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Favorite Concept Album(s)
Kai:
I'm just going to use wikipedia's definition of a concept album:
"In a concept album, all songs contribute to a single overall theme or unified story."
The Residents - Animal Lover, Eskimo, Commercial Album, Mark of the Mole, The Tunes of Two Cities, Intermission, The Big Bubble, God in THree Persons, The King and Eye, Freak Show, Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible, Demons Dance Alone, The Third Reich N' Roll (how can you beat a concept album that compares popular music to Nazism?! You indie kids should eat this stuff up!)
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage, Acts I, II, and III
The Mothers - Freak Out, We're Only in it for the Money
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime (Yes, I like myself some cheesy 80's prog rock/metal)
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son (That was a concept album, right?)
King Crimson - In The Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of the Poisedon, Lizard, Islands (Each of them was based around a mythical element)
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Zao - The Funeral of God
As much as I love concept albums, I seem to be severly lacking alot.
and Speaking of Animals; I've sure you (At least those of you who have attended high school sometime in the past year) have seen all these kids wearing the Pink Floyd shirts, and somethings been bugging me about one; Some kid I know has a shirt for Pink Floyd's Animals, yet the logo/design thing is that of the Division Bell. Bootleg? wtf?
EDITED to add in some stuff I missed.
KharBevNor:
I think quite a few of Maidens 80's works could broadly be described as concept albums. I've always considered Powerslave to be one, though in my typically fashion I can't really explain what I know it to be about. Power, in a basic sense I suppose.
Super Dave:
^^^^^^^^
Face it, 80's Maiden Kicked everyone's ass.
Kai:
Was the entire album about Power, or just the song Powerslave (Which is basically that guy who is... a... slave to power. Way to be subtle, Iron Maiden!) I'm not exactly sure. Either way, it's a fucking awesome album.
KharBevNor:
Well: Aces High portrays the honourable and glorious side of war, then 2 Minutes To Midnight portrays the far darker, nuclear side. Both the flying ace and the 'reasons for the carnage' have the same basic power, but how they use it is different. Flash Of The Blade is about the power the desire for revenge imparts, and The Duellists develops another sort of dual theme around that. Back In The Village is about the consequences of misusing power...the person who's perspective it takes was one of the 'Killers Breed' of 2 Minutes to Midnight. Powerslave is about the consequences of believing you have a power you don't (those of a god) and that 'the power of death' is stronger, and the Rime Of The Ancient Mariner, which they adapt, is a poem all about the power of nature and death.
So, that's how I see it anyway.
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