re: Post a great album to listen to from beginning to end

The "Chronicle" album from CCR and "Greatest Hits" from Sly and the Family Stone are brilliant greatest hits albums in this regard.

Electric Ladyland is a mindblowing album in the Hendrix canon. Axis:Bold as Love has some of Jimi's best funk playing but Ladyland impresses from start to finish. It concludes with Voodoo Child(Slight Return)!

From the legends surrounding the "Lifehouse" album, it should've been the greatest concept album ever made. "Who's Next" was good and probably the best we'd ever get in terms of a studio album representative of The Who's "true sound," but it could've been much, much better. At least the band has Quadrophenia to its legacy.

In no particular order:

Rubber Soul
Sgt Pepper
Abbey Road

Exile on Main Street
Sticky Fingers
Let it Bleed

Electric Ladyland

Allman Bros. Live at Fillmore East

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Warren Zevon (1976)

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (Lucinda Williams)

Tumbleweed Connection

Waiting for Columbus

Give it Up (Bonnie Raitt)

Who's Next

Exile in Guyville

Joshua Tree

This thread calls to mind a recent conversation I had with my 16-year-old daughter (who has excellent musical taste, BTW). I explained to her that for a time, say from the mid-1960s to perhaps a decade or so ago, most studio albums from rock bands/solo artists tended to be 'thematic' - that is, the songs were conceived and recorded more or less as a collection, and then arranged in specific order to maximize the effect of the 'theme', whether it was something obvious like a concept album (The WHO's Quadrophenia is a prime example) or more subtle, like a representation of the artist's mindset at the time (like Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear, written in response to his bitter divorce). In that context, such albums are best listened end-to-end for maximum effect, since that is the format in which they were designed to be experienced. The rise of downloading and streaming music has, to a certain extent, returned the industry to the old 'singles' days prior to the mid-60s, and as physical media declines in importance, it's also less imperative to release 'albums' in the classic sense.

That said, here are a few I didn't see mentioned previously that I tend to listen to all the way through in the artists' intended order:

INXS - Kick

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INXS - Kick

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good call

I love The 59 Sound. Probably my favorite album of this decade.

Excellent album