Great Double Albums - Electric Ladyland

I started a feature in this post (link) about Great Double Albums.

When choosing great albums, double albums often get the nod over single albums. Some of the best albums of all time are double albums because double albums have double the music. Live Albums don't count because they are not real albums with new material. Its kind of like saying that a Greatest Hits album is a great album.

Here was my list of Great Double Albums in no particular order:

1. Stevie Wonder - Songs in The Key of Life
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. Beatles - White Album
4. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. The Who - Tommy
7. The Who - Quadrophenia
8. Derrick and The Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
9. Todd Rundgren - Something Anything

Others added:

Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Yo La Tengo - Genius/Love.
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Prince - Sign O' the Times
The Clash, "London Calling."

So here is the last on my list:

#10 = Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland

On his last album with the Experience, in 1968, Jimi experimented in the studio and created one of the best albums of all time. Everybody knows the oft played Crosstown Traffic, Voodoo Child (slight return), and the Bob Dylan cover All Along The Watchtower, but the rest of the album is groundbreaking, rockin, and trippy.

My personal favorites are Have You Ever Been (to Electric Ladyland), 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) and Gypsy Eyes. Electric Ladyland also features two of my favorite Hendrix songs with some of the best guitar playing ever; Come On (Stevie Ray Vaughn based his entire career on this song) and the wah-wah masterpiece Rainy Day, Dream Away.

So there you have it, if anyone can think of any other great double albums, let us know.