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I can't think of any right now but there must be some......

― hmmm (hmmm), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

TROUT MASK REPLICA (but it's a single CD)
OH AND THE FUCKING WHITE ALBUM HIPSTER SCUM

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

since you said albums not double CDs I'm gonna keep counting ones that are now single CDs.
Can "Tago Mago"
Zappa/Mothers "Freak Out"
The Clash "London Calling"
John Cage/David Tudor "Indeterminacy"
Notorius BIG "Life After Death"
2Pac "All Eyez on Me"
Outkast "Speakerbox/the Love Below"
Zappa "Joe's Garage" (triple album but double CD, I'm counting it with that acknowledgement)
Rolling Stones "Exile on Main St."

I could keep going but FFS you can't think of ANY good double albums?!?!?!?!?!?!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hampton Grease Band, Music To Eat
Minutemen, Double Nickels On The Dime
Soft Machine, Third
Funkadelic, One Nation Under A Groove

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:27 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, i'm wondering if prince has any good ones. or maybe the minutemen. or bob dylan maybe. or husker du.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(i don't mean "hmm" as a message to the questioner, i just mean "hmm" as, um, "hmm." for the record.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

rumor has it stevie wonder had one.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:30 (twenty-one years ago)

man we are so mean sometimes

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:32 (twenty-one years ago)

yay Hampton Grease Band!! you rule myonga!

Bob Dylan Blonde On Blonde
Dead C Harsh 70s reality
Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Roscoe Mitchell Nonaah
Prince Sign O' the Times
Hawkwind Space Ritual
Anthony Braxton For Alto
The Ex Joggers and Smoggers
Kevin Coyne Marjory Razorblade

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:33 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post w/ the obv prince/dylan comment)

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:36 (twenty-one years ago)

other artists who peaked with a double album, as did more than a few of those mentioned above:

sonic youth
elton john

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, yeah, SY for sure. can't believe I forget them

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:40 (twenty-one years ago)

some obviously crazy people might even be crazy enough to think ..

Greatful Dead - Live/Dead

and

Allman Brothers - Live at the Fillmore East

.. belong in this category

― Reed Moore (diamond), Sunday, 19 September 2004 07:44 (twenty-one years ago)

good double cds:

the orb - adventures beyond the ultraworld
aphex twin - saw ii

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 19 September 2004 10:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Ted Nugent, Double Live Gonzo
Fushitsusha, Live and Live II
Miles Davis, In Concert and Get Up With It and Dark Magus and Black Beauty and Agharta and Pangaea and Big Fun and We Want Miles
Cecil Taylor, Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come
Cecil Taylor/Max Roach, Historic Concerts
Motorhead, No Remorse
Metallica, ...And Justice For All

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie etc..
Beach Boys In Concert

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Drive By Truckers Southern Rock Opera. I love the last 2 but this is still my favorite.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 19 September 2004 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The original Nuggets 2xLP.

― Dark Horse, Sunday, 19 September 2004 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

from the psychedelic side of things...

oneida - each one teach one
black dice - beaches and canyons
can - tago mago
miles davis - live evil

― peter smith (plsmith), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh ooh - and yoko ono - fly!

― peter smith (plsmith), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is about 50% good, which I suppose makes it a good single album.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

SPEAKERBOXXX/THE LOVE BELOW, HIPSTER SCUM

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Come on, hipster scum loves Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

sonic youth 'goodbye 20th century'
'metal machine music'
sun city girls '330,003...'
morton feldman 'crippled symmetry'

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

modest mouse- lonesome crowded west

― Magic City (ano ano), Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

sonic youth 'goodbye 20th century'

But Goodbye 20th Century is the worst album ever made!!

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 September 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

In the vinyl standard, Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is a quadruple album.

― sexyDancer, Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Kruder and Dorfmeister - K&D Sessions.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 19 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Hendrix - Electric Ladyland

― piers (piers), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Uncle Meat" is better than "Freak Out!" and 100 times better than "Joe's Garage."

And Husker Du, "Zen Arcade"

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:20 (twenty-one years ago)

- dylan: basement tapes
- joni mitchell: don juan's reckless daughter (not her best as there is some jazzrock noodling but still good)
- keith jarrett: köln concert
- peter gabriel: passion soundtrack
- godspeed: lift yr skinny fists
- lambchop: aw cmon/no you cmon (not their best but still pretty good)

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

THE CLASH 'SANDANISTA' IS NOW ON 2 CDS AND IT IS GREAT SO DIE HIPSTER SCUM!!! (why am i shouting?)

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Sunday, 19 September 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

BECAUSE YOU LOVE IT?

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi Aja. Well, ok, yes.

― Star Cauliflower (Star Cauliflower), Sunday, 19 September 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Sun City GIrls - Dante's Disneyland Inferno
oh wait,
THATS TRIPLE DISC

― brock (brock), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Aquasky: Bodyshock
4 Hero: Two Pages

(I'm probably the only one who loves the latter.)

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 19 September 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Funkadelic, One Nation Under A Groove

Er, that should've been America Eats Its Young. Dunno what I was thinking - the original "One Nation" LP did include a bonus 7" but that wasn't on my mind at all.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Sunday, 19 September 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Soft Machine and 'Zen Arcade' seconded; also Husker Du's 'Warehouse: Songs & Stories'.

The Country Teasers 'Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire', although that's an odds 'n' sods comp., so mebby it doesnae count.

Minutemen's 'Double Nickels on the Dime'

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Numan - Living Ornaments

Not only the best double album of all time, but also the best live album of all time.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beatles - (white album)
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Todd Rundgren - Todd

― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 20 September 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

"Peggy Suicide" by Julian Cope

― James Wilson, Monday, 20 September 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

James Brown, The Payback.
Thin Lizzy, Live and Dangerous.
Jorge Ben & Gilberto Gil, Gil e Jorge.
The Tony Williams Lifetime, Emergency!
Chicago, Chicago Transit Authority (a.k.a. I) and II.
Pink Floyd, The Wall.
The 5th Dimension, Live!
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk.
Electric Light Orchestra, Out of the Blue.
Rod McKuen, Live at Carnegie Hall.
And Prince has been hmmm'ed, but then someone mentioned Sign 'O' the Times but not 1999, so I better say that.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Monday, 20 September 2004 02:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Bongwater - Double Bummer
Ween - GodWeenSatan: The Oneness

― nameom (nameom), Monday, 20 September 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Tangerine Dream - Zeit
Royal Trux - Twin Infinitives
Public Image Limited - Second Edition
Chilliwack - Self-titled (their 2nd album)

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 20 September 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

TOP TEN DOUBLE ALBUMS:

1. Tago Mago
2. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
3. Shadow Ring - Lighthouse
4. Charalambides - Market Square
5. The Dead C - Harsh Seventies Reality
6. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
7. Minutemen - Double Nickels
8. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
9. Compulsive Gamblers - Live & Dangerous: Memphis & Chicago
10. Les Rallizes Denudes - Live '77

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:36 (nineteen years ago)

no Chilliwack, no credibility

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:40 (nineteen years ago)

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh, yeah, that's a great choice. don't own the LPs so i didn't even think of it.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 8 September 2006 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges, Clube da Esquina
Donna Summer, Bad Girls, Once Upon a Time
Chicago I and II and III and VII
Neil Diamond, Love at the Greek
Marvin Gaye, Here, My Dear
Isaac Hayes, Black Moses
Nellie McKay, Get Away From Me

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 8 September 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000001EL1.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_V64067520_.jpg

― a.b. (alanbanana), Friday, 8 September 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Pink Floyd,Ummagumma

― EZ Snappin (EZSnappin), Friday, 8 September 2006 02:49 (nineteen years ago)

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium.

Hey, I like it.

― GLC (ZakAce), Friday, 8 September 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

"Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld"

and lama rabi rabi!

― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 8 September 2006 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

Tangerine Dream- Poland

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wu-Tang Forever

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

Public Flipper Limited.

If double CD's count, then I'd say the Kleenex/LiLiPUT double disc. Along with Swans Filth/Body to Body, Cop/Young God/Greed/Holy Money, and the expanded versions of Pavement's Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain Crooked Rain.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Friday, 8 September 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

The Velvet Underground, Live 1969

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

PiL, Metal Box

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:14 (nineteen years ago)

a doi,
exile - stones &
zen arcade - husker du &
double nickle- minutemen

also, regarding nellie mckay - AAARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!

― timmy tannin (pompous), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:24 (nineteen years ago)

Stevie Wonder, Songs In the Key of Life
The Incredible String Band, Wee Tam and the Big Huge

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 08:28 (nineteen years ago)

Lonesome Crowded West and Songs In The Key Of Life are the only ones I know that are good all the way through, in that Nilsson Schmilsson way where every new track that comes on makes you go, "Fuck! This is good!" There are tons, tons, tons of double albums that more or less acquit themselves, the White Album being the quintessential example, with enough gems to balance out the general lack of focus. But on a single album those kinds of ratios would equal a major bomb, making these types of things a "fans only" thing whose idiosyncracies you come to love... very few artists manage even one SINGLE album that really feels like it needs all its songs, so perhaps I'm holding doubles to a high standard, but really we'll be here all day if we list every double album that's "good" in the White Album sense....

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Friday, 8 September 2006 11:13 (nineteen years ago)

Songs In The Key Of Life is rubbish all the way through, though (sorry Doc, I've tried for 30 years but I still don't like it; big comedown from the previous three).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 8 September 2006 11:16 (nineteen years ago)

And "Nilsson Schmilsson" isn't good all the way thru either (and is far from being Harry's best album)

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 11:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jethro Tull - Living In The Past
Prefab Sprout - Jordan: The Comeback
Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard/A True Star
Spirit - Spirit Of '76

― hank (hank s), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Todd Rundgren - A Wizard/A True Star

Not a double album

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

er, would you believe I meant to say Back To The Bars?

― hank (hank s), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

I trust you!

― One Man's Mede Is Another Man's Persian (Dada), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Todd Rundgren mention reminds me to be shocked that XTC's English Settlement has not yet been mentioned (although, like many others mentioned here, it's only a single CD).

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Deep Purple-Made in Japan

― Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Motorpsycho has made some great double albums:
Timothy's Monster
Trust Us
Black Hole/Blank Canvas

― Marty Innerlogic (marty innerlogic), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

The Method Actors - Little Figures
The Suburbs - Credit In Heaven
Lift To Experience - The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 2 April 2010 05:31 (sixteen years ago)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Yer Skinny Fists... (etc)

― kelpolaris, Friday, 2 April 2010 06:09 (sixteen years ago)

my list from three years ago ain't bad. maybe replace the compulsive gamblers pick with exile on main street, and double nickels with 'disaster.'

― ian, Friday, 2 April 2010 06:27 (sixteen years ago)

Whoever mentioned Skylarking 4 years ago must have been thinking English Settlement, since Skylarking wasn't a double.

Less likely they were thinking Oranges and Lemons.

― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:31 (sixteen years ago)

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the twenty-six

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:36 (sixteen years ago)

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pelt - brown cyclopaedia

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:38 (sixteen years ago)

altho I guess that must be the CD cover. LP set is just a light brown sleeve with a 'pelt' silkscreen...

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:39 (sixteen years ago)

RIP Jack

― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:40 (sixteen years ago)

I mentioned OK Computer on some other double albums thread and got told off because it's a single CD, even though it's a double on vinyl. People were arguing that in the CD era the definition of a double album is a double CD. Oddly enough the same argument didn't seem to take flight on the triple albums thread, where people were nominating all sorts of albums that are triples on vinyl but only doubles on CD.

― anagram, Saturday, 3 April 2010 06:25 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

Odd: Nobody mentioned Aphrodite's Child 666

― Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:17 (fourteen years ago)

eight months pass...

There are six great double albums that came out this year by Colour Haze, Ufomammut, Motorpsycho, Crippled Black Phoenix, Baroness and Swans:
http://fastnbulbous.com/double-trouble-double-albums-are-still-a-thing/

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 3 December 2012 14:29 (thirteen years ago)

Nice write-up. The Ufomammut and Swans are locks for my top five, with the Baroness and Color Haze releases not too far behind. I thought the Crippled Black Phoenix had some great moments, but didn't really earn its epic length. Haven't heard the Motorpsycho album.

― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 December 2012 20:19 (thirteen years ago)

one year passes...

I don't know what the heck you people are talking about! The best Double album is obviously Blue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-Ru1XkNZc

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 25 November 2014 23:58 (eleven years ago)

mellon collie and the infinite sadness
the white album
tusk
sign o the times
pom pom
blonde on blonde

― ET sippin the wig (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 00:16 (eleven years ago)

two years pass...

The new Motorpsycho album. I think it might be their best.

Motorpsycho – The Tower (Rune Grammafon)

Also:
Amon Düül II – Yeti
Colour Haze – Los Sounds de Krauts
Game Theory – Lolita Nation
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – The Rarity of Experience
Klaus Schulze – X
Iron Maiden – The Book Of Souls
Kate Bush – Aerial
Bongwater – Double Bummer
Half Japanese – Charmed Life
Polvo – Exploded Drawing
Magma – Kobaïa
Cardiacs – Sing To God
Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
Unwound – Leaves Turn Inside You
Focus – Focus III
Donovan – A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Abattoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus
Oneida – Rated O
Judas Priest – Angel Of Retribution
Klaus Schulze – Cyborg
Ween – The Pod
Iva Bittová & Vladimír Václavek – Bílé inferno
Natural Snow Buildings – The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun
Steven Wilson – Grace For Drowning

― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 18:31 (eight years ago)

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