Favorite concept albums

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MIKE: It was about a greasy Puerto Rican kid! For once we
were writing about subject matter which was neither
airy-fairy, nor romantic. We finally managed to get away
from writing about unearthly things which I think helped the
album.

A bunch of English public schoolboys write about a PR street kid. Wow, conceptual man.

Pretentious, patronising wank.

[papatomany]

Generation 13 from Saga.
Snow from Spock's Beard.

[ianweb123]

I've got two for you:


The pentateuch of the cosmogony from Dave Greenslade:-



Consequences from Godley and Creme

[Doug Nelson]

I miss the old album covers. You just can't fit as much in a CD jewelbox.

[ianweb123]

Yes I've still got the whole album, book, boxed set.. I suppose it might be worth something to a collector, but I'd have no idea how you would find out?

[Doug Nelson]

Amazon.uk has it listed for £31.74

I'd hang onto it

[ianweb123]

Thats the plan

[Kim Olesen]

Someone mentioned VOIVOD dimension hatröss. GREAT ALBUM!!!!

My list:
Kraftwerk: Computerwelt
Pink Floyd: Animals.
Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.
Iron Maiden: Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son.
Voivod: Dinemsion Hatröss.
Anubis Gate: Purification.

Kim

[Alan Lastufka]

Dream Theater: Scenes From A Memory
Roger Waters: Pros+Cons of Hitchhiking
Styx: Kilroy Was Here
Weezer: Pinkerton
Dream Theater: Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

[Sleek Month]

Hmmm...people are listing a lot of albums that I wouldn't really classify as "concept" albums.

I mean, if you go that loose with it, every album is a concept album..."This album is about going into a studio and recording a bunch of stuff so we can make money" is a concept.

I prefer my "concept" albums to have something of a narrative thread.

Anyways: QUADROPHENIA.

-S.

[Robert Randolph]

Fevers and Mirrors

by bright eyes

[DrApostropheX]

Best concept album of all time:

Parliament's "The Motorbooty Affair"

Why? Because it's a concept album from 1978 that's completely non-pretentious and one hell of a party album ("Aquaboogie (A Psychoalphadiscobetabioaqualdoloop)" ranking up there as one of the top three funky songs of all time). Originally, the disc came with a comic book, pop-out cardboard characters of Mr. Wiggles, Sir Noise D'Voidoffunk, etc., and an underwater Atlantis playset. There was also a picturedisc available which had the famous photograph of George Clinton (as Starchild) surfing on the back of dolphins.

Check the following URL for the narrative behind the album.

http://www.duke.edu/~tmc/motherpage/alb ... booty.html

[endmusik]

noones mentioned Queensrÿche's "operation mindcrime"

anyway - mine, though it may not be a full on concept album - is the Legendary Pink Dots album "The Tower" - it's a cycle of songs all looking into a sort of dark/totalitarian society, and kind of tells stories about the individuals living there, and some larger narratives. Or maybe it doesnt. Either way - I've got the LP of it, and it's a great record to put on, and just let run it's course.

[bluedad]

aqualung - jethro tull
tommy - the who
the mad hatter -chick corea
joes garage - fz
the lamb lies down - genesis

[Sicklecell666]

noones mentioned Queensrÿche's "operation mindcrime"

What're you, blind?

Check second post in the thread