Best Double or Triple Records
 

Sometimes these albums can come off completly bloated but othertimes its a chance for a band to really stretch themselves out and experiment and get some great results from it. Which ones do you like ?

Beatles- White Album
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Husker Du- Zen Arcade
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Sebadoh III (re-issue)
George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
Mudhoney- March To Fuzz
Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness

miles davis - bitches brew

bob dylan - blonde on blonde


the best double album of all time.

I didn't like what I heard of Blonde on Blonde. The only double/triple rekkid I own is the Mars Volta's Frances the Mute.

twat.

You are.

aw, how could i forget about dylan, yea he is istantly added. I love Blonde on Blonde, i never really think of it as a double record , even though it is one.

Great List! I would add these:

SYR 4 & 5
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland & Live @ The Isle of Wight
YES - Yes Shows
Ramones - It's Alive
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life & Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants
Thurston Moore - Psychic Hearts

i know you are but what am i

Double Nickels On The Dime and Zen Arcade are two of my faves, and came out on the same day.

yes also

Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

a twat (three "i know you are but what am i" later)... you say take's one to know one, and I say I am rubber, you are glue whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. I WIN!

dude
the clash- sandinista and london calling
triple and double albums, respectively, that were sold for the price of a single... and as you might know, fuckin amazing.

Trout Mask Replica. Cue the pic of worlds #1 skank holding a copy of it.

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You.

Done.

tool - aenima, lateralus, 10000 days
sy - syr4, daydream

Oh right! SYR4

Wait, you have both "Aenima" & "10,000 Days" on LP? I'm confused. I thought they hadn't come out w/ the vinyl version of 10k Days. & "Aenima" is suppose to be really hard to find.

Xiu Xiu - La For?t

Dylan: Blonde on Blonde, Basement Tapes, Self Portrait.
Bluebottle Kiss: Doubt Seeds.
Tim Rogers and the Temperance Union: Ghost Songs/Dirty Ron

I agree, blonde on blonde is absolutely amazing.

Pink Floyd - The Wall

who, me?


brilliant album by the way.

led zep - physical graffitti.

it has some cool shit

yes it does.

why are people so hellbent on hating zeppelin? it seems like it's trendy to hate them these days, particularly amongst folk of this board.

amon duul ii - made in germany

Those aren't double albums, they're just long. That doesn't count.

Well, I know "Lateralus" is a double LP, 'cuz it's in my collection, but IDK about "Aenima". & I'm pretty sure they haven't even come out w/ "10,000 Days" vinyl yet.

Yes, but I think what GeneticKiss is trying to say is that it's a double record only because vinyl is more restricting than compact disc. It's not 2 records because that is how the album is intended to be heard, like Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, Doubt Seeds, etc etc.

Ps - Zeppelin are great.

^: I read ya'. Some albums are suppose to have that seperation, & some are not.

trout mask replica is the best album ever made by anyone btw.

after trout mask the 2 next best double albums are the white album and daydream nation.

the best triple is sandinista.

Tell me about it!

Pink Floyd - Ummagumma

here's some good ones too:

minutemen - double nickels on the dime
sun city girls - 330.003 crossdressers from beyond the rig veda
sun city girls - dante's disneyland inferno
acid mothers temple - absolutely freak out (zap your mind!!)
caroliner - rings on the awkward shadow
sunroof! - bliss
P.I.L. - metal box
les rallizes denudes - live -77

and there's plenty of others too but i must go eat lunch now...

Neil Young - Decade

Various - Harmony of the Spheres (one side each by Flying Saucer Attack, Roy Montgomery, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Bardo Pond, Charalambides, and Jessamine)

and, just for the sake of excessiveness: Philip Glass - Music In Twelve Parts (6 x LP!)

The Clash - Sandinista

I bought it when it came out and didn't really know how to take it. It has such a diverse range of musical styles, which isn't so unusual for bands these days, but back then it was something quite shocking.

Not all of the tracks work, but even the ones that don't, to my then 14 year old ears, sounded pretty amazing.

I don't hate them but I've always, since day one with them, been on the fence about them. Sometimes their stuff--especially on those first four albums or so--sounds like an ingenious expansion of the blues-rock genre. Other times it hits me as the most mediocre of mediocre blues-based 70s-era cock rock (see Bad Company, Foreigner, et al).

I agree with almost everything mentioned so far. I don't agree that BoB is the best double album, though, because that last side is a complete snore fest. There are two double/triple albums I think are close to perfection: Velvet Underground - 1969, and PiL - Metal Box. Not a wasted moment on either of those.

The only double albums i have are -

Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Elliott Smith - From a basement on the hill
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Has anybody mentioned Exile on Main Street? I'd say that's another very nearly perfect double album.