Greatest Double Album

[XNASA]

Poll question: Greatest Double Album

You remember Double Albums, doncha? Vote for your favorite from this list of 10.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

1. Gotta go with Blonde on Blonde

Rainy day Woman, stuck inside of Mobile, I want you, Leopard skin pill box hat, and on and on...one of my all time favorite Dylan works!

[BurtWorm]

2. I'll be contrarian and vote for PiL

I love the Metal Box.

[talkinghand]

20. Metal Box was 3 disks!

I had that one once... smashed it in a pseudo-religious frenzy circa 1986...

Great album.

[BurtWorm]

36. You're right about that

[Bunny]

3. What? No Layla?

No Derek and the Dominos? What WERE you thinking?:)!

[JackSwift]

42. Definitely Layla

But The Wall should make the list too.

[noonwitch]

4. I voted for the White Album, but where's The Wall?

just wondering

[Elidor]

35. Yeah, I wanted the Wall, too

Or Maybe Waiting for Columbus.

[UCLA02]

5. U2 - Rattle and Hum

An Irish band that successfully set out to capture all that is great in American rock.

[G_j]

6. The locked thread has "Trout Mask Replica"

good choice

a few other goodies,

Bitch's Brew, Miles Davis

Live Dead

Waiting For Columbus, Little Feet

The First Live Cream Album

[XNASA]

9. Yeah. I screwed up. Big Time.

I didn't think that this thread had made it, I had gotten an error message when I tried to post.

Then when I thought about it some more, I figured I'd throw in TMR, edit out a couple of selections and put "Other" in as a choice.

So, my bad.

Sorry.

[why not]

7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti

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[LynneSin]

26. How could Physical Graffiti NOT be on this list?

Shameful, just shameful!!!

Almost as shameful as claiming "The CIA did it"

[mitchum]

8. Voted for The Velvets on this one...

since I cast my vote for "Exile" on the locked thread.

[MissMillie]

10. Yes:

Tales from Topographic Oceans.


.... gotta love "The Revealing Science of God"

[XNASA]

11. That's a Triple Album.

Is it not? I was saving that for later. Although Rick Wakeman always called that album "Tales from Toby's Graphic Go-Cart". Guess he didn't like it all that much.

[Michael Daniels]

23. Wakeman and TFTO in concert

I heard a story one time that during one really ponderous moment when the band was performing the entire album in concert that Wakeman actually had curry delivered onto the stage by a takeout joint as a sort of statement of his uninvolvement in the the whole affair.

Don't know if it's true but I could see that as being one of the signs that Wakeman was about to turn in his notice to the band.

[XNASA]

15. I stand corrected. It was a double album.

It only seems like a triple album. Prior to TFTO, I was a Yes fan. But TFTO puts me to sleep.

[talkinghand]

21. No kidding I'm a HUGE Yes fan

and even I can't sit through that one!

[ProfessorGAC]

25. Same Here!

I loved Fragile, The Yes Album, the live 2-set Yessongs, but TFTO was dreadfully pretentious and quite unmusical. Lots of wanking and pretending it was classical music.
The Professor

[Capt_Nemo]

12. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

I just don't understand how "The Wall" is left out of the poll

[XNASA]

17. I don't understand how someone can vote for LLDB.....

...and then not understand why something as overwrought as "The Wall" was omitted from the list.

To each his own, I suppose.

[WilliamPitt]

13. Allman Brothers, Live at the Fillmore East

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[CBGLuthier]

14. The Wall, Tommy, Jesus Christ Superstar

I love all those unlisted ones, but to be fair,

The Beatles is the best one to me.

With Tommy right behind.

[Spirochete]

28. Tommy

Was a triple though, wasn't it?

[CBGLuthier]

29. No, double

Just went to the vault and pulled out the creaky old vinyl with the cool cover.

Double album.

[Spirochete]

39. Guess I was wrong

They say the first thing to go is your memory. I forgot what they said the second thing was...

[jobycom]

16. Fleetwood Mac Live; GNR "Use Your Illusion" with Civil War

Civil War is a great forgotten protest song.

[Loonman]

18. The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me

The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs

New Order - Substance 1987

Joy Division - Still

[greyl]

41. I'm with ya on that one too. nt

[lets see]

19. Led Zeppelin - PG

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[crimson333]

22. KISS Alive I

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[Michael Daniels]

24. Prince's Sign O' the Times

Perhaps his last truly great album and a full summary of the man's career at that point in time.

[greyl]

40. I'd include SOTT too.

Though of his, 1999 may have broken more new ground for the time.
If quadruple albums counted, I'd choose Crystal Ball.

Also, Smashing Pumpkins Melocholia and the Infinite Sadness I'd include in the voting.

But I'm settling for the white album for some reason. :)

[talkinghand]

27. I voted Electric Ladyland

from the choices provided. I used to put on Side 4 (House Burning Down, Voodoo Child (slightly revisited), Watchtower) and go back to bed first thing in the morning when I didn't want to get up... there is no WAY you can stay in bed for that entire side -- it makes you want to get up and CONQUER THE WORLD!! I vote that for the best album side, ever.

I have a sentimental attachment to Physical Grafitti, though (how do you spell graffiti?) so I would probably vote that one best dbl-LP...

It was the 2nd album I ever bought, back in 1977. First was Pink Floyd Animals. I sure was sold on rock music! Silly me, I thought it was ALL as good.

[muchacho]

30. Freak Out

The first double and still the best.

Zappa - Freak Out

[fishnfla]

31. Neil Young Decade

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[Coffee Coyote]

32. Blonde On Blonde

Best studio double, followed VERY closely by the Mothers Of Invention's "Freak Out!", which is certainly the best debut double.

For others not on the list, I must add Miles Davis "Bitches Brew", Pink Floyd "The Wall", and for best live/studio combo, the Allman Brothers "Eat A Peach".

Best live double: Allman Brothers at Fillmore East and Lynyrd Skynyrd "One More From The Road" (tie)

Followed by Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band "Live Bullet", and all six volumes of Frank Zappa's "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore".


Overrated studio double: Led Zeppelin "Physical Graffiti". Mostly filler left over from previous albums. This would have made one helluva single album though.

Underrated studio double: Johnny Winter "Second Winter".

Overrated live double: Peter Framptom "Framptom Comes Alive". Who knew guitar wanking on pop ballads had such market potential?

Underrated live double: Neil Young and Crazy Horse "Weld".. This BLISTERS! Best live Crazy Horse album ever.

[SideshowScott]

33. What!?! No The Wall??

Pink Floyds brilliant album should be on there!

[RememberJohn]

34. I would say "Wings Over America"

but I think it was a triple album.

[DoctorBombay]

37. Exile in Guyville by Liz Phair

my write in choice.

[elcondor]

38. White Album!

Gotta go with the Beatles! ;-)