Albums without a duff track.

seth plum

It occurs to me that there are some albums without a filler, a novelty or a rubbish track on them. Some come close, for example nearly every Beatles album, but are disqualified because they have a crap track in the mix i.e the Ringo track they had to put on. Others simply are one step from perfection because of one bad call, e.g The Swimming Song on the otherwise perfect first album by Kate and Anna McGarrigle .

I know there may be a lot of qualifiers out there; they shouldn't be nominated because they're a particular favourite (although that helps) but because they are more or less flawless. Maybe because they have no tracks you skip.

I'll start with some easy ones:

Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd (and certainly Wish You Were Here)

Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy

Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus

Blue by Joni Mitchell

Thriller by Michael Jackson

Obviously there are others.

BlackForestReds

The Stone Roses first album.

Rothko

In Ghost Colour by Cut Copy, all winner no filler

thenewbie

Brothers In Arms- Dire Straits.

RedMist

Physical graffiti: Led Zep.

Saga Lout

Physical graffiti: Led Zep.

Add to that Led Zep 2, Led Zep 1... in fact almost all of their output as far as I am concerned!

EastStand

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights. 

CharltonKerry

Bridge over troubled waters, for the younger person Simon and Garfunkle

Rothko

Exit Planet Dust by the Chemical Brothers

RedMist

Physical graffiti: Led Zep.

Add to that Led Zep 2, Led Zep 1... in fact almost all of their output as far as I am concerned!

Yea fair do's: I feel it's the most 'complete' of their stuff. Though all good!

Also Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath.

Lincsaddick

another Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark

Santana: Abraxas, Caravanserai, 3rd Album (Man with Outstretched hand cover)

Temptations Greatest Hits

Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (one stream of hard to decipher supernoise)

Frank Sinatra: Songs for Swinging Lovers

(you notice, nothing after about 1975 !!!!), am I stuck in my listening ways ?

stonemuse

The Stone Roses first album.

Without a doubt

Radzinsky

Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane over the sea

Leroy Ambrose

Violator - Depeche Mode
Troublegum - Therapy?
Angel Dust - Faith No More
South Of Heaven - Slayer
Diamond Eyes - Deftones
Master Of Puppets - Metallica
And The Circus Leaves Town - Kyuss
Mer De Noms - A Perfect Circle
Pretty Hate Machine - Nine Inch Nails
This Is My Truth - Manic Street Preachers
Only Forever - Puressence
Meantime - Helmet
Necroticism - Carcass
10,000 Days - Tool

BigBadAlan

Brothers In Arms- Dire Straits.

without question 

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Trouble is, it's all so subjective

I'd argue that every track on the Thin Lizzy album is crap (no filler or novelty just a bunch of ordinary songs); particularly set against, say, Revolver which you might disqualify due to Yellow Submarine.

Getting into the spirit ,these:-

Sgt Pepper - The Beatles

Revolver - The Beatles

Beggars Banquet - The Stones

Something Else - The Kinks

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd

Stand Up - Jethro Tull

The Yes Album - Yes

Harvest - Neil Young

Led Zeppelin III

Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers

Sheet Music - 10cc

Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys

Automatic for the People - REM

shuffles67

Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
Nevermind by Nirvana

Six-a-bag-of-nuts

Oh, how did I forget: - 

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan

Blood on the Tracks - Dylan

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell

Lincsaddick

Omg your all old or at least most of your music is Nevermind by Nirvana

Hey, flaming cheek !!!!!!  Nirvana are hardly this century .. how long has Curt C been brown bread?

Lincsaddick

Oh, how did I forget: - 

Hunky Dory - David Bowie

For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music

Highway 61 Revisited - Dylan

Blood on the Tracks - Dylan

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell

how did I forget Blood on the Tracks ?  .. simply a masterpiece

shuffles67

Lol some of the albums mentioned were around when my mum was a teenager
Defiantly maybe by Oasis except for married with children

BlackForestReds

Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
Nevermind by Nirvana

That's at least twenty years old...

Saga Lout

Moontan - Golden Earring. Try to find the original vinyl, because I think some CD releases leave off one of the tracks and add some others!

Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy

Paulo Nutini - These Streets

If I had more time I'd add a couple hundred more.

LonelyNorthernAddick

Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
Nevermind by Nirvana

That's at least twenty years old...

It is twenty years old this year I believe.

shuffles67

Omg your all old or at least most of your music is
Nevermind by Nirvana

That's at least twenty years old...

Granted but some of these albums are older than me and my kids think I'm old so therefore!!!
But there are some classic ones mentioned

sralan

Steet Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd......... Last album with original band members and IMO their best. What might have been????????

RedArmySE7

A Tale of Two Cities - Mr Hudson and the Library

LonelyNorthernAddick

Oh, and:

 Black Stone Cherry (Self-titled).

Franz Ferdinand (Self-Titled)

Billy Talent - I

Machine Head - The Blackening

Metallica - Ride The Lightening/Master Of Puppets

AC/DC - Back in Black/High Voltage

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle

Bullet For My Valentine - The Poison

Conor Oberst (Self-titled - for those of you in the folk-rock persuasion)

Dinosaur pile-up -Growing Pains

Enter Shikari - Take To The Skies

Foo Fighters - A few of their albums

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

And a fair few others... I apologise for getting carried away.

Oliver Street

Most good albums have at least one duff track but here are a few exceptions (IMO):

Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink

Soft Machine - Third

Hatfield and the North - Hatfield and the North

Koop - Waltz for Koop

Terry Callier - Timepeace

Miles Davis - A Kind of Blue, In a Slient Way, Water Babies + a good few more

Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller

East of Eden - Mercator Projected

Darryl Way's Wolf - Canis Lupus

Pentangle - Basket of Light

paulbaconsarnie

I like all music but my nominations are
buddy holly 1st album
stone roses as mentioned above
Rem - automatic

DaveMehmet

The Who - Who's Next

ACDC - Back in Black

Stones - Let it Bleed

Nine Below Zero - Live at the Marquee

Green Day - American Idiot

The Jam - Dig The New Breed

Oasis - 1st 2 albums

The Police - Ghosts in The Machine

Most Beatles albums, with a few exceptions