2 Record Sets 1 Record Too Long
LaserWolf
Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
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
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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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.
oh hell no, but that's me.
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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