Most of the music I listen to either doesn’t come in albums, or is in a 40+ track OST. However, there are a few which I can say are enjoyable in their entirety.

UNDERTALE OST is 101 tracks, and while some of the tracks are ambient noise and sound effects, Like 93% of it is great. Basically anything Toby Fox does has a high rate of enjoyment from me.

Medium by Clark Powell is entirely a masterpiece—not only the individual tracks, but how they interact with one another, and what they represent to the story of their context.

Nothing Is Quick in the Desert by Public Enemy has a great listening experience, where nearly every track blends into the next. Not typical for the music I usually listen to.

It certainly isn’t for everyone, but The Caretaker’s Everywhere at the End of Time is excellent. The middle section up until nearly the end can be pretty abstract, but there’s a certain… bliss that can be derived from it.

There’s more, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind.

Hello fellow Haken fan! Affinity and Visions are my favorites of theirs. I also love Phantom Island by King Gizzard.

For full album plays some of my favourites are:

• Lou Reed’s “New York”
• David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars”
• The Carpenters “Christmas Carol”
• The Bodeans “Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams”
• Bob Dylan’s “Infidels”
• Louis Prima’s “The Wildest”
• The Boomtown Rats “The Fine Art of Surfacing”

Personal favourites:

‘Endless, Nameless’ / The Wildhearts - from the fake-out beginning (don’t turn the volume right up or you’ll get a surprise) to the fade at the end, it’s perfect to me. Joyously and gloriously noisy.

‘Dreamweaver’ / Sabbat - complex and clever thrash that gave young me a lot to think about; it’s loosely based on a book about a mediaeval Christian missionary and the lyrics are incredibly dense, yet so skilfully done that you don’t realise until you look at the lyric sheet and it’s huge.

‘Dopethrone’ / Electric Wizard - for those bad mood days

‘Mclusky Do Dallas’ / mclusky - inventive and slightly surrealist lyrics, noisy guitars and a great drummer.

‘Nothingface’ / Voivod - still sounds like it was recorded five years from now despite being around 30 years old. Best description I can give is ‘prog thrash’ and that’s not really very accurate.

‘The Big Roar’ / The Joy Formidable - noisy indie rock. Not going to win any awaawards for innovation but it’s so well done.

Like most people’s favourites, these were mostly released when I was starting to develop my own taste in music, and the release dates of most of them will tell you that means I’m getting old!

I generally don’t really care about albums and just make a playlist with only the songs I like.

No not at all. I have absolutely terrible taste in music. We all do and any who thinks other wise is deluding themselves.

Most music is pretty medicore. I can only name a handful of artists with more than one really good song.

From what I listen, only Nujabes’ Luv(sic) Hexalogy I consider a masterpiece. I have to listen to it start to end. Though personally I have to be in the correct headspace to fully appreciate it.

There aren’t a lot of other albums that I have to listen front to back that comes to mind. Although there are lots of songs that I listen to frequently. According to Spotify (before I canceled my sub earlier this year) I’m a Muse fan lol. Top artist I listened to for 5 years straight (I didn’t subscribe to Spotify that long) Almost always dominate my yearly Top 10.

There‘s (or at least can be) a difference between an album full of bangers and a album you enjoy from beginning to end in one sitting. But I’m with you on this one. Thinking about it, the following albums come to mind:

Tower of Power - „Soul Vaccination“

Linkin Park - „Meteora“

Opeth - „Blackwater Park“

Queensrÿche - „Operation Mindcrime“

Queen - „A Night At The Opera“

Fleetwood Mac - „Rumours“

Tracy Chapman - „Crossroads“

Elende - „Todbringer“

Tenhi - „Kauan“

While I‘m writing this, it occurs to me, that it’s impossible for me to name a favourite album. I can’t even name a favourite album for each genre.

Yes, all songs are masterpieces.

Repion - Repion

Everything by Audioslave

Early Bjork

City and Colour - The Love Still Held Me Near

The Car is on Fire - Lake and Flames

how do you determine an album is one of your favorites?

• I listen a lot to it. Some of my favorites albums (or tunes) I’ve been listening to most of my life since I was a little boy (now nearing my 60s)
• I have favorite recordings of certain pieces. Even more so in regards to classical music, which happens to be the genre of music I listen the most to and have been listening to since I was a child, thx to my parents listening to it and quickly allowing kid-me me to use their LPs (that was back in the 70s, they were kinda high-tech back then ;)
• I can sing the song and, when there are, I know the lyrics from memory. That’s one of the reasons I can safely say Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens are among my favorite French singers ever. The other reasons being that, for anyone able to understand French, they’ve written some of the most amazing songs ever… But there would be many more favorites of mine that have written master pieces, and not just in French ;)

Does all the songs in your favorite music album are masterpieces?

Never did them wasn’t.

A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step is my perfect album.

They aren’t even my favorite band, but there isn’t a bad moment on it.

A lot of classic albums, for me, tend to have a connection running through all the songs. The album is a work in itself rather than just being a collection of random songs by the same artist.