Best Concept Album of all Time?
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"Best" is a hard thing to define. I'm inclined to vote for The Wall, by Pink Floyd, on that basis. But it's difficult to argue against Sgt. Pepper for being the most influential, the seminal album on which all others have been built.
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Dada by Alice Cooper still scares the living crap out of me. It's Poe. It's confessional. It's Rasputin. It's American. This is NOT the Alice we've all come to kinow and love.
See, that's where I was coming from. I was a Rush-a-holic in high school and college before letting loose and listening to other works, such as Mindcrime. And as much as I dig Rush and the Beattle's Sgt. Pepper, I had to go back to the Wall. I rememeber it coming out when I was in middle school and my buddy and I would walk through the hallways between classes shouting the chorus of the Wall, part 2. That and In The Flesh. Got in a lot of trouble for that one.
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My fave is an oldie
Horslips - The Tain
It's a folk-rock masterpiece based on the legends of Cuchulain in Ireland, and it's bloody fantastic!
Horslips - The Tain
It's a folk-rock masterpiece based on the legends of Cuchulain in Ireland, and it's bloody fantastic!
A couple albums that got overlooked
"Concept Albums" can be found in many different styles of music even if that is not what was originally intended by the artist. a concept album is an album which is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical".This according to Wikipedia.
Quadrophenia The WHO Just wrong to forget that one!
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
LOS ANGELES X
In god we trust inc Dead Kennedys
Road to Ruin Ramones
I guess I am an old fashion gal
"Concept Albums" can be found in many different styles of music even if that is not what was originally intended by the artist. a concept album is an album which is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical".This according to Wikipedia.
Quadrophenia The WHO Just wrong to forget that one!
Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
LOS ANGELES X
In god we trust inc Dead Kennedys
Road to Ruin Ramones
I guess I am an old fashion gal
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Let's not forget that Pearl Jam's Yield is an accidental concept album.
And a good one, at that.
And a good one, at that.
The Alan Parsons Project has put out a few:
Pyramid (mysticism)
Turn of a Friendly Card (gambling)
I, Robot (technology)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Alan Poe themes)
Eye in the Sky (surveillance)
Vulture Culture (consumerism)
Pyramid (mysticism)
Turn of a Friendly Card (gambling)
I, Robot (technology)
Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Edgar Alan Poe themes)
Eye in the Sky (surveillance)
Vulture Culture (consumerism)
Everyone has listed some fine albums. I'll add to the list Berlin, by Lou Reed. Besides The Wall, it's probably the most bleak concept album ever made. Good stuff, just not easy to get into.
Love Supertramp.
Queen II could also be considered a concept album. It's my fave of theirs and probably the "heaviest" album in my collection. It makes bands like Evanesence seem positively Britney Spears-ish by comparison.
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Love Supertramp.
Queen II could also be considered a concept album. It's my fave of theirs and probably the "heaviest" album in my collection. It makes bands like Evanesence seem positively Britney Spears-ish by comparison.
I love Supertramp as well. Perfectly accessible prog pop rock.