Man, that is a great album.

I usually try to listen to albums front to back, but there are very few I can get through without skipping a couple songs. There are two that stand out right away- Kid A has to go front to back without skipping every time I listen to it. Part of it is how perfectly cohesive it feels, and if I skip anything it feels like I'm skipping the chapter in a book. Part of it is that when I first listened to it, it blew me away- totally changed the way I listened to/thought about music. Left such a definitive emotional imprint on me that now I can't listen to one of the songs without listening to the rest. Still hits me in almost the same way.

The other one is Yellow House by Grizzly Bear, which is funny because when I got it off of iTunes and burned it onto CD, I'd unknowingly shuffled it out of order and listened to it that way for the better part of a year before hearing the correct version. It really messed me up, and I still can't listen to it in the intended order, which is a damn shame given how much thought and care goes into sequencing an album.