Cake - Motorcade of Generosity
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Cake - Prolonging the Magic
Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Beck - Sea Change
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Dr. Dre - 2001
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Kanye West - Graduation
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Girl Talk - Night Ripper
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium

Lil' Wayne - The Drought 3 (this one took a while)


What albums do you guys know front to back? Singing the lyrics the entire time? Post them and we can discuss. It's amazing how certain ones I can pick up really quick because the lyrics are really easy (Cake, Kanye West) and others are pretty difficult (The Mars Volta, The Flaming Lips). Those Girl Talk ones were super easy to pick up too, obviously.

I'm not sure if I know a single album, front to back, every single word. Actually, I know I don't. It doesn't come easy to me. Feed The Animals would have to be the closest, but even then I'm not confident in saying that.

I've never been good at memorizing lyrics. I've never really tried. And most of the time when I'm listening to music, the lyrics just take the part of another instrument. Until I decide to sit down and read the lyrics while listening, which is always a great experience.

but yeah.

all

Well, there's far too many to mention.

I've got a rather sponge-like memory, so I can memorize a mountain of stuff.

I could bore people for hours by going through and giving a blow-by-blow description of every single instrument from Born to Run after having sat down and run through every single lyric.

I'm sure I've got the lyrics to probably thousands of songs stuck inside my head, ready for extraction whenever the time calls for it.

Rather than ones I know the lyrics to, I think I might take the lyrics and music route. You know, the ones where you sing the lyrics, mouth the drum fills and squint your eyes in anticipation of the climax of the solo?

Jebediah - Slightly Odway
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen
Greenday - Nimrod
The Simpsons - Songs in the Key of Springfield
The Who - Live at Leeds
(my first five albums bought wiv my own moneys)

Jeff Buckley - Grace
Ryan Adams - Heartbreaker, Gold, Rock N Roll
Muse - Origin of Symmetry
Chris Cornell - Euphoria Morning (totally underrated IMO)

That's it off the top of my head, I reckon.

Well, if we're merely discussing albums you could hum along to the guitar, tap a table for the drums, and bob your head to the beat, then here's a no-brainer:

that ratatat album is one of the top 10 worst of all time

The Replacements - Let It Be
The Replacements - Tim
The Who - Who's Next
Weezer - Blue Album
Weezer - Pinkerton
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlantacism
Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

There's no way to make a comprehensive list - I have a ludicrously inclusive memory and I'm old enough for that to cover a lot of ground. A smattering, then:

as far as knowing the instrumentations...there are plenty.

The first that pops to mind being Dream Theater's "Train of Thought". I fell in love. Played it for like 3 months straight. My gateway to metal. Well I guess Metallica was...but whatever.

Blue, Pinkerton, Green, Maladroit, Make Believe, Red, Songs from the Black Hole

def leppard - pyromania
biz markie - nobody beats the biz
guns n roses - appetite
ac/dc - back in black
wu tang clan - 36 chambers
black flag - damaged
cheap trick - s/t, in color, heaven tonight, dream police
screeching weasel - my brain hurts
avalanches - since i left you
chic - c'est chic
dismemberment plan - emergency & i
prince - purple rain
donna summer - bad girls
sex pistols - never mind the bollocks
beastie boys - licensed to ill
beatles - revolver
stevie wonder - innervisions, talking book, music of my mid, hotter than july

not necessarily my top albums of all time, but just some that have been with me for a long time. a lot of childhood nostalgia and coming of age, as well. of course thats how you get to know these albums front to back, by being a kid with too much time on your hands lol... all classics.

wait sonic, you know have multiple girl talk albums memorized from beginning to end? that's really the silliest shit i've ever heard.

I'm pretty sure I'm a dork for this, but I'm cool with it.
Album still sounds fantastic to me.

Ha, I probably have the entire TMBG catalog up until 2001 committed to memory. Nothing to be ashamed of.

Actually, yes, it is.

I still dig the first two records more than anything else of theirs.

Yep. Second. That entire post sums up my own relationship with TMBG.

let me just state that...ohh hell yeah, whenever i'm listening to feed the animals I know exactly what part is coming up next because that album is a fucking party.

That's me, yep. My brain filled with all that useless information. Singing along and playing air guitar to songs I haven't heard in years.

Probably the second best album of all time. Comes in close second, next to:

Thirded. I know the lyrics to tens of thousands of songs. Sometimes I can't recall them until I hear the music, but then they instantly return.

Same here, more or less. Duh.

This thread is ludicrous.

Metal Machine Music.

me too.

Also, lots of Stones, Beatles, Who, Kinks...

Specifically,
Sticky Fingers
Exile
White Album
Revolver
Who's Next
Something Else by The Kinks

mostly mars volta albums

Naturally, I know lyrics to a shit ton of songs as well, but we're talking entire albums, front to back, right? I have a bunch of one-hit wonder stored in my brain, but I don't know their entire album. Also, I hate when you tell someone you know the lyrics to a song and they ask you to sing it, but you are only able to sing it if the song is playing along. Stupid brain.

Also, pretty sure I have this one memorized in its entirety:

Yep. yepyepyep.

'In the daze of a thousand yawns' is one of my fave lyrical phrases of the last decade.

pretty amazing. count me in the not a single album group. shit, not too many songs even i'm sure

Tons. I'll list:

All Beatles...









^^ as well as all the instrumentation on this 15-min. live version of "Spoonful."

a better snark: Music For Airports.

fugazi - repeater
nas - illmatic
beastie boys - check your head
kanye west - graduation
husker du - flip your wig
don caballero - what burns never returns
d'angelo - voodoo

Dwarves - The Dwarves Are Young & Good Looking
Weezer - Pinkerton
Weezer - Weezer
Weezer - Weezer
Weezer - Weezer
Ween discography
Zappa's '60s records
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
The Frogs - It's Only Right & Natural
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
a lot of Neil Young
Pavement stuff

Awesome. There's a shit ton of good times to be had just with the albums in your head. So, if you ever get bored...

It's a rare album to which I know all the lyrics front and back...not that I don't know the lyrics to a lot of solitary songs, as others have mentioned, but this comes to mind:

Beatles - 1 (I tested this one recently)
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister / Life Pursuit
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
The Good Life - Black Out
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Jimmy Eat World - Clarity
Death Cab for Cutie - Photo Album / Forbidden Love EP
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
U2 - Joshua Tree / Achtung Baby
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Rilo Kiley - Execution of All Things
Radiohead - The Bends / OK Computer
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds / 20 Good Vibrations
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust / Hunky Dory
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals / Night Ripper

Forgot to mention these.

shit, yeah, me too.

Alice Smith: For Lovers, Dreamers & Me
Amy Winehouse: Back to Black
Fiona Apple Discography
Jenny Lewis/Rilo Kiley Discography
Kate Nash: Made of Bricks
Laura Marling: Alas I Cannot Swim
Lily Allen: Alright, Still
The Pipettes: We Are the Pipettes
She & Him: Volume One

Yeah...

Most of Mogwai's stuff.