Side A
Artist	Song
the Beatles	Revolution 1
the Rolling Stones	Sweet Virginia
the Who	The Punk Meets the Godfather
Led Zeppelin	The Rover
Bob Dylan	I Want You
Jimi Hendrix	All Along the Watchtower
Derek & the Dominoes	Bell Bottom Blues
Stephen Stills/Manassas	It Doesn't Matter
Tom Waits	Better Off Without a Wife
the Mothers of Invention	You Didn't Try to Call Me
Captain Beefheart	Old Fart At Play
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bruce Springsteen	Cadillac Ranch
the Clash	Spanish Bombs
Public Image Ltd.	Careering
U2	Angel of Harlem
the Cure	Just Like Heaven
Husker Du	Never Talking to You Again
Minutemen	Doctor Wu
Sonic Youth	Candle
Smashing Pumpkins	Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Guns 'N Roses	14 Years
Magnetic Fields	I Think I Need a New Heart
Paul Westerberg	High Time
Foo Fighters	Best of You

Comment:

A tribute to the double album. Back in vinyl days, a group attempting a double was swinging for the fences. A double album was an event, one that bespoke ambition and artistic heft. A surprising number of doubles were great `uns, even definitive (Stones, Who, Beefheart, Elton, Stevie W, Prince, the Clash, PiL and Minutemen, for my money). Plus, I got to lead off with one of my beloved Beatles-Stones-Who-Zep runs. The glory days of vinyl doubles are long gone - a double just doesn't mean as much in these logorrheic days of padded 78-minute CDs. So here's a sampling of vinyl's glory (double) days, with a few CD-era worthies thrown in. Rules are simple - no best-ofs, no odds `n' sods and no live doubles. Exceptions made for Tom Waits (all original live double), Aretha (gospel live double as artistic and spiritual statement), Lennon (second disc is mostly original, though I kinda regret this call) and U2 (ditto and ditto). Triples count too, of course, but not half-orig/half-lives like Byrds' `Untitled' and Kinks' `Everybody's in Show-Biz.' (Judges are still deliberating on Python's three-sided `Matching Tie & Handkerchief.') Apologies to the Kinks' `Preservation Act 2' (I plumb forgot), Todd twice, Chicago (lost count), Can's `Tago Mago,' Miles' `Bitches Brew' (take that, Rock Hall), Soft Machine's `Third,' Merle Haggard's great Jimmie Rodgers tribute, Sinatra's `Trilogy,' Nick Cave, Eels and late-breaking, I-just-picked-this-up-and-it's-amazing `Lolita Nation' by Game Theory. No apologies to Uncle Lou's `Metal Machine Music,' Yes' `Tales of Pornographic Blowjobs,' Dylan's `Self Portrait,' Joni's `Don Juan' and, I'm guessing here, Focus 3. Double double awards to Dylan, the Who, Todd, Yoko, Chicago, Elton, the Clash, Husker Du, Isaac Hayes, Stevie W. and James Brown, with all-time "Shut Up Already" awards to multi-doubles champs Zappa and Prince. Gad, this intro is longer than the booklet to `Quadrophenia.' Rock on.and on and on and on.

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