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Been to Whitstable in Kent for the weekend.

It's a seaside town on the Thames Estuary and is blessed with 2 - yes 2 proper record shops! That's more than Sutton, Banstead, Epsom, Reigate and Redhill put together. In fact there isn't one among them.

Consequently I treated myself to a few CDs. A Graham Parker double compilation for £7.50, Essential Al Stewart, Badfinger Timeless ... The Musical Legacy, Remote - Hue and Cry plus a couple of charity shop purchases - Baptism by Joan Baez and a PiL EP for £1.50 - Cruel with a couple of live tracks including Rise. It's also a numbered edition but I don't expect that will add much to its value.

The Bad Finger one is especially good bringing together tracks like Day After Day, No Matter what as well as Come and Get It and its great B-side Rock of all Ages. Of course it also has their original version of Without You.

Such a tragic band!

NILE
EXHUMED
BAL-SAGOTH

For me

Just watched an old QI on Dave.

Was that Zal Cleminson of The Sensational Alex Harvey Band showing a clown smiling and frowning?

Looks like a must buy.

Brinsley Schwarz Original Albums

http://www.spincds.com/original-album-series-5cd-43250

By the way...

http://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/poll-results-allmusic-readers-favourite-beatles-album

I just watched most of the Jeff Lynne's ELO concert on BBC4 from 10538 Overture.

I thought it was a bit embarrassing Lynne claiming ELO was all his idea when it was Roy Wood's brainchild.

I do love loads of their stuff but I started to get a bit bored with them when "Out of the Blue" came out.

I realised that maybe because it was a double album and it's really too much to absorb.

It set me thinking that really there aren't many double albums I like. I expect a lot of people would say the Beatles White album but again I found it too much. So All things Must Pass was never going to work for me.

So really my favourite double albums are (probably surprisingly) Tales from Topiographic Oceans by Yes and Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Joe Cocker.

So what are your favourite double albums?

Incidentally didn't Chereen Allen look stunning playing lead violin!

Quote: Chappers @ 17th October 2014, 11:42 PM BST

It set me thinking that really there aren't many double albums I like. I expect a lot of people would say the Beatles White album but again I found it too much. So All things Must Pass was never going to work for me.

So really my favourite double albums are (probably surprisingly) Tales from Topiographic Oceans by Yes and Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Joe Cocker.

So what are your favourite double albums?

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First I thought: "Oh, that's an easy one..." but then I realised I like lots of live double albums. It's a lot harder to think of ace studio double albums.
These are the ones I could spontaneously think of:

Physical Graffiti by Let Zeppelin

The Wall by Pink Floyd

Wheels Of Fire by Cream

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis

Tago Mago by Can

But there are a lot interesting ones out there. Songs In the Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder is a good one but I'm not that much into soul music so it's not in my top 3 or 5. Springsteen's The River is highly regarded but for some reason is my least favourite of his classic years. Same Gose for Prince's Sign 'O' The Times.
I haven't made my mind up yet on the Bee Gee's Odessa. And for Hercules...listen to Uncle Meat by The Mothers Of Invention. Here a sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjYv9gNK4ss

Happy birthday Chuck Berry. 88 today.

One of his less well known hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1oyvAMtFsk

Quote: Oldrocker @ 18th October 2014, 12:10 PM BST

Happy birthday Chuck Berry. 88 today.

One of his less well know hits http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1oyvAMtFsk

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Happy birthday, Chuck.

I love this song...but on my box set this song is called You Never Can Tell.

Bob Seger covered it as Cèst La Vie...I don't know why.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5frEU3eHbM

88 - Wow! Happy Birthday.

RIP Raphael Ravenscroft - best known, of course for the sax solo on 'Baker Street', but he was also on a number of other Gerry Rafferty tunes, including these two:

Get it Right Next Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXW-sL5gzHQ

The Tourist (He gets a name-check in the lyrics in this one too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJzRqcnuno

Quote: radiat10n @ 22nd October 2014, 12:21 PM BST

RIP Raphael Ravenscroft - best known, of course for the sax solo on 'Baker Street', but he was also on a number of other Gerry Rafferty tunes, including these two:

Get it Right Next Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXW-sL5gzHQ

The Tourist (He gets a name-check in the lyrics in this one too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqJzRqcnuno

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Aw, sad news. He wasn't very old either. The man who shared a surname with John Peel, sort of, although they weren't related to each other and who according to the legend was not who he was but Bob Holness. Stuart Maconie was responsible for that misrepresentation which added insult to the mere £27 he was paid.

The tremendous solo was always in my head when I explored London in the 1970s. A cross between the wind and the traffic on the outside and feelings of anticipation and elation on the inside. I never carried a map - and there were no apps - so I'd just walk and hope I'd find my destination. It was in that spirit it took most of the day to actually find Baker Street. Only later did I discover that the pre-Jam Paul Weller took a tape recorder on his journeys from Woking to record the sounds of London. He saw music in it. I saw it as music. The more successful of us by several light years was also very marginally the more pretentious.

Quote: A Horseradish @ 22nd October 2014, 1:05 PM BST

Aw, sad news. He wasn't very old either. The man who shared a surname with John Peel, sort of, although they weren't related to each other and who according to the legend was not who he was but Bob Holness. Stuart Maconie was responsible for that misrepresentation which added insult to the mere £27 he was paid.

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Ah yes, he did like to trot out the story of the £27 cheque (that bounced!), but for some reason mentioned less often the 15K he was paid for the 'Night Owl' and 'Snakes and Ladders' albums! Also a pity that in later years he tried to claim credit for the famous 'Baker Street' riff, tho the original demo clearly shows it was part of the song long before his involvement.

All that aside, he was such a great player and far too young to go.

Quote: radiat10n @ 22nd October 2014, 1:57 PM BST

Ah yes, he did like to trot out the story of the £27 cheque (that bounced!), but for some reason mentioned less often the 15K he was paid for the 'Night Owl' and 'Snakes and Ladders' albums! Also a pity that in later years he tried to claim credit for the famous 'Baker Street' riff, tho the original demo clearly shows it was part of the song long before his involvement.

All that aside, he was such a great player and far too young to go.

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Yes - very fair points. I am just catching up with all the recent interesting posts on this thread. Happy Birthday to Chuck Berry who in the 2000s superseded Eddie Cochran as my favourite rock and roller. An absolute legend - albeit not without significant elements of dodginess but then that's par for the course.

Proper Double Albums. Not expanded re-issues/live/bestofs etc

Blonde on Blonde
The Beatles
Electric Ladyland
Bee Gees - Odessa
Byrds - Untitled (ok half live)
HMS Donovan
Donovan - A Gift from the Flower to the Garden
Frankie - Welcome to the Pleasuredome