Concept Albums

[random3434]

Which were your favorite?


Are there any you don't like?

Parallel Universe: Rock Concept Albums: Triumphs and Travesties

 

[RadiomanATL]

Which were your favorite?


Are there any you don't like?

Parallel Universe: Rock Concept Albums: Triumphs and Travesties

I call shenanigans. Mindcrime was THE prog-rock concept album of the 80's. MC II sucked, I'll give them that, but they're FOS for not recognizing 1988's MC for the genius that it was.

 

[American Horse]

Which were your favorite?


Are there any you don't like?

Parallel Universe: Rock Concept Albums: Triumphs and Travesties

My earliest favorite:
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick

Band leader Ian Anderson was surprised by the critical reaction to the previous album Aqualung as a "concept album", a label he has firmly rejected to this day. In an interview on In the Studio with Redbeard (which spotlighted Thick as a Brick), Ian Anderson's response to the critics was "if the critics want a concept album we'll give them a concept album and we'll make it so bombastic and so over the top."[citation needed] Ian Anderson has been quoted in concerts (most recently 8/14/2009, Schwetzingen Castle, Germany) as stating that Thick as a Brick was written "because everyone was saying we were a progressive rock band, so we decided to live up to the reputation and write a progressive album, but done as a parody of the genre." With Thick as a Brick, the band created an album deliberately integrated around one concept: a poem by an intelligent English boy about the trials of growing up

Another by Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood

My latest favorite, if it qualifies as a "concept" album" - it does for me:

Neil Young - Old Ways (you won't find it anywhere on the internet, but it is still available on CDs)

Edit: Old Ways: I found it! http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/neilyoung/albums/album/188421/review/6067550/old_ways

 

[del]

The Who Sell Out - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Fatality]

wow no mention of Pet Sounds or SMILE

Pet Sounds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smile_(Brian_Wilson_album)

 

[edthecynic]

Chick Corea - My Spanish Heart

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDu32kfkChk&feature=related]YouTube - Chick Corea - Love Castle[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ATG5sBYwI&feature=related]YouTube - Armando's Rhumba / Chick Corea (Music Only)[/ame]

 

[edthecynic]

Moody Blues - Days of Future Past

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rkgm1yGgbM]YouTube - The Moody Blues - Nights in White Satin[/ame]

 

[edthecynic]

Cat Stevens - Foreigner Suite
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyp76RedhMU&feature=related]YouTube - Cat Stevens - The Foreigner Suite Part I 1973[/ame]
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmOXNlID2Xs&feature=related]YouTube - Cat Stevens - The Foreigner Suite Part II 1973[/ame]

 

[Meister]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thDg_vKWHaY]YouTube - The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Mono)[/ame]

 

[The T]

MIDI RENDITION: ROBOTO <LINK TO LISTEN TO WORK

 

[The T]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0p1HWEFhFY"]GIST OF THE GEMINI[/ame]<<A Taste Of A Classic

From the 1970's...

Contact Me if you want to hear MORE...

 

[Meister]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d78K4rCEfAo]YouTube - Pink Floyd - 1973 - Dark Side Of The Moon[/ame]

 

[Meister]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjuyXR5by2s]YouTube - Queen - '39 - A Night At The Opera (1975)[/ame]

 

[xotoxi]

Coheed & Cambria

The Second Stage Turbine Blade
In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow

 

[veritas]

Nilsson's "The Point"

Utopia's "RA"

Genesis' "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"

Alan Parsons Project's "Tales of Mystery and Imagination"

Yo-Yo Ma, Ton Koopman, Et Al's "Simply Baroque ~ Bach & Boccherini"

Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow"

 

[editec]

Probably the most famous concept album of all time.

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