Po-faced into the 21^st century, Pink Floyd have won the fight to stop people downloading the more, erm, obvious singles from their albums – instead you have to take their grand opusesuses in full. Chalk one up for the old long-player.

After rigorous analysis, we’ve chosen three other albums that should only be ingested in all their glory – plus three more that could do with some paring down, and another three that should be hung, drawn and quartered until their one good track is all that remains. If you’ve a mind, feel free to add to any category in the egalitarian comments box.

ALL KILLER

Frank Sinatra/Songs For Swinging Lovers
Arguably it's the first modern album, the first record to be intended to work as a coherent whole. It remains incredibly difficult to stop it midway through. Imagine someone stopping It Happened In Monterrey. That person would have all the soul of Moyles.

The Avalanches/Since I Left You

Obviously best taken in one gulp because it's a seamless mix, Since I Left You also knows the value of sequencing, the cranking thrills of Flight Tonight, Close To You and Diners Only exploding into A Different Feeling. Elsewhere it's a voyage through the tropics and the skittish imagination of some gifted, one-shot Australian boys.

Spank Rock/YoYoYoYoYo
East Baltimore/Philly party geniuses go in hard from the start and don't let up at any point. A rap/dance/electro record without a single wasted second, it doesn't require sustained listening, but it does demand it. Dirty, in all the best senses of the word.

KILLER/FILLER

Kanye West/The College Dropout

Lovely chip on your shoulder there, Kanye, but does it really require a dozen skits to emphasise? They trip the impetus of all those finely crafted, sped-up-soul-sample, hook-sprinkled beauties. That goes for the rest of you too, hip hop albums.

Bob Dylan/New Morning

Bucolic, touching reflections on family life and love, uplifting country tunes and oddly fitting gospel backing singers (some of whom Bob was, of course, knocking off). It also provides the soundtrack for The Dude's psychedelic bowling alley trip in The Big Lebowski, and you can't argue with that sort of accolade. The problem is, halfway through, you get If Dogs Run Free. A wandering, pointless ditty, pretty bad in itself, but rendered unlistenable when the scooby-doo scat singing starts in the background. Like walking through a beautiful field of corn with your best girl, and twatting your foot on a rock halfway through.

The Beatles/Any Beatles Album
You can always drop at least one song. Always. Whether it’s a Ringo nursery rhyme, an exhausting George sitarathon or a Paul/John twee beast. And they're the most important albums in rock music history. Which demonstrates how hard it is to achieve the perfect record - and the rather pointless nature of this category.

FILLER WITH A LURKING KILLER

Paul Simon/One Trick Pony
Oh dear. When you listen to Paul's Best Ofs you think whatever album Late In The Evening came from must be pretty special. But then you listen to it. It's the Paul-written soundtrack to a Paul-written film about a man who may or may not be Paul but is Paul who is struggling because of his musical principles (man) and his boss, who is surely played by Rip Torn. And the album's not pretty special, it turns out. Not pretty special at all. Oh well. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Ricky Gervais did a second series of Extras. Paul did not make a sequel to Late In The Evening.

Jamiroquai/Emergency On Planet Earth

When You Gonna Learn? is a wildly exciting debut single, cherrypicking the best of acid jazz and 1970s Wondery funk and crazying it up with didgeridoo. The rest of the album is doobie-dooden-doo indulgent slop with all the questing groovy soul of Ed Miliband.

Extreme/Pornograffiti