I thought I'd reverse the "Songs that are too good for their albums thread" and ask about albums that you think are significantly better that any individual track.

This exercise obviously puts any 'concept albums' on any list immediately, so I would try to eliminate any overt concept album from the list.

I tried to look at my albums and songs list and see which of my albums contain no songs in my top 100. Try it yourself if you'd like.

Here's some of mine:

Velvet Underground - Loaded
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Vs. the Pink Robots
Basement Jaxx - Remedy
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - s/t
Zombies - Oddessey and Oracle
Pixies - Doolittle

Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk
And pretty much everything by the Who

Frank Zappa - We're Only In It For The Money
Beck - Mellow Gold
Nirvana - In Utero
Tom Waits = Swordfishtrombones
The Who - The Who Sell Out

Astral Weeks and OK Computer; ditto Doolittle, I'm not sure I agree with Odessey and Oracle, in my top 5 albums, but great songs also. Come to think of it, all four of these albums are in my top five albums! I guess that's why!

My top three rated albums with no songs that will be making it onto my top 200 are:

14. The Velvet Underground and Nico
15. Born in the U.S.A.
31. Revolver

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

That's the only album in my top 50 that doesn't have a song in my top 300.

Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.

The only album in my top 50 albums that doesn't have a song in my top 300 songs

Whoops. Thought it wasn't posted.

John Cale, "Paris 1919", and, come to think of it, several other Cale albums.

Neoptolemos,

Are you sure Exile is as good as the hype, considering the absence of a top 300 song in your rankigs? I've always found it to be a little overrated compared to some of the other Stones classics.

I've asked myself that same question many times, is it really that good? And I can only conclude that yes, it is indeed that good. Every song just works, and although not a single one is in the top 300, there's not a single song on there that isn't just good (or even great) either. And they all work together so well and form such a great album, one that really deserves the term "greater than the sum of its parts", that I just can't put any Stones album higher in my list than this one.