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neardeathexperience · 01-30-2013, 10:20 AM

There are always pitfalls in making a double album. One has to have enough interesting songs to make the listener want to play the entire thing. In this day and age of cherry picking your songs off I Tunes it is probably not the case, but when one use to sit down and let the needle drop on the record you were in for the long haul till the arm lifted off the record!
Similar to the Beatles White album the Rolling Stones offered a stunning amount of varied songs on their album. Rock, pop, gospel, country and so on. I do not think that there was a concerted effort to make a flow through out the album which is also similar to the Beatles just a huge collection of thought provoking tunes. The album if released with all the extra material would have been 28 tracks long just shy of two compared to the Beatle's album. Upon it's release the album was met with mixed reviews, but today it is considered a rock masterpiece.

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neardeathexperience Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 531	Was Exile On Mainstreet Their White Album..... There are always pitfalls in making a double album. One has to have enough interesting songs to make the listener want to play the entire thing. In this day and age of cherry picking your songs off I Tunes it is probably not the case, but when one use to sit down and let the needle drop on the record you were in for the long haul till the arm lifted off the record! Similar to the Beatles White album the Rolling Stones offered a stunning amount of varied songs on their album. Rock, pop, gospel, country and so on. I do not think that there was a concerted effort to make a flow through out the album which is also similar to the Beatles just a huge collection of thought provoking tunes. The album if released with all the extra material would have been 28 tracks long just shy of two compared to the Beatle's album. Upon it's release the album was met with mixed reviews, but today it is considered a rock masterpiece.