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DJTommy
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 22:02
  • Post subject: Great long ass albums
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What are some long ass albums you love?
My picks:

98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare by ใƒ•ใ‚ฃใƒƒใ‚ทใƒฅใƒžใƒณใ‚บ [Fishmans]
2 hours and 10 minutes


Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
1 hour and 27 minutes


Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder
1 hour and 44 minutes


Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
1 hour and 34 minutes


Soundtracks For The Blind by Swans
2 hours and 21 minutes


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AfterHours
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 22:44
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Best Ever - Top 25 (Rock/Jazz)

Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart (1969)
Escalator Over The Hill - Carla Bley (1971)
Twin Infinitives - Royal Trux (1990)
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra - Michael Mantler (1968) [aka, "The Jazz Composerโ€™s Orchestra - The Jazz Composer's Orchestra"]
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan (1966)
Even the Sounds Shine - Myra Melford (1994)
Third - Soft Machine (1970)
Bitches Brew - Miles Davis (1969)
Zen Arcade - Husker Du (1984)
Well-Oiled - Hash Jar Tempo (1997)
City of Glass - Stan Kenton (1953) [Re-Issued 16-Track Release]
The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails (1994)
Saxophone Improvisations, Series F - Anthony Braxton (1972)
Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom (2010)
Lullaby Land - Vampire Rodents (1993)
Epitaph - Charles Mingus (1962)
Remnants of a Deeper Purity - Black Tape for a Blue Girl (1996)
Passion - Peter Gabriel (1989)
Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth (1988)
Original Sin - Pandora's Box (1989)
For Alto - Anthony Braxton (1968)
The Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett (1975)
The River - Bruce Springsteen (1980)
Ocean Songs - Dirty Three (1997)
Steve Lacy - Saxophone Special (1974)
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RoundTheBend
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 23:04
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186 tracks and roughly 15 hours... the opera takes 4 days to perform.

In a word: Gesamtkunstwerk.


Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Joseph Keilberth / Bayreuth Festival Choir & Orchestra
RoundTheBend
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 23:09
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Less seriously, here are my favorite double albums.

My Favorite Double Albums by sethmadsen
911Turbo
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 23:14
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sethmadsen wrote:
Less seriously, here are my favorite double albums.

My Favorite Double Albums by sethmadsen


love your first 11!!!
AfterHours
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  • Posted: 11/24/2017 23:59
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sethmadsen wrote:
186 tracks and roughly 15 hours... the opera takes 4 days to perform.

In a word: Gesamtkunstwerk.


Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Joseph Keilberth / Bayreuth Festival Choir & Orchestra


Now we're talking!
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  • Posted: 11/25/2017 00:40
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911Turbo wrote:
sethmadsen wrote:
Less seriously, here are my favorite double albums.

My Favorite Double Albums by sethmadsen


love your first 11!!!


Thanks mate. Me too... hehe.
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  • Posted: 11/25/2017 00:40
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AfterHours wrote:
sethmadsen wrote:
186 tracks and roughly 15 hours... the opera takes 4 days to perform.

In a word: Gesamtkunstwerk.


Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen by Joseph Keilberth / Bayreuth Festival Choir & Orchestra


Now we're talking!


Indeed.
PurpleHazel

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  • Posted: 11/25/2017 01:39
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Surprising how many rock double albums are the artists' best -- or close to best -- work (favorites bolded):

Trout Mask Replica
London Calling
Soft Machine 3
Something/Anything - Todd Rundgren
Daydream Nation
Double Nickels on a Dime - Minutemen
Zen Arcade
Exile on Main St.
Tago Mago - Can

Blonde On Blonde
Tommy
Freak Out & Uncle Meat
Electric Ladyland
White Album

The Wall (only my 5th favorite Floyd album, but would be a top 3 on most Floyd fans' lists)


My longest favorites:
Escalator Over the Hill
Lotus - Santana

Other favorites:
Bitches Brew
Live at the Apollo Vol.2 - James Brown
Sign O' the Times
Mingus at Antibes
Live-Evil - Miles Davis
Urban Bushmen - Art Ensemble of Chicago
Koln Concert - Keith Jarrett
Live in Tokyo - Weather Report
Agharta, Pangaea, Dark Magus - Miles
Blue Boye - Julius Hemphill

EDIT: Added a couple of more albums


Last edited by PurpleHazel on 11/25/2017 03:38; edited 2 times in total
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