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Post by gushingblood on May 16, 2009 9:16:18 GMT -5
I saw some debate of this in the Bob Dylan/Neil Young thread.
My favourite double albums are;
The Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie & Infinite Sadness - This album was the soundtrack to my life from about 2003-2006
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
Worst:
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Stadium Arcadium - One of the worst records of all time.
GnR - Use Your Illusion - Awful follow up
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Post by sactochris on May 16, 2009 9:24:34 GMT -5
The Best
Being There
London Calling
Quadrophinia
Tommy
The Worst
Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
Welcome to The Pleasure Dome
Stadium Arcadium
And, Use Your Illusion, Is not a double album. Both records do however for the most part suck pretty bad.
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Post by gushingblood on May 16, 2009 10:28:26 GMT -5
Use Your Illusion is a double album though, GnR just wanted to make more of a profit so they released 2 albums for £10 each instead of one £15 album.
I also call Bright Eyes' "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning" & "Digital Ash in a Digital Urn" a double album, but they were released separately because they are completely different albums; GnR used the same title on both albums and both share an identical sound/
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Post by sactochris on May 16, 2009 10:42:18 GMT -5
They were both single albums. If you have to buy them seperately, then by definition it's not a double album. It's just like when Springsteen put out Human Touch and Lucky town on the same day. They are two seperate albums released at the same time.
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Post by citrus on May 16, 2009 11:40:35 GMT -5
Best:
London Calling
Double Nickels on the Dime
Zen Arcade
Goodbye Yellow Brick Wall
Songs in the Key of Life
Frampton Comes Alive!
Electric Ladyland
Being There
Worst:
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Besides Mellon Collie, I don't find myself particularly hating any double albums. If an artist puts out a double album, and I've liked their previous work I usually dig the stuff on their double album. Even non-stellar double albums like The River, or Tommy (or Quadrophenia), or Stadium Arcadium have enough gems to play like two normal albums with a bit of filler on each. Also (I think this has come up on a thread elsewhere) what is a double album nowadays? Stadium Arcadium would have been 4 records long on vinyl and single albums like Z by My Morning Jacket do in fact take up TWO vinyl records. The same is true for Stay Positive. So what is the criteria nowadays?
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Post by frannyglass on May 16, 2009 11:48:22 GMT -5
Quadrophenia non-stellar? BOOOO!!!!!!!
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Post by citrus on May 16, 2009 12:21:59 GMT -5
Sorry, that's just One Reporter's Opinion (Oh yeah name checking Double Nickel tracks ;D). Really though, Quadrophenia is great but falls short of STELLAR you know?
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Post by frannyglass on May 16, 2009 12:23:46 GMT -5
it's stellar to me....
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Post by roboreckles on May 16, 2009 12:25:23 GMT -5
I like all the bests but unmentioned, surprisingly, was Say Anything's In Defense of the Genre. Don't know how you guys get down with the Bemis, or if you do at all, but it's a wild, diverse record that never gets tired.
And Stadium Arcadium BLEW. Shame because the Chili Peppers were the first band that let me know that there was something to listen to other than country music that my folks liked.
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Post by jamesjesusangleton on May 16, 2009 12:29:16 GMT -5
Stay Positive could have fit on one vinyl record. But it's a valid point that double album is a nearly meaningless term nowadays; equally it's true that having 80 minutes to play on a CD with has resulted literally thousands of albums that are too long. I think they only way to define a double is an album that was originally released on two 33rpm vinyl discs. There isn't one double album about which I think "Thank God that's 80 minutes long!". There are some where I understand that the really crap bits are an organic part of the whole, and that simply having the best 12 songs would result in a very different (and possibly inferior) disc - the White Album, London Calling, Exile. But my favourite double ... "i" by AR Kane. By no means perfect, but thoroughly interesting. It can be found on the interwebs. And here is some information about them: www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=ar_kane |
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Post by seagull on May 16, 2009 12:35:00 GMT -5
Best: London Calling
Worst: Generation Terrorists by the Manic Street Preachers.
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Post by gushingblood on May 16, 2009 14:44:59 GMT -5
I like all the bests but unmentioned, surprisingly, was Say Anything's In Defense of the Genre. Don't know how you guys get down with the Bemis, or if you do at all, but it's a wild, diverse record that never gets tired. I've been getting into Say Anything quite a lot recently. I haven't tackled Defense of the Genre yet though. I'm still on Baseball. However, "Wow, I can Get Sexual Too" is a complete tune. |
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Post by toastie on May 16, 2009 14:49:07 GMT -5
I like all the bests but unmentioned, surprisingly, was Say Anything's In Defense of the Genre. Don't know how you guys get down with the Bemis, or if you do at all, but it's a wild, diverse record that never gets tired. I've been getting into Say Anything quite a lot recently. I haven't tackled Defense of the Genre yet though. I'm still on Baseball. However, "Wow, I can Get Sexual Too" is a complete tune. I've only got "Alive with a glory of love" which is a toone. |
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Post by gushingblood on May 16, 2009 15:08:00 GMT -5
I've been getting into Say Anything quite a lot recently. I haven't tackled Defense of the Genre yet though. I'm still on Baseball. However, "Wow, I can Get Sexual Too" is a complete tune. I've only got "Alive with a glory of love" which is a toone. Prepare for some epic panning. This song opens up the album "Baseball", put some headphones on and RAWK; Say Anything - Colorblind |
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Post by red on May 16, 2009 18:23:23 GMT -5
Chalk this one up under "best."  |
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Post by stevedave on May 17, 2009 3:30:32 GMT -5
This is an odd one as some of the records on here I don't consider doubles as I have the CD and it's all on one disc (Manic Street Preachers, Wilco, Husker Du) and some I do as i have the vinyl (Both Use Your Illusion albums are double albums, that was the point. Sign Of The Times is a double, Stay Positives a double in those books) and some are doubles whatever format you get em on (Stadium Arcadium *which I rather like*, The Wall, Tommy, The River)... So I'll just add this...
With the exception of London Calling and Electric Ladyland, all albums over 14 tracks can be improved by editing. Including The White Album.
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Post by bigontheinside on May 17, 2009 10:41:28 GMT -5
I didn't mind Stadium Arcadium, as despite the terrible name and lots of filler, some of it was really good.
The Chili's best album for me was the painfully ignored One Hot Minute. It's so fun, there's lots of funkiness, and some very memorable tracks like Aeroplane and My Friends.
(oh yeah, and London Calling was amazing.)
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Post by biblesalesman on May 17, 2009 18:58:00 GMT -5
Best
Rock of Ages -The Band
Skullfuck _The Grateful Dead
One More From The Road-Lynyrd Skynyrd
Waiting for Columbus - Little Feat
Leon Live-Leon Russel
Where We All Belong -The Marshall Tucker Band
Take No Prisoners - Lou Reed
Before the Flood-Bob Dylan /The Band
Worst
The River- Bruce Springtseen
The Raven- Lou Reed
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Post by cre618 on May 17, 2009 19:19:31 GMT -5
Didn't read the other thread...but hello, where is Sandinista? But that was a triple album, I guess.
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Post by motörben on May 17, 2009 20:40:21 GMT -5
Is there some reason why nobody's mentioned Life After Death yet?
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Post by The Dude on May 17, 2009 22:44:19 GMT -5
im shocked at the love of say anything, they used to be my favorite band is a real boy is a classic in pop punk and in defense of the genre is a great double album one of the worst multi disc albums ive ever heard is the early novembers tripple disc the mother the mechanic and the path
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Post by nosferatu on May 18, 2009 10:32:49 GMT -5
Best:
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
The Wall - Pink Floyd (if you can get through it... HEAVY. SHIT. MAN.)
London Calling - The Clash
Quadrophenia - The Who
Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
Worst:
The Wall - Pink Floyd (there is almost as much not to like about this record than there is to like. Waters gets tiresome eventually. If you can see through the flaws most of the time though it's dece)
Stadium Arcadium - RHCP
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Post by john k on May 18, 2009 11:58:45 GMT -5
stay positive hardly qualifies as a double album
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Post by stevedave on May 18, 2009 14:04:37 GMT -5
Best: The Wall - Pink Floyd (if you can get through it... HEAVY. SHIT. MAN.) Worst: The Wall - Pink Floyd (there is almost as much not to like about this record than there is to like. Waters gets tiresome eventually. If you can see through the flaws most of the time though it's dece) You are so right |
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Post by roywalker on May 18, 2009 15:37:38 GMT -5
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation for the best.
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