What albums do you know inside and out?

cledussnow · 06-27-2012, 03:55 PM

Every Zeppelin studio release.
Sabbath's 1st 3 and Sabotage.
Rush 2112 & Permanent Waves
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here & The Wall
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells & Elephant
Jimi Hendrix - 3 studio releases
Beastie Boys - Liscence to Ill
Eagles - On the Border & Desperado
Crosby Stills Nash & Young - So Far
Steve Miller Band - GH 1974-1978
Blind Faith - Self Titled
Chicago - Transit Authority
ELP - Tarkus
CAN - Tago Mago
Tull - Thick as a Brick
Yes - The Yes Album
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Holly Golightly - Up the Empire
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours & Then Play On
Bob Marley - Legend
Queen -News of the World, Jazz, Day at the Races, & Night at the Opera
Steely Dan - Aja
Boston - Self Titled
De La Soul - 3 ft High
Ace Frehley - Kiss Solo album
Van Halen - Self Titled
Dino - The Essential Dean Martin
Cure - Standing on a Beach (The singles & B-sides)
Metallica - Master, Kill em All & ...And Justice
Ozzy - Blizzard & Diary
Prince - Purple Rain
ELO - GH

Mrd00d · 06-27-2012, 08:38 PM

Oh boy, this is rough.

Aesop Rock's Labor Days... well, just about his whole discography at this point
Beck's main releases
Gogol Bordello's discography
El-P's Fantastic Damage
Deltron 3030
Tool's discography
Sublime's discography
Cake's discography
Powerman 5000's early rap-funk-metal up until Tonight the Stars Revolt when they switched to spacesuits and then pop-punk after that X|
Godsmack's discography
Disturbed's early releases X|
Hieroglyphics' discography, including individual members' albums, but not so much their most recent material 2012 because I've been slackin'
Buckethead's discography, give or take
Led Zeppelin's discography
Black Sabbath's first few with Osbourne, Ward, Iommi, and Butler
Pink Floyd's discography
System of a Down's discography

Yeah, this is an ongoing list. And I'm good for now.

Forward To Death · 06-27-2012, 08:57 PM

Everything by Tool, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Isis, Mastodon, SOAD, Primus, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Ween, Beck, Faith No More, Helmet, Melvins, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, 80s Metallica, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys, Body Count, Biohazard, Rage Against the Machine, Pavement, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground circa-Lou Reed.. Probably a lot more.

Lots of others that I have a lot of, but they've released so much stuff thay I could never listen to it all probably, like Buckethead.

**Goofle** · 06-27-2012, 09:01 PM

Actually should add The Bends as well as the first two Oasis and Arctic Monkeys albums.

Dr.Seussicide · 06-27-2012, 09:06 PM

Gosh, there's a lot, but off the top of my head:

Lydia - Illuminate
Lydia - This December; It's One More and I'm Free
Pedro the Lion - Control
Pedro the Lion - Whole
Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors
Bright Eyes - Letting off the Happiness
Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name
Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight for Harmony
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms
A Perfect Circle - eMotive
Tool - Aenima
Greg Laswell - Three Flights from Alto Nido
Get Well Soon - Vexations
iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou - Believes in Patterns
Why? - Alopecia
Ariel Kill Him - Alpha is Down
The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse
1905 - Voice
Sparklehorse - Vivadixisubmarinetransmissionplot
Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Knight of the Soul
The Magic Numbers - S/t
The Magic Numbers - Undecided
Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights
Saetia - A Retrospective
Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo
Weezer - Pinkerton

I think I'll stop there for now =/

Burning Down · 06-27-2012, 10:00 PM

I pretty much know this album inside and out, as you say. I know every song lyric, I can play them all on guitar, and most of them on bass, and it's just my go-to album when I feel like putting on some good music.

There are certainly other albums that I know really well and listen to all the time, but this tops the list.

Screen13 · 06-27-2012, 10:11 PM

Here's a partial list...Some of the collections here are special to me as they contain a lot of songs that were never put on any albums, especially when it's by a band who did a lot of stand alone singles

Closer - Joy Division
Raw Power - Iggy and The Stooges
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie
Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground
A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
Revolver - The Beatles
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
S/T (better known as The White Album) - The Beatles
Past Masters Volume 2 - The Beatles
The Best of The Music Machine (Now for the double disc of The Ultimate Turn On collection)
This Last Night in Sodom - Soft Cell
Hit by Hit - The Godfathers
Fixed - Nine Inch Nails
All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers
A Date With Elvis - The Cramps
Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Smashed Hits - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Aftermath - Rolling Stones
Between the Buttons - The Rolling Stones
Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones
Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones
Easter Everywhere - 13'th Floor Elevators
Bull of the Woods - 13'th Floor Elevators
Between 10'th and 11'th - The Charlatans
The Ramones
The Black Album - The Damned
Strawberries - The Damned
If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul - (Some Bizzare Compilation
It'll End in Tears - This Mortal Coil
Wilder - Teardrop Explodes
Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
Parklife - Blur
The Great Escape - Blur
Definitely Maybe - Oasis
S/T - Rialto
Stigma - EMF
Scott and Scott 4 - Scott Walker (Love 2 and 3, though)
After the Lights Go Out - The Walker Brothers
S/T - Love
Forever Changes - Love
Head - The Monkees
This Is Spinal Tap (Soundtrack)
The Great Rock n Roll Swindle (Soundtrack)
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
The Small Price of a Bicycle - The Icicle Works
Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds

More later...

RVCA · 06-27-2012, 11:26 PM

duga, you have exquisite taste.

Pedestrian, I feel the same way about The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. It was such a monumental release in more ways than one, and it awes me that it resonated so strongly in my teens and continues to resonate as I move beyond teenage angst and into the world of young professionalism. I can't ****ing wait for their new stuff to come out. Excerpt from Wikipedia:

Quote:

I think that ‘Daisy’ was like the end of a road, and I get the impression we all feel like we might need to back track a little bit and find another place where we could’ve gone off. I don’t think we’ll go into writing this record from the standpoint of coming out of ‘Daisy’, and into the next thing, it will probably be more around album number two or three, where maybe we had another conception then of where we could have gone off, and maybe we‘ll try to re-discover that.

For me:

The first album I ever replayed ad nauseum, I know it like the back of my hand. I maintain that "Ball and Biscuit" is one of the best blues/garage rock tracks ever recorded and easily the best song on the album. And how could I forget the riff from Seven Nation Army that defines a generation and epitomizes the alternative rock era of music?

Paedantic Basterd · 06-27-2012, 11:34 PM

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Originally Posted by RVCA

duga, you have exquisite taste.

Pedestrian, I feel the same way about The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me. It was such a monumental release in more ways than one, and it awes me that it resonated so strongly in my teens and continues to resonate as I move beyond teenage angst and into the world of young professionalism. I can't ****ing wait for their new stuff to come out. Excerpt from Wikipedia

I am very interested in this, based on all the rumours, and it's mostly because I detested Daisy to its core, and to hear that it won't be a branch of that gives me great hope. I'm fully aware that they're capable of greatness, so I don't think I could ever cast them off no matter how far they stray from it.

**Janszoon** · 06-28-2012, 01:28 AM

There are dozens of albums I could say I know inside and out, but rather than list them all, I'm going to mention the first one that came to mind:

They Might Be Giants—Flood
Similar to what Duga said in the OP, in my early years of buying my own albums (junior high) I didn't own very many and thus listened to each one a lot. Flood is one of the most extreme examples. I listened to this album so many times as a 13 and 14 year old that my dad once told me that he had gone from hating it to loving it through what I can only imagine was a Chinese water torture -esque experience in repetition for him. I can sing every word of this album, and I can't help but indulge that ability every time I listen to it, which happens surprisingly often for an album that I've owned for 22 years. It's actually sort of an internally underrated album for for me. It rarely springs to mind when I think of personal favorite or most influential recordings, but it surely deserves a place in the pantheon. It has heavily influenced my own songwriting in many subtle ways and is an album that I've never lost an interest in over all these years.

06-27-2012, 08:38 PM	#12 (permalink)
Mrd00d Stoned and Jammin' Out Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Northern California; Eugene, OR; mobile Posts: 1,602	Oh boy, this is rough. Aesop Rock's Labor Days... well, just about his whole discography at this point Beck's main releases Gogol Bordello's discography El-P's Fantastic Damage Deltron 3030 Tool's discography Sublime's discography Cake's discography Powerman 5000's early rap-funk-metal up until Tonight the Stars Revolt when they switched to spacesuits and then pop-punk after that X\| Godsmack's discography Disturbed's early releases X\| Hieroglyphics' discography, including individual members' albums, but not so much their most recent material 2012 because I've been slackin' Buckethead's discography, give or take Led Zeppelin's discography Black Sabbath's first few with Osbourne, Ward, Iommi, and Butler Pink Floyd's discography System of a Down's discography Yeah, this is an ongoing list. And I'm good for now. __________________ Mrd00d's Last.fm

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Dr.Seussicide FakingSuicideForApplause Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: I live in a van down by the river Posts: 1,365	Gosh, there's a lot, but off the top of my head: Lydia - Illuminate Lydia - This December; It's One More and I'm Free Pedro the Lion - Control Pedro the Lion - Whole Bright Eyes - Fevers & Mirrors Bright Eyes - Letting off the Happiness Eleventh He Reaches London - Hollow Be My Name Eleventh He Reaches London - The Good Fight for Harmony The Smiths - The Queen is Dead A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms A Perfect Circle - eMotive Tool - Aenima Greg Laswell - Three Flights from Alto Nido Get Well Soon - Vexations iwouldsetmyselfonfireforyou - Believes in Patterns Why? - Alopecia Ariel Kill Him - Alpha is Down The Late Cord - Lights from the Wheelhouse 1905 - Voice Sparklehorse - Vivadixisubmarinetransmissionplot Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse - Dark Knight of the Soul The Magic Numbers - S/t The Magic Numbers - Undecided Battle of Mice - A Day of Nights Saetia - A Retrospective Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo Weezer - Pinkerton I think I'll stop there for now =/ __________________ I'll stay if I ever could, and pick up your pieces babe, because there's never a perfect day. Don't fret, baby, we're simply growing And my darling, I wouldn't mind to die like this.

06-27-2012, 10:11 PM	#17 (permalink)
Screen13 Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 1,388	Here's a partial list...Some of the collections here are special to me as they contain a lot of songs that were never put on any albums, especially when it's by a band who did a lot of stand alone singles Closer - Joy Division Raw Power - Iggy and The Stooges The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars - David Bowie Psychocandy - The Jesus and Mary Chain The Velvet Underground and Nico White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground A Hard Day's Night - The Beatles Revolver - The Beatles Rubber Soul - The Beatles S/T (better known as The White Album) - The Beatles Past Masters Volume 2 - The Beatles The Best of The Music Machine (Now for the double disc of The Ultimate Turn On collection) This Last Night in Sodom - Soft Cell Hit by Hit - The Godfathers Fixed - Nine Inch Nails All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers A Date With Elvis - The Cramps Paint Your Wagon - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Smashed Hits - Red Lorry Yellow Lorry Aftermath - Rolling Stones Between the Buttons - The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet - Rolling Stones Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones Easter Everywhere - 13'th Floor Elevators Bull of the Woods - 13'th Floor Elevators Between 10'th and 11'th - The Charlatans The Ramones The Black Album - The Damned Strawberries - The Damned If You Can't Please Yourself, You Can't Please Your Soul - (Some Bizzare Compilation It'll End in Tears - This Mortal Coil Wilder - Teardrop Explodes Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur Parklife - Blur The Great Escape - Blur Definitely Maybe - Oasis S/T - Rialto Stigma - EMF Scott and Scott 4 - Scott Walker (Love 2 and 3, though) After the Lights Go Out - The Walker Brothers S/T - Love Forever Changes - Love Head - The Monkees This Is Spinal Tap (Soundtrack) The Great Rock n Roll Swindle (Soundtrack) Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols The Small Price of a Bicycle - The Icicle Works Younger Than Yesterday - The Byrds More later... Last edited by Screen13; 06-27-2012 at 10:35 PM.

06-28-2012, 01:28 AM	#20 (permalink)
Janszoon Mate, Spawn & Die Join Date: May 2007 Location: The Rapping Community Posts: 24,593	There are dozens of albums I could say I know inside and out, but rather than list them all, I'm going to mention the first one that came to mind: They Might Be Giants—Flood Similar to what Duga said in the OP, in my early years of buying my own albums (junior high) I didn't own very many and thus listened to each one a lot. Flood is one of the most extreme examples. I listened to this album so many times as a 13 and 14 year old that my dad once told me that he had gone from hating it to loving it through what I can only imagine was a Chinese water torture -esque experience in repetition for him. I can sing every word of this album, and I can't help but indulge that ability every time I listen to it, which happens surprisingly often for an album that I've owned for 22 years. It's actually sort of an internally underrated album for for me. It rarely springs to mind when I think of personal favorite or most influential recordings, but it surely deserves a place in the pantheon. It has heavily influenced my own songwriting in many subtle ways and is an album that I've never lost an interest in over all these years. __________________ A Night in the Life of the Invisible Man Time & Place 25 Albums You Should Hear Before the Moon Crashes into the Earth and We All Die last.fm

06-27-2012, 03:55 PM	#11 (permalink)
cledussnow Music Addict Join Date: May 2012 Location: North Alabama via New Orleans Posts: 149	Every Zeppelin studio release. Sabbath's 1st 3 and Sabotage. Rush 2112 & Permanent Waves Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here & The Wall King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King White Stripes - De Stijl, White Blood Cells & Elephant Jimi Hendrix - 3 studio releases Beastie Boys - Liscence to Ill Eagles - On the Border & Desperado Crosby Stills Nash & Young - So Far Steve Miller Band - GH 1974-1978 Blind Faith - Self Titled Chicago - Transit Authority ELP - Tarkus CAN - Tago Mago Tull - Thick as a Brick Yes - The Yes Album Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson Holly Golightly - Up the Empire Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said Fleetwood Mac - Rumours & Then Play On Bob Marley - Legend Queen -News of the World, Jazz, Day at the Races, & Night at the Opera Steely Dan - Aja Boston - Self Titled De La Soul - 3 ft High Ace Frehley - Kiss Solo album Van Halen - Self Titled Dino - The Essential Dean Martin Cure - Standing on a Beach (The singles & B-sides) Metallica - Master, Kill em All & ...And Justice Ozzy - Blizzard & Diary Prince - Purple Rain ELO - GH

06-27-2012, 08:57 PM	#13 (permalink)
Forward To Death Trolier Than Thou Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,336	Everything by Tool, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Isis, Mastodon, SOAD, Primus, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Suicidal Tendencies, Ween, Beck, Faith No More, Helmet, Melvins, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, 80s Metallica, Pixies, Sonic Youth, The Black Keys, Body Count, Biohazard, Rage Against the Machine, Pavement, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, The Velvet Underground circa-Lou Reed.. Probably a lot more. Lots of others that I have a lot of, but they've released so much stuff thay I could never listen to it all probably, like Buckethead.

06-27-2012, 10:00 PM	#16 (permalink)
Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	I pretty much know this album inside and out, as you say. I know every song lyric, I can play them all on guitar, and most of them on bass, and it's just my go-to album when I feel like putting on some good music. There are certainly other albums that I know really well and listen to all the time, but this tops the list.