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Poll Question: Which of these is the best double album?
Poll Choice Votes Poll Statistics
21 [27.27%]
9 [11.69%]
8 [10.39%]
4 [5.19%]
14 [18.18%]
1 [1.30%]
3 [3.90%]
1 [1.30%]
8 [10.39%]
2 [2.60%]
4 [5.19%]
1 [1.30%]
1 [1.30%]
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    Posted: January 01 2018 at 17:40
Genesis Lamb all the way.

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Eloy had a double live album if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, I don't have a problem with live albums but I tend to think they should have a separate poll. I did include Ummagumma which is a bit of an anomaly in that it's half live and half studio but everything else is studio. Alive on Planet Earth by the Flower Kings is a good live album too and imo captures them more or less at their peak. Same thing with Seconds Out(again imo).

yeah I think a double live is a different beast.  It's easy to fill 4 vinyl sides with quality in a long and distinguished career, but coming up with 80+ minutes of new material that fits together was rarer.  The newer albums I like are closer in length to traditional LPs (maybe 45-60 mins) than the 75 minute behemoths that some neo bands in particular put out.


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Some good ones up there....I'd like to mention Soft machine 3.
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Eloy had a double live album if I'm not mistaken. Anyway, I don't have a problem with live albums but I tend to think they should have a separate poll. I did include Ummagumma which is a bit of an anomaly in that it's half live and half studio but everything else is studio. Alive on Planet Earth by the Flower Kings is a good live album too and imo captures them more or less at their peak. Same thing with Seconds Out(again imo).
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The best double album never was, "Planets" and "Time to Turn" by Eloy.  They were supposed to be released together but the record company put out the first in 1981 and the second in 1982.  Oh wel, they do make two back to back great albums!
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I voted for The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, although it is my 4th favorite Genesis album. It is truly amazing how great the top 8 songs on this album are ("In the Cage", "The Lamia", "The Colony of Slippermen", "The Carpet Crawlers", "The Chamber of the 32 Doors", "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway", "It" and "Anyway". But that's only about a third of the album, and the rest of the songs have not impressed me as much as the thoroughness of the three earlier Genesis albums. I don't know if you're including live albums though, and this is important as my next favorite after "Lamb" is live... And it's not Seconds Out, it's Uriah Heep Live!
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Went with Lamb, Then probably Quadrophina, & the Wall

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the best Led Zep album
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

TLLDOB has more filler than SWA in my opinion.

controversial. I tend to think that most Flower Kings albums are just filler although I do love Banks Of Eden.

It's all about personal taste but I don't think it's all that controversial knowing that Steve Hackett and Tony Banks were losing interest during the latter recording sessions of the LLDOB album and it shows in the last 30 minutes or so of the album. If TLLDOB wasn't a concept album would we be talking about the album in such glowing terms? 
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Originally posted by iluvmarillion iluvmarillion wrote:

TLLDOB has more filler than SWA in my opinion.

controversial. I tend to think that most Flower Kings albums are just filler although I do love Banks Of Eden.
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TLLDOB has more filler than SWA in my opinion.
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

My Top Three all-time are in this poll!!!

1) Tales From Topographic Oceans
2) The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
3) Quadrophenia

(and Stardust We Are isn't too far behind either.)

I've always heard that there is a lot of filler on that TFK double. Do you agree with that?
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I love double albums. Ummagumma was the first double album I ever heard, and it gets my vote.
Other faves include Yeti, Tago Mago, Septober Energy, Third, and a heap of live ones.

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Others: The white album, Third, Uncle Meat, 666, Tago Mago, The secret life of plants ...
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not a fan of doubles but Aphrodite's Child -666 is a rare exception. That gets my vote. Lamb does have the best Genesis music ever (imo) over about 3 sides but goes a bit array around Side 3.  I would have voted for that if there was not an 'Other' option.


I just got Aprhodite's Child album this year, and indeed it was great. Perhaps not every single song is up to the same level, but it all flows very nicely and all. Now that you mention it, it might just as well be my favourite double concept album... or very close to it.

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Yes, TFATO, but I go for The garden from Unitopia, or Tommy from The Who
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Not a fan of doubles but Aphrodite's Child -666 is a rare exception. That gets my vote. Lamb does have the best Genesis music ever (imo) over about 3 sides but goes a bit array around Side 3.  I would have voted for that if there was not an 'Other' option.


I just got Aprhodite's Child album this year, and indeed it was great. Perhaps not every single song is up to the same level, but it all flows very nicely and all. Now that you mention it, it might just as well be my favourite double concept album... or very close to it.
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Points: 26171 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 12 2017 at 16:10
Not a fan of doubles but Aphrodite's Child -666 is a rare exception. That gets my vote. Lamb does have the best Genesis music ever (imo) over about 3 sides but goes a bit array around Side 3.  I would have voted for that if there was not an 'Other' option.
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