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Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Just the five tracks you say? Take your pick
01.Kill the Poor 02.Forward to Death 03.When Ya Get Drafted 04.Let's Lynch the Landlord 05.Drug Me 06.Your Emotions 07.Chemical Warfare 08.California Ueber Alles 09.I Kill Children 10.Stealing People's Mail 11.Funland at the Beach 12.Ill in the Head 13.Holiday in Cambodia 14.Viva Las Vegas
I've got a slightly different take on what makes a classic album - I think it's got to be an album i.e. a set of songs that hang together.
It might be there's a theme (Dark Side of the Moon has it), or it might be the overall feel, (Joni Mitchell's debut Song To A Seagull hasn't a single song on it that make sit onto her Hits compilation or even on the Misses companion, even though she'd already written a couple of songs that do, but boy does it take you into the world of a Canadian youngster pitching up in late 60s California.) "Rumours" is chock full of great tunes of its sort but it is the sense that you're listening in on the painful collapse of a set of private lives without quite knowing the details that gives it its title and makes it a classic album IMO.
It might be a bloody big statement - Never Mind the Bollocks was pretty much the whole of punk in one album, they said it and then just pissed off. Blondie's Parallel Lines blows your socks off too.
On a classic album even the "lesser" tunes need to be there as part of the overall feel, maybe to slow things down and make space before the next big high, so I'm a bit dubious about the "no bad songs" rule, it depends a bit on what you mean by bad.
Bowie and Kate Bush did it time and time again - anything by Bowie from Space Oddity to Heroes (except Man Who Sold the World) qualifies IMO, maybe Scary Monsters too - after that he's more into Brian's original criteria, you're counting the good songs and setting them against the bad and I don't think any of them qualify though Let's Dance is close. Then right at the end Dark Star is a classic on my criteria but not on Brian's.
great post.
MDC's (80's American hardcore band) first album, most of the tracks, taken out of context and listened to individually, sound a bit meh. But taken as a whole, the album is a feral roar of anger and disillusionment and effing awesome. It just builds and builds.
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