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Sometimes one disc isn't enough for an artist. Their artistic vision is so big, it cannot be condensed to 80 minutes. This is where the double album comes into play, where two CDs (or LPs/cassettes before [[Tech Marches On|the coming of the digital era]]) are packaged together and released. According to [[The Other Wiki]], a double album is typically, though not always, released because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium. Recording artists often think of double albums as a single piece artistically.
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A similar approach can be taken for a double-disk [[Greatest Hits Album]]: Most likely, the first contains the greatest hits, while the second contains all- or mostly-new material.
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* [[Bob Dylan]]'s ''Blonde on Blonde'' from 1966 was the first ever double LP in popular music, beating out [[Frank Zappa]]'s ''Freak Out!'' by a couple of months. Side two of the second LP was entirely dedicated to "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands", Dylan's ode to his wife Sara, making it the first pop song to cover a full side of an LP (even if it was technically cheating, as the songs could've been more evenly divided over the four sides of the album, but Dylan likely wanted to make it stand out).
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* Nelly's ''Sweat'' and ''Suit'' were not packaged together, but released simultaneously. ''Sweat'' was [[Hip Hop]] party songs and ''Suit'' was traditional R&B music with [[Hip Hop]] rhymes.
* The Yellow Magic Orchestra's album ''Naughty Boys'' has a disc of vocal songs and a disc of instrumental remixes of the same songs.
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** The vinyl version takes this even further, with six seperately named sides: Dawn, Teatime, Dusk, Twilight, Midnight, and Starlight
* MC Solaar's "Le tour de la question" was released as a double album, mostly because he couldn't stand his record label anymore and his contract specified he still had two disks left to release with them.
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** Their two albums ''Lemuria'' and ''Sirius B'' were recorded together and released as a double album, but each one is structured like a distinct album.
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* Showbread's ''Anorexia'' and ''Nervosa'' were released simultaneously, and featured songs by the same names, however, every song is completely distinct from "Anorexia" and "Nervosa"; for example, "The Beginning (Anorexia)" is an instrumental piano aria, while "The Beginning (Nervosa)" is not instrumental and features multiple movements by multiple singers.
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** A more noteworthy example of this by Yes would be the monstrous ''Tales from Topographic Oceans'', which stretched out a mere four songs over two LPs, one on each side.
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** ''Ummagumma'': The first disc is a live album, while the second disc is a studio album. All four members of the band have one fourth of the studio disc all to themselves, and the results are mostly lengthy experimental pieces with one actual "song", Roger Waters' "Granchester Meadows", thrown in to start off his quarter of the album.
** ''[[The Wall]]'': The first half covers the building of The Wall, the second half covers what happens behind The Wall.
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* Metal band Rosetta's double album Galilean Satellites becomes a third album when both discs are played simultaneously.
* [[Progressive Metal]] musician Devin Townsend is in the process of releasing a Distinct ''Quadruple'' Album under the moniker "The Devin Townsend Project": A series of four albums, each with a different set of session musicians and a different musical style. The first two, ''Ki'' and ''Addicted'', have been released so far; the former is described by Townsend as "tense" and "quiet"; the latter is "commercial, yet heavy"; the third, ''Deconstruction'', will be "chaotic"; the fourth, ''Ghost'', will be "ambient".
** And once all four albums are out, Townsend plans to re-release them together as an [[Up to Eleven|eight-disc box set]].
* [[Black Metal]]/[[Ambient|Dark Ambient]] band The Axis of Perdition have the ''Urfe'' album, which is actually the first two installments in a [[Concept Album]] trilogy: Disc one, ''Grief of the Unclean'', consists entirely of ambient music with dramatic narration, telling the first part of Urfe's story; disc two, ''The Great Unwashed'', uses a combination of metal and ambient and tells the next part of the story. The conclusion, ''Tenements'', will be released separately in 2011.
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* Nellie McKay's first two albums were both double-discers, even though each CD only had about a half hour of music on it. The reason for the multiple discs was to simulate (sort of) the act of turning over a vinyl record mid-album.
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* Thrice's collection ''The Alchemy Index'', released as two double disc sets: Fire & Water, and Air & Earth. Each element was represented on it's own disc, each showcasing a different musical style. Fire contained harder hitting songs, with the only screamed vocals in the set. Water was mostly electronic based. Air was a softer alternative rock sound. Earth was purely acoustic with an echo-y sound to it.
* The ''[[Silent Hill 4]]'' soundtrack has two discs: the first is the soundtrack itself, and the second is an unrelated audio drama called ''Inescapable Rain in Yoshiwara''.
* Canadian singer/songwriter Joel Plaskett released a distinct ''triple'' album, appropriately entitled ''Three.'' In addition to overlapping lyrical motifs, the discs were described by accompanying press as respectively about "Leaving, being gone, and coming back."
* Experimental rock band Have A Nice Life's debut ''Deathconsciousness'' came in two disks: the shoegaze-meets-drone The Future, and the decidedly more post-punk-influenced The Plow That Broke The Plains. In a release packed with weirdness and innovation, that it's in two distinct-yet-complimentary volumes is the least strange thing about it.
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** Zappa and The Mothers' ''Freak Out!'' was the second double album ever released, beat out by [[Bob Dylan]]'s ''Blonde on Blonde'' by a couple of months.
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** And each part is too long to fit in a single vinyl LP, which means that, with vinyl still being a viable format in 1991 (at least in Europe), may people saw it as a ''quadruple'' album.
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* The [[Trope Maker]], as it applies to [[House Music]] and [[Trance Music]], is the [[Global Underground]] series.
* David Sylvian's album ''Gone To Earth'' was released as a double album with the first album having vocals and the second being purely instrumental. The initial CD release crammed the entire album on one disc by dropping four of the instrumental songs; subsequent releases have restored the two-disc format (with some versions adding bonus tracks.)
* Frank Black's ''Frank Black Francis'' was a two CD set where the common thread was versions of his [[The Pixies|Pixies]] songs: The first disc consisted of acoustic solo demos that had been recorded shortly before ''Come On Pilgrim''. The second was a set of new [[Rearrange the Song|reinterpretations]] of Pixies songs that Frank Black recorded in collaboration with Keith Moliné and Andy Diagram from the band David Thomas And Two Pale Boys.
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* To celebrate its 20 years of existence, metal label Nuclear Blast released two albums made by musicians on the label, under the moniker ''Nuclear Blast All-Stars''. Both albums are two-disc compilations with one disc made of exclusive songs and the other being a recompilation of singles released by the label throughout the years; the first album, ''Into The Light'', is focused on the more traditional heavy metal and power metal and the such, and the other one, ''Out Of The Dark'', features melodic death metal and similars.
* Instrumental group Sky's second album, the imaginatively named ''Sky 2'', has four distinct sides. Side one has rock-and-roll numbers similar to the first side of their first album; side two is the progressive rock symphony "FIFO". Side three has one piece for each member: John Williams and Kevin Peek play classical guitar pieces, Franis Monkman a harpsichord gavotte, Herbie Flowers plays "[[Incredibly Lame Pun|Tuba Smarties]]", and Tristan Fry abuses the drum kit for five minutes in "[[All Drummers Are Animals|Tristan's]] [[Mushroom Samba|Magic Garden]]". Side four has their electrifying covers of "Vivaldi" and Bach's Toccata in D minor.
* ''Animal!'' and ''Not Animal!'', simultaneously released by Margot & The Nuclear So And So's, are sort of an unusual case because they're actually two different versions of the same album: The band and their label disagreed on what songs should make the album and what the track order should be, so ''Animal!'' was the album as the band wanted it, whereas ''Not Animal!'' was the album as the label wanted it. A handful of songs are shared between the two versions, but each also has an equal number of exclusive tracks.
* ''Deathconsciousness'' by Have a Nice Life. The first half, ''The Plow That Broke The Plains'', is mostly downtempo and shoegazey. The second half, ''The Future'' adds fast-paced, almost punk numbers, while maintaining the same overall style and atmosphere.
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* Rod Stewart's 2001 UK compilation ''The Story So Far'' had uptempo numbers on the first disc, "A Night Out," and slow numbers on the second disc, "A Night In."
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