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Greatest concept albums

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by Twirling Time, Oct 19, 2022.

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  1. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    Holy Christ, I just saw they put Marvin Gaye's "Here, My Dear" on the list. I'm not sure the most ardent Marvin Gaye fan would agree with that.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 19, 2022
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  2. mpcincal

    mpcincal Well-Known Member

    For the record, I'm 54 and I love "American Idiot." Never really heard "Tommy" but I am surprised it didn't place a little higher.
    I was kind of happy to see Styx's "Kilroy Was Here" kicking off at No. 50. That was one of the first albums I bought after we got MTV and I started getting interested in music again. I played the heck out of that cassette at age 15, not realizing it was causing the band to implode.
    Good to see "Mindcrime" on there too. If you ask me my favorite concept album, that would probably be my answer.
    Funny this, the ones on this list I do enjoy, I don't really follow the "concept" all that closely, I just like the albums because there are good songs on it.
     
    mpcincal, Oct 20, 2022
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  3. PCLoadLetter

    PCLoadLetter Well-Known Member

    To be clear, I like "American Idiot." It's a very good record and gets bonus points for being so totally unexpected from those guys. (And I'm 55.)

    To me, "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" are the definitive concept albums, followed by "Ziggy." There are records high on that list that are not in their league.
     
    PCLoadLetter, Oct 20, 2022
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  4. swingline

    swingline Well-Known Member

    The first side of 2112.

    I’ll show myself out.
     
    swingline, Oct 20, 2022
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  5. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    I'm not sure if it qualifies as a concept album, but there was a band in the mid / late 80s that was a spinoff of XTC, called the Dukes of Stratopshear, comprised of Andy Partridge, Colin Moulding and Dave and Ian Gregory. Their songs were modelled after the psychedelic pop of the 60s, and they did one album that was actually a mix of songs from their two other albums called, Chips from the Chocolate Fireball. I wore that album out in my late teens. It may be more of an anthology album than a concept album, but all the songs are connected by weird segways on the album and it has a cohesive "psychedelic" theme and it was a bunch of guys pretending they were some new exciting act.

     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 20, 2022
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  6. Roscablo

    Roscablo Well-Known Member

    Maybe I am of a certain age, 45, but when I first saw this thread my brain immediately went to American Idiot.
     
    Roscablo, Oct 20, 2022
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  7. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Born to Run: Morning to midnight with the runaway American dream.

    The Rising: 9/11/2001.
     
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    Starman, Oct 20, 2022
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  8. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Terrapin Station. Side 2
     
    heyabbott, Oct 20, 2022
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  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs -- Marty Robbins. The first country concept album.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Oct 20, 2022
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  10. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    What, no Tarkus?
     
    garrow, Oct 20, 2022
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  11. Sam Mills 51

    Sam Mills 51 Well-Known Member

    Agreed. No need to go anywhere.

    No, no ... you see ... progressive rock is bad. Rolling Stone kept saying so. You think they're suddenly going against that stance, even when it comes to something the genre did exceedingly well?
     
    Sam Mills 51, Oct 21, 2022
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  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Sturgill Simpson's "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music" ought to be in there.
     
    Neutral Corner, Oct 21, 2022
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