My favs are Electric Ladyland & LAYLA~ & Other Assorted Love Songs
Listening to Layla recently Carl Radle's bass playing really, really grabbed me.
Sounded SO gooood!! I gotta learn to play like THAT!
Electric Ladyland is TWICE as good as any other Hendrix album!! heh
either London Calling or Double nickles on the dime.
I think I have to go with Wheels of Fire from Cream
The Clash: London Calling.
Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans.
ELO: Out of The Blue
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Tommy.
Rare Earth - Live.
If I'm honest, I preferred the lengthy improvisational parts on that to DP's Made in Japan where I always thought that the 20 minute version of Space Trucking overstayed its welcome. But I never minded the 25 minute live version of Get Ready, any other version just doesn't sound right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo0GdGgMFzM
(albeit a very short version)
And though I never was and never will be a Zep fan, I thought (and think) that Physical Graffiti presented an interesting and eclectic mix of music. It is in fact my favourite Zep album.
Talking about drawn out songs on double albums: Honorary mention must be made of Loggins & Messina Live album and especially "Vahevala" on it!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrGfM8HMX_k
(a much later version, but still nice)
Uwe
One of my favorite double albums is Wishbone Ash Live dates. The Song Ballad Of The Beacon is my favorite on that album, much better than the studio version. I'll toss in Kiss Alive as a lad of 14 it blew me away lol. The lyrics don't age very well but the band still sounds great on that disc.
Quote from: PWV on December 14, 2008, 09:15:46 PM
The Clash: London Calling.
Yes: Tales from Topographic Oceans.
ELO: Out of The Blue
Pink Floyd: The Wall
That is one eclectic choice! Monster-prog, pop, punk and Herr Waters' nightmares all together. That anybody liking London Calling would even admit to owning these other albums, let alone really liking them ... :o Speaks for you having your own mind and not being relegated by fleeting fashion in your tastes.
Uwe
Two of my all time favorites happen to be a double album (at least way back in the vinyl era they were double albums)
Live & Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Strangers in the Night - UFO
"Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" Derek & The Dominoes- Carl driving Eric & Duane...
"Live at The Fillmore East" Allman Bros. Band- Duane Allman is the only rock oriented guitarist who can play a 10 minute unaccompanied guitar solo and be interesting through it all.
"Live Dates" Wishbone Ash- Ya like counterpoint? Ya like unusual notes in the bass? Mr. Turner and Mr. Powell extract GREAT tones from those guitars too.
"Electric Ladyland" Jimi Hendrix. The only Hendrix album that really shows HIS vision.
"Wheels of Fire" Cream- shows their collective improvisation and deconstruction/reconstruction live and their conscise and focused studio side. Besides, it's got both "White Room" and "Crossroads!"
What all of these double albums have in common for me is that they all come from the days when albums were cohesive works of art, instead of merely a collection of songs- what Keith Richards described as "the hit single and ten tracks of XXXX (feces)".
jte
I tried but could only think of Rare Earth & Tommy . I remember most double record sets being weak. I never liked the Wall.
My first and still favorite double album is Uriah Heep Live..............Gary Thain, J bass, big hair and furry boots was an early and lifelong influence. :thumbsup:
That's easy, as someone who makes a living playing bass in a Beatles tribute band, my favorite double album is
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John.
sleep's dopesmoker double lp. two records, one 65 minute stoner sludge dirge. sweet
of course there is always lou reed's metal machine music that can actually make time stop.
Quote from: TBird1958 on December 15, 2008, 01:27:47 PM
My first and still favorite double album is Uriah Heep Live..............Gary Thain, J bass, big hair and furry boots was an early and lifelong influence. :thumbsup:
Damn! How could I forget that one? I even have a shortened version on CD. I'm ALWAYS saying that the live "Sweet Lorraine" is a must for any bassist to learn. Lifelong influence, indeed. :thumbsup:
Humble Pie "Rockin' the Fillmore" R.I.P. Greg Ridley and Steve Marriott
i have never been without a copy of 'rockin' the fillmore since' the day it was released. incredible music!
Ah~ This has become an EXCELLENT thread!
oh and EXILE ON MAIN ST.
Bitches Brew
Turned my son on to it, and he has had a copy in his truck ever since
Quote from: uwe on December 15, 2008, 07:35:09 AM
That is one eclectic choice! Monster-prog, pop, punk and Herr Waters' nightmares all together. That anybody liking London Calling would even admit to owning these other albums, let alone really liking them ... :o Speaks for you having your own mind and not being relegated by fleeting fashion in your tastes.
Uwe
Yeah, esp. since The Clash rode a wave of anti "dinosaur-rock" with their punk-rock roots into fame and fortune. In hindsight, I don't think I listened to all of them in the same era of my life. That ELO album was the only one of theirs I really dug though...
I forgot about Bitches Brew + 1 there!
thats the funny thing about the Clash on the B side of their first single they sang "no Elvis,Beatles or Rolling Stones" and by London Calling (2 years later)they sounded like all three.