Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bones
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Stone Sour - House of Gold and Bones
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
Filling in a few things I haven't seen mentioned, but they're mostly live albums.
ACDC Live (1992) is fucking awesome, and pretty much negates the need for individual ACDC albums. If the searing opening version of Thunderstruck doesn't get your clit hard you're dead inside.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes - another limited edition 2CD thing
Front 242 - Off & Up Evil - companion albums
Guns N Roses - Use Your Illusion I & II - companion albums
Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings
U2 - Rattle and Hum
Ween live albums, Paintin the Town Brown and Live at Stubbs.
NASA Voyager Recordings (uh... but this is 12 albums or something)
David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Harmonic Convergence (very ambient throat singing)
Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans (just kidding)
There really aren't very many great double albums are there? Beyond those I would list a bunch that have already been mentioned:
The White Album
The Wall
Physical Graffiti (my favorite Zeppelin album)
The Fragile
Drukqs (probably my favorite double album overall)
Selected Ambient Works vol2
Exai (and anything else by Autechre)
Shaking the Habitual
In Rainbows
Speakerboxx/Love Below
CCR - Chronicle (a greatest hits collection with great sequencing and song selection)
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Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me by The Cure comes close to a double album.
how could I forget Lou Reed and Metallica's double coaster set, 'LuLu'?
Bassnectar's Mesmerizing the Ultra is chock full of electronica ideas.
Gotta echo the Drukqs and Exai (Autechre) talk. Exai especially is fucking monolithic and diamond-like and seriously so perfect in my eyes.
As far as filler on the fragile, and having to cut one or two, I would cut No You Don't, and MAYBE TDTWWWA.
Best Double cd's for me are
David Bowie-Best of Bowie (i know you said no compilations, but i played it till BOTH tapes broke and then bought the CDs.)
Outkast-Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (ESPECIALLY the love below, although i believe that this was a Big Boi album and an Andre album packaged together....not a double album,)
Physical Graffiti for sure,
Old 97's-Alive and Wired
Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich
^ THIS.
Generally I dislike double albums. It's too much material to properly digest in one sitting and they tend to be burdened with a lot of filler and/or mediocre songs.
I read (or heard, can't remember) an interview with Trent recently where he was reflecting on "The Fragile". My memory is a bit hazy but I'm almost positive he said that in retrospect he probably should have released it as two separate albums.
The Walkabouts - Drunken Soundtracks
It's a two-disc collection of B-sides and covers from a band, continually ignored by everyone, from what's generally considered to be their weakest period. I don't know how this could've possibly worked enough to include it here but it does! I'm kicking myself for waiting so long to check this one out. Gorgeous!
Wu-Tang Forever ain't gettin' no love?! Every track is good...
PS- The three songs to remove from The Fragile would easily be Pilgrimage, Starsuckers, and Ripe. With an honorable mention going to Underneath It All.
PSS- One Hot Minute is a sick record and it holds up extremely well. Forgotten songs like the title track and Transcending need to be revived.
I think it's completely insane that no one but you has mentioned Baroness - Yellow and Green. I found out about those guys when they opened to Meshuggah last year, they were so good. I'm usually not extremely interested in opening bands, but these guys caught my attention right away. I would call that album the Kid A of Metal (a metal album turning wide left).
To keep from simply repeating stuff others have already said I'll just say Crippled Black Phoenix - The Resurrectionists / Night Raider.
I haven't seen these two mentioned. Pardon, if they have been.
Orbital - In Sides
Coil - Remote Viewer