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Both 'Pawn Hearts' by VDGG and 'Baby James Harvest' by Barclay James Harvest were initially envisaged as double lps; Pawn Hearts having a 'Live in the Studio' record (or maybe just 1 side, i cant remember) of older material (i think some of that recorded material has turned up as extra material on CD reissues). BBH was originally intended to have one record entitled '4 winds' which would give space for each member to do their own thing (A'la Ummagumma, which frankly i blame for the whole idea of this sort of thingWink) but again finances and lack of time put paid to that; the only surviving piece being Woolly's 'Moonwater' which ended up filling the remaining space on the sadly lack-lustre Baby James Harvest.

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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

I always have wished that Camel and/or Kansas tried the whole double album thing
I'll go with that, but concept albums as well. Especially Kansas.
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Originally posted by dougmcauliffe dougmcauliffe wrote:

I always have wished that Camel and/or Kansas tried the whole double album thing

They both did but they were live albums.


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I always have wished that Camel and/or Kansas tried the whole double album thing
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Jethro Tull's A Passion Play. In fact between the Chateau D'isaster Sessions material (The Big Top, Scenario, Audition, No Rehearsal, etc.) and the songs destined to end up on War Child (Skating Away, Solitaire, Sealion, Bungle In the Jungle), a double album could well be Tull's greatest release.
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Wind & Wuthering + Spot The Pigeon, or Spot The Pigeon + And Then There Were 3 (with Steve still on board).
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Originally posted by geekfreak geekfreak wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

This is a prog site soooooo all of them..........('cept the Fab Four, those should be 45RPM singles only)




I getting the impression that you don’t. Hold the Fab Four in high regard! But I could be wrong not...
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Nursery Cryme and Foxtrot could have been combined to make a double since they are very similiar imo and sound like they could have been recorded at the same time. 

Close to the Edge could have been a double album. Not sure what else. I guess you could say any great prog single album could have been a double. 

Also, some of the later Flower Kings albums could be considered doubles if you count the bonus disc. 
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

This is a prog site soooooo all of them..........('cept the Fab Four, those should be 45RPM singles only)




I getting the impression that you don’t. Hold the Fab Four in high regard! But I could be wrong not...
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This is a prog site soooooo all of them..........('cept the Fab Four, those should be 45RPM singles only)
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Genesis: Abacab could easily have been a 65-minute double album with at least 5 songs that were held back by the record company for B-sides and future releases.
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ELP could have recorded a studio version of Pictures at an Exhibition and combined it with either Trilogy or Brain Salad Surgery.
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Duke by Genesis, expanded into the continued story of Duke.
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Afraid Of Sunlight by Marillion, expanded into a two disc concept album.

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Babbacomb Lee by Fairport Convention. Thier only concept album needed a lot more songs to tell the story.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Do you mean two albums together or just one album but with more similar songs on it?
Whatever you like. I'm easy.
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Do you mean two albums together or just one album but with more similar songs on it?
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BOC's first three albums would have made a great triple disc.

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