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In the era before digital downloads and streaming took over, some movies were just too long for one VHS tape. Some games were just too big for one disc. Some albums were just too long for one LP, cassette, or CD. That's where this trope comes into play.
For video games, how this is handled depends on the platform. This can either be done by putting the game on a play disc and several install discs which put the assets on the hard drive. If such an option is unavailable, the player must switch disks during gameplay when prompted. Alternatively, modern games might just come with one disc and require the rest to be downloaded off the internet, but this tends to be controversial. In most modern cases, additional discs are used for Bonus Material that came in an Updated Re-release.
The following section is a history of this trope's usage in video games.
1980s: On consoles, this was almost unheard of during the first four generations as many of them used cartridgesnote Which were both costly to produce and variable in size; if you really needed the extra space, you could simply use a larger cartridge, which was often an expensive proposition, though still cheaper than multiple ones. with saving being a luxury (many games being based on endless "quarter muncher" gameplay). However, many PC-based systems had to rely on floppy disks, with even the highest-capacity disks being 1.44 MB each. The Famicom Disk System add-on released in Japan also used its own rewritable disk format, known as disk cards, with a similar storage capacity. This was particularly common with adventure games. If they were decently sized, at a high at a time resolution (320 × 200) and with more than a dozen MIDI tracks, expect them to come on at least three floppies each with some even spanning as much as 15 (!) such as the original Amiga version of Beneath a Steel Sky.
1990s: Early on in the decade, PC games started to come on CDs, with 700 MB each. That's quite the leap in terms of memory, though developers would use the extra space for voice acting, since audio files were large and the other assets weren't large enough to fill them out otherwise. Non-voiced versions of the games would often come on floppies, more of them than ever before due to the VGA (256-color) graphics standard, until SVGA's increases in file sizes and resolution (640 × 480) made it unviable to put games on floppies without having to produce tons of them. That said, the really big adventure games would require several CDs instead, due to including voices as well as video and music. During the fifth console generation, consoles which relied on CDs would often use multiple discs for massive Role-Playing Games with cutscenes that would often rely on Pre-Rendered Graphics, which the original PlayStation 1 was famous for. If a console used CDs, the player would be notified to put in the second disc before continuing, since there was no way to install the entire game onto the console (that wouldn't happen until the early 2010s). For PC games, the same held true at first, but after hard drives vastly outpaced the capacity of multiple CDs, developers started offering the option to install the entire game's contents to the hard drive and thus the only time the user would need to switch discs would be during the install process.
2000s: Early in the decade 3D PC games would sometimes be released on a few CDs if they're big enough, in order to support customers who didn't have DVD drives yet, and because on PC disc swapping was now only an issue during installation. While Adventure games also decreased in popularity and RPGs started only using single discs, Real-Time Strategy games had transitioned to 3D and usually required this, to say nothing of the rise of MMO games. However, the transition to DVD-ROM around the middle of the decade allowed most games to ship on a single-disc for the rest of the decade. In the console space, the PlayStation 2 and Xbox, utilized DVD-ROMs as their standard storage medium, which had a much higher capacity of 4.7 GB for single layer discs, with dual layer discs holding up to 8.5 GB. Both the Dreamcast and Nintendo GameCube, which utilized smaller-capacity proprietary optical media formats (1 GB GD-ROMs and 1.5 GB mini-DVDs respectively) instead of DVD-ROMs, did see a few games require multiple discs. During The Seventh Generation of Console Video Games, the PlayStation 3 utilized Blu-ray (25 GB per layer), however since the Xbox 360 used DVDs, some games were multi-disc on 360 and single-disc on PS3.note Most infamously Mass Effect 2, which affected the actual structure of the game mid-development and left a lot of Dummied Out situations in the game's data. Even then, a single dual-layer 360 DVD was typically enough for most releases.
2010s: Multi-Disc Works become even rarer during the eighth console generation: more and more games were available digitally through online services and stored completely on internal/external memory, as hard drives can hold at least 1TB of memory and even SD cards can hold more than 256GB. Further, the Wii U, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 all utilized Blu-ray Discs with up to 50 GB of storage this time around, making it much easier for most games to fit on a single disc across all platforms. But the rise of digital platforms and streaming services meant Blu-Ray storage advancement was less of a priority, which may explain why some late-generation games pushed beyond the limits of a single disc anyway, with titles such as Red Dead Redemption 2, Final Fantasy VII Remake and The Last of Us Part 2 shipping on two. The big change is that the PS4 and Xbox One require all games, even physical releases, to be completely installed to the hard drive, meaning they worked like PC games had for decades and swapping discs mid-game was now a thing of the past. As for the Nintendo Switch, it uses "game cards" with Flash ROM similarly to Nintendo's prior portable systems (Nintendo DS and Nintendo 3DS families), with maximum capacity reaching 32 GB. Cost remained an issue with cards however, and since Nintendo charges developers more to use higher-capacity carts, several Switch titles opt to include only part of their data on a smaller card and require an internet connection to download the rest of the data into the main unit's internal memory, rather than provide a second or larger card.note Some games go as far as to provide a download code instead of a card!
2020s: The march towards an all-digital future continues, with both the PlayStation 5's Digital Edition and the Xbox Series S lacking support for discs entirely, and in the PC realm, disc drives became something the buyer had to specifically ask for on pre-made rigs. But for those still using physical copies, the PS5 and Xbox Series X now support Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs with capacities up to 100 GB, which prevented this trope from occurring till 2024 outside of Compilation Rereleases. The SSD storage of these consoles also allow developers to implement more aggressive compression techniques without introducing Loads and Loads of Loading, which should help to reduce the file sizes of games compared to the previous gen. Also notable in the console space is allowing players to begin a game that's only been partially installed. While it works across all games, in multi-disc works this allows players to install the Play Disc with all the data needed to start the game and play for several hours, then switch to the Data Disc that installs in the background.
As you can see from this history, this is a Cyclic Trope. The introduction of a new storage format causes it to go away for a while, until inevitably Technology Marches On and developers begin to push past the limits of that format, resulting in this trope becoming common again until finally an even better format is introduced.
For the LaserDisc format, this was effectively inherent to the medium — one side of the disc could only hold 60 minutes for a maximum of 120 minutes on a single disc, so with movies users had to manually flip the disc in the middle of the format, similarly to a vinyl record; many higher-end players supported automatic side-switching to save buyers this trouble. Any release over 120 minutes would require two discs or more. The successor format, DVD, was also able to come in a dual-sided configuration (and with similar auto-switching high-end players), though oftentimes used it more to divide a release between Pan and Scan and Letterboxed versions of a widescreen release, or between the main film and bonus features, owing to the much greater storage capacity per side. For a film to be split across two sides of a DVD, it had to be very long, with the likes of Schindler's List and Oliver! being among a small few to hold this distinction. Even then, the digital nature of DVDs and support for a second data layer on a single side meant that studios were more likely to compress the film further to keep it on a cheaper, single-sided disc, in part because even a dual-layered DVD of this kind is cheaper to make and less of a hassle on the viewer than a double-sided one, making them more appealing.
Another common case is with the Video CD (VCD), a variant of the Compact Disc popular in developing nations in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. VCDs have comparatively less storage space than DVDs, with video data occupying the same amount of space as audio data on an audio CD, resulting in an identical maximum capacity of 74-80 minutes. Since most movies are considerably longer than this, they tend to be spread across at least two discs on VCD releases.
In music, multi-disc works are usually associated with concept albums, live recordings, compilations (especially those containing The Best of the 70s/80s/90s/etc.), and bonus material (especially on an Updated Re-release or a Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition). Of course, they're not limited to these forms, but they're the most common applications of this trope in popular music; some albums might even go out of their way to be a Distinct Double Album, with each disc having its own concept or theme. It's also the norm for vinyl releases of albums since the mid-1980s that were originally created with the CD in mind, due to space constraints with the LP format.
Tropes like Disc-One Final Dungeon, Disc-One Final Boss and Disc-One Nuke are named after this concept, but are not necessarily related. The names come from the multi-disc RPGs of The '90s, where each Act of the game would be spread out over three or so discs. Thus, a Disc-One Nuke would be an overpowered weapon you can get very early into the game, or "on the first disc".
Compare Divided for Publication, where the work is divided into multiple, separately-released works due to time constraints, budget, or other issues, not necessarily space. Also compare One Game for the Price of Two, where one game is sold separately on two or more slightly different discs, but you only need one of either to play.
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Dream Theater's Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence and the Concept Album The Astonishing are two-disc works.
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Stadium Arcadium is a two-CD work.
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Metallica:
Because ...And Justice for All was Metallica's first studio album to be recorded with the Compact Disc format in mind, its 65:25 runtime is too long to fit on a single vinyl record. Consequently, LP releases spread the album across two discs. Metallica, Load and ReLoad, St. Anger, Death Magnetic, and 72 Seasons would continue the trend, featuring CD-oriented lengths that require them to be divided among two LPs each.
Despite being able to fit on one CD without issue, the 77:42 Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is a two-disc studio album on CD and vinyl releases alike as an artistic decision.
Garage Inc. is a Distinct Double Album of covers, the first disc containing newly-recorded covers and the second featuring previously released ones.
Their collaboration with Lou Reed, Lulu, is spread across two discs on both CD and vinyl.
A few of their live releases are also double albums, such as S&M and its sequel S&M2. Live Shit: Binge & Purge is a set of both audio and video material, with the audio part having three CD/cassettes and the video part consisting of either three VHS tapes or two DVDs.
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While the band never put out a studio double-album, both Innuendo and Made in Heaven were reissued as double-LPs in 2015, owed to their long lengths (which required the original vinyl releases to cut down and, in the case of the latter, omit tracks to fit the albums onto one disc each). Likewise, the version of Queen II included in that year's Boxed Set Queen - Studio Collection splits the album across two discs, despite the album being able to fit on one.
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The original US vinyl release of Reggatta de Blanc split the album across two 10" records rather than the traditional 12" LP. This limited-edition release would be quickly supplanted by a more conventional LP.
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Crystal Ball was, once again, split across three CDs (despite being short enough to fit on two) as a homage to the scrapped triple-LP album that evolved into the two-disc Sign o' the Times. A fourth CD containing the acoustic album The Truth was included as a bonus disc, and people who bought the original "petri dish" release also received a fifth disc containing Prince's wedding soundtrack.
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The DVD and Blu-Ray releases of Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956), despite coming from different studios, were both presented in the exact same fashion. Being split across two single-sided dual layer discs with the swap point being at the original theatrical intermission.
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Titanic (1997) was famously released on two VHS tapes, with the first one ending just as Jack is falsely arrested for stealing.
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The LP release of Director's Cut is split across two discs. The collector's edition CD release additionally tosses in two bonus discs containing remastered versions of The Sensual World and The Red Shoes, the latter of which is deliberately sourced from an analog copy tape rather than the digital master due to Bush's belief that the original 1993 release sounded too "edgy."
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Secret Messages is an unusual case. It was designed as a double-LP, but was cut down to a single disc after CBS balked at the idea, deeming it commercially unviable; some of the songs that were dropped in the process would surface as B-sides and bonus tracks on CD releases. Eventually, the original double-LP configuration finally saw a release for the album's 35th anniversary in 2018 (albeit without the track "Beatles Forever"). Like Out of the Blue before it, the double LP configuration just barely surpasses 70 minutes, resulting in the Japan-exclusive CD release of the (mostly) uncut edition fitting everything on one disc.
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The original DVD release of Michael Collins was a double-sided DVD. The changeover occurred at the last twenty minutes of the film.
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The 2018 remix of Never Let Me Down, included exclusively as part of the Boxed Set Loving the Alien (1983-1988), is a three-sided double-LP, with the fourth side featuring an etching of the "David Bowie" logo on the front cover.
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Ghosts I-IV has four discs in its vinyl release, with each disc corresponding to one of the "volumes" within the album. Its CD version, meanwhile, consists of two discs with two volumes each.
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was released as a double-LP, and its length was great enough for the band to consider releasing it as two separate single-disc albums before settling on putting all of it out at once. Cassette releases initially came on two tapes as well, but technological improvements allowed reissues from 1977 onward to store the full 94 minutes on one tape, with each side storing a full disc (albeit with the tracklist slightly adjusted). US 8-track releases additionally managed to store the entire album on one tape from the outset.
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According to former keyboardist Rick Wakeman, Yes' Tales from Topographic Oceans was released as a double-LP mostly out of necessity, as the amount of usable material they recorded was too long to fit on one disc. However, because there was just barely too little to fill two, a good deal of other material had to be put together to ensure that all four sides were filled up, which became a major factor in Wakeman's Creator Backlash towards the album.
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Seventh Endmost Vision references this trope's use in the original Final Fantasy VII by utilizing a "Disc Swap" page between Acts 1 and 2, claiming Disc 1 is complete and Disc 2 must be loaded. The author's notes indicated they found the idea funny and had to use it.
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Homestuck: Happens In-Universe thanks to the recursive Meta Fiction of the comic. A character inadvertently scratches Homestuck Disc 2 partway through Act 5, which causes Corrupted Data on the next few pages and is thematically linked to the Cosmic Retcon of "The Scratch", which launches Act 6 by creating an Alternate Timeline that can interact with the original timeline. In addition to Disc 2, there's also the Act 6 Act 6 Supercartridge Expansion Pack, which contains the rest of the comic after Disc 2 finishes at the end of Act 6 Intermission 5.
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Blood Sugar Sex Magik, One Hot Minute, Californication, By the Way, and I'm With You come in two formats: a single CD or two LPs.
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HIStory: Past, Present, and Future -- Book I was released as a Distinct Double Album, with the first CD being a Greatest Hits Album and the second CD consisting of new material mostly based around the allegations of child molestation levied against him two years prior. For a while, the album held the position of the best-selling double album of all time before eventually being outsold by Pink Floyd's The Wall in 2018. The first disc eventually saw a standalone release in 2001 as part of that year's Milestone Celebration for Jackson's career, but the second disc remains exclusive to the two-CD set.
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Bush's 2005 album Aerial was released across two CDs. Taking after Hounds of Love twenty years prior, it takes the form of a Distinct Double Album split between a collection of individual but thematically related songs and a unified suite of Siamese Twin Songs.
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The sole double-album in his studio career was the vinyl release of The Next Day, which took the form of two LPs with a few bonus tracks added at the end to fill up all four sides. This configuration would also be used for the single-disc deluxe edition CD.
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Todd Rundgren notably averted this; his 1975 album Initiation featured 68 minutes of material on a single LP. He had to put a warning on the sleeve stating that "if your needle is worn or damaged, it will ruin the disc immediately."
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The 2003 CD reissues of Yellow Magic Orchestra and Naughty Boys package both versions of each album together as two-disc sets; the two versions of the former are split up again for the 2019 SACD release, while the latter keeps Naughty Boys and Naughty Boys Instrumental together as one package.
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The Sound of Music comes on two VHS tapes. The first one is a cheerful family film which ends when the berry story is told. The second one has Nazis.
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Ummagumma was released as a Distinct Double Album, with a Live Album on the first disc and a collection of solo pieces from the various band members on the second. The idea was that it would give them a chance to finally move past their older material, but the album ironically boosted the popularity of those earlier songs for a period of time.
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Schindler's List was released as a two part DVD initially.
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The band flirted with the idea of releasing Reckoning and Lifes Rich Pageant as double-albums before truncating both to one disc, but they finally got to make good on the idea with New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up, both short enough for one CD and one cassette but long enough for two LPs.
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Exile on Main St. was released as a double album in its initial vinyl version, but it was short enough to fit on one disc when it was reissued on CD.
A few of their Greatest Hits Albums are also multi-disc ones, such as Forty Licks (which has 40 songs spread across two discs on CD and three on vinyl) and the CD-exclusive GRRR! (including a standard edition with 50 tracks spanning three discs and a deluxe version with 80 tracks across four discs).
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Exile on Main St. was released as a double album in its initial vinyl version, but it was short enough to fit on one disc when it was reissued on CD.
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Garage Inc. is a Distinct Double Album of covers, the first disc containing newly-recorded covers and the second featuring previously released ones.
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Blu-ray releases of Sátántangó are on two discs. With its running time of 7 hours, it's not hard to see why.
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The vinyl releases of both We Can't Dance and ...Calling All Stations... were double-LPs out of necessity, as both of them were recorded with the Compact Disc format in mind. The latter album only occupies three sides, with the fourth featuring a stylized etching of the band.
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Nightwish's Human :II: Nature is a two-CD work.
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The Endless River was Pink Floyd's first album since The Wall to be conceived as a double-LP, to the point where the CD releases lists the songs as four "sides" despite that being irrelevant for the format (the songs themselves are sequenced as individual tracks).
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Leyland Kirby: Each tracklist of Stages 4 to 6 of Everywhere at the End of Time consists of four tracks spanning entire sides between what would comprise two vinyl discs, which is the format under which the entire album series was made in mind.
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The 2014 retrospective compilation Nothing Has Changed was released as both double-CD and triple-CD sets. The former organizes tracks from throughout his decades-long career in chronological order, while the latter features them in reverse-chronological order, starting with the new track "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)" (later re-recorded for ★) and ending with his debut single from 1964, "Liza Jane". A modified version of the two-CD set would later be released as Bowie Legacy to cash in on his Posthumous Popularity Potential after his death in 2016.
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The Fragile is split between two discs or tapes in its CD and cassette releases, respectively. Meanwhile, the album's LP release consists of three discs.
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The Complete National Geographic (1888 to 1998) came on a set of 31 CD-ROMs. The DVD version only took up 7 DVD-ROMs though.
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On Every Street was originally a single-disc album in its LP release, despite being an hour long; each side had its grooves packed unusually close together to achieve this, at the cost of reducing the sound quality. Consequently, vinyl reissues since The New '10s split the album across two LPs.
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Most of Slipknot's video albums starting from Disasterpieces are split between two tapes/discs on VHS/DVD releases.
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Brothers in Arms was deliberately designed to be too long to fit in full on a single LP as a means of signaling the band's support for the CD format, on which the album released uncut. Because of this, when the full album finally arrived on vinyl in 2006, it was as a double-LP.
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In general, all of Jackson's albums of original studio material from Dangerous onwards, except the posthumous Michael, have two discs on their LP releases, with their lengths being just long enough to reach the limits of a single CD. Jackson considered starting to release double-LP albums as far back as Thriller (with Bad being initially pitched by him as a triple-LP one), but Quincy Jones, his Record Producer at the time, pursued him for the then-standard single LP albums instead so they could be commercially feasible. It was with Dangerous, his first album without Jones, that Jackson became able to make longer releases.
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Lawrence of Arabia ends its first VHS tape out of two just about at the theatrical intermission.
The Superbit DVD release was also on two discs, however it was not split at the intermission. The "Mastered in 4K" Blu-ray (which was Japan-exlusive) and UHD releases thankfully have the split at the intermission.
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The Wall was released across two discs, and unlike Ummagumma, all the material was brand new and recorded in the studio. As of 2018, it is the highest-selling double album of all time.
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Since 2014, LP reissues of The Division Bell split the album across two discs due to its CD-oriented length; the original 1994 vinyl release used a single disc with multiple tracks heavily truncated.
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Pat Benatar's box set Synchronistic Wanderings covers three discs.
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50 Words for Snow is spread across two LPs for its vinyl release, owed to its 65:29 runtime.
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Queen:
While the band never put out a studio double-album, both Innuendo and Made in Heaven were reissued as double-LPs in 2015, owed to their long lengths (which required the original vinyl releases to cut down and, in the case of the latter, omit tracks to fit the albums onto one disc each). Likewise, the version of Queen II included in that year's Boxed Set Queen - Studio Collection splits the album across two discs, despite the album being able to fit on one.
The CD releases of the 2011 remasters came in both one-disc Vanilla Editions and two-disc deluxe editions, with the second discs featuring various B-sides, remixes, live performances, demos, and outtakes.
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Sum 41's final studio album, Heaven :x: Hell, is a Distinct Double Album consisting of two differently-styled parts (Heaven, focused on the band's initial Pop Punk style, and Hell, which keeps the Heavy Metal sound that the band had progressively developed over the course of their later discography), with one disc delegated to each of them in all of the formats the album was released on.note While it requires two discs to fit the whole album on vinyl, as was the case with their previous, significantly shorter albums Underclass Hero and Screaming Bloody Murder (the latter of which never had a vinyl release), Heaven :x: Hell's 55-minute length is still short enough for a single disc on CD.
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Iron Maiden's The Book of Souls is a two-disc work where every song is over five minutes long. Its follow-up Senjutsu goes the same way, with the shortest track being four minutes long.
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Because ...And Justice for All was Metallica's first studio album to be recorded with the Compact Disc format in mind, its 65:25 runtime is too long to fit on a single vinyl record. Consequently, LP releases spread the album across two discs. Metallica, Load and ReLoad, St. Anger, Death Magnetic, and 72 Seasons would continue the trend, featuring CD-oriented lengths that require them to be divided among two LPs each.
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Genesis:
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway was released as a double-LP, and its length was great enough for the band to consider releasing it as two separate single-disc albums before settling on putting all of it out at once. Cassette releases initially came on two tapes as well, but technological improvements allowed reissues from 1977 onward to store the full 94 minutes on one tape, with each side storing a full disc (albeit with the tracklist slightly adjusted). US 8-track releases additionally managed to store the entire album on one tape from the outset.
The vinyl releases of both We Can't Dance and ...Calling All Stations... were double-LPs out of necessity, as both of them were recorded with the Compact Disc format in mind. The latter album only occupies three sides, with the fourth featuring a stylized etching of the band.
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Mike Oldfield:
Incantations was a double-LP release that ended up being short enough to fit on one CD. Initial CD releases cut down Part Three from 17 minutes to just under 14, but the full song would be restored from the US CD release onwards.
Light + Shade was released as a two-CD work.
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The Great Escape has two VHS tapes, with the first ending on Roger Bartlett announcing "All the documents are dated today. It's now or never!"
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The DVD and Blu-Ray editions of the four-hour Zack Snyder's Justice League are split into two discs between Part 4 and Part 5.
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Gone with the Wind ends its first VHS tape exactly when the original theatrical release issued an intermission, right after Scarlett's "I'll never be hungry again" monologue.
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Due to their lengths making it difficult to include them on just one LP each, the vinyl releases of Black Tie White Noise, The Buddha of Suburbia, Outside (which initially appeared on LP as the truncated, single-disc Excerpts from Outside), and Earthling would all be released across two discs each when they were remastered in 2021. The comparatively short length of Earthling meant that it only occupied three sides, with the fourth featuring an etching of the Kirlian photograph used to represent "Little Wonder" in the liner notes.
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Despite the album being short enough to comfortably sit on one LP, the vinyl release of Accelerate splits it across two 45 RPM 12" records, which were being explored at the time as an audiophile-friendly alternative to the long-player thanks to the faster playback speed allowing for wider groove spacing — and thus better sound quality. This configuration remained the sole version of the album available on vinyl until August 2023, when it was reissued as a standard LP (with each side corresponding to one of the two 45 RPM records).
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1999 was Prince's first double album on LP, though it was short enough to fit on one CD. Initial CD releases removed "D.M.S.R." despite Redbook-compliant discs being able to include it without a hitch; it would eventually be restored from 1990 onward.
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