A blog dedicated to the mountain of hubris called the 'double album' - in which we take these obese albums and put them through a training session until they've become sleek and svelte songle-length albums.
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I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to do this album: it does very little for me. I don't love it, I don't hate it: it's merely there, with all of its highs and lows intact. Additionally, it tends to receive middling critical reception, which...
This is the album that almost killed U2. In short, they recorded an album called The Joshua Tree that did rather well. Once it had been canonised by critics, U2 found themselves with a few ideas: Let's go on tour in the States. Let's film that tour....
So what does a punk band do once they discover that they have ambition? It’s a tough call: risk being a sell-out or risk being a cliché. Two things that the Clash would rather die than be.
So ultimately, London Calling is a story of a band quietly...
In the introduction to this blog, I condemn the lazy critical platitude “It would have been better as a single album” while, ultimately, agreeing with it. I think that this critically-worshipped album is an example. I have to presume that its...
The very word ‘album’ goes back to the early days of vinyl, when 78 rpm records were capable of holding little more than about four minutes per side and so, when documenting longer musical productions, had to be collected as groups of four or more...
