[Music] A thread of albums where one side has nothing but utterly stunning tracks

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Harry Wilson's Tackle

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This, in response to the obvious need of those who posted on the thread of great tracks that occupy one side of an album with great tracks that do not occupy one side of an album but that together combine to create one side of an album. I am going to upgrade his to 'the whole album' because . . .

In actual fact, in my view, many albums released in the last ten years are non stop brilliant from start to finish, no dreary fillers like the shite in the 70s (the electronic track at the end of one side of Burn by Deep Purple, for example, and the crappy mellotronic durges on the Black Sabbath albums. 'I'm going through changes'. Yes, Ozzy. It's called alcoholism, you bed-wetting chump.)

To start off, you really can't go wrong with Human Tetris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jINaByRmYC8&t=409s

 

Harry Wilson's tackle

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Alright, on a more 'inclusive' note, this for me was the first album I bought where every track was stunning. Everything else I have (going back to the late 60s) always had at least one shitey track on it. This doesn't. Fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fUQfCjZaik

 

studio150

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Side 1 of Southern Accents

 

hart's shirt

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Kitbag in Dubai

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Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of The Beatles.

 

attila

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South Central Southwick

• Mar 29, 2019

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Rancid - And Out Come The Wolves
The Men They Couldn't Hang - Waiting for Bonaparte
Laibach - Spectre
Jacques Brel - Les Marquises

 

studio150

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On the Border

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Side 2 of Hearts Of Stone

 

studio150

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Side 4 of London Calling

 

Streetlight

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Probably one of the best punk albums of the last decade. The album as a whole is a solid 9/10 but the first half is particularly good



Shout out to this as well. An absolute staple for any punk fan

 

Uh_huh_him

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PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, Stories from the Sea.
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
PJ Harvey - Dry
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
PJ Harvey - Is this desire
PJ Harvey - To bring you my love

I find some of her later stuff un-listenable to be honest, but the first 6 albums contain some exceptional song-writing.

 

We're the Stripes

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kF1mBFWzvX4

Side one of Soul Mining:

"I've Been Waitin' for Tomorrow (All of My Life)" – 5:45
"This Is the Day" – 5:01
"The Sinking Feeling" – 3:44
"Uncertain Smile" – 6:52

 

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studio150 said:

Side 2 of Hearts Of Stone

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I didn't have you down as a fan of pub rock . . . . .

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

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Jul 6, 2003

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We GET it HWT. We REALLY do. You had a record collection back in the Eighties that was marginally less naff than that of your peers. It was a shit decade for music by any normal standards however, and you'd REALLY be doing us all a favour if you were to stop flagging your shit record collection up to the rest of us. Cheers

 

jakarta

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Atom Heart Mother, because it only has Atom Heart Mother.

Having said that the best track is on side Two...

 

Harry Wilson's tackle

Harry Wilson's Tackle

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Tom Hark said:

We GET it HWT. We REALLY do. You had a record collection back in the Eighties that was marginally less naff than that of your peers. It was a shit decade for music by any normal standards however, and you'd REALLY be doing us all a favour if you were to stop flagging your shit record collection up to the rest of us. Cheers

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That went well.

 

studio150

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On the Border

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Remain in light - Side 1

 

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Machiavelli

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Uh_huh_him said:

PJ Harvey - Stories from the city, Stories from the Sea.
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
PJ Harvey - Dry
PJ Harvey - Uh Huh Her
PJ Harvey - Is this desire
PJ Harvey - To bring you my love

I find some of her later stuff un-listenable to be honest, but the first 6 albums contain some exceptional song-writing.

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I agree with some of what you say, but not others. White Chalk and Let England Shake are quite something too.

 

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Machiavelli

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Second side of Abbey Road. Impeccable. Unsurpassable.

End of thread. And having endured my teenage years through that decade, I do agree with THPP that the 80s was -- on the whole -- dire musically.

 

Icy Gull

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Jul 5, 2003

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Can’t be arsed to post just one side but side 1 of this album is spine tingling summer music to me



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InlDs3C5Twk

 

Superphil

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Kraftwerk - Autobahn, side one

 

Pavilionaire

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Disagree. Dare - Human League, The Joshua Tree - U2 and many more. A great decade for music - 90s, not so much.