Name double LPs, where the second disc is better than first.

**BravadoNJ** · 11-28-2017

The Wall- Pink Floyd
Out Of The Blue- ELO

**Nearfest2** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by progmatist

Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. I never listen to CD 1, only CD 2 with the title track.

Ha! I'm the opposite!

**Dave (in MA)** · 11-28-2017

DJ version? Jukebox?

When did DJs play entire double albums, or when did jukeboxes use LPs?

You never heard of/saw an automatic record changer? It was pretty much the standard for mass-market audio equipment.

**ronmac** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by Dave (in MA)

DJ version? Jukebox?

When did DJs play entire double albums, or when did jukeboxes use LPs?

There was a time when complete albums would be played. It was not uncommon at all. Certainly during the evening hours.

**Dave (in MA)** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by ronmac

There was a time when complete albums would be played. It was not uncommon at all. Certainly during the evening hours.

Yes, but it's highly unlikely they used an automatic record changer to do so, and a double album would probably be exceedingly rare. I remember when they'd warn you during the time leading up to it to get your tape decks ready.

**Mister Triscuits** · 11-28-2017

There actually was a special sequence for DJs, where side 1 would be backed by side 3, and side 2 with 4. This makes no sense for home listening, and I have seen very few examples, but it allows a DJ using two turntables to play the entire album without interruption.

**taliesin** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by Mister Triscuits

There actually was a special sequence for DJs, where side 1 would be backed by side 3, and side 2 with 4. This makes no sense for home listening, and I have seen very few examples, but it allows a DJ using two turntables to play the entire album without interruption.

Actually I believe that it started with home hi-fi's - with sides 1 and 2 on separate discs you could load them both so they would play automatically then you would flip them and do 3 and 4 the same.

Now I'm showing my age.

**Mister Triscuits** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by taliesin

Actually I believe that it started with home hi-fi's - with sides 1 and 2 on separate discs you could load them both so they would play automatically then you would flip them and do 3 and 4 the same.

No, you're thinking of the common 1/4 2/3 combination. If you tried to do that with the DJ sequence (1/3 2/4), you would hear side 4 before side 3.

**zombywoof** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate

Zappa - Roxy Music disc 2 - IF there is a DJ version with disc one as 1,4 and the other 2,3

Yes, my copy is

**zombywoof** · 11-28-2017

My vote is for XTCs English Settlement, though both discs are great

**bill g** · 11-28-2017

The Lamb. It's crazy how much better (to me) the 2nd disc is, particularly the Anyway - The Lamia section.

**mozo-pg** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by bill g

The Lamb. It's crazy how much better (to me) the 2nd disc is, particularly the Anyway - The Lamia section.

I like the 2nd disc more because it's more complex and experimental.

**Progatron** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by bill g

The Lamb. It's crazy how much better (to me) the 2nd disc is, particularly the Anyway - The Lamia section.

Originally Posted by mozo-pg

I like the 2nd disc more because it's more complex and experimental.

I love disc 2 of course, but with disc 1 having Fly On A Windshield, Back In NYC, In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers... I can't be on that team with you guys.

**Mister Triscuits** · 11-28-2017

How about David Sylvian's Gone to Earth? The first (vocal) disc is cool--in more ways than one--but the instrumental disc is sublime.

**taliesin** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by Mister Triscuits

No, you're thinking of the common 1/4 2/3 combination. If you tried to do that with the DJ sequence (1/3 2/4), you would hear side 4 before side 3.

Yes you're quite right - brain cramp on my part.

**emperorken** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by bill g

The Lamb. It's crazy how much better (to me) the 2nd disc is, particularly the Anyway - The Lamia section.

IMO both discs are mediocre. The worst of the PG era.

One I can think of is Morphelia's Waken the Nightmare. What happened to them anyway?

**Progbear** · 11-28-2017

Originally Posted by emperorken

IMO both discs are mediocre. The worst of the PG era.

Worse than FGTR?

**emperorken** · 11-29-2017

Originally Posted by Progbear

Worse than FGTR?

I actually like FGTR, but I should have qualified my statement as "worst of the PG prog era".

**pb2015** · 11-29-2017

Originally Posted by Mister Triscuits

There actually was a special sequence for DJs, where side 1 would be backed by side 3, and side 2 with 4. This makes no sense for home listening, and I have seen very few examples, but it allows a DJ using two turntables to play the entire album without interruption.

I know of one in my collection, the History Of Eric Clapton compilation from the early 70's.

**mozo-pg** · 11-29-2017

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is the band's greatest achievement in the Gabriel era. Of course, I will add this is my opinion. Although I have come to appreciate and prefer the second album, the first is stellar too.

**JJ88** · 11-29-2017

I think the first disc of The Lamb is more immediate, definitely- maybe the most accessible of the Gabriel era due to the shorter songs. But the second also clicked with me after a few plays and I loved it just as much. Even a couple of the tracks which are kind of 'filler' on paper, if you see the slide show for the album that they used on stage, they gain a different meaning. They planned this as a multi-media event from the start.

I'd possibly suggest Man's Back Into The Future, if only for the fact what was side 3 has arguably their all-time peak...the 'C'Mon' with the Gwalia Male Voice Choir, live at the Roundhouse.

Oh, and obviously ELP's Works Volume 1, simply because I only listen to what was side 4 of the album.

**Dan Marsh** · 11-29-2017

Originally Posted by JJ88

Can't think of many but Van Morrison's Hymns To The Silence, maybe (although there's a few great tracks on the first disc like 'I'm Not Feeling It Anymore' and 'Take Me Back'). I did read somewhere that this was planned to be two separate albums but it got bundled together. It actually would have been better at one CD length (74 minutes or whatever it was then), whilst remaining a double record.

Agreed!

**bill g** · 11-29-2017

Originally Posted by Progatron

I love disc 2 of course, but with disc 1 having Fly On A Windshield, Back In NYC, In The Cage, Carpet Crawlers... I can't be on that team with you guys.

Love 'Fly On A Windshield'. But nothing else touches 'The Lamia', 'Anyway', 'The Supernatural ...', 'The Colony of Slipperman', 'Riding The Scree', and 'In The Rapids' for me.

Definitely more complex and experimental as mozo-pg said. And after 'Foxtrot' and 'Selling England', some of the first disc sounded kinda stripped down (compositionally, not production) and straightforward by comparison.