Aren't The Beatles more of a religion than a band by now?

I also love the double album, but they seem so rare nowdays. They are too risky, so no one really trys them.

Was The Eels "Blinking Lights" a double album? I still haven't checked that one out.

My all time favorite double is still Melon Colie though. Very diverse, and emotional, and they could have made it a quadruple album if they had wanted. They wrote so much awesome material for that session. "Ugly" should have been on the record.

I also think that Kid A should have been a double album. Not that I think it would have been a better album because of it, but I think it would have been less embarrassing than releasing a half cooked (in my opinion) Amnesiac directly afterwords. I feel like they just knew people would buy it so they didn't care. Not that it didn't have some awesome songs though.

Illinois should have been a double album also. I think I read somewhere that Sufjan meant it to be, but he was adviced against it. There are too many good songs on Avalanche for it to be a B-side and Rarities disc. At least he didn't try to pass it off as a different album though.

On a sepparate note, I just read on Stereogum that the new Counting Crows album is going to be a double. Way to go out with a bang. "a bang" being the sound made when someone belly flops into an empty swimming pool.

the cure's new album, which has been pushed back to 2008, is going to be a double too

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Originally posted by brainofp:
the cure's new album, which has been pushed back to 2008, is going to be a double too

Ooh. Back when The Cure (the s/t album) came out, and I was at my peak of Cure obsession...they were probably my favorite band for a little while...Robert Smith said in an interview that originally he planned that album as a double album, entitled Good Dream/Bad Dream, with half happy songs and half brooding goth numbers. Then whoever was producing it convinced him to squash it down to a single disk.

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Originally posted by Shadrach:
My all time favorite double is still Melon Colie though. Very diverse, and emotional, and they could have made it a quadruple album if they had wanted. They wrote so much awesome material for that session. "Ugly" should have been on the record.

I haven't heard any of the unreleased stuff from those sessions but I heard they recorded a whole assload of music. Something like 56 songs?

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I also think that Kid A should have been a double album. Not that I think it would have been a better album because of it, but I think it would have been less embarrassing than releasing a half cooked (in my opinion) Amnesiac directly afterwords. I feel like they just knew people would buy it so they didn't care. Not that it didn't have some awesome songs though.

Eh, but then the one album comes out really mixed and significantly less good. Which I guess contradicts my "I want it stretched out even if the stuff in between is less good" statement, but maybe there's a threshold for even the filler and I just couldn't like Amnesiac much. I like it better that they culled all the best stuff for Kid A, and since Radiohead was such a big deal I think everyone would have wanted to hear the Amnesiac material regardless of how good it was. They probably could have just called it "Kid A: B-Sides" like it was and narrowed their proper album catalog by one though.

I saw that thread and i'm wandering if there are some artists/bands that made a triple album.

Tom Waits released a triple-album a couple years ago, but about half of the material was old stuff, so I don't think that counts. Apart from thast I'm not aware of any triple albums, though I'm sure someone has done it.

MF Grimm released a triple album in 2006.

The Clash's Sandinista! is the first triple-album that comes to mind. Of course it really depends on if you're referring to vinyl or CD, since you can cram more music onto a CD. Theres probably quite a few double disc albums that are released as triple LPs. The last two Stars of the Lids albums would fit the bill as well and the combined Low Level Owl by The Appleseed Cast.

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Originally posted by RavingLunatic:
Tom Waits released a triple-album a couple years ago, but about half of the material was old stuff, so I don't think that counts. Apart from thast I'm not aware of any triple albums, though I'm sure someone has done it.

All Things Must Pass was a triple, and so was Sandinista!. There are also, of course, a number of live prog rock and jam band triple albums.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Triple_albums

In the interest of contributing something to the original idea of this thread, let me throw in Nellie McKay's Get Away From Me and Pretty Little Head, and Deep Purple's Made in Japan, especially the remastered version.

How could I forget the greatest triple album of all time, 69 Love Songs?

Prince's Emancipation was a triple

A few off the top of my head. Some are live or greatest hits albums. Do these count?

-Cure Happily Ever After/Seventeen Seconds

-Bob Dylan Greatest Hits Vol. 2

-Bob Dylan/Band Before The Flood

-Neil Young Decade

-Byrds History Of The Byrds

-Steven Stills Manassas

-Yes Yessongs

-Genesis Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

-Traffic On The Road

-Grand Funk Railroad Live

-Bloodrock Live

-Move Best Of The Move

-Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now

-Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone/March 16-20, 1992

-Daddy Cool The Last Drive-In Movie Show (Daddy
Cool Live!)

-Brinsley Schwarz Brinsley Schwarz/Despite It
All (twofer)

-Small Faces Autumn Stone

-Who Jaguar bootleg

-Townes Van Zandt Live At The Old Quarter

-Butch Hancock Winds Dominion

-Love Out Here

-Etta James Peaches

-James Brown Live At The Apollo

-Neville Brothers Treacherous (Anthology)

-All of the Chess Masters Double LPs that were issued (J.B. Lenoir, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and several more)

-Fathers And Sons Muddy Waters paired w/ young British rockers

-Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper Further Adventues

-Cream Wheels Of Fire

-Johnny Winter And 2nd Winter

-Todd Rundgren Something/Anything and Todd

-All of the Motown anthologies of their individual groups and solo artists

-Vanguard Records twofers Richard and Mimi Farina, Doc Watson, Weavers etc.

-Fantasy also issued many twofers (I have a few like Tom Rush and Dave Van Ronk). Prestige also issued many double LPs on their Jazz artists

-John Lee Hooker Mad Man Blues (several other Hooker doubles)

I have a sense that I've only mentioned a fraction of the muli-disk albums in my collection but it's getting late. If anything else comes to mind that merits mention I'll edit this list. GOOD NIGHT

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My personal favourite double album is Quadrophenia. Not a duff track on it.

Others I like, which I don't believe have been mentioned:

Bob Seger, Live Bullet
Arguably the finest example of that '70s staple, the double live album (I also listened to Ted Nugent's Double Live Gonzo! a lot as a teenager, not sure how that would stand up now, though)

Frank Zappa, Sheik Yerbouti and Joe's Garage
Yes, some of the "humour" is pretty puerile, but these albums also feature some fine tunes

Iron Maiden, Live After Death
My head-banging days are long behind me, yet my love of Iron Maiden endures.

Wings Over America
Actually a triple album, I believe. My uncle owned this one and played it for me constantly when I was an impressionable youngster.

Stadium Arcadium was originally going to be a triple album... ugh. Thank God it wasn't.

Santana's Lotus was a triple live.

Does The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl 1 and 2 count as a double album? Maybe not, but it is(or rather they are) full of magic.

If that one doesn't count I would have to go for The Beatles' White Album. (Very original, I know...)

My favs:

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven -Godspeed You Black Emperor!
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
The Wall - Pink Floyd
69 Love Songs - Magnetic Fields

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Originally posted by DimsiRupsi:
Does The Appleseed Cast - Low Level Owl 1 and 2 count as a double album? Maybe not, but it is(or rather they are) full of magic.

I count it, if that means anything. It's also very very good.