A thread where we list three-sided albums

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for, ya know, future generations.

NO muzik whatsoever on side 4:

Joe Jackson, Big World
Thurston Moore, Psychic Hearts
Pavement, Wowee Zowee
Utopia, self-titled

There are lots more, right?

― Pinball FREAK, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

George Harrison, All Things Must Pass

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Johnny Winter-Second Winter

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:07 (twenty years ago)

xpost: that's a six-sided album

― The Sensational Sulk (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, three-SIDED albums, not 3-DISC albums.

A three-sided album is a double album where side 4 is as blank as my mind on a Sunday morning.

― Pinball FREAK, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Extreme, "3 Sides to Every Story" -- it was promoted as a three-sided album even though it came out in the CD era. It can now be found in a bargain bin near you.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Rasaan Roland Kirk- The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color
Low- Things we lost in the fire (with the lyrics etched on side 4)

― Matt B. (Matt B.), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

One of Monty Python's LPs was one disc with a double groove on one side, giving three "sides."

And the Yes L.A. compilation was a one-sided LP.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

OXXXES

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:56 (twenty years ago)

Quasi- Field Studies

― Kevin Erickson, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

Rock City Angels - Young Man's Blues (debut album) (okay, well,fourth side is a "dance remix" of one of the songs on the other sides.)

Wasn't there an early Graham Parker album like that, too -- The Parkerilla or something, with a 12-inch single of Don't Ask Me Questions on side 4?

Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove came with a 7-inch inside that was CALLED Side C, but I don't know if that counts, either.

Also, I have an M "Pop Muzik" single which is a 3-sided single -- on one side, there are two different concentric grooves, so depending on where you put the needle down, it plays either Pop Muzik or M Factor.

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Black Heart Procession - Amor Del Tropico

I think

― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Palace Music collection
Brother Danielson "Father/Brother"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

does Genesis' 3 Sides Live count? or was the other side regular? I don't remember

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Was the Built To Spill live thing 3-sided?

― donut debonair (donut), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 21:23 (twenty years ago)

One of Monty Python's LPs was one disc with a double groove on one side, giving three "sides."

Matching Tie and Handkerchief. I have another album that has parallel grooves so you get something different depending on where you drop the needle. I can't remember what it is though.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

FROM ZEE MUDDY BANKS OV ZEE WISHKAH.

― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

does Genesis' 3 Sides Live count? or was the other side regular?

The fourth side consisted of studio recordings, released as the 3X3 EP. Btw. the US edition of the album was in fact four sides of live material.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 22:36 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Richie Havens have a famous 3 sided album? perhaps even the first?

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

I vaguely remember my dad talking about a 3sided album by Havens with grooves on only 1 side of the second album, but i could be wrong...

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 00:57 (twenty years ago)

That Johnny Winter and Rock City Angels were the only ones I knew of. But the "Thank God It's Friday" soundtrack LP had five sides. 3LPs, sixth side blank.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:06 (twenty years ago)

"Now It Can Be Told" the Devo live album.

― everything, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:47 (twenty years ago)

Extreme, "3 Sides to Every Story" -- it was promoted as a three-sided album even though it came out in the CD era. It can now be found in a bargain bin near you.

-- MindInRewind

I was still a pretty big Extreme fan when that came out (granted I was maybe 12). I think it had "Get The Funk Out" on it which was an alright jam.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

De La's "Me, Myself And I" 12-incher was three-sided as well.

Strictly Dan Stucky...

― Christopher R. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

Nirvana "From the muddy banks of the Wishka" had three sides.

Side 4 was snippets of 'between song' nonsense a la "Having Fun with Elvis on-stage"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)

Super Furry Animals' Phantom Power is a three-sided LP with an etching on side 4.

― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 11:15 (twenty years ago)

I think Boards of Canada's Geogaddi is a five-sided LP, with an etching on side 6. How about that? Any more five-sided albums?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

Side 6 is Magic Window, isn't it? That track is silence anyway, so it's a moot point.

― Deluxe (Damian), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:23 (twenty years ago)

OT: I remember fondly a one-sided 7" by a band called Lint circa 1995 or so. Hot tune.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Blank sides are handy for testing out your anti skating setting too!

― wombatX (wombatX), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

I never play the ballad half of Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff." Thus, three sides of primo Donna remain.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 14 April 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

ryko's "audiophile" reissued Bowie's catalog in the early '90s came on three-sided colour vinyl: Space Oddity, Hunky Dory, The Man Who Sold The World. The third side contained the bonus tracks that appeared on the CDs.

― salim (salim), Thursday, 14 April 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

The vinyl of Air Miami's album is (I think) three 45 rpm sides.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Vox Pop, *The Band, the Myth, the Volume* (Goldar 12-inch EP, 1982). "C side", I wrote once, "lands you inside an eternal closed groove."

― xhuxk, Thursday, 14 April 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

six years pass...

I wish more labels would consider doing these instead of spreading 52 minutes of music across four sides.

― Mark, Sunday, 8 May 2011 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

I think it's more a mastering/sound quality concern than any label's conscious artistic decision but i could be wrong.

― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 9 May 2011 03:56 (fourteen years ago)

I think it's more a mastering/sound quality concern than any label's conscious artistic decision but i could be wrong

yeah but there isn't going to be any noticeable difference in sound quality between a side of music lasting 13 mins and one lasting 17 mins.

a couple of examples I can think of:

Coil, Musick to Play in the Dark vol. 2 – has a v. nice etching on side 4
Death in June, Something is Coming

also I'm pretty sure I have a Nurse With Wound LP like this w/etching on side 4 but I can't remember which one

― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Monday, 9 May 2011 07:47 (fourteen years ago)

I have one!

The Stooges : "The Weirdness"

Side three was some extra tracks, including their "I wanna be your man"

― Mark G, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:10 (fourteen years ago)

Their version of obviously.

― Mark G, Monday, 9 May 2011 16:11 (fourteen years ago)

robert wyatt - comicopera

― coo coo khal (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 9 May 2011 16:13 (fourteen years ago)

three years pass...

De La's "Me, Myself And I" 12-incher was three-sided as well.
Strictly Dan Stucky...

― Christopher R. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, April 13, 2005 12:48 AM (10 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My first post. 10 years ago :O

― clikbait ikatowi (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:04 (ten years ago)

Happy Weiniversary!

― subject's companion from prior surveillance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 April 2015 18:43 (ten years ago)

Apples in Stereo - Travellers in Space and Time

― DavidLeeRoth, Monday, 27 April 2015 18:57 (ten years ago)

Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues

― sleeve, Monday, 27 April 2015 18:59 (ten years ago)

Dead Weather - Horehound
Sleater-Kinney - The Woods

― subject's companion from prior surveillance (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 April 2015 19:00 (ten years ago)

Robert Rental & The Normal, "Live at West Runton Pavilion", was a one-sided album, 2nd side blank.

― Quack and Merkt (Tom D.), Monday, 27 April 2015 19:18 (ten years ago)

7 sides of mike & kate westbrook

― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 00:50 (ten years ago)

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