The "LP" or, for those of you that are too young to remember albums, CD's are no longer made as an art form. Nowadays they are a couple of good songs and mostly filler with little or no theme. This list is only for albums that are good FROM BEGINNING TO END. I'm only going to include ten and in no particular order of my favorites. Greatest hits packages not only do not count on this list, they violate it since they have no theme.


The Who - Who's Next

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

The Beatles - Abbey Road

The Beatles - The White Album

The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde

The Band - Music From Big Pink

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds




Honorable Mentions:

The Kinks - We Are The Village Green Preservation Society

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

The Who - Tommy

Michael Jackson Thriller

Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life

Pink Floyd - Pipers At The Gates Of Dawn


A nod to consistency throughout even though I do not think highly enough of the group(s) to put them on any list.

Nirvana - Never Mind

Def Leppard - Pyromania



What's on your list?

Zeppelin 2 iz better than 4....

And how come no Skynyrd on there? Pffft!

Zep two and four are close. However, four is more consistent. Skynyrd doesn't make the list because none of their albums were great from beginning to end. They had great songs (if you like that sound) but their albums were loaded with weaker tracks.

eric claptin that one just put out...

I agree with Waterloosunset

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Derek And The Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is the best all around album Clapton has ever been associated with.

Van Halen first album.

Easily their best...

I'll throw a few out there from my personal (albeit small) collection.

Queen - A Night At The Opera
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
T Rex - Electric Warrior
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
The Moody Blues - In Search of The Lost Chord
Jethro Tull - Aqualung

and perhaps
Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
(no moster hit tracks, but still very listenable from beginning to end)

Good choices. I would've thought that a Springsteen fan might've mentioned Born To Run. I probably should've given it an honorable mention....

Cricklewood Green is excellent although I prefer Ssssh.

I'm not a Springsteen fan...

He was drowning out my own music, so I thought I would pipe down and listen to a free show.

Molly hatchet--- flirting with disaster

black sabbath war pigs album or Paranoid i believe is the name those are awesome!

Surrealist Pillow by Jefferson Airplane

Paranoid is their second album. It was released in 1970. I was never a huge fan, but it is clearly their best. However, I've always liked the "garage" sound of the first album.