Favorite Concept Album

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Jahmbo- Good choice, Marillion- Misplaced Childhood. I'm going to the Marillion fanclub/concerts/convention in Somerset, England April 2-3. The whole Pontins Resort is booked by the fans and they are going to play two nights for the most hardcore fans from all over the world. It sounds like a Star Trek convention, but it's my chance to see one of the best rock bands on the planet.

......a few more....

The Doors- An American Dream

David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

Rush- 2112

Paul Simon- Songs from the Capeman
 
666 by Aphrodites Child. I just listened to "All the Seats Were Occupied" again.
Kicks Ass.Maybe one of the first concept alblums?
 
As I've just been informed OK Computer is a concept album, I will both give it another listen(to add to my hundreds of previous, but some how oblivious).

Is Kid A or Amnesiac concept albums as well?

I love Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. Both sad and encouraging.

Animals is high quality. I listened to it the first time in study hall Sept. 11th right before I heard the news(how ironic).

I love Rift by Phish which although I don't quite get is still great listening.

Although not a true concept album as it's a symphony I love Mussorgski's Pictures at an Exhibition(and ELP's as well).

But my all time favorite, as it's the orgional is Sgt. Peppers.
 
is ok computer a concept album? i dunno

as far as the cure goes, i think the concept is more robert smiths state of mind than anything else, he is known to very much write from within, and i think he is stuck in this whole idea of waiting for the end....probably 80% of the songs on the last three cure albums are about regret, i think that is an underlying theme, anyhow thats my 2c... (by the way "cut here" is really growing on me, now that i know what its about)

finally WTF IS GOING ON!!!! nobody has mentioned ZAPPA yet


JOE'S GARAGE - FRANK ZAPPA

i can't believe it took so long for FZ to get a mention, i'm disappointed, so i'll say it again

JOE"S GARAGE - FRANK ZAPPA

man i'm disgusted
 
Zappa!

Oh my god, Joes Garage, you're absolutely right. I love that album, maybe it didn't enter my head because I have it on vinyl and haven't listened to it in 15 years, but god, what a fabulous set of tracks.

Now I have to go to the music store to get the CD, thanks!!!
 
others...

Happy New Year! Here are a few more to consider:


Spirit - The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Nektar - A Tab In The Ocean; Remember The Future

Anthony Phillips - The Geese And The Ghost

The Moody Blues - Days Of Future Past; In Search Of The Lost
Chord; On The Threshold Of A Dream; To Our Children's Children's Children; etc.

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado; Time

Peter Gabriel - Ovo (The Millenium Dome Project)

Boston - Third Stage

FM - Black Noise (Well, it's kind of a concept album about leaving
Earth for another planet.)

practically every Jethro Tull album

.... can't think of any more at the moment...

Bruce
 
Some of the first.

Beatles: Sgt. Pepper
Moody Blues: Threshold of a Dream
Pink Floyd: The Wall
The Who: Tommy
Alan Parsons: Tales of Mystery and Imagaination
Frank Zappa: Joe's Garage
Yes: I'm not sure of the name Roundabout?

This is what getting old does to you, if I sit and think to long I start going to sleep.

Ozlee:cool:
 
first for you perhaps ozlee? are'nt we forgetting that classical composer base the majority of their works on a concept... o.k. sure they were probably never intended as a record but they do usually fill one or two.....

vivaldi - four seasons

tchaikovsky - swan lake

plus five million operas written by other composers, this is just food for thought on the whole concept album idea,i don't know much about classical music, but this is one aspect of it which i admire....
 
i missed two of my favourites....(jazz concept albums)

dave breubeck - time out

dave bruebeck - time further out


and then agian depending on how loosly we use the term concept ablum, i guess you could say that any greatest hits album is based on a concept!?!? more food for thought
 
point taken, i just wanted to reflect the fact that the idea has been around for a long time, as the classical performances were the albums of that time, make sense?
 
the mac's TUSK (1979)

~a deliberate, and in at least the opinion of fans and the band, a successful counter-pop spinout by prodigal genius Lindsey Buckingham (and the girls' tunes are each of them top pop/folk)

Ah new album next year! Minus Christine McVie (sad/if not concerning for any enduring new commercial success for the re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-formed band), but as a price for hearing the new Lindsey material, who cares!
 
dr.colossus

Like I said about getting old, sometimes you fall asleep trying to think. I was only considering rock as the basis and what I thought were probably some of the first that really could be considered.

The Moody Blues had several among their first works of which
"Threshold of a Dream" truly is a concept "rock" album with classical influence. Oprea and classical have always been what they are. But for "rock" that idea probaly started with the Beatles and was really used alot by the Moody Blues IMHO. If you or anyone has a different understanding I would like to hear it. I think just about all of the bands that have come along since the Beatles have tried to make concept albums at some point in their career. I guess what elements make for a true concept album is up to each of us.

BTW I think that "Yes" album was titled "Fragile." The only thing I have out are my cds and all of my other stuff is packed away so I cann't check it out.

I love classical and especially some forms of jazz. But when you get right down to it, I'm attitude with a drive and beat.

Keep the faith, Ozlee:D
 
Rush - 2112
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Wonder why it took so long to mention Mindcrime.
 
I win

Steely dan AJA

Not ony the best cd ever but also a concept alblem with kind of an Indian feel.
 
i am the bring back the old thread king...

so yeah

pinkfloyd - no one mentioned the final cut.... my fav by floyd...

of course the wall is more impressive i just like this one more... more depressing...
side note:
speaking of the radio head circular thing; pink floyd at the end of the wall you hear someone say "is this where-" and at the beginning you hear "we came in" very suble and the music from "outside the wall" is also the music that you hear before track one "in the flesh" kicks off
 
at least you ackowledge your bring back of the dead threads. So what the hell, I'll keep it alive. I gotta say PF - animals, OK Computer, and both Orange Robot CDs :confused: Well, they are....
 
I hate to sound dumb but uh.... what exactly is the definition of a concept album?
 
an albumn where all the tracks are tied together by an individual thought/story/etc

look at animals by pink floyd

every song is named after an animal and all the animals represent different kinds of people...

pigs-fat politican and business types...

dogs-blood thirsty/greedy war mongers and business types...

sheep-all of us followers...
 
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