5 Star Albums: Every Song

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To be honest, I think every single album I've ever heard has at least one song that's no higher than a 4. Therefore, that's all I can contribute.
 
The Mars Volta- Frances the Mute.
Song by song it's perfect and their best album. However there is something about De-Loused that makes me love it more despite all of its flaws. Some sort of magic.

Frank Zappa- Hot Rats
Oh Christ it's whimsical. It's like a ****ing disney movie made love to Charles Mingus and an electric guitar.

That's all really, but I'm always looking to change that.
 
GY!BE-Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada. Kind of cheating being that it's only 2 songs, but they're both 5 stars without a shadow of a doubt.
 
^Amen to that.

Refused's The Shape Of Punk To Come is perfect from start to finish. Most albums I think might fit this criteria still have at least one 4 star song.
 
There are some albums that I absolutely love, and tons of them. I gave up on rating albums a long time ago, but I at least have 10-20 five star albums I could think of... but not one album that has all five star songs. Not even the likes of Harvey, Cave, or The BoK (just a few of my fav's) have ever come out with an album I have heard that every single song is five stars... I mean, maybe, but your talking about a hypothetically perfect album here. I just don't think too many are out there, and if it was it wouldn't be DJ Shadow or The Beatles... that's for sure.
 
I think its very hard to justify classic double albums like the two above as being full of 5 star songs! By nature and especially in the 60`s and 70`s, they often had a lot of experimental or self indulgent stuff on them as well!

Double albums were seen as the pinnacle achievement of any great band of the era (Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Who etc) whether it be a studio album or a live set, a chance for the group to put out what they wanted over 4 sides of vinyl.
 
The way I see it is that each song on an album has to be great on its own. There's a fine line between an album like this and an album that just flows so perfectly and works so well that it's really one entity rather than a collection of songs, but an important line to recognize nonetheless.
 
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Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Although I think I like Lifted more, I think Lifted has one or two tracks that are hard to like where with this album I think Conor Oberst may have played it a little more safe with this one.

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Can't remeraber if I mentioned it earlier or not.
 
I guess that which comes closest is R.E.M.'s "Reckoning," but mind you that doesn't mean it's my favorite album ever. It's just very consistently excellent.
 
I'd give Poledo 5 stars :( It comes very unexpectedly out of nowhere, but fits into the album perfectly and I enjoy the lo-fi quiet ukelele (sp?) to noise changes a lot.

Oh, and how could I forget? cities vs. submarines EP by Railcars, the greatest EP ever released. I'm not sure if we're counting EPs or not, but this definitely goes on the list.

This was a great idea for a thread because it made me realize how few albums I would actually consider to have all perfect songs. I really think the four I now listed are the only albums I've ever heard that I could say that about.
 
Most definitely. It probably wasn't their intention. It just seemed to be the way it happened. Not to mention the producer they hooked up with while recording Nevermind. In interviews, the band used to say that their music on Nevermind reminded them of lullabies and childrens' songs. And then In Utero was more of a return to their more Indie roots, along with collaborating with Steve Albini. Probably why it wasn't as commercially successful.

Speaking of which, these people you're referring to, I imagine that Nevermind is the only Nirvana album they listen to? What do they think of a song like "Territorial Pissings"? or "Breed"? I guess they wouldn't even approach a song like "Tourette's" or "Scentless Apprentice". The "noisiness" of a band like AIC shies in comparison.

Ah, the myth of Kurt! And the best thing to ever happen to Courtney Love's music career! Yeah, and they were still selling Nirvana posters in Wal-Mart in 1997. No wonder he killed himself.

Pop, pop and never stop. I join you in a hearty guffaw. Or chortle, whichever you prefer.
 
Bronze Age said:
I always preferred In Utero to Nevermind. Its so nasty, Nevermind is kinda soft. Anyway,

I never ever thought of Nevermind of being kinda soft! I also like Utero and after digging through the noise, elusive melodies and the rest of the sludge on the album, there are certainly a lot of good songs on there, BUT they`re certainly not 5 stars like Nevermind.:bringit:
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