Share albums where EVERY SINGLE song is good

Boston debut

Dark Side of the Moon

Van Halen I

AC/DC - Back In Black

The Beach Boys - Endless Summer

Fleetwood Mac - The White Album

Sade - Love Deluxe

Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

Trapeze - Medusa

Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human (guitar instrumental)

Michael Angelo Batio - No Boundaries (guitar instrumental)

Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (guitar-focused)

Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale (doom metal)

Metallica - Master of Puppets (thrash metal)

Metallica - And Justice For All (thrash metal)

Metallica - Ride The Lightning (thrash metal)

Draconian - Sovran (doom metal)

Mercyful Fate - Don't Break The Oath (heavy metal)

Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror (doom metal)

Killswitch Engage - The End of Heartache (metalcore)

The Destro - Harmony of Discord (groove metal)

Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power (groove metal)

Warfect - Exoneration Denied (thrash metal)

Aeon - Aeons Black (death metal)

Feasting On Darkness - The Black Cloud (instrumental death metal)

Xanthochroid - Of Erthe and Axen Act I (folk, symphonic, black metal)

@artemus_5 

FWIW. I own and listen to many of these albums that have been posted. I know that some of these albums have filler songs. Yes, they are excellent albums. But they don't fit the criterion of the OP original question.

While music is subjective, I agree, that happened pretty quickly. I don't know of any artist that has a discography that doesn't have filler. And albums devoid of songs I merely tolerate, zone out of, use as snack break material, or skip altogether is rare. I'd say somewhere on the order of 1-2% of my collection. Heck, I even left Black Sabbath's Master of Reality off my list because it has the 28-second filler Embryo. 

@wyoboy

SRV—Texas Flood (kinda surprised i didn’t see this above)

As a guitar player myself, SRV is my second favorite guitarist and I own all his albums, but Tell Me is the same monotonous type of song I’ve heard in every corner blues bar and has no special flavor that he usually adds to a song, even his covers. I always skip it. Dirty Pool is another song that’s monotonous. Maybe it sounds interesting to non-players, but it’s just a bunch of tremolo picking with an easy standard blues solo and isn’t that catchy. And I think he has at least one or two of those type of songs on every album, which is why I didn’t include any of his albums. Neither did I include my favorite guitarist - Buckethead - even though he has over 300 albums and I have 280 of them. But I did include some other guitarists who have a solid album all the way through. For instance, I think Nick Johnston’s Remarkably Human is the best guitar album I’ve heard in 30 years and doesn’t have any weak songs.

@wyoboy 

No need to filter lists. You like what you like and that's valid for everyone for whatever reason. Musicians will still have wildly divergent viewpoints.

As far as guitarists go, I respect technicians, like Buckethead, Yngwie Malmsteen, Michael Batio, Jason Richardson, Ewan Dobson and Guthrie Govan, the most because they are the most skilled at the instrument, but I tend to listen to "feel" players like Nick Johnston and Estas Tonne more, while I tend to play "fun to play" licks within my skill level, like Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, Jimmy Page, James Hetfield, Dimebag Darrell and James Sykes. While all the technicians can play with feel, they tend to focus on speed because it's more satisfying. Buckethead is possibly the only one who focuses equally on both. But Buckethead is an autistic savant, which puts him on a whole different level of creativity and skill, hence the 300 albums of varying styles and techniques, not all of which I like, and world-class speed. But of all the guitar-focused albums I have, only Johnston, Malmsteen and Batio have put out one straight-through listen each.

I didn't look at my list with playing in mind. Just which albums do I put on from start to finish and enjoy every minute of it and not have a thought of skipping anything. And I'd add one more I didn't think of ...

Rush - Permanent Waves

 

@wyoboy 

As I said, they each only have one album that's great all the way through. They are:

Johnston - Remarkably Human

Malmsteen's Rising Force (1984? - his solo debut)

Batio - No Boundaries

They have some other albums that are real stinkers. Malamsteen's other albums are somewhat boring. And Batio's other albums are speed for the sake of speed. And I guess why not. He's probably the fastest of the bunch. But it gets monotonous.

There have been many discussions on here about why audiophilia is dying. This thread is an interesting glimpse into the reason (or symptom). The average album age looks to be about 45 - 50 years. Which either means there are only us old people on here, or a bunch of old people in young people's bodies. Believe it or not, there are some great newer albums. Even spotless ones. Music availability has never been more prolific than it is now, which does make it harder to sift through all the crap, but gems are out there. Music doesn't end at age 20.

For instance, I didn't include EPs on my list, but if I had I might have included an album that is not too "modern" for "old" progressive rock-oriented audiophiles, and is audiophile-friendly, David Maxim Micic - Eco. Release date - 2015.

If you're into epic movie soundtracks, Brand X Music - Battle for Dawn might make this list. Heck, I'm not a huge soundtrack fan, but when I'm in the mood for loud epic music I always listen to this album all the way through, so I'm adding it to this thread's list. Release date - 2016.

I won't go into all the great modern metal. I know metal is outside the scope of most people here, but even if you got stuck on 70's or early 80's metal there's plenty of new stuff that would possibly make this list for some, like Dee Snider (from Twisted Sister) - For The Love Of Metal, release date - 2018. I dare say Dee is older than most people here, but he's rockin' harder than ever. He puts cheesy Twisted Sister to shame. My most-played album is the doom metal release Trees of Eternity - Hour of the Nightingale. Easily in my top three metal albums of all time. And I bought my first metal album in 1971, so it had to beat out thousands of albums for that honor. Release date - 2016.

@dirgordoncole 

One sentence from that article really struck me because it reminds me of something I was thinking the last time I listened to Trapeze- Medusa.

"The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did."

Even though I think it's an album that belongs on this list, I was thinking, "What a monster album this would be if it used today's technology." As it is, the guitars are extremely thin and lifeless. The vocals have no depth. The drums are dead. Today, with my free recording and drum software, $169 guitar modeling software, and a $100 direct interface, I can make a far better recording in my living room.

 

@mitchagain 

I would argue there is a stronger bias to how you relate to the music of your present when it takes on the role of the "soundtrack to your life" instead of just being music.

Which is exactly why The Beach Boys - Endless Summer makes my list. It's a great album, but possibly I like every song on it because it's what my group of friends and I played on our trips to the ocean every summer. Good times. But now nostalgia.

I can honestly say there isn't anything I can think of that I liked past the age of 12 that I don't like today. But then again, I was always into album (FM) rock (Zeppelin, Sabbath, Rush, etc.), not pop. I think a lot of pop from every generation is embarrassing.