10 Greatest Double Albums In Music History

When you're making a double albums' worth of material, it's sometimes a good idea to turn it into a pseudo concept album. Since you have to keep everything moving forward from one track to the next, having some sort of common thread throughout every song is a good way of keeping the audience engaged when moving through the record. If there's any album that could be described as an anti concept album though, it would have to be the Beatles' White Album.

Written when the band were coming off of a spiritual retreat in India, every one of the band members seemed to be on a different creative page when they arrived back in London. After not getting along very well in the studio and getting more eclectic influences, you can almost see this as every members' first solo songs crammed onto one disc, where Paul McCartney is free to make breezy pop songs like Blackbird and I Will while John Lennon immerses himself in the avant garde on Revolution 9 or turns folksy on Dear Prudence.

This is also the first time where George Harrison came into his own as a songwriter, putting himself in the same league as Lennon and McCartney with While My Guitar Gently Weeps. While most of the album feels pretty scattered from one song to the next, this is like getting a peek behind the curtain to see what makes each Beatle tick. It might not be as polished as any of their other albums, but this might be the first time that you get a sense of the Beatles being human.