Favorite Concept Albums?

[Ash J. Williams]

I was thinking eariler how much concept albums rule...so this thread to to obviously post your favorite concept albums...and help me find more (Y)

(For those that don't know, a "Concept Album" is a WHOLE album that tells one story)

My 3 Favorite Concept Albums are

1. Green Day's "American Idiot"

2. Electric Six's "Fire"

3. Dream Theater's "Metropolis Part 2: Scenes From A Memory"

[probablyoliver]

How can you not say The Who's 'Tommy'.

Diabolical.

[Dan]

All the Coheed and Cambria albums.

Fuck everything else suggested.

[public enemy]

In no particular order;

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

Queensryche - The Warning

Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory

Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King

Tool - Lateralus

Metallica - Master Of Puppets *

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire *

Hendrix - Axis: Bold As Love

Muse - Absolution

Pink Floyd - Animals

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother *

Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

Roger Waters - Amused To Death

* Arugably a concept album, for the most part open for debate.

[Ash J. Williams]

God! How could I forget about Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence?

[Summers]

All the Coheed and Cambria albums.

Fuck everything else suggested.

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Seconded.

[probablyoliver]

Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Creamatorium.

Fuck everything else. Except Tommy... and Coheed... And Hendrix...

And no way is Absolution a concept album!

[apsham]

American Idiot - Green Day (2004) - A Bay Area suburbanite named Jesus of Suburbia flees his broken home to experience city life, transforming into the rebellious St. Jimmy. Notable as a punk rock opera. The first two punk rock operas can arguably be attributed to Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade, a story of a young punk who runs away from home only to discover the horrors of the world, and the Minutemen's album about riding in a car, Double Nickels on the Dime.

Maroon - Barenaked Ladies (2000) - Tells the story of a depressed rock star.

[Guest fultie]

fuckin Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band...

[Iain76er]

A Grand Don't Come For Free- The Streets

Alternate endings, just like those choose your own adventure books!

[Guest fultie]

i remember those books.. ah, reading

[tristy]

The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute

The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium

Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral

This Cathartic Nail's The Spider & The Butterfly

Type O Negative's Slow, Deep & Hard

"The Wall" by Pink Floyd is one of my favorites, concept wise, but the music doesn't appeal to me anymore. The film translates it better, I think.

[Jook]

The Mars Volta's Frances The Mute

The Mars Volta's De-Loused In The Comatorium

Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral

So yeah, Tristy's choices, mainly.

[Liam]

NIN's Downward Spiral

A Perfect Circle's Thirteenth Step

Mars Volta's Deloused In The Comatorium

Radiohead's Ok Computer

Opeth's Still Life

Oh wait, sorry, I forgot that these suggestions are fucked by the MERE MENTION of Coheed And Cambria....my mistake >_>

EDIT: Without wanting to be pedantic, a concept album can be one story, or one theme. Thus, why Thirteenth Step is in my list.

Edited August 22, 2005 by rvdwannabe

[A-Dub]

American Idiot - Green Day (2004) - A Bay Area suburbanite named Jesus of Suburbia flees his broken home to experience city life, transforming into the rebellious St. Jimmy. Notable as a punk rock opera. The first two punk rock operas can arguably be attributed to Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade, a story of a young punk who runs away from home only to discover the horrors of the world, and the Minutemen's album about riding in a car, Double Nickels on the Dime.

Maroon - Barenaked Ladies (2000) - Tells the story of a depressed rock star.

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[Guest PistonHonda]

Fear Factory's Obsolete

Green Carnation's Light of Day, Day of Darkness

The Coheed albums

[Guest Locutus of Borg]

moe.'s live rock opera "Timmy" (you should be able to find it on Archive.org, as it was a fan recording not released by the band) which was recorded at an album release party. It's similar to The Who's "Tommy", but focuses around the journey of a character from the song "Timmy Tucker".

The Flaming Lips' "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" - just what the title of the album says. A "superhero" or robot of some sort protects the world from an invasion of pink robots.

[Farmer Reil]

Rhapsody. Any of their albums really, but The Dark Secret in particular.

And wannabe obviously forgot to mention () Mastodon - Leviathan

[Liam]

Rhapsody. Any of their albums really, but The Dark Secret in particular.

And wannabe obviously forgot to mention () Mastodon - Leviathan

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Damn, I suck.

Mastodon's Leviathan >_>

[Heel Turn]

The Wall. Period.