Were looking at Double Albums to open the New Year. Of all the playlists I've posted on here, I totally missed on this topic up to this point. Double ALbums have provided hourts of enjoyment, not just musically, but also with all the cool content. Were not talking about Live albums or Greatest Hits packagaes, but studio releases. These require a huge investment on your behalf, there twice the price (usually) and come with twice the music and twice the story.
Here's 5 tracks from albums that span a long long time, we'll stary in the late 60's and end up with a great track from just few years back. But first, heres some additional info courtesy of wiki ...
The first studio double album was French singer-songwriter Léo Ferré's Verlaine et Rimbaud chantés par Léo Ferré in 1964, on Barclay Records. The first live double album came early in the LP's history: The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman. The first rock double album was Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, released in June 1966, with Frank Zappa's Freak Out! released one week later. The best-selling double album of all time is Michael Jackson's HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I with over 33 million copies (66 million units) worldwide. The second best-selling double album and best-selling concept album double album ever is Pink Floyd's The Wall with over 30 million copies (60 million units) worldwide. Other best-selling double albums are The Beatles' White Album, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main St., and Billy Joel's Greatest Hits I & II.
The double album is not entirely obsolete when it comes to studio albums, however. Some artists still occasionally produce a large enough quantity of material to justify a double album. For example, progressive rock band The Flower Kings have released four double albums out of eleven studio albums.
Any memories of double albums for you?
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I was all set to list some titles, then started thinking...I was going with LIVE stuff mainly. You actually forget the difference for a moment. I caught myself though. Here's what I got.
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down Last album with Peter Gabriel. Anything after that pretty much sucks.
Pink Floyd - The Wall. When I first heard this, my neighbour buddy was bragging about it as he bought it when it first came out. I asked to borrow it for a day or 2. I still have it.
Zepplin - Physical Graffiti A friend in school was telling me about her brother having this album. She liked me so I talked her into swipping it for me. (uh oh...I see a pattern developing with me getting free albums)
Humble Pie - Eat It - I will argue day in, day out. Steve Marriott is one of the all time best guitarists and an even better front man for any band. Humble Pie could have been so much bigger had egos not interfered.
Damn, that is all I can come up with right now. Double studio albums are rare in deed.
The first double-album I ever knew of, was KISS Alive, and the first one I actually got, was KISS Alive II for just about 35 years ago. Then there were KISS Platinium, and one of my favorite live albums: Jethro Tull - Bursting out. In the end of the 70's, I loved double live albums, but they were expensive for a kid at my age, so I never got Thin Lizzy's Live & Dangerous or Queens' Live Killers.
The "real" double albums are very dear to me. some of my absolute favorite albums are double albums:
Physical Grafitti
Exile On Main Street
The White album
Tommy
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Other great double albums (non greatest hits):
The Clash - London Calling
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the key of life
George Harrison - all things muss pass (In fact a triple-album, but a double CD)
The Who - Quadrophenia
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the infinite sadness (One of the best albums released in the 90's)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (Another of the great 90's album)
Eels - Blinking Light and other Revelations (It's been a while, since I heard this one, but I loved it in 2005)
And I'm sure, there's more, but I've forgotten them right now.
The first double album I remember receiving was the Grease soundtrack on 8 track.
The first double album I ever bought was Pink Floyd's "The Wall". Won't go into what this album means to me since it's been done before.
"London Calling" by The Clash was the second I remember buying. If I remember correctly, the album was too expensive, just a regular album cover, no gatefold sleeve, just the two lp's jammed into the cover. "The Wall" is #1 in my book, but "London Calling" is probably one of the greatest double albums since there are no bad tracks, no filler, plus the "hidden" track is a classic.
I did buy "Tommy" but it was the soundtrack. I still like the soundtrack better than the original album for some sick reason. Maybe it's because of Jack and.....
Since I have all these albums, I will rank them:
1. The Wall
2. The Incident
3. Chicago II
4. Tommy
5. Exile On Main Street
That is all.
Oh, I wouldn't bother, if I were you. It's not a good movie. Daltrey is cool, and Elton John's version of "The Pinball Wizard" is better than Daltrey's. Oliver Reed is very annoying, and it's has a late 60's "Hair"-style all over it. "Tommy" the album is one of the best albums ever, even if RJhog doesn't get it (yet!), but the movie is not worth seeing imo. See "The Kids Are Allright" instead.
I disagree. For the visuals, the movie is a must-see. For Who movies, Quadrophenia is another good one.
It's been decades since I saw "Quadrophenia". One of the movies, I would like to see again. "The Rutles" is another one.
I've just realized, that I can see both movies, "The Rutles - All you need is cash" and "Quadrophenia" at Youtube!
Have any of you seen "The Rutles"? It's quite funny, as I remember it, but I don't think, I've seen it since mayby '79-'80?! A "Mockumentary" about The Beatles, with Eric Iddle, Michael Palin (both Monty Python), John Belushi and Dan Acroyd among others. Very Funny!
Yeah, I saw it years ago. A Rutles anthology was released on bd/dvd about a month ago but don't know if I'll buy. It was mostly funny, there were some boring bits.
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