re: Best concept album ever IYO?

Posted by SEClint

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:51 pm to FourThreeForty

Antichrist Superstar was a great 1990s concept album.

That album bugged parents in a way music hadn't done in a long time.

Posted by Sellecks Moustache

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 12:58 pm to CBandits82

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Or In Keeping Secrets/Fear Through The Eyes of Madness from Coheed.

Posted by tigermeat

Member since Jan 2005

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:12 pm to stinkdawg

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Marillion -Clutching at Straws

Great, great album. Makes me want to drink every time I listen to it. Just as good if not better than Misplaced Childhood.

Others on my Ipod not mentioned:

Demon---The Plague
Symphony X---Paradise Lost
Kamelot---The Black Halo
Thank You Scientist---The Perils of Time Travel
Mastodan---Leviathan
Rogers Waters---The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Styx---Paradise Theater

Posted by High C

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 1:33 pm to tigermeat

Repost for a reason. This is an often overlooked gem that picked up quite a following upon release. The band broke up shortly after and released no more material. Here's one of the songs from the album, if you're curious at all:

These Are The Days

Posted by NewIberiaHaircut

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 7:35 pm to FourThreeForty

It's hard to pick just one. Here is my top 5 in no particular order.

Posted by Fontainebleau Dr.

Mid-View New Orleans

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:11 pm to FourThreeForty

KISS - Music from The Elder

or GTFO.

Posted by Pangloss1010

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:32 pm to Fontainebleau Dr.

Afghan Whigs: Gentlemen
The Antlers: Hospice
Neutral Milk Hotel: In the Aeroplane
The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs

Posted by Hooligan's Ghost

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:35 pm to FourThreeForty

Quadrophenia

Posted by Tigris

Mexican Home

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:43 pm to Dandy Lion

Quadrophenia tops my list as well.

We're Only In it for the Money
Thick as a Brick
Tumbleweed Connection (more or less a concept album)

Excellent also.

Posted by bearhc

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Posted on 1/28/15 at 8:59 pm to FourThreeForty

Arthur The Rise and Fall of the British Empire. The Kinks.

Posted by Douglas Green

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Posted on 1/29/15 at 11:05 pm to JumpingTheShark

I agree I've got

1. Sgt. Pepper.. the Beatles (( continous play between songs)
2. The Wall... Pink Floyd
3. Running on Empty.. Jackson Browne ( concept road album)
4. Welcome to my nightmare..Alice Cooper
5. Tommy.... Who

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Posted by matthew25

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Posted on 1/30/15 at 12:11 am to Kashmir

Kashmir for the win.

Posted by PeaRidgeWatash

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Posted on 1/30/15 at 6:52 am to FourThreeForty

Tommy

Or possibly Saucy Jack. lol

Posted by Paratiger

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Posted on 1/30/15 at 7:14 am to FourThreeForty

The Wall
Wish You Were Here
Dark Side of the Moon
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking
Radio Kaos

Posted by Tiger in Texas

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Member since Sep 2004

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Posted on 2/2/15 at 7:29 pm to Kashmir

quote:
tommy

Wondering when someone was going to mention it...
Actually, some people say Peter Townsend got the idea for a concept album after The Pretty Things did "S.F. Sorrow". Frank Zappa is credited with first rock concept album- 'Freak Out', but to me, his 'Lumpy Gravy' could be more recognized as one...

Posted by Snatchy

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Posted on 2/3/15 at 9:43 am to FourThreeForty

Sgt. Pepper's is the most important, but these are my favorites...

This post was edited on 2/3/15 at 9:47 am

Posted by Fontainebleau Dr.

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Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:41 am to Douglas Green

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Welcome to my nightmare..Alice Cooper

Good call.

Posted by Cold Cous Cous

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Posted on 2/3/15 at 10:54 am to TFTC

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The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

And..

Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)

Yes, of the two Village Green is my favorite album. Arthur is better in terms of being a concept album. It's by far the most cohesive and intelligent concept album I've ever heard, and it does it without beating you over the head with a brick about the "concept" - which I find is the most common problem with self-proclaimed concept albums. But it helps if you're familiar with the broad scope of English history from 1900-1960. I can see how it bombed in the US.