double album greatest hits: a celebration

because one album often wasn't good enough, and a box set was an investment of time and money i wasn't ready to make.

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way more interesting than the first hot rocks and way more responsible for my lifelong stones love:

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original musiquarium gets bonus points for having bonus tracks that were actually good.

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all the rage in the UK in the late 70s

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^ my first stones record!

and of course..

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yeah it was my introduction to them too, always thought they looked real sinister on the cover.

i had no idea until many years after i bought this two-album set that the second album was odessey and oracle in its entirety. but this is where i fell in love with all those songs:

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i love that there are six stones on that rolling stones cover!

original musiquarium gets bonus points for having bonus tracks that were actually good.

― fact checking cuz,

one of the few GHs that can boast two classic new songs.

this was mail order i think but mail order double albums (or '2-record sets' as the adverts used to say) were big over here

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i'd maybe say that Madonna's Immaculate Collection had 2 decent new tracks too; Justify My Love and Rescue Me.

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HI DERE

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this was a monster

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this one is a well-selected overview...

borrowed this from my uncle.. there was no going back

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not proud, but

wasn't Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine a double as well?

mmm faux-leather

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wasn't Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine a double as well?

yes indeed.

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and more from the shitty fabs comp era (those fingers are on the actual sleeve!)

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I tried and failed to find a picture that shows the embossed cover more clearly

great comp that

I did not know that existed!

damn internet unable to give me a single usable image of charlie rich's amazing midnight hits and original demos.

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hell yeah.

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ahhhhhhhh thank you!

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xp
you posted it already!

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(xp) weird! i tried to post it but it looked like a broken link until just this second! (i repeat: damn internet.)

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This thread is making me feel v nostalgic; my Dad had the Steely Dan, Doors, XTC and Talking Heads albums and they were my introduction to the band in each case, and still make up what I involuntarily think of as the 'canon' of each band.

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This was a double LP and a double CD in Japan with 6 tracks not on the single CD release:

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dude none of yr discogs image links are working (for me, anyway)

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eh, maybe if you open them? i dunno

Oh no, really? Ugh... I'll pause here, then before carrying on with the post-punk torch.

i couldn't get any of my discogs links to work here either, so i quickly gave up on them.

Don't think anyone else will suggest this:

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One of the first, I don't know, 50 albums I bought when I was in high school in the mid-'70s (Weird Scenes, too--that was one of the first dozen). I used to look at those Columbia Record House ads and pick out all the double-compilations I wanted to buy, dreaming at the same time of the Marantz stereo I wanted to play them on. There were also double-albums for each guy in Cream; a few years later I bought the Clapton, at which point the other two were probably out of print. What would a double Ginger Baker compilation be like? Literally no idea.

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Mmmmmm......blue.

that is exactly what every double album on this thread should be played through. that receiver and these speakers.

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xps i've had problems seeing discogs images recently. for a while i wasn't seeing them in my regular browser (opera) but they were fine in other browsers. right now i can see them fine again in opera. and i see all the images here.

Discogs images have never shown up for me on ilx.

re: Chuck Berry, Great Twenty-Eight is absolutely the canon, but these make kind of an amazing/ridiculous slab in the record collection - Golden Decade volume 1, 2, and 3, with the later volumes increasingly strewn with non-hit B-sides and album material which really fleshes out these other sides of Chuck than the ones I grew up on. Pretty cool. (There's a better cover for #1, but this is the one I've got...)

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second one also cool since if you photoshopped out the title and the other trade dress it would make a pretty believable poster for a horror movie

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Chuck Berry's Golden Shower

that cliff richard cover is fantastic.

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(xp) that elvis set is four albums, isn't it?

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There was both a Vol. 1 and a Vol. 2 of the Elvis - each was 2 LPs. I never had Volume 2.

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I just looked, and I'm wrong - Vol. 1 was 4 LPs. I remember it as two. Huh.

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this album by THEM FEATURING VAN MORRISON, LEAD SINGER has the killer comination of totally slapped-together cover art (kind of a hallmark of the double greatest hits album sleazy cash-in aura) and amazing long and detailed Lester Bangs liner notes

(xp to myself) i'm reasonably sure the original version of ricky nelson's legendary masters series 2-LP set did not say "click here full restoration" across the top of it. though it would have been kind of awesome and visionary if it did.

I just looked, and I'm wrong - Vol. 1 was 4 LPs.

that could be a whole 'nother thread: the hastily thrown together, crappily packaged, four-LP greatest-hits set from before the boxed set era, which often, as is definitely the case with that elvis set, is absolutely fantastic. though there are probably not nearly as many of those.

More great graphics from Crazy Joe's Discount House of Double Album Greatest Hits Cover Art.

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oh man I want that Charlie Rich bad!

that cliff richard cover is fantastic.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:12 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seconded, would buy this in a cheapie bin and I have no particular interest in Cliff Richard.

That Ray Charles one is a cool listen, exactly all I need of him (I think).

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essential gateway drug, though quickly cast aside once I realized just how wall-to-wall good the first few albums were.

Wonder how many of these are monumental/central enough to have their own threads/polls...

GABBA GABBA POLL: Ramones Mania
Original Musiquarium
JOHHNY B. POLLED: chuck berry's great twenty-eight
Say Goodbye To POLLywood - Billy Joel Greatest Hits Volume I & Volume II, THE POLL

I don't own this--I already owned The Worst Of single when it came out--but if I were to come across a reasonably priced copy, I'd buy it without hesitation.

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I've got the other Berry cover--assume this was the reissue.

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@ piscesx: this is the one I grew up with, albeit in cassette form:

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Fucking great, although with only five cuts per side it's a little skimpy.

One that's everywhere and kind of weird is Dylan's second GH, with maybe...three? hits, one new single, five previously unreleased tracks, and a bunch of album cuts (though I assume some of these had gotten radio play?). The title and the photo (evoking the previous Greatest Hits) are all that separate it from being more of a Yesterday and Today or Hey Jude comp.

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This was probably the first non-rock album I ever owned.

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Disc 1: The youthful hero doomed to fall like blossom 1987-1989

Disc 2: A machine that let you feel all his emotion 1990-1993

Each disc also had an epigraph, 'give me the ability to rage correctly' for disc 1 and 'circumcise the foreskin of your heart' for disc 2.

those same amazing Momus quotes are on the labels on the Tender Pervert vinyl aswell; always loved those.

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The Kingston Trio - The Folk Era (3xLP)

as opposed to their speed-punk period - trust me, you don't want any of that!

This thing is fucking great btw, and the discs are themed: "Traditional," "Contemporary," and the cumbersome "New Words To Old Melodies & Folk Destination."

Neither are doubles; yet, i always bookend these together...
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just bought a 2xCD version of this, but it originally came out as a double LP. Love this cover.
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I bought the Doors Best Of when I was like 15 and was super disappointed that "96 Tears" was not one of the songs on it.

Motorhead, No Remorse. Came in a leather sleeve for a while. (So did the cassette version!)

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