The Best Double Al***s Ever...
Posted by: samo7 on 09 January 2002
White Album
The Lamb...
Exile on...
Yellowbrick Road
Besides some of the more obvious double albums(maybe not the last one) what are some of your favourites over the years??
And
The newly released double CD compilation of Steely Dan gems 'Show Biz Kids' has a superb recorded quality and not a bum track. Essential introduction to the 'Dan' for the uninitiated.
You need to get a USA manufactured version, of course!
Boycott those crap sounding EU/UK discs.
2) Plays Live - Peter Gabriel
3) Decade - Neil Young
OK, numer 3 is a triple, what the hell!
Martin
Yours in naim only
Declan
Humble Pie, Rockin'The Fillmore
Bob (in no need of a doctor)
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
Hank Williams - 40 Greatest Hits
John.
Minutemen/Double Nickels on the Dime
Prince/Sign of the Times
Can/Cannibalism
The K and D Sessions...Kruder & Dorfmeister.
Gobsmacked nobody mentioned this earlier!
Wonder what the average age of posters on this forum is sometimes..
Cheers
Keith.
London Calling
Many single CD's are on double vinyl (if you're lucky!). Do these count?
Cheers
Ade
Little Feat - Waiting For Columbus
Pat Metheny - 80/81
The Beatles - The Beatles
Keith Jarrett - Koln Concert
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
Oregon - Oregon In Moscow
Beatles white album
Clash London calling
Stones Exile on main st.
Springsteen the river
Floyd the Wall
Hendrix Electric ladyland
David Live and Stage (Just because Bowie made them)
Todays format,cd are virtually double albums.
In those days double album was quite rare.
I think the old album format lp`s made the artist
push harder too choose the best songs and make the best unity between them. Greetings
And the This Mortal Coil double.
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I think the old album format lp`s made the artist push harder too choose the best songs and make the best unity between them.
I totally agree 50 minutes max - anything else is usually toss.
Regards
Stephen
The answer is, of course, Rush "Exit ... Stage Left"
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Minutemen/Double Nickels on the Dime
Good call! This place amazes me, I never thought for a minute there would be another Minutemen fan out there. I think I have pretty much got the lot, plus all the Firehose stuff. What a rhythm section.
A few other favourite doubles:
Can - Tago Mago.
Tangerine Dream - Ziet.
Amon Duul II - Yeti.
Arab Strap - Phillophobia.
Mogwai - CODY.
Godspeed you black emperor - Raise your fists…
Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica.
Hendrix - Electric Ladyland.
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
Grateful Dead - Live dead.
Husker Du - Zen Arcade & Warehouse songs.
Black Dog - Bytes & Spanners.
Plaid - Not for threes & Rest proof clockwork.
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol 1.
Orbital - 1st & 2nd albums.
Orb - Adventures beyond the ultraworld.
PIL - Metal box, but that’s a triple!
Grooverider - Mysteries of funk, god, that’s a quadruple album!
Tony.
I am not a big fan of techno, but the choice of Redeye (Kruder & Dorfmeister) seems very good for this kind of music.
I exclude of my choice all best of as Remasters for Led Zeppelin.
Jean Luc
Good list, but shame on you - where's Dance Of The Lemmings?
Good list, but shame on you - where's Dance Of The Lemmings?
Absolutely-how can you miss Dance(More correctlt-Tanz der Lemmings) from your list Tony? i know Cope dismisses it in his Krautrock sampler but it shows the Duul at a creative peak .
Agree on Can Tago Mago-my favourite album of all time-30 yrs old now-how time flies , i can still remember buying it in early 72 and the impact it had on my music tastes.
What about
XTC English Settlement
Hawkwind Space Ritual
Tangerine Dream Encore
Who-Tommy & Quadrophenia
Steve
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Good list, but shame on you - where's Dance Of The Lemmings?
I have never actually heard it! I only have Yeti and Phallus Dei. I came to Amon Duul late as a result of Cope's Krautrocksampler book, and Tanz der lemmings does not get into his top 50, in fact IIRC he gives it a bit of a panning. What's it like then?
Steve:
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Hawkwind Space Ritual
Yes, missing that was an oversight. I must get another copy at some point, I sold mine years ago, though still have original copies of the first album and In search of space.
I made the massive mistake of seeing Hawkwind live a few months ago, they were bloody awful. They must have sat down and really thought long and hard about what was good about their early albums, then chosen not to do it at all, there is no other explanation. The songs I recognised were all taken out and tortured to death one by one. They are very funny in a Spinal Tap way though… Hmmm, nude dancers… what year is this again? I could not keep a straight face. It’s a shame as I rate 'You shouldn't do that' from 'In search of space' as one of the finer points of 70s UK rock.
Tony.
To be honest, sides 3 (improvisation) and 4 have removed themselves from my memory. I'll have to play them. But from what I know of your taste, I think you'll love sides 1 and 2
If you ever spot their albums around, Carnival In Babylon, Wolf City, Vive La Trance, and Hijack are all excellent, though they'd moved onto more song-based stuff by then. The singing is as endearingly hit-and-miss as ever (I reckon they only had Renate Knaup-Kroetenschwanz in the band for her name), but the songs are strong.
Finally, if any of our German-speaking members know this album, I've been wondering for 30 years what on earth they are talking about at the end of side 2...
Apologies to everyone else for the krautrock diversion
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti.
Milan
An even better one though, and to my ears probably only second to the White Album as the greatest ever, is 'Screamadelica' by Primal Scream. This record changed the course of rock music.
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One totally gobsmackingly good double album that no-one's mentioned is 'Daydream Nation' by Sonic Youth, which came out in 1988. Probably their best-ever LP.
Can't believe I missed that one off my list! It should obviously be there, as should The White Album and possibly Sreamadelica.
I saw Sonic Youth on both the Daydream Nation and Goo tours, they are a great live band.
Tony.