Aeglos Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Augie March - Strange Bird Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mountain bed Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Genesis--The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway I'm shocked that no one has mentioned this one yet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 me, i'm a fan of good concept albums for some reason. i like yoshimi and ok comp... what are some other good ones, for those of you who like them? I've always thought of BORN TO RUN as a 'theme' album...and I like 'theme' albums better because they are less pretentious. gotta go with "The Wall", the resurfacing guitar riffs and the story is awesome. Floyd did a great job with "concept albums". Give me WISH YOU WERE HERE any day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Sweet Papa Crimbo Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Such a powerful work. If I remember correctly it was slammed by the critics and ignored by the public. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evening Star Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Welsh Rich Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 The Floyd always did my favourite concept albums, The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon are my favourites. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oil Can Boyd Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Is Chicago Is Not Chicago Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 music from the elder. bad joke Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 U2 "POP"...their most underated album! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Rufer Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Seems like Modest Mouse have a few concepty discs (at least plenty of recurring themes)--the Lonesome Crowded West for one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
quarter23cd Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 One of my favorites, but I'm not sure about the concept here. Care to enlighten me? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Synthesizer Patel Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 Isn't Timperley so much more than just a concept though? "Guess who's been on match of the day? I have, in me big shorts!" Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jahilia Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 This is the first album that came to mind. I can't listen to it too often, but whenever I do I'm always amazed. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
pnêyu Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 That first one, especially. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WilcoFan Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 One of my favorite concept album and favorite Petty album: The Last DJ Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Calexico Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 My inner 14 year old offered me $5 if I'd put these up here: Yeah baby! You know it makes sense! I love Rush....or I did up to about Signals. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Evening Star Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 One of my favorites, but I'm not sure about the concept here. Care to enlighten me?essentially whole album revolves around record industry. see: cut your hair, unfair, range life for examples Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrRain422 Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 This is the first album that came to mind. I can't listen to it too often, but whenever I do I'm always amazed. Oh yeah, it's a great album, but if you listen to it too much, you're bound to blow your brains out. Quite the downer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sureshot Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 I'll prob take heat for this around here, but... Local H- Pack Up The Cats Local H's second album, 1996's As Good as Dead, was a brave and powerful (though ultimately very depressing) concept piece about a guy utterly defeated by his inability to get out of the nowhere town where he grew up. In one sense, Local H's follow-up, 1998's Pack Up the Cats, can be seen as a companion piece, a song cycle that follows a small town rock dude as he decides to sell out and shoot for the big time -- and fails miserably, ending up farther in the hole than he started. Both ironically and appropriately, Pack Up the Cats is a good bit glossier and more engaging than As Good as Dead, not to mention a lot funnier; Roy Thomas Baker's production files down a few of the band's jagged edges and brings out the hooks in Scott Lucas' melodies while maintaining the grit of Lucas' guitar and the hard punch of Joe Daniels' drums. But just as part of what made As Good as Dead so harrowing was the fact that Lucas obviously saw a bit of himself in his principal character, Pack Up the Cats was Local H's make-or-break third album, and while it's a clear bid for a bigger place in the spotlight, at the same time Lucas and Daniels obviously understood and couldn't help commenting on the odds against them: The album's catchiest track, "All the Kids Are Right," is a superbly anthemic fist-pumping rocker about a band playing the worst show of its life. (Significantly, "All the Kids Are Right" was starting to climb the charts when Polygram's merger with Universal effectively killed the album -- a real-world disaster even Lucas couldn't predict.) While Pack Up the Cats' ironies aren't always subtle, they also bear the ring of truth, and the duo's tough but hooky punch carries the album along through tales of busted romances, bad record deals, and annoying roadies. Lots of musicians have written songs about the ups and downs of their lives in the music biz, but few have done so with as much self-searching honesty and humor -- mostly of the "whistling past the graveyard" variety -- as Local H did on Pack Up the Cats.-AMG Quote Link to post Share on other sites
okp greg Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Deltron 3030 takes it for me Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobfrombob Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 now playing as I read this thread: Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JohnW Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Rick Moranis- The agoraphobic Cowboy.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Willkoman Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Oh yeah. Good choice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncle wilco Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 I'll prob take heat for this around here, but... Local H- Pack Up The Catstake some heat? why? local h is alright, in fact i had that on in the car this morning. i didn't realize it was a concept album though. what would immediately come to mind would be floyd and then it would go south from there with some queensryche and dream theater (which haven't aged well at all). i'm definately not the prog-metal guy i used to be. in fact, that wasn't me at all. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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