The Double Album that should have happened?

Red Rose Speedway. And Off the Ground Complete is essentially a double. I liked it way better than the single album as originally released.

 

I'd like to see "Cold Cuts" come out.

 

Man you need to read the OP set up for criteria...the Beach Boys are not on his list.

 

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And it’s certainly a shame, the Beach Boys should be on every list!

 

If the lineup that recorded the 1982 demos had stuck together & recorded that set of songs, there was the makings of a very fine double there - perhaps with a few Dez-written tunes in the mix to make-up the running time (you could pull a few from the first DC3 album quite easily)

 

Roxy Music.

Seriously, you could put together a really good double album by combining Stranded & Here Come the Warm Jets.

I had a go at it a while back, will have to fish up the tracklist...

 

The Who had 2 potential double-albums - Lifehouse and The Who Sell Out.

As the reissues have shown, there's plenty of outtake tracks from the 'Sell Out' sessions that are as good as what made the cut - in some cases BETTER than what made the cut.. and there's plenty of adverts/jingles as well that could have made the concept easily run to 4 sides.

When you have a song like Glittering Girl locked in a vault while Silas Stingy ends up on the album (Sorry John fans) it's a classic case of an artist/band being too close to the music to make good objective decisions

 

The Stones could have done one around the 78-81 period, they had loads of tracks lying around.

 

King Crimson

Black Sabbath

But I don't want any of their existing albums to be double albums so I don't know...

 

THE WHO - THE WHO SELL OUT (DOUBLE ALBUM, 1967)
Side One:
01 Radio London Daily/ARMENIA CITY IN THE SKY/Wonderful Radio London
02 HEINZ BAKED BEANS/More Music
03 MARY ANNE WITH THE SHAKY HAND/Premier Drums/Wonderful Radio London
04 JAGUAR/Wonderful Radio London
05 John Mason Cars
06 ODORONO/Radio London Smooth Sailing
07 GLITTERING GIRL
08 John Mason Motors Jingle/Bag O’ Nails (from Life with the Moons)
09 PICTURES OF LILY (from Magic Bus - The Who on Tour)
10 Odorono (final chorus)
Side Two:
11 Happy Jack Jingle (from Maximum R&B)
12 TATTOO/Radio London Church of Your Choice
13 OUR LOVE WAS, IS/You’re a Pussycat/Speak Easy/Rotosound Strings
14 GIRL’S EYES/Bag O’Nails
15 DOCTOR, DOCTOR (from Magic Bus - The Who on Tour)
16 Charles Atlas/I CAN’T REACH YOU
17 My Generation Jingle (from BBC Sessions)
18 SODDING ABOUT
19 Track Records/Premier Drums (from Maximum R&B)
Side Three:
01 Coke After Coke
02 I CAN SEE FOR MILES
03 Things Go Better with Coke
04 RELAX
05 Rotosound Strings (with final note)
06 SILAS STINGY
07 Russell Harty Dialogue (from Maximum R&B)
08 IN THE HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING
09 MEDAC
10 SUMMERTIME BLUES
11 Boris the Spider Jingle (from BBC Sessions)
Side Four:
12 Coke 2 (from Maximum R&B)
13 EARLY MORNING COLD TAXI/Radio London Special News Bulletin/Great Shakes
14 MY WAY/Campers (from Odds and Sods/Horton Hears the Who)
14 Top Gear
15 Premier Drums (full version)
16 SOMEONE’S COMING/Radio London Weather Word
17 SUNRISE/Bag O' Nails
18 RAEL 1 & 2
19 RAEL NAÏVE/John Mason Cars
21 Track Records Run-Off Groove (from Life with the Moons)

Ta da!

 

Absolutely agree. This, followed up by Arthur would've been quite the one-two punch for the Kinks.

 

Rush never had a double studio album but they should have

Caress of Night the real Rush debut album
Side A
Bastille Day
Fancy Dancer
Lakeside Park
By- Tor and the Snowdog

Side B
Garden Road
Beneath, Behind and Between
The Necromancer

Side C
Anthem
Best I Can
Fly By Night
Making Memories
In the End

Side D
The Fountain of Lamneth

 

In that spirit, I proudly nominate C,S,N&Y then. They could have easily released a double LP in any year from '71 - '75.

 

Definitely not Rush. A double album rock opera by Sabbath (Ozzy or Dio) would be interesting.

 

"Dazed & Paranoid" or "Snowblind & Confused"...

 

I still think that Prince should've made "Purple Rain" a double (though one right after "1999" probably wasn't wise):

SIDE ONE
1) Let's Go Crazy (uncut version)
2) Take Me With U (uncut version)
3) The Beautiful Ones (uncut version)

SIDE TWO
1) Computer Blue ('Hallway Speech' version)
2) Darling Nikki (uncut version) / I Am Fine
3) Wednesday

SIDE THREE
1) When Doves Cry
2) I Would Die 4 U (Uncut Version)
3) Baby I'm A Star (Uncut Version)

SIDE FOUR
1) Purple Rain (Uncut Version)
2) Father's Song

 

Genesis - Abacab

Side 1
Abacab
No Reply At All
Me & Sarah Jane

Side 2
Naminau
Dodo/Lurker
Submarine

Side 3
Paperlate
You Might Recall
Keep It Dark
Who Dunnit?

Side 4
Me & Virgil
Man on the Corner
Like It Or Not
Another Record

 

Genesis Live 1973 (the Dutch Test Pressing)

 

Sandanista
All Things Must Pass

 

Foghat Live should've been a double album.
Same with Pat Travers - Live, Go For What You Know.

 

Granted, Genesis was making a point to write/play leaner, but this...is pretty darned solid. Prog/pop blend on side 1, the epic on side 2, straight pop one side 3 (with excellent placement of "Whodunit," which I happen to like), and then cast-offs on deep cuts to close it out for side 4.

I can see fans complain about this as a concept, or even in execution. But I like pretty much all of the Abacab-era material, and this drives home what an epic roll they were on at the time.

 

Have you posted this somewhere....? PM me.

 

Sandanista. When it's good man its sooo good.

 

Ahh. Thank you. I messed with it for a while and even though I think Abacab is fine as is they made so much worthwhile material it needed to be heard.


You should see my revision of IT and the single album version of WCD.