2 Record Sets 1 Record Too Long

LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
edited August 2012 in Strut Central
In the 70s rock and soul groups went over board recording double (and triple) record sets.
In the 90s hip hoppers started doing this too.

I am currently listening to Exile On Main Street, many think this is the Stones best.
I think if you edited down to one disc it would be one of their bests.

Take a classic multi-disc set and pair it down to one good record.

Songs In The Key Of Life:
I Wish
Pastime Paradise
Isn't She Lovely
If It's Magic
Sir Duke
Knocks Me Off My Feet
Ordinary Pain
Joy Inside My Tears
As
All Day Sucker

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  • DocMcCoyDocMcCoy "Go and laugh in your own country!" 5,917 Posts
    Funnily enough, me and a friend did something like this a couple of weeks ago with Sandinista by The Clash.

    Sandinista was the first Clash record that I didn't buy the week (sometimes day) it came out. I always felt that, amongst all the unlistenable stoner self-indulgence, there was a great single album struggling to get out that would have held its own. Instead we get Micky Gallagher's kids doing Career Opportunities. I've been a quality-over-quantity guy ever since.

    The Condensed Sandinista

    Side 1

    The Magnificent Seven
    Police On My Back
    The Leader
    Somebody Got Murdered
    One More Time
    The Sound Of Sinners

    Side 2

    Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
    Hitsville UK
    Washington Bullets
    The Call Up
    Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
    Something About England

    This comes in at around 48 minutes, which is just about long enough to fit two sides of vinyl, although it'd probably need a PLAY LOUD instruction somewhere on the cover. I contemplated rotating Washington Bullets out in favour of Charlie Don't Surf, but then there'd be no point in calling it Sandinista.

  • Eat A Peach minus Mountain Jam.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti minus most of Sides Three & Four.

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    Canned Heat's Living The Blues could do without Sides Three & Four altogether.

  • DJBombjackDJBombjack Miami 1,665 Posts
    White album?

  • DJBombjack said:
    White album?

    oh hell no, but that's me.

  • DanteDante 371 Posts
    DJBombjack said:
    White album?

    oh hellz yeah, iit would have made a perfect ep or a great lp. but a double album?

    1.- Dear Prudence
    2.- Guitar Gently...
    3.- Happiness
    4.- Blackbird
    5.- Rocky Racoon
    6.- Julia
    7.- Mother Nature's Son
    8.- Everybody's Got...
    9.- Long Long Long

    also, fuck the beatles, it bothers me how good they were.

    edit: i'm reading this make up tracklist and, even though they're my favorites from the album, it seems weak. fuck the beatles.

  • YemskyYemsky 710 Posts
    Dante said:
    DJBombjack said:
    White album?

    oh hellz

    fuck the beatles, it bothers me how they were.

    weak. fuck the beatles.

  • pcmrpcmr 5,591 Posts
    all eyez on me and life after death for sure

  • get on the goodfoot

    the ramblin "recitation by hank ballard" is the definiton of filling space

  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    in regards to the white album...if they would have made Revolution #9 only half as long, 86'd the hunk of shit that is "Don't Pass Me By", added another minute or two of fuzz freakout on "Helter Skelter", and added this song, then it would be even better, but as it is, it is still amazing

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    crabmongerfunk said:
    get on the goodfoot

    the ramblin "recitation by hank ballard" is the definiton of filling space

    James Brown did some outlandish things to fill out his one-record sets. Never mind the doubles!

    But at least he made me laugh, so he gets a pass. Even though I was laughing AT and not WITH.

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    DocMcCoy said:
    Funnily enough, me and a friend did something like this a couple of weeks ago with Sandinista by The Clash.

    Sandinista was the first Clash record that I didn't buy the week (sometimes day) it came out. I always felt that, amongst all the unlistenable stoner self-indulgence, there was a great single album struggling to get out that would have held its own. Instead we get Micky Gallagher's kids doing Career Opportunities. I've been a quality-over-quantity guy ever since.

    The Condensed Sandinista

    Side 1

    The Magnificent Seven
    Police On My Back
    The Leader
    Somebody Got Murdered
    One More Time
    The Sound Of Sinners

    Side 2

    Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
    Hitsville UK
    Washington Bullets
    The Call Up
    Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
    Something About England

    This comes in at around 48 minutes, which is just about long enough to fit two sides of vinyl, although it'd probably need a PLAY LOUD instruction somewhere on the cover. I contemplated rotating Washington Bullets out in favour of Charlie Don't Surf, but then there'd be no point in calling it Sandinista.

    This is what I am talking about.
    Thought out, sequenced, timed.
    Overindulgent bigrockact album reduced to a slamming rock record.

    My own example was done on the fly, and I didn't bother to sequence the songs, or really even to consider the overall effect.

    As for James Brown and the Beatles, they were fucking geniuses, so shut up.
    No, not really, pick any record you want.
    For me, despite the fact that the group wasn't talking to each other at the time it was recorded, and despite (or perhaps because) some of the songs are more ideas than finished product, I wouldn't change a thing about the White Album.

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Derek and the Dominoes - Layla

    7" 45 - Layla pt1/Layla pt2

  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    Derek and the Dominoes - Layla

    7" 45 - Layla pt1/Layla pt2

    My copy of the "Layla" single fits the entire song on one seven-inch record. One uninterrupted A-side; no "parts one and two." Slightly lo-fi, but not enough to hurt.

    I also have the 7" of "Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad." Those are the only songs by that band I think I'd like, so no need for their album. I LOVE 45s!!!

  • Options
    Before The Flood is a Live album...

    Bob Dylan/The Band
    1. Stage Fright (I've always though a good opener including the Chic version).
    2. Up On Cripple Creek (up beat)
    3. Lay Lady Lay (beautiful)
    4. Don't Think Twice It's Alright (lovely)
    5. It's Alright, Ma (pretty good energy)
    6. I Shall Be Released (thank you)

    Second side:
    1. When You Awake
    2. Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
    3. Blowin' In The Wind
    4. All Along The Watchtower
    5. Ballad Of A Thin Man
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