Woodruff wrote:nagerous wrote:I find it hard to pick out select songs, but great rock albums, personal favourites of mine also include The Velvet Underground & Nico, Radiohead (The Bends, Ok Computer, Kid A), The Red Hot Chili Pepper's By The Way, Dark Side of The Moon and Are You Experienced? The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
I'm the opposite. I don't even KNOW albums as a whole, but I have certain songs that I greatly enjoy.
A good album can be so much better than the sum of its parts. I would use an analogy of a movie: The complete movie is the album; the trailer is the hit song.
It's a good analogy. Some movies have excellent trailers but the movie as a whole is disappointing. While some have mediocre trailers, but are outstanding movies when watched in their entirety.
A few notable albums:
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
The Beatles - Abbey Road
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Some albums, I like to play in its entirety when I'm alone. The slower ones I'll often lay down the whole time. With the more energetic albums, I'll play air guitar and dance around like a teenager (with bad knees and a stiff back).
