Favorite Albums to Listen Through?

[Yaya]

Hi! Here's my list of favorite no-skip albums to listen through. I love listening to them as albums rather than as singles mixed into playlists. Thoughts? What are your favorite/top albums to listen through?

Some of mine are:

Nurture by Porter Robinson
Luv(sic) Hexalogy by Nujabes and Shing02
Disintegration by The Cure
For You by Tatsuro Yamashita
Cannot Be, Whatsoever by Novo Amor
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars by David Bowie

Honorable Mentions To:
2001 by Dr. Dre
Amor Prohibido by Selena
At Avigdor's on the Grass by Arik Einstein and Miki Gavrielo
Bedouine by Bedouine
Been One by Rylo Rodriguez
Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen
Breakfast by Chiddy Bang
Can't Buy A Thrill by Steely Dan
Don Corleon Presents - Changes Riddim
Ella and Louis by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
FULLCOLOR by Lucky Kilimanjaro
Give Up by The Postal Service
Guts by Olivia Rodrigo
Marc Cohn by Marc Cohn
Midnights by Taylor Swift
Moonlight Singing by Issei Okamoto
Orages by Clou
Otis Blue by Otis Redding
Pilot by Hot Mulligan
Punisher by Phoebe Bridgers
Random Access Memories by Daft Punk
Rumours by Fleetwood Mac (always)
Structures From Silence by Steve Roach
The Stranger by Billy Joel
Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me!
Warren Zevon by Warren Zevon
What's Gong On by Marvin Gaye
You Don't Mess Around with Jim by Jim Croce
Youth by Matisyahu

[Dibs]

I love finding albums designed for straight-through listening!

My personal favourites are Marianas Trench's most recent four albums (Masterpiece Theatre, Astoria, Ever After, and Phantoms). I believe it's Ever After which has smooth transitions between tracks, with orchestral interludes.  I don't like many of the songs by themselves or to listen to in a playlist, but as part of their albums they really work for me.

I also recently went down the Hypnospace Outlaw rabbithole and ended up on Gathered Out Of Thin Air by Half-Handed Cloud, which is a weird, interesting album with about a million short tracks that are absolutely not designed for playlists. The only one I have put on a playlist is the track I came for in the first place, Nativity Costume (2000 Year's Eve). I should relisten...

[almostcorporeal]

Glass Animals' Zaba and How to be a Human Being primarily

Also:
Fields of the Nephilim's Dawnrazor
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds' Let Love In + Henry's Dream
Madonna's eponymous first album + Like A Virgin
Autechre's Chiastic Slide
Hole's Pretty On The Inside
VNV Nation's Advance and Follow
Craft Spells' Nausea
A Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauders
Gotye's Boardface
Hozier's eponymous album
La Dispute's Somewhere At The Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
Rush's Signals
salvia palth's melanchole

in general i prefer to listen to full albums rather than playlists, but these are like. my tops lol

[Memory]

Most of the time I only listen to albums and not playlists, but there are still some albums that stand out for me in terms of listening entirely at once:

• Incunabula - Autechre
• Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
• Computer World - Kraftwerk
• Time Out - Dave Brubeck
• Chocolate & Cheese - Ween
• Hot Rats - Frank Zappa
• Freedom of Choice - Devo
• That's the Way of the World - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

Maybe there are more albums, but in general, especially albums between 30 and 45 minutes.

[starbreaker]

Mostly metal, some prog and jazz too.

• Imaginos by the Blue Öyster Cult
• The Universal Migrator by Ayreon
• Hellfire Club by Edguy
• Sin After Sin and Screaming For Vengeance by Judas Priest
• Cruel Magic by Satan
• The X Factor and Brave New World by Iron Maiden
• The Chemical Wedding and Skunkworks by Bruce Dickinson
• Voice by Hiromi: The Trio Project
• Time Control by Hiromi's Sonicbloom
• Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani
• Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
• Birds of Fire by the Mahavishnu Orchestra
• Wishmaster by Nightwish
• The Goddess of Darkness by Ars nova
• The Black Mages
• Apocalypse and Chill by Delain
• The Mountain by Haken
• Cross Purposes by Black Sabbath
• Vovin and Deggial by Therion
• Beyond the End of Despaire by Galneryus
• Meliora and Impera by Ghost
• Wet Ass Plutonium by the Nuclear Power Trio

[MrsMoe]

- Pretty much any of the golden era Pink Floyd albums (DSOTM, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall)
- OK Computer and Kid A (Radiohead
- The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)
- Rumors (Fleetwood Mac)
- Disintegration (The Cure)
- Violator (Depeche Mode)
- Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo)
- Self-ish and The Normal Album (Will Wood)
- unREAL unEARTH (Hozier)
- The Boatman's Call and Murder Ballads (Nick Cave)
- The Black Parade (MCR)
- Zara and How to be a Human Being (Glass Animals)
- The Much Much How and I (Cosmo Sheldrake)
- Real Gone and The Black Rider (Tom Waits)

[xero333]

Tool - Lateralus
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory / Meteora
Metallica - Ride the Lightning / Kill em All
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Northlane - Mesmer / Alien
Power Trip - Nightmare Logic
Sepultura - Arise / Chaos A.D.
Gojira - From Mars to Sirius
Green Day - American Idiot
Bring me the Horizon - Sempiternal / That's the Spirit
Meshuggah - Kolos
ERRA - self titled
Veil of Maya - Matriarch
Alice in Chains - Dirt

[georgemoody]

Hawaii Part II - Miracle Musical
The Age of Plastic - the Buggles
Comedians - Honeycut
The Day I Turned to Glass - Honeycut
Cojum Dip - Cojum Dip
Little Dark Age - MGMT

[PurpleHello98]

I'll just offer one of my favourites now because I'd have to sit and think a while to come up with them all, but I really  like Shades of Purple by M2M. It's fun and poppy, whilst also having a late 90s-early 00s singer-songwriter-y feeling that makes me nostalgic even though I wasn't alive at the time.

[wygolvillage]

Depeche Mode's Violator and Black Celebration
Kate Bush's Hounds of Love
Autumn's The Hating Tree
I've also been really into The Sisters of Mercy's First and Last and Always over the past few days!

[Biggus]

Almost every album by Gorillaz (fine! If I have to choose: Demon Days) but aside from that:

Childish Gambino - "Awaken, My Love!"
Sticky Fingers - Caress Your Soul
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Little Simz - Sometimes I Might be Introvert
Tyler, the Creator - Igor
The Prodigy - Experience
Fontaines D.C. - Skinty Fia
Injury Reserve - By the Time I Get to Pheonix
Cowgirl Clue - Rodeo Star
PinkPantheress - Heaven Knows
JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown - SCARING THE HOES

A mixed bag but I hope there's some people here I can rave about at least of these with <3

[Goobins]

I have like a million I could write here but I tried to keep the list short haha

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots/The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips
People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In the World - Andrew Jackson Jihad
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Demon Days/Plastic Beach/Humanz - Gorillaz
Hawaii: Part II - Miracle Musical
Lincoln/I Like Fun/Flood - They Might Be Giants
JoCo Looks Back - Jonathan Coulton

Not listed here is my personal all time favorite album, Permanent Revolution by Catch 22. NOBODY brings this album up in like, any discussion, and when they do, it's usually not in the most positive context, but I love everything about this album. It's really short, and has a KILLER opening track. Would love if more people gave this one a chance, its incredibly unique IMO.

[Memory]

My go-to album to listen every so often as of writing is Dream's End Come True by World End's Girlfriend, i tell you Singing Under the Rainbow can change a person

Other albums i listen to quite a bit are

• LAST WALTZ also by World's End Girlfriend
• Dolls in pseudo paradise by ZUN
• The Second Summoning by Astrophysics and Hatsune Miku
• HOPE LEFT ME also by Astrophysics
• Goat God's City Cousins by Clonepa, Umio and Miii
• El arte de morir muy despacio by Depresión Sonora

My music taste is all over the place i know :p

[Memory]

What are your favorite/top albums to listen through?

I listen to an eclectic variety of music genres depending on mood but I tend to fall back on some of the following a lot of the time:

Aboriginal Spirituality
Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works
Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Oxygene - Jean-Michel Jarre
The Portal 2 OST
Marylin Manson - Mechanical Animals
KoRn - Untouchables
Circus Contraption - Grand American travelling dime machine
The High on Life OST
SCORN OST
I'd Like You to Be a Mind Reader - Kindzadza
Maize OST
Hibachi Kid - Dream Forever

These three Orbital Albums:
Optical Delusion
Monsters Exist
Insides

There are loads more but I can't think of them all at the moment but the ones I linked are pretty neat 

[Plasmon]

• Autechre – NTS Sessions
• Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
• Sun Ra – Media Dreams
• Foetus – Sink
• Farah Abraham – My Teenage Dream Ended (don't ask)
• Pet Shop Boys – Behaviour
• Coil – Musick to Play in the Dark, Vol. 1
• Korine – New Arrangements
• Land – Opuscule
• my bloody valentine – loveless
• Nurse with Wound – Soliloquy for Lilith

That's mostly what I've been listening to recently.