Viewing 26 posts - 41 through 66 (of 66 total)
  • Best "Concept" Album
  • gordimhor
    Full Member

    I don t think Never mind the bollocks was about "**** conceptualism" the concept behind the pistols was situationism ie (in my opinion) replace conventional works of art like concept albums with events designed to shock and provoke the audience. So it was **** elitism and musical techniques/oneupmanship and replace it with something raw and energetic
    but basically I am with you findo-gask

    tangent
    Free Member

    not sure if this counts, but certainly inspired by 'em…maybe

    The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld double L.P (1991)

    + as other posters have suggested already frome b4 / around the same er the KLF + FSOL

    concepts collide the singletrack(s) decides…over n' out

    higgo
    Free Member

    Deltron 3030

    buzz-lightyear
    Free Member

    The thing is, Mastodon's stuff is mind bogglingly expansive and ambitious and extremely aggressive and doomy (as proper metal should be). Crack The Skye just took things to the next level – when you grasp what it's actually about (not the b0ll0x story they spouted off), it's crushingly sad.

    I love to hear musicians breaking out of the pop music box and stretch themselves.

    Cletus
    Full Member

    Husker Du – Zen Arcade

    jimster
    Free Member

    Does "Wish You Were Here" count as a concept album?

    Another vote for The Bends here too.

    nickc
    Full Member

    The Bends isn't a concept album.

    Sgt. Pepper or Animal Sounds.

    nickf
    Free Member

    Green Day's American Idiot ticks the box for concept album. Despite that, I like it.

    kimbers
    Full Member

    the streets
    a grand dont come for free

    Ro5ey
    Free Member

    How about Songs for the Deaf by Queens of the Stone Age.

    A pretty cool concept of dailing (sp) though your car radio and picking up rocking tunes.

    binners
    Full Member

    Kimbers beat me to it

    the Streets
    A Grand Dont Come for Free

    Utter unbridled geinus

    Gachet
    Free Member

    Kasabian – West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
    Muse – The Resistance

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    nickc – Member

    The Bends isn't a concept album.

    Sgt. Pepper or Animal Sounds.
    what's Animal Sounds? or did you mean Pet Sounds?

    mossimus
    Free Member

    Sham 69 – That's Life

    nickc
    Full Member

    probably…

    scottishbadger
    Free Member

    The Suburbs by Arcade Fire pretty much hits the spot concept wise.

    DaRC_L
    Full Member

    + 2112
    and will throw Bowie's Diamond Dogs into the mix.
    Muse – don't know whether the resistance is a proper concept album…

    Peyote
    Free Member

    Orbital – In sides

    Not sure if it fulfils the 'concept' criteria though.

    Primal Scream — Screamadelica?

    organic355
    Free Member

    Jóhann Jóhannson "IBM 1401, A User's Manual"

    Inspired by a recording of an IBM mainframe computer which Jóhann's father, Jóhann Gunnarsson, made on a reel-to-reel tape machine more than 30 years ago, the piece was originally written to be performed by a string quartet as the accompaniment to a dance piece by the choreographer Erna Ómarsdóttir. For the album version, Jóhann rewrote the entire score, and it was recorded by a sixty-piece string orchestra. He also added a new final section and incorporated electronics alongside those original tape recordings of the singing computer.

    The full story of the album can be read at ausersmanual.org

    slowjo
    Free Member

    Heavy Horses – Jethro Tull.

    Hit or miss? MISS!

    fatboyslo
    Free Member

    + 1 ( another ) for Journey to the Center of the Earth by Rick W

    also rather like

    Myths and Legends….

    went to see him at Leeds Uni ( many moons ago) and he was truly a keyboard wizard 🙂

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    +1 here for the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

    MrWoppit
    Free Member

    Oh O.K., I'll do it then…

    druidh
    Free Member

    MrSalmon
    Free Member

    Porcupine Tree's 'The Incident' is very good and it's technically a concept album, but to my mind a concept album should be a bit ridiculous. So in that vein I like Dream Theatre's 'Scenes from a Memory' and (this is actually quite embarrassing because it's like a parody of a concept album) Ayreon's 'The Human Equation'.

    Kojaklollipop
    Free Member

    U2 – The Unforgettable Fire .. surely?

    So different from the previous Boy, October, War, Under a Blood Red Sky, a few of us were into U2 around that time and I remember when we got The Unforgettable Fire we just looked at each other and thought 'what the ****?'

Viewing 26 posts - 41 through 66 (of 66 total)

The topic ‘Best "Concept" Album’ is closed to new replies.