Side A
Artist	Song
George Harrison	Behind That Locked Door
John Lennon	New York City
Yoko Ono	Midsummer New York
Donovan	There Was a Time
the Bee Gees	Suddenly
Electric Light Orchestra	Mr. Blue Sky
Elton John	Sweet Painted Lady
Fleetwod Mac	Think About Me
Emerson, Lake and Palmer	Hallowed Be Thy Name
Genesis	The Carpet Crawlers
Pink Floyd	Hey You
Jesus Christ Superstar	Herod's Song
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Stevie Wonder	Pastime Paradise
Marvin Gaye	When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving You
Isaac Hayes	Never Can Say Goodbye
Aretha Franklin	How I Got Over
Funkadelic	Pussy
James Brown	Hell
Donna Summer	Our Love
Prince	Sign 'O' the Times
Outkast	Roses

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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