Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
08-21-15, 10:31 AM
#51
DVD Talk Limited Edition
Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
Deep Purple - Live in Japan (can't believe no one mentioned one of the best live album ever)
The Clash - London Calling
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rolling Stones - Exile in Main St.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne
The Clash - London Calling
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Rolling Stones - Exile in Main St.
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne
08-21-15, 11:26 AM
#52
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Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
08-21-15, 12:53 PM
#54
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Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
I guess for me the dividing line is that Daydream Nation was recorded at a time when vinyl was the dominant music format, which means music was made for vinyl first. Music is now made for CD/digital release first, and if an album gets a vinyl release, it just takes as many vinyl discs as necessary to contain all the music. If, say, Sonic Nurse required two vinyl discs, I'd say that was just a consequence of the modern dominant format not being vinyl, but Daydream Nation was recorded and released when vinyl would have been the paramount concern.
It's also a matter of content. To me, a double album is crammed full of ephemera and weird songs that wouldn't make a single LP. They have a generally rambling character. Daydream Nation (which may be my favorite album of all time) is 12 relatively concise songs.
I realize that there's no real logic here, it's just when I think of a "double album", Daydream Nation doesn't really fit into that category...
08-21-15, 01:04 PM
#55
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Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
Iron Maiden - The Book Of Souls
Yeah, I know it isn't out yet, but from all that I've read about it and the one song that I have heard this is so likely to be my favorite double studio album that I may as well mark it as my favorite now.
Yeah, I know it isn't out yet, but from all that I've read about it and the one song that I have heard this is so likely to be my favorite double studio album that I may as well mark it as my favorite now.
08-21-15, 02:53 PM
#56
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Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
I agree that this has something to do with how I first consumed the album. I bought it when it came out on a single CD (the Enigma release with the fake Zeppelin logos on the disc).
It's also a matter of content. To me, a double album is crammed full of ephemera and weird songs that wouldn't make a single LP. They have a generally rambling character. Daydream Nation (which may be my favorite album of all time) is 12 relatively concise songs.
I realize that there's no real logic here, it's just when I think of a "double album", Daydream Nation doesn't really fit into that category...
It's also a matter of content. To me, a double album is crammed full of ephemera and weird songs that wouldn't make a single LP. They have a generally rambling character. Daydream Nation (which may be my favorite album of all time) is 12 relatively concise songs.
I realize that there's no real logic here, it's just when I think of a "double album", Daydream Nation doesn't really fit into that category...
08-21-15, 03:15 PM
#57
DVD Talk Limited Edition
08-22-15, 02:48 AM
#58
DVD Talk Ultimate Edition
Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
Since the subject line asks for my favorite double-albums, and not what I think are necessarily the best, here are my picks:
Out of the Blue: Electric Light Orchestra
1999: Prince
Works: Volume 1: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Something/Anything?: Todd Rundgren
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Elton John
Out of the Blue: Electric Light Orchestra
1999: Prince
Works: Volume 1: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Something/Anything?: Todd Rundgren
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: Elton John
08-22-15, 08:58 PM
#59
DVD Talk Legend
Re: Your top 5 favorite DOUBLE albums of all time
Pink Floyd ~ The Wall
Genesis ~ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Hawkwind ~ Space Ritual
Wishbone Ash ~ Live Dates
Aphrodite's Child ~ 666
And a 6th for good measure...
The Allman Brothers Band ~ Beginnings
There are others but these will do.
Genesis ~ The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Hawkwind ~ Space Ritual
Wishbone Ash ~ Live Dates
Aphrodite's Child ~ 666
And a 6th for good measure...
The Allman Brothers Band ~ Beginnings
There are others but these will do.
