Sunday, March 13, 2016

Best of the No-Skip Albums

Herein I attempt to reply to your challenge of the Best No-Skip Albums while attempting to adhere to your wishy-washy criteria.

I refuse to put a pleasant album on here that can just drift by without me caring one way or the other. And I refuse to make this a complete list:

Radiohead - The Bends
Muse - Absolution
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - Achtung Baby
REM - Green
REM - Fables of the Reconstruction (Hey, what's this doing here? This isn't an REM classic!)
Guster - Goldfly
Guster - Lost and Gone Forever (I frequently use the name of this album in both UMD and primary classes)
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Idlewild - Make Another World
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Obi - THE ENTIRE FREAKING CATALOG OF OBI!! THE ALBUMS, THE B-SIDES!! WHEN WE DIE, PEOPLE WILL ASK US WHAT ERA WE LIVED IN AND WE WILL SAY "WHEN OBI'S MUSIC WAS AVAILABLE" AND PEOPLE WILL FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP US!
Isolde et Les Bens - L'Inconnu (only chose so as to appear pretentious)
The Standard - Wire Post to Wire
The Standard - Swimmer
Ivan and Alyosha - It's All Just Pretend
Parts and Labor - Constant Future
Parts and Labor - Receivers
Pela - Anytown Graffiti
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Better than Ezra - Deluxe
Of Monsters and Men: EVERYTHING THEY HAVE EVER DONE!! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?? EVEN THE TOSSED AWAY SONG THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THE HUNGER GAMES SOUNDTRACK!! CELEBRATE THEM WHILE THEY LAST!!!
Belle and Sebastian - Boy with the Arab Strap
Black Keys - El Camino
Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

This is getting too long. Which means I am probably a liar. I am sure I hate one song on some of these albums, that I finally snap and say: "No! I have heard enough out of you Win Butler! SKIP!"

Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

I can't keep going. I have too many. I am afraid I have failed. You set me up.

Elf Power - Walking With the Beggar Boys

See, now I am just putting down the names of albums! I could listen to Elf Power all the way through or I could skip every song saying: "Stop listening to a band named Elf Power! Stop believing in Elf Power! Stop saying those incantations to imbue yourself with self-said power!"

This list ends now.

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