OT: Albums On Which Every Song Is Good
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The thread starter asked for albums on which EVERY song is good. There are many, many albums that I treasure that I immediately ruled out from this thread because of that. Frankly, if I'm gonna post albums that have lots of great songs on them this is gonna be an extremely long thread.
I'm a big Born To Run fan, but Night is not so good.
BTW, I'll never forget the first time I saw The Boss do Jungleland at the Capital Theater in Passaic. I'd never seen anything like it. Easily the best live performer I've ever seen.
And, of course, the Big Man's sax solo was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
Sorry, but your thread has devolved into everyone listing their favorite albums.
i tend to agree. there's a lot of other albums that i truly love, but wouldn't say has NO bad songs...i have refrained from offering those up. if there's a single song on an album where i even, for one second, think...eh, i'll hit the skip button...the album doesn't belong here.
^^^^ This one I would add to the list for sure. The best live album ever IMO.
Huge Candyskins fan - saw them live with Squeeze at the old Tradewinds in Sea Bright in the early 90s. Did you see my post on the last page about Power of Dreams? Even more obsure than Candyskins, but if you like them you'll also like POD.
I love Night
Classic rock and roll themes of 50s and 60s
Surviving the work day to get to something magical
Cars, girls and romance
And the world is busting at its seams
And you're just a prisoner of your dreams
Holding on for your life
(The desperation in these lines is palpable)
And she's so pretty that you're lost in the stars
As you jockey your way through the cars
You work nine to five and somehow you survive 'til the night
The Vogues 5 O'Clock world
But I live for the end of the day (up!)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah) 'cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blows
No-one owns a piece of my time
And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I know
To ease my troubled mind, yeah!
A-da-lay-ee-ee (up, up, up!)
In the shelter of her arms everything's okay (yeah-yeah) (up!)
I have The Last Waltz as my #1 album, but this is definitely in my top 5 live albums.
Night is a terrific song. Better than 10th Ave Freeze-Out IMO (which keeps this album off my list in this thread).
You make a great point, except I think Goat's Head Soup may be stretching it a bit. I think that was considerably weaker than the previous 4 efforts.
Born to Run is abolsutely the winner in this group for me. And I also agree, Night is one of my favorites as well. Got to see him (them) twice when he was doing the full albums mid-concert. I was lucky enough to see Born to Run and Greetings performed cover to cover.
Greetings has some amazing songs but the Angel and Mary Queen of Arkansas keep it from being in this group....However if you can't tell from the name, Lost in the flood is one of my all time favorites and was very happy to see it done live.
Greetings has some amazing songs but the Angel and Mary Queen of Arkansas keep it from being in this group....However if you can't tell from the name, Lost in the flood is one of my all time favorites and was very happy to see it done live.
Now...see....that's why they make different flavors of ice cream.
10th Ave Freeze-Out is one of my favorite Springsteen tunes. It wasn't when I first heard the album. But the moment I heard them do it live it quickly became one of my all-time favorite tunes. Still brings a smile to my face.
Sorry, but Night is one Springsteen song that I could do without. I don't think it's necessarily the lyrics that doesn't do it for me. And this is coming from one of Bruce's biggest fans. I saw him so many times in his prime. It was tough to find a few minutes during his 4 hour shows to go take a whiz. When he did this tune was one of those rare moments. Sorry, but that's my opinion.
Two of my favorite albums has one thing in common.
Album. Bat out of Hell Meat Loaf. Loved every song on the album except Bat out of Hell.
Album. Every picture tell a Story, Rod Steward. Loved every song on the album except Every Picture tell a story.
Strange?
Album. Bat out of Hell Meat Loaf. Loved every song on the album except Bat out of Hell.
Album. Every picture tell a Story, Rod Steward. Loved every song on the album except Every Picture tell a story.
Strange?
Lost in the Flood is a masterpiece
Twenty years ago, I was thisclose to using Ragamuffin Gunner as my poster name.
Absolutely love Lost in the Flood... still gives me goosebumps after all these years.
My fave Springsteen tune.. close second Thunder Road.. then, the Springsteen-sounding tune by The Boomtown Rats.. Joey's on the Street Again
Albus that might fit this last category..
Gary U.S. Bonds, 'Dedication'
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, 'Hearts of Stone'
Meat Loaf, 'Bat Out of Hell'
Not everyone—some folks followed the original premise, which was (and is) a simple one.
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