Twin Peaks: Is the double album ever a good idea?
*A note before I begin. By "double album" I am referring to the original media format on which the album was released (and let's ignore greatest hits and live albums, because that's just cheating).* "There's a good single album's worth of material in there somewhere." Just because it's a cliche readily thrown out by practically every reviewer of every double album ever made, doesn't mean it's not true. Why would artists open themselves up to that inevitability? Backing up, why make a double anyway? - too many ideas for a single disc? A way to make twice as much money if released separately? Aesthetic and / or artistic reasons that us mere mortals aren't meant to understand? Whatever the reason, the double-album has been around for a long time; it doesn't seem to be genre specific and nor does it seem to be going away anytime soon. Quite the opposite in fact. I have for a long time believed that Bob Dylan's Bonde on Blo...