Favorite Double Albums (w/ Mike Portnoy)
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- Join Pete Pardo and very special guest Mike Portnoy (Transatlantic, Sons of Apollo, Liquid Tension Experiment, Winery Dogs, ex-Dream Theater) as they each run down their favorite 10 double albums of all time. #doublealbums #mikeportnoy
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What I took out of this. Here is a multi- millionaire, very , very successful musician, well known , yet he seems super, super excited on a Thursday night to talk about music with another person on his level with knowledge. He deep down is just a regular JOE, who loves music like the 55k who listens to PETES show daily. His childhood memories about The WHO / Tommy was tremendous. He was not a good co- host, he was AWESOME. Absolutely, loved this Episode. Tremendous job PETE! 👍💯
That's why Portnoy is the man.
All of this is true, but i don't think he is as rich as you think.
@@millionvivy Agreed - he might make a decent living, but probably not a millionaire
I couldn't have said it better!
I looked it up, somewhere between 8 and 10 million.
Pete Pardo, man!! What a goddamn legend. Look at what he has has been able to do with his channel this year. You’re the man!
Mike Portnoy may be the one of the coolest dudes in Prog Metal. One of my favorite drummers.
He's a proper gent who happens to be a fucking great muso, not just in body but in spirit too. I love the guy!
You’ve got to get Mike back. It’s fun to listen to a great musician that is a music nerd like we all are. With all those albums he has , I’d love to hear more about his favorite albums and really enjoyed the conversation between you two. The only down side was it went so fast, I wanted more.
Portnoy has content on TH-cam where he goes through his new vinyl
He will be back! We are already trying to work out his next appearance....stay tuned!
Pete Pardo/Steven Reid; Pete Pardo/Martin Popoff; Pete Pardo/Sydney Taylor; Pardo & Pardo brothers in arms - for me, all pretty good SoT combinations, but I have to say Pete Pardo/Mike Portnoy has shot up there too! Would be awesome to have him back, this was a fantastic show.
@@seaoftranquilityprog Awesome!
SOT has always had fantastic guests on the show but having Mike Portnoy appear on the channel is the best coup yet, what I love about him is he's a true music geek but also happens to be one of the greatest drummers on the planet. Fantastic episode and excellent job as always Pete, keep it up.
One of the best episodes ever. Pete has found his musical soulmate. Both share such unbridled enthusiasm for the music they love...like two peas in a pod. This was a real pleasure to watch. Thanks, guys!
What a f***ing show, I'm speechless Pete
Portnoy rules! Great drummer, but even better with his music history! Just look at all those CDs (or vinyl) for crying out loud! 🤣Cheers boys!
This shouldn’t be a surprise but I’m very impressed at Portnoy’s fandom.
Pete and Mike would make for an amazing duo for future shows.
This is way better than just a straight interview, hope it’s a regular thing
The Ocean: Precambrian
The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Aphrodite's Child: 666
Minutemen: Double Nickels On the Dime
Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium
Pink Floyd: The Wall
Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile
The Clash: London Calling
Swans: To Be Kind
The Beatles: The Beatles (The White Album)
Todd Rundgren: Something/Anything?
👏👏👏👏 on the Pumpkins and Minutemen. The latter is as important to punk as London Calling.
smashed like for Aphrodite's Child
Great list, but _To Be Kind_ is a triple!
MCIS is meta. Smashing Pumpkins are my favorite band, then Dream Theater.
Glad someone mentioned DNOTD! I was hoping Portnoy would talk about it. Incidentally, I recently listened to the 1984 episode of the Album Years podcast with Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness and they failed to mention it as well.
One of the best shows ever done on this channel.
This is fucking cool - and probably the only time a guest has more albums than Pardo. If Quadrophenia and The Wall are not mentioned, I am going to have a conniption.
Pete is actually not a huge Wall fan. Prefers maybe 8 Floyd albums above it.
@@andrewdunn49ers Placing all bets on Portnoy to do the right thing!
I knew it! That was awesome.
@@andrewdunn49ers can understand Pete's position re the Wall
The original lps from Japan had no writing anywhere on the front or back covers. I had that too. But I kept my mirror I won at a Philadelphia carnival in 1983.
"Jeff Wayne's musical version of the War of the Worlds" - huge hit album when I was a kid and I still love it. Another album where you can't really tell what it is. Pop, Rock, Prog - absolutely!
Great Job. Not exactly rock but Stevie Wonder's "Songs in the Key of Life" is a fantastic double LP
He had a creative period in the early/mid seventies like no one else! "Music of my Mind "Talking Book" "Innervisions", "Fuflinginess First Finale" Then Songs in the Key of Life - all within four years!
Thumbs Way Up for Stevie!
My absolute favorite. If a better double album exists, I haven't heard it
I was thinking about this one too. Fantastic album!
Stevie was absolutely imperious during this period. There is another great album he released in 1970 which is often forgotten about - Where I'm Coming From. I also believe there is an albums worth of unreleased material recorded between Fullfillingness and Songs In The Key Of Life.
Painful to see what kind of drek he produced afterwards
Lady in red,Ebony and Ivory make me sick
What a delight to hear Mike talking !Such a great musician, a great talker, the nicest and the most polite guy in the world !Well educated, he listens what Pete says, then he talks too...I didn't realize how fast and nice an hour can pass when you hear such great people talking about music...Wonderful show, Pete, thank you for the idea...Great show ! ENDLESS RESPECT ! ...By the way....what's behind Mike is beyond it's the musical paradise for a collector.....wow !
I am so glad you mentioned Ayreon - Into the Electric Castle!! That album has really grown on me over the years and is now probably in my Top 5 ProgRock albums of all time. This was really cool having Portnoy on the channel! 🤘
I did NOT expect to see you here metaljesus. Cheers!
Great show and interesting discussions. Some you missed or forgot?
Aphrodites child - 666
Burnin' Red Ivanhoe - M144
Soft machine - Third
Can - Tago mago
Incredible string band - wee tam & the big huge
Junipher Greene - Friendship
Julians treatment - A time before this
Odmenn - Odmenn
Hawkwind - Alien 4
Terje Rypdal - Odyssey
Canned heat - Living the blues
Ya ho wa 13 - I'm gonna take you home
Bob Smith - The visit
Tangerine dream - Zeit
Wigwam - Fairyport
Warm Dust - And it came to pass
Amon duul II - Yeti
Almendra - Almendra II
Walter wegmuller - Tarot
That hour and ten minutes flew by in a flash! Now that's entertainment! Awesome Pete!
Well Out of the Blue (1977)by ELO should definitely be mentioned too.Its fantastic,sold millions and still is many people's favorite record from that era..😉
Side 3, concerto for a rainy day, my all time favorite album side
@@martykott450 did you catch the concerts in 2019,? I seen it in Vancouver B.C. it was the concert opener totally blew my mind. Best concert I've ever been to Jeff is such a perfectionist..
@@terryparkin6121 yes, I saw them in Newark NJ in 2019 with some old friends. I can remember seeing them back touring the album in 1978 when they merged from the space ship. It was a spectacular show indeed
@@martykott450 I saw that tour. Almost life changing. ♥️ The spaceship was cutting edge.
Definitely top notch double!
Blonde on Blonde, The White Album, Exile on Main St, Tommy, Quadrophenia, Freak Out!, Chicago Transit Authority, Physical Graffiti, All Things Must Pass
Excellent -- only problem is that I now have no reason to post here hahaha. Coincidentally, listening to All Things Must Pass at this moment.
@@xaspirate8060 One of my favs too. Check the reaction channel Welp where they react to the whole album.
@@ArniePorter Just checked out that channel... will go back later as they seem like 2 decent chaps with sense of humor But - I don't know how 90% of these "Reaction folk" have never heard these songs before. Come on, the one guy never heard My Sweet Lord? Very skeptical as there are a bunch out there that just so happen to react to the same song on the same date and that sort of thing. Not hating but...
@@xaspirate8060 In this case, these guys were born after some of this music came out and it was their parents music and therefore wasn’t cool to them. I think they knew mostly the Beatles Number 1 album and not much of their solo work but I’ve had them react to Rubber Soul, Revolver, ATMP and Ram. A lot of Reactors are getting similar requests from old timers like me. There are some other really good reaction channels which I follow.
Alot of my favs.too!😉👍
Baroness - Yellow and Green Album
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Iron Maiden - The Book of Souls
Virgin Steele - The House of Atreus Act 2
Baroness, 👍🏽
Finally some love for Baroness
Iconoclast makes my list for sure!
I want to share a small personal story about pink floyd the wall, I was not much of a music listener at all, except for some random stuff you might come across on the tele. but when I was around 15 I had a math teacher in school who was also a guitar player in a small band and he was always harping on and on and on about pink floyd as if they were the second coming of Jesus himself. so one day out of sheer curiosity I was like I want to see for myself what the hell is this pink floyd. so I went to a record store and I said "give me pink floyd" and they were like "which album?" I was such a noob when it comes to music that I did not even know what an "album" was but I did not want to sound like an idiot or show that I did not know what I was talking about so I just said nonchalantly "any album is fine" lol, so he was like ok this is the the wall and this is a double album, when he said the word "double" it rung a bell in my head, hmm double I guess I am getting something more, ha ha, so I was like ye that will do. And I bought it, and the rest as they say is history! maybe someone would find my little account amusing or interesting, it is 100 percent true story word for word!
All time favorite: Electric Light Orchestra's "Out of the Blue."
A work of true genius in every way. Jeff Lynne is incredible!
I can think of better double albums, HAL.
Was my favorite in my teens but have since cooled on it. The lyrics bring this down. Good orchestrating and vocals though
01 Album White - The Beatles
02 Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
03 Exile On Main Street - The Rolling Stones
04 All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
05 Tommy - The Who
06 Quadrophenia - The Who
07 Preservation Act 2 - The Kinks (the best rock opera)
08 Wee Tam And The Big Huge - The Incredible String Band
09 Tales from Topographic Oceans - Yes
10 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
11 The Wall - Pink Floyd
12 Joe Garage - Frank Zappa
13 Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix
14 Out Of The Blue - Electric Light Orchestra
15 Odessa - Bee Gees
16 Physical Graffity - Led Zeppelin
17 Layla And Others Songs - Derek And The Dominos
18 The River - Bruce Springsteen
19 Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
20 Jesus Christ Superstar - B.S.O
Your list is absolutely stellar!
yea that's that good shit right there
1.The Beatles White Album 2.Jimi Hendrix Electric Ladyland 3.Led Zeppelin Physical Grafitti 4.The Rolling Stones Exile on Mainstreet 5.Bob Dylan Blonde on Blonde 7.Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 7.George Harrison All Things Must Pass 8. Electric Light Orchestra Out the Blue 9.The Who Quadrophenia 10.Pink Floyd The Wall
Much agreed!
Pete you are awesome! Thanks for getting Mike Portnoy for this!!!!!🤗
Here is my list:
1. The Wall
2. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
3. Tommy
4. Odessa
5. Magica
6. Quadrophenia
7. The White Album
8. Exile on Main Street
9. Tusk
10. All Things Must Pass (Happy Birthday George)
11. Physical Graffiti
12. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
13. Eat a Peach
14. Snow
15. Nostradamus
16. Eledtric Ladyland
17. Happiness is the Road
18. London Calling
19. Out of the Blue
20. Goodbye Yellow Brick
The Who - Quadrophenia
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything
Martin Circus - Act II
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key of Life
XTC - English Settlement
Chicago - VII
Sons of Champlin - Loosen Up Naturally
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Golden Earring - On the Double
Soft Machine - Third
cool list. Third, XTC and Stevie!
I feared I might be the only person who would include "Songs In the Key of LIfe" on my list. If I had ranked mine in numerical order, Stevie's masterpiece would have been #1!
@@ronforeman2556 I saw Stevie and his band perform the whole thing back in 2015. Epic show!
English Settlement - good call. I'd forgotten about that one.
Zaragon here! Love your channel.Keep up the good work!
Love Pete, love watching his channel blow up. I always kind of lament that my friends aren't in to diving into discographies and discussing this stuff. Glad to have this community!! I learn a lot, it sends me down some great avenues to listen. Even though Pete and I are the same age, it feels like he is an older brother turning me on to great music. Cheers!! Good episode!
This was just fantastic. So much respect for Mike. Such a down to earth, true music nerd like all of us. Would love to see you guys collab again in the future. You guys jived really well. Pete, you’re the man.
We q11q 1r4 to
Mike Portnoy!!! So happy for you Pete! Having seen you channel grow over the years has been such a fun ride. So happy there are people like you out there sharing the joy of music.
...and Mike, Blonde on Blonde by Dylan was the first double.
The White Album came with beautiful 8x10 portraits of the guys. My sister had them tacked up in her room. While I no longer have the album, I still have the pics. This was a really great show. My best friend gave me Physical Graffiti on 16th birthday, my favorite LZ album for many reasons, but mostly because I cant listen to it without reliving the day I opened it, and listened to it in my bedroom w my friends for the 1st time.
great episode Pete, Mike is always such a cool guy, met him many times and h always has been a nice dude to talk to, he is just a nerd like all of us.
Bee Gees Odessa?!?!? Amazing that he picked that. I love that one and the Todd Rundgren album. As a drummer I went from my tired old Bonham style to a Portnoy style in the 90s. So this was nice. But when he pulled up that Bee Gees album... renewed fan ;)
I had one and had to trade it in. When Lonely Days, Lonely Nights first came on the radio, I thought it was The Beatles.
Agreed. The Bee Gees had undeniable talent .. like them or not. Harmony singing, songwriting, musicianship and diversity ..e.g. they changed dramatically to produce the 'Satuday Night Fever' sound, as yyou as a fan will know ... but I wonder if others do .. as folks do tend to listen to the 'hits' and make the poor assumption that that is what the artist 'sounds like' as Pete has covered on here before... :-)
Thou shalt not take the name of Bonham in vain!
@@mantroid Quite right .. :-) .. But, I'd let him off .. :-)
I grew up knowing The Bee Gees as a disco band. But then I saw them doing a live version of Lonely Days and women were throwing their panties on the stage. Been a huge fan ever since. Glad to see them getting some love.
LOVED watching this! Thanks Pete and Mike for doing this. Please do it again.
Wow. Mike / will all his concert 🎵 history and shows etc, remembers the set list and the highlights of @ show Pete attended in 98. Unreal ! Love it
Physical Graffiti.
Robert Plant's favorite Zep album
first double album that came to my mind.
It's funny how much love "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" gets. We played the entire album live at Reggie's in Chicago about 4 o 5 years ago? Sonus Umbra as the band for Brian Harris, who is a local guy that has Kieth Emerson chops, but wanted to be Elton. My favorites are the opening tracks and Grey seal. Gotta say that playing it is a lot less fun than listening to it. Especially "Jamaica Jerkoff" and some other sleepers, by which I mean I was bored, but not the audience. Some of those deep track tunes are really clever. I was surprised by the harmony in some of them.
Such a great album! (Very impressed that your band played all of it!) Yes the vocal harmonies are outstanding, the title track is an excellent example.( If I can ever get my own songs recorded, I will want to emulate those backing vocals.)
Absolutely loved every single second of that interview and top 10 double album list. Hats off to you Pete for once yet again, another brilliant show....many thanks
It’s Christmas, it’s late, and I’m rewatching this. So much fun. Thanks Pete and Mike!
Still have first release CTA, Beatles (on white vinyl), Physical Graffiti, Tales of Topographic Oceans and Electric Ladyland. Good to be alive in that era. Living in the Past - Jethro Tull and Ummagumma - Pink Floyd also early classic double albums.
They aren’t including compilations (Living in the Past).
(or half studio/half live….Ummagumma)
this is awesome! I was just recently thinking Mike would be a great guest to have on this channel. Here are some of my favorities:
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
The Clash - London Calling
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
(also loving the new Transatlantic, especially the double album version)
Five from me..
Led Zeppelin - ‘Physical Graffiti’
Richard Thompson - ‘You? Me? Us?’
The Rolling Stones - ‘Exile on Main St.’
Electric Light Orchestra - ‘Out of the Blue’
The Who - ‘Quadrophenia’
ELO - Out of the blue. Love every tune on that double LP. My mom bought it for me for my birthday back when I was in high school. Listened to it from beginning to end MANY times. One of my favorites to this day.
My top 10 doubles, in no particular order:
Zappa/Mothers: Freak Out
Beatles: white album
Soft Machine: Third
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica
Led Zep: Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd: Ummagumma
Elton John:Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Todd Rundgren: Todd
The Who: Quadraphenia
George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
jthomas55: Ummagumma, thank you, thank you, for mentioning this. My god so much pot, so much riding around, for me Dark Side is thoroughly inferior. Umma...all of our summers of years listening to that, oh my. I think the only albums, that were, for me, as moving: Montrose/Montrose; Santana's Abraxas; Stones, Exile; Wishbone Ash, Argus.
Some interesting picks!😉👍
Those first two Chicago albums are a must listen
I'd even include Chicago III on that list. In the last couple years, I' m more impressed with it with each listen. About 50 years after it was released!
Great show! Love listening to you two talk music together. Need to have Mike back again.
Amazing show! Thanks guys! Joe's Garage! Yes!
My list:
10. All Things Must Pass
9. Yellow Brick Road
8. In Your Honor (Foo F)
7. Tommy
6. White Album
5. Quadrophenia
4. Chicago
3. Layla and Other...
2. The Wall
1. Physical Graffiti
Just a little comment from an Aussie fan.Spectrum -Milesago(1971).First Oz double.A prog Classic.
As an Aussie, thanks for the recommendation and will follow up. Was listening to some Masters Apprentices the other night (SOC recommendation), don't know name of the album, wasn't a double, but the music was good.
You can’t discuss Electric Ladyland without mentioning 1983, IMHO. It’s the centerpiece of a legendary double.
Exactly,Epic Epic tune.
I agree.
Love these videos Pete! Meet Mike on the Images and Words Tour in San Diego and have always like him. He was so generous with his time before the show. He sprang about a half hour with me and a friend of mine talking about their first album and music. Such a class act!
This show was as epic as many of those double albums being shown!! I love listening to Portnoy talk about music and I'm not even a Dream Theater or Transatlantic fan. He is a cool dude and Pete was, once again, a most gracious host. This channel evolving into such a power house is one of the few good things that have happened in the past year, a. big thanks to Mr. Pardo for all the great content! 🤘😎
Songs in the Key of Life is an automatic pick for me. Stevie was on top of the world in '76.
Stevie had an incredible run during the '70s, with one landmark album after another: "Talking Book" (1972) #3 Pop, #1 R&B; "Innervisions" (1973) #4 Pop, #1 R&B; "Fulfillingness' First Finale" (1974) #1 Pop, #1 R&B; "Songs In the Key of Life" (1976) #1 Pop, #1 R&B. Some would say he even threw shade on Elton John during that period.
@@ronforeman2556 When Paul Simon won the Album of the Year Grammy for Still Crazy After All These Years, he thanked Stevie in his acceptance speech for not releasing an album in '75.
He’s on the top of the world for ever based on this ‘76 double release!
@@youmothershouldknow4905 Certainly "Songs ... " has never been surpassed. It is absolutely criminal that so-called "Classic Rock" ignores the Stevie Wonder oeuvre, and yet we hear Elton John's music from the same period incessantly. The Ohio Players' "Fire" album & single were #1 on the Billboard Pop Charts simultaneously in '75, and you never hear THAT landmark track on "Classic Rock" stations, either. I HATE JIM CROW RADIO!
@@ronforeman2556
From an objective view of song craft, musical sophistication, and expansive embrace of genres, SITKOL cannot be matched. It’s the pinnacle.
Always great to see this guy. Monster musician and a true fan to boot.
Amazing show! the LOVE of music is just POURING out of these two guys! Thanx so much for that!
Pete, just when it seems the SoT channel hits a peak then it goes even higher. An excellent and entertaining episode and Mike Portnoy was an outstanding co-captain, including this topic he recommended. Fun show and glad to see Rundgren’s Something/Anything in the honorable mentions as that would definitely be in my top 10. Thanks to you and especially to Mike Portnoy for such a great show. Hoping he will come back at some point for another appearance.
Portnoy and Pardo...perfect.👍
OMG MIKE PORTNOY
So great to have Mike Portnoy on board. True legend! My top 3 of favourite youtube channels 3. Sea of Tranquility 2. Sea of Tranquility 1. Sea of Tranquility. Keep up the great work Pete! Love it!
This was so much fun. Mike Portnoy is the reason I play drums! The shared stories made this so interesting and easily one of my favorite videos. Thanks Pete and Mike!
Cream - Wheels Of Fire. First platinum double album.
This was really good, such genuine enthusiasm. Missed Layla and Blonde on Blonde though.
Such a great and enjoyable chat. Love it deeply. Love to hear some of my fave double albums been mentioned and happy to hear the same arguments and povs. Regards from Mexico City.
One of the best videos ! Great chemistry and a lot in common between both Mike and Pete and both are huge music fans and collectors talking about music and having fun!
👍🇺🇲🇬🇧❤
1. BEATLES - WHITE ALBUM
2. ZEPPELIN - PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
3. THE WHO - QUADRAPHENIA
4. THE WHO - TOMMY
5. STONES - EXILE ON MAIN STREET
6. GEORGE HARRISON - ALL THINGS MUST PASS
7. ELTON JOHN - GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD
8. PINK FLOYD - UMMAGUMMA
9. PINK FLOYD - THE WALL
10. FRANK ZAPPA - JUST ANOTHER......& JOE'S GARAGE COLLECTION
11. THE CLASH - LONDON'S CALLING
I thought that All Things Must Pass was a triple LP?
@@solsussman742 👍🇺🇲❤YEP, but its still more than 1 & 3 studio' lips are rare 2 none
@@davidbuzzin426 Yeah it's still fantastic. Legit my favorite beatles solo project.
@@solsussman742 👍🇺🇲❤U GOT GREAT TASTE
@@davidbuzzin426 Thanks, you too!
Pete, small request, can we get and episode with Mike every day along with all the other shows you make? That's not asking too much is it? All kidding aside thanks for getting together and making this video guys!
What an enjoyable show. Kudos to Pete for getting Portnoy on the show, and Mike was every bit as entertaining and engaging as expected. And great chemistry between Pardo and Portnoy. And a new idea was birthed - a show on Best Holy Trinity of Albums (three albums in a row that form an almost flawless output of musical and creative genius)
Like it has been mentioned, modern double albums are now single CD's.
Double CD's are triple or even quad albums. My Top 10 are ....
Nightwish - Dark Passion Play (75 mins).
Nightwish - Imaginaerum (74 mins).
Nightwish - Endless Form Most Beautiful (78 mins).
Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature (81 mins).
Chicago - Transit Authority (76 mins).
Jeff Wayne - War of the Worlds (95 mins).
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (81 mins).
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (76 mins).
ELO - Out of the Blue (70 mins).
Focus - Focus III (93 mins).
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... and those disallowed ...
Pink Floyd - A Nice Pair (Piper at the Gates of Dawn / Saucerful of Secrets).
Iron Maiden - Live After Death.
Uriah Heep - Live 1973.
Deep Purple - Made in Japan.
Various - By Invitation Only (an Alan Freeman compilation)
Various - V (Virgin sampler compilation).
Love that Jethro Tull t-shirt. Love that album.
That was a good episode. The enthusiasm that Mr portnoy had was great. Asked the rules which was cool. Hopefully he can do another one in time get him and John on together or with Mr Levin
Great episode Pete and Mike. I made my big ass playlist and I'm psyched to revisit stuff I've love forever and listen to some new old stuff for the first time, THANKS...\m/
Another great show on Sea Of Tranquility. I am a huge fan of Mike Portnoy. I met Mike in Toronto in 2020. In Fact, it was my last concert. He was touring with Sons Of Apollo. They put on a great show. I have the actual shirt he wore that night. I also have a signed drumstick and the band signed all my S.O.A. CDs and DVD. He was a real cool guy to meet. He belongs on this channel because he is not only very talented and has an awesome resume. He is a rock historian like Pete and myself. He is very passionate about music. I am glad to see Mike participating on ranking albums with my new friend, Pete. I have all of those albums they have mentioned. What a treat it was to watch this episode.
I love how Mike/ legend. Asks PETE if we both pick same. “ what are the rules”? Love it.
Holy crap Pete! I was thrilled when you got Simon Phillips, now you got MP? Welcome to the big-time Pete! This is awesome!! I'm jacked!
Always been a huge Mike Portnoy fan..... great show! I still to this day have always wondered how he can remember all the drum parts for each song...... they're complex, different time signatures and tons of feel...... it would be amazing to know how he does it. Great lists, great commentary by you both...... big fan of your show Pete
Excellent episode, just great.
Ten beloved doubles, off the top of my head. These are in no order (it always changes anyway), but all are just flawless to my ears:
*The Beatles* - _The Beatles_ (white album)
*Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band* - _Trout Mask Replica_
*Liz Phair* - _Exile in Guyville_
*Prince* - _Sign "O" the Times_
*Joni Mitchell* - _Don Juan's Reckless Daughter_
*Fucked Up* - _David Comes to Life_
*Stevie Wonder* - _Songs in the Key of Life_
*Bob Dylan* - _Blonde on Blonde_
*Fleetwood Mac* - _Tusk_
*Hüsker Dü* - _Zen Arcade_
And I've just thought of another ten while typing this sentence. Dammit.
Does Cream's Wheels of Fire merit a half honorable mention (one studio, one live)? Here are a few unmentioned doubles: Derek and the Dominoes=Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs; Bob Dylan=Blonde on Blonde; Fleetwood Mac-Tusk;
"The Lamb lies down on Broadway" Nick D'Virgillio did some ten years ago rejuvenated the album for me. And the Giraffe/Kevin Gilbert 1994 live version Mike mentioned.
I would also just add what a great show this was. I have a deep respect for Mike Portnoy. What an absolutely terrific guy to talk to and chat music with. Excellent job, Pete and Mike!!!
Another excellent show! Thank you Pete and Mike. Donovan's "A Gift From A Flower To A Garden" - I believe this is the first "pop" "box set" as well. Aphrodite's Child "666", Tangerine Dream "Zeit". Good call from Mike Portnoy on "Mellon Collie".
#1. Exile on Main Street. #2. The White Album. #3. London Calling. #4. The River. #5. Physical Grafitti.
Mike Rules! Great guy! Glad he’s finally on SOT!!!
What an amazing show, great job Mike & Pete! I always like hearing Mike talk about the bands he likes, a musician and true music fanatic that is not afraid to admit it! BTW Mike, thank you for turning me on to Karmic Juggernaut, The Dreams That Stuff Are Made Of is so awesome!
Great episode! Thank you Pete for bringing Mike Portnoy onto the channel. I enjoyed it very much. He would be an awesome guest on The Hudson Valley Squares!
"....And Justice For All" was a double album on vinyl. And vinyl was still the primary format back then.
Beat me to it! I bought that on vinyl when it came out.
No it wasn't the primary format in 1989. That would be the cassette.
Justice was out in 88, that's the way I bought it... Double album....
@@sixringsho You are correct, it came out in 88. Not sure why I said 89. The last vinyl I bought back then was AC/DC Who Made Who in 86.
Yeah but it's 9 songs 65 min long. Just cause it fits on 2 vinyl LPs doesn't mean it's a double album, a double album is like 20 tracks 90+ mins. Like the wall or physical graffiti.
When Metallica released "and Justice for All" in 1988, the vinyl version of it was actually a double album.
Yeah, I was surprised that Mike didn't remember that.
I had the vinyl too.
yeh dude friend of mine in school had the double vinly was never a big fan of the group good rockers for sure but was to this day only record by them would buy by the venerable rockers ironic he liked joy division smiths cure gang of four etc. but for a metal record some of there best songs good record even by todays hard rock standards only record i have if the group is garage inc. good rocking standards
Yeah but what if they added some songs from the ‘Black’ album on ‘...Justice For All’,that maybe would of been epic
And Hardwired is a double
Great show Pete and love how you and Mike did this! Thank you both for doing it!
Terrific episode and great picks from both of you. Mike continues to be one of the absolute best and most affable musicians around. I got the new full length version of the new Transatlantic CD recently and also dug the hell out of Sons of Apollo's last release. I can't wait to hear new The Winery Dogs stuff eventually too hopefully!
If you haven’t been to Mike’s channel and listen to him talk about his album collection, you absolutely need to!
Trout Mask Replica
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Quadrophenia
Physical Graffiti
The Downward Spiral
Can’t wait to listen driving to work tomorrow!
Trout Mask Replica is definitely on my top 10 doubles list also..much agreed!😉👍
Loved this episode so much. The excitement from both of you could be felt through the screen. Great picks from both of you (all of which I own!). I’ve always had a hard time picking between Tommy and Quadrophenia as a favorite but I have to lean toward Quadrophenia
Layla by Derek and the Dominoes of course.
Mezmerize/Hypnotize by System of a Down (released as separate albums the same year but the packaging was made to be combined).
The Most Lamentable Tragedy by Titus Andronicus
White Album--Beatles
Freak Out by Zappa
Streetnoise by Julie Driskoll/Brian Auger & the Trinity
Physical Graffiti by Zepplin
Second Winter (technically 1 1/2 album) by Johnny Winter
Hooker n Heat by John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat
Yellow and Green--Baroness
Hooker n Heat has always been a favorite of mine.Just a great bluesy rockin' album. 50 years old and still a cool one.Timeless stuff ! Good pick Sir.
There are sooooo many.l from every genre. I love All Things Must Pass, Quadraphenia, the White Album, Tales From Topographic Oceans, Live Evil, and many many more
They aren’t including live albums.
This is gonna be awesome! I’d also love for Pete to cover bad remixes/remasters and/or albums that got great remixes/remasters and improved on the original
anything from the smoke box from ZZ tops remastered god awful.
all the rolling Stones remasters from 2009 under UM terrible
the horrific pure prairie League busting out
Great topic!
Nice shirt Mike!
Wow! You guys went back to back with 2 albums that eventually grew on me and I felt like you guys did with (first) Exile on Main Street and then (second) London Calling.
You guys caught me already in a mood for the Who as I was listening to Quadraphenia tonight and Tommy too. I was just listening to Physical Graffiti yesterday as it was the anniversary of it's release in 1975. You guys are really on the same page as me. I listen to so many of these albums on a regular basis. The only one I don't own (but will give a new listen) is Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
Great show Pete. I was riveted to this episode.
Great show Pete. Really nice to hear Mike's choices and what a fascinating and modest guy he is. There was a wonderful cross-section of music in both your picks that really kept the show interesting and wide-ranging. Thanks to both of you.
If Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness isn't on this list I call BS.
YES! Mike mentions it at 1:02:52 Thank god you didn't forget about it. I love most of these classics too but you cannot overlook one of the best selling double albums of all time in MCIS.
Saw them live on that tour. Awesome show. Garbage opened up for them...
DO A "FAVORITE BOOTLEGS" WITH PORTNOY!!!
This might be my favorite episode, I'm loving it. Thanks Pete, keep up the good work!
Thanks for talking about "Out of the Blue." That record got played in my grade school art class and I've always had a copy around - from the 8-track to the CD.