The ALL NEW MUSIC TRIPLE ALBUM Poll

"All Things Must Pass" obv.

That Godley & Creme thing contained some good songs, but works out only as a single album.

I refer you to my award winning (not) Oh no! I suddenly have a yearning to track down and hear "Consequences" by Godley and Creme! thread.

Einstein On The Beach, even though it's on there twice.

Darn.

Ignore the bottom one...

wow, this is hard! Half Jap, Aphex, NWW, and Philip Glass in a tie for first...

Pumpkins...?

(sorry you guys)

Aphex

de bump.

NWW.

"Escalator" by a landslide

missing the newest stars from the lid record. which was 3 lps, but probably only 2 CDs?

sandinista by a mile and a half for me

Magnetic Fields. Smashing Pumpkins shouldn't count, though.

Even if I loved the record (which I don't), I'd say it still doesn't count.

Well, it's up to youse.

I lost the double albums poll, where did it go? Who won?

If I could only remember... did I already vote or not?
Bother!
If not, I'm all for Escalator

hmm, I bet this poll doesn't get 59 votes!

I voted for Sandinista!, though maybe I should have nominated Metal Box (which is a triple, whereas Second Edition is a double.)

Isn't Einstein on the Beach four LPS, though?

Somebody should have nominated Trilogy by Frank Sinatra (not that I would've voted for it.)

oh wait, they did! - duh. (i missed it.)

69 Love Songs, boringly enuff. Sandinist a fairly close second.

Wasn't the Prince thing a 4-CD set?

Crystal Ball = Prince thing, btw. (Never actually heard the thing, but I remember reading about it in the Voice way back when.)

i'll be the single vote for omit cause i suggested it. and my version of the NWW is only 2 cds.

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Prince's Crystal Ball CD set was 3 CDs of previously unreleased material plus a "bonus" all-acoustic live CD. Its kinda like the Basement Tapes in terms of huge-new-release-of-old-material

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so that's pretty fair i guess

Just two votes for "All Things" is absolutely not fair. Although the only good sides on that album are the first four.

Was "Emancipation" or "Crystal Ball" ever released on vinyl albums? Must have been quadruple albums at least to fit in.

no.

guys 69 Love Songs is really not that good

The right winner, though.

Commie bullshit over pop masterwork

hahahah. Sez a mekons fan!^^^

Hey, 1/2 Jap was only 2/3 eligible! That third record is live.

It's just too bad they weren't only 1/2 eligible, no?

hahahah. Sez a mekons fan!^^^

Theirs are not pinheaded Commie lyrics.

True enough, but still...

Who has that 1/2 jap set?

and how...?

Who has that 1/2 jap set?

Well, I did!

And, the triple cd issue version on three jam-packed CDs.

Which I decanted onto four CDR discs, representing the original 3 lps and an extra disc of bonus tracks. As it should have been.

Philip Glass's Music In Twelve Parts was also a triple CD. And the source of one of my favorite stories ever, about its creation:

“The first movement was originally intended to stand on its own and the ‘Twelve Parts’ in the title referred to twelve lines of counterpoint in the score,” Glass explained in 1993. “I called it Music in Twelve Parts because the keyboards played six lines, there were three wind players involved, and I had originally planned to augment the ensemble to bring in three more lines, for a total of twelve. I played it for a friend of mine and, when it was through, she said, ‘That’s very beautiful; what are the other eleven parts going to be like?’ And I thought that was an interesting misunderstanding and decided to take it as a challenge and go ahead and compose eleven more parts.”