Pink Floyd - Animals
Zappa - The entire run from 1973-1976
Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation
Tribe - Low End Theory (especially, but the first 3 really)
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Tortoise - TNT
Four Tet - There is Love In You
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i feel like this was the case for the majority of albums since record labels have existed. maybe its gotten a little better now with certain genres like ambient, concrete, electronic genres, rap, more modern indie but i remember almost every single album from my childhood having MAYBE 1-4 good songs, then 2 songs you could kind of get into after months of listening to it over and over again in your car or cd player because you only had a few cds around, and the majority being just absolute trash
its as if a band had finally created a really good single or two, then had to release it as a album format, so they were forced to fill it with anything
of course there are exceptions. there were always albums that were complete works of art, but that seemed like the exception as opposed to the rule. i do agree though that a perfect album is hard to find, so im considering no filler here as “cohesive enough that there are no awful must-skip tracks or sections in the album”. and especially rap albums with their skits and other nonsense. but rock, nu-metal, 90s atl, punk. they were all so bad with the exception of the track you bought the album for
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Thanks for getting me onto this. 1 long track makes it slightly cheating for this thread but put it on today and it’s very good and refreshingly minimal.
Definitely cheating! But it popped up on my “most listened” list, so I threw it in.
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Please Please Me by The Beatles.
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My sense of this is that actual filler was commonplace in the early LP era.
From the late 60s with the rock era you started to have the idea of the album statement, with the Beatles and a few others setting the standard. Although you could argue there is the odd filler track on even the later Beatles albums.
But through the main “rock” period from say 1967 to the end of the LP era in the mid 90s it was less common.
I also don’t take it to be about a record not necessariy having a cohesive vibe or a well considered running order. It can be all over the place and still not have any “filler”.
In the CD era it was maybe more a case of “bloat”.
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I know someone posted Rid of Me earlier, but I actually think Dry better satisfies the prompt. It’s not most people’s choice for favorite of hers (mine is Is this Desire? but Dry is second) but i feel like each track makes a stronger contribution to the album than some of the tracks on Rid of Me do. I’m much more likely to get bored with Highway 61 or Me Jane or Yuri G or the band version of Man Size than I am with a song on Dry because the Dry songs are a bit more varied from one to the next so that when you take one out you kind of lose that particular color from the palette.
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Kate Bush - Aerial
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Been trying to enjoy this record since day 1.
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Trying and failing? I remember when it came out - it was game-changing. Listened recently again and it’s still so fresh!
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Kind of failed. 
Was mostly enjoying it for Midnight in a Perfect World.
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Trying to not write duplicates of the above contributions…
Morbid Angel - Altars of madness
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Massive attack - Mezzanine
Death - Symbolic and Human
John Coltrane - Giant steps
Breach - Kollapse
Aphex - Analord
Jaga jazzist - what we must
Hate eternal - king of all kings
Meshuggah - from 95 and onward (massive fan boy)
Mastodon - Crack the Skye
Prince - Purple rain
Gustav Holst - The planets
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It could be nostalgia at work but the way Manu Chao’s Clandestino is sequenced makes every sound on it feel integral.
A few others I’d add:
Any album by The Avalanches, again specifically because of how they construct and sequence their records.
Maybe Automatic for the People by REM. There are a couple kind of cringy songs on there but it’s weird how varied the songs are in it but it still sort of maintains the mood that Drive sets.
Mangy Love by Cass McCombs
Also, Tender Buttons by Broadcast. You could put any of their records here but I like that their palette was somewhat restricted on this one. Really underrated band overall.
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you can tell dude is academic musician. the album is a gem each second of its playback
meaningful electronic music as i’d call it
also, Mylène Farmer — Anamorphosée
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Well, even though she was/is pretty successful, I find her singing sort of boring: too whispery, lacking energy. But the music parts are usually great.