There were some great double albums in the Seventies.
Offcourse there were quite a few double or even triple Live albums,
But what about the studio albums ?
Here is my list with my favorite bands and there take on a multiple vinyl albums.
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans.
The greatest album ever made... Maybe. A real concept album on 4 20 minute long sides.
Genesis - The Lamb lies down on Broadway
The story of Rael. Great music, best Genesis album... Maybe. Took me a while to get in
(but that's 48 years ago), but what a lot of great music.
Mike Oldfield - Incantations.
Best album of 1978 and certainly in my top 5. Very cohesive album, with great emotional stuff.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer - Works, Vol 1.
There best album?... Nope, I like BSS better. A strange album and not really a 'double album',
more 4 One-Side albums.
Canarios - Cyclos.
Best Spanish album.. certainly! A great rendition on the Four Seasons, but so much more.
Great dense album with fantastic playing. Why didn't they continu.
That's (almost) it on the proggy side for me. There aren't many more I have, but they are not
in my toplist (War of the Worlds, L'heptade, The Wall, and you will probably add a lot to the list).
Finishing this part I must not forget
Rick Wakeman - Rhapsodies
OK, I like it for the most part, well maybe 40-50 minutes, so not really a double album for me.
To continue, there were many great live albums. I won't list them all but honourable mention goes
to Renaissance - Live at the Carnegie Hall and Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool.
Can't finish without naming the two triple albums which got me going into prog: Yes-Yessongs and ELP-Welcome my Friends.
Now for something different, what about the 'Electronics' albums (Berlin Schule and more).
Here the live albums are often just improvs or prepared new stuff (TD), so I will take some in account.
For me, in the seventies, we have
Tangerine Dream - Encore
Great semi Live album, with TD at their best. 4 long tracks full of lot's of sequencers
(TD also dit 'Zeit' as a double album, but not that great..)
The Maestro Klaus Schulze
X, Maybe his best album... Maybe, but there are so many great albums... 120 Minutes full of mind blowing Synth work.
Live, Yes it is Live and mostly from 1979. Sides 1 and 3 are great tracks from 1979 tour, don't like Side four.
The highlight is on Side 2, 'Sense' the greatest live track ever made. Wow what an album and it only gets 3.04 stars on Progarchives.
(KS also dit 'Cyborg' as a double album, but not that great..)
Am I forgetting something? Off course I am!
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