In your opinion, what are some of the most complete albums?

This is much easier to do with albums containing less than 10 tracks. Admittedly, this is taking quite a bit of thought because every album seems to have at least one "sub-par" song.





Boston's self-titled debut is about as good as you can get in terms of quality per track. I would also include the Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers. That album is just a notch above everything else they did.

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Boston's self-titled debut is about as good as you can get in terms of quality per track.

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This is a great example and one of my "go to" choices in naming a great album. I didn't care for Smokin' at first, but it's grown on me over the almost 35 years I've listened to the album, as it is one of the hits and still gets significant airplay on classic rocks stations.

The cliche example is "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" by The Beatles, as well as the final album they recorded, "Abbey Road" - probably more than any other example in pop or rock music (I guess, "Pet Sounds" by the Beach Boys would be a third) - gave rise to the notion that an album could be a cohesive work of music, rather than a collection of singles - of course that drove the suits crazy until the 1970s when they had a format in which to easily sell it - AOR.

While not an effort at a "concept" or "story" album, Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" is an example that is completely solid, track to track, and has 3 principal songwriters and 3 lead singers. But, the band itself is a rare combination of musical talent.

Led Zeppelin IV, Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, GnR's Appetite for Destruction are also obvious choices. Def Leppard's Pyromania and Hysteria, Van Halen's self-titled debut, Nirvana's Nevermind and Pearl Jam's Ten are all great albums, as well.

A more modern examples would be Audioslave's debut eponymous album. Although not loaded with hits (is there even such a thing in rock music anymore?), I can listen to the album start to finish - something very rare since the early 90s.

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I thought about that album for about half of a second before remembering the two or three filler tracks (e.g. "You're Crazy", "Anything Goes", and "Out ta Get Me") that pale in comparison to the hits.

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You're Crazy is one of my favorite GnR tracks - although I prefer the acoustic version on Lies.

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Lateralus

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And I didn't put a Tool album on there precisely because of the filler - (-)Ions from Ænima, as an example. Undertow has 58 1-second tracks and 1 2-second track, all silent.

However, as a member of Team Tool - I should have listed Lateralus - no question. The problem is the album is overshadowed by its masterpiece title track. The song Lateralus is the best heavy song of the 21st Century and is a candidate for all-time. We sometimes forget how good Lateralus is, track to track, without the normal filler nonsense that Tool does (and they do it intentionally to stick it to the man.)