BrunoBass Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) OK so whilst posting on the other thread about double albums I half jokingly suggested a thread where you compile your ultimate single album from an otherwise patchy double or triple effort. Someone else suggested I start it so here it is; based on say 12 tracks or 45-50 minute running time which double album could be made killer by losing the filler? Edited March 5, 2016 by PaulGibsonBass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) I'll kick if off with the Manics 'Generation Terrorists', as I mentioned it on the other thread: Slash n Burn Born to End Motorcycle Emptiness You Love Us Loves Sweet Exile Little Baby Nothing Repeat Stay Beautiful Condemned to Rock n Roll Spectators of Suicide (And I'd add) Motown Junk No what a debut that would've been!! Edited March 5, 2016 by PaulGibsonBass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Will list the Metallica load/ reload best of later Can't remember all of the,tracks from reload , as it was crap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeystrange Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) Does 'double album' in this case mean one very long album on two discs? I've always thought a double album was two separate but (often) related albums concieved, recorded, packaged and released together? I'm only asking because I wasn't aware that Generation Terrorists was a double album. Though it is very long. Edited March 5, 2016 by joeystrange Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) Here's my "White Album" as a cracking single album... [indent=1]1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]2. "Dear Prudence" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]3. "Glass Onion" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison)[/indent] [indent=1]6. "Martha My Dear" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]7. "I'm So Tired" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]8. "Blackbird" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]9. "Birthday" ( McCartney and Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]10. "Yer Blues" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]11. "Mother Nature's Son" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]12. "Sexy Sadie" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]13 . "Helter Skelter" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]14. "Revolution 1" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]Total Length 45 mins[/indent] Edited March 5, 2016 by TrevorR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 [quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1457213510' post='2996494'] Does 'double album' in this case mean one very long album on two discs? [/quote] A single artistic statement spread thinly over 4 sides of vinyl and released as a single package. One overly long album in other words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colgraff Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I was going to make a good single album from Yes's double albums, but realised that I could barely make a single. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delberthot Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium: Dani Califormia Snow Charlie Desecration Smile Tell Me Baby 21st Century Readymade That's it - the rest is filler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megallica Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Guns n roses use your illusion Perfect crime back off bitch dont cry Double talkin jive dead horse coma november rain dont damn me You could be mine Shotgun blues breakdown estranged civil war Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megallica Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Metallica loads outlaw torn wasting my hate until it sleeps unforgiven 2 bad seed bleeding me fixxxxer aint my bitch fuel Devils dance Low mans lyric carpe diem baby Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted March 6, 2016 Author Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='joeystrange' timestamp='1457213510' post='2996494'] Does 'double album' in this case mean one very long album on two discs? I've always thought a double album was two separate but (often) related albums concieved, recorded, packaged and released together? I'm only asking because I wasn't aware that Generation Terrorists was a double album. Though it is very long. [/quote] Yes, it was a double. That was their manifesto; release one double album, sell sixteen million copies and split up. Although the seven album deal with SONY kind of put paid to that idea! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 The Clash - "London Calling" could be re-released as an EP: 1. London Calling 2. Lost In The Supermarket 3. Armegideon Time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='TrevorR' timestamp='1457214478' post='2996505'] Here's my "White Album" as a cracking single album... [indent=1]1. "Back in the U.S.S.R." (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]2. "Dear Prudence" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]3. "Glass Onion" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]4. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]5. "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (Harrison)[/indent] [indent=1]6. "Martha My Dear" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]7. "I'm So Tired" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]8. "Blackbird" ( McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]9. "Birthday" ( McCartney and Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]10. "Yer Blues" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]11. "Mother Nature's Son" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]12. "Sexy Sadie" ( Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]13 . "Helter Skelter" (McCartney)[/indent] [indent=1]14. "Revolution 1" (Lennon)[/indent] [indent=1]Total Length 45 mins[/indent] [/quote] you don't realise how many good tracks there are on this till you start to try and whittle them down, can't argue with most of this but I'd get rid of Martha my dear and replace it with the continuing story of Bungalow Bill or Cry Baby Cry, maybe there ought to be another Beatles thread, which songs would you leave off the Beatles White Album, only joking, or am I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1457257416' post='2996687'] The Clash - "London Calling" could be re-released as an EP: 1. London Calling 2. Lost In The Supermarket 3. Armegideon Time [/quote]bit harsh there BigRed, nothing wrong with the first record, it's the second one that's the trouble, so any easy one to make a single album from, Armegideon time isn't on my version of London Calling btw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='Delberthot' timestamp='1457222738' post='2996576'] Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium: Dani Califormia Snow Charlie Desecration Smile Tell Me Baby 21st Century Readymade That's it - the rest is filler [/quote]Good call. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NancyJohnson Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='megallica' timestamp='1457224030' post='2996585'] Guns n roses use your illusion [/quote] Never was a GnR fan, but they had their moments I suppose! I've heard the argument that Use Your Illusion could have been edited to a killer single more times than I can remember; I don't know the albums at all (or their back catalogue either), so don't feel qualified to say whether this is a good selection, but I'm gonna fire up Spotify and create a playlist... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin_lindsay Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1457257416' post='2996687'] The Clash - "London Calling" could be re-released as an EP: 1. London Calling 2. Lost In The Supermarket 3. Armegideon Time [/quote] Yup, I bought the London Calling album on double heavyweight vinyl last month. Fantastic opening track, then just a load of forgettable filler after that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor J Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Melon Collie and the Finite Sadness Tonight, Tonight Zero Bullet With Butterfly Wings An Ode To No One Love Galapogos Muzzle Where Boys Fear To Tread Bodies Thirty-Three 1979 Thru The Eyes Of Ruby X.Y.U. Farewell And Goodnight Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorR Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1457257679' post='2996692'] you don't realise how many good tracks there are on this till you start to try and whittle them down, can't argue with most of this but I'd get rid of Martha my dear and replace it with the continuing story of Bungalow Bill or Cry Baby Cry, maybe there ought to be another Beatles thread, which songs would you leave off the Beatles White Album, only joking, or am I [/quote] A lot of them chose themselves and then it was a case of which other few make it up to 45 mins. I wondered about Martha My Dear (is she the cousin of Lovely Rita, Meter Maid?) but it seemed to be the least invidious of Macca's twee sentimental tracks on there. I thought more folks would balk at the absence of Happiness Is A Warm Gun which lots of people seem to love and which has always bored me rigid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megallica Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Lots of filler on the Illusion set but some great tunes on there as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Arkadin Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 Already said this on the other thread but Yes' Tales works better for me by throwing out part 3 completely. OK this only works as a single CD as it would still be a side and a half of vinyl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 [quote name='PaulWarning' timestamp='1457259531' post='2996714'] bit harsh there BigRed, nothing wrong with the first record, it's the second one that's the trouble, so any easy one to make a single album from, Armegideon time isn't on my version of London Calling btw [/quote] But IMO fair. I was a massive Clash fan based on their first two albums, but was so underwhelmed by London Calling. At the time of its release I really liked the single and then that was about it. I recently revisited it as my musical tastes have somewhat broadened in the past 30 or so years and found that I now like "Lost In The Supermarket" as well. And yes I know "Armegideon Time" isn't on the album, but in light of the weakness of the other material it really should have been there and not relegated to the B-side of the single. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonsmith Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 I can't believe the comments about London Calling. I don't think there's a duff track on it. Sandinista, on the other hand, could have a lot trimmed off it. Yes's Tales could lose side 3 I agree & it took me a while to enjoy sides 1 & 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulWarning Posted March 7, 2016 Share Posted March 7, 2016 [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1457337546' post='2997389'] But IMO fair. I was a massive Clash fan based on their first two albums, but was so underwhelmed by London Calling. At the time of its release I really liked the single and then that was about it. I recently revisited it as my musical tastes have somewhat broadened in the past 30 or so years and found that I now like "Lost In The Supermarket" as well. And yes I know "Armegideon Time" isn't on the album, but in light of the weakness of the other material it really should have been there and not relegated to the B-side of the single. [/quote]I know what you mean about it being a disapointment at the time after the first 2 albums, I too was underwhelmed at first, it was a big depeature from the punky stuff, but over the years I've got to really like the first record, still don't bother with the second one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted March 16, 2016 Share Posted March 16, 2016 Focus 3 - just drop Anonymous II. Then package it as a double album with Moving Waves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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