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BiMonSciFiCon

Alice in Chains - Dirt
STP - Core
Pete Yorn - Musicforthemorningafter
Goo Goo Dolls - A Boy Named Goo
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want

Buttmunker

Too bad Creedence Clearwater Revival hasn't been mentioned. Probably because, although they have a lot of great songs, they're all spread out on many albums. I'm not really into that blusey-rock that is "filler" on their albums.

but the closest would have to be Cosmo's Factory from 1970.
Great tracks include highlighted:

"Ramble Tamble" – 7:10
"Before You Accuse Me" (Bo Diddley) – 3:27
"Travelin' Band" – 2:07 ‡
"Ooby Dooby" (Wade Moore, Dick Penner) – 2:07
"Lookin' Out My Back Door" – 2:35
"Run Through the Jungle" – 3:10 †

[edit] Side two
"Up Around the Bend" – 2:42 †
"My Baby Left Me" (Arthur Crudup) – 2:19
"Who'll Stop the Rain" – 2:29 ‡
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" (Norman Whitfield, Barrett Strong) – 11:07
"Long as I Can See the Light" – 3:33

That's 7 out of 10, which qualifies in my book.
the other songs aren't my cup of tea, nor were they hits. Granted, "Long As I Can See The Light" wasn't a hit, but it became a standard due to "Chronicle." And "Before You Accuse Me" is just a great song, hit or no hit.

Hokeyboy

Kiss - Music from "The Elder"

Matthew Chmiel

Despite my half-ass attempt at a post four years ago, let's try this again. Just quickly browsing through my iTunes library...

The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Arling & Cameron - Hi-Fi Underground
Ash - Meltdown / Twilight Of The Innocents
The Beatles - Abbey Road/ Magical Mystery Tour / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
The Brunettes - Holding Hands Feeding Ducks
cKy - Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild
The Clash - London Calling
Daft Punk - Discovery
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado / A New World Record / Out of the Blue
The Faint - Dance Macabre
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
The Go! Team - Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The Grates - Teeth Lost, Hearts Won
Green Day - American Idiot
Justice - Cross
The Killers - Hot Fuzz
The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium
Mates of State - Bring It Back / Re-Arrange Us
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall / Thriller / Bad
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
N*E*R*D - In Search Of...
No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Persephone's Bees - Notes from the Underworld
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon / The Wall / Wish You Were Here
The Pipettes - We Are the Pipettes
Pixies - Doolittle / Surfer Rosa
The Polyphonic Spree - The Fragile Army
Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
Radiohead - Pablo Honey / OK Computer / Kid A
Rinôçérôse - Futurino
Simian Mobile Disco - Attack Decay Sustain Release
The Sleepy Jackson - Personality, One Was a Spider One Was a Bird
Spymob - Sitting Around Keeping Score
Sugarcult - Start Static
We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor

RagingBull80

This was the first album that came to mind. Ramble Tamble is such an amazing song and it isn't one of the hits.

EDIT: I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a great song and it was a bit of a hit.

akrate69

Paul McCartney - Venus and Mars (maybe Band on the Run)
STYX - The Grand Illusion
Bob Seger - Night Moves, Stranger in Town

nothingfails

Beatles - pretty much their entire discography
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Heart - Dreamboat Annie, Heart
Janet Jackson - Control, Rhythm Nation
Madonna - Like A Virgin, True Blue
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall, Thriller, Bad, Dangerous
Prince - 1999, Purple Rain
U2 - Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby

Numanoid

Yes, I imagine a band's entire discography would probably encompass their greatest hits.

nothingfails

Don't be such a smart ass. There are so many condescending douchebags on this board I swear.

Outside of maybe a few tracks off With The Beatles, Beatles For Sale and White Album (even then I'd argue the case that at least 75-80% of that album is well-known to any music fan), pretty much everything The Beatles have recorded are well-known amongst any serious music lover. Even if you've never owned a copy of Rubber Soul or Revolver, if you heard the album start to finish you'd realize you probably know every song on there. So yes, I would argue that pretty much their entire discography plays as hits collections. After all, Elvis has had dozens of hits collections if not more. So the same could be used for The Beatles. So no, I don't apologize for saying their entire discography is one large Greatest Hits package, because if consumers didn't agree with me, all of their albums wouldn't still sell so well.

Skyclad01

Aversion - Fit To Be Tied

Evanescence - Anywhere But Home

Glenn Danzig - Black Aria

Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

Lucia - From The Land Of Volcano's

Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

Rosario - Mucho Por Vivir

Skid Row- Skid Row

Therion - Theli

White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume 1

rw2516

Bad Company-First Album
Bowie-Let's Dance
Deep Purple-Machine Head
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Crosby, Still, Nash & Young-Deja Vu
Carole King-Tapestry
Foreigner-First Album
Hagar-Standing Hampton
REO-High Infidelity
Stones-Sticky Finger, Some Girls, Tattoo You
The Cars album from around '83 or so with multiple hits and videos

Hendrix-Are You Experienced?

ianforcer

Ash - 1977
Feeder - Polythene

Robot Rock

Ehhh. I'm a pretty big Michael fan but Bad is a terrible album aside from two songs.

The Infidel

I don't think the quality of the album is the point. Most every track of the album was a hit single.

Boba Fett

Rob Zombie: Hellbilly Deluxe

Norm de Plume

Ah, now I get it. I totally misunderstood what the OP wanted. I thought this thread was about albums so chock full of great songs (subjective, of course) that they could pass for "greatest hits" albums.

rw2516

Does anybody else think Tom Petty's Long After Dark sounds like one hit song after another even though there was only the one hit, You Got Lucky. Every song sounds like it's structured as a single.

Numanoid

Thanks, I've been looking for a new sig for a while.

DVD Josh

Epic response is epic.

Monica Clinton

Pretty Close

Elton John -- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

k_lodge

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Billy Joel - The Stranger

cungar

If that's the criteria for being included in this thread, almost none of the albums mentioned fit the bill.

Pizza

Great thread. I agree with most of the choices and many of my favorites have already been named. A few more:
The Who - Tommy
ELO - Face the Music
Kylie Minogue - Light Years
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective
Soundtrack - Xanadu
Split Enz - Time and Tide
Todd Rundgren - Hermit of Mink Hollow

Drexl

I might have missed the point, but the way I interpreted this was to name an album that might as well be GH because many of the artist's hits were on it. So, I picked a group like The Wallflowers because they barely had any hits (if they had any at all) outside of their big album.