Author Topic: Best double album (White Album not allowed ITT) (Read 2040 times)

Phoenix Dark · « **on:** October 13, 2012, 07:15:33 PM »

Honorable mention: Exile On Main St.

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Flannel Boy · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:21:15 PM »

Did you see that I was online?

Fine, Blonde on Blonde or London Calling.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:40:05 PM »

Himu · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:41:36 PM »

All Eyez On Me isn't that good.

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2012, 07:44:39 PM »

best song on the album (ngiculela) is on the second side

Diunx · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2012, 08:08:43 PM »

ToxicAdam · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2012, 08:43:40 PM »

I've never really enjoyed a double album. I always end up creating my own 10-12 song mix out of all the songs.

DCharlieJP · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2012, 09:13:18 PM »

Joyously chilled - their treatment of Bug Powder Dust is glorious

And... good lord ... Lamb's "Transfatty Acids" takes on a new glorious beauty

Olivia Wilde Homo · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:38:25 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on October 13, 2012, 07:41:36 PM

All Eyez On Me isn't that good.

I'm sorry you feel that way. For several months about a decade ago, I'd listen to it almost on a daily basis. I think it's a classic.

Himu · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:45:43 PM »

I didn't say that All Eyez On Me wasn't good. It's great. But best double album?

Himu · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2012, 11:48:49 PM »

That said, All Eyez On Me has the best fucking 90's gangsta rap THIS IS MY REP AND THIS IS WHAT I'M ABOUT song.

OptimoPeach · « **Reply #11 on:** October 14, 2012, 12:07:23 AM »

Does Geogaddi count?

I don't think All Eyez on Me is even my favorite 2pac double

TakingBackSunday · « **Reply #12 on:** October 14, 2012, 01:29:39 AM »

blonde on blonde.

Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich · « **Reply #13 on:** October 14, 2012, 01:36:45 AM »

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archnemesis · « **Reply #14 on:** October 14, 2012, 01:54:42 AM »

I'm not really a fan of double and triple albums since a lot of the material tend to be average filler.

Aphex Twin – Drukqs ()
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I and II ()
Jimi Hendrix – Electric Ladyland ()
The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness ()
Wu-Tang Clan – Wu-Tang Forever ()

Joanna Newsom's Have One on Me is pretty awesome, if we include triple albums.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #15 on:** October 14, 2012, 01:59:58 AM »

Have One On Me is definitely the best triple album of all time

Himu · « **Reply #16 on:** October 14, 2012, 02:14:49 AM »

defnitely think electric ladyland is the most consistent double album i've heard

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #17 on:** October 14, 2012, 02:18:51 AM »

Consistency wise outside of AEOM and Exile On Main St., the first that come to mind:

-Wu Tang Forever
- Songs in the Key of Life
- Sign O the Times

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #18 on:** October 14, 2012, 02:22:04 AM »

The Wall

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #19 on:** October 14, 2012, 08:55:50 AM »

Exactly. Every good double album could be trimmed to a great single album; AEOM has What's Ya Phone # and some other horrible ladies tracks, Wu Tang Forever has Dog Shit and a couple other bad or average tracks, etc. My criteria revolves around double albums with the most consistency and ones with the most stellar tracks. To use the same comparison again, Wu Forever is very consistent, moreso than AEOM, but doesn't have as many classic tracks.

The White Album had some of the best song ever...but it also has some very forgettable ones, especially on the second disk

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #20 on:** October 14, 2012, 05:51:57 PM »

Liquid Swords is now sortof a double album, and is also probably the greatest thing hiphop has produced so far.

Liquid Swords.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #21 on:** October 14, 2012, 06:03:06 PM »

Tucah · « **Reply #22 on:** October 14, 2012, 07:54:36 PM »

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #23 on:** October 14, 2012, 08:06:49 PM »

Shit, forgot about Being There.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #24 on:** October 14, 2012, 09:33:55 PM »

Quote from: Eschaton on October 14, 2012, 06:14:39 PM

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It's good but 2pac wins breh

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #25 on:** October 14, 2012, 09:38:09 PM »

technically, the only winner in that whole thing was diddy. the rest of the world were the losers.

Vertigo · « **Reply #26 on:** October 14, 2012, 10:20:00 PM »

Still sounds awesome and fresh. The sheer ambition of the album is something to behold.

Outkast are another group who know how to make music that is timeless and sonically interesting.

Himu · « **Reply #27 on:** October 14, 2012, 10:50:34 PM »

Oh fuck. I forgot Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Deffo the best double album.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #28 on:** October 14, 2012, 10:59:08 PM »

Quote from: Stringer Bell on October 14, 2012, 10:50:34 PM

Oh fuck. I forgot Speakerboxxx/The Love Below. Deffo the best double album.

All Eyez On Me >>> all

Himu · « **Reply #29 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:06:57 PM »

All Eyez On Me is full of filler and most of the best songs were the singles. It also is a major downgrade in terms of lyrical quality from Me Against The World. Death Row made 2pac lose a lot of what made him unique to rappers, and he played that gangsta rap card like a fiddle. When, before, that was only one aspect of 2pac.

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, however, has a banger traditional hip hop album and a banger contemporary hip hop album. It is more daring, experimental, balanced, consistent, and a hell of a lot more fun to listen to.

Himu · « **Reply #30 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:16:13 PM »

rofl The Outlawz

Himu · « **Reply #31 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:21:47 PM »

I don't like blonde on blonde much. =/

MyNameIsMethodis · « **Reply #32 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:23:40 PM »

only havel ike one good song

pilonv1 · « **Reply #33 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:28:57 PM »

Was never a big fan of Mellon Collie, it's really hit and miss. Not consistently as good as their previous two albums

Bloodwake · « **Reply #34 on:** October 14, 2012, 11:53:21 PM »

The White Album.

So good it breaks the thread title.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #35 on:** October 15, 2012, 01:04:30 AM »

Love Below>Kanye's experimental shit

Himu · « **Reply #36 on:** October 15, 2012, 01:13:24 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on October 15, 2012, 01:04:30 AM

Love Below>Kanye's experimental shit

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #37 on:** October 15, 2012, 01:17:43 AM »

Seriously, no one talks about Andre 3k anymore - outside of his rare, awesome guest verses on people's albums - but it seems to me that Love Below was the catalyst for a lot of the hip hop we're seeing today. I'm not saying he was the first rapper to sing rap over abstract beats and shit but from a mainstream perspective, he showed it could be commercially viable in the aughts; on the flip side, Common's Electric Circus and Mos Def's New Danger came out earlier but weren't received well.

808s and Heartbreaks, Kid Cudi, Drake, etc strike me as branches from that tree.

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #38 on:** October 15, 2012, 01:35:10 AM »

I wish Andre would put out more of his own music. But like any trailblazer, he's bored of the same old same old; guess he wants to try acting and shit even if he sucks at it.