5 Star Albums: Every Song

I think I'd pick Dirt over this, not just because its more mainstream but because I truly think Dirt is a better album. Still cool to see Alice In Chains of any kind in here.

I'm gonna add
Bad Brains - s/t
Black Flag - Damaged
 
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Because of the stupid four image limit:
Electric Tears- Buckethead
Are You Experienced- Hendrix

albums I almost listed but have atleast one four and a half star or lower


Appetite For Destruction- due to "You're Crazy"
Black Holes and Revelations- due to "Supermassive Black Hole"
 
Hmm... off the top of my head,

Faith No More -Angel Dust

Drive-By Truckers - Southern Rock Opera

Blackalicous - Blazing Arrow

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power

Been listening to This Nation's Saving Grace by The Fall a lot this past week and it's certainly looking like it could one day be in this group.
 
Heh, I can't really listen to Radiohead but I've put 'Electioneering' on repeat recently because of that sweet guitar riff. I guess I just don't "get it" with them.

I've looked through my library, and even my all-time favorites have several four-star songs and most have at least one three-star song on them. I have both Rage Against the Machine and You're Living All Over Me listed with all five-star and four-star songs. I guess I'm just strict about my song ratings? Others have only a few three-star songs:

Blood Sugar Sex Magik
- 'Breaking the Girl', 'They're Red Hot'

Frizzle Fry (I'm not going to count interludes)
- 'Spaghetti Western'
 
Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet

Probably one of the best albums I have ever heard.

Also, its kind of cheating, since its a one-song album, but The Incident is similarly fantastic, given a few listens.
 
It could be, but I didn't really think it was a bad song. As I said before, I don't really think there's a bad track on the album. It's probably my favorite R.E.M. album that I've listened to.
 
Yeah, exactly what I said before. Even seeing all these great albums posted by others...I don't buy it. Many are close, and may be 5-star albums, but not every single song is 5 stars, even if I enjoy them a lot. I guess that's just us though, maybe we're more strict.
 
I'm really strict with my rating system...I've rated about 5k/6.5k of my songs, and only 40 are 5*. Pretty much a song has to have literally changed my life or my outlook on life in order to gain that status.
 
Wu Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Charabers)
Pixies - Doolittle
Operation Ivy - Energy

And although I don't really think it would fit in well wit all these other albums, I still feel like Choking Victim's No GoRAB / No Managers doesn't have a bad song on it.
 
I really cant think of any albums where each individual song is equal to the album as a whole...where I can take every track out of context and feel like every one is a perfect 5 star song...I go thru my favorites and I can't find any

Siamese Dream has "Sweet Sweet", OK Computer has "Fitter Happier", Loveless has "Touched", In Utero has "Tourette's"...it just goes on...

even the undisputed classics...Dark Side of the Moon? "On The Run", Sgt Pepper? "Good Morning"...these songs work in the context of the album, but on their own they clearly dont stand up as well as the others

I don't think theres a single record where at least ONE track judged by itself isnt just a little less good than the others
 
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home
Johnny Cash - San Quentin
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Jimi Hendrix (Exp.) - Axis: Bold as Love
The Beatles - White Album
The Beatles - Sgt. Peppers
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
Led Zeppelin - 4
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Radiohead - OK Computer

those are probably the ones that score a complete 10/10 from me, every song is on my top/favourite/whatever you wanna call it list.

these come very close:

The Who - The Who Sings My Generation
The Who - The Who Sell Out
The Who - Quadrophenia (would be a 10/10 without all the useless quiet fillers that dont really fit in)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Caravan
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over the Sea (yeah screw you)
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
U2 - Achtung Baby
Rory Gallagher - Deuce
 
Oh one more, cities vs. submarines EP by Railcars is perfection. While the album gets even better when the songs are played together, not a track on the album falls short of perfection.
 
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