Concept Albums

[Shaun Ponsonby]

My favourites are...

'2112' (Rush),
'Dark Side...' (Floyd),
'...Topographic Oceans' (YES),
'Seventh Son...' (Maiden)
'Snow' (Spock's Beard),
'Testimony' (Neal Morse)


I'm just trying to think, ELP never did a concept album, did they?

[fe_lung]

Not favorites, but other options:

Operation Mindcrime
American Idiot
some kiss record - don't remember the name. gatekeeper, or keymaster, or something... those may be Ghostbusters....
The Downward Spiral

[Soul Reaper]

Dark Side of The Moon - Pink Floyd

[monkeythe]

Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory

[nosuchluck]

anything by Pain of Salvation - Entropia, One Hour by the Concrete Lake, Remedy Lane ( to name a few)

[Soul Reaper]

Originally posted by monkeythe
Dream Theater - Scenes from a memory

and that too

[Soul Reaper]

Does Dream Theater's 'Change of Seasons' count as a concept album?

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by fe_lung
Not favorites, but other options:

some kiss record - don't remember the name. gatekeeper, or keymaster, or something... those may be Ghostbusters....
The Downward Spiral


"Music For The Elder"?

[Last_Child]

Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage.
Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory.

[Mr Badguy]

"The Wall" by Pink Floyd.

It isn`t `til you get a bit older that you realize how fucked up that album is.

Just like life.

It also makes you feel as if it isn`t just you who struggles with the shit inside your head that you think fucks you up.

[Full Bug]

Very true Mr Badguy....Great album....Didnt really get into it until I was much older...

[Soul Reaper]

It is a great album.

So is 'Wish You Were Here'

[Shaun Ponsonby]

"So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from hell
Blue skies from pain
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do You thinkyou can tell?

Did they get you trade your heroes for ghosts?
Hot Ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
Did you exchange
a walk-on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here
We're just 2 lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year
Runnin' over the same old ground
of how we found the same old fears
wish you were here..."

[DrMaddVibe]

Pink Floyd - "Animals"

[pete]

Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

Fuck all that we’ve got to get on with these
Got to compete with the wily japanese
There’s too many home fires burning
And not enough trees
So fuck all that
We’ve got to get on with these

Cant stop
lose job
mind gone
silicon
stoll on
What bomb
get away
pay day
make hay
Break down
need fix
big stix
Clickity click
hold on
oh no
brrrrrrrrrring bingo!

Make em laugh make em cry make em dance in the aisles
Make em pay make em stay make em feel ok

Not now john
We’ve got to get on with the film show
Hollywood waits at the end of the rainbow
Who cares what it’s all about
As long as the kids go
Not now john
Got to get on with the show

Hang on john
We’ve got to get on with this
I don’t know what it is
But it fits on here like ssssssss ...........
Come at the end of the shift
We’ll go and get pissed
But not now john
I’ve got to get on with this

Hold on john
I think there’s something good on
I used to read books but ............
It could be the news
Or some other abuse
Or it could be reusable shows

Fuck all that we’ve got to get on with these
Got to compete with the wily japanese
No need to worry about the vietnamese
Got to bring the russian bear to his knees
Well, maybe not the russian bear
Maybe the swedes
We showed argentina
Now lets go and show these
Make us feel tough
And won’t maggie be pleased
Nah nah nah nah nah nah!
S’cusi dove il bar
Se para collo pou eine toe bar
S’il vous plait ou est le bar
Oi’ where’s the fucking bar john!

[Shaun Ponsonby]

"Take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
And build them a home a little place of their own
The fletcher memorial
Home for incurable tyrants and kings

And they can appear to themselves everyday
On Closed Circuit TV
To make sure thy're still real
It's the only connection they feel
'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Reagan and Haig
Mr. Begin and friends. Mrs Tatcher and Paisley
Mr. Brezhnev and party
The ghost of McCarthy
The memories of Nixon
And now, adding colour, a group of anonymous latin-
American meat packing glitteratti'.
Did they expect us to treat them with any respect?

They can polish their medals and sharpen their
Smiles, and amuse themselves playing chess for a while.
Boom boom, bang bang, lie down, you're dead.

Safe in the permanent gaze of a cold glass eye
With their favourite toys,
They'll be good girls and boys
In The Fletcher Memorial Home for Colonial
Wasters of Life and Limb

Is everybody in?
Are you having a nice time?
Now, the final solution can be applied."

I do like The Final Cut, but it's more of a Roger Waters solo album than a Pink Floyd album.

Speaking of Roger Waters 'Amused To Death' is an excellent concept album.

[academic punk]

ELP did several concept albums - all under the theme of how hard a rock band can suck.

[Warham]

Pet Sounds, the first 'true' concept album.

:D

[Shaun Ponsonby]

You forget that ELP had more talent in their little fingers than you do in your entire body three times over.

[academic punk]

Probably. Amazing how they completely wasted it on that shitty excuse for music.

[Shaun Ponsonby]

What's so shitty about it?

I love ELP.

Only the very best can do 'Pictures At An Exhibition'.

There is a big 'buzz' in the UK about a really shite band called Keane, because they are a rock band, but they don't have a guitarist. These people have never heard of Emerson Lake and Palmer.

[academic punk]

You're right there! KEANE FUCKING SUCK!!!

A friend told me about them - in fact, she got me the disc, she works at Interscope - and told me that I've got to got to got to listen to this, it's the best thing ever ever ever.

MAN, dOES THAT DISC SUCK!!! I WOULD SOONER LISTEN TO ELP OVER THAT SHIT!!!

[tydhurst]

Yeah, Keane suck!

[Casemeister]

Waylon Jennings, Jessi Colter, Eric Clapton, a few others - White Mansions
The Who - Tommy, Quadrophenia (nobody has mentioned these?!)
Extreme - Pornograffiti (apparently it's an album about urban decay... I guess it's loosely a concept album)

[Roguesgirl]

A bunch of great ones already mentioned, all the Floyd stuff as well as Tommy

I love Sgt. Pepper too

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Originally posted by Casemeister

Extreme - Pornograffiti (apparently it's an album about urban decay... I guess it's loosely a concept album)

:eek:

Really?

How is 'When I'm President' linked with 'When I First Kissed You'?

[Soul Reaper]

I HATE KEANE!!!!

Why do British bands suck so much!!!!!!

[Casemeister]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
:eek:

Really?

How is 'When I'm President' linked with 'When I First Kissed You'?

I'm not sure. I just read it somewhere. It kinda makes sense. Listen to the start of Decadence Dance and the end of Hole Hearted. There's the sound of rain. The album DOES seem to kinda be about urban decay... loosely, at least. 3 Sides is sort of a concept album, too, I guess. (Yours, mine, the truth, etc...)

[bueno bob]

In no order...

01 - Savatage: "Streets"
02 - Queensryche: "Operation: Mindcrime"
03 - Iron Maiden: "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son"
04 - Trans Siberian Orchestra: "Christmas Eve & Other Stories"
05 - King Diamond: "Them" tied with "Conspiracy"
06 - Opeth: "Still Life"
07 - Dio: "Magica"
08 - Styx: "Paradise Theater" (somewhat a concept album)
09 - Pink Floyd: "The Wall"
10 - Dream Theater: "Scenes from a Memory"

[nosuchluck]

i loved "Streets" - absolutely brilliant album.

i saw a penthouse vid once, which had "Strange Reality" on it...weird..


Opeth is a fantastic band too..

[DLR82VH]

WASP-- Crimson Idol

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by DLR82VH
WASP-- Crimson Idol

Yeah!

I just listened to that the other day after not hearing it for years and it is good.

However some of the songs are too much the same and the busy drum parts overpower the songs at times.

It has been rereleased with a second CD containing out-takes from the album and the bands set from Donington `92.

[DLR82VH]

I'll have to go find that 2 cd version of it, I didn't know it was out thanks !!!!

[hard rock]

Best concept album- Sammy Hagar`s Voa. Whats the concept you ask. Well its Shit!!

[Vinnie Velvet]

Originally posted by Shaun Ponsonby
"Music For The Elder"?

That's Music FROM the Elder, the KISS concept album from 1981.

Sort of a rock opera idea that came from KISS producer Bob Ezrin.

It was certainly an ambitious project but it wasn't the right time. It was a time where bands like Maiden, VAN HALEN, Judas Priest, etc. were steamrolling KISS with harder rock albums.

It was the worst selling album in KISS' history.

Taken as a KISS album, its not very good.

However, I actually like it and think there are some very cool songs on it.

Namely:

Odyssey
Only You
Dark Light
The Oath
A World Without Heroes
I

Even the instrumental "Escape from the Island" featuring Ace and the late Eric Carr is pretty cool too.

Had KISS done this kinda album much later on and without the makeup, maybe it would've been received a little better.

My favorite 'concept' album would have to be Iron maiden's "Seventh Son..". No doubt.

[m_dixon1984]

My favorite Concept albums:
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
The Who - Tommy
RUSH - 2112

Concept album I never want to hear anythng from again:
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell

M

[Shaun Ponsonby]

Are you sick of hearing songs from Bat Out Of Hell, or have you just never liked it?

[m_dixon1984]

Both! First, I never liked it (for so many reasons). Second, it was so overplayed for such a long time that I've developed a definite hatred for the whole thing.

M

[bueno bob]

Ahh, Bat Out of Hell...I think I'm a rarity, but man, I still love it to this day :)

Sue me.

[bueno bob]

Originally posted by nosuchluck
i loved "Streets" - absolutely brilliant album.

i saw a penthouse vid once, which had "Strange Reality" on it...weird..


Opeth is a fantastic band too..

Penthouse with Savatage? Um...wow...interesting. :)

Opeth is more than fantastic...Opeth is the best band I've heard, in ANY form of music, for years now. Saw them live a while back and they were absolutely fucking brilliant. Per Wilberg just joined in on keyboards full time now, so they're now a 5 piece, and the new album is apparently almost done...should be announcing a new label sometime soon since Music for Nations closed it's doors last year.

[aesop]

Extreme's III sides to every story
Operation Mindcrime
Scenes from a Memory

Note: Operation Mindcrime II gets released SOOOON!!!!

[Panamark]

War of the Worlds

Seem to remember that even had Phil Lynott on it..

[Panamark]

Abbey Rd side 2..

That had to be a concept there ??

[Mr Badguy]

Originally posted by Panamark
War of the Worlds

Seem to remember that even had Phil Lynott on it..

That`s one everyone forgets about.

The first half is amzing but the quality dips for the second.

Can`t beat the ending with the NASA landing on Mars and you hear the astronauts being approached by Martians then silence.

[nosuchluck]

Originally posted by bueno bob

Opeth is more than fantastic...Opeth is the best band I've heard, in ANY form of music, for years now. Saw them live a while back and they were absolutely fucking brilliant. Per Wilberg just joined in on keyboards full time now, so they're now a 5 piece, and the new album is apparently almost done...should be announcing a new label sometime soon since Music for Nations closed it's doors last year.

have you seen the "Lamentations" DVD?

[Soul Reaper]

Does Sgt.Pepper count as a concept album?

or any of the later Beatles?

[PhilFlappoRogan]

Gutter Ballet - Savatage
And I will second the vote for Pornografitti. Not only is it a concept album but it fucking rocks.