
Alice Cooper-Welcome to my Nightmare, Alice Cooper Goes to Hell, From The Inside
Skid Row-S/T
Queensryche-Operation Mindcrime
The Who-Tommy Although, I prefer the movie soundtrack to the original Who album.
Pink Floyd-Dark Side of The Moon, Animals, and The Wall
Rush-2112
Michael Monroe-Not Fakin' It
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary of a Madman

There's probably more, that's what I got off the top of my head.
As you can see, I'm a huge fan of concept albums.

What are your favorite whole entire albums that are awesome?

Abbey Road

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Right Said Fred debut is up there.

$tEvil

KISS - Dressed to Kill
KISS - Unmasked
Hardline - Double Eclipse
Blue Tears - Blue Tears
Nelson - After the Rain
Bee Gees - Living Eyes

There are plenty that almost make the cut, but with one clunker.

Fat_Elvis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:50 pm KISS - Dressed to Kill
KISS - Unmasked
Hardline - Double Eclipse
Blue Tears - Blue Tears
Nelson - After the Rain
Bee Gees - Living Eyes

There are plenty that almost make the cut, but with one clunker.

da fuq

DangerZone wrote: ↑Tue Aug 26, 2025 9:39 pm

Fat_Elvis wrote: ↑Tue Aug 26, 2025 7:50 pm KISS - Dressed to Kill
KISS - Unmasked
Hardline - Double Eclipse
Blue Tears - Blue Tears
Nelson - After the Rain
Bee Gees - Living Eyes

There are plenty that almost make the cut, but with one clunker.

da fuq

da fuq album is all filler.

Off the top of my head:

Jellyfish: Spilt Milk
The Outfield: Play Deep
Andrew WK: I Get Wet
Squeeze: Play
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers
Sam Cooke: Live From The Harlem Club
Al Anderson: Pay Before You Pump
Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks

Off the top of my head...
Scorpions - Lovedrive
Y&T - Black Tiger
Motley - Shout at the Devil

mindcrime is the first thing i think of.
shout at the devil
ride the lightning
blue murder
badlands
appetite for destruction
dark side of the moon
the wall
hotel california
pyromania

Pulp: Different Class
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Pretenders: The Pretenders (first album)
Judas Priest: British Steel
Sweet: Desolation Boulevard
Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story
Black Sabbath: Paranoid...all of the first 6, really.

All 3 JHE albums. Masterpieces of sound, not just song.

The CURE - Disintegration. Plus all the outtakes. All brilliant.
OURS - Distorted Lulabies
JOY DIVISION - Closer
NEW MODEL ARMY - Thunder and Consolation
VOIVOD - Dimension Hatröss
PINK FLOYD - 1973-1983 all of them
BEATLES - most of them
CELTIC CROST - Into the Pandemonium
SLAYER - Reign in Blood
CRO-MAGS - Age of Quarrel
JUDAS PRIEST - Sad Wings of Destiny & Screaming for Vengeance
KISS - Alive!

The Black Crowes-Southern Harmony & Musical Companion

Yes - Close to the Edge

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

AC/DC - Back in Black

Black Flag - Damaged

Melvins - Houdini

Motorhead - Ace of Spades

Ace Frehley - Solo album

Ministry - Psalm 69

Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral

Soundgarden - Superunknown

An awful lot of black stuff here, and it works.

Boston-S/T

Rumors-Fleetwood Mac

Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Permanent Vacation, Pump
Rush - Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire
Ratt = Out of the Cellar, Invasion of Your Privacy
Blue Tears - s/t
Slik Toxik - Doin' the Nasty
Fastway - On Target, Bad Bad Girls (probably a controversial take, but I think those two Lea Hart-era Fastway albums are just perfect even with the constant re-recordings by Di'Anno and Stratton)

out of the cellar.
1st 3 really

The first one that always jumps to mind is Operation: Mindcrime. I don't like much of anything else QR has done....but this album is amazing.

Fiona Apple - When the Pawn...
Raging Slab - Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert
GnR - Appetite

Leppard - High N Dry
Cinderella - Night Songs

Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Saucerful of Secrets
Motley Crue: Too Fast for Love, Shout at the Devil
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith
Zebra: s/t, 3.V
Third Eye Blind s/t
GnR: Appetite for Destruction
Devo: Oh, No! It's Devo!

Aja
Master Of Puppets

I recently got really into The Beatles and Billy Joel and I’m tempted to include Abbey Road and 52nd Street here as well.

Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974
Tom Petty Greatest Hits
The Best of Dokken
Eagles Greatest Hits Vol 1
Hall and Oates Rock and Soul
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Huey Lewis Greatest Hits
Ratt and Roll 81-91

FreddyFender wrote: ↑Wed Aug 27, 2025 9:02 am Fleetwood Mac 1969-1974
Tom Petty Greatest Hits
The Best of Dokken
Eagles Greatest Hits Vol 1
Hall and Oates Rock and Soul
Thin Lizzy Live and Dangerous
Huey Lewis Greatest Hits
Ratt and Roll 81-91

I’m sure Greatest Hits records don’t count!

Appetite is gonna win this one.

Very happy to see some love for Blue Tears and Hardline! Those albums are classics to me.

I thought the first 3 Warrant albums were all killer except for Train Train.

Outside of that, you gotta go with Bruce and Billy. They had a few records that are great from beginning to end.

TheDeadBastard wrote: ↑Tue Aug 26, 2025 10:03 pm Off the top of my head:


Squeeze: Play
Fountains of Wayne: Welcome Interstate Managers

I have every Squeeze record and love the band, but think all their records have filler. That FOW record is great, but I like their debut more.

Prince - Sign O'The Times

Appetite
Back n Black
Black Album
Rock n Roll Over
Revolver - Beatles
Everest - Halestorm

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
Radiohead - Kid A

SterileEyes1 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 27, 2025 8:21 am Aja

Forgot about this one. Aja is indeed a perfect album.

While I’m at it, I’ll also add DL’s Hysteria. It’s just so perfectly polished and produced with that signature Mutt Lange sound.