Albums with Music Videos for Every Song

Here’s a selection of rock and pop albums with music videos for every track. These are six full albums to experience on YouTube. Literally, music for your ears… and eyes.

It’s fascinating to see how artists find ways to tell visual stories through their music beyond the traditional music video. An album doesn’t have to be a concept record, a movie soundtrack, or a story told from beginning to end. Sometimes, it’s simply about experiencing the music in a different way; a kind of visual listening.

Here are a few albums with videos for every song, all available on YouTube:

Eat to the Beat (1979) by Blondie

Running time: 44 minutes.

Genre: Dance rock

One of the pioneering examples of the video album format, Eat to the Beat followed Blondie’s hugely successful Parallel Lines. It features familiar hits such as “Dreaming,” “Atomic,” and “The Hardest Part.” But the project goes beyond a handful of promotional clips: every track on the album has its own video. Across this tracklist, Blondie blend pop and rock brilliantly, drawing on reggae, disco, and punk along the way.

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Night Thoughts (2016) by Suede

Running time: 57 minutes

Genre: Britpop, Alternative Rock

Dark and far from cheerful, Night Thoughts unfolds as a compelling audiovisual narrative, with the music and images moving in perfect sync. Its two main characters go through a series of dramatic events, bringing the album’s emotional intensity to life on screen.

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Blue Weekend (2021) by Wolf Alice

Running time: 41 minutes

Genre: Dreampop, alternative rock

Follow Ellie Rowsell through an emotionally charged weekend. Feeling somewhat lost, she becomes a tourist not only in the city around her but also in her own emotional landscape. Along the way, she encounters all kinds of characters as she tries to make sense of her experiences, almost as if engaging in an ongoing inner dialogue. Blue Weekend was one of the standout albums of 2021.

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The Flying Cup Club (2007) de Beirut

Running time: 40 minutes (aprox).

Genre: Indie pop/folk, balkan pop

Strictly speaking, this isn’t a conventional collection of music videos. It’s a traveling live performance that Beirut filmed for La Blogothèque on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. The camera follows Zach Condon as he wanders through the city’s charming corners, in what feels like an aimless stroll where friends seem to be waiting around every corner.

Restless, joyful, melancholic, and unpredictable, the production captures the spirit of The Flying Club Cup beautifully.

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Tommy (1969) by The Who. (1975 Movie)

Running time: 111 minutes

Genre: Opera rock

This one involves a little creative license: what we’re including here isn’t the original rock opera album, but the 1975 film adaptation. Still, it deserves a place on this list, both because it’s freely available on YouTube and because it’s an extraordinary production.

The film features Tina Turner, Elton John, and Jack Nicholson, with The Who’s own Roger Daltrey in the starring role. It tells the story of a boy who becomes deaf, blind, and unable to speak, and the extraordinary experiences that shape his life.

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Indie Cindy (2014) by The Pixies

Running time: 45 minutes

Genre: Noise rock, alternative rock

Indie Cindy may not be the strongest album in the Pixies catalog, but it still delivers plenty of offbeat moments and biting satire. It marked the band’s return to the studio under the leadership of Black Francis, taking listeners through a series of hilarious—and sometimes uncomfortable—situations that challenge their expectations.

Indie Cindy‘s videos are reminder that not everything needs to make sense all the time, and that music can be at its best when it takes us out of our comfort zone.

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