What Album Is Perfect Front To Back, No Skips?
I hopped into the TikTok game a couple weeks ago, mostly just for fun seeing as Erika told us to get on TikTok 7 years ago and I decided I'd wait for the TikTok phase to pass and it never did. I, so far, have not fallen victim to being addicted to the algorithm- I don't scroll it for hours on end, and I certainly don't document every last second of my boring life. I mostly use it to ask people in the office a question of the day, and that's about it. I've been told to do a "personal" one every day too, so I've dipped my toe into that...but we'll see if I keep doing it. I actually don't hate TikTok as much as I thought I would (who woulda thought the most popular app in the world isn't terrible?!), so at least there's that. 7 years late, but whatever!
Anyway, this one above I think is the most interesting question yet- what album is perfect front to back, no skips? What I find interesting about it is out of the vast, grand, ginormous catalogue of all the music that has ever existed, there really aren't *that* many answers. Maybe I was just super high last night, but it dawned on me how hard it is to make perfect music. There's a ton of singers, a ton of bands, a ton of songs...but for an artist to make the full package, a perfect album, beloved by all...that is as rare as throwing a perfect game.
Around the office, John Rich said Kanye's "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy", which I think most agree with is a perfect album.
Vibbs said John Mayer "Continuum", which I know is considered a masterpiece but somehow I never became a huge JM guy, but I understand why people love him.
Rico tossed out 3 answers including "Enema of the State", which obviously I agree with. Fun fact about Rico is he's a huge Blink guy.
Similarly, Robbie went with his homies in All Time Low, and Feits went with Fall Out Boy's debut, "Take This To Your Grave".
My answer is an album that I think is simply a masterpiece of pop/emo/island vibes/catchy tunes, Jack's Mannequin "Everything In Transit". It is probably lesser known than the others but those who listen to that type of music agree that it's untouchable and unksippable.
The TikTok comments have some bangers- Third Eye Blind debut, Dark Side Of The Moon (oh wait, Gaz was in the Tok and said that too), some Metallica sprinkled in, Security Mike said Beastie Boys, Hybrid Theory, and a bunch more.
I'll do a part 2 (and 3, 4, 5) of this one with others in the office so I don't want to post too many of mine, but A Fever You Can't Sweat out is another front to back banger. A shame PATD became what it became (good for Brendon Urie making a zillion dollars writing pop songs, but fuck him for that too) because that early stuff is so good.
What ya got?