short list of """skip"""-free double albums holistic enough to demonstrate that viewing a worthwhile double album (of which this is not one) by the sum of its parts is prime idiocy to begin with:
John Zorn - Circle Maker
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
The Gathering - HTMAP
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Ionsonouncane - IRA
Today is the Day - Sadness Will Prevail
Masakatsu Takagi - Kagayaki
George Harrison - ATMP (x3 album)
Yaya Kim - aka Yaya (x3 album)
Pan Sonic - Kesto (x4 album)

zen arcade

oh yeah zen arcade good shout. also shaking the habitual, dunno if that was ever classed as a double but it is long enough so up it goes
"i feel like it didn't really pick up till "helter skelter""
whether or not you enjoyed those other songs behind the point, if you can't spot the diversity of styles (many of which are gimmick ventures) on here, you've got other concerns
"i wasn't hearing anything radically different from sgt peppers, rubber soul, help, etc."
those three records are already radically different from one another, which makes me really curious to hear how you arrived at the conclusion of 'normalcy' for any of this shit

this is one

twin infinitives by royal trux is the patrician's double album

One Direction X The Beatles when

can't remember enough of twin infinitives to autoplace it, but i have a distantly positive impression somewhere in the back of my mind
also daydream nation smdh

@ryus I dig your Beatles ratings

the 80s and 90s were a very fruitful time for american underground rock music double albums it seems. need to think more on what this means for society at large

Album Rating: 3.0

considering leaves turn inside you is under 80 minutes i internally don't consider it a double album tbh

"those three records are already radically different from one another, which makes me really curious to hear how you arrived at the conclusion of 'normalcy' for any of this shit"

they all felt like they had the same base of "oldies pop-rock", like the "I should've grabbed a vinyl and put it on a grandparents' turntable for the proper experience" kinda oldies.

thank ye timmy

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I mean it was literally made 50 years ago

so you may have a point

"i internally don't consider it a double album tbh"
thank you for your take on this i cannot wait to walk home, tear the two discs of my physical copy sleeve-from-sleeve and hurl them out in the gutter along with every double-shaped thought i have ever cast in that album's direction
"they all felt like they had the same base of "oldies pop-rock", like the "I should've grabbed a vinyl and put it on a grandparents' turntable for the proper experience" kinda oldies."
and how in the fuck do you define "oldies pop-rock" beyond "music released X number of years before the point from which your ignorant arse learned to parse genre"

semi-related but the jumps in production from Rubber Soul to Revolver/Peppers/MMT to this are fucking insane and extremely obvious to even the most pedestrian listener

Double albums are doubly likely to contain filler but also doubly likely to contain good music so imo it cancels out

Haha parse

Album Rating: 3.5

In a sea of 20-30 songs, something is bound to click

Album Rating: 3.0

the production feels strangely muted apart from Helter Skelter tbh

and yeah i'll agree to that point koris but when it comes to music, an album really has to have zero skips/obvious filler to be 5 for me. which is the eternal question with saturday night wrist of "is pink cellphone a dealbreaker?"