List good double albums.....

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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)

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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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