Double Albums that DO need Culling...?

[Fonz]

Would anyone here want to cull Trout Mask Replica?

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Not me!

Agreed!




What about this:







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I wouldn’t change a thing about FO. It works as a pop/rock album as well as a deliberate work of art, with FZ setting out his stall, for the audience, AND his record company.

[ChrisB]

Although I love the album, they could actually have done their own culling ie "Whipping Post" 22mins 40 secs and "You don't love me" 19 mins 6 secs. Do they REALLY have to be that long? Half the length of the "jams" boys, and you'd have room for at least two more tracks eg "Midnight Rider" for one.

[C]

Do they REALLY have to be that long?.

Are you soft lad?

Of course they do

The two tracks to which you refer are superb and could be even longer as far as I’m concerned!

One of the greatest live double albums ever made

Of course, a later CD version was expanded even further with superb extra tracks




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[ChrisB]

I do tend to keep looking at my watch

[C]

I love the album, but I could go and make a cuppa. clean the car and they'd still not have finished.

This is a nice 'newer' remixed version:



Wiki

The Fillmore Concerts
On October 10, 1992, The Fillmore Concerts, an expanded version of At Fillmore East, was released as a two-disc CD. It includes all the songs from the original album, plus the live songs from Eat a Peach – "One Way Out", "Trouble No More", and "Mountain Jam" – and two additional tracks – "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" – all of which were recorded at the same concerts. The album was remixed from the concert recordings, and a few of the songs are alternate takes, so the same songs sound somewhat different from those on the original album

[ChrisB]

Wish the cover photo was more user friendly

[Rayge]

Would anyone here want to cull Trout Mask Replica?

[...]

Not me!

Agreed!




What about this:







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I wouldn’t change a thing about FO. It works as a pop/rock album as well as a deliberate work of art, with FZ setting out his stall, for the audience, AND his record company.

And of course it was a single album in the UK, albeit a fairly long one.

[Matt Wilson]

I love the album, but I could go and make a cuppa. clean the car and they'd still not have finished.

This is a nice 'newer' remixed version:



Wiki

The Fillmore Concerts
On October 10, 1992, The Fillmore Concerts, an expanded version of At Fillmore East, was released as a two-disc CD. It includes all the songs from the original album, plus the live songs from Eat a Peach – "One Way Out", "Trouble No More", and "Mountain Jam" – and two additional tracks – "Don't Keep Me Wonderin'" and "Drunken Hearted Boy" – all of which were recorded at the same concerts. The album was remixed from the concert recordings, and a few of the songs are alternate takes, so the same songs sound somewhat different from those on the original album

This is better. All the concerts in 5.1. and stereo.

[C]

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Perfection as it is!





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[mudshark]

Uriah Heep's "Black" live album would be a bit more palatable without the dreadful R&R medly, DP's Made In Japan without The Mule, TYA's Recorded Live without I'm Going Home and Hobbit.

[Walk In My Shadow]

here's an idea for another thread:


Which bands or artists NEVER made a double (or triple) album?

HAH!

[Quaco]

here's an idea for another thread:


Which bands or artists NEVER made a double (or triple) album?

HAH!

The Moody Blues? They had a double live album (actually only three sides were live).

[Quaco]

Having discussed this double album question so many times, I've finally come around to feeling one should never cut an album down that one doesn't basically already love. In other words, you should only criticize from a place of love. You must feel the album would be its "better self" as a single, not just because you don't like certain songs. It's a theory anyway.

A couple I feel that way about:

Odessa - Bee Gees
Blue Moves - Elton John

[C]

In other words, you should only criticize from a place of love.

A good point well made Jim-lad

As a massive Zappa fan, this is an album I love but could do without the 'audience participation' track, Be-Bop Tango (Of the Old Jazzmen's Church), which takes a up the whole of side 4







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[The Slider]

Sandinista could be culled from a triple to a double.

Sandinista could be culled from a triple to a double A side

[Matt Wilson]

Out of curiosity, which two songs would those be, John?

[The Slider]

The Call Up and Hitsville UK
They chose the singles well.

[mudshark]

I love Sandinista in all its weirdness. Even side 6!. I guess it's just grown on me.
I'm 100% with Roxy.
90% sure that JJ cale never issued a double album. Steve Miller neither.

[Mike Boom]

HITSVILLE UK
SOMEBODY GOT MURDERED
UP IN HEAVEN
IF MUSIC COULD TALK
THE CALL UP
LOSE THIS SKIN
CHARLIE DONT SURF
SOMETHING ABOUT ENGLAND
POLICE ON MY BACK
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
THE LEADER
BROADWAY
THE STREET PARADE

[Matt Wilson]

HITSVILLE UK
SOMEBODY GOT MURDERED
UP IN HEAVEN
IF MUSIC COULD TALK
THE CALL UP
LOSE THIS SKIN
CHARLIE DONT SURF
SOMETHING ABOUT ENGLAND
POLICE ON MY BACK
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
THE LEADER
BROADWAY
THE STREET PARADE

This is closer to my taste. There's probably a dozen (maybe) top-tier Clash songs on Sandinista, and then possibly another handful of 'pretty good' cuts leftover. The rest is disposable.