There's a rare few albums that are good the whole way through.
I think Mae's got the best one: The Everglow. Taken as a whole, it's probably my favorite album in my (iTunes) music library. No song has less than four stars, and I'm kind of picky with my stars.
It's designed like a story, and it flows like one too. The tracks move seamlessly from one to the next - there's even a prologue which encourages you to follow the music with the booklet from the cd case. I love this album. How it's non-traditional. How it's not based around a 'single'. How every single track is outstanding.
And I listened to the whole thing again this evening. Start to finish, as it should be appreciated. Although this time in lieu of the booklet - the iTunes visualizer provided some strangely emotive stuff.