Your favourite (non-classical) double albums

[geralmar]

1964

Churchill's wartime speeches-- possibly by his BBC mimic.  Regardless, my interest is in the production which includes muted brass fanfares.

[Iota]

although I'd probably opt for Stage, his best band lineup, at least to my ears.

Yes, Stage also excellent, with a truly mouth-watering lineup of musicians (though those on David live no slouches it should be said, including the ever marvellous Mike Garson). Bowie was so good at assembling people around him and seeming to get extraordinary results from them I think.

Happy to see appreciation for David Live here. In 1973 a friend and I snuck up to London to see Bowie at the Hammersmith Odeon, where in the last concert he famously killed off Ziggy Stardust. When I heard David Live later it captured some of the incredible electricity he generated live, and by then he was also artistically shape-shifting in the restless, seeking way that made him so consistently interesting/appealing to me.

[geralmar]

(Not the literal record jacket but very close)

2-L.P. set of the entire movie soundtrack to the 1956 movie:  the actual movie on L.P., not just the Ikira Ifukube score.  At the time (1980?) the original Japanese version (without Raymond Burr) was not available in the U.S.

[Rinaldo]

Yes, Stage also excellent, with a truly mouth-watering lineup of musicians (though those on David live no slouches it should be said, including the ever marvellous Mike Garson). Bowie was so good at assembling people around him and seeming to get extraordinary results from them I think.

Word. His lineup from the mid-nineties was also terrific.

Happy to see appreciation for David Live here. In 1973 a friend and I snuck up to London to see Bowie at the Hammersmith Odeon, where in the last concert he famously killed off Ziggy Stardust.

No way! I'm a youngling by GMG standards, so I've discovered Bowie around 1999/2000 and I remember listening to the live recording from that show almost religiously. The farewell speech followed by Rock 'n' Roll Suicide gets me every time.

[SimonNZ]

No one's going to say Trout Mask Replica or Metal Machine Music?

Edit: having just written that it occurs to me that I want to give a more serious shout out to Lou Reed's one of a kind live album Take No Prisoners.

[JBS]

This one, which I think may not only be the best he did up to that time, but also the best he has done since that time
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Of the ones mentioned already, Bitches Brew is the winner for me.

[SimonNZ]

Nebraska remains my favorite Springsteen but I might try and give the River a fresh play later today and try and establish why I so seldom return to it.

[steve ridgway]

The thread's at least encouraging me to give some of my krautrock double albums another good listen .

So far:
A.R. & Machines: Echo
Klaus Schulze: Cyborg

Coming up:
Walter Wegmuller: Tarot
Tangerine Dream: Zeit
Klaus Schulze: X
Amon Düül 2: Tanz Der Lemminge

[Rinaldo]

No one's going to say Trout Mask Replica or Metal Machine Music?

Edit: having just written that it occurs to me that I want to give a more serious shout out to Lou Reed's one of a kind live album Take No Prisoners.

I was actually very close to selecting Reed's The Raven, which contains a bunch of misses but the hits (A Thousand Departed Friends, Who Am I..) are some of his finest moments.

[71 dB]

The thread's at least encouraging me to give some of my krautrock double albums another good listen .

So far:
A.R. & Machines: Echo
Klaus Schulze: Cyborg

Coming up:
Walter Wegmuller: Tarot
Tangerine Dream: Zeit
Klaus Schulze: X
Amon Düül 2: Tanz Der Lemminge

Here in Finland krautrock has never been a thing. Here rock music is heavy metal. Finland has by far more metal bands per capita than any other country in the World. Of course I am not into metal AT ALL! I hate how it is here. I live in the wrong country when it comes to music. An Elgarian in the country of Sibelius! So, I didn't even know about krautrock before I discovered Tangerine Dream in 2008. In Finland Tangerine Dream has always been very unknown and they never even visited Finland when E. Froese was still alive. So, even if I knew the name thanks to some 90's Warp artists such as Autechre and LFO mention them as their influences, I never bothered to explore them until 2008 and boy what a revelation it was! How was I supposed to know about Tangerine Dream when in my childhood Kiss and Mötley Crüe were the bands  people around me talked about?

[greg]

Periphery: Juggernaut- Alpha, Omega

[steve ridgway]

Here in Finland krautrock has never been a thing. Here rock music is heavy metal. Finland has by far more metal bands per capita than any other country in the World. Of course I am not into metal AT ALL! I hate how it is here. I live in the wrong country when it comes to music. An Elgarian in the country of Sibelius! So, I didn't even know about krautrock before I discovered Tangerine Dream in 2008. In Finland Tangerine Dream has always been very unknown and they never even visited Finland when E. Froese was still alive. So, even if I knew the name thanks to some 90's Warp artists such as Autechre and LFO mention them as their influences, I never bothered to explore them until 2008 and boy what a revelation it was! How was I supposed to know about Tangerine Dream when in my childhood Kiss and Mötley Crüe were the bands  people around me talked about?

TD have grown on me and I have bought loads of their albums in the last few years. For krautrock and similar http://radio.krautrock-world.com/ is free to listen.

[Karl Henning]

No one's going to say Trout Mask Replica or Metal Machine Music?

Edit: having just written that it occurs to me that I want to give a more serious shout out to Lou Reed's one of a kind live album Take No Prisoners.

I do really like Trout Mask Replica

[Iota]

The farewell speech followed by Rock 'n' Roll Suicide gets me every time.

Indeed, it's bad enough even without the context! 

I grew up loving the sound of 12-string guitar because of Bowie's use of it in songs like this and others, it's something I associated very much with him (and to a lesser degree Genesis e.g). And I found certainly back then, Bowie's randomly assembled lyrics meant I often found more expressive meaning in lyrics I didn't understand, than one's I did!
There's also something quite Brel like about 'R'n'R Suicide' I think.

[71 dB]

TD have grown on me and I have bought loads of their albums in the last few years. For krautrock and similar http://radio.krautrock-world.com/ is free to listen.

In 2008, 2009 and 2010 I bought about 30 TD CDs per year.  What I don't have is the OOP stuff.
Thanks for the link. 

[Karl Henning]

I almost listed Joe's Garage or 200 Motels, but figured you would.      

It was a good wager, though!

[steve ridgway]

In 2008, 2009 and 2010 I bought about 30 TD CDs per year.  What I don't have is the OOP stuff.

I took years to make it as far as the mid 80s and Tangents then bought The Electronic Journey 10 CD box at the start of last year as it was cheap and I was curious to find if they really went as bad as the members on Prog Archives thought. Now I probably have much the same collection as yourself.

[71 dB]

I took years to make it as far as the mid 80s and Tangents then bought The Electronic Journey 10 CD box at the start of last year as it was cheap and I was curious to find if they really went as bad as the members on Prog Archives thought. Now I probably have much the same collection as yourself.

I don't care what other people think about TD "going bad." To me they have never been "bad." Their greatness has fluctuated. For me late 70's and early 80's is when they peaked and 90's is the low point. Around 2005 with Jeanne d'Arc they started to blossom again. Now even after E. Froese's demise they are putting pretty damn good stuff out. When I got into TD some 12 years ago I was warned about "flamenco guitars & saxophone" in their 90's music, but when I explored it I was asking myself why exactly am I supposed to dislike it? Sounds fine for me. Not as great as "Poland" or "Tangram" of course, but at least it's nicely something different, energetic and fresh. Since TD has been making music for half a century and the style/sounds have evolved so many times and their output is so enourmous, TD is like 10 different electronic groups of high quality combined.

I don't have "Tangents" boxset (looks a bit redundant), but I do have "The Electronic Journey" 10 CD box.

[steve ridgway]

I don't care what other people think about TD "going bad." To me they have never been "bad." Their greatness has fluctuated. For me late 70's and early 80's is when they peaked and 90's is the low point. Around 2005 with Jeanne d'Arc they started to blossom again. Now even after E. Froese's demise they are putting pretty damn good stuff out. When I got into TD some 12 years ago I was warned about "flamenco guitars & saxophone" in their 90's music, but when I explored it I was asking myself why exactly am I supposed to dislike it? Sounds fine for me. Not as great as "Poland" or "Tangram" of course, but at least it's nicely something different, energetic and fresh. Since TD has been making music for half a century and the style/sounds have evolved so many times and their output is so enourmous, TD is like 10 different electronic groups of high quality combined.

I don't have "Tangents" boxset (looks a bit redundant), but I do have "The Electronic Journey" 10 CD box.

Speaking of multiple CD sets, fans seemed to be disappointed that Tangents wasn't just a box of recordings they already possessed .  Edgar's reworkings give them a more unified sound and ethereal atmosphere; the first 3 CDs are like gently floating through an afterlife of TDs golden age 0:). I wonder if it encouraged Jerome to start on the Dream Mixes albums?

[71 dB]

Speaking of multiple CD sets, fans seemed to be disappointed that Tangents wasn't just a box of recordings they already possessed .  Edgar's reworkings give them a more unified sound and ethereal atmosphere; the first 3 CDs are like gently floating through an afterlife of TDs golden age 0:). I wonder if it encouraged Jerome to start on the Dream Mixes albums?

Tangents seems to contain some stuff I don't have (e.g. tracks from OOP soundtracks on CD 4). I have Edgar Froese's Ambient Highway CDs which contain tracks from CD 5. Anyway, the amount of money needed to get this box is big...

Because I started collecting TD as late as in 2008, a lot of stuff had been OOP for long and a lot of TD is never re-released. I don't even try to be a completist. I have perhaps 100 hours (hundreds of songs) worth of of TD. That's a lot.