Another top 20 list!

I'd put Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness over one of the hip-hop albums...probably take out the Wu-Tang one. They have some good albums, but that's not the best one.

Good call on Mellon Collie. But just like the Wu-Tang, Smashing Pumpkins has some good albums but that's not the best one. And just like Wu-Tang it probably is their best, if not only, double. I think Electric Ladyland should probably be at about 3.5.

Well, just my opinion, obviously.

This list is based around a format that is obsolete.  They pretty much acknowledge that in the preamble.  

It's like a list of best 8-tracks or best 78s.  

But if you like it I am glad.  

I agree with both these points. Gish FTW! And the White Album was an obvious winner I am glad they didn't screw up.

To the "format that's obsolete" in a way that helps box the candidates into a time frame. Seems to me that before the sixties, there were multiple records but in a box (now called a "box set"). We could find out the first true double and I'm trying to recall the one that was three sides--two records and one side left blank--because they couldn't fit it all on one but wouldn't leave it behind. Johnny Winter, maybe?

Anyway, we start in the mid sixties and go to what--1992?

Which is when all the best music was recorded anyway, right?

I'd like to know if this was a "double album" being the gatefold we are familiar with, or two in a box, or two in one sleeve.

But anyway it's one of the top albums either and is pure jam band, especially Sing Sing Sing. Funny it took 12 years to release.

<<<The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of Swing music first issued in 1950. The program it captured has been described as "the single most important jazz or popular music concert in history: jazz's "coming out" party to the world of "respectable" music."[2]

The first ever double album,[citation needed] it was one of the first records of Benny Goodman music issued on the new long-playing format, and one of the first to sell over a million copies. A landmark recording, it was the premiere performance given by a jazz orchestra in the famed Carnegie Hall in New York City. This album was also sold in a set of nine 45 rpm records in the same year by Columbia.>>>

The only double album better than this one--or maybe a tie--is Fillmore East.

I used to have some 78's that were several discs in an album similar to a photo album. The "double album" entry is one Wiki article I have my doubts about.