All Killer, No Filler

Matt wrote (err, about 2 weeks ago. I'm slow.):

All of Pet Sounds is a fantastic album. With the rise of iTunes we should note the passing of album-oriented rock. That said, before Pet Sounds most albums were a good hit or two along with filler. Even after that, how many start-to-finish good albums are there?

Egads.

Quick answer: at least 50:

• Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
• Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
• Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
• Spacemen 3 - Sounds of Confusion
  
• the Cure - Disintegration
• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Fish - Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors
• Pearl Jam - Ten
• My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
• Dream Theater - Images and Words
• The 77's - Pray Naked
• the Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
• Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
• Ride - Going Blank Again
• Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
  
• Catherine Wheel - Chrome
• Tori Amos - Under the Pink
• Underworld - dubnobasswithmyheadman
• Lush - Split
• Liz Phair - Whip-Smart
• Radiohead - the Bends
• the Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
  
• Marillion - Afraid of Sunlight
• the Prayer Chain - Mercury
• the Violet Burning - the Violet Burning
• Weezer - Pinkerton
• the Suicide Machines - Destruction by Definition
• Modest Mouse - Lonesome Crowded West
• Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane over the Sea
• Sleater-Kinney - Dig Me Out
• Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
• the Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I
• the Lassie Foundation - Pacifico
• the Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia
• JJ72 - JJ72
• Placebo - Black Market Music
• At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
• Mercury Rev - All is Dream
• Spiritualized - Let It Come Down
• the Shins - Oh, Inverted World
• Tullycraft - Beat Surf Fun
• Angelica - the Seven Year Itch
• the Get-Up Kids - On a Wire
• Sigur Ros - ()
• Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
• Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
• the Decemberists - Her Majesty...
• Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
• Electrelane - the Power Out
• the Thermals - Fuckin' A
  

All of the fifty albums listed above are packed with fantastic songs, but, what's more, they are also wholly without bad songs. To avoid repetition each artist is mentioned only once. I ignored EPs and collections (including live material) and I didn't cheat. They are all albums and they are all start to finish fantastic.

Releasing CDs where I like near every song is, basically, what seperates bands I want and/or purchase music by from bands I do not purchase music from (as long as I'm doing my homework.)

Eventually I may start comment upon the albums listed, but, well, for now, there you go.