SUMMER PROJECT: Whole Albums to Travel By

Those rare musical treasures that require no song-to-song cherry picking, no fast forwarding (for those 35-plus who know what that is...), no selective exclusion from playlists. They are their OWN playlists...each a greatest hits package of brand new material, still fresh even decades on from their release. You know...desert island albums. 

In the case of 1/48/50, whole urban areas, entire counties, fully one half of any state even, may be traversed on the power of a single inspired album playing all the way through.

So good, in fact, they require no two cents thrown in by the likes of me.  Just listen.  ;-)

"The Beatles / 1962-1966" by The Beatles

A compilation album, but proof positive that while The Beatles' ultimate greatness came later in their too-short career, the groundwork for that greatness was being laid (and evident) in "Love Me Do"'s first wheezing harmonica note.

"The Very Best of CCR" by Credence Clearwater Revival

Again, I know it's a greatest hits package, but honestly, it might be the greatest "greatest hits package" ever released.