The Double Album

 

It’s been a while since my last post.  I have been very busy with Christmas and ArmsUp stuff.  I hope you all are having a good holiday.  In other news, ArmsUp has finished ”Midnight Choirs”, just in time for new years!  You can check it out here: http://www.myspace.com/armsup

For as long as there have been albums, there have been those who have attempted the infomous”double album”.  Not all of them were good, in fact many were not.  In my opinion the double album is egotistical and very hard to do properly.  The white album by the beatles is arguably the best double album ever released, and there are still many who feel that it would have been better as a single album.

 

 

The problem is there are bound to be some songs that are not as strong as others when you release a double album, just due to the shear volume of songs required.  Perhaps it would be better to write a double album, choose the best 10 to 12 songs and release it as a single album.  Imagine if Guns and Roses had released loose your illusion 1 and 2 as one album, cutting out some of the weaker songs.  Maybe they wouldn’t have relased the spagetti incident!

 

 

 

Tune in to shaw television this Christmas for ArmsUp ringing in the new year!

 

-Heavy