Does "Wish You Were Here" count as a concept album?
Another vote for The Bends here too.
The Bends isn't a concept album.
Sgt. Pepper or Animal Sounds.
Green Day's American Idiot ticks the box for concept album. Despite that, I like it.
the streets
a grand dont come for free
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.
Kimbers beat me to it
the Streets
A Grand Dont Come for Free
Utter unbridled geinus
Kasabian - West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Muse - The Resistance
nickc - MemberThe Bends isn't a concept album.
Sgt. Pepper or Animal Sounds.
what's Animal Sounds? or did you mean Pet Sounds?
Sham 69 - That's Life
probably...
The Suburbs by Arcade Fire pretty much hits the spot concept wise.
+ 2112
and will throw Bowie's Diamond Dogs into the mix.
Muse - don't know whether the resistance is a proper concept album...
Orbital - In sides
Not sure if it fulfils the 'concept' criteria though.
Primal Scream -- Screamadelica?
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
Heavy Horses - Jethro Tull.
Hit or miss? MISS!
+ 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 🙂
+1 here for the Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
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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'.
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 ****?'
