The Three Greatest Double Albums Of All Time...

Cafe Society
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Funny, just yesterday I was thinking of starting a thread challenging people to list 3 double albums that should *not *have been single albums!

For me almost all the ones listed here (that I know!) should have been single albums; Physical Graffiti, London Calling and The White Album being prime examples.

If we’re including live albums then my list would be:

Yes Yessongs
Pink Floyd The Wall (really should have been about 1.5 albums but I’ll let it slide)
Blue Oyster Cult On Your Feet or On Your Knees

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Not necessarily the best, but I likes 'em:

Out of the Blue - The Electric Light Orchestra
Three Sides Live - Genesis
White Album - The Beatles

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What about Zappa’s Joe’s Garage Acts I, II and III?

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That would be there first album, Chicago Transit Authority.

My 3 choices have been selected already, Frampton, Skynyrd, and the mighty Zeppelin.

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Hmph…Well, if we’re including George Harrison’s triple album, I’ll go ahead and add:

Best album-and-a-half ;):

Johnny Winters - Second Winter

  • Tamerlane
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Have to agree with the previously mentioned:

Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner
and add the following:

Loggins & Messina - On Stage

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The Best
Double Nickels on the Dime Minutemen

Close second
London Calling The Clash

…about 20 records tied for third. I can’t argue with most of the earlier choices, but how do you choose between the White Album, Live at the Fillmore East, Tommy, and Exile on Main Street?

Honorable Mention
Alive! KISS

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Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
The Clash - London Calling

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Well the best ones have been named (Physical Graffiti, The White Album, Tommy, Exile on Main Street, London Calling), so I’ll name a more modern one that hasn’t been named yet:

The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails

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Mamboman - great picks, but [nitpick]Freak Out predated the 70’s by several years[/nitpick]. it would be one of my choices as well, along with the White Album and, ummm, either Electric Ladyland or Tommy.
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Hey thanks for the props! - seriously, “Freak Out” was kinda old by 1970, but I was digging it because I just couldn’t get into “Weasles Ripped My Flesh”. So I’m not hardcore… Wasn’t “Freak Out” the first double album by a rock act?

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I know I have had my three, but I will not sleep tonight if I don’t mention “Live Rust” by Neil Young & the horse… forgetting that in the top three is like forgetting your wife’s name. What an album! What a great time in my life that album reminds me of… I’m gonna play it right now!

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Oh, yeah? And which tracks would you cut from London Calling? Heretic!

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Jesus Christ Superstar
Phantom of the Opera
Woodstock

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:smack:

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Does Guns N Roses’ Use Your Illusion I & II count.

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(There should be a question mark at the end of that.)

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From the bottom of my heart, thank you for mentioning this one. I LOVE Wilco.

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Lots of them. The good tracks are spectacularly good, but there’s a lot of dross I’m afraid. Barely makes a single album.

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But isn’t that the charm of doubles? All the pokey little “don’t quite fit” tracks that you revisit after time?

Bit’o double album tirivia - two of my three kids had “The White Album” as their birthing music - #1 popped out during “Sexy Sadie” and #2 during “Rocky Raccoon”. #3 was such a quick delivery we didn’t have time to get the CD on, but I figure, given the time we were in the theatre, she’d have been possibly a “Blackbird”.

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Name names…