Favorite Concept Albums

[Big Papa Goat]

We need another Favorite... music thread, and I don't think this one has ever been made.
1. Green Carnation- Light fo Day, Day of Darkness
2. King Diamond- Abigail II, The Revenge
3. Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime
4. Dream Theater- Scenes from a Memory
5. Secret of the Runes- Therion

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Genesis- Selling England by the pound

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Radiohead - KID A
Pink Floyd - Animals
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spider's From Mars
Freak Out! - Frank Zappa
Pinkerton - Weezer
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - Flaming Lips
Smashing Pumpkins - MACHINA

[Protoclown]

here's a wild concept

i got this one cd that i put in the player and listen to :eek

[Perndog]

:lol the guy who says Evanescence is dumb listens to WEEZER.

1. Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
2. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime

Those are the only two I have that are any good. :\

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Umm, your point? Weezer's first two albums are two of the greatest modern pop/rock albums around. Now listening to Queensryche! :lol :roftlmao :whatafag

[Rongi]

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Radiohead - Kid A

[Drew Katsikas]

David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spider's From Mars
Freak Out! - Frank Zappa

A great album, indeed. However, I think it's sort of a half-assed concept. I still fucking looooove it, though.

[Helm]

Close to the edge, Selling england by the pound, misplaced childhood, clutching at straws, the wall (thematically it's great, but too much filler) umm.... maybe Neubauten's collected catalogue...

[Rongi]

the wall

I could never sit threw the movie without being on something

[Helm]

Yeah but your intellectual resolve amounts to nothing.

[wreckreation]

NIN- Still

[Protoclown]

How exactly do you define "concept album" anyway?

And Perndog, Weezer rules >:

Or at least, they used to :(

[EverythingWillSuck]

Children of Bodom - Follow the reaper (well I guess all CoB albums)
Caliban - Shadow Hearts
Fear Factory - Obsolete
Amon Amarth - The Crusher
Aesop Rock - Labor Days

[WorthlessLiar]

Protoclown, a concept album is when the album tells a story or at least has a consistent lyrical theme (at least I think so). I'd classify some of these loosely as concept albums but I'll list them anyway.

Opeth - Still Life
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth

and the non-metal concept albums (because it seems wrong to list Opeth with Weezer).

Snapcase - End Transmission
Radiohead - Kid A
Weezer - Pinkerton
Hum - You'd Prefer an Astronaut

[Big Papa Goat]

Now listening to Queensryche! :lol :roftlmao :whatafag
And just what in the fuck is wrong with Queensyrche?

[Perndog]

Tenenbaum doesn't like them, that's what's wrong.

[Dole]

I dont think you can call Freak Out a concept album.

[executioneer]

Lumpy Gravy, maybe :lol

-willie

[Krythor]

Joe's Garage :(

[Mad Melvin]

Queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf
Dream theater - Awake

[Royal Tenenbaum]

I dont think you can call Freak Out a concept album.


It sort of is... the concept is that it is questioning convention I guess. Joe's Garage is a concept album for sure, so Zappa has made some.

[Ninjavenom]

Shinjuku Thief - The Witch Hammer
Macabre - Dahmer
Rush - 2112
Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Converge - The Poacher Diaries
Isis - Mosquito Control

[CaptainBubba]

30 Seconds to Mars - 30 Seconds to Mars

[noob3]

isis - misquito control
isis - celestial
isis - sgnl 05

celestial continues the misquito story and sgnl 05 continues the towers so its 2 different stories on 3 cds so isis wins okay? bye

[Big Papa Goat]

King Diamond- Abigail
King Diamond- Abigail II- The Revenge

No contest.

[noob3]

YES CONTEST ISIS CRUSHES THEM

[Big Papa Goat]

THE REVENGE!
You can't argue with that. Its literally a cross between cheesy horror movies and heavy metal.

[Rongi]

King Diamond- Abigail
King Diamond- Abigail II- The Revenge

No contest.

You're a fag and I can't beleive I left out isis they're like the best

[Dole]

Zappa made loads of 'concept' albums (god thats a horrible term) but Freak Out werent one of them.
Best 'concept' album ever ever ever: Peter Wyngarde - When sex leers its inquisitive head

[crash0814]

Queens of the stone age - songs for the deaf


?????

As for my favorite...fuck, I dunno. Let's go with "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness." Also, I didn't know Kid A is a concept album. What's it about?

[Rongi]

This could be totally wrong but I read somewhere that it's about looking at a fire from far away

[crash0814]

Looking at the lyrics, that's not a theme that immediately jumps out at me.

[Rongi]

Thom said something like "Kid A is like looking at a fire out in the distance. Amnesiac is like being in the fire" once.

As much as I like Kid A, I'm not interested enough in finding what it's about.

[Schimid]

Buckethead - Bucketheadland 2

:(

[EverythingWillSuck]

I think Kid A is about clones or something.

I just have the cardboard book version. :(

[WorthlessLiar]

That's what I'd heard

According to Rolling Stone, Kid A is the name of the first cloned child. I'm not sure what their source was. I don't know if Thom or anybody hinted at that.

[Drew Katsikas]

As much as Radiohead is a pretty solid band in an age of a bunch of shit in the mainstream, I can't stand Thom. He's such a pansy ass fake boy that it drives me nuts. He caters to 20 something liberal American college kids so blatantly that it's sickening, and it kind of deters me from their music.

Example: He only talks about American politics. He's contantly bitching about W., never once have I heard a word by him on Blair. Reason: America is where his fanbase is. He's clearly in the buisness for fame and money. He makes his songs easy to digest for Americans. Dollars and Cents. Great tune, but why not euros and pence, or whatever. Granted, he mentions those later in the song, but it seems contrived to mention foreign currency. At a concert, everyone started flipping out when he screamed "bring down the government" in No surprises, and he bowed to the crowd. That's just immature. Lastly, he raved about Michael Moore, and how brave he is. Come on, Thom knows well that eveyone of his fans is a Moore fanboy, and he's again just catering to them. In my own school, all the younger 20 something teachers like the guy, but the older liberal teachers realize he's full of shit. Thom constantly does shit like this, and it really irks me. Not to mention his phony I'm a tortured weirdo insomniac look he goes for. It's pretty obvious when he gets cover shots on Spin and all the other mags he ruffles his hair and tries to look like he's insane and sleep-deprived. I could say more, but I don't even feel like getting into it.

[Royal Tenenbaum]

As much as I love Radiohead, I agree about Thom to a degree. Morrissey could beat up Thom Yorke.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

I'm getting deja vu. Didn't this subject come up in the 119th thread about Radiohead.....? :confused[/i]

[crash0814]

:lol

[crash0814]

I've heard that Pavement's "Wowee Zowee" is about the disintegration of the pop song. It kind of makes sense when you listen to it, because the songs start out fairly straightforward and get progressively weirder as the album moves along.

[BlueOatmeal]

I can't get enough of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots. That has to be the best cd I've bought in a long time.

[kellychaos]

How exactly do you define "concept album" anyway?


concept album (noun) -
1. an album whose recording are unified by some theme (instrumental or lyrical or narrative or compositional)

Rush - 2112

[Helm]

The only reason people mention 2112 as one of their favourite concept albums is because either they've never read the lyrics or it's just an easy concept album name to remember. Or both, possibly. Anyway, it sucks greatly. And I sorta like Rush. But you can only take a shitty story so far. And it ain't that far.

Oh since we're mentioning ISIS, Oceanic deserves to be in my list of favourite concept albums.

King Diamond is great for comedic value, but he can't write a decent story for shit and he's been trying for the better part of what? 20 years?

Oh, the latest SIGH is great too and umm... well.

[Ghost of Fraiser]

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Radiohead - Kid A

I have nothing against you, your an OK guy, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

[crash0814]

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Radiohead - Kid A

I have nothing against you, your an OK guy, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

???

[Brandon]

Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines

[Ghost of Fraiser]

Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Radiohead - Kid A

I have nothing against you, your an OK guy, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

???

Mind me, i like husker du, but he has it all wrong, and it's starting a tick in my brain that is gonna blow and it's really just PUSHING ME OVER THE EDGE YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAHH!


YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE CRASH


http://www.hugsandhope.com/hopeaugust_files/kayla.jpg

I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THIS GIRL IS DEAD

[Ninjavenom]

Ha, i never read the lyrics to 2112! ;D

[Rongi]

I have nothing against you, your an OK guy, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Calm down Mark :(. Zen Arcade is kinda a concept album. It's about a kid that runs away from a fucked up home and finds out the world is just as fucked up as it was at home.

[kellychaos]

Ha, i never read the lyrics to 2112! ;D

I have and I still think it's a pretty good album ... not so much because of the lyrics but because it was a transitional album for Rush from straight ahead rock to progressive rock. It was musically experimental and interesting. It was a turning point for the musical direction the band was taking at the time. As I indicated earlier, a concept album doesn't necessarily have to do with the lyrical concept/theme. In this case, the lyrics weren't really the most interesting part to me. Is that better, Helm?

[Ghost of Fraiser]

I have nothing against you, your an OK guy, but WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Calm down Mark :(. Zen Arcade is kinda a concept album. It's about a kid that runs away from a fucked up home and finds out the world is just as fucked up as it was at home.

I'll give you a CONCEPT >:

Songs about Fucking :love

[Rongi]

:rock "I think I fucked your girlfriend last night. Maybe twice, I don't remember. Then I fucked all your friend's girlfriends, and now they hate you." :rock

[crash0814]

I change my vote to Zen Arcade.

Pink Turns to Blue :rock