Favorite Eight Song Release.

Mine - would have to be Running Wild. Branded and Exiled.
Now days - you get a boat load of songs - perhaps fillers.
Back then - some bands felt 8 songs were enough.
Four songs - on each side of the black vinyl.
I believe Branded was recorded in Berlin - in 1985.

Easy, as my fav album has 8 songs. Metallica - Master of Puppets.

Sabbath's Heaven and Hell only has 8 songs so I'll go with that.

Damn ! Those are gems !

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Death - Leprosy
Death - Spiritual Healing
Death - Human
Destruction - Release From Agony
Devastation - Idolatry
Disciples of Power - Ominous Prophecy
Disciples of Power - Invincible Enemy
Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Kreator - Terrible Certainty
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying?
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Morbid Saint - Spectrum of Death
Opprobrium - Beyond the Unknown
Skeletal Remains - Beyond the Flesh

I won't count Heathen - Breaking the Silence, because even though the vinyl and cassette version have eight tracks, I've always owned the CD version, which includes the band's self titled song, and is one of the album highlights. Otherwise, that would obviously count.

Montrose -Montrose

Required Fields wrote:

Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian

Great call!

Toss up between So Far So Good So What and MOP.
Peace Sells gets a nod too.

Some of my favorite albums have only 8 songs. Two that come to mind immediately are Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy and Opeth's Ghost Reveries.

Megadeth-Peace Sells or Metallica-Master of Puppets

Some other great albums with 8 songs:

Boston- S/T
Rainbow-Long Live Rock n Roll
GNR- Lies
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell

I love most of the albums mentioned in the posts above. Two that I don't think that were mentioned that are great are:

Aerosmith s/t and Get Your Wings

I'm a big fan of only have 8 or 9 tracks, and 10 tops. Unless you have some really serious songs to add to the mix, like Appetite for GNR, then anything over 10 is really too much.

I think the more the better. Beats having to hunt down those extra tracks on b-sides and compilation discs with unreleased songs as perks.

Album with 13 songs of which 8 are awesome > album with 8 songs with no filler.

Lari wrote:

I think the more the better. Beats having to hunt down those extra tracks on b-sides and compilation discs with unreleased songs as perks.

Album with 13 songs of which 8 are awesome > album with 8 songs with no filler.

I already mentioned I prefer the shorter album anyway--but also, I mean, if songs are not good, I don't even see the point of owning them, just because a band you liked recorded them. Which is subjective anyway, which I guess it also an issue, even when it comes to what would you excise from a 13-song album. We might disagree on the strongest 8 tracks.

Death Angel - The Ultra-Violence

Ride the Lightning or Master of Reality

Depends on my mood

8 Seems to be the magic number, I found many albums I love to list:

Aerosmith-Get Your Rocks
Alice Cooper-Killer
Arcturus-Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Atheist-Piece Of Time
Bathory-Hammerheart
Black Sabbath-Heaven Or Hell/Master Of Reality/Paranoid/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Sabotage
Death-Spiritual Healing
Dragonforce-Inhuman Rampage/Sonic Firestorm
Dream Theater-Images And Words/When Dream And Day Unite
Fates Warning-Awaken The Guardian/Perfect Symmetry
Forbidden-Forbidden Evil
Hallow's Eve-Tales Of Terror
Iced Earth-Burnt Offerings
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Kansas-Monolith
Manowar-Battle Hymns/Sign Of The Hammer/The Triumph Of Steel
Marillion-This Strange Engine
Megadeth-So Far, So Good, ....So What
Metallica-Master Of Puppets/Ride The Lightning
Moonlight Agony-Echoes of a Nightmare
Mortification-EnVision EvAngelene
Novembers Doom-The Pale Haunt Departure
Opeth-Black Water Park/Damnation/Orchid
Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon/Diary Of A Madman
Rainbow-Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Rush-Fly By Night
Sabbat-Mourning Has Broken
Stryper-The Yellow And Black Attack
Styx-Equinox/The Grand Illusion
Symphony X-Twilight In Olympus
Triumph-Just A Game
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards/The Magician's Birthday

DallasBlack wrote:

8 Seems to be the magic number, I found many albums I love to list:

Aerosmith-Get Your Rocks
Alice Cooper-Killer
Arcturus-Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Atheist-Piece Of Time
Bathory-Hammerheart
Black Sabbath-Heaven Or Hell/Master Of Reality/Paranoid/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Sabotage
Death-Spiritual Healing
Dragonforce-Inhuman Rampage/Sonic Firestorm
Dream Theater-Images And Words/When Dream And Day Unite
Fates Warning-Awaken The Guardian/Perfect Symmetry
Forbidden-Forbidden Evil
Hallow's Eve-Tales Of Terror
Iced Earth-Burnt Offerings
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Kansas-Monolith
Manowar-Battle Hymns/Sign Of The Hammer/The Triumph Of Steel
Marillion-This Strange Engine
Megadeth-So Far, So Good, ....So What
Metallica-Master Of Puppets/Ride The Lightning
Moonlight Agony-Echoes of a Nightmare
Mortification-EnVision EvAngelene
Novembers Doom-The Pale Haunt Departure
Opeth-Black Water Park/Damnation/Orchid
Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon/Diary Of A Madman
Rainbow-Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Rush-Fly By Night
Sabbat-Mourning Has Broken
Stryper-The Yellow And Black Attack
Styx-Equinox/The Grand Illusion
Symphony X-Twilight In Olympus
Triumph-Just A Game
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards/The Magician's Birthday

Piece of Time has nine songs on it, although the best Atheist album, Unquestionable Presence, has eight songs on it.

Required Fields wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

8 Seems to be the magic number, I found many albums I love to list:

Aerosmith-Get Your Rocks
Alice Cooper-Killer
Arcturus-Aspera Hiems Symfonia
Atheist-Piece Of Time
Bathory-Hammerheart
Black Sabbath-Heaven Or Hell/Master Of Reality/Paranoid/Sabbath Bloody Sabbath/Sabotage
Death-Spiritual Healing
Dragonforce-Inhuman Rampage/Sonic Firestorm
Dream Theater-Images And Words/When Dream And Day Unite
Fates Warning-Awaken The Guardian/Perfect Symmetry
Forbidden-Forbidden Evil
Hallow's Eve-Tales Of Terror
Iced Earth-Burnt Offerings
Iron Maiden-Number Of The Beast
Kansas-Monolith
Manowar-Battle Hymns/Sign Of The Hammer/The Triumph Of Steel
Marillion-This Strange Engine
Megadeth-So Far, So Good, ....So What
Metallica-Master Of Puppets/Ride The Lightning
Moonlight Agony-Echoes of a Nightmare
Mortification-EnVision EvAngelene
Novembers Doom-The Pale Haunt Departure
Opeth-Black Water Park/Damnation/Orchid
Ozzy Osbourne-Bark At The Moon/Diary Of A Madman
Rainbow-Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Rush-Fly By Night
Sabbat-Mourning Has Broken
Stryper-The Yellow And Black Attack
Styx-Equinox/The Grand Illusion
Symphony X-Twilight In Olympus
Triumph-Just A Game
Uriah Heep-Demons & Wizards/The Magician's Birthday

Piece of Time has nine songs on it, although the best Atheist album, Unquestionable Presence, has eight songs on it.

Gotcha. I have the reissue with bonus tracks and it has eight regular songs and the rest are demos so that's where I came up with eight. Strange.

That’s a great list, Dallas.
I was listening today to a newly purchased CD.
V I S I G O T H - Not bad at all. “ Conquers Oath “.
Fantastic artwork. Cool looking musicians.....and yes.....8 songs.