Black Sabbath - Paranoid!!!

Paranoid on 180gm Vinyl is all-time!
And a recent album I liked every song, and have been repeating for quite a while is
Band of Skulls, Baby Darling Doll Face Honey.. It rocks out too..

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Yes.

Wisp - The Shimmering Hour

Paranoid.

neutral milk hotel-on the airplane over the sea
anything by van morrison.
love all those songs on every album.

Depends on who you ask. I'm the opposite in that I buy the whole album and occasionally there are one or two tracks I'll never listen to again. But I'm a completest so I hang onto those tracks anyway.

The last great album I "bought" was probably Marc Wilkinson's score for Blood On Satan's Claw. A bit obscure, I know.

Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

I loved the whole damn album. They are like a modern day Queen.

The last Matt & Kim record was solid all the way through.
Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is possibly my favorite record of all time.

The last great album I bought was probably
Era Vulgaris - Queens of the Stone Age.
GOOD albums are rare these days, sadly.

Good call on the Neutral Milk Hotel album. Pure art.

Last GREAT album I bought was TOOL's 10,000 days. My favorite Black Sabbath album is Greatest Hits 1970-1978

New bands consist of younger artists who didn't grow up having to go to the record store to have access to good music, so the album may not seem as relevant to them as a product or a statement. Old bands can still bring it sometimes- The Flaming Lips come to mind. If you listen to genres that appeal to solitary males aged teen to middle, like metal and indie rap, bands like tool, mastodon, and el-p make whole albums. They have a fanbase that still buys them.

As far as Sabbath, I have to cast the black sheep vote for Volume IV, especially in light of this discussion- it's an awesome whole album listen, even though it doesn't have as many "greatest hits" type singles as the others. To listen to front to back, it's the best of the lot.

Girlschool Greatest Hits Collection. Like a female version of Motorhead. Really sick riffs, great attitude, just plain good.

You want a good album, then get Two Dancers by Wild Beasts.

The first four Black Sabbath Albums were all great, but Black Sabbath and Master of Reality are the ones I listen to most.