Do you have a favorite "Double Album"?

[Black968]

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by KC911

Is this thread really a senility test ?

No but it is a indicator of grumpy old men on the internet who nit pick a choice of multi-record albums because it has too many records and there is a law that says it has to be a Double album.

[Baz]

How in the world this was missed........

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

No but it is a indicator of grumpy old men on the internet who nit pick a choice of multi-record albums because it has too many records and there is a law that says it has to be a Double album.

Actually the whole thread was a diabolical test to see if grumpy old men could write an intelligible sentence!

[cassisrot]

Nobody mentioned the Beatles White Album. Must be a geezer thing.

[fintstone]

Originally Posted by KC911

Many I have listed are live albums ... so somewhat of a collection of hits in many cases.

For pure greatest hits, doubles .... add in the

Stones -Hot Rocks (for the earlier years)
The Beatles - The red one and the blue one.

I was never a big fan of Greatest Hits albums.... as I bought all the albums individually, but in the mid-80s, when rock CDs began to appear and few offerings .... I bought anyrhing I could get my hands on .

For years... both for albums and later CDs, I would visit a couple of "stores" just about every Tuesday (release day) to see what just came out. Often I got exposed to new stuff they were playing in the store as I browsed the sections.

The Beatles album you mentioned was long my favorite (it was the only one we had for a long while) ...but it eventually grew tiresome after hearing it a million times (and over and over on the radio).

I like the Greatest Hits Albums in most cases. A lot of groups simply cannot seem to fill an album with good music...but put one great song each on a lot of albums. I guess that kept the money flowing. I just cant afford to buy them all.

[72doug2,2S]

Most of mine have been mentioned, but this one first came to my mind.

[72doug2,2S]

[72doug2,2S]

[72doug2,2S]

Originally Posted by cassisrot

Nobody mentioned the Beatles White Album. Must be a geezer thing.

I have two copies of White on vinyl one new mono and one vintage, three vintage Exile copies, three vintage copies of All Things Must Pass (one UK pressing - I know technically these are three albums)

[billybek]

One of my faves when on the road...

Neil Young Decade is another.

[Skip Newsom]

Pink Floyd's The Wall is fantastic!

Genesis comes to mind as well-
The Lamb lies down on Broadway

[KFC911]

[plain fan]

Question for those that have responded or just reading the thread, is it a "double album" only because the original release was on vinyl and unable to contain the entire album on a single record? Many of these responses have been released on a single CD which can contain about 74 minutes of audio.

Anyhow, my favorite double album (2 CDs or 4 records) is Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile.

[jcwade]

Don Ellis...Tears of Joy

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by plain fan

Question for those that have responded or just reading the thread, is it a "double album" only because the original release was on vinyl and unable to contain the entire album on a single record? Many of these responses have been released on a single CD which can contain about 74 minutes of audio.

Anyhow, my favorite double album (2 CDs or 4 records) is Nine Inch Nails, The Fragile.

Many of the original "double albums" that we had were indeed released on a single CD ... sometimes leaving off a short tune (LF's - Waiting For Columbus) or being a double CD also with lots of extra tracks or versions of tunes.

But ya couldn't clean out the pot seeds with a double CD cover... but by then there was no need too

edited: Don't know about commercially released CDs, but in the early daze of mastering from DATs to CDs, 74 mins was the max .... then it went to 80 mins... most live shows took three, and you could fit a 75 minute "set" on a disc.... whew !

I have oodles of awesome Dead shows and other jam bands too.... triple disc shows.... just about every single one.

17 minute album sides sucked

[72doug2,2S]

I still have CDs, but I haven't bought one in years. I do buy old vinyl. I think the question is definitely vinyl centric.

[KFC911]

Nice album collection! Makes my neck hurt

Reminds me of looking through two of my college buddies' searching for stuff to record .... one had around 600, the other 1000, and they trusted me.

I only bought 8-tracks in Jr. and Sr. high school, then switched to cassettes in college, mostly friends' LPs recorded to Maxells and didn't start buying albums until my 3rd yr. and and then for a couple of years after.... then CDs appeared and I went nutz. Replaced a LOT of my earlier tapes and albums as they were released on CD. Spent 15 years browsing the CD racks .... probably have 1500 of those ..... then got into recording shows & mastering/trading DATS/CDs of high quality shows .... mebbe another 1500.

At one time I had 1300 CDs loaded into Sony multi-disc players all ready play at the push of a remote button.

That was my hobby for years

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by KC911

17 minute album sides sucked

One thing I really miss about vinyl is the quality of the cover art and all the lyrics and liner notes.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by 72doug2,2S

I still have CDs, but I haven't bought one in years. I do buy old vinyl. I think the question is definitely vinyl centric.

Nice shelving for your records, Doug. Alphabetically arranged, I assume?