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Favorite Concept Album(s)

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Schmendrick:
I completely agree with Pink Floyd- The Final Cut, every song on it is gold ... although I'm not a huge fan of 'not now john'.

Merkava:
I just got Sufjan Steven's latest, and now Illinoise is on the list. Amazing piece of work.

KharBevNor:

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Also, after reading a whole bunch on Norse Mythology, a concept album featuring it would be totally awesome. Khar, cough some up, I'm sure you have some.
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Holy shit. How the hell could I forget 'Blood on Ice' by Bathory? It's pretty much just a musical telling of a saga that Quorthon (who did everything in Bathory apart from drums) wrote himself from the old mythological conventions. I love the shit out of it. Also:

Black Sabbath - Tyr (easily the crappest album they ever made)
Burzum - Balder's Dod (All Burzum albums are arguably conceptual in an esoteric way. This album is basically based off the story of the murder of Baldur by Loki. It's entirely instrumental though)
Arguably all of Finntroll's albums. Though they're more based off the settings of Norse mythology, and they all (apart from Visor Om Slutet) have one concept: Trolls beating the crap out of Christians.

I'm sure there's more. Countless songs as well, of course.

Johnny C:
There is a difference between concept albums and regular albums.

A concept album, such as Sufjan Stevens' Come On Feel The Illinoise, Pink Floyd's The Wall, either Mars Volta album or a crapload of albums involving Frank Zappa, is strongly centred or driven by one theme or storyline, or it has a loose hold on one or both of those and also has a narrative arc. Pinkerton, for example, is very loosely based on "Mme. Butterfly," but it qualifies because it also has a narrative arc.

() is not a concept album; though some "lyrics" are repeated, they mean literally nothing to anybody except the listener (so I guess it could be a concept album if you really really wanted it to be). No Cities Left isn't one either. Good tries, though.

Funeral is the only one I'm not really certain about; the theme that it reportedly has is death, but although death does crop up in the songs on occasion I don't think it's fair to call it a concept album based on a few references. We don't call AC/DC albums concept albums, despite the fact that most songs carry some allusion to

a) how hard AC/DC rocks
b) how much Bon Scott / Brian Johnson loves womenfolk
c) some combination of the two


Come to think of it, we should maybe base the criteria as "having a stronger concept or argument for concept than the average AC/DC album."

kikanjuuneko:
Everyone else is going to kill me, I'm sure, but as far as theme goes, I thought Boys Night Out's newly released 'Trainwreck' was kind of cool. Then again, I am a sucker for all concept albums.

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