Discussioni → albums that gain most from listening to them whole

Rock opera's and concept albums. Some albums that really stand out for me are Pink Floyd's The Wall, Animals and Dark Side of the Moon, Ayreon's The Human Equation and 01001101 and Dream Theater's Scenes from a Memory and Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence (Especially Disc 2).
It would be strange if you would listen to only one track of an album consisting of only one song, like Jethro Tull's A Passion Play, Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells or Porcupine Trees The Incident.

AnacrusisScreams and Whispers
this is an alum that although each track is strong and is able to stand on it's own feet, gains the abillity to put you in a trance when you listen to it in full album format.

Any concept album. Stuff like mars volta's Frances the mute or meahuggah's Catch 33 which is just one big song which is just so awsome...

Private Cinema deserves a place here. In my right mind I would not try to listen to a single song on it. Individually that is. :P

Good thread, going to check some of the albums listed here that I haven't heard yet.

Sigur Rós - ( ). Best album I've ever heard, and always as a full album format

I think perhaps it basically comes down to the indiviuals tastes and unfortunately attention spans

Don't know if it has been said yet but any live bootleg is much better listened too as a whole.

It can suck to listen to a track here and there from them but if you listen to a whole set it feels like you were there. Some have rare covers or improvised parts that never made it to the studio.

Besides Pink Floyd's The Wall, Frank Zappa did Many that Absolutely Have to be listened to in Their Entirety!