What double albums should be a single and why?

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   The worst culprit of a double album that should have been a single that I can think of isn't prog. It's Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion. In a way they did keep it to single albums by releasing the two halves separately, and admittedly I've only heard the first one in full (which I've read is often seen as the lesser one). However giving into the CD age, even the single album is too long and littered with songs that really aren't up to snuff. If Axl and crew had picked the best 60 minutes from both albums (which is still long!) and condensed it onto one disc, perhaps they would've concocted a worthy follow up to Appetite For Destruction. As it stands, the whole two part album idea is certainly interesting, but there's far too much "You Ain't The First" and not nearly enough "Coma." And those tedious covers of McCartney and Dylan should've been relegated to non-album singles, or in the Dylan cover's case simply never recorded at all.