i mean if you ignore lifehouse/who's next, tommy to quadrophenia seems to fit
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
kinda agree w Tom D here tbh most of these nominations make no sense to me
― Οὖτις, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
the ones that make the most sense are the irish twin albums that come out within 12 months of each other and had some songs recorded at the same sessions
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, August 30, 2019 11:04 AM (twenty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
I dunno, they sound pretty different -- Tommy is austere compared to Quadrophenia's synth- and horn-heavy arrangements. I actually think Tommy and the cancelled 1970 EP is a stretch, as the EP tracks have more electric guitar than all of Tommy.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:38 (five years ago) link
Some members of The Band considered Big Pink and "the brown album" to be basically the same album.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:39 (five years ago) link
xp yeah i don't actually think tommy/quad fits, but i was thinking of it asa hollywood-type blockbuster sequel (bigger, longer, etc)
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I can see it from that perspective. And that was part of the original intention of Lifehouse, to make an exponentially more ambitious and larger-scale Tommy-type project.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Sgt Pepper/Magical Mystery Tour
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Friday, 30 August 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
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Kimono My House -> Propaganda makes a lot of sense
― frogbs, Friday, 30 August 2019 15:57 (five years ago) link
Yes to the Band and the Beatles.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 30 August 2019 16:07 (five years ago) link
The almost complete absence of Chris Bell on Radio City kind of makes the first two Big Star records seem quite as much of a unit IMO
― PaulTMA, Friday, 30 August 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
"I don't see much talk about TVotR on ILM - how do folks around here rate them?"
I love them, I think there's a fair number of people who feel the same. They only release an album every three years or so though and they're not huge so there isn't tons of active discussion on them.
― akm, Friday, 30 August 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
xp yeah, I kind of ruled out the Big Star albums for that reason, but at the same time I do often forget which album some of the songs are on, so a case could probably be made.
challenge: propose album companions that were not made sequentially. example: the Manics' Holy Bible and Journal for Plague Lovers
This is pretty hard! I guess Guero was kind of thought of as an attempt to get back to the Odelay sound, but they're pretty different. Solo Piano I and II by Chilly Gonzales, but that's cheating. Maybe I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One and I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass?
Another (possibly too easy) challenge: follow-ups to to classics that are of similar quality but don't sound the same at all. Something/Anything -> A Wizard, a True Star might be the best example I can think of. Or OK Computer -> Kid A. The Blue Album and Pinkerton, Definitely Maybe and What's the Story would probably work. The first two (or more) De La Soul albums. Lonesome Crowded West and The Moon and Antarctica.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Saturday, 31 August 2019 15:50 (five years ago) link
Weezer's Green album is odd as it sounds like it could have preceeded the blue album due it's relative simplicity/streamlined approach (see also: The Strokes 'Room On Fire')
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:08 (five years ago) link
Bands generally get tighter / more professional over time, rather than sloppier, no? Hard to imagine blue coming after green (Is This It also sounds like a classic debut album to me).
― Stub yr toe on the yacht rock (morrisp), Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Drive-By Truckers Decoration Day and The Dirty South are very much of a piece.
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 31 August 2019 17:36 (five years ago) link
Fly Like An Eagle and Book of Dreams. I think they were recorded at the same time as well.
― henry s, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
Elvis Presley, From Elvis in Memphis (1969) was the classic album, and then his next release was the double lp From Memphis to Vegas, From Vegas to Memphis from which one disc was material taken from the same sessions as From Elvis in Memphis
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:56 (five years ago) link
...and the sameness of the two releases was acknowledged by RCA when they basically reissued all of that material on one CD called The Memphis Record in the '80s
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:59 (five years ago) link
Beach Boys: Smiley Smile & Wild Honey; Sunflower & Surf's Up
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
The studio material from From Memphis... was also later re-released as Back in Memphis. (The live stuff was re-released as From the International Hotel.)
What's most amazing to me about that batch of material is that "Suspicious Minds" was a non-LP single.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
It's kind of a constant refrain in Elvis's career that his non-movie LPs might have sold more and been more esteemed if RCA would've attached the concurrent singles to them
― Josefa, Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
Apropos of From Elvis In Memphis, I see there is a new release of related outtakes called American Sound 1969, which seems to contain more tracks than even Big Star’s Complete Third.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:54 (five years ago) link
Yeah, it's on Spotify - I started digging into it. It's a lot like the Stooges Fun House box - take after take after take of the same song, until Elvis starts laughing or loses his place and they count it off again. Not super-edifying.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Saturday, 31 August 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
I think I bought those two Big Star LPs around the same time and didn’t fully absorb either one before listening to the other one. It took me quite a while to enjoy listening to either one from beginning to end as a whole without zoning out and just focusing on individual tracks I liked, so I barely thought This Album and That Album, just This Track and That Track. For years I downplayed Chris Bell’s role and figured he was just the founder and foil for creative genius Alex (who horned in and took over) and his leaving didn’t make much difference anyway. Now that I have, um, refined my opinion and improved my understanding, I feel that on the second album they are still to some extent channeling Chris- not sure Alex ever wrote or made records the same way before or since- so his departure made much less of a difference than might have been expected, despite sonic/production changes mentioned upthread.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:12 (five years ago) link
Reproduction and Travelogue by The Human League feel this way to me. It definitely helps that I bought them on the same day.
Same goes for The Divine Comedy's Liberation and Promenade which I got around the same time. They were recorded and released very close together with extremely similar artwork. Promenade might be a bit more developed (the production is better for a start), but I always put them together. Especially as Neil never topped those albums.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
XP John Fry claimed about a third of Radio City was Chris co-writes that he declined to take credit for.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:36 (five years ago) link
Thanks. Was just about to make another pass through the Bruce Eaton 33 1/3 book on Radio City to refresh my memory about things like that.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 21:42 (five years ago) link
Chris co-wrote “O My Soul” and “Back Of A Car” but, in what John Fry describes as “horsetrading,” Chris gave full credit to Alex in return for keeping full credit on two other songs, “There’s A Light” and “Got Kind Of Lost.” Chris later sent a letter to John Fry asking for credit on “those two songs” but didn’t say which, although Andy and Alex knew. All four songs were recorded on an early Radio City demo that went missing.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:43 (five years ago) link
Both of those last two, all four songs actually, can be heard on the Live At Lafayette’s Music Room album which came out last year.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:02 (five years ago) link
I think some of those demos popped up on the box set (alongside that concert).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:08 (five years ago) link
Oh yeah. Wonder if those are the same initial demos that were supposed to have been erased or later ones.
― The Fearless Thread Killers (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 31 August 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book / Innervisions.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 1 September 2019 12:19 (five years ago) link
The first two Magnetic Fields albums feel like this though the later album is perhaps a bit more jaunty. They obviously encouraged this impression by making the CD edition a twofer almost immediately. (And then by having Merritt finally singing his own songs by the third album.)
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 1 September 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
What about the first two Stooges LPs? genuine q, I don't really know them that well but as a teen I had this compilation that conflated them into one LP which felt pretty consistent.
― umsworth (emsworth), Monday, 2 September 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
The second Tindersticks album seems to fit into that scheme. More of the same but not quite as good, one obvious reason being that the sound wasn't new anymore.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:18 (five years ago) link
Kraftwerk 1 / Kraftwerk 2
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
The first two Stooges albums feel fairly distinct to me in terms of rhythmic feel, production quality, and even instrumentation (sax on the latter album, some piano and viola on the earlier one).
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:27 (five years ago) link
Achtung Baby/Zooropa
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 September 2019 14:29 (five years ago) link
I always mentally group Innervisions with Fulfillingness' First Finale because the cover art styles are similar.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 2 September 2019 14:33 (five years ago) link
Another version of this would be "albums you got used to listening to on a single CD but which wouldn't otherwise sound like they should fit together" - for me The Soft Machine / Volume Two
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 2 September 2019 14:38 (five years ago) link
Spirit of Eden -> Laughing Stock
― Duke, Monday, 2 September 2019 16:06 (five years ago) link
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Damn the Torpedoes/Hard Promises
― whalemusic, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:47 (five years ago) link
ZZ Top - Eliminator and Afterburner
― confusementalism (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 3 September 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
Also the artwork is super similar!
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Tuesday, 3 September 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
Fleetwood Mac: Future Games -> Bare Trees
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
the first two david axelrod albums —song of innocence + songs of experience— fit here pretty well.
bill evans has a couple, but i'm not sure if it's cheating to include them, as they were recorded at the same time and then split up into single lps later. the ones i'm thinking of are:sunday at the village vanguard + waltz for debbymoonbeams + how my heart sings
would also like to mention some curtis mayfield in the form of: back to the world + sweet exorcist (+ arguably even got to find a way)and obviously curtis + roots
and finally, adrian borland and the sound:shock of daylight + heads and hearts
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Wednesday, 4 September 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
Swordfishtrombones...Rain Dogs
― fetter, Saturday, 7 September 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
This came to mind last night, though it doesn't fit squarely within the parameters of this discussion: The Cult's Electric and the first Danzig album sound and feel like two chapters of the same story.
― Johnny Fever, Saturday, 7 September 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link