OK, try this: Nominate a triple album, and we'll run the poll later.. This thread will close so we're making it a poll, sort of

69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Consequences (album) - Godley/Creme
Crystal Ball (Prince album) - Prince
Emancipation (album) - Prince
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
Sandinista - The Clash
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar! - Frank Zappa
Thing-Fish - Frank Zappa

I think Arc/Weld by Neil Young was on three discs, if it counts as a single album. It was sold as one initially, anyway.

Carla Bley, et. al.--Escalator Over the Hill

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness is a triple LP in its vinyl form (with a way different running order and a couple songs not on the double CD version).

Is "69 Love Songs" available on vinyl? If so, it would have to take up 4, maybe 5 discs.

Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts

I was just going to say that one, funnily enough...

Arc/Weld was live, right?

I can hardly imagine anything but either "Sandinista" or "69 Love Songs" winning this.

Oh, and, btw. Voted "triple" although "albums!" is also a serious contender ;)

all things must pass will walk with this! even though the end of it (the jams) are useless

I think the definition of a triple album is kinda unclear... Is it only albums that are three on vinyls? Do four-vinyl albums count? What about albums released in the CD era, which are triple on vinyl but double on CD?

xxpost I don't understand how anyone could vote triple, this is albums! in a walk.

acid mothers temple - do whatever you want etc

Agree with Tuomas that this is a bit unclear. If a triple album is supposed to be triple on CD today, then only "69 Lovesongs" and "Emancipation" count.

Tom Waits: Orphans--Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards

It's in a weird middle ground because it's ostensibly an archives collection, but the songs are of way better quality than outtakes, and it was marketed as a regular studio album. I think it should be included.

I think anything that's ever been a triple album in any format should be eligible, if only because there aren't a whole lot of notable triple albums by any definition. Except maybe it'd be good to disqualify compilations disgnated as "box sets," and live albums, which would saddle us with a whole lot of jam bands.

That definitely comes into the "archives" category.

A little clarification:
3 discs (LP or CD)
All new, contemporary material.

This sort of means that some of the Zappa ones may well not qualify, and maybe not the Crystal Ball Prince one (I don't know for sure)

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness is a triple LP in its vinyl form (with a way different running order and a couple songs not on the double CD version).

-- Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 24 October 2007 12:40 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

Ah, advice here. I feel it to be a double album, but then I don't got one...

yeah, you're probably right. I was just throwing it out there since I think it'd be more interesting with more than a dozen candidates.

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle be Unbroken

Another live triple: How The West Was Won by Led Zeppelin.

I could've sworn that the Basement Tapes was a triple as well, but I am told not.

(I'm assuming that live collections means that single gigs are OK - though both of my nominations might actually be several-gigs-strung-together, come to think)

OK, clarification: I do mean live gigs. There are loads of "Dicks Picks" that centre on one Grateful Dead gig each. So, they do not count.

Does this count?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/THE-CURE-KISS-ME-KISS-ME-3-LP-SET-1987-SEALED_W0QQitemZ130166481655QQihZ003QQcategoryZ43698QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Ltd Ed double album with bonus 12" of b-sides.

(also £50 looks good value for a sealed one of those)

Yeah, I had one of those.

Um, no.

And before you ask, not this one either:
http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060518/4883031774.jpg

Stevie Wonder's Journey Through the Secret... [blah-blah of blah] was a triple LP, surely.

Nope.

Anton Webern - Complete Works

Sounds like a collection.

I'm stopping 'qualifying' these now.

Armand Schaubroeck, A Lot of People Would Like to See Armand Schaubroeck...Dead.

Thank God It's Friday soundtrack

Oh sorry, didn't read the question carefully.

Philip Glass - Einstein On the Beach

Keith Jarrett--Solo Concerts-Bremen/Lausanne

sorry, dude - seems they not wanna them live recordings.

Escalator Over the Hill

Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline

"acid mothers temple - do whatever you want etc"
This is a collection, one of the discs features nothing but artists OTHER than the Acid Mothers Temples. But one that would count is Magical Power from Mars as it was originally released as three separate discs. Nevermind that it was reissued on one cd. Actually, fuck this poll.

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/646/cover_4221222982005.JPG

I'm going to have to take a lot of these on trust!

Good one re Armand Schaubroeck

Keith Jarrett--Solo Concerts-Bremen/Lausanne

-- ellaguru, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:37 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

sorry, dude - seems they not wanna them live recordings.

-- t**t, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:43 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It's original material, so it counts, surely?

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2

This is too hard - what about a sesquialbums poll?

Grateful Dead, Europe '72 should count, it's at least 3/4 songs that had not previously appeared on a Dead album, most of those original, and 3/4 of the tracks on each cut were probably studio re-records anyway.

Keith Jarrett--Solo Concerts-Bremen/Lausanne
-- ellaguru, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:37 PM (49 minutes ago)

sorry, dude - seems they not wanna them live recordings.
-- t**t, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 5:43 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It's original material, so it counts, surely?
-- The guy who just votes in polls, kolmapäev, 24. Oktoober 2007 18:27 (1 hour ago)

"Original material"? Hm! That'd depend -- on how original one considers another Keith Jarrett concert to be. ;)

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle be Unbroken

^^^^a top tier contender. Between this and All Things Must Pass for me. (To its credit, third disc is not just a bunch of long jams, even tho I like the Apple Jam record)

Just checked and the only triple album I've got is the soundtrack album for "Thank God It's Friday" which is pretty damn good. The third disc is actually a twelve inch single (Donna Summer's 20-odd minute version of "Je T'aine") so that would disqualify it maybe.

Original material"? Hm! That'd depend -- on how original one considers another Keith Jarrett concert to be. ;)

-- t**t, Wednesday, October 24, 2007 7:47 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Ha!

Although it was the first one, right? So he gets points for that?

If the Nurse With Wound "Soliloquy for Lilith" 3 LP boxset does not win this then BAN ILM 4 Ever!

Drew, o Drew -- to ban ILM, because of a 3 LP boxset, 4 Ever? Ain't that a teenybit weenybit out of proportion?

cd vers also 3 disks

Just checked and the only triple album I've got is the soundtrack album for "Thank God It's Friday" which is pretty damn good. The third disc is actually a twelve inch single

I was hoping someone would nominate that one! Second Winter (2LPs, 3 sides) was allowed on the double LP poll, so there's precendent of a sort for a 5-sided triple LP.

Frank Sinatra - Trilogy
Mingering Mike - Life in Paris

Don't mind me.. tum ti tum..

69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields
All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
Consequences (album) - Godley/Creme
Crystal Ball (Prince album) - Prince
Emancipation (album) - Prince
Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa
Sandinista - The Clash
Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar! - Frank Zappa
Thing-Fish - Frank Zappa
Carla Bley and Paul Haines: Escalator Over the Hill
Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Will the Circle be Unbroken
Armand Schaubroeck, A Lot of People Would Like to See Armand Schaubroeck...Dead.
acid mothers temple - Magical Power from Mars
Philip Glass - Einstein On the Beach
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Nurse With Wound "Soliloquy for Lilith"

I think these are fair enough.

Frank Sinatra - Trilogy
Mingering Mike - Life in Paris

??

So what is up with triple LPs rereleased as a double CD?

http://www.progreviews.com/reviews/images/Yes-Songs.jpg

xpost:
OK, admittedly the Mingering Mike is a bit of a stretch since there's no music on it, but the sleeve does say it's three albums in one.
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/mingering_mike/05mm.php

The Sinatra's totally legitimate though. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilogy:_Past_Present_Future

Also of arguable eligibility: Songs In The Key of Life.

How's that?

If you want to argue about eligibility how about "Holland" by the Beach Boys? Two albums + one single is still a triple.

omit - quad (3 cds)

Yessongs is a collection, is it not?

Holland is not a double album!

Isn't it? Oh well, what do I know? I've only got a rather scratched copy of the little single which my neighbour gave me at a yard sale.

it has 9 songs on it

Fifteen if you count the single, which is three tracks more than "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends" - a bonafide triple.

Hmmm. Actually "Welcome Back My Friends etc" really only has nine songs also, depending on how you look at it.

9 songs on 1 LP /= double album

How about a triple set made up of a 12", a 10" and a 7"?

http://us.ent1.yimg.com/images.launch.yahoo.com/000/005/461/5461913.jpg

yeah...thought not.

It's great though!

Public Image Ltd - Metal Box

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Also of arguable eligibility: Songs In The Key of Life.

How's that?

Two 12" LPs, one bonus 7" 4-song EP. (A neat little surprise, I thought, back in '77.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

It's a DRAW!!!!!!!!!!!
;)

Nels Cline Trio's Ground album is packaged on vinyl as a triple 7", which I always thought was pretty cool.

METAL BOX!!!

ach, my heart says yes, my head says no.

Songs In The Key Of Life is a 2 & 1/2 disc album.

yeah, doesn't count..

i heard theres a new one by Joanna Newsom

yeah. its already my album of the year and i haven't heard a note

when does voting start for the 2010 ilx poll

Reserving judgment pending note.

when does voting start for the 2010 ilx poll

September

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