What are you listening to?

[miles]

With mp3 playlists these days, you can do that yourself.  Construct your favourite album from the three albums worth of stuff on offer!  It's like a musical buffet.

I know, what were The Beatles ... thinking?

I know this amounts to sacrilege here, but I've done that with the White Album.

Blonde on Blonde is Bob Dylan's best album, and you could also make a case for Exile on Main St. for the Stones. And, well, Tusk, London Calling and Songs in the Key of Life.

Double albums? Triple albums?

Why do people do this. EDIT. TAKE OUT THE SONGS THAT ARE BAD. COME ON, THIS ISN'T HARD.

I bet it's probably hard. Are you referring to Joanna Newsom's most recent album? Is it worth checking out?

[KeithHernandez]

Blonde on Blonde is in Dylan's 6 album period where whichever one I last listened to is my favorite, but Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands isn't too great it's the whole last side.  Like, it is good, but only (very) rarely am I in the mood for that track.

London Calling is great, but Sandinista could have been their best if it wasn't that 3-lp nightmare.  Cut that shit down to 2 and it is one of the 100 or so timeless albums.

[AugustWest]

Highway 61 is better than Blonde on Blonde.

[pmcd9]

Tommy is another double album that's nowhere near too long.  The greatest "Rock Opera" ever.  I used to listen to this with headphones when I was a young boy (it came out when I was 6).  The album came with a booklet of surreal pictures.  I would sit in the den alone listening and looking at the pictures; It blew my fuck*ng mind.

George Harrison's first solo album was the triple disc All Things must pass which is easily his best album.  Of course in his case he had just gone through 10 years of having 1 song per album given he was the third best song writer in the Beatles.  He followed that up less than a year later with the triple album Concert for Bangladesh which is one of my favorite albums ever; a brilliant album.  Sadly, Harrison really shot his wad with All Things Must Pass; nothing he did subsequently ever came even close to it's brilliance.

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is Smashing Pumpkins best album in my opinion.  it's two hours long and it also has a companion album, The Aeroplane Flies High which is another hour or so of leftovers from the Mellon Collie sessions; they were used as "b" sides on the Mellon Collie sessions.  It's completely awesome as well.  One of the songs on Aeroplane is Pastichio Medley which is a 23 minute pastiche of unfinished song ideas, many of which I would have loved to hear fleshed out into actual songs.  Like Harrison though this was the end of Billy Corgan's brilliance.

So maybe we should not be complaining that Newsom has put out such a long album, but rather be wary of her next one.  Ha ha.

[theinevitable]

I bet it's probably hard. Are you referring to Joanna Newsom's most recent album? Is it worth checking out?

I found her music to be unpleasant and kind of pretentious even before it was 2 hours long.

I am obviously in the minority here. Sorry. There are many songs on all of the double albums I can think of that I regularly skip, except maybe the White Album.

I guess I can handle double albums when they're meant to be just big collections of songs... but when it's like, hey, here is this 2 hour long narrative... I just can't handle it. It's like watching a 4 hour long movie.

Also part of it for me is that a double album almost always seems to involve a lot of "this is IMPORTANT, this is my ART, this is my MASTERWORK. This isn't just POP MUSIC."

maybe I just have too short of an attention span. if I wanted to listen to something this long I would listen to classical music or something. and I don't want to listen to that at all.

[KeithHernandez]

Highway 61 is better than Blonde on Blonde.

shit man, if we putting it out Bringing it All Back Home or Another Side of... are the best.  Highway 61 is my least favorite (of the best album releasing streak of all time), even though it has thin man, tom thumb and desolation road.  Rolling Stone is great and all, but it is really kinda underpar for Dylan- the live 66 official bootleg version is how it should sound- and songs 2-4 are just meh.  The music is corny as all fuck on most of the tracks (works well on title track) and almost, almost ruins desolation row.

[miles]

Rolling Stone is great and all, but it is really kinda underpar for Dylan- the live 66 official bootleg version is how it should sound

I disagree that it's not up to par for Dylan, but the bootleg version is better. I love that recording.

[AugustWest]

shit man, if we putting it out Bringing it All Back Home or Another Side of... are the best.  Highway 61 is my least favorite (of the best album releasing streak of all time), even though it has thin man, tom thumb and desolation road.  Rolling Stone is great and all, but it is really kinda underpar for Dylan- the live 66 official bootleg version is how it should sound- and songs 2-4 are just meh.  The music is corny as all fuck on most of the tracks (works well on title track) and almost, almost ruins desolation row.

Now that's just crazy talk.

[Choop]

classical music... I don't want to listen to that at all.

am i inferring correctly here because what a shame if i am

[robot_god]

I went to a random bar to try to convince them to turn on the bronze medal olympic hockey game.  Bad news is my bet lost, but the good news is I saw this Mr. Bungle/dance/EbuGogo/SOAD band I was digging, The Communication Corporation.  Dude playin' a sick, gaudy, rickenbacker bass, keytarist lead singer, metal influenced drummer, and kinda a butterface hipster girl singing backup and dancing.

[dejavroom]

I'm listening to this a lot. Amazing buildup and climax.

Also this. From 1:33 onwards, it's the heaviest thing I have listened since Led Zeppelin's "In My Time of Dying". Schnittke rules with iron fists.

[theinevitable]

As much as I am bothered by my girlfriend sharing albums with me that her ex told her to check out, this is really rad.
(not bothered by the sharing with me, bothered by the "yeah, my... um.... friend... sent me this, we really have the same taste in music, he always knows what I'll like.")

A lot of the album is synth-y goth-y stuff that I don't like, but I like this song a whole lot.

One of the other songs has this incredibly creepy/upsetting KKK imagery going on in the video, which I really do not like at all.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I am in a Starbucks, soaking up wi-fi before going to a meeting up the street, and they just played the Avett Brothers' "Head Full Of Doubt/Road Full Of Promise."  That's pleasing. 

And contrary to what Bobby will tell you, I did not eat any of my co-workers today.

[miles]

I really like Deerhunter and Bradford Cox generally, but have lately been really digging these songs:

VHS Dream: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfS33rfA3JU

Famous Last Words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpranePjbKE or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-lBQtx4SLU

The second video is kind of cool.

Did I already share my favorite?

Little Kids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9ZtxWzaDQg

[theinevitable]

I am kind of obsessed with the Joy Division album Warsaw, and especially No Love Lost.

Especially the loud part, duh.

I am trying to find a youtube link that is the right version... it is so good.