List good double albums.....

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Tangerine Dream- Poland

trees (treesessplode), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Wu-Tang Forever

Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 8 September 2006 04:43 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

The Velvet Underground, Live 1969

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

PiL, Metal Box

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

hank (hank s), Friday, 8 September 2006 12:36 (seventeen years ago) link

I trust you!

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Deep Purple-Made in Japan

Bill Magill (Bill Magill), Friday, 8 September 2006 14:23 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

kelpolaris, Friday, 2 April 2010 06:09 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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the twenty-six

Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:36 (fourteen years ago) link

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pelt - brown cyclopaedia

Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:38 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

RIP Jack

Stormy Davis, Saturday, 3 April 2010 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Odd: Nobody mentioned Aphrodite's Child 666

Mark G, Friday, 30 March 2012 08:17 (twelve years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (eleven years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (nine years ago) link

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 (six years ago) link


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