Best double album ever?
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Best double album ever?
What has been the best double album ever?
The Wall? Electric Ladyland? Exile On Main St? Physical Graffiti? The White Album?
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The Wall? Electric Ladyland? Exile On Main St? Physical Graffiti? The White Album?
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I hate to say it, but I think all of those records just go to show that the double album wasn't such a good idea. There's some great stuff there, but all those albums (at least the ones I know well) are stuffed with unnecessary filler and would have been much stronger culled down to single albums. All the songs written by the other guys in the Experience could easily be dropped out without being missed, to give one example.
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Let's see, I don't think there is a huge list of great double albums. Some of my favorite's.
NIN - The Fragile
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Beatles - White Album
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Lately I've been listening to more Stevie Wonder. As great as his album is, some songs/lyrics feel incomplete, or I would have liked to have seen them fleshed out a bit differently. But it comes across as being very Stevie, lots of amazing highlights.
NIN is my favorite music so I'm biased towards this album. There is a bit of filler here, but it's actually great filler if you're not just looking for 2 albums worth of singles. Of course, there are many incredible songs too, not many radio hit singles, but really great songs anyway. Best to listen to with the mindset of a bit of patience or you can just skip to the most immediate songs.
Smashing Pumpkins album has a lot of filler, but the singles were hits. Billy is generally kind of long winded anyway, so he can go on and on. Decent, with moments of greatness.
The Wall had great songs and worked so well as a movie, and of course there are all the radio hits we've heard to death. Listening to the album itself is something I don't do that often, it's a different experience hearing the album all at once, than if it's in the movie or on the radio. Has to be at the top of the list of all time greats.
White Album/Beatles There's nothing I can say that probably hasn't already been said about it. Automatically near the top of the list
Others have mentioned Hendrix. I like Hendrix quite a bit, and people could argue about his talent as being what's great to listen to and all that. But if I'm purely listening just to the music for music's sake, and if his name was Bill The Nobody, it would be a solid set of songs, with one big hit, and some other minor hits and filler. I mean, I like him, but, I think I listen to the guitar playing and persona more than just letting the music itself awe me. Still up the list, but not at the top for me.
NIN - The Fragile
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Beatles - White Album
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Lately I've been listening to more Stevie Wonder. As great as his album is, some songs/lyrics feel incomplete, or I would have liked to have seen them fleshed out a bit differently. But it comes across as being very Stevie, lots of amazing highlights.
NIN is my favorite music so I'm biased towards this album. There is a bit of filler here, but it's actually great filler if you're not just looking for 2 albums worth of singles. Of course, there are many incredible songs too, not many radio hit singles, but really great songs anyway. Best to listen to with the mindset of a bit of patience or you can just skip to the most immediate songs.
Smashing Pumpkins album has a lot of filler, but the singles were hits. Billy is generally kind of long winded anyway, so he can go on and on. Decent, with moments of greatness.
The Wall had great songs and worked so well as a movie, and of course there are all the radio hits we've heard to death. Listening to the album itself is something I don't do that often, it's a different experience hearing the album all at once, than if it's in the movie or on the radio. Has to be at the top of the list of all time greats.
White Album/Beatles There's nothing I can say that probably hasn't already been said about it. Automatically near the top of the list
Others have mentioned Hendrix. I like Hendrix quite a bit, and people could argue about his talent as being what's great to listen to and all that. But if I'm purely listening just to the music for music's sake, and if his name was Bill The Nobody, it would be a solid set of songs, with one big hit, and some other minor hits and filler. I mean, I like him, but, I think I listen to the guitar playing and persona more than just letting the music itself awe me. Still up the list, but not at the top for me.
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