Favorite Concept Albums

[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]

Originally Posted by Big Papa Goat

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]

Originally Posted by Mad Melvin

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.....? [/i]

[crash0814]

[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]

Originally Posted by Protoclown

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]

Originally Posted by Rongi

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]

Originally Posted by Perfecto Suspecto

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]

Originally Posted by crash0814

???

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




I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THIS GIRL IS DEAD

[Ninjavenom]

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