Double album Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

A double album is an audio album of sufficient length that two units of the medium in which it is sold (especially recordss and compact discs) are necessary to contain the entirety of it.

Recording artists often think of double albums as a single piece artistically; however, there are exceptions such as Pink Floyd's Ummagumma, one live album and one studio record packaged together, and OutKast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, consisting of one practical solo album by each member of the hip-hop duo.

The first double album ever released was Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde in 1966, although at the same time Dylan was recording the album Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were at work on the double album Freak Out, released two months after Blonde On Blonde.

Since then, the double album format has been more often used for live albums for which material is often plentiful.

In the late 1980s, the compact disc, which can carry more music than a typical vinyl record, became the most common format on which to sell music. Albums which were originally packaged as double records were sold on a single compact disc, such as The Who's Tommy and The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Also, albums of the compact disc era are often longer than ones of previous decades and are packaged on two records if vinyl copies are produced. In general, an album is usually refered to as a double album when it sprawled across two units of the prominent format of its time period.

The following is a list of albums, each of which is double in the vinyl and/or the CD format.

• Tori Amos - To Venus and Back
• Anthrax - Persistence of Time / Among the Living
• Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2 (Triple vinyl with two extra songs, double CD)
• Aphex Twin - Drukqs (Quadrouple vinyl, double CD)
• Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes for Cash
• The Beatles - The Beatles (Commonly known as 'The White Album')
• The Byrds - Untitled/Unissued
• Billy Bragg - Must I Paint You A Picture? The Essential Billy Bragg
• Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
• Chicago Transit Authority (later 'Chicago') - Chicago Transit Authority
• The Clash - London Calling
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• Cream - Wheels of Fire
• Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - 4 Way Street
• The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
• Datblygu - Wyau / Pyst
• Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
• Miles Davis - Live-Evil
• Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
• Mike Doughty - Skittish/Rockity Roll
• Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
• Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
• Bob Dylan - Self Portrait
• Bob Dylan and The Band - Before the Flood
• Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
• Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
• The Flying Burrito Brothers - Honky Tonks
• Funkadelic - Funk Gets Stronger
• Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
• The Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead
• The Grateful Dead - Live/Dead
• The Grateful Dead - Reckoning
• The Grateful Dead - Without a Net
• Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
• The Isley Brothers - Winner Takes All
• Michael Jackson - HIStory
• Jay-Z -
• Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
• Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
• Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
• Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
• Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
• Nellie McKay - Get Away from Me
• Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
• Willie Nelson -
• Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
• Notorious B.I.G - Life After Death
• Paul Oakenfold - Creamfields
• The Olivia Tremor Control -
• The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld
• OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• Phish - A Live One
• Pink Floyd - Ummagumma
• Pink Floyd - The Wall
• Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live
• Pink Floyd - Echoes
• Prince - 1999
• Prince - Sign '0' The Times
• Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
• The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
• They Might Be Giants -
• They Might Be Giants -
• Santana - Lotus
• Santana - Moonflower
• Skinny Puppy - Brap
• The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• (soundtrack) - American Graffiti
• (soundtrack) - Saturday Night Fever
• Bruce Springsteen - The River
• Swans - Soundtracks For The Blind
• The Who - Tommy
• The Who - Quadrophenia
• Wilco - Being There
• Johnny Winter - Second Winter (Note that the second side of the second record was blank, so this may not be considered a true double album by some)
• XTC - English Settlement
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Live Rust
• Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out

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