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Contents 1 Comments 2 Best selling double album 3 Double LP Side Order 4 Kid Rock 5 Albums by length 6 Do separately released albums count as a double album? 7 triple album 8 Video Game Soundtracks? 9 Side numbering on double album vinyl records

[edit] Comments

1. Is the proper spelling double-album?
2. Shouldn't the list of double albums be moved to its own article? (For one thing it has the potential to grow very, very long.)

--Gyrofrog (talk) 19:55, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Considering that many dance music albums are doubles makes the list a little silly IMOSecretlondon 21:59, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

As predicted, this list is already growing quite long. Does anyone have objections to splitting the list from the article? -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:05, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I'm fine with either way; if the best thing to do is split the list from the article then I say go for it :) Cjmarsicano 04:33, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Done. See List of double albums. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 06:56, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

It's a great pitty that Leonard Cohen has never made a double album, albeit an album long enough to take up 2 LP, it makes me wonder - given that he is one of the heaviest talents of all time - how many songs he has recorded, that nobody's ever heard because thay were simply thrown off his albums. Some day we will find out, maybe when the Leonard Cohen catalog is reissued on SACD.

[restored from different section]: Should would-have-been double albums such a Death of a Ladies' Man by Leonard Cohen be added to this article.

[edit] Best selling double album

What is the best-selling double album of all time? Is it still Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness? 71.65.54.92 00:09, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

The Beatles White album was when it came out, but was later topped by Saturday Night Fever.

[edit] Double LP Side Order

Why do some double albums mix up their side orders? For example LP 1 has side 1 and side 4 on it, while LP 2 has side 2 and side 3 on it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.22.231.53 (talk • contribs) 03:44, 27 November 2005 (UTC).

Short answer: the listener only had to get up once to flip both records over. Now the long version; it's the train of thought off the top of my head. (If someone can put this more succinctly, it's definitely worth mentioning in the article - and thanks for bringing it up!) It has to do with the way some turntables were constructed. Many models had a tall spindle in the center with a little latch at the top. The listener could place several records, one on top of the other, on the spindle. When one side of one record finished, the tone arm would move out of the way, then the next record would drop, and playback would resume. (In hindsight this may not have been very good for the records.) Double albums were sometimes made with sides 1 & 4 on one disc, and sides 2 & 3 on the other. This way, after side 1 finished, the next record would drop and side 2 would play. When side 2 finished, the listener could pick up both records at the same time, flip both of them over and then 3 and 4 would play in that order. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 04:02, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Kid Rock

This probably isn't worth mentioning in the article, but I thought I'd share it here. I've never really listened to Kid Rock, so I don't really have any opinion of him to speak of. But one thing I thought was really cool was his idea for a tripple album (which he didn't end up making): The three CDs would be named, in order, "Kid" "Fucking" "Rock:. The first would have been country, the second hip-hop and the third rock. You have to admit that that's a very cool idea.

[edit] Albums by length

As this article discusses more than just double albums, could we move it to albums by length — or similar? jareha ^(comments) 06:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Do separately released albums count as a double album?

I was wondering if albums such as Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II and System of a Down's Mezmerize and Hypnotize count as double albums? If they are not actually double albums, is there a term for them, and should there be mention of them in this article? Joltman 19:27, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

No, IMO, they're not double albums. Double (triple, etc.) albums come in a single package, and those to which you're referring do not. There are several other pairs like that in List of double albums; it's been proposed to move them to a separate article, but nobody's come up with anything good to call them. Maybe "double releases"? <big shrug> — Wwagner 16:05, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] triple album

the first one of note... All things must pass is from november '70 while the woodstock OST was released in August i believe. but maybe woodstock is a compilation and not suitable as a prototype triple album?

[edit] Video Game Soundtracks?

Video game soundtracks often release using multiple discs. 3-disc game albums are not uncommon, and sometimes there are even albums containing 4 or more discs. For example, the recent Okami Original Soundtrack contains 5 discs of music. Being that it is all from one single game, I don't feel it could be considered a boxset.

Anyway, I was just wondering if this is worth mentioning in this article. --Kaleb.G 22:19, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Side numbering on double album vinyl records

This needs to be added to the article (and comes out of my recent edit revision on the Tommy (rock opera) article [1]):
The reason for strange out-of sequence side numbering on double albums was record changers. Most people didn't have single-play turntables, they had changers with a tall central spindle. You stacked the records on the spindle and they would drop down onto the platter one at a time. So a double album (disc one had sides 1 & 4. disc two had sides 2 & 3) would be stacked with side 1 facing up on the bottom and the second disc with side 2 facing up stacked on top of it. Then, when both records had been played and side 2 was done, you flipped the stack of two over as one unit. So now the second disc was now on the bottom, with side 3 facing up, and the first disc with side 4 facing up on the disc on top of that so you would end up playing sides 1,2,3,4 in the proper order. Thomas Dzubin _Talk 01:06, 13 March 2007 (UTC)