Probably the same reason the Beatles Red album is on two CDs.
Oh, neat it's just like the LP.
haha! yeah, I get it!
I just think its a bit pointless/daft when it would all fit on one disc (with no drop in quality, etc.)
just an observation.. at one point there was a mentality with redbook CD as a format where it was a boastful achievement by labels to squeeze as much as possible on one CD, marketed for listeners' convenience in some instances but behind the scenes it was most of all to keep the labels' own costs down whilst outwardly presenting a disc full of music to the public, hence perceived extra value for money.
(it could be argued a by-product of that was the structure of albums going from a more standard running time of say 40-ish minutes, creeping to an hour.. and then over an hour, sometimes it seemed like you'd get an ok new "regular" album with rubbish padding just to fill a 78 minute CD!)
especially for things like old double LP sets.. which were still on 2 discs when they first saw a release on CD, like Saturday Night Fever and Yellow Brick Road.. when they got remastered in the mid-90's both had stickers on the front of the CD case saying "Now on One Disc"/'For the 1st Time on 1CD" etc.. like it was a big deal and a plus point.
yet by the time a format like SACD had come along, industry & public perceptions seemingly changed.. so even with the potential to have the same "Double LP" album in several different presentations on just One disc as with SACD, that kind of selling point was demoted in favour of cuteseyness, making it a bit more like the old LP(s), getting two SACDs instead of one seen as better value, etc.. weird!
