• Tori Amos'To Venus and Back has one disc studio recordings of new songs with an electronic sound quite unlike her normal fare, and one live disc of more familiar songs.
• Emilie Autumn:
  • Laced/Unlaced is a collection of two discs. One with new electric violin work based upon her stay in a mental institution (Unlaced) and the other a repackaging of her oldOn a Day... music collection of classic tracks she loves to play, some new songs and additional bonus live tracks (Laced).
  • Her 2006Opheliac album also qualifies. The bulk of the tracks are on the first disc with a second of instrumental and live tracks. She has since released a deluxe edition with a much more even distribution of materials.
  • Not strictly a double-disc, but 2012'sFight Like a Girl is deliberately thematically and musically similar (compare lyrics and melody fromOpheliac's "Misery Loves Company" versusFight Like a Girl's title track). It could be said thatOpheliac is the first act andFLAG the second.
• Frank Black'sFrank Black Francis was a two CD set where the common thread was versions of hisPixies songs: The first disc consisted of acoustic solo demos that had been recorded shortly beforeCome On Pilgrim. The second was a set of new, experimentalreinterpretations of Pixies songs that Frank Black recorded in collaboration with Keith Moliné and Andy Diagram from the band David Thomas and Two Pale Boys
• Blue Öyster Cult'sSome Enchanted Evening was first released as a single-LP recording taken from live stage performances. The CD release incorporates a second disc, a complete filmed live performance remastered for DVD, which shows the band's pioneering laser show to the very best effect. .
• All three albums inDavid Bowie's "Berlin Trilogy" are distinct single albums:Low and"Heroes" both consist primarily of lyrical songs on side A and instrumentals on side B, whileLodger features songs about travelling on side A and lyrically introspective songs on side B.
• Jeff Buckley'sSketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a double album, released posthumously; the first disc consists of polished studio recordings, while the second consists of unfinished home demos.
• Kate Bush:
  • Hounds of Love is a distinct single album: the first side, "Hounds of Love", is a collection of standalone songs, while the second side, "The Ninth Wave", is aRock Opera about a woman stranded at sea over the course of a single night. Each track on the latter flows directly into the one after it.
  • Aerial takes a similar approach toHounds of Love, but is a proper double album this time. The first disc isA Sea of Honey, aConcept Album about various figures (both real and fictional) relevant to Bush's life. The second disc,A Sky of Honey (retitledAn Endless Sky of Honey on the 2018 remaster), is aRock Opera detailing various events that occur over the course of a 24-hour period. As with "The Ninth Wave", every song onA Sky of Honey fades seamlessly into the next.
  • The 2019 rarities compilationThe Other Sides includes the 12" mixes forHounds of Love andThe Whole Story on disc one, various B-sides and rarities from 1989-2012 on disc two, B-sides and rarities from 1980-1993 (plus a previously unreleased demo from 1975) on disc three, andCover Versions on disc four.
• Buzzcocks'Singles Going Steady compilation is another Distinct Single Album variant, similar toNew Order's andJoy Division's compilations above, with the "A" side featuring the A-sides of their singles and the "B" side featuring their B-sides. An expanded CD reissue of the album that added a few more singles followed suit - placing half of its added songs in the middle of the album and the other half at the end, instead of putting them all at the end as bonus tracks
• Cafe Tacuba'sReves / Yo Soy -Reves is an experimental, instrumental album.Yo Soy is a more conventional song-based collection.
• Counting Crows have done this twice.
  • Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings is probably one of the most extreme examples out there. While it was released on one CD, the band themselves consider it a double album, as the two halves were written and conceived separately, and it's usually referred to that way in marketing because its two halves are so different. Saturday Nights is hard rock. Sunday Mornings is mostly contemplative country-folk, with the two exceptions of "You Can't Count on Me" and "Come Around"; these are both closer to the style of Saturday Nights, though not as dark musically. Lyrically, the two halves of the album explore different aspects of failure.
  • Across a Wire is a live example, with the first disc (VH 1 Storytellers) being (mostly) acoustic and the second (MTV Live from the 10 Spot) being electric. Some songs are included on both discs, but the arrangements are significantly (often radically) different.
• Cracker'sFrom Berkeley to Bakersfield consists of two discs that were recorded in different styles and with different musicians appearing on each disc^note  frontman David Lowery and guitarist Johnny Hickman are the only members to be featured throughout both discs:Berkeley focuses on their more straightforward rock material, and is a reunion for the lineup that recorded the albumKerosene Hat 21 years earlier', whileBakersfield is anAlternative Country album recorded with a group of musicians who had never worked with the band previously. Taken together, the album is about 71 minutes long, so it could have fit on one disc if they didn't decide to separate the songs that way.
• Cream'sWheels of Fire: the first disc is "In the Studio", the second is "Live at the Fillmore".
• Donovan's 1967 albumA Gift from a Flower to a Garden consists of "Wear Your Love Like Heaven", a collection of pop songs intended for an adult audience, and "For Little Ones", an acoustic folk set intended for children. The two discs were also released individually.
• The Early November's second full-length is a triple album titledThe Mother, the Mechanic and the Path. Disc one (The Mechanic) is a rocker and disc two (The Mother) is mellow. Disc three (The Path) combines spoken word andloads of different styles to form a kind of audio drama.
• On the exact same dateEels put out both thebest of albumMeet the Eels and the two cd b-sides/rarities collectionUseless Trinkets.
• Everclear'sSongs from an American Movie Vol. One: Learning to Smile andSongs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude, released within four months of each other. Both albums shared a loose concept about divorce and crumbling relationships,inspired by Art Aleksakis' recent divorce.Volume One was theLighter and Softer take on the theme, with mellow, seventies pop/soul inspired songs and was initially conceived as a solo album for Art, whileVolume Two had an angrier tone and combined elements ofPost-Grunge andHard Rock. The albums being released so close to each other might have confused the record-buying public and resulted in the albums stalling on the charts before long: The two albums were released so close to each other that some stores mistakenly labeled "AM Radio", the last single fromVol. 1, as being the first single fromVol. 2, and a year later their label made a final push by adding two singles fromVol. 2, "Rock Star" and "Out Of My Depth", as bonus tracks forVol. 1.
• Foo Fighters'In Your Honor has a first disc with a hard rock sound, and a second disc of more mellow music. The sticker on the cover advertised the discs as "one loud, one not so loud".
• Switchfoot's Jon Foreman released fourEPs, titledFall,WinterSpring, andSummer. They were all available individually digitally, or in a pair of double-disc CD releases (Fall and Winter,Spring and Summer), despite the fact that each pair would have fit snugly on a single CD. Additionally, the digipak covers of each set could be combined to make a single package.
• Peter Gabriel'sGreatest Hits AlbumHit is divided between a "Hit" disc, which is a standard compilation of well-known hit singles (plus the new song "Burn You Up, Burn You Down"), and a "Miss" disc, which focuses on less successful but fan-favorite songs.
• Guns N' Roses:
  • The twinUse Your Illusion albums. It would seem most of the harder stuff went on the first one (yellow and red cover) while the second one, to match the mood of the violet and blue-tinted cover, had more melancholy songs. Guess which of the albums produced more singles? If you said the hard-rocking one, you'd be absolutely right (although II had "You Could Be Mine", which had been solicited for theTerminator 2: Judgment Day soundtrack).
  • Although it is only a single album,Appetite for Destruction has the same dichotomy. Most of the vinyl and cassette versions are split into Sides G (hard-rocking songs about the L.A. nightlife and hedonism — "Welcome to the Jungle", "Nightrain", "Mr. Brownstone"), and R (pensive songs about relationships, often of the self-destructive kind — "My Michelle", "Think About You").
• The first two discs ofGeorge Harrison'sAll Things Must Pass are standard songs; the third is improvisational music ("jams" to old-school rock fans).
  • With the very punny name "Apple Jam".
• Juliana Hatfield'sBeautiful Creature andTotal System Failure, simultaneously released in 2000.Beautiful Creature was a largely acoustic-based solo album, recorded with various studio musicians instead of a consistent backing group. MeanwhileTotal System Failure was recorded as a trio under the name Juliana's Pony, and had a heavier alternative rock sound.Beautiful Creature was generally better received critically than it's counterpart.
• Voodoo Child: TheJimi Hendrix Collection: disc 1 is studio tracks, disc 2 is live tracks.
• HIM actually did this with a collection ofB-sides. In the days of the CD single, they were prolific users of the flip to release new or alternate versions of their music, some of which was collected in theUneasy Listening series (specifically, vault goodies from beforeDark Light). Volume 1 comprises softer tunes, mostly acoustic renditions, while Volume 2 makes use of hard rock covers and heavier versions of songs released previously. Making the distinction clearer, Volume 1 has a blue cover with a female figure on it while Volume 2 is red with a fanged gentleman peering out from under his awesome top hat on the front.
• Journey's albumRevelation, released in 2008, featured one disc full of covers of songs from the Steve Perry lineup years by then-current frontman Arnel Pineda, and another disc full of new original songs.
• Tomoko Kawase's 2012February & Heavenly album is split between both of Kawase's personas: disc 1 (february) brings theTommy february6 persona (whose music consists ofSynth-Pop andTechno), while disc 2 (heavenly) brings theTommy heavenly6 persona (whose music consists ofPop Punk andPost-Grunge).
  • Even before that, back in 2009, Tommy february6 and Tommy heavenly6 had their respective compilation albums (Strawberry Cream Soda Pop Daydream andGothic Melting Ice Cream's Darkness Nightmare) released on the very same day and having matching covers.
  • In 2013, Kawase released new albums for each persona:Tommy Candy Shop Sugar Me for february6, andTommy Ice Cream Heaven Forever for heavenly6. Unlike 2012'sFebruary & Heavenly, these albums were released separately (and unlike the 2009 compilation albums, the 2013 studio albums were released a few months apart from each other), but their matching covers indicate that they are intended as a distinct double album as well.
• Al Kooper'sRare and Well-Done.Rare collects a bunch of demos and previously unreleased songs.Well-Done is an anthology of his released work.
• Matchbox Twenty's compilationExile on Mainstream has one disc containing six new songs, and a second disc containing songs from their first three full-lengths.
• Muse haveHullabaloo — one CD is live recordings from the band's concert in Paris, 2001, while the other CD is a collection of B-sides.
• My Chemical Romance's double live albumThe Black Parade Is Dead! is a CD/DVD double album, with the CD being a live concert in Mexico of The Black Parade album in its entirety, while the DVD had the same live concert taped plus another live gig in Hoboken, New Jersey, where they played a variety of songs of all their albums to that date, including an unreleased, untitled new song.
• New Order has a couple examples:
  • Brotherhood is another distinct single album: side one consists of straightPost-Punk songs while side two consists of straightSynth-Pop songs.
  • Substance is divided up differently depending on the format. CD, Digital Audio Tape, and UK cassette copies feature an A-sides disc/tape and a (mostly) B-sides disc/tape. On LP and US cassette copies, only the A-side section is featured, but it's split up between 1981-1984 singles and 1985-1987 singles, with the LP release using separate discs and the US cassette using separate sides of one tape.
• New Order's previous incarnation,Joy Division, has a couple examples of their own:
  • The first disc onStill is a rarities and outtakes collection with the exception of a live cover of theVelvet Underground's"Sister Ray", while the second contains the band's final live show weeks before Ian Curtis' suicide.
  • The band's ownSubstance compilation is a Distinct Single Album on CD and some countries' cassette releases. The main album collected the A-sides of the band's non-album singles, while the "Appendix" collects the B-Sides. The album received a double LP reissue in 2015 that made it a Distinct Double Album.
• Pearl Jam'srearviewmirror has an "Up" disc with rockers ("Even Flow", "Do the Evolution"), and a "Down" disc with calmer songs ("Black", "Last Kiss").
• When theRed Hot Chili Peppers' albumStadium Arcadium came with the discs Jupiter and Mars. It was originally planned to be a trilogy of albums, but those plans fell through. Either way, Jupiter was more single-heavy while Mars was... not.
• Red House Painters' second album, the first self-titled (usually dubbedRollercoaster by fans) was supposed to be a double album. Since 4AD Manager Ivo Watts-Russell didn't trust them to be able to sell a double album as a new band they were forced to shorten it down to a single album. They did get to release the remaining tracks ontoBridge, the second self-titled release. If you look long and hard on the internet, you can find the original intended track listing and recreate the album yourself using files from the two albums.
• The limited vinyl edition ofReel Big Fish's "Monkeys for Nothin' and the Chimps for Free" comes as two discs: the first disc, presented as a picture disc, has all-new songs. The second disc, colored lime-green, has rerecorded songs from earlier on. The two discs are even identified as "Monkeys" & "Chimps".
• During the vinyl era,Todd Rundgren took this to itslogical extreme by releasingSomething/Anything?, on which each of the four LP sides had its own individual concept.^note Side one is described in the liner notes as "a bouquet of ear-catching melodies"; side two is "the cerebral side"; side three is "the kid gets heavy"; side four is "Baby Needs a New Pair of Snakeskin Boots (APop Operetta)". Several other albums of his qualify as Distinct Single Albums, some of which were as long as other bands' double albums (A Wizard, a True Star, at fifty-six minutes, andInitiation, at sixty-eight minutes, are long enough to be double LP sets;Initiation, at fifty minutes, straddles the line;Hermit of Mink Hollow, at thirty-six minutes, is definitely not long enough. Note thatHermit is only a Distinct Single Album due toExecutive Meddling; Rundgren intended a different running order, but the record label insisted on dividing the record into "The Easy Side" and "The Difficult Side").
• TheSigur Rós double album (really a double EP, all the tracks could fit on one disc, if barely)Hvarf/Heim has one disc (Hvarf) of unreleased songs and re-recordings of old songs, and one disc (Heim) of stripped-down live versions of previously released songs.
• Sloan has their 11th album "Commonwealth." All four members write & perform their own material, but they didn't think releasing four solo albums likeKISS would be commercially viable, so instead they did four solo album SIDES. This also allowed their drummer, Andrew Scott to indulge in his experimental impulses and devote his side to a nearly 18-minute suite of unfinished songs that he titled "Forty-Eight Portraits." This song would open the show on the supporting tour.
• The Smashing Pumpkins'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is one of these. They're even titled differently — Disc 1 is "Dawn to Dusk", and Disc 2 is "Twilight to Starlight".
  • The original 3xLP version takes this even further, with six separately named sides: "Dawn", "Teatime", "Dusk", "Twilight", "Midnight", and "Starlight".
  • The 4xLP version does not follow this labelling, even though it's the same track listing as the original 2xCD.
  • The deluxe 5xCD + DVD reissue has the bonus discs labelled: "Morning Tea", "High Tea", and "Special Tea".
• Starflyer 59's compilationEasy Come, Easy Go. Disc 1 isGreatest Hits. Disc 2 starts with b-sides and rarities, then ends with a live show.
• Rod Stewart's 2001 UK compilationThe Story So Far had uptempo numbers on the first disc, "A Night Out", and slow numbers on the second disc, "A Night In".
• System of a Down'sMezmerize/Hypnotize was intended to be one double album before the songs were split between the two. The cover artwork for both albums overlap, the song "Soldier Side"Bookends both albums, and the songs are laden with political and social commentary.
• Talking Heads' firstLive Album,The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, features assorted live performances from 1977-1979 on disc one and recordings from the 1980-1981Remain in Light tour on disc two.
• Thrice's collectionThe Alchemy Index, released as two double disc sets:Fire & Water, andAir & Earth. Each element was represented on it's own disc, each showcasing a different musical style. Fire contained harder hitting songs, with the only screamed vocals in the set. Water was mostly electronic based. Air was a softer alternative rock sound. Earth was purely acoustic with an echo-y sound to it.
• Rufus Wainwright'sWant One andWant Two: similarly to several other examples on this page, the project was initially envisioned as a double album, but it was originally released separately as two different albums. The first album has a more personal focus, while the second album is darker and, according to Wainwright himself, is focussed on "the world we live in". They were later repackaged together asWant.
• Wingspan was aGreatest Hits double album. Disc 1 was (almost) all ofPaul McCartney andWings's biggest hits. Disc 2 was "History", containing otherMcCartney and Wings songs of varying catchiness and historical importance.
• Frank Zappa's debut albumFreak Out! was a double LP, featuring parodies of love songs on the first record and political commentary and complete zany mayhem on the second record. Zappa released many double albums throughout his career, although most of them were not examples of this trope.

• Jars of Clay's first retrospective,Furthermore: From the Studio, from the Stage. The first disc has brand new studio recordings of prior songs, and the second disc is a live show.
• Showbread'sAnorexia andNervosa were released simultaneously, and featured songs by the same names, however, every song is completely distinct from "Anorexia" and "Nervosa"; for example, "The Beginning (Anorexia)" is an instrumental piano aria, while "The Beginning (Nervosa)" is not instrumental and features multiple movements by multiple singers.

• 16 Horsepower's compilationYours Truly. The first disc is a standardGreatest Hits Album. The second is a collection of non-album singles and alternate versions of songs.
• ActressLaura Bell Bundy did a variant with her debutAchin' and Shakin'. The album, though only one disc, was separated into "Achin'" and "Shakin'" sections, the former being heartbreak ballads and the latter being more cheery upbeat material, exemplified in lead single "Giddy On Up". Both halves even had separate liner notes and producers.
• Vince Gill'sThese Days is a distinctquadruple album. It consists of four discs, each comprising songs recorded in a different style: country-rock, country-soul, neo-traditional country, and acoustic gospel.
• Alan Jackson has a rare double-discGreatest Hits Album. The second disc ofGreatest Hits II... and Some Other Stuff includes eight album cuts that he liked.
• Jamey Johnson'sThe Guitar Song featured two discs that told a story. In his words, "The first part^note theBlack Album is a very dark and sordid story. Then everything after that^note theWhite Album is progressively more positive, reassuring and redemptive."
• Toby Keith's second Christmas album,A Classic Christmas. One disc is more secular stuff like "Frosty the Snowman" and "Silver Bells", and the other is hymns and carols like "Joy to the World".
• Rascal Flatts took a similar approach, with the second disc of their firstGreatest Hits comprising Christmas music to coincide with its late-year release.
• Shania Twain'sUp! was released as a double-disc thing, with the same track listing on both discs, but one disc being a pop-mix and the other disc being either a country-mix (in the US) or a Bollywood-style-mix (everywhere else).
• Hank Williams'Turn Back the Years: The Essential Hank Williams Collection is a triple compilation album of songs according to themes (bar room anthems, lonesome heart break songs, andGod-Is-Love Songs).

• Autechre:
  • The US edition ofTri Repetae, known asTri Repetae++, adds a second CD compiling theAnvil Vapre andGarbageEPs.
  • TheLimited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition ofQuaristice has theRemix AlbumQuaristice Versions as its second disc.
• Blue Amazon'sThe Javelin has two double-CD editions, the first disc of both containing the main continuously-mixed album. The Australian edition's second disc includes the full-length 12" mixes of "No Other Love", "Four Seasons" and "The Runner", along with the otherwise non-album single "Star of David", theB-Side "The Blessing Part II", and two bonus remixes of "And Then the Rain Falls". The German edition has theRemix AlbumSpearhead, which contains previously unreleased remixes of "Four Seasons", "And Then the Rain Falls", "No Other Love",Skunk Anansie's "Twisted", andPlacebo's "Nancy Boy", along with "Trip to Heaven", a track originally only available on the album's vinyl edition.
• The deluxe vinyl edition ofClan of Xymox'sSpider on the Wall is a distinct triple album, with the first LP being the main vanilla album, while the second and third compile the remix EP's for "She", "Lovers", "All I Ever Know", and "Spider", along with theirB-Sides.
• A. G. Cook:
  • His debut album7G is aseptuple album, with 49 total tracks spread across 7 discs, each one being based around a specific instrument: drums, guitar, supersaw synths, piano, nord keyboards,spoken word, and "extreme vocals". Many of the tracks average between 3-4 minutes, and the entire experience lasts just over 2 and a half hours.
  • His third album,Britpop, is three discs, respectively signifying the past, present, and future of his production style. In practice, "Past" represents his playful proto-hyperpop electronic music he codified withPC Music, "Present" leans more towardsdelicate, close-mic vocal ballads (probably the closest to actualBritpop music), and "Future" is the most experimental and avant-garde.
• Cornelius simultaneously released two remix albums,CM: Cornelius Mix andFM: Fantasma Mix:CM compiled seven remixes Cornelius had done of other artists, whileFM had most of those same artists remixing seven songs from his albumFantasma^*The exception is the group Salon Music, who were remixed onCM but didn't contribute toFM — instead,FM included a remix of "Starfruit Surfrider" by Damon Albarn.
• Decoded Feedback's 1999 albumEVOlution, for its first half, showcased new songs, while the second half consisted of remixes of songs from the preceding albumBio-Vital, plus The Frozen Autumn'sCover Version of said album'sTitle Track.
• Menno de Jong'sGreatest Hits AlbumCollected Works is set up this way in its vinyl edition. The first LP consists chiefly of slower progressive trance, while the second LP is devoted to his faster uplifting works.
• TheTrope Maker, as it applies toHouse Music and Trance Music, is theGlobal Underground series.
• Information Society have the 2-CD rarities compilationApocryphon: Electro Roots 1983-1985; the first disc, "Unobtainium", combining the tracklists of their long out-of-printInsoc EP andCreatures of Influence LP; the second, "Prophets Without Honor", showcasing previously unreleased recordings.
• Joy Electric:
  • For the compilationThe Art and Craft of Popular Music, Disc 1 has a bunch of rare (or previously unreleased) non-album tracks and remixes, while Disc 2 is a standardGreatest Hits Album.
  • The albumThe Otherly Opus was a distinct double-EP: the first half of the album is JE's usual, impenetrably surreal lyrics, while the second half is a miniatureConcept Album aboutthe period between the Fall of Man and Noah's flood. He almost titled the whole thingThe Otherly Opus / The Memory of Alpha to reflect the bifurcation.
• Laserdance'sThe Guardian of Forever accomplishes this on a single disc. The first six tracks are their traditional italo-spacesynth, but afterwards, it switches to progressive trance.
• Machine Girl'sGemini is separated into HEAVEN and HELL halves, with HEAVEN containing the more upbeat, smooth, happy hardcore tracks, and HELL containing harder, darker synths.
• Some issues ofLCD Soundsystem'sself-titled debut included a second disc of singles that had been released prior to the album.
• The albumHotel byMoby is another classic example. The first disc is mainly rock-oriented songs, all with vocals (except for the intro, coda, and hidden track), while the second disc is entirely ambient techno.
• QuothWikipedia onPan Sonic'sKesto (234.48:4): "Each of the discs reflects elements of their style of music, with the dynamics and tempi generally decreasing throughout. The first CD consists largely of shorter compositions, reminiscent of the synthesis of pop structures and electronic noise found in industrial precursors likeSuicide, while the second consists of less intense, electro influenced songs, using the same processed sine tones with more restraint and rhythmic consistency. The third and fourthCDs are more amorphous, the former incorporating Musique concrete elements and the latter is a single hour-long track that recalls early electronic composer Eduard Artemyev."
• Pet Shop Boys:
  • Their 2003Greatest Hits Album,PopArt, had a "Pop" disc with their upbeat dance-pop numbers and an "Art" disc with their more introspective, artsy stuff. The limited edition came with athird disc, "Mix", which contained remixes.
  • The 1993 albumVery was briefly available as a special 2-disc edition,Very Relentless. The first disc was the normalVery album, vocal synthpop tracks. The second disc,Relentless, was six extended dance tunes, five of them with barely any singing or completely instrumental.
• Mauro Picotto'sSuperclub double album consists of the dance discGiganite and the chill-out discMegalounge. The deluxe edition ofMauro Picotto: The Album is configured the same way, with its bonus disc consisting of downtempo and trip-hop in contrast to the trance and techno of the main album.
• Armin Van Buuren'sA State of Trance series. The 2005 installment labelled theCDs as Light/Dark; all subsequent installments were billed as On The Beach/In The Club.
• Yellow Magic Orchestra:
  • Boththeir self-titled debut andNaughty Boys came in two different versions back in the day: the former had different mixes for the Japanese and American markets, while the latter had a second instrumental version released concurrently with the original. For the band's 2003 remastering campaign, the two different versions of each album were collected as double-CD packages, one disc for each rendition.
  • The 1984 retrospective compilationSealed was originally released as a four-LPBoxed Set. Each of the first three discs corresponds to each of the band's three members and contains YMO songs that they wrote, while the fourth disc focuses on full-band compositions. The CD release meanwhile squeezes the album onto two discs (albeit dropping some songs due to space constraints): one for theRyuichi Sakamoto & YMO songs and another for theHaruomi Hosono &Yukihiro Takahashi songs.
  • Faker Holic, the 1991 expanded edition of the band's first live album, features one CD containing performances from London & Paris and a second CD containing performances from New York City.
• Zanias'sChrysalis is a mix ofEtherealWave andSynthwave, while its concurrently produced companion albumEcdysis revisits the NeoclassicalDark Wave of her first album, but withcompletely wordlessvocals andTrip Hop elements.

• Have a Nice Life's debutDeathconsciousness came in two discs: the shoegaze-meets-droneThe Future, and the decidedly more post-punk-influencedThe Plow That Broke the Plains. In a release packed with weirdness and innovation, that it's in two distinct-yet-complementary volumes is the least strange thing about it.
• Not unlikeOutKast'sSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below,Hella'sChurch Gone Wild/Chirpin' Hard functioned as one solo album each from the two members. Zach Hill'sChurch Gone Wild is the more chaotic and noisy of the two, while Spencer Seim'sChirpin' Hard is more melodic, and was often compared to his work withGame Music cover band The Advantage.
• Tom Waits'Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards is a triple album consisting of the blues-rock "Brawlers", the piano-driven, ballad-heavy "Bawlers", and the experimental, often spoken-word stuff on "Bastards".
• Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music byZoviet France. The album consists of two cassettes sandwiched into a clay pot withradioactive seagull feathers glued to the back.

• Eliza Carthy'sRed Rice.Red is a mixture of folk with dub, pop and electronica;Rice is straight folk. Critics loved the Distinct Double Album but it proved a littletoo distinct for record buyers and was later split up and reissued as separate albums.
• Bob Dylan:
  • Dylan used the "electric side and acoustic side" Distinct Single Album variant with his first folk-rock album,Bringing It All Back Home, but in contrast withRust Never Sleeps, the first side here is the electric one.
  • Some of Dylan's live concerts also end up as examples of Distinct Double Albums.The Bootleg Series Vol. 4: Live 1966, The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert consists of a solo acoustic disc and an electric disc recorded withThe Band, for example. The first set was warmly received while, infamously, the second set was widely heckled (one fan shouted out "Judas", to which Dylan responded, "I don't believe you; you're a liar," and then commanding The Band and to "Play itfucking loud!"). Interestingly, the reputation of the sets in posterity has now reversed; the electric set is nowregarded as one of Dylan's finest performances, while the acoustic set is regarded as somewhat inferior. This may actually have been partially due to an inferior sound system; according to people who were actually at the show, includingone who claims to have been the "Judas" heckler himself, the concert recording of the live set sounds much better than the set itself did live (which has been described as sounding like "a wall of mush").
• Adrianne Lenker'sSongs andInstrumentals, recorded during the same sessions and released together in 2020:Songs consists of 11 two to five minute acoustic indie folk songs.Instrumentals consists of twotwo lengthy instrumental pieces - "Music for Indigo", assembled from acoustic guitar improvisations captured during the same sessions, and "Mostly Chimes", a collage of a little more acoustic guitar followed by chimes and field recordings of bird songs. Both albums feature watercolor paintings of flowers on the cover, as painted by Adrianne's grandmother Diane Lee.
• Gordon Lightfoot's Gord's Gold has one LP consisting of re-recorded versions of songs originally recorded for United Artists Records, and the 2nd LP consisting of original Reprise recordings such as "If You Could Read My Mind," "Sundown," "Carefree Highway," etc.
• Canadian singer/songwriterJoel Plaskett released a distincttriple album, appropriately entitledThree. In addition to overlapping lyrical motifs, the discs were described by accompanying press as respectively about "Leaving, being gone, and coming back."
• Neil Young:
  • Arc/Weld:Weld was a straightforward two-discLive Album, whileArc was a 35-minute sound collage of tune-ups andbig rock endings from live performances that verged onSensory Abuse. They were originally released as a three-disc set, but later got individual releases.
  • The division into a quiet, acoustic side and a stomping electric side makesRust Never Sleeps come off this way, although strictly speaking it was always a single album.

• Bright Eyes did this, releasing albumsDigital Ash in a Digital Urn andI'm Wide Awake, It's Morning simultaneously. The former is darker with music that is mostly electronic, while the latter is more upbeat with live instrumentation.
• Eldridge Rodriguez'sThe Castrati Menace never had a physical release, but is sort of two different album-length presentations of same material: The first 9 tracks are standard length songs. The 10th track, "The Castrati Menace (Continuous Mix)", is presented as a bonus track only available when you download the whole album, but is really an alternate,Director's Cut style version of the whole album indexed as one track, with added interludes to turn the individual songs into one continuous work.
• James released the uptempoThe Night Before and the slowerThe Morning After (intended as a full blown melancholy hangover album, but they lost track of it in the writing) as mini-albums a few months apart, later combining them into a single two-disc release.
• Manchester Orchestra released their albumsCope andHope five months apart, the latter being more emotional, acoustic versions of the former's relatively heavy tracks.
• Animal! andNot Animal, simultaneously released by Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, are sort of an unusual case because they're actually two different versions of the same album: The band and their label disagreed on what songs should make the album and what the track order should be, soAnimal! was the album as the band wanted it, whereasNot Animal! was the album as the label wanted it. A handful of songs are shared between the two versions, but each also has an equal number of exclusive tracks.
• My Brightest Diamond'sThis Is My Hand does this over the length of a single album. The first side of the LP is the faster, more intense songs; the second side is the slower, ambient tracks.

• Bernstein Plays Brubeck Plays Bernstein was a Distinct Single Album on LP. Side I was dedicated to Howard Brubeck'sDialogues for Jazz Combo and Orchestra performed mainly by the New York Philharmonic conducted byLeonard Bernstein, with theDave Brubeck Quartet contributing improvisations. Side II had the Dave Brubeck Quartet by itself covering showtunes from Bernstein'sWest Side Story andWonderful Town scores.
• Bill Frisell'sOrchestras features him in an orchestral setting. On disc 1, he's backed by the Brussels Philharmonic Orchestra, resulting in a more classical sound. On disc 2, he's playing with the Umbria Jazz Orchestra, resulting in a big band jazz sound.
• MakayaMcCraven'sUniversal Beings is a live compilation album. For the two-LP version, each side was recorded in a different city, playing with a different ensemble. In fact, instead of labeling the sides with letters, they're just called "New York Side", "London Side", "Chicago Side", and "Los Angeles Side".
• Kamasi Washington's second full-length album,Heaven and Earth, manages to be a Distinct Double Album twice over: the first half,Earth, contains songs dealing with more, well, down-to-earth issues; while the second half,Heaven, has a more abstract/utopian theme to it...but then there is also an entire extra album,The Choice, on a disc hidden inside the album's packaging — making the entire package a Distinct Double Albumwith another Distinct Double Album inside it!

• Apocalyptica'sAmplified: A Decade of Reinventing the Cello: first disc is all instrumentals, second consists of songs with vocals (some of which were previously released as instrumentals.)
• Die Apokalyptischen Reiter did this with their albumsTief^note Deep andTiefer^note Deeper. The first was a Metal album, the second an acoustic album primarily containing acoustic versions of older songs. Both were released at the same time, also there was a bundle containing both and a small artbook.
• The Axis of Perdition have theUrfe album, which is actually the first two installments in aConcept Album trilogy: Disc one,Grief of the Unclean, consists entirely of ambient music with dramatic narration, telling the first part ofUrfe's story; disc two,The Great Unwashed, uses a combination of metal and ambient and tells the next part of the story. The conclusion,Tenements, was released separately in 2011.
• Butcher Babies'Eye for an Eye.../...'Til the World's Blind, withEye... being more commercial, traditional metal fare, and...Blind being a more experimental mix of heavier metal styles, with a couple of slower, ballad-y songs thrown in. They were even recorded in separate locations,Eye... in the Arizona desert, and...Blind in Michigan during winter, Carla Harvey describing the two as representing "light and darkness, fire and ice".
• Cult of Luna have another "recorded too much material during album sessions and didn't want to release a double album" example withVertikal and its companion EPVertikal II. The latter consists of songs that the band didn't fit into the story of the former, plus a remix thatExecutive Meddling insisted be added (but the band liked after it was done). Put together the two releases run for almost two hours.
• Isis haveCelestial andSGNL>05, released separately because they didn't want their first full-length release to be a double album. The second is still a sequel to the first, though.
• maudlin of the Well haveBath andLeaving Your Body Map, which are intended to be listened to one after the other but were nonetheless released separately.
• Melvins'A Walk with Love and Death: theLove disc is an avant-garde instrumental soundtrack to a short film (also titledA Walk With Love And Death), while theDeath disc is a rock album more akin to their usual style.
• Metallica
  • For the 1998 compilationCover Album,Garage Inc., disc 1 consists of new covers, while disc 2 consists of covers recorded by the band over the years.
  • Downplayed withHardwired... to Self-Destruct. TheThrash Metal on the album is concentrated in the first half. The second half has some thrash-y moments, but, save for "Spit Out the Bone", has thrash take a backseat to slowerTraditional Heavy Metal that's similar tothe Black Album but a bit less radio friendly.
• Moonspell's 2012 double album contained two halves, one being calledAlpha Noir, which contained heavier and more aggressive material, and the other being calledOmega White, which contained mellow goth rock tunes.
• Nightwish's ninth albumHuman. :||: Nature. The first disc is a standard NightwishSymphonic Metal album. Disc two is aClassical Music suite with some spoken word parts titledAll the Works of Nature that Adorn the World.
• To celebrate its 20 years of existence, metal label Nuclear Blast released two albums made by musicians on the label, under the monikerNuclear Blast All-Stars. Both albums are two-disc compilations with one disc made of exclusive songs and the other being a recompilation of singles released by the label throughout the years; the first album,Into the Light, is focused on the more traditional heavy metal and power metal and the such, and the other one,Out of the Dark, features melodic death metal and similars.
• The Ocean releasedHeliocentric andAnthropocentric separately but both in 2010. They are scathing critiques of religion, the former focusing on Catholic doctrine and the treatment of heretics, the latter focusing on apologetics.
• Opeth'sDeliverance & Damnation albums sort of count, as they were recorded together but released five months apart:Deliverance contains some of the band's heaviest metal songs, whileDamnation consists entirely of mellowProgressive Rock. When they were remastered, they were re-released together as the band intended them to be.
• Periphery hasJuggernaut Alpha/Omega with the former being theBackstory to the story presented in the latter.
• Sabaton recorded their sixth albumCarolus Rex with both English and Swedish lyrics (barring the closing track "Ruina Imperii" which is only in Swedish) and released it as a double album. The English lyrics are a fairly standard badass-praising Sabaton album, barring the focus on 17th century Swedish history rather than the world wars, but the Swedish lyrics are firmlyMy Country 'Tis of Thee That I Sting, taking their native country to task for its past misdeeds.
• Swallow The Sun's distincttriple album,Songs from the North I, II, & III. The first disc is melodic death/doom metal of the sort the band is known for, featuring both clean and harsh vocals; the second consists entirely of mellow, mostly acoustic and piano-based music and uses only clean vocals; and the final disc is full-on funeral doom and uses harsh vocals exclusively.
• Therion's double live albumThe Miskolc Experience has one disc featuring metal covers of classical/opera pieces and one disc of original songs accompanied by a full orchestra.
  • Their two albumsLemuria andSirius B were recorded together and released as a double album, but each one is structured like a distinct album.

• A peculiarVideo Game example is inCeleste, where not only are the B-side levels provided with unique remixes of the original tunes, the character has to actually grab those tapes in order to unlock them. The OST album isalso different, so interested listeners will have to buy both cassettes.
• The Season 2 soundtrack of songs fromHannah Montana, titledHannah Montana 2, was packaged as a double album with "Hannah" starMiley Cyrus' first album under her own name, titledMeet Miley Cyrus on the second disc.
• The soundtrack forHalo 2 was released in two volumes. Volume 1, released alongside the game,had to be prepared prior to the game being finalized, and thus some pieces have somewhat different arrangements than they do in the game. It also includes someHalo-themed contributions from some outside music artists, such asBreaking Benjamin andIncubus. Volume 2 was released later, and contains the music as it appeared in the final game.
• From theHomestuck soundtrack, there iscoloUrs and mayhem, Universe A andcoloUrs and mayhem, Universe B, which are themed around the universes they are named after. Each has a Disc 1 and Disc 2, containing themes for characters fromthat side of each universe's scratch, and an Additional Mayhem section for other songs.
• The firstNCIS soundtrack album had two discs, subtitledSpecial Agent andAbby's Lab. WhileSpecial Agent is a mix of various music used in the show with no other over-riding theme,Abby's Lab is meant to reflect the musical tastes of the character Abby Sciuto and, accordingly, it's heavy onIndustrial,EBM, and related genres. Further tying into the theme, theAbby's Lab disc includes the track "Fear" by Stop Making Friends, a band featuring Abby's actress Pauley Perrette. Also,Special Agent ends with the standard version of the "NCIS Theme", whileAbby's Lab opens with anIndustrial Metal remix byMinistry.
• TheSilent Hill 4 soundtrack has two discs: the first is the soundtrack itself, and the second is an unrelated audio drama calledInescapable Rain in Yoshiwara.
• In the physical soundtrack forRed vs. Blue:Season 15, the tracks written by David Levy and Trocadero are split into their own discs.
• The physical version of theRWBY soundtracks have the vocal tracks in one disc and the score in the other.

• Christina Aguilera'sBack to Basics album. Disc one was standard pop with a throwback to jazz, funk, and soul. Disc two was comprised of live music reminiscent of the The Twenties andThe '30s.
• Rick Astley's 2019 compilation albumThe Best of Me features a first disc that's a standardGreatest Hits Album and a second disc containing re-recordings of old material, billed "Reimagined Classics".
• Beyoncé'sI Am... Sasha Fierce had theI Am... disc being filled with introspective ballads andSasha Fierce with Beyonce's signature R&B/Pop style complete with a new persona, Sasha Fierce.
• BTS tend to bevery deliberate in their track sequencing, which has resulted in this type of double albums.
  • Their anthology albumProof has 3 discs, with an original track in each:
    • Disc one is themed after the group's career path, starting with the 2013 song "Born Singer", followed by every title track in order (plus "Dynamite" and "Butter"), ending with the self-explanatory original song "Yet To Come".
    • Disc two starts with the more upbeat original track "Run BTS", followed by side-tracks hand-picked by the group (one solo song and one group song for each member).
    • Disc three contains demos and alternate versions of released songs (available only in the physical version ofProof), and ends the album with the original song "For Youth".
  • The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever andLOVE YOURSELF: Answer are compilation albums of their respective album series. Both have a disc one with specific (old and new) tracks sequenced in a way that conveys the overall message of each series, particularly intros and main singles^note Disc one ofLOVE YOURSELF: Answer in particular follows the order of the 4 chapters of the series with a general "intro track by one of the vocalists — title track — original 'Trivia' song by one of the rappers — outro by all three rappers" format. Disc two contains some other notable side-tracks that don't necessarily focus on the series' concepts, plus remixes of the singles.
• Hanson's 2022 albumRed Green Blue can be described as a blend ofthree 5-song mini albums, each one crafted by each individual brother: Taylor'sRed portion tends to lean more towards a rootsy Americana sound, while Isaac'sGreen portion has more of an intimate and vintage sound, and Zac'sBlue portion has a more contemporary sound, mixing in pop, rock and alt-country. Each portion got its own single, accompanied by their respective music videos.
• Michael Jackson'sHIStory: Past, Present, and Future, Book I. The first disc (HIStory Begins) was aGreatest Hits Album, and the second disc (HIStory Continues) was all new material.
• Tomoko Kawase's 2012February & Heavenly album is split between both of Kawase's personas: disc 1 (february) brings theTommy february6 persona (whose music consists ofSynth-Pop andTechno), while disc 2 (heavenly) brings theTommy heavenly6 persona (whose music consists ofPop Punk andPost-Grunge).
  • Even before that, back in 2009, Tommy february6 and Tommy heavenly6 had their respective compilation albums (Strawberry Cream Soda Pop Daydream andGothic Melting Ice Cream's Darkness Nightmare) released on the very same day and having matching covers.
  • In 2013, Kawase released new albums for each persona:Tommy Candy Shop Sugar Me for february6, andTommy Ice Cream Heaven Forever for heavenly6. Unlike 2012'sFebruary & Heavenly, these albums were released separately (and unlike the 2009 compilation albums, the 2013 studio albums were released a few months apart from each other), but their matching covers indicate that they are intended as a distinct double album as well.
• Koda Kumiloves to release these (selling them both separately and as a package):
  • W FACE -inside- (more introspective, with most of the tracks being ballads) andW FACE -outside- (composed almost entirely of dance tracks), in 2017.
  • angeL (bubblegum pop tracks and soft ballads) andmonsteR (dance tracks with hip-hop and trap elements), in 2020.
  • She has even had aDistinct DoubleTour in 2019, having simultaneous tours revisiting herBlack Cherry andJaponesque tours (the former with a pirate theme, the latter inspired in traditional Japanese settings).
• George Michael's 1998Greatest Hits AlbumLadies and Gentlemen was a 2-CD set. The first disc was titled "For the Heart" and composed of ballads, the second disc was titled "For the Feet" and composed of pop and dance numbers. This was a similar idea to his original plan forListen Without Prejudice to be aDistinct Double Album, with Volume 1 being pop and ballad based and Volume 2 being dance-based. In the end, only Volume 1 was released, but a few Volume 2 tracks were released via a charity album and singleB-Sides.
• SHINee'sThe Misconceptions of Us, a 2-disc album combining the previously releasedThe Misconceptions of You andThe Misconceptions of Me (and two additional tracks). The two "chapters", as they've been deemed, each focus on the dreams and ideals of love, and the contrasting realities respectively. Each part is also markedly different in sound—Misconceptions of You is bright and cheery, whileMisconceptions of Me is mostlydark and abrasive.
• David Sylvian's albumGone to Earth was released as a double album with the first album having vocals and the second being purely instrumental. The initial CD release crammed the entire album on one disc by dropping four of the instrumental songs; subsequent releases have restored the two-disc format (with some versions adding bonus tracks.)

• Ayreon:Universal Migrator was released as two separate albums with different styles:The Dream Sequencer is lighter and meant to appeal to the prog-rock fans, whileFlight of the Migrator is heavier and geared towards fans ofPower Metal. Despite the difference in styles, the plotlines of the two albums are connected.
• Deep Purple'sConcerto for Group and Orchestra is a double set where the band performs together live with a classical orchestra. The second disc is given over entirely to the suite that gives the album its title. (Note that this only applies to CD versions of the album, since it was initially released on a single LP with only the title suite; the remaining material has been added to more recent reissues. Recent LP reissues stretch the entire concert to three discs).
• Dream Theater's albumSix Degrees of Inner Turbulence has two discs. The first contains a collection of experimental, contemporary sounds, the second contains the42-minute long title track — a classically-influenced progressive rock opus and one of the band's greatest pieces ofAwesome Music.
  • Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, while on a single CD, is a distinct double album on vinyl, with the album's two acts taking up one disc each. Their otherRock Opera,The Astonishing is formatted similarly, and is a distinctquadruple album on vinyl, with Act 1 taking up sides 1-5 and Act 2 taking up sides 6-8.
  • TheirGreatest Hit album is split into a "Dark Side" covering the more metal influenced material and a "Light Side" covering theirLighter and Softer tracks.
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer'sWorks, vol. 1 was effectively four half-albums. The original double LP was arranged into one side each of individual works — a piano concerto by Keith Emerson, five songs by Greg Lake, six percussion-heavy pieces by Carl Palmer — and one side of collective works, which consisted of their interpretation ofFanfare to the Common Man and their own composition "Pirates".
• Genesis did a variation with the initial release of theirThe Way We Walk live album, splitting the show into two volumes:The Shorts andThe Longs separated by a few months. As implied by the titles, vol. 1 consisted of the more commercial, relatively shorter hit songs like "Invisible Touch", "I Can't Dance", and "Land of Confusion", among others, while vol. 2 consisted of a few longer, more progressive numbers such as "Domino", "The Old Medley" (a medley of earlier fan favorites from their more progressive era), and even the Phil Collins/Chester Thompson "Drum Duet". This only applies to the original release, though, as a later reissue in theirGenesis Live 1973-2007 box set sorted the songs back into concert order, eliminating the distinct structure.
• Pink Floyd has two of them:
  • Ummagumma: The first disc is a live album, while the second disc is a studio album. All four members of the band have one fourth of the studio disc all to themselves, and the results are mostly lengthy experimental pieces with only two actual "songs": Roger Waters' "Grantchester Meadows", and David Gilmour's "The Narrow Way (Part 3)".
  • The Wall: The first half covers the building of the Wall, the second half covers what happens behind the Wall.
• Porcupine Tree'sThe Incident: the first disc is devoted to the title suite, while four unrelated songs are included on the second disc. The album, at around seventy-six minutes long, is short enough to fit on one CD, butSteven Wilsonreally wanted people to think of the four bonus songs as unrelated.
• Rush did the Distinct Single Album variant three times, in each case with one album side devoted to aRock Opera and the other side devoted to unrelated songs.Caress of Steel,2112, andHemispheres are the band's three examples. In the final case, the rock opera was so long that it actually extended back to the final song of the band's previous album,A Farewell to Kings.
  • They also did a variation with their 1998 triple-live albumDifferent Stages. The first two discs fit the standard live album format being (mostly) recorded on their most recent tour in support ofTest for Echo (with a few songs from the previousCounterparts tour mixed in) but disc three consisted of an incomplete recording of their 1978 Hammersmith Odeon show in support of the aforementionedA Farewell to Kings.
• Instrumental groupSky's second album, the imaginatively namedSky 2, has four distinct sides. Side one has rock-and-roll numbers similar to the first side of their first album; side two is theProgressive Rock symphony "FIFO". Side three has one piece for each member: John Williams and Kevin Peek play classical guitar pieces, Franis Monkman a harpsichord gavotte, Herbie Flowers plays "Tuba Smarties", and Tristan Fry abuses the drum kit for five minutes in "Tristan'sMagic Garden". Side four has their electrifying covers ofAntonio Vivaldi andJohann Sebastian Bach'sToccata and Fugue in D minor.
• Progressive Metal musicianDevin Townsend released a DistinctQuadruple Album with the Devin Townsend Project: A series of four albums, each with a different set of session musicians and a different musical style. The first,Ki, is described by Townsend as "tense" and "quiet". The second,Addicted, is "commercial, yet heavy". The third,Deconstruction, is "chaotic", and the fourth,Ghost, is "ambient".
  • After all four albums had been released, Townsend proceeded to re-release them together as an eight-disc box set, containing sixCDs and twoDVDs. The two extraCDs consisted of outtakes from the sessions,B-Sides, and demo material.
  • His 2014 albumZ2. The first disc,Sky Blue, is the familiar Devin Townsend Project the fans know and love. The second disc,Dark Matters, is a sequel to Townsend's goofy 2007 sci-fiRock Opera,Ziltoid the Omniscient.
• Yes released the twoKeys to Ascension albums as double albums, each containing a live disc and a disc of new studio recordings. The new songs were later released one on album asKeystudio.^note Technically the division isn't exactly between live and studio material, since the first volume ofKeys contains two live tracks on the second disc, but it's close enough.
  • A more noteworthy example of this by Yes would be the monstrousTales from Topographic Oceans, which stretched out a mere four songs over twoLPs, one on each side. Upon its release,it split the fanbase in half; Rick Wakeman said that, when it was played live, the audience would be in two halves — "one half would be on some faraway planet, and the other half would be bored shitless". This was the album that caused him toleave the band, due to not enjoying the material he was playing. He was in the "bored shitless" category, and he wasplaying the music.

• Danny Brown'sOld is on a single disc but is structured like a double album: the first half is something of a throwback to the more raw, stripped-down style present onThe Hybrid (albeit with some of the more experimental elements seen onXXX), while the second half consists of heavily grime and dancehall-influenced club/party tracks with the same dark, experimental edge.
• Death Grips:The Powers That B consists of two separate halves.Niggas on the Moon uses extensiveBjörk samples and more unconventional songwriting, whileJenny Death utilizes a nearRap Rock approach toDeath Grips' usual sound.
• Eminem:
  • While released separately,Eminem'sRelapse andRecovery (originallyRelapse 2) were conceived as partner albums for each other and recorded around the same time.Relapse is aHorrorcore album withDr. Dre production (apart from one song) anda return for Slim Shady, allegorising Eminem's drug addiction andCareer Resurrectionthrough the concept of aMedical HorrorSlasher Movie.Recovery is a poppyRap Rock album using various new producers, filled with inspirationalMarshallboasts, allegorising Eminem's drug addiction andCareer Resurrection through the concept of atrailer-trash boyfriend Slimpicking on a string of unfortunate girlfriends.
  • Music to Be Murdered By, an album loosely themed around Alfred Hitchcock, has two full-length "sides".Side A is morepolished and commercial andRap Rock-inflected in sound, and relies on an ambitious guest list, whileSide B features less commercial and more explicitlyHip-Hop production, more focus on Eminem flexing an over-the-topPungeon Master style, and satirical themes and goofball skits that call back to Eminem's 2000s albums.
• Jay-Z'sThe Blueprint 2: The Gift and the Curse was spread across two discs, one labeled "The Gift" and the other labeled "The Curse" (hence the title).The Gift is a lighter, more radio-friendly disc (with a blue label), while the material onThe Curse is a bit darker (with a black label). Interestingly, the album's reception was mixed because many felt that it had too much filler, so Jay-Z took the best bits from bothThe Gift andThe Curse, put them on one disc, and released it asThe Blueprint 2.1.
• Kendrick Lamar'sMr. Morale & the Big Steppers features two nine-track discs, each broadly sharing themes on dealing with varying personal topics, from coping with trauma, fatherhood, the pressures of fame, etc. The tracklists of either disc is meant to mirror the other, both in structure and tone — the first disc examines topics in a rather cynical and deconstructive light, while the second is more reconstructive and affirmative, and the tracks correspond to each other in a chiasmus fashion (example: both the first and last tracks are about processing grief, with "United in Grief" being about doing so through toxic external means, while "Mirror" is about choosing to move on through introspection). Taken as a whole, the project reflects Kendrick as featuring simultaneously harsh yet hopeful thoughts on himself and the world around him,and both sides are equally important in informing who he is.
• Nelly'sSweat andSuit were not packaged together, but released simultaneously.Sweat wasHip-Hop party songs andSuit was traditional R&B music withHip-Hop rhymes.
• OutKast's 2003 double albumSpeakerboxxx/The Love Below also functioned as solo albums for the duo, with Big Boi'sSpeakerboxxx being a traditional hard-hittingHip-Hop album andThe Love Below showing Andre 3000 experimenting with different genres. Unfortunately, this wasn't just a creative choice but the first indication that the duo was drifting apart due toCreative Differences. Their last conventional album together wasStankonia four years earlier.

• The 1991 compilation albumStar Time byJames Brown consists of fourCDs with the best from his entire career; all of the tracks are comprised in chronological order, unintentionally resulting in this trope as each disc covers a certain span of time.
• Mariah Carey has released two double albums. One is a typicalGreatest Hits album that simply required the space of two discs, and was released as a contractual agreement beyond Carey's control and had no creative input or personal touches from her. The other is a Remix Album that she was more enthusiastic about promoting and plays this trope straight: the first disc contains dance mixes, while the second contains hip-hop mixes and collaborations (though some famous remixes are conspicuous in their absence, probably due to licensing).
• Whitney Houston's first greatest hits release consists of two discs, "Cool Down", a collection of her ballads, and "Throw Down", remixes of her dance songs.

• Doug Benson'sSmug Life album is two discs of the same material, the first one performed sober and the second one performed high later the same day.
• brentalfloss's first album,What If This CD... Had Lyrics? has a second version (What If This CD... Had G-Rated Lyrics?) which consists of the same songs from the original album, but with all swear words and other sexual references omitted (essentially making it aLighter and Softer version of the original album).
• George Carlin's Distinct Single Album from 1970,FM&AM. The two sides of the same vinyl LP, labeled "FM" and "AM", made reference to the contemporary shift from the latter technology to the former, which Carlin reflected in his material. The "FM" side is recorded in stereo, and features the beginnings of his newer, more introspective comedy style, that he would refine further inClass Clown andOccupation: Foole. The "AM" side is recorded in mono, and features the last vestiges of the TV-friendly act he was trying to leave behind, including new sketches featuring his Wonderful WINO disc jockey character and "Al Sleet, the hippy-dippy weatherman".
• Rodney Carrington'sGreatest Hits (a misnomer, as he's a singer/comedian who's aNo-Hit Wonder) consists of comedy routines on the first disc, and comedic songs on the second.
• Corey Feldman's infamous albumAngelic 2 The Core is split between two discs: "Angelic Funkadelic" and "Angelic Rockadelic." While the second half is pretty consistently a rock album, the first half has an array of different collaborators and genres. TheConcept Album aspects dissolve by the second disc, however.
• The third and final tie-in LP forNot the Nine O'Clock News had sketches from the TV series on one disc, and a live recording of the cast's short-lived stage show (mostly new stuff that hadn't been on TV) on the second.
• Joseph Scrimshaw and Friends'Flaw Fest: Disc one is a standup comedy album performed by Joseph and themed around his flaws, disc two is musicians such asPaul and Storm andThe Doubleclicks doing humorous songs inspired by these same comedy routines.
• The two-discWoodstock 1999 companion album roughly separated its performance highlights by genre:The Red Album focused on the more aggressive bands on the bill — mainlyPost-Grunge,Nu Metal, andAlternative Metal (with a token nod toHip-Hop in the form of aDMX track).The Blue Album was mainly the mellower acts, but also threw in basically everything else that wouldn't have fit on the other disc, be itHip-Hop (The Roots),Electronic Music (The Chemical Brothers), or swing revival (Brian Setzer Orchestra). The two discs were originally made available as one set, but were later released separately too.

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