The two Jimmy Webb/Richard Harris LPs. Ziggy Stardust. Sgt. Pepper.
Your favorite 'concept' album
I'm not a concept album fan, however there are a few I've gone down the rabbit hole with. My personal fave, is '10,000 Years' by The Honeydogs. The backstory & lyrics are so vivid, and futuristic, it never fails to reveal something new to me. Even the bandleader said at times he's not sure what it's about.
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Any others?
Fascinating info & interview in the url. Check it out!
Any others?
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Soap Opera good I like Arthur (a TV special opera) better Face To Face predates SF SorrowMy first concept was West Side Story OST 1961 Not a lotta love here for American Idiot (We suspect who he is.) One of the few besides Tommy to make it to the stage. Speaking of, the IoW recording was an amazing journey. |
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Fresh Aire 7. Chip Davis does an excellent job of putting together pieces that all relate to or are based upon the number VII. Excellent demo disc as well for testing a system. |
Certainly not my favourites but it might be interesting to some... Fairport Convention 'Babbacombe Lee' https://youtu.be/7Plm0BuSoYU Jethro Tull 'Thick as a brick' https://youtu.be/X15PsqN0DHc |
Red Headed Stranger, Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Joe's Garage, Rust Never Sleeps, Welcome to My Nightmare, The Band, Hank Wilson's Back, The Delivery Man, Tarkus, Preservation Act 1 and Act 2, Stop Making Sense to list only a few I can think of immediately. Then you have albums like Copeland: The Music of America that contains pieces that are all related and become a concept when they are put together and listened to in the album sequence. I guess it depends on your definition of concept album. |
Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys 1965 Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles 1967 Tommy - The Who 1969 What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye 1971 *a work of art - a masterpiece with cultural, political and full of life consequential that reverberates to this very day* Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? 1972 Thick as a brick - Jethro Tull 1972 The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein - Parliament-Funkadelic 1976 Anything: Stevie Wonder Frank Zappa |
Will skip the obvious one like 'Tubular bells' and post Tangerine Dream's 'Zeit' https://youtu.be/w5js_AWq0zs On somewhat lighter note Brian Eno 'Apollo' https://youtu.be/dcWwtQmAt7E |