favorite concept album

ricero

for people who dont know what a concept album its an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical''

mine has to be

the streets - a grand dont come for free
great album and story on it

recently i like plan b - the defamation of strikland banks
cracking album and the story on it is quite intresting

The Pontiac

This one..

Stark

Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Mansun - Attrack of the Grey Lantern (loose narrative surrounding inhabitants of an English village).
Kate Bush - Hounds of love (second CD has a continuous narrative).
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (dealing with post-natal depression following birth of daughter).

cirkumflexjohn

queensryche - operation mindcrime
john coltrane - a love supreme

fillmore jive

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

MickShamrock

Say Anything - ...Is A Real Boy

strobe

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd.....easily

The_Seeker

Sgt Pepper

kwestfan08

American Gangster - Jay Z

myles79

Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

strobe

strobe wrote: »

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd.....easily

This is THE concept album

DazMarz

Best Metal concept album ever... Queensryche's Operation: Mindcrime

Kold

Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

About Jeff's love for Ann Frank.



The Constructus Corporation - The Ziggurat

A weird South African rap album made by Waddy (Ninja from Die Antwoord), Felix Laband & DJ Sibot. It tells the tale of two kids (Randomboy and Kidtronic) on a gigantic space**** that has escaped the destruction of earth.



Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask

Collaboration between MF DOOM and DJ Dangermouse using a load of [adult swim] samples whilst DOOM raps about a lot of the cartoons. Really f*cking good.

rcaz

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Radiohead - OK Computer
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs

greendom

Pink Floyd - The Wall

The Pontiac

Lots of my favourites mentioned here: Yoshmi Battles the Pink Robots, Dark Side of the Moon, In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Sgt.Pepper. Actually most of my all-time favourite albums are concept albums. I'd also like to add this. It's a masterpiece.

nommm

I don't listen to many concept albums but I love 'the Antlers - Hospice'

DazMarz

Story's a cliché but the metal is mean and the album is excellent from the former Gods of Gore! Tho in fairness this was way more of a solo effort this time around...

McCruiskeen

catho_monster

Stark wrote: »

Neon Neon - Stainless Style
Mansun - Attrack of the Grey Lantern (loose narrative surrounding inhabitants of an English village).
Kate Bush - Hounds of love (second CD has a continuous narrative).
Fever Ray - Fever Ray (dealing with post-natal depression following birth of daughter).

Man I love that Mansun album. Ever time it comes on the ipod shuffle I always think how I must go and listen to it properly again...

Kold

Forgot my favourite Tom Waits album:

Ziggy_Stardust

Tommy by The Who or the wall by Pink Floyd would be my choices, the wall is a joy to listen to from start to finish.

mike65

Some good choices, I have plenty but when listening to them don't ever think about the music in terms of thematic story arcs or whatnot. And some are just too "nebulous" for that sort dissemination anyway.

Too wit -



The story of which is too barking mad to describe so here's wiki

Latchy

Days of future past -Moody blues
Sgt Pepper - Beatles
Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Wish you were Here -Pink Floyd

Boom_Bap

Kold wrote: »

Dangerdoom - The Mouse and the Mask

Collaboration between MF DOOM and DJ Dangermouse using a load of [adult swim] samples whilst DOOM raps about a lot of the cartoons. Really f*cking good.

He also has MM...Food where all the songs are about erm, food.

Prince Paul - A Prince Amongst Thieves is brilliant, a movie made into a soundtrack made into an album with different characters.

Deltron 3030 - life in the future

greendom

Misplaced Childhood by Marillion is another favourite of mine.

Auvers

Released in 1968 and panned by some "critics" at the time, this album sees Muddy record experimental psychedelic blues tracks with members of Rotary Connection.

There is some fantasic tracks on this album, from Muddys cover of the Stones "Let's Spend the Night Together" in gospel style to his classic "Hoochie Coochie Man" with some free jazz style in the mix, all in all a favourite album of mine which sees Waters conceptualized as a psychedelic musician

blastman

Brave - Marillion
The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
Animals - Pink Floyd

old hippy

A V A

angels and airwaves - we dont need to whisper

joy division - unknown pleasures

john foxx - metamatic

human league - reproduction / travelogue

the knife - silent shout

those are all my favorite concept albums!!!!

Stark

What's the unifying concept on "Silent Shout"? (Great album btw, one of my favourites).

old hippy

Morlar

+1 for ziggy stardust. Not sure if the berlin trilogy can be included but this one should

A V A

Stark wrote: »

What's the unifying concept on "Silent Shout"? (Great album btw, one of my favourites).

the silent shout dvd . . .the visuals were amazing and the musical the knife just recently did was great aswell

Thundercats Ho

strobe wrote: »

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd.....easily

I would've thought the wall was more of a concept album than dark side.
Two amazing albums though.

McCruiskeen