Concept Albums

[soundave]

Like them? Hate them? Why? Examples of great ones? Examples of failures?

I've always liked them. My favorites are:

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Opeth - SL, MAYH
Genesis - Foxtrot

To name a very few...

 

[Powers]

The Who - Tommy, Quadrophenia, The Who Sell Out, Who's Next (from the Lifehouse project). All brilliant and all utterly pompous.

 

[Braighs]

Ulver - Bergtatt
Opeth - Morningrise
dredg - The Sky
Camel - The Snow Goose

I like them, but don't seek them out.

 

[Powers]

Ghost Reveries.


Oh God no, the controversy!

 

[:Wreath:]

 

[My Arms, Your Purse]

Ghost Reveries.


Oh God no, the controversy!

AHAHEHAHEHAEHA

 

[Talking Meat]

Obviously Queensryche - Mindcrime
Savatage - Gutter Ballet, Streets - some great songs on those
Buckethead - Bucketheadland 1 & 2, some others. - 2 is great

 

[Sadguru]

BE

 

[Slayer101]

King Diamond-all of them!!!
His voice can sometimes get on my nerves but they are some very talented musicians.

 

[Pethical]

excellent call on the buckethead. (on a side note) giant robot is a great album

 

[FUBAR]

Crytopsy - Once Was Not

 

[Commence Destruction]

excellent call on the buckethead. (on a side note) giant robot is a great album

on a side note,so are Colma and Electric Tears,pretty extreme departures from his earlier works.

 

[batastrophe]

I love concept albums. Ayreon- The Human Equation is one of my favorites.

 

[all_sins_undone]

stiw life imho

 

[Stormwatch]

The only two concept albums I really enjoy AS CONCEPT'S are Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play, particularly the latter.
Unbeateable, seriously.

 

[CAIRATH]

Personally I couldn't care less if an album is a concept album or not. Most of the time the concepts are so vague that if you didn't know about it beforehand you probably wouldn't even notice it (especially with extreme metal where the lyrics are often hard to make out). It can add a certain cohesion to the album by connecting the songs like on MAYH, but in the end it is the quality of the music within a given song that really matters to me.

And I think The Wall is the most overrated concept album ever. That album was a huge step down in quality from the work before that and overall is just very self-indulgent and boring.

 

[prowlergrig]

Opeth - Morningrise

Genesis - Foxtrot

lawl

 

[soundave]

WTF is wrong with Foxtrot? I prefer it to TLLDOB.

 

[NFU]

nothing is wrong with foxtrot, hes just a tart, dont mind him.

 

[arzachel]